Great Pumpkin dark ride idea

I just sampled the excellent new Scooby Doo and the Haunted Castle dark ride at PKI and it set the wheels in my skull a-turnin'. A Sally shoot-'em-up dark ride themed around the Peanuts story of the Great Pumpkin would be an outstanding family-oriented addition to Cedar Point. Snoopy's Great Pumpkin Adventure anyone?

"I swear, that park in Sandusky should have me on the payroll." ;)

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Rich Genthner / PTC99

Sounds good! That'd be awsome to have a dark ride in the point again. But what would you shoot?

Include me on the payroll too! ;-)

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"Scream early because once you reach 420 feet, no one will hear you!"-TOP THRILL DRAGSTER

TopThrillDude said:
But what would you shoot?

EDIT: It came to me last night -- an even better idea would be to shoot at cartoon (i.e. not scary) ghosts and goblins trying to prevent the Great Pumpkin from delivering his bag of toys to the Peanuts characters on Halloween. The ride would still culminate in a pumpkin patch scene with Linus waiting for you and the Great Pumpkin!

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Rich Genthner / PTC99
*** This post was edited by TCKR 4/24/2003 5:06:02 PM ***

Thats a great theme for a ride but what I thought would be a good ride to shoot things in would be where the coaster creatures attack. Like shooting down giant man-eating bugs, birds and things like that.

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"Scream early because once you reach 420 feet, no one will hear you!"-TOP THRILL DRAGSTER

How about something themed around Snoopy and the Red Baron (yes, I know about the Red Baron ride in Camp Snoopy ^_~). It just seems like it would work well.

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~Lee~

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"The greatest leaders don't take credit for their actions; they don't have to."

I had that thought as well Lee. Guests could ride along with Snoopy as a "gunner" in an aerial dogfight with the Red Baron. "Join Snoopy, WWI Flying Ace, in his Sopwith Camel as he attempts to chase down the elusive Red Baron in Snoopy's Dogfight!"

However, this ride idea probably wouldn't make it past the brainstorming phase considering the possible ramifications with anti-war folk, not to mention guests of German descent! Remember, this is the same park that nixed Banshee to avoid offending guests with Gaelic roots.

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Rich Genthner / PTC99

I like your idea. Me and a few friends from CP went to PKI last weekend and rode Scooby Doo and the Haunted Castle and I have to say it was a very cool ride. We even got our picture on it!

I was thinking too that it would be great to have a ride like that at Cedar Point. I was sad when Pirate Ride was taken out and I think Cedar Point could really use another dark ride.

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Is the Scooby Doo ride anything like MIIB at Universal Studios?

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Vanessa,

Though I've never been on MIB: Alien Attack, I can tell you that the rides are similar in that they are both shoot-'em-up dark rides. However, as I understand it, the MIB ride uses animatronic characters. I only recall one scene on Scooby where the characters are truly animated - the rest of the ride consists of 2D cartoon scenes. In addition, MIB has multiple possible endings whereas Scooby has only one (not that that's a bad thing).

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Rich Genthner / PTC99

I've been on a dark, shoot-em-up Scooby Doo ride at Paramount's Carowinds. Has anyone that has been to North/South Carolina tell me if it is the same thing. Actually, this might be better for CoasterBuzz.

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