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Post by robert on Sept 6, 2006 4:37:27 GMT -5
www.putmeonthenet.net/Movies/ThorneshadowCastlehifi.wmv This dark ride is very scary. This is an example of what a dark ride should be. It is quite long. The guy that did this did an excellent job. The website has other videos of virtual rides and there's a Disney Haunted Mansion as well. I did Castle Dracula with the Dungeon boat ride in my game as part of a retro Wildwood recreation. Yes, it has Hunt's Pier in it's original form circa 1980. My Whacky Shack has scenes from the real Shack in it, using the billboard signs in RCT3 where you can add your own picture to it. And the track layout is almost accurate since Bud's granddaughter sent me a Whacky Shack floor plan. The Golden Nugget has the mine shafts and all. Cactuses on the roof, etc.
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Post by mclunatic4evr on Sept 6, 2006 20:16:54 GMT -5
It's taking to long to download, I should probably just drive their and tour it. What i'd really like to see is a video of the old Castle Dracula in Wildwood, preferably with a sound track, commentary, behind the scenes footage, bloopers and out takes, specific instructions on how to build a dark ride, an intermission, a historical timeline, a free coupon for a small soda at McDonalds, a signed portrait of Dracula, and perhaps a weekly flyer updating the status of the Castle Site.
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Post by clnancy50 on Sept 7, 2006 0:59:33 GMT -5
I'm really losing it here!!!!!!!!! I have to agree with the download, though. MAYBE I'll get to see it?? mclunatic4evr, you NEVER were at the Castle Dracula in Wildwood?  ?? What a shame! But I really think you're asking for a "little" bit too much. I'm sure robert could probably dig something up for you, though. |
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Post by mclunatic4evr on Sept 7, 2006 14:44:33 GMT -5
I actually have toured the Castle attraction before several times. I can't remember when exactly, but i'm 20 now and I know i've been there a number of times in the 90's when I was younger. I remember being a teenager in the 2000's and not being able to find the castle and then I finnaly learned it burned down, bummer. But I have a somewhat decent memory of what the walk thru and dungeon were like. It was the last of it's kind on the shore, I don't know how much longer it would have lasted anyway. Down the shore it's easy come, easy go. And aside from the enthusists I don't think many people notice that stuff like this dissappears.
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Post by clnancy50 on Sept 8, 2006 1:51:26 GMT -5
You don't know it disappeared if you never knew it was there. Now that was a very nice paragraph of conversation, mclunatic4evr. I knew you had it in you.
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Post by mclunatic4evr on Sept 9, 2006 17:53:19 GMT -5
My paragraphs tend to make a lot more sense when I take my medication (vodka). And it didn't dissappear, or did it? Perhaps it rose into the air and shrunk into nothing like the house did at the end of that movie Poltergeist. And perhaps the fire was all a cover up, it never happened. If thats true the Castle will probably magically reappear some day. At least that's what my medication does sometimes.
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Post by clnancy50 on Sept 10, 2006 0:56:13 GMT -5
Oh, well. I had such high hopes for you but those last couple of sentences really threw me. You have the most wildest and vivid imagination of anyone I've ever met. You should have been a writer. You're like another Stephen King. How that man comes up with all those wild ideas of his I'll never know!!
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Post by clnancy50 on Sept 10, 2006 0:59:58 GMT -5
Oh, robert, I down-loaded the video. Very brilliant. Do you remember the Indianan Jones movie; I think it was the Temple of Doom? Where they road the coal car?? Now THAT was scary!
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Post by mclunatic4evr on Sept 10, 2006 18:25:15 GMT -5
Good Movie
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Post by clnancy50 on Sept 11, 2006 1:47:54 GMT -5
Hi, lunatic, are you all out of poems? |
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Post by mclunatic4evr on Sept 11, 2006 5:20:56 GMT -5
Fool on the Hill:
There once was a man from Brazil
Who laughed at the fool on the hill
So late one night
When the stars were bright
The Fool moved in for the kill!
Evil Clown
Pies piled high in the sky
The art of perfection seen through makeup
No circus, no act, no joking around
Nowhere to be but where clown fearer's be
And here comes one right now!
Kamala Beast
Yae, praise thou sacred beast of the thicket
For it is you who comes bearing teeth
But praise thou teeth of justice
Cockerspaniel you might appear to be
Thou has not fooledith me
For behind dog eyes lies the heart of a beast
And in summer hatred there arose such a feast
It's golden fur would appear to pur
It's brownish eyes tellith lies
It thinks no thought as it's prey is caught
It senses fear as it approaches near
It's only Feat is a mere dog treat
Guardian of Cheese and such
The guard of cheese disappered one day
His only friend had none to say
The cheese robbery left him missing
While in his pants there was much pissing
No one knew who took the cheese
For tail clad demons aimed to please
For one day many moons beyond
The cheese gaurd crawled from lover's pond
His hair turned white, His lips were gray
He tried to believe he was okay
But sanity he would never know
For Mice had taken it long ago
Yes, Mice were the one's who did it all
Innocent, fury and very small
But for cheese they would break all rules
From cute lil rodents to ruthless ghouls
And when the cheese gaurd was told to speak
He stared in shock at a pretty creek
They asked him if he felt like rice
And all he could utter was the foul word "Mice"
The wrong island for a leper colony
Let them fetch us a Witch's cauldron
Into it shall be poured the likes of Olive oil
A dash of salt, a hint of pepper
The time has come to cook thy leper
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Post by clnancy50 on Sept 12, 2006 1:21:56 GMT -5
Gee, sorry I asked. Are these your "own" poems?? If so, they're not bad at all.
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Post by robertk on Sept 12, 2006 20:58:00 GMT -5
Did you see the one where someone made a virtual Disney Haunted Mansion? I bet I could do a virtual Castle Dracula, oh, I already started one. It basically needs the back walls and the roof. The castle theming in Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 looks so close to Castle Dracula, including the top parapet walls. I took a virtual "ride" on my Dungeon boat ride with Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor playing (you can assign MP3 files to rides or seperate speakers in the game). There is night time, the dark rides are much better at night. I made a virtual Hunt's Pier in the same park and completed some of the dark rides like Golden Nugget and Whacky Shack. I have a floor plan of the Shack that Bud Hunt's granddaughter emailed me. With that I was able to build an accurate track layout for the ride in the game and place the props in their proper places. For some of the props I used a photo of the prop on a small square billboard in-game. There are different sizes of billboards where you can assign a picture file like bmp or jpg to them so that you can have your own ride logos, etc.
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Post by clnancy50 on Sept 13, 2006 4:02:22 GMT -5
Wow, that's incredible!! You must really know what you're doing. My son does all that stuff, too. Did you check out minions website for Halloween costumes and set-ups? Some of those set-ups are thousands and thousands of dollars!!!!!
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Post by mclunatic4evr on Sept 24, 2006 18:12:47 GMT -5
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?? What a shame! But I really think you're asking for a "little" bit too much. I'm sure robert could probably dig something up for you, though.