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Wonder Mountain’s Guardian - NEW FOR 2014!
Iconic Wonder Mountain Blasted Open to Reveal New Attraction
4-D Interactive Attraction Brings Fans into the Heat of Battle
For more than 30 years, a familiar darkness has surrounded Wonder Mountain at Canada’s Wonderland. Guests and employees alike have suspected a dark mythical presence hidden within this iconic landmark. In May 2014 the park will throw speculation about these myths aside and blast into Wonder Mountain to unveil a thrilling new interactive 4-D dark ride, Wonder Mountain’s Guardian.
Montreal based TRIOTECH, a leading manufacturer of multisensory attractions for the amusement industry, has developed the ground breaking technology for Wonder Mountain’s Guardian. This next generation ride will allow guests to experience stunning 3D effects overlaid with 4-D elements: simulating wind, movement and more. Real time graphics and the fastest most accurate targeting system will be installed to create an ultra-immersive interactive experience.
“This new ride at Canada’s Wonderland will be a one of a kind, never seen before attraction.” said Ernest Yale, President and CEO of TRIOTECH. “It will bring the best elements of the physical, virtual and multi-sensory world. All this combined in a fully immersive and interactive experience."
Here are some pretty good details about the new dark ride/rollercoaster:
- 4D interactive dark ride with the core thrill being heavily based on graphics
- uses 3D projection (riders will wear 3D glasses)
- uses wind, movement and other special effects to add the 4th dimension
- riders will board inside of the mountain near ground level
- the ride will exit the mountain and climb the lift on the mountain exterior
- at the 60' level the ride will plunge back into the mountain
- there will be multiple drops throughout the ride
- 1000 feet of coaster track
- the ride is gravity-driven
- longest interactive wall in the world
- highly sensitive targeting guns that will "interact" with the environment
- content of the ride can be easily changed to vary the experience
- there will be 5 trains, each with 8 riders
- approximately 640 pph
- the engineering department at Wonderland is currently working on designing the track
- the experience changes every year. For 2014, the game is called "Guardian: Quest for Gold"
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The premise of the ride is that a Dragon has taken a kingdom's treasure, and you have to retrieve it, while competing for ride supermacy. This picture obviously shows the treasure the Dragon has collected. This is the final level (the dragon's lair).
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From this photo, I can make out some of the ride: the fish monster will be part of the underground lake level, the red beard man may be some kind of Guide, the Lizard in the hood looks like some sort of thief, the reptilian-like creature with the armor on must be some kind of Knight, and the dragon in the upper-right corner in obviously Herman. I think the sketch below may be the Draconian City. I wish the scenes were released and or more concept art. Maybe even a video that shows off some of the characters in action. The Characters remind me of Skylanders, but still look pretty awesome.
Seems like fun to me! Personally, I am a dark ride fan. I especially love the interactive ones with the lasers like Boo Blasters. I like getting a higher score every time I play. Unfortuanetly, I do not have a passport. I would not be able to make the trip up to Toronto any time soon. Hopefully the rumors are true that Matt Ouimet is trying to get the dark ride at more of the Cedar Fair Parks.
This is not Triotech's first time with iDR technology(Interactive Dark Ride) as you will seen in this video. Triotech really knows what they're doing! Almost no lagging on the game screens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXKSRNZffQThis isn't like the Amazing Adventures Spiderman or Curse of DarKastle but it's something new. I do like that the content of the ride can be changed easily for the experience. Cedar Fair has confirmed that it will change into a zombie themed ride for haunt. I wonder if the ride will have a pre-show like Darkastle to explain the ride and get you hyped up.
