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If you love both rollercoasters and escape rooms in equal parts, you may be wondering if they’ve ever been combined. Rejoice! I’ve rounded up a few examples of these two hobbies colliding below, so you no longer need to make that difficult choice between them, and it’s just in time for National Rollercoaster Day! Hooray!
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Saw – The Ride
Here’s a wholesome offering to start off our list. If you’re a fan of Jigsaw’s work, and looking for some torturous theme park frivolity, get yourself down to Thorpe Park in the United Kingdom. Yes, there is a rollercoaster based on the horror movie SAW, and it first opened in 2009 at one of the largest and most popular theme parks in the country. Thrill seekers will rejoice at their chance to narrowly miss giant blades, spikes, and all kinds of other fun stuff, in this gut-wrenching horror-themed experience. As well as a bloodcurdling indoor section, where you’ll come face to face with traps featured in the film, you’ll find yourself facing your fears on a beyond vertical drop.
Fans of escape rooms and the SAW franchise, might also be intrigued to discover the history of SAW Alive. This terrifying year-round scare maze attraction, had brave guests venture through infamous sets from the movie. Scare actors could be found re-enacting horrific film scenes in shocking freezer, bathroom, and mausoleum settings. It only operated consistently at Thorpe Park between 2010 and 2012, before transitioning into an occasional Halloween addition. In 2018, it finally shut down for good, due to health and safety concerns. No, don’t panic, the traps weren’t real, the maze was bizarrely built inside a boat, and it started sinking into the lake it was located on. Spooky stuff.
Exit: The Game – The Haunted Roller Coaster
Picture the scene. You’re at the local carnival minding your own business, as you munch down on a mouth-watering corn dog. You board the ghost train, ready to galavant around a creepy crypt, when all of a sudden the coffin-shaped car comes to a screeching halt, leaving you unable to escape the horror! And no, I’m not just talking about the frightening finds illuminated by the glow of the blacklight. Exit: The Game have brought this story (minus the corn dog) to life in an epic at-home escape room experience. You’ll need to work with your fellow passengers to figure out how to get out alive, all you need is the game components provided, some quick thinking, and a little imagination. The game pieces will need to be folded, written on, and torn up in order to decipher clues and crack codes.
Exit: The Game have created numerous themed at-home escapes, but rollercoaster enthusiasts are sure to enjoy this one in particular. So if you’re looking for spooky rides, and strange riddles, purchase your copy here and prepare for some bone-chilling fun!
RollerCoaster Tycoon – Trillion Year Maze
Toilets 1 has broken down, Guest 124 is lost and can’t find the park exit, and the handymen are just too busy mowing the grass instead of sweeping the most disgusting path you’ve ever laid your eyes upon. You may be wondering what kind of hellscape I am describing, but these scenarios will be all too familiar with seasoned players of amusement park simulation game, RollerCoaster Tycoon. If you’re guilty of drowning a fictional unhappy guest, or prematurely testing a coaster missing a track piece to watch the inevitable fireball, you may be intrigued at the brutal measures one player of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 took against their pixelated pals.
Marcel Vos made it his mission to create the most difficult maze ever made, consisting of 64,516 tiles which mostly lead to nowhere, and result in a near impossible chance for guests to find their way out. I can just picture their furious pixelated faces and cries of ‘I want to go home’. It’s an inescapable escape room of sorts, that enthusiasts with a fiendish side might get a kick out of.
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