"The bizarre theme park ride that simulates cremation."

[DoinItForTheFame]

First off, I apologize if this has already been disucssed. I did a quick search and came up with nothing similar. However, saw this on Yahoo News, and found it to be... Strange to say the least.

 

Technically Incorrect: A Chinese theme park places riders in a coffin and sends them into a chamber filled with hot air machines, so that they can feel what the end might be like.

 

The wise, and even scientists, will have their explanations as to why people enjoy being frightened in theme parks.

 

I hope, though, that even they might struggle to explain why people go to a theme and get on a ride in which they have their bodies burned to soot. Metaphorically, that is.

 

Window Of The World is a slightly ambitious theme park in Shenzen, China. It has tinges of Las Vegas, with models of London's Tower Bridge and Rome's Colosseum.

 

But even Vegas would surely turn its newly-shaved back on the notion of a ride called "The Cremator."

 

This is very much what it sounds like. You start in a morgue, where you are placed into a wooden coffin. You then roll along to be burned to death. Because, well, fun. Because, well, "Six Feet Under" ended a long time ago.

 

Of course, you'll be wondering what fine technology the Cremator's creators have used to simulate your ultimate doom.

 

It seems to be nothing more than hot air. Yes, powerful hot air machines give you the feeling of the final steps before you become the content of an urn on your family's mantelpiece.

 

Alright, it looks like a furnace (see below). But it doesn't actually burn you to death. The temperature is kept at around 40 degrees Celsius.

 

I have no information what happens, should you actually die in one of these things, or suffer a debilitating event of some kind.

 

Still, I blame blockbuster movies. The special effects enacted in them has made the weak entity known as the human seek effects that they believe will be special to them.

 

It's not enough for us to enjoy the natural sensations that come from simple, innate behavior. No, we must use every aspect of narcotic invention and every nuance of scientific possibility to make ourselves feel things we never thought possible.

 

What's odd to me is that none of the excited hordes who flock to this glorious ride seem to consider one thing: when you're being cremated you're (hopefully) already dead.

 

So you don't feel a thing.

Article and Image Source.

 

Don't know about you, but I have no desire to experience what it is like to be cremated... What are your thoughts on this??

[Mechanic]

Seems pretty creepy. Here's a UK daily mail article with a few more pictures: UK daily mail article

[DoinItForTheFame]

Seems pretty creepy. Here's a UK daily mail article with a few more pictures: UK daily mail article

 

Love the photos in that link. But they make it look a little claustrophobic. Espically the ... exit?? Not thanks. I would have a panic attack. Also.... I don't need ANOTHER death simulator. That's what Sky Jump Las Vegas was for.

[Swede]

Haha. I have a friend that works in Shenzhen. I'll see if I can make a review of it when I visit him in China later this year.

[cfc]

Window of the World just became a wee bit weirder, which is no mean feat for a Chinese theme park.

[DBJ]

That is pretty unusual. I think this could work really well during Halloween as a special event.

[Generational]

 

First: 40 degrees C is 104 F, and if I'm not mistaken, the usual theme park season is SUMMER.

Second: Why?

Third: Are there going to be two people in it at a time?

Fourth: If so, how many heart attacks will there be?

Fifth: Why?

Sixth: Isn't Shenzhen a humid area to begin with?

Seventh: WHY?

[Stu K]

Takes New Hotness to a new level lol!

 

Stu K

[neil009]

Single riders are gonna wanna be careful who they pair up with.

 

[boldikus]

And here I thought the pregnant lady walk thru and the Dog Fart kiddie coaster were the most out-there theme park experiences I'd heard of... and then I see this.

 

Maybe its my claustrophobia talking but

 

[StealthFan]

And here I thought the pregnant lady walk thru and the Dog Fart kiddie coaster were the most out-there theme park experiences I'd heard of... and then I see this.

 

The dog fart coaster is one of the greatest theme park themed pooping attractions ever! Only thing that beats it is of course Tangled Toilets!

[viking86]

And here I thought the pregnant lady walk thru and the Dog Fart kiddie coaster were the most out-there theme park experiences I'd heard of... and then I see this.

 

The dog fart coaster is one of the greatest theme park themed pooping attractions ever! Only thing that beats it is of course Tangled Toilets!

 

 

Tangled Toilets are pretty amazing indeed!

 

As for this ride in Chine I don't have much to say except that it's a NOPE from me...