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Virgin. Would you rather play Crash Bandicoot or eat loads of bug infested chocolate cake?

Ow! My hair!

Here are the rules: A person asks a question that starts with "would you rather" and they give 2 options... ONLY 2. And the person who answers with ONE of the options gets to ask the next "would you rather" question. Example: Member 1: Would you rather eat pizza with Sonic the Hedgehog or throw pies at Britney Spears? Some other member: Eat pizza with Sonic! Would you rather play piano with Spongebob or throw soap at a hippie? Someone else: Throw soap at a hippie! AND so on.... Get it? Fun? Okay let's try it! I'll start... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Would you rather drive a motorcycle off a 20 floor building or break glass plates at a carnival?

It's a half moon... and it's smiling at me!

Okay, I guess since I have 3 songs available to make peoples ears bleed, I figure I might as well post my youtube sining videos here. First up: "Dr. Neo Cortex Goes Disney" Before you watch this, if you're not familiar with who Dr. Cortex is, let me tell you. He's the main villain in the Crash Bandicoot series, and over the years has become a whole lot less evil... Anyway, I love to imitate his voice from the newer games, so I decided to sing a Disney song in his voice... as well as have some fun with making a sildeshow to go with it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT3CcIGWg9g Secondly: "Dr. Neo Cortex Goes Disney A Second Time" In this one, Cortex sings another disney song, but in this one other characters from the Crash Bandicoot series join in as well... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdfVxWfO1u0 Aaaaaand... Thirdly: "SCBB NEW Haunted Castle Song (with Lyrics)" Okay, let me fill you in if you don't know... The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in California had a new ride open this year (the NEW Haunted Castle)... And it just so happens that I'm so obsessed with the ride, that I decided to write and sing lyrics to one of the theme songs played while waiting in line for the ride... Yeah... I'm weird like that... Anyway, here's my first spooky song ever to be released!!! For best results, play in a dark room and have a set of GOOD headphones on... and don't poop your pants!!! LOL ENJOY!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB79URVr6GI

^ @TheCoasterTaco Little boy tights and lyrics, what? wha--what-WHAAAAAT???? Don't confuse my brain!!! Btw, the song's up... yes, the song I wrote for the NHC... yes, I sing, and yes, realize I'm obsessed... If you don't know, now, you know... And if you already knew, buy me some chinese food! No, really, I've been craving chinese food for about 2 months now... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB79URVr6GI ENJOY!!!!! Mwahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa!!!!

^ I like the 2nd queue music too! ... I like it so much..... I added LYRICS to it!!! Btw..... DANGGIT! Everyone gets to go to the Boardwalk today, but ME!!! I must have fun today somehow..... *looks around* .... I KNOW!!! Let's see if I bounce!!!! *jumps out of the 6th floor window* BOINK *hits the ground and flies back up in to the room* Meh... that wasn't fun.

^ I don't know what park that darkride is at, but awesome website!!!! Anyway, I remember Disney had a printable picture of the Haunted Mansion's layout... but that was back when the Haunted Mansion movie was coming out, and they wanted everyone to be educated on the complications of the ride and its track and cars... it may still be on their website, but that's a slim chance. I do however know someone whith the ride lay out for the New Haunted Castle ride that was just built for the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in California....

BUMP POWER!!! I know, I'm double-posting, but I want to keep this topic alive even more with links to the ride soundtrack songs from the NEW Haunted Castle!!! If you don't know, now you know!!! If you already knew, then go buy me some chinese food!!! I have four of the songs from the ride on my youtube channel, but direct links to the videos/songs are below! Enjoy! NHC Queue Song 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0A5e4xiLUo NHC Queue Song 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGs1sNkT_Sk NHC On-ride Main Castle Scenes Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Hq5PsfwdU NHC Ending Scene Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J26mOzUzss If you've heard the songs, we can discuss our thoughts on the songs used for this ride. Tallyho! What-what!

^ Yay! The sex change commercial!!! *stares at the rare concept art and drools* Umm... I think the NHC car underside pic has some competition... Me cannot wait for the video.... very long awaited....

I want a bag of crap... what do I have to do to get one?!?! Is the crap free? I want free crap!!! Please teel me how to get the free crap!!!!!!...............I'm serious..................

^ I have to agree. Those carnival haunted house rides (which sometimes go by the names "Cemetery" or "Terror House") are totally not worth the 4 tickets (or $4.00). And even though the old Haunted Castle was a bit along those lines, it was still better than anything a carnival had to offer. There will always be ONE true Haunted Castle and Haunted Mansion... although, now some people are having a bit of trouble distinguishing the difference between the two... meaning I've heard people around the Boardwalk say: "Ooh! Let's go on the Haunted Mansion!" ... making that sort of a face-palm moment for me every time I hear that since the building is only shaped like a huge friggin' CASTLE... But what's not to love? (major boingage to that NHC car underside... very sexy...) Okay, Okay... I'll admit I was being a little bipolar bear about the New Haunted Castle before, ... but I guess I've learned to love it now... even though it's not scary in the slightest... the point is that the ride is ENJOYABLE, and I think that's what counts the most with any amusement park ride. And I believe that over time, the boardwalk will do whatever they need to do to the ride to spruce it up accordingly... But the ride has only been open for about a month and a half, so we have to cut them some slack... $9 million dollars is sort of costly for a new dark ride anyway, but it was totally worth it over all. BTW To Nick (I'm gonna say this in my fake Brittish accent): Thou must post the concept drawing AND the video soon, or else... the guillotine awaits you.... and the guillotine is no way to get ahead!... Hhhhhheaaahhhhheeeeehhhhheeeeeehheeeeeeheeeeeehheeeeeeeeehhh.... Ah, yes... the guillotine... Heads will roll! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

LOVE the pictures, Nicholas!!! Very cool! I had no idea of all of the detail hidden in all of the scenes! Thanks for sharing these with us! I'm also looking forward to the video! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

^ Well, the best dark ride I've seen would be the Haunted House one that they had at Alton Towers (before they changed it to Duel). Anyway, I went on the one at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk in California, and it was... different... but not the least bit scary... it was sort of like they didn't even try to scare you. It's mainly a ride through that allows you to get an eyefull of special effects that are pretty self explainitory... meaning you can see the wires and projectors that make the "magic" happen. However, kids will be dazzled by it, but I don't think dark rides were created to dazzle children, but to put fictional fears into everyone who rides through.

^ Well, I guess.... But I did sort of have the feeling that this ride wouldn't be taken seriously.... Anyway, Hey Nicholas... umm... any more Haunted Castle interior pics?

^ Wow... that's... horrible!

^ Nice review, John. By reading your review, you’ve urged me to touch up on a few other subjects on the ride. Okay, over all, it’s not a scary ride... at all. The old Haunted Castle strictly tried to scare guests, and was successful in a few ways. The old one was much darker, and came off to be more threatening despite the movie themes played outside and Phantom of the Opera overture played inside. In regards to music, the new ride does the same thing as well—only using music from Alton Towers’ Colossus Area, Kings Island’s Phantom Theater, and the theme from the film Phantasm—but even that doesn’t help the scare factor of the ride. As far as the cars go, the old ones (while being a very simple design) seemed to have more of a creepy vibe about them. The fact that they were two-seaters, but yet guests had the option on squeezing a third person in if they had to. Bottom line, very few people wanted to ride the old Haunted Castle alone. Let’s face it, the ride is for families. It’s an underground adventure that parents can take the kiddies on. The ride is practically G-rated. But some of my questions are: Why make it “family orientated”? Couldn’t they have merely upgraded Ghost Blasters to be a four-seater family-friendly ride? Another thing is that the ride tries to cover too much ground. Its family orientated, but it tried to cover other family orientated attractions from other parks. One can’t help but notice the Haunted Mansion take on the new ride (changing portraits, spinning cars that turn according to scenes, and a talking statue and whatnot), as well as the squeeze in of random pirate pictures on the walls throughout the castle (throwing out a Pirates of the Caribbean vibe into the mix), and the “random dinosaur” covers that Universal Studios “Jurassic Park The Ride” feel that makes the swamp scene so… complete? So the big, huge question is: Is this ride just a rip-off of other major theme park rides which have clashed together under one roof known as the “New Haunted Castle”? I know that’s going out on a limb, but it seems that way. But don’t get me wrong, it is a good audition to the Boardwalk in regards of being totally different and not something one would expect from the park, but it does seem to lack its own unique originality and elements that could’ve been explored even more so. A Haunted Mansion is one thing, but when you have a castle themed ride, you have so many options as to the contents and directions it can go, just within that theme. I’ll admit that they gave focus to some good castle elements that were true to the theme, but when riding this, I feel that I’m riding a not-scary version of Ghost Blasters. The bottom line about this New Haunted Castle: Parents will cope with it. Teens will be dissatisfied. And kids will eat it up. Please keep in mind that these are my thoughts on the ride at the moment. But who knows? Maybe after a while they’ll start to add more to the scare factor of this new ride, and see what needs to be improved. I advise people ride this new Haunted Castle with an open mind. Right now, the biggest problems seem to be the down time and queue cutting, but hopefully those issues can be resolved soon.

^ Tis the most creepy thing in the ride, quite so, quite so!

*plants claim flag* I hearby claim this page of the thread! Mwahahahahahahahaaaa-- oh sorry... *loading brain...please wait* *configuring mind process* *configuration failed!* *stealing some of Nicholas's mind configuration* *uploading...please wait* *upload successful* ^ Oh, thank God it's open again! I have to tell my family so they can stop hating me! LOL We're planning to go to The Lost Boys movie night on June 30th! ...And then we all shall ride the NEW Haunted Castle... hopefully a million times! I just love going backwards down that spiral! I throw my head back and go "WEEEEEEE!" ...oh... uh... you didn't need to know that though. It sure will be a if the line is bignormous for it on that night, but I won't be surprised. (and yes, I did make up the word "bignormous")

^ One of my friends went a few days ago and said it wasn't open at the time. She was very disappointed.

^ Cool pictures you got there! Richard and his wife look so terrified of this ride! Too bad no kitchen picture. That scene was cool. Also, shots of the other table and the king's statue would've been nice, but over all, these pictures are great, especially for being shot in the dark. But in scene 7, it's a random dinorsaur... not the swamp monster. Just pointing that out. I still say the ride shouldv'e at least had one screamer that pops out of the dark since Ghost Blasters has, like, 4... as well as stuff that looks like it'll fall on you...(screaming door, and the stack or crates at the very end)... Ay dios mio... here I go being a critic again...

^ Yuppers. I had a ride brake down experience just like you did.... and in the same spot of the ride.... I hope thy open it again because the rest of my family is itching to ride it, and they're mad at me for the fact that it's closed at the moment (like I OWN the ride or something.... LOL I wish...). I guess they feel it's my fault because I promoted the ride to them for such a long time.

Okay, okay... I'll work something out... somehow, some way, I'll get them here.

Thanks! I'm glad someone actually saw the pics. This project might be on hold for a bit... being the fact that coaster-crazy and I are working on recreating the NEW Haunted Castle ride on RCT3 together. It's been interesting so far. I've already made the castle front and ride car station.

Here's another trailer... better in color... some say... HCFFtrailer2.wmv