upstop Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 The singing busts in the graveyard and the Leota head in thr crystal ball of "the mansions" are direct predecessors of projection mapping. Very effective and eerie! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCandyManCan Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 I don't go to parks to play a mockup round of Battlefield 4 with kid friendly blackout painted ghouls or chandeliers. Thus any shooting dark ride has no enjoyment in my book. If I want to play a shoot em up deal, I have Battlefield 4, or an actual shooting range closeby. Dark Kastle for Cedar Fair parks, oh one can dream. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marth555 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 I dont think I have been on this ride since the Scooby-Doo era Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark6495 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Tbh the reason the shooter style works at WDW is because it's part of a ride portfolio. At Magic Kingdom, the traditional dark rides include: Haunted Mansion, Peter Pan, Pooh and then you have the shooting Buzz Lightyear. Balance... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 It also works as it actually works, unlike the Mason one, which only sorta works when it even does. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkroz Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Tbh the reason the shooter style works at WDW is because it's part of a ride portfolio. At Magic Kingdom, the traditional dark rides include: Haunted Mansion, Peter Pan, Pooh and then you have the shooting Buzz Lightyear. Balance... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Keeping in mind that I don't mind the Buzz rides at all: Toy Story deserves a better dark ride. It's sad to me that Toy Story will always be relegated to easy-to-replicate Buzz Lightyear blasting rides (Astroblasters or Space Ranger Spin depending on your coast) and Midway Mania blasting rides. Toy Story would make a wonderful full, classic dark ride in the Fantasyland style, or even in the new age, built-out style of Tokyo's Pooh ride. Separately, Tomorrowland also deserves a better dark ride. It's a shame that we're beyond the age where Take Flight or Adventure Thru Inner Space could be a functional balancing act to the land. But those kinds of experiences needed to be grandfathered in. If introduced from scratch, today's visitors would say, "Huh?" So Buzz Lightyear is a fine ride. But it's not the best representation of Toy Story or the best fit for its location, which is all a little disappointing. I'll probably always prefer plot over interactivity, though, so I could look at even the world's best interactive ride and say, "It would be better without the guns." The one exception that comes to mind is Tokyo's outstanding Monsters Inc. dark ride, which is interactive but wonderfully so. And no lasers OR score-keeping! Can you imagine?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindingSon Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 I think both (as in they have more than one, novel for a regional park) of Lagoon's non-interactive dark rides are much more enjoyable than Boo Blasters. Have some decent scares in 'em too. And the newest of them was built in the 70's. When Terp was a young'n and the goats still grazed under the Roller Coaster. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Thanks. You made my day. When Terp was a youngun, Laff In The Dark from Tracey abounded. And then, Haunted House at Camden Park debuted. Terp spent the Seventies as a secondary, university, graduate and beyond student. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homestar92 Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 There are decent shoot-em-up dark rides out there. Den of Lost Thieves was certainly... different. "Different" is a recurring theme at that park, but I digress... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Virtually all the wonderful different at that park that survives is from the prior ownership. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCandyManCan Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Currently playing Destiny on my PS4. Still much better than any shoot em up dark ride. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatTheBlazes Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Sure this is off Topic but Terp, the post you made about Camden park made me think of something. My first inverted coaster was the ole Screamin' Demon at KI when I was very young. Well in the eary 90's on a trip to West Virginia with my mom (she had grown up there so I had heard tales of this Camden Park), I was able to visit that park. And I got to ride for the last time, that same coaster that had been moved and set up there. Did you ever ride that one while it was at Camden? While a long time follower, this is my first post on this site btw 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdawg1998 Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Why has nobody mentioned Men In Black: Alien Attack at Universal Studios? That is an amazing ride. The aliens shoot back at you and if you don't shoot them in time, your car spins out of control. The theme is impeccable. The alien animatronics are sweet. It's just an all-around great ride. Even better than Buzz Lightyear. And one hundred times better than Boo Blasters. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Sure this is off Topic but Terp, the post you made about Camden park made me think of something. My first inverted coaster was the ole Screamin' Demon at KI when I was very young. Well in the eary 90's on a trip to West Virginia with my mom (she had grown up there so I had heard tales of this Camden Park), I was able to visit that park. And I got to ride for the last time, that same coaster that had been moved and set up there. Did you ever ride that one while it was at Camden? While a long time follower, this is my first post on this site btw Welcome to KIC! Oh, yes. Many, many times. Even got to climb the loop and structure on the other end. Then watched it slowly rust away. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatTheBlazes Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Sure this is off Topic but Terp, the post you made about Camden park made me think of something. My first inverted coaster was the ole Screamin' Demon at KI when I was very young. Well in the eary 90's on a trip to West Virginia with my mom (she had grown up there so I had heard tales of this Camden Park), I was able to visit that park. And I got to ride for the last time, that same coaster that had been moved and set up there. Did you ever ride that one while it was at Camden? While a long time follower, this is my first post on this site btw Welcome to KIC! Oh, yes. Many, many times. Even got to climb the loop and structure on the other end. Then watched it slowly rust away. Thank you for the welcome! And with the fond memories I have of that ride, I'm glad to know that many got to enjoy it after it left Kings Island. Though the thought of its eventual fate, slowly rusting away, is pretty sad! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Beast 89 Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Currently playing Destiny on my PS4. Still much better than any shoot em up dark ride. have you ever played the dark ride in Canada's Wonderland? That's like Destiny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingsislandfan1972 Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Currently playing Destiny on my PS4. Still much better than any shoot em up dark ride. There is a Six Flags game for Wii that has a level kind of a knock off of Boo Blasters, if anybody's not familiar with the game, http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/object/142/14251061/fun_park_wii001boxart_160w.jpg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingsislandfan1972 Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Oh and by the way, are they selling Boo Blaster glasses this year? I haven't seen them in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabe Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 I haven't seen them this season, nor do I recall seeing them past the first part of last season. Even at $1, they were overpriced for what the experience delivered. I believe the sign advertising them, which was located on the left as you enter the actual building, has been removed as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voicetek Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 My wife and I each bought a pair of those glasses the first season Boo Blasters was open. They were ok. We rode through once with them and never used or bought them again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuskin Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 I posted an update in the Kings Island 2015 discussion thread but on Sunday I rode Boo Blasters specifically to see if anything was working. To my astonishment it seems that they have gone in and fixed most of the issues. Everything seemed to be working, even the tourist being chased by the skeletons. Every target I hit worked and I got one of the highest scores for that ride I can remember in recent history. So, at least it seems some TLC was put back into the ride now. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Six Flags FUN Park. Presented by Snickers Terp...Snickers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magenta Lizard Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 They were getting rid of the old Boo Blasters glasses as prizes in the Coney Arcade at the end of last season. I got several pairs to save, but have never remembered to take any to use on the actual ride. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaestroJr Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Yeah I havent seen them in a few seasons either. And the sign is gone too I think. What was the point of them anyway? Did they make the ride any better? I remember seeing them but not caring to buy them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaestroJr Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Imagine a Phantom Theater 3D ride, now that would be radtastic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkroz Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 The fluorescent colors of Boo Blasters are what make it work. Bright fluorescent reds appear to advance toward the viewer while fluorescent blues recede. It's gives a "trippy," disorienting depth to the scene. If you've been on Garfield's Nightmare, you've got the effect without paying $1 for it. It is sort of cool, but to charge for it is tantamount to highway robbery in my book. Especially since Boo Blasters wasn't thoughtfully created in the right color palates to make the scene look dimensional, so it wouldn't have the correct things receding / advancing. Rather, everything would just be prismatic. The same glasses on Phantom Theater wouldn't do much. They work specifically with fluorescent colors under bright / black lighting. It's that very specific "flat" fluorescent Sally dark ride color scheme that works. They were, for a time, sold in the queue for Disaster Transport, but only because they provided some interesting illusions in the queue (think of the old hand-print tunnel, fluorescent blacklight travel posters, etc). They didn't do anything on the ride, of course. THAT, I thought, was the epitome of the Kinzel era... especially once half of the queue was closed, and they continued to sell disposable 3D glasses and light-up wands in the line. In other words, it's not "WOW IMPRESSIVE AWESOME LIFELIKE" 3D like Spider-Man. It's just the flat painted sets looking sparkly and disorienting. ^ In this image, as in the Disaster Transport queue, the red handprints would float "out" toward you and the blue handprints would appear to float "back" into the wall, for a very trippy effect. Again, Garfield's Nightmare's splattered tunnels are another great example. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delirium13 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 I'd rather have actual 3D sets and animatronics instead of cardboard cut-outs or going screen-to-screen/shooting at things. And no, the 3D glasses did not make Boo Blasters any better. I found a set on the ground once (it didn't seem as gross at the time) and decided to see what the "enhanced" experience was like... Basically just a complete afterthought. I remember some dots on the wall popping out and that's about it... Never felt the need to give it another shot, and definitely not worth paying for. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkroz Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 I'm sure it was LITERALLY an after-thought. "Hey, we could sell 3D glasses in the line!" The ride wasn't designed to be enhanced by them. And even if it was, charging for the "privilege" is... wrong. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RingMaster Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 When painted and designed right, those flat-painted sets can achieve an incredible amount of depth even with disposable glasses. https://youtu.be/1u-6qBgH6LE Here is basically Haunt's Carnevil maze in a 21st century design. It's a bunch of snippets rather than a full walkthrough, but it gives a glimpse of things like forced perspective and physical sets/props. Speaking of Carnevil, one of the stupidest things they did in recent years was start charging for 3D glasses (because, once again, if it works for Knott's, then it'll clearly work for everyone else). Another way to make a quick buck, yet I still don't see any of that 3D glasses money being invested into making the woefully-outdated Carnevil a better-designed attraction. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 I bought the 3D glasses for Boo Blasters once. All they did was screw with my vision enough that I couldn't point the gun accurately. Halfway through the ride, I took them off, and my accuracy immediately improved drastically. I never bought or wore them again. Oh, and yes, I do enjoy the shoot-em-up style of dark rides, and would love to see a much better shoot-em-up. Sue me. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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