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The Gruffalo River Ride Adventure
Chessington World of Adventures
Area Wild Woods
Status {{{status}}}
Opening date 18 March 2017
Replaced Bubbleworks
Ride statistics
Attraction type Dark ride
Manufacturer Leisure Tech / WGH - (Lifts replaced by Garmendale)
Designer Merlin Magic Making
Theme The Gruffalo
Capacity 1,000 riders per hour
Vehicle type Tubs
Vehicles 28
Riders per vehicle 4
Duration 6 minutes
Fastrack available
Must transfer from wheelchair
Assistive listening icon.svg Assistive listening available
Closed captioning available

The Gruffalo River Ride Adventure is a dark water ride that opened in March 2017 at Chessington World of Adventures Resort in Greater London, England, developed by Merlin Entertainments. It takes riders through scenes based on The Gruffalo franchise. The scenes consist largely of digital projection and include clips from the 2009 animated Gruffalo film.

Ride experience

From the entrance, riders then enter a station decorated with stage-flats and leaves suspended from the ceiling.

The scenes throughout the ride depict the Gruffalo story, using screens, ambient lighting, projections and animations. The ride ending retains the two smaller of the three sets of fountains from its predecessor Bubbleworks.

An on-ride photo is taken as the boat drops down a ramp into the final scene.

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