Ghost rickshaw
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Entrance to the ghost rickshaw |
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| Location | Phantasialand (Brühl) |
| Type | Dark ride; Ghost train |
| category | Endless train |
| Manufacturer | Schwarzkopf / Heimo |
| opening | 1981 |
| length | 250 m |
| Travel time | 8 min |
| capacity | 3,600 people per hour |
| dare | 100 cars, 1 row of seats / car, 3 seats / row of seats |
| Theming | Chinese mythology |
The ghost rickshaw (also ghost rickshaw ) is a dark ride or ghost train that opened on June 5, 1981 in the Phantasialand amusement park in Brühl . The ride runs largely below the China Town themed area and is considered the longest underground themed ride in Europe. In addition, the Geister Rikscha is the oldest active ride in Phantasialand with an operating time of 39 years.
The endless drive system manufactured by Schwarzkopf GmbH with 100 gondolas for three people each travels the 250-meter-long route in eight minutes. It remained the only system that was built with this Schwarzkopf driving system. The gondolas can be rotated and align the passengers to match the scenes, which are equipped with Heimo figures and inspired by Chinese mythology .
The entrance leads into a large building that houses the waiting area and the station on one side, and several scenes of the journey on the other, including a large scene spanning two floors. The outside of the building with the entrance is partly designed like a castle or part of the Great Wall of China and partly clad with artificial rocks, in whose niche sits a Buddha figure several meters high .
Description of the trip
After going underground with the gondolas, you see the first scene, a large figure that is supposed to represent the god of death Yama . This tells the visitors of the underworld, represented as three Chinese ghost figures, which path of fate they have to follow based on their karma, i.e. the sum of their good and bad deeds.
This is followed by a mountain landscape from which ghosts and monsters appear. In the third scene, a warrior is fighting a large dragon. Then follows the cemetery scene in which hands are fished out of a bog by a skeleton or gravestones are wobbling. This is followed by a scene with a speaking tree. Ghostly faces appear on the floor, then dragons fight each other with swords in the next scene. Now follows a ghost ship, which is maneuvered through a storm with thunder and lightning. This is followed by a scene in which people conceal treasure, which is spread out and decorated with skeletons on the floor. A ghost hovers over the scene. Then the gondolas go up a little while you can see a kind of deity on your left waving with masks. Then follows a large temple where u. a. Ghosts dance through walls or instruments are played. Then you can see three ghosts (also called the three hitchhikers ) asking the passenger to take them away. You drive past a semi-transparent mirror , behind it monsters pass parallel and synchronously, so that the impression arises that the respective monster is sitting in the gondola. At the end you can see on the right side how people try to tame a huge monster, a man eater with a club, with ropes. They show you the way back to the living, the journey is over and you get out.
Former scenes
Over the years, some scenes or the waiting area in the ghost rickshaw have been renewed. The most important years of the renovation were 1997 and 2002. In some cases, complete scenes were exchanged; For example, a large octopus used to be seen instead of the fighting dragons. Today's treasure hunt scene used to show a man, later a kind of monster, each pulling a rickshaw .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Die Geister Rikscha on freizeitpark-welt.de , accessed on July 30, 2013
- ^ Ghost rickshaw - POV - Phantasialand (Best Low Light Onride). Accessed January 1, 2020 (German).
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '55.5 " N , 6 ° 52" 59.9 " E