Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride |
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The entrance to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride.
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| Attraction type | Dark boat ride, Elevator | ||||||||||||||||
| Manufacturers | Mack Rides Rexroth Bosch Group |
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| Designer | Tussauds Studios | ||||||||||||||||
| Theme | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | ||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 1000 riders per hour | ||||||||||||||||
| Vehicle type | Boat, Elevator | ||||||||||||||||
| Vehicles | 10 boats, 2 elevators | ||||||||||||||||
| Riders per vehicle | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 11 minutes | ||||||||||||||||
| Construction | JJ Cavanagh Construction (started mid-2005) | ||||||||||||||||
| Projection | Electrosonic Bose |
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| Elevator show | Falcon's Treehouse nWave Digital |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride was a dark ride located in the Cloud Cuckoo Land area of Alton Towers theme park, Staffordshire, England. It was based upon the famous 1964 Roald Dahl book of the same name, and took its thematic inspiration from the illustrations of Quentin Blake. The ride closed at the end of the 2015 season and was replaced by the Alton Towers Dungeon in 2019.
Ride
The ride was split into two segments, the first being a boat ride along the chocolate river inside Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Passengers encountered all the characters from the book (going from Augustus Gloop to Veruca Salt) as either simple animatronics or CGI projections. After disembarking the boats the second segment began with a short pre-show video (involving Mike Teavee). The video was presented in a way that made it look like as if the viewers were actually trapped within the TV set. The ride continued inside one of the two "Great Glass Elevators" which simulated passengers taking an airborne trip through the rest of the factory. Each elevator was a static room with semi-translucent walls and ceiling on which CGI animations were projected from the outside, and only the floor slightly trembled to give the impression of movement.
