Interactive Dark Rides

[Bairstow]

http://sallycorp.com/Video/Tut_Tour.htm

Check out this demo video! I had never heard of this ride, and probably will never get over to Belgium to ride it, but I sure wish I could. It looks like other companies are taking Disney's Space Ranger Spin concept and evolving it in different ways, in this case with multiple endings and trackless vehicles. Are there any other interactive dark rides in development at Disney that someone has heard about?

 

[Imagineermole]

You know what amazes me the most is that a Six Flags Park is getting the same praise that a Disney Park should be getting. That Six Flags Park most have the budget opposite of what Michael Einser is giving us. Another thing that shocked is that when that man said that "This is better than any other dark ride I have been on, even better than Disney." That shows us how a budget can make a ride "The best" instead of just "Average."

 

[MotoDisney]

Wow almost want to make me travel to Belgium. That ride is awesome! It is all about budgets and what you really want to make of a new ride. Would be cool to see some of this implemented at Disney. Sometimes competion is a good thing!

 

[bgraham34]

Yeah we should all take the trip it would be interesting. I can get some waffles while I am there.

 

[OliveMcFly]

Buzz Lightyear is kind of a kid friendly version of the MIB ride at Universal. Although both very cool, there is nothing like Buzz.

 

[KevinPage]

Thanks for the link and your avatar is kick-butt!!!!

Pinch me, Six Flags with a dark ride, AA's and good theming. What is the world coming to?!?!?! :dazzle: :dazzle: :dazzle:

Then again, Six Flags in Europe is a different animal compared to the slop they dole out here in the US.

 

[Chape19714]

Very interesting. The trackless system is at Disney parks, but has yet to premiere in the U.S. sounds good. 6 flags is really different over there, all we have here are roller coasters. lol. Funny though, how 6 flags had to hire an outside company to do this, when WDI did it all themselfes. lol. (although some of WDW's coasters are not WDI :lookaroun )

thanks for the link.

 

[joel_maxwell]

i was just thinking how the ride looks ok, entertaining, but i think that scariest part of all is that six flags is actually theming now (granted this is in europe, and they could have been doing all along) instead of throughing a coaster on a patch of dirt, slapping some green paint on it with decorated question marks on the sidewalk leading to the ride, and calling it "The Joker".

wow, bugs looked really weird in egyptian garb. lol

great, now im going to have the song, "walk like an egyptian" stuck in my all day. :brick:

 

[phlydude]

Looks like a cross between Return of the Mummy and Buzz.

How long until those hand-held guns get ripped out of the rides??

 

[careship]

Wow.....that is really cool. I like the three exits. Makes for return guests.

 

[ToTBellHop]

That's one of the kewlest video games ever, complete with that climactic boss battle at the end. I am really impressed that Six Flags would pay for such a ride...although they recently sold off all of their international parks...

 

[Bairstow]

You're right, Disneygrrl, this does remind me of the MiB ride at Universal, though in my opinion this one is higher quality, using real AAs rather than plywood 2d cutouts. The natural gas fires and cohesive light beams struck me as being particularly plush details in a ride with such a low per-car occupancy. The only thing I didn't understand is why the ride is only bi-lingual. You would think that because a lot of the events in the ride are rider-determined, the audio track's language could be rider-determined too. In other words, if a French family was in a car they could select a French language track and the car would give them the appropriate show, wereas a German family would activate a German language track as they moved through the ride. This would only work, of course, if the vehicles travel through the ride one-by-one (and I think they do) rather than in groups of two.
If you browse through the rest of Sally's page you'll see that they also have been building lower-cost attractions with similar technology here in the states, including one called Ghost Hunt. Maybe some of y'all have even ridden it.
BTW, Kevinpage, your avatar is hilarious.

 

[NemoRocks78]

Wow, that does look like an incredible ride. I'm surprised Sally even designed it! (they have done some excellent rides....E.T Adventure for example.....and some absolutely horrible rides...Scooby Doo and the Haunted Mansion is actually comparable to Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin with its cardboard cutouts and neon paint)

Men In Black: Alien Attack is still the best interactive dark ride around though.

 

[DisneylandDude]

Aren't We All Forgetting About Horizons. The first "Interactive Dark Ride". You got to choose your own ending.

 

[KevinPage]

If you browse through the rest of Sally's page you'll see that they also have been building lower-cost attractions with similar technology here in the states, including one called Ghost Hunt. Maybe some of y'all have even ridden it.
BTW, Kevinpage, your avatar is hilarious.

Ghost Hunt is at Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT (right across the street from ESPN). It's a fun ride, not nearly as elaborate as this ride though.

 

[Thorphin]

Aren't We All Forgetting About Horizons. The first "Interactive Dark Ride". You got to choose your own ending.

Thank you very much for remembering! Horizons is what I immediately thought of when I saw the subject line for this post.

Anyway, there is a lesson to be learned in Six Flags getting a dark ride. Why do I feel like no one at Disney listens to anyone. WDW is not supposed to be Six Flags! :brick:

Jack

 

[AEfx]

instead of throughing a coaster on a patch of dirt, slapping some green paint on it with decorated question marks on the sidewalk leading to the ride, and calling it "The Joker".

Actually, that would be the Riddler. The Joker would be purple with playing cards.

Yes, I am not just a Disney Geek, I am also a Batman geek.

AEfx