5 SURREAL Dark Rides You've NEVER Heard of

[@shinyagumon7015]

Zombie Paradise honestly looks pretty fun, it's like a more adult-rated version of the Haunted Mansion. I think the weird Micky dentist scene isn't actually based on anything and was probably created for a different attraction all together before getting thrown into the Mecki ride to preserve it. The same probably applies to the random dioramas too.

[@NickyNoob-so9tw]

Everyone gangsta till the shark swims through sand

[@Pizzaetertje]

That’s just the plot of Tremors

[@Mrtfarrugia]

You know the shark really has a grudge against you when?

[@samiamidonotlikegreeneggsa456]

@@NickyNoob-so9tw shark thought it was a sand worm from beetlejuice. 😂

[@iyanascott340]

Fun fact there’s a movie called sand sharks with brook hogan

[@saberfang6329]

Wait but don’t you know about the sand shark? 🤣 its annoying pest that flies and steals food. 😭

[@NatYourAverageNerd]

No joke, that Zombie Paradise song needs to be on Spirit Halloween's seasonal playlist. It's a bop and fits for the spooky vibes that the whole family can enjoy!

[@CountTrashula]

Cherilyn Mondonna, my favorite singer

[@TwilightRO1]

That "Mutant" Rat is actually the Giant Rat that makes all of the rules.

[@TriforceWisdom64]

What kind of trouble can he get himself into?

[@patrickd.3681]

He isn’t one of the rats that escaped from NIMH. Much too savage.

[@marrymemikestoklasa]

jerma...

[@GlobalsoftPirka]

I am so glad someone said this because it was my first thought

[@frostyelwood9898]

Rats, rats, we are the rats

[@BleachFan9891]

You have to admire how creative dark rides can be

[@IntheLoopPodcast]

Yep….. didn’t know what was going on in that dark ride then & still don’t know now. Whenever one of our videos pops up in one of yours, puts a big smile on my face. Keep up the great work.

[@marcveralalmela7321]

One fun detail about "Tren del Terror" is that one of its entrance is located inside a near subway station, so just imagine getting in to ride a subway or just leaving the station and seeing a creepy medieval castle like entrance with a illuminated red letters spelling Train of Terror in Spanish. Also the cantina's name is possibly they didn't bother to check the place's actual name, this was museum is quite of a fountain of memes in Spain for it's quite poor quality Edit: I'm in Madrid and I decided to visit the museum and ride the train and I'd like to share some details of it, So i'm quite convinced that this ride must have been a more traditional haunted house dark ride because the entire queue is set in a dungeon with several people being tortured or executed and a giant demonic face sculpted in the walls. Then you arrive to the preshow (00:57) where a monk tells you that you must ride the train and face the terrors that await to save him from damnation (he has quite several sins behind his back) since he can't for being too old, another monk tries to dissuade you to keep going but of course you keep going. The boarding station has some additional animatronics too like some skeletons sitting in some benches or Frankenstein's monster tied to a chair. Then the ride begins, and I've noticed some small details that are not mentioned in the video, since unless you ride it it's very difficult to find these things. For example the spaceship section, the one with the xenomorph and the thing has, for some reason, a, quite hidden figure of Snoopy dressed as an astronaut, that definitely doesn't match the sci-fi horror tone of the scene. Also the ice cave where pennywise is there's also some corpses, and tombs and a yeti and a sabertooth tiger hidden in the shadows, Pennywise is the most recent addition to the ride, which existed before the IT movies, so I guess the yeti was at first the main figure before getting moved. Finally the exit is also star wars themed since it is the last scene in the ride I guess, they tried to keep the horror theme by only putting villains from the franchise there but since the epic star wars theme is also playing in the background the effect gets lost, there's also a normal looking wolf in there too since the exit looks like a forest. Additionally the museum does have a horror section that works as a Haunted House walkthrough that is definitely scarier than this dark ride.

[@kurtwagner4663]

German here. I am not sure about that Mickey dentist thing...but i know Mecki as a bunch of kids films from the 80s, stop motion if I remember correctly, about a hedgehog family and their daily life. He started as a comic figure and mascot of a paper called "Hörzu" (listen up) in the 50s. He had audiobooks too in the 70s. I don't know much about it as I was born in the 90s so it's not quite my time, my parents maybe could know more about it though...

[@blackwolfpaws]

My Oma had a Mecki book that I have kept all these years later. I’ve never been able to read it myself sadly, as I am not fluent enough in German to read a book, but there is always a childlike sense of awe I get when I open the book and look at the illustrations. They’re so well done and detailed on every page, I’m honestly thrilled to know anything about this joyful little hedgehog.

[@kurtwagner4663]

​@@blackwolfpawsunderstandable. German can be though to learn sometimes. We some quirks in our language like articles. We have a male, female and neutral article. In English it's just "the" and German its "der, die, das" and there is no real rule to that...we just know what is female or male or neutral. A tree for example is male. Der Baum. Why? Because the dictionary says so! 😂

[@ColinLooksBack]

Hey, thanks for the shout-out! I'm really curious about the Mickey dentist thing, too. Based on the date, this was very early in his career. Mickey was pretty much an instant star, but Disney was not the merchandise machine it would become, so a lot of Mickey merch you see, especially foreign merch was most likely bootlegged. I'm also wondering who the duck and wolf are. Donald Duck was introduced in 1934 and the (Disney) Big Bad Wolf in 1933, so they might be some other European characters.

[@lunamariahawke9320]

Duck maybe Donald Duck and the wolf being Pete?

[@Evil_robot_refrigerator]

I think it's blackface that aged badly but they were to lazy yo remove

[@newbiegamelover4767]

I think the Muppets' ride could've worked better if they'd used the characters from Sesame Street rather than the ones from The Muppet Show. After all, why would you entrust child's safety lessons on a bunch of characters who get thrown off of moving busses, or stand in close range of an exploding bomb? Or get eaten alive in some cases! Also, that Zombies of the Night song would make a great addition for a Halloween song playlist!

[@NorthEasternMotionProductions]

The Deadbeats is actually a kickass name for a band

[@anonshrimp8299]

Therapist: Pregnate JarJar Binks isnt real, he cant hurt you. Pregenate JarJar Binks: 3:15

[@da1zed]

Defunctland :) please talk more about the muppets ride lol

[@Princess_Igor5097]

i love seeing your gradual hyperfixation for obacure dark rides. as someone who's obsessed with them (and done their dark ride homrwork and watched the collin lookback video) im so glad to see so much recent content on them

[@AlicornMajesty365]

Zombie Paradise goes hard, TBH.

[@timsep1]

I 100% remember going on the muppets ride. It was in a circle or similar shape at our mall in Niles, Illinois, Golf Mill

[@slyrax4154]

I also remember going on this in the Omaha metro area, but my brother/sister and mom don't remember it. My siblings would have been 3-4, and my mom worked nights so we'd most likely have gone with my dad (who passed a few years ago). I was pretty sure I had dreamed up that ride whole cloth before I watched this video. The only thing different in my memories was that I thought the Muppets moved more realistically, like they were puppeted by real people. I will assume that was a child's overactive imagination though.

[@sarawilson391]

Never been here before but I just had to mention that when I was 8 and visiting family in Singapore, we were taken to a theme park featuring a ride depicting the 10 levels of hell that were actually pretty gruesome. Especially being that I was so young but there were scenes of sinners being boiled alive, sinners being smooshed in between 2 rotating cement circles that would grind and screw together slowly, people being hung upside down and slowly lowered into fire pits and pots of boiling oil and lava. Oh man there was so much more and my older siblings thought enough to take some pictures at the time but no idea where they went to now. I’d LOVE to see this again just to look back at how extreme they wanted kids to think of “hell” in order to keep them in line. No, this wasn’t any religious based park either. That’s why it stuck out to us Americans there that day. Oh man I wanna find some pics of this ride again. Mind u i costed here over 30 yrs ago so my memory of it is probably blurry but wow. Very unique and creepy for small kids! So it’s an actual Hell Theme Park. Just googled it lmao.

[@CherryCupcakeCreations]

There was a really bizarre ride I went on in Phantasialand. It’s called Geister Rikscha. Honestly, I don’t even know what the story was…

[@RamonaZwanink]

I believe the ride is mostly a look into the Chinese mythology instead of a story being told, but I could be wrong. You're not wrong though about it being bizarre..

[@TobiasBroad]

It’s not so much about Chinese mythology in general, but an examination of Chinese “hell”. Some parts are quite accurate, some parts are as if they’re from the Haunted Mansion or Pirates of the Caribbean, this is why it comes off as so bizarre.

[@azisles02]

As a huge Muppets fan, I need more info about this Muppet Traffic Safety ride. Like full video with sound.

[@barry-allenthe-flash8396]

The Mickey Mouse dentist alcove nightmare sure was.... _something_ Man, between your last video and this one, I am loving these. They are so freakin' weird! If this becomes a regular series whenever you discover 5 or so more new oddities, I'll keep clicking on them! Thanks for highlighting this stuff Look into 'Terror Tomb" and "The Fifth Dimension" from Chessington World of Adventure sometime. I remember hearing about both of them on Podcast: The Ride and couldn't believe Terror Tomb in particular because it ends with... well, I don't wanna spoil it, lol. Suffice to say, if you dug the zombie band here, I think you'll get a kick out of Terror Tomb's ending too.

[@blackwolfpaws]

Mecki! I have a book that is Mecki going to a land of.. candy? With little dwarf looking friends. I used to sit and look at the very detailed pages, as each page was FILLED from edge to edge with art. There was always something new that I had missed previously. Its honestly a really well illustrated book, and I hope to one day be able to read it in german, and figure out the true story behind Mecki visiting the strange land. As expected the book is fully in German, and I do know there is at least one other Mecki book of the same type also released. Hedgehogs are very common and beloved in Germany, or so my Oma would have me believe from her assorted hedgehog depictions I would find around my grandparents house, so I would imagine with the figures you found, that Mecki was most likely a “Mickey Mouse” of Germany at the time. I never expected that they had made a ride, or that Mecki had figures made of him! He always looked like a very jolly little guy in the book.

[@Molly-Pop]

Well Zombie Paradise is going on my bucket list

[@ThemeParkCrazy]

Unfortunately, the ride closed sometime in the 2010s. But I would have loved to have seen it!

[@Molly-Pop]

@@ThemeParkCrazy aw dang it!! Well I can come back to this video then haha

[@cloud7772]

9:55 Well this is not a moon. It's a cannonball. The hedgehog is a reference to Münchhausens ride on a cannonball.

[@Dornogol]

this here, immediately recogniseable by the clothing :)

[@marcveralalmela7321]

@@cloud7772 "that's no moon"

[@cloud7772]

@@marcveralalmela7321 I know it's a cannonball

[@marcveralalmela7321]

@@cloud7772 I was just making a Star Wars reference

[@cloud7772]

@@marcveralalmela7321 Sorry. I didn't recognize it even though I watch Star Wars every now and then

[@wendyb8481]

Loved this video. But subscribed based on your commentary of the Mickey at the Dentist scene. 👍👍

[@arrowpirate9011]

I started watching you last year and now I'm addicted to your videos. Keep posting, Peter, we'll all be here!!

[@melrwill]

Zombie Paradise is gonna be stuck in my head now 🎵🎶

[@Redwolfvr]

Your vids either cheer me up or stop me going on coasters either way I still watch them and love them lol😂😊

[@Redwolfvr]

Anyone?😊😅

[@TweetsieRailroader]

If you’re looking for interesting dark rides, I’d highly recommend looking at the Mouse Mine train at my home park, Tweetsie Railroad, in Blowing Rock, NC. While maybe not quite a “dark ride”, aside from one scene, the ride is so wonderfully weird and campy, and many of us here in the Tarheel state have fond memories of riding it.

[@Nathandelange]

Disney could have given us the man eating rats, but instead we got ratatouille. What wasted potential

[@SlipperySoap]

I think that man-eating fats might be considered too gross and scary for children! So I think that the Ratatouille ride might be safer!

[@altarush]

@@SlipperySoap I agree. Man eating fats are a lot scarier than man eating rats.

[@PoutyBats]

Really appreciate your videos man. I look forward to them a lot. ❤️

[@melanie_martinez_ez]

AH I'VE BEEN SO EXCITED FOR THIS ONE EEP FINALLY I'M GONNA EXPLODE JSWKWKSSKSJSSJ I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR IT SINCE YOUR COMMUNITY POST

[@shelbposting]

same!!

[@A__random__nerd]

11:20 everyone gangsta till hank hill doesn't even know whats Happening

[@Cargo_Bay]

i LOVE these kinds of mom and pop attractions, that mix a lot of generic and characters from real IP into it.

[@jankk]

That last ride looks AWESOME

[@feliciaanderson5205]

First one should be called "The Okay Movie Ride"

[@brettg1695]

JarJar looks like he's been downing some San Miguel's

[@ashleighnichole8197]

I would do anything to ride that first one..all the horror stuff is so cool and unique!!

[@VincentGravesly]

The Zombie Paradise song actually slaps

[@marcveralalmela7321]

Seeing Wiener Prater getting metioned in both videos made me check the place and, wow, you could make a list of weird dark rides using only the ones from there, they surely love putting dioramas in their dark rides. The one of the granny and the dinosaurs from Europa Park could be another candidate

[@ThatRecognizableAlligator]

Hey Peter!! Love your videos 😊❤!!! Keep up the good work!!❤❤

[@Troy-jc2ko]

No better day this video could have released on! Thanks for the entertainment during the 6-hour drive up to Cedar Point, Peter!

[@PetaHatingChris42]

The break dancing zombie kind of looks like Alex Winter from Bill and Ted.

[@auriolly]

I was MOMENTS away from commenting this when I scrolled down just a bit lower and saw your comment. It looks just like a melty cartoon version of him

[@catserver8577]

Pink Floyd dark ride needs to be made again right this minute. Also, that zombie ride is one of the best things I've ever seen!

[@J.P.Robles]

I love how his tone of voice reflects the weirdness of what he is describing It sounds like someone told him these things and then he repeats it as if saying “Let me see if I’m getting this right” 😂

[@zigmenthotep]

Zombie Paradise is amazing. It's so dissapointing that the songs have never been made available.

[@alexdaniel4340]

In my home park Phantasialand, there was this water dark ride called "Hollywood Tour" and it was basically some iconic movie sets like JAWS, King Kong, Birds and afterwards Oz. I really enjoyed the ride but it always felt a little bit off if you know what I mean. It was old and opened like 1990 but it was more creepy than a family ride haha

[@sebastiangrimm4472]

Hatte als Kind immer Angst vor den Haien 😄

[@alexdaniel4340]

@@sebastiangrimm4472 JEMAND DEUTSCHES??? DAS hätte ich nicht erwartet😂 Ja das kann ich verstehen. Gerade der spätere Hai, welches aufkommen wie Lotto spielen war😂 Leider konnte ich die Szene der Vögel (Später Oz) nicht erleben da ich das erste mal 2008/2009 im Phantasialand war. Aber gerade King Kong hat mich „etwas unwohl“ fühlen lassen😅

[@sebastiangrimm4472]

​@@alexdaniel4340hahaha 😄 ja genau 😄 die Szene war auch nicht ohne. Obwohl ich die Haie, besonders zum Schluss als sie echt nicht mehr gut aussahen deutlich schlimmer fand. Kann ich auch absolut verstehen, der war ja auch riesig 😄

[@Nosa_or_NoXa]

Hey tpc! Love the new dark ride content!

[@randomstuff-yb7xb]

Can you do a video on the world's longest dark rides?

[@torylynch8494]

why is the zombie paradise song a banger though

[@dariothecat3898]

Those look so cool. I wish I had ridden one of them.

[@TwesomE]

The stalone wax figure was terrifying,scarier from all those other monsters around! 😂

[@OneRedRocket]

I was hoping that the Sid and Marty Krofft dark ride was in this list that giant pinball set was so awesome. I don't know if a video exists of the ride but I sure hope so

[@JenniferWolffJennyWeb]

okay, so I want more of that Zombie Paradise song; I'd love to hear some covers of it

[@manyescoolDhamxhdeshds]

I did saw another Rolfe DeWolve retrofitted animatronic in another dark ride from a different theme park. This dark ride retrofitted Rolfe into a werewolf, but… I couldn’t find him anywhere. There is a picture of him being a werewolf retrofit, but I couldn’t find any video of a dark ride where this animatronic came from.

[@Externica]

Mecki used to be a mascot for the german magazine Hörzu (literally Listen) which is for TV programs. There were movies and comics to my knowledge. In the ninties, Mecki received a new cartoon adaption. The setting made it look like southern german. Mostly like a rural region in Bavaria. While I am German, Mecki isn't a character I've seen or heard much about, but he's still known by the older generation and still mentioned on occasion. More related to the presented rides, I remember having seen Zombie Paradise a few years ago. Back when I watched a lot of dark ride videos, the algorythm once presented me Sally Corporation's channel and I saw some very interesting videos.

[@Sailor_Solstice]

im so scared of dark rides but love these vids agh edit: i also have megalophobia and would die if i saw that pennywise

[@xjasonxbx1]

That dentist scene. I was cracking up!

[@samiamidonotlikegreeneggsa456]

the haunted river ride at kings island. That ride terrified me when i was younger.

[@weareallbronies9031]

do the top 20 most beautiful dark rides.

[@WellHelloSilly]

This, is the "Honey Badger..." JK😅 Love your vids! Keep up the amazing work!🤙

[@kingdice6023]

the band in the cantina is called figran dan and the model nodes

[@Bulletbill88]

Thank you for the shout out theme park crazy 😊😊😊

[@jaggerguth4391]

"Tren Del Terror" felt like it was going to be a Horror dark ride at first (What with the mutated rat, Pennywise, The aliens, The fact that "Tren Del Terror" is Spain for "Terror Train", Killer sharks and even the dinosaurs to some extent) but then gives up halfway through in favor of becoming an Feria's "The Great Movie Ride" ripoff.

[@marcveralalmela7321]

Also the queue and preshow is in a medieval dungeon

[@wormkind]

oooooh i'd LOVE to see you cover the defunct stargate dark ride!!! i learned a little about it recently cause my fiance and i are having a stargate themed wedding!

[@obligatorychannel8890]

Before I saw the name, I thought you had said 'Necky' so that and the shot of Mickey made me think there was going to be some decapitation happening??

[@alanbear6505]

It’s nice to see that the Landshark found work after leaving Saturday Night Live.

[@coreyhiggins3475]

Omg!!! I thought the Muppet dark ride was a fever dream!!! I rode this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Omg!

[@VoxParanoia]

I love it when a dark ride is weirder than I'm expecting going in.

[@christianortiz-v1l]

The last one is so damn weird, lol.

[@GeneralSorrow]

Creepy.

[@jillmorris6814]

The Mickey Dentist scene looks like it might have been in an automaton, which would make sense with the title of the scene too.

[@DietOmaha]

Weirdly enough just the other day I inherited about 5-6 Mecki-related dolls. I don't have Mecki itself but I do have Micki (which I assume is Meckis wife), plus a few others (a mouse named Pieps, some fish without a tag, a goat named Snucki, and two cats). Weird timing!

[@L-kun]

Dang, I was just in Tokyo a few days ago and was thinking of checking out Dome City, but the Thunder Dolphin coaster was closed that day, so I went to Yomiuri Land instead. There's a bunch of neat attractions there, too (including a pretty simple haunted house) but no singing zombies.

[@simplyshawnie4652]

Love your videos

[@ThemeParkCrazy]

Thank you for watching and commenting!

[@sprout12730]

i love this series 💖💖💖

[@AkiDave]

I love theme park history!

[@rebeccamcmanus4718]

This whole video is like listening to someone recount their recent spicy food dreams. "...there was like a shark? Swimming in the sand? And Sylvester Stallone was there?"

[@basdegroot3615]

Hey, I was late with commenting on the water rides video last week! I actually went into that Duinrell "waterpipe". I wrote that I can still remember the true feeling of "wth" when saw it. But when seeing how long the pipe actually was, it was far less intimidating. I rode it, and honestly, it isn't something you'll remember. If you've your eyes closed, you'll just experience something close to an elevator ride. You'll just be transported. There is no thrill or even much of anxiety. You dive and about 10 seconds later, you come back up another small pool. I do remember how I fear the funnel slide next to it way more, because of the chance that somebody might fall onto you after you fall into the water. Also, I don't remember any line or instructors with the water pipe. It was just me.

[@evadabomb270]

My favorite videos!!

[@richardperks7776]

Gotta love the flying under the copyright radar bizarre fever dream dark rides

[@TheBusymumof4]

The baby in the tank at 3:02 looks like the one from ‘Village of the Damned’ with Kirsty Ally

[@Zohfu1]

I see you really liked my Tren del Terror suggestion on your previous video ;-)

[@Happymali10]

2:04 They probably just couldn't afford anything but a random stock photo, and wanted something "dim" so they went with sunset/twilight.

[@lunamariahawke9320]

As I can recall, those wallpapers were kinda popular in bedrooms and most likely cheap to get.

[@MissFanCulture]

Another banger, coming in hot! 🎉

[@elevatoralarmcoasterandarc1214]

Very nice.

[@aaronpaolilli8578]

Hey Pete, you need to check out Primordial at the Lagoon just outside Salt Lake. IT'S AWESOME!

[@nicoladale1668]

I'd like to see videos on coasters and flat rides that aren't in parks or funfairs.

[@Spenglenoodle]

I think based on the overall movie theme, the prehistoric section is supposed to be about Spielberg with Jurassic Park and Jaws represented

[@bezoticallyyours83]

The haunted hotel castle looks great

[@SILENTXNINJA7]

I dont know if you looked at these but 2 dark rides id love to see you feature are from Rye's Playland Amusement Park in Rye, NY. the Zombie Castle and Flying Witch have been staples for generations.

[@shaynamonroe9459]

The illusion ride is deeply missed at The state fair of Texas. It was my first ever dark ride.

[@DinoDude653]

Video idea: Best/Worst coaster seats

[@kingdonut6675]

“Zombie Paradise” is actually pretty catchy!

[@BirchTrees393]

omg that pink floyd ride looks so cool i love pink floyd

[@Funnyredhouse3453]

The faces of the characters on zombie paradise are really terrifying

[@BricklyDragon]

14:40 The song kinda goes hard ngl

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

I saw Colin's video and immediately thought of you! Maybe you two should think about doing a collab! =)

[@SchlockAndAweFilms]

I remember the Muppet traffic ride

[@tessfabled4115]

I'd nominate Bermuda Triangle, a dark water ride (log flume?) formerly at Seaworld here on the Gold Coast (Australia) - featuring alien abduction, weird projection stuff and the aliens are allegedly retrofitted Gremlins taken from Movie World lol. I rode it once as a child with my Dad and Grandad, and spent the entire time crouched under the seat, absolutely terrified (I don't know if there were seatbelts or what but I definitely wasn't in a safe spot whilst the vehicle was in motion lol)

[@lazynoodle_gt]

i used to be terrified of the morbid manor in ocean city, maryland

[@hydrangeas_inmy_hair8982]

2:47 That might actually be the from the 1990 horror/comdey movie Tremors but I'm not 100% sure. I just makes more sense to me considering that the props surrounding it are from very popular horror films