The new Hauntworld Magazine arrived today in my usual slushpile of mail amidst a slurry of credit card aps and unsolicited catalogs. I must confess that I never read a magazine cover-to-cover the first time I open it. Holding true to form I’m about half way through thumbing and skimming the pages now to see which articles I’ll invest time in reading completely. During my first perusal I usually only check out the photos and yes, the advertisements, which can sometimes be worth more than the articles.
On page 44 I noticed one particular advertisement from Haunted Enterprises which includes a rather cool product. It’s a motion simulator called “The Last Ride”. Essentially it’s a coffin that a customer can get into and have the lid shut on them. Then the ride goes through various movements and plays a soundscape that simulates being loaded into a hearse and eventually taken to the grave to buried alive. How friggin’ cool is that!?
Here’s the blurb from the website.
Ever wonder what it would be like to be buried alive?
Well this year at Transworld Halloween show in Chicago we introduced “The Last Ride”. A simulated ride to the grave in a wooden casket. You listen to a special 3D stereo soundtrack that plays in the pitch dark casket while built in air rams move the casket in sync with the sound track.
The Cockney gravediggers load you in a hot rod hearse, take a wild ride to the grave site, then they throw you in the hole, and shovel in the dirt until you hear nothing but silence… Then the bugs and creeps attack to a unnerving crescendo, and just when you think all is lost, the lid flies open to a well welcomed breath of fresh air and a “Welcome Back”. The ride has an IR camera with audio in the casket so people outside can watch and can be recorded on tape or dvd.
I wonder how many people can actually stand this ride with its claustrophobic container and little creatures threatening to get in. So folks, have any of you seen this gizmo or taken a ride in it? I’d really like to know what yinz think about it. As an extra midway attraction or mini-element this ride sounds like a real moneymaker to me. I would only hope the previous rider hadn’t soiled themselves in the coffin before I got a chance to get in.
OH, yeah – on page 46 – is that Carrot Top? And who gave him steroids? Just wondering.
Glad you got a copy, I’ve been wondering where mine is at. Now I know it may still be on its way.
Cheers
Max
Yeah, and this issue stinks. Not content wise but literally. Something weird is up with the printing because there is a chemical odor to it I caught even through the mailing envelope. Yeech – it reminds me of when you used to get fresh dittos in school and everyone would sniff them – only HauntWorld stinks like that but not in a good psychotropic way. I hope they correct it or maybe it was just my copy. I’ll have to air it out in the 50+ degree weather we’re having here in lovely Altoona, PA today.
Anyway – how’s the website building going? Haven’t heard back from ya on it.
Later,
Patrick
I usually only check out the photos and yes, the advertisements, which can sometimes be worth more than the articles.
Wow, I have absolutely no desire to simulate being “buried alive”! Have you ever seen Kill Bill part 11. That was traumatic enough!!!
Yep, this casket ride is crazy cool!!! I bought one and I can’t keep people out of it!! I set up outside of haunted houses and Halloween parties and toss the “stiffs” in for $5 a head. It totally rocks!
Roberta “Bert” Nestor
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I has \rode\ in it a lot. It’s very fun. I’m not claustrophobic, at all. I actually like lying in a casket.