There is nothing wrong with any main components of this ride, leave the story alone, leave the pre-show alone, just leave the ride alone. YOu guys are trying to fix something that doesn't need fixing. The ride is extremely well themed and any more theme would be way too much. The ride is not meant to be one of those ride you can re ride all day and not get bored. This ride is to impress people the first few times they ride. Verbolten is built to re ride, most other carnival rides are built to re ride. DarKastle is not. The ride is very well done and just fine the way it is, yes it does have a few glitches that need be fixed however it is fine just the way it is. No major changes!
Curse of DarKastle
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a ride that is only fun once or twice doesn't belong at BGW, it belongs at Disney or Universal. The majority of it's guests are locals, not tourists. This is why I don't like a 4D show in the globe, it's an awesome theater that is being wasted by Pirates(Which I have seen probably 20 times). Darkastle is not that way,it's a dark ride that is very popular. Since most of the guests are returning visitors, Obviously it is fun with guests who have ridden it once/twice a year for 6 or 7 years. Now, If you ride it 50 times a year, then it's gonna get boring. I ride it about 2 or 3 times a year in my 6 or 7 trips, mainly because the line is long. But, it still doesn't justify a story change. when it's bringing in hour+ waits every day.
I ride it every time I visit and it's still fun every time I go.
That particular ride system that the park has installed for DarKastle was meant to be updated and changed regularly. The ride system is very flexible and the scenes can be switched out relatively easy. I'm not saying the whole premise of the story needs to be changed, because there are some fixed sets and props, but all of the show scenes are swappable and that is one of the reasons the park went with a system like this, so they could swap scenes out. It keeps the ride fresh for new and old alike. The park needs to exercise that feature of the ride system.
Well if they took away the spinning do you think they will put the ballroom scene back?
Oh and also why did they take out the part where the prince and the mother are fighting the air, that was takin out in 2011?
For people who don't know what I'm talking about it was the scene right before the part where you got "dropped." And taken outside the castle walls.
Oh and also why did they take out the part where the prince and the mother are fighting the air, that was takin out in 2011?
For people who don't know what I'm talking about it was the scene right before the part where you got "dropped." And taken outside the castle walls.
JuniorBGWfan28 said:
If you're talking about scene seven(AKA: sideways towers), they didn't remove that scene. It has just had very many "technical difficulties" recently. DarKastle is so finicky that if one wire was severed on any of the sound/lighting queues, anything could go askew. I would hate to have to fix computer glitches on that ride.
There are thousands of little circuits on these boards and if one goes maintence has to find the one to fix it. The inside if this ride is quite impressive!!
I have a friend who works on DarKastle and it really is one of the most complicated things you could think of. The ride experience is such a delicate thing.
*push dispatch button.....push dispatch button.....push dispatch button.....push E-stop for lulz.....get yelled at......push dispatch button.....*Party Rocker said:
I think he means more of a maintenance type of perspective. Operator wise should be fairly simple of just pressing a few buttons. I'm sure there are operators all around the building watching the ride making sure everything resets correctly and what not so it could refer to that area also of that operator getting to see the other controls that makes it all happen.
There are no other operators in the building. The control booth is full of cameras and there is a map showing the location of every ride vehicle. The ride basically runs itself besides dispatch.
Hoopla said:
The "Dark Room" used to be the ballroom scene. I think that in the first year they had it, but after that I think they took it out. If anybody knows what I'm talking about please correct him. The Ballroom scene conversation took place earlier in this thread. Why did they take this part out anyway?
(if I'm wrong correct me, but I think I'm right)
The fireplace is at the end of the library scene, that is not the ballroom if you noticed the walls are lined with fake books.