2 New Attraction Concepts

[monkeybeast]

Tell me what you think of the following ride concepts.

The Soul Keeper: A haunted house and wooden coaster hybrid.

Storyline: Darren Van Pelt owner of the Silverwood cemetery discovers the crystal of darkness that gives him powers to capture souls and deliver them to the evil spirit.

Guests would enter the abandoned mansion where they would be confronted by Van Pelt. Guests would try to escape the evil minion and his house but would soon end in the sacrifice room where they appear to be doomed. After it seems like all hope is lost the Guardian Spirit appears and confronts Van Pelt while the guests board the Soul Keeper to take them to sanctuary. The coaster would then take guests through the house while Van Pelt and the Guardian Spirit battle, through the cemetery and finally to the Sanctuary where the Guardian Spirit tells them they have been saved from the power of darkness.


The Search For Sasquatch: Simulator

Storyline: Many people believe that the the legendary Sasquatch is just that a legend, but the Sasquatch Research Foundation knows that the Sasquatch exist and lives in the Silver Woods a place known to be the home of myths and legends. Lately poachers have been seen trying to capture the legendary sasquatch as well as any other mythological creature they can get their greedy hands on and the S.R.F. needs our help to disrupt the poachers and make sure they never come back into the Silver Woods.

Guests would enter the S.R.F. headquarters where they would get in jeeps and head out into the Silver Woods where they would encounter real and mythological creatures as well as avoid the traps set by the poachers.

I'm not sure how they could make this one, but it would be a big budget project and would have to be very well themed. This attraction would be similar to the old Back to the Future ride, but with much better technology. The ride attendants would act as members of the S.R.F.

I like both of these and they both could give Silverwood a dark ride which is something they need badly. The one that I can see happening is the haunted house- wooden coaster hybrid. The storyline would be different, but with the success of Dollywood's Mystery Mine and with Gary Norton's statement that he would like a new wood coaster in the next couple of years I think an idea like this is entirely possible.

[wolfblood]

Both of them are pretty good ideas, and I do agree SW could use a darkride. (Myself I've though up a bunch of themes for a Madhouse attraction in Main Street. That and a Family launch coaster with the theme of a Drive-In Theater.)

However based on personal experiences I do need to point a few things out.

With the Dark Ride/Coaster hybrid, DON'T go with wood. You can't exactly put a decent sized woodie under a building and have dark ride elements in it. There are only two wooden Dark Rides I know. The Underground at Adventureland and The Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain at Indiana Beach.

With the Underground, it's a very small indoor coaster that pretty much runs on gravity power. No drops and not a lot of spreed, not to mention noisy since you could clearly hear it rolling in the station from the pre-show room. While it certainly has a lot of dark ride elements, the speed would not match the story you have.

With LoCoSuMo, it has a much zippier ride...however really not a whole lot of dark ride elements since it flies through the track. It really moves too fast to tell a story.

In my opinion, go with a steel coaster since they work much better for Dark Coasters. (Revenge of the Mummy is a great example, especially the Flordia version.)

[monkeybeast]

you're probably right about the wood coasters, but I think Mystery Mine is a dark ride with a woodie.

[monkeybeast]

Now I'm going to criticize my idea because there are some major flaws.

The Soul Keeper would have to be a steel coaster because it would have to make sharp turns inside the "house" and I might want it to loop upside down and a wood coaster would not be able to do that.

Another flaw would be loading time. This attraction would have one heck of a wait as the haunted house part of the attraction would take at least three minutes if not more. There would probably have to be a queue part of the house, the "show" room where the story involves the guest and the coaster itself.

The other major factor is the fear factor. The above storyline would probably be too scary for smaller children who enjoy roller coasters.