When the first rumors came out that DarKastle might be closing, I honestly expected BGW to retrofit it as an interactive shooting dark ride like Knott’s Voyage to the Iron Reef (now Beary Tales) or Six Flags’ Justice League dark rides. At the time, those high-tech Triotech and Sally dark rides seemed like the next big thing in the industry. Plus, DarKastle already had the track and screens in place, so it should’ve been a relatively easy and inexpensive conversion. And it would’ve solved DarKastle’s two biggest problems — the interactive nature would address DarKastle’s lack of re-rideability, and the more limited and gentler motion of the interactive vehicles would have reduced maintenance costs.
Of course, that theory went to ruin when BGW started ripping out DarKastle’s track and screens and gutting the building. With DarKoaster on the way, I sadly don’t see any dark rides — interactive or not — in BGW’s near future.
