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Dracula's custom built Ghost Train pods
The train theme was inspired by the 1950's style side show rattlers. The first train rattled around the venue back in 1989.The original
Dracula's little locomotive may not have boasted the hi-tech effects of the giant
theme park rides, it did have that creep show feel. That musky burnt
electric smell, the ubiquitous nylon threads that brush your face in the
dark, and hiss of compressed air as an animatronic ghoul lunges out at you.
Now that's a real Ghost Train. Two generations on and the new 'Doom Buggy' pods thrill audience members every performance. Able to deliever over 500 terrified guests into the theatre is no mean feat. Each of the 8 pods is fitted with powerfull on-board computers and indivdual surround sound systems. Almost a million dollars and hundreds of man hours later, the shrieking screams that echo within the
ghost train passages are testament that it works, especially when the
hilarious reactions of the shrieking commuters are being recorded on our
very own hidden infra-red video camera!
The Ghost Train video screening has to be one of the highlights of a visit to Drac's. Some of the reactions have been hysterical. We caught one couple having a naughty in the back seat, a young woman wearing a "boob tube" screamed and lost the tube, and one old fella's false teeth flew out and landed in his glass of vino!
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