Top 20 STRANGEST Dark Rides EVER
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
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Dark rides are awesome. Some are just plain weird. Here are the top 20 as voted on by the viewers.
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Top 20 Most BIZARRE Dark Rides EVER
Intro 0:00
Keeps 0:25
Reese's Xtreme Cup 02:20
Shrek 4:46
Monster Mansion 06:14
Dreamieland 8:08
Fantasy Dream 10:02
Adventures Thru Inner Space 11:27
Ye Old Mill 12:47
Gremlins 14:20
Nights in White Satin 16:23
Area 51 18:17
Wacky Factory 19:56
Donkey's Sherry 21:17
Fairytale World 23:28
Bubbleworks 24:47
Prehistoric River 27:42
Garfield's Nightmare 29:29
Meow Wolf's Kaleidoscape 31:32
Vi på Saltkråkan 32:47
Eisberg 34:18
Earthquake the Ride 36:39
Comment Shout Out 38:26
Outro 39:52
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The fact that you said that Dark rides are the cornerstone of Theme parks is a praise in on itself. Amen Brother!
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Hey theme park crazy I found this super weird flat ride, just copy and paste this
はるくんの神奈川県横須賀市ソレイユの丘のスーパースインガー
"Antler demon" is a wendigo...
Blazing Fury at Dollywood is sort of a dark ride in itself, but it’s different. I feel like that would be a fun one to review 😎
One thing not mentioned about professor Burp's bubble works were the smells pumped out throughout the ride - citrus, cherry, cream soda - along with the pervasive scent of chlorine - it was heady! and occasionally I'll still catch an aroma of something and be transported right back.
The Imperial Leather one had the smell of oil by comparison.
If you want to recreate that smell at home AromaPrime (the makers of the Bubblework smells) sell the scents used in the ride on their site along with little desktop diffusers. Bubblegum is the primary one that was used. You can combine it with a tiny drop of their Water Ride Dampness smell for something that comes pretty close. Hope this helps a fellow enthusiast out there because it took me forever to find it haha.
21:07 those actually WERE bought from Spirit Halloween, I recognize them lol
I grew up around Pittsburgh as a teen and I remember riding Garfield's Nightmare to get out of the heat, it was in bad shape the last couple of years it was in operation. The water was an opaque gray color, a lot of the animatronics just straight up didn't work (the vet needle wouldn't blow air, the pizza box stayed dormant, etc.), and as you could see in the video, the paint faded from most of the comic strip character's eyes. Thank God Kennywood Park finally listened to the dark ride fans and brought back the Old Mill.
Alf is still at Van Helsing. He sits in the crane just before the second lift
I love how they kept Alf around. He deserves it.
Gizmo used to be under the hood of a car somewhere on Van Helsing. I believe somewhere on the lift hill with the werewolf jumpscare. Not sure he still is tho, I could never find him.
@@RikFTK He has been removed. There is a Gremlin hidden in the studio tour though
Reading this before watching the video and getting the context is terrifying.
@@pitvabackla8403 33:49 It isn't Blood, it's red Paint that the Toddler has!
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups solving world problems yet again.
29:16 hearing him so casually say gyat took 10 years off my lifespan.
As the #1 fan of Earthquake the ride, I’m honored that it is recognized as one of the most bizarre fucking things to ever be designed by humans. Thank you, Theme Park Crazy.
Monster Mansion to me is one of those true standout Six Flags attractions.
I have been on it once, and it was alright but was not my favorite though.
I've not been on it before. Been to six flags over GA several times, but not in like a decade 😂
I absolutely love the idea of a rock-music-themed theme park, and it's tough it was founded right before the economy went boom. In an alternate universe, I could see this rivaling at least Six Flags!
I think a fun video idea would be one focusing on ride pre-shows. Maybe Best Ride Pre-shows or Weirdest Ride Pre-shows. One that comes to mind is the video that plays in the line for Flight of Fear at Kings Island. That video is so corny and dated but I love it!
As a Spaniard, the existence of Shima Spain Village always amazes me. Speaking of which here in Spain there is another ride that could have made it in this list: Tren del Terror (Train of Terror) at Madrid's wax museum, which is already quite infamous in Spain for how cheap looking the wax figures tend to be. The ride starts like a classic haunted house dark ride, with the queue looking like a haunted castle's dungeon and a first scene featuring giant rats, then the thing starts to make less sense once you enter a prehistoric jungle with dinosaurs and even a megalodon (which unfortunately is not submerged, such a missed opportunity to add submechanophobia to the mix), then you enter a spaceship with famous aliens from films like a Xenomorph or the Thing, which gets followed by a scene in the cantina from Star Wars, and later followed by a jungle featuring both Rambo and the Predator. So yeah, maybe not the weirdest but still pretty nonsensical
Edit: Now I just remembered too that the ride has various entrances and one of them is inside a nearly subway station
Top 15 razones para visitar España
There's also a wine-themed wing coaster
@@Combes_ Took me a while to realize what ride where you talking about, but yeah, now I realize that's a weird theme as well
My girlfriend is from Spain. I'll definitely have to ride this if I ever get a chance to visit her.
The ferris wheel lift on that roller coaster at hard Rock Park was so cool. I would love to experience something like that
I remember it was down a lotttt. I wanted to ride it when the park was freestyle but the ride was never open. Rode Iron Horse and Time Machine (Zeppelin ride)
Idk why but the dinosaurs with those fast moving mouths on Prehistoric River made me laugh. It looks like as if they were talking for some reason. 😂
it actually kind of terrifies me, they look like they're on drugs or something,lol
32:48 - As a Swede and a fan of your videos it's really odd seeing "Vi på Saltkråkan" in a video like this haha! Here's some more information: Astrid Lindgren is the same Astrid that wrote Pippi Longstocking, along with like 50 other kids books, some that have become big even outside of Sweden. She's one of out biggest authors, even if she primarily wrote kids books. "Saltkråkan" however was mostly just popular in Sweden, and was one of the few materials that Astrid worked on that wasn't a book first. She wrote the series after living at Stockholm archipelago and the whole tv series is a love letter to it. She was very much involved in the whole process of the tv series and the show is very well known (and loved) in Sweden still, even if it's from the 60's (and very dated). The man who played the old dad got so typecast and loved in the role that he barely got a single acting role again after the show was made, which he regretted for the rest of his life, despite the role being so well loved. People called him by his character's name instead of the actor's actual name.
33:54 - That's not a boy, that's a girl. She's trying to make her raven talk, because she once knew a raven that could talk but of course no one believes her. Neither did I (or anyone I know) when I saw this show as a kid. Imagine my surprise as I grew up and discovered that ravens can, in fact, talk!
The thing they do with the table at 34:05 is a thing they did every time they ate, I believe. It was just a quirky thing but it's one of those things that are so memorable from the show. They lift the table together and then put it down again with a small "boom!" so it smash into the floor again. Very memorable, and quirky.
There's a story about a seal cub they adopt, named Moses. There's also a story about two thieves (played by two of the biggest comedians and actors of the time in Sweden; Hasse & Tage) who pretty much just adopt and kidnap the baby of the series (the same girl who paints the walls with "blood" at 33:48 haha!).
The whole tv series is like a time capsule of 60's Stockholm archipelago, and if you like the 60's or Sweden or Astrid Lindgren I recommend it. It's really cute!
It's honestly no surprise that Meow Wolf has a dark ride that would make this list. All of their other attractions would make for some very interesting dark rides if they were set up properly.
Heyo, Hershey native. Here's some fun facts about Reese's Xtreme Cup Challenge. The premise is loosely based on the old "You got chocolate in my peanut butter! You got peanut butter in my chocolate!" commercials from the 1970s. Believe it or not, chocolate and peanut butter as a combo was New and Exciting back then. The ride was installed in what used to be the original Hershey ice skating rink which was built back in the 1920s. It had a massive stone fireplace as its only form of heating. The Hershey Bears ice hockey team used it to practice until its untimely conversion, and it was occasionally used by the Hershey Figure Skating Club as well. As of 2018 it was re-themed to an even more perplexing story of evil alien breath mints trying to eliminate all candy. The set pieces are largely the same, but repainted with a rather Buzz Lightyear-esque art style and color scheme. The light guns remain intact, but are no more functional than they ever were, which is to say, not very.
"Then there's a laughing gas segment where- oh...oh no..oh no no no noo..."
That's exactly what I was feeling
Oh, Monster Mansion (or the past named Monster Plantation) is a household name for my family. Every now and then my mom will just spout the phrase “Don’t go in the swamp!” in Billy Bob’s southern drawl.
I see why they changed the name.
yassified carrots has me dead😂
You're missing Cave Train Adventure from the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in California! That ride is totally wild, you should make a video on it!
I'll check it out!
25:45 yeah, i swear Dan Schneider had to have secretly designed at least that part of the Professor Burp's Bubbleworks ride, there's no way you could convince me otherwise!
Or Quentin
That slasher polar bear is way scarier than than that terrible Winnie-the-Pooh horror movie.
"Then Donkey Conquistadors show up and burn the village to the ground."
Well, that's a sentence I never expected to hear in my life.
Some additional context for the "Fantasy Dream" ride in Lotte World Adventure: While the parent company that opened the park now has a lot of different subsidiaries, it started out making gum and candy. Because of this, in much of Asia, people largely associate "Lotte" as a brand name with candy. This goes some way toward explaining the overall candy theme of the ride, if not the particular aesthetic choices.
The strange attractions of Gatlinburg and Pigeon forge are some of the few things that make me proud to be a Tennessean, alongside Dolly Parton and Sweat tea
I wrote it under the last video, but I say it again because it just needs to be said, but the Vietnamese dinosaur ride feels like if you had an AI design a dark ride, it's like the designers had only passing knowledge about Dinosaurs and Dark rides, so try their best to mesh the two.
Also, I just noticed, and I am shocked you didn't mention it in the video, but all the Dinosaurs look like they have human teeth too, further leaning into that uncanny valley effect.
He actually mentioned it in the previous video aforementioned
A modern version of the Inner Space ride would be awesome.
“The third film we wish we could forget” NOT ME. I love that movie. It’s overhated for NO REASON.
Thank you, I'm not the only person who doesn't hate that film! It's not as good as the first or second, but I like how it touched on a very real fear that soon-to-be-fathers face with Shrek's reaction to Fiona being pregnant. We also got some amazing Doris screentime and learned about the queen being a badass, which is how Fiona became a fearsome martial artist.
Great video! Loved it so much that I immediately watched it a second time. Thanks for all your hard work! ❤❤❤
wacky factory looks kind of awesome tbh-- i appreciate the almost aimless weirdness of it while still kiiinda keeping the factory theme lol
happy to see the prehistoric river ride getting more recognition! i've never been as genuinely frightened watching a ride video as i was when i saw that for the first time...the lighting, the noise, the lack of coherence, the dinosaurs being close enough to literally touch, it's a literal nightmare and i think it's kinda cool
17:06 Can you imagine "The Wall." Dark ride? That be awesome
Donkey's sherry is closed and replace by the nutcracker ride.
I still remember about the donkey dark ride video way back and I had no idea what the story was on that ride.
Besides japan have strange and weird dark rides, I can name a few names of the dark rides
The legend of coal at Sanrio Puroland (closed)
Musical Circus at Parque Espana (closed)
A pinocchio ride I don't remember which park it was but is was rethemed to olympic games theme not sure it changed back.
And it's a small world knock-off which one scene was change to Arabic previous one was a dream like one with the big monster like. (probarly closed)
The Old Mill building at Kennywood is so narrow and claustrophobic with the haunted theme. All that Garfield bright paint would have illuminated those tight ceilings. It sounds terrifying for more than the decor.
“Grimey plush spider’s gyatt” YOU DID NOT 😭😭😭
The 'nurse' is the vet, Liz, she's a re-occuring character in the Garfield strip; the 'orca' is clearly one of them anglerfish-type deep sea monster fish (you can tell by the eyes); the Bubbleheads are playing squash, not badmington (they're making squash - y'know, dilutable juice? just add water? is it called squash in America?) and the gorilla is clearly called Kevin. Other than that, this was fine.
Finally, my category has been FOUND!
Thanks for sharing these Dark Rides, it's Sad that most of them no longer exist it's a shame.
Haha! Vi på Saltkråkan was a scary tv show as well, though it wasn't intended to be. For some reason it had a strange atmosphere and horror music. The stories were of very mundane things, like the baby finding and eating the jam in the cupboard, the kids playing pirates, the author not being able to get any writing done due to being interrupted all the time by everyone, etc. The most spectacular one was when they found and took care of a baby seal named Moses. I think it had a little bit of drama between the islanders and the summer tourists coming over from the big city, that type of thing. I found it either unnerving or boring as a kid, a rather odd show. I preferred Pippi Longstockings. It did have beautiful nature shots though.
I've been waiting for this moment baby!
Man! Another banger, keep it up! 👏
Always!
Friday night is already good by itself, but a friday night alongside a new TPC video? Perfection
FIrst time i've seen the garfield one, that looks awesome. Kaleidoscape looks the best!
Amazing once again! I love how INFORMATIVE about ALL the rides you've discussed with us! I love it, but I wish I could've rode any of them. :C
Maybe one day!
I been watching your channel since 2019, and ever since I have been one of you biggest fans Yet! ❤😊
Thank you so much for your continued support!
These are weird but great video keep up the good work!
I loved and hated Garfield’s Nightmare! I think I’ll forever have the mice scene’s audio stuck in my head! “Cat stew! Yum yum!” in the deepest voice possible 😂
You forgot Toyland Tours from Alton Towers.
It's a shame I wasn't born yet when Professor Burp's Bubbleworks was operating, but when I rode it as Bubbleworks, and now as The Gruffalo, I still really like it since both versions of the ride feel nostalgic to me in some way. It's nice to see that ride still in my home park honestly.
Bubble works was one of my absolute favourite dark rides, the smell and sounds were incredible
The music was incredible
I love this vid!
I've been on Earthquake: The Ride. That's a pretty accurate description of it. I didn't think it was as wild as some of the others but I can still see why you put it at the top
7:24 that’s a good name
Lol
Señior chicharron
Dreamieland just looks like it got desingend by a man who droped Acid or some other kind of drugs, and the fact that it's a shooting ride makes it more weird
Burmuda triangle at seaworld in Australia was the original ride and Area 51 ride in Germany was the replica of the Australian ride. The original ride name was Bermuda Triangle Alien Encounter. It was belied for a while that when the Aus one closed parts were sent to germany, this has since been proven to be wrong.
18:12 Hard Rock Park including its rides (though some were sold to other parks including the roller coasters being sent to Veitnam) would be left abandoned for years until being torn down for industrial development; also parts of the former Nights of White Satin/Monstars of Rock was built into a former shopping mall
"Grimy plush spider's gyatt" is one of my favorite phrases now
“Missy / Mizzy? Scarlett” there looks like a Kaminoian from Star Wars trying to disguise themselves as human lol.
OMG I AM SO MAD!! I have been subbed to this channel forever, I even have the bell turned on, but I haven't received any notifications about uploads in the last three months!!! Damn it RUclips!!!
Unrelated comment: I love the reference to classic Magic Schoolbus in the Monster Mansion section! 😂
Best video yet
Thank you for including me ❤️😁
I grew up going to Lake Winnie every year and the wacky factory was original a haunted castle ride. They remodeled it a few years ago and it looks like they kept a lot of the old props.
Last time I went on it it still had the air horn jump scare at the end but had added a hippie van coming right at you.
One time I had a dream about a weird dark ride just called “baby milk” and there was this room with a wizard and he was like a green ball and then there was these two kids whi kept losing their eggs to farting dogs and there was like flashes and it was fast and the ride vehicles kept jumping of the track and flying too the celing and then dropping down
This is the funniest Theme Park Crazy narration I have ever heard. Kudos.
Reese's Xtreme Cup took that "Clean Vs. Dirty" Debate from Spongebob and make it into a sport.
Looked like a lot of fun and clever use of 2D
Check out “Tunel do Terror” (Tunnel of Terror) at Brazil’s Cidade da Criança.
That ride is absolutely BONKERS, I tell ya!
Woah, wait, there was a dark ride themed to one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands and I never had a chance to ride it? Now I'm sad. Watching another great video from you helps ease that pain though 😀
That foot scene in Dr. Burb's Bubbleworks at Chessington is something you might see in a live action Nickelodeon show created by "He who must not be named". Let us never speak about that after that docu-series came out.
@ThemeParkCrazy 29:29
HEY, I ridden this ride once in Kennywood Park, it was such a weird experience for me as a young kid/pre-teen. I never realized it was another ride years earlier, this was quite a fever dream, glad they got rid of it with a revamped version of the ride it replaced.
Hard Rock Park definitely looked like it would've been my thing!
It was very cool
I’m a little upset that Cadabra, a ride I had first hand experience with, didn’t make this list. But I’m still pleased to see all the weirdness that did make it. As for suggestions, Symbolica from Efteling comes to mind as a strange dark ride. (And I’d love to see a full video on Monsters of Rock; top ten worst dark rides maybe?)
I don’t know if people mention this to you, but your videos have gotten me through some really bad anxiety so thank you for what you do
You're very welcome. I'm glad I could help. 🙂
Love to see a video about Legoland dark rides as they have some really good ones.
Last time I rode Monster Mansion, none of the music was playing, so all you heard was the ambient noise and voice over. It was really weird going through the party at the end with the lyrics on the wall but no music to go with it.
My twin sister and I loved doing the Reese's Xtreme Cup Challenge with our mom and her best friend (who we called our aunt). We would visit her in Pennsylvania and go to Hersheypark every year. My sister was obsessed with peanut butter so whoever was paired up with her HAD to be on the peanut butter side. My sister and I were so bummed to find out they changed it.
That's weird. The Wacky Factory was completely different when I rode it just a few years ago. There were very few animatronics or scenery, and it ended with "Age of Aquarius" playing as you go through the spinning hallway. The clown and the demonic tree were still there, though.
Spin Runway at Japan's Yomiurland was a strange ride with an even stranger que. I highly recommend it.
The other two big lost Dark Rides are probably the Pinball Ride and Living Island ride at The World of Sid and Marty Kroft. This was an indoor amusement park open for one season in downtown Atlanta. The Living Island ride was themed to HR Pufinstuff, but didn't have the overtly 70's groove of the pinball ride.
I have such fond childhood memories of the Bubble Works ride. It was genuinely a weird but wonderful experience. I can understand why they updated it and changed the theme to the Gruffalo. It had a lot removed already from when I was really young so it was already changing and it felt like it was time to give something else a try. Thankfully, the ride itself remains the same, along with the lovely water jet tunnels that were always a big hit with kids, so there is still the element of nostalgia you can get simply by being on the ride and ignoring the theme change. Also, they still sell some nostalgic merch in the gift shops to do with the Bubble Works as well as having a mural of the Professor on one of the buildings as they often leave remnants like that for older fans to smile at when they visit.
I love these! I wish there was an infinite supply of weird dark rides, lol.
I loved bubble works as a kid so much
I really miss the Gremlins Invasion at Movie Park Germany. At Halloween the train always became the "Terror Train" with live scare Actors which gave me several heart attacks 😄
Hearing the Garfield ride jumpscared me because I watched the Defunctland video. All I’m gonna say is “Garfield knows all of our sins”
I would love to see a dark ride based on any of the following.
A. The Muppets
B. Labyrinth
C. The Dark Crystal
D. Farscape
Bubbleworks was epic, my most missed ride in the UK. It did certainly die when Imperial Leather moved in. Jury is out if the Gruffalo is better than even that!
I remember going on Professor Burp’s Bubbleworks for couple years prior to it been closed. It was a joy to experience. Imperial Leather I only been one it twice, once in 2006 and the other time the day before it closed for good. The 2006 experience I can sum it up perfectly as soon as the ride begins down into the first scene where it feels like a graveyard and going completely worse from there (except the fountains). It might as well be considered for the Worst Retheme in Execution in Dark Ride History.
I love your videos!!! Also look at pirates voyage in pigeon forge Davy jones it’s a submerged and comes out of no where it’s scary
I will say, I've been on Old Mill that replaced the Garfield ride. It smells absolutely horrid! The sound design is so broken that sometimes the audio glitches and it worries me..😭😭
I loved Garfield nightmare it was fun to ride
Wow, I can count with one hand the number of people I've heard pronounce "ye old" the correct way as "the old". Kudos to you, mate!
i was >not< prepared for the uncensored Eisberg cllip LMAO
I completely forgot about the Gremlins ride at Movie Park until I saw Alf!
oh my gosh professor burps bubble works! I loved that ride. I was so sad when they replaced it!
OH MY GOD MY LOCAL AMUSEMENT PARK MENTIONED! I would love for you to do a full video on Rye Playland! There is so much lore, death, rides, stories and more. For example, Mariah Carey comes and visits every few years and did one of her most famous music videos here!
I've got to say, I never would have expected Alf.
Love your videos man thanks for a long one!
Omg Saltkrakan was my favorite show when I was little. I loved Skrallan, the baby, and named one of my dolls after her. LOL I didn't know there was a ride.
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Bro, I live in Colorado and I was considering riding this ride once while a Elitches, but I didn't because the line was so damn long. But if I even get the chance, I'll try filming it and posting it online.
I love strange dark rides, they have character and are usually a lot of fun
It was this video that made me realize how good your script writing and line delivery have gotten, a lot of the jokes and references in this video were actually really good, keep it up man!
Seriously? I honestly hate the scripts. They sound like they are written by a high schooler in a creative writing class.
Monster Mansion is a favourite and a must do when visiting.
I remember travelling with my parents from the netherlands to warner brothers movie world somewhere between 2000 and 2010. It was such a massive let down, with so many weird and cheap rides. The one thing I remember about that gremlin ride was the extremely long pre show, where we had to watch old black and white movie bloopers. The ride we did like was a water flume ride with aliens and something about a bermuda triangle. Good old times 😂