Rethemed, Rebuilt, Replaced Trivia Quiz

Europa Park originally opened "Pirates in Batavia" in 1987 as a very close recreation of "Pirates of the Caribbean", except it was set in Indonesia, to fit with the Dutch theme of the area. The most elaborate scene was the city, burning, using light effects and curtains to create a realistic flame effect.

However, the flames became much more realistic in May 2018, when a technical defect started a fire in the attraction. It burned to the ground along with most of the adjacent Scandinavian village; only a few characters from the first queue line could be saved.

The owners of the park quickly decided to rebuild the attraction with the same name and a very similar layout, but new scenes (and no fire). It opened July 2020. The preview storyline of the new incarnation mentioned that the fire at Batavia was the fault of one boy - and, in the old attraction, there was exactly one child animatronic. So we even know who "did it" - and while the actual animatronic did not survive, the kid in the story did and became the first owner of the legendary "Firetiger" dagger shown in the picture.

There's not much of a jungle left in this attraction picture from the first year of "Josefina's Magical Imperial Journey", a complete reskin of an old attraction that had seen many versions.

Initially, the lake was home to a Mississippi steamer and Finnish rafts. The rafts quickly gained a cave tunnel at the end of their journey in which pirate scenes had been installed.

Later in the 1980s, the pirates had to move out and the lake became "Adventureland", with an African theme. The steamers were repainted and rechristened "African Queen".

This area was the last section not directly tied to a European country, so for the 2022 season, the section was redone to an Austrian theme, with the steamers now being "Danube Steamers".

As the new boats and some décors for Josefina's ride were not done in time for the 2022 opening, the ride ran with some temporary scenes and slightly redecorated rafts that year. It was finished for spring 2023.

It's not much of a secret that Europa Park was emulating the Disney Parks in the 1980s and early 1990s - although that quickly changed once Disneyland Paris (back then named Euro-Disney) became a reality. The last Disney clone ride to be built was a dinosaur ride named, uncreatively, "Universe of Energy" - exactly the same name as the EPCOT attraction had at the time.

The ride was an afterthought, built in what was originally an exhibit hall under the Eurosat coaster when an Omnimover ride system made by Mack Rides (the company that essentially also owns Europa Park) was given back from a bankrupt park.

"Universe of Energy" was very dark - at least that helped to cover up some of the less detailed areas of decoration. The attraction was not well advertised and you could completely miss it. When Eurosat was rebuilt in 2017/18, this attraction was also fully retouched. All major animatronics remained in their place, but they were refreshed, given some colorful gear and a somewhat kitschy story of an elderly Alsace woman named "Madame Freudenreich" having dinosaurs in her garden.

The first version of this coaster opened in 1989 as "Eurosat" and was space-themed, much like Space Mountain. The main difference was the lift mechanism - instead of a straight chain track, Eurosat used a spiral in the center of the sphere where trains are lifted after latching to a rotating drum.

In 2017, it became apparent that Eurosat would need a full retrack and, due to changed regulations, this would also require some new support work. However, the track support and the structure of the sphere are one construction, so the structure had to be replaced bit by bit - made easier by the decision to maintain as much as possible of the original track layout.

The retracked attraction was re-themed to the "Moulin Rouge" in Paris, better fitting the French section of the park. Its name is now "Eurosat Can Can Coaster". It also features a space-themed virtual reality option based on Luc Besson's "Valerian" movie.

This question was probably one for the real enthusiasts: "F.L.Y.", the flying coaster at Phantasialand is well known for breaking several world records, its immersive steampunk theming and being the first launched coaster with riders in the flying position. It is also integrated closely with one of the park's hotels.

As Phantasialand is fenced in in terms of available space and additionally also faces constant complaints by neighbors about noise, building attractions there is an art in itself. In the case of "F.L.Y.", the construction involved getting rid of an IMAX motion simulator located in a gold-colored geodesic dome as well as an event building and the coaster makes use of a very limited height, being surrounded by themed walls to contain the noise.

"Race for Atlantis" was the second and final incarnation of the IMAX simulator. Originally built as "Galaxy" with sixteen ride vehicles on two levels, the attraction quickly had to close the upper level because of problems with emergency exits. The remaining half-capacity attraction was given a fantasy makeover in 2005 and ran with the new movie until January 2016, never gaining the popularity of the first incarnation.

While "Temple of the Night Hawk" at Phantasialand does no longer exist in name, you can more or less still ride it: Its upgrade "Crazy Bats" uses virtual reality goggles to accompany an indoor roller coaster ride with a synchronized movie. However, if you ride without the goggles, you get essentially the same experience as before: A pitch dark hall filled with a long family roller coaster that has three lift hills.

However, "Temple of the Night Hawk" itself was a redesign of a space-themed coaster called "Space Center". The retheming was mostly done by removing the space elements, painting everything in dark green and applying some camouflage netting. Some new light effects were installed, but broke down over the years and from 2012, the coaster was entirely dark except for the station.

The "Crazy Bats" film used for the virtual reality upgrade is interestingly based on two minor characters from Europa Park: the bats have had their first appearance in "Happy Family", a 4D movie from Europa Park and later expanded into a full-length feature film.

The "Bobbaan", as it was known in Dutch, appeared on English language maps of the Efteling as "Swiss Bob". It was one of just a handful of freewheeling "bobsled" coasters produced by Intamin. In this type of coaster, the trains don't run on rails, but use a twisting halfpipe as their tracks. The ride was very popular in the Efteling, but ultimately fell victim to a lack of reliability, being unable to run in rain because the brakes would not work right.

The ride was torn down quickly and destructively in September 2019 - the track pieces were ripped apart, so it cannot be reconstructed. In its place, the Efteling now has the "Max and Moritz" dual powered coaster - ironically also known to have had some reliability issues in its first years, with trains not always stopping properly in the station when it was hot.

"The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror" (the "the" is actually part of the title) is a staple of Disney resorts worldwide that tends to attract some of the largest crowds of any ride in the parks, but you will not find it at Disneyland Anaheim any more - or rather you'll now find it under a new name and with different theming.

Of the multiple incarnations of the ride, the California one, although not the oldest, was the least variable and the only one consistenly employing a single ride program throughout its operation.

In 2017, the California version was rethemed to "The Avengers" and now runs as "Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout", now also featuring multiple ride sequences. There are six possible sequences, each cued to a specific classic rock song (so if you ride often, you know what will happen as soon as the music starts).

I hope I didn't catch you off guard here, because this building was originally called "Universe of Energy" - but the attraction had become "Ellen's Energy Adventure" before it was stripped to the bare hall, to be refitted with "Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind".

Both the first and second incarnations consisted of several film presentations and a five-minute dark ride through a dinosaur diorama. The first set of films were pure documentaries while the "Ellen" version weaved a plot around Ellen DeGeneres taking part in an energy-based version of "Jeopardy", while knowing nothing about the topic until she gets some help by Bill Nye.

The new ride is an indoor spinning roller coaster which has a much larger footprint than the old attraction. Most of it is housed in an annex to the old building, but the original remains as the queue area and for secondary functions.

"Frozen Ever After" is a re-theme of the original "Maelstrom" ride housed in the Norwegian pavillion in EPCOT, Walt Disney World. The ride system for both incarnations is the same - a "shoot the chute" style ride with a small backwards drop - even the boats have been reused.

While the original ride stayed close to the "countries of the world" theme present in World Showcase, including Norwegian landscapes, history and even oil rigs, the new version has removed its connections to Norway for the ride itself and is entirely based on the "Frozen" movie franchise. The facade of the building with the entrance, however, is still Norwegian.

While this image may look like a projection, Elsa (who, of course, belts her signature "Let it Go" song in the scene) is actually an animatronic. In photos, many of the figures look as two-dimensional as their movie counterparts, but when you look at an on-ride video, you'll see this is a well animated moving figure who sends the boat backwards into a crescendo of music.