NEW! Treasure Hunt: The Ride | Awesome Elevator Preshow & Dark Ride | Monterey, CA 

At this rate I’m going to be more impressed at a dark ride that actually doesn’t involve shooting at targets for once. The elevator pre-show was really cool though.

When the preshow is better than the actual ride.

I really hope that theme parks start figuring out that most people who visit aren't looking to play videos games. A little bit of interactivity is fine, but 5 minutes of shooting at screen after screen while a slow-moving car scoots forward 50 feet isn't my idea of immersive adventurous fun.

Preshow was cool, ride was alright, but a shoutout to that ghostly effect of the mist going from one room to another, that's probably one of the best effects Ive seen in a darkride-probably laser projection well done!

This was much more elaborate than I was expecting

The elevator pre show reminds me of Escape from Gringott’s at Universal Orlando

I thought it was fun. Was there this past Saturday! The aquarium and everything made the trip a blast. My nephews had fun

That dance at the end was one of the wonkiest things I've seen. I love it.

This is a great ride that offers roughly a 20 minute adventure based on real, local pirate history. The queue line theming, backstory video, elevator pre-show, ride, and final bonus scene in the exit stairs tell a very fun story. Those complaining about a shooting game, just put down the blaster and enjoy the set. BTW… it’s the only California ride north of Los Angeles that has a preshow! And prices start at $17.99 for rides, and $12 rerides. The powerup token is a fun $5 upgrade for the competitive type!

This does look pretty cool.

I love the donkey, he’s so cute 🙏🏾❤!!

I love that our Belgium Manneken Pis is included in this attraction. 😂🇧🇪

good fun!

Whoa those are some good animatronics!

I liked the animatronic donkey.

That ride is very confused. Is it a lost mine or buried treasure? Yes!

I love this! 😊

That pirate at the beginning look like my beloved Barbossa

I’m not generally a fan of shooter attractions, but this one is pretty solid!!

This ride looks fun

I love the solid theming throughout. The ride actually looks like a lot fun to me too. It reminds of the Men in Black ride at Universal.

Exciting! Can't wait to go check it out!

a lot more theming than a lot of universal rides of late.

Actually looks pretty good and fun. Love the elevator effect. Could have done with less screens for shooting.

i want that pre show for something at knotts berry farm. its perfect.

Ya gotta admit, though, that some of these “boardwalk” attractions at these seaside amusement parks ARE pretty cool 😎 💚💛💙.

Nice very good

Insane that such a well themed attraction is just chilling on Cannery Row and not inside of a theme park. Incredibly well executed.

That was pretty awesome! I really liked it.

I Love The Ride is so Cool

Thanks for showing the pre-show! I've been hearing about it being $25 a ride (apparently only at certain times) & after seeing 1 ride-through, I thought it was a rip-off. It's a good ride, but very few dark rides are worth that much. But after seeing this pre-show, it's somewhat more reasonable. Besides the price though, this is an awesome experience.

I’ll be up in Santa Barbara on Saturday but I may need to go now to this place! I’ve only been to Cannery Row once. John Steinbeck would be proud

I really like what Sally Rides is doing. I've ridden their Volkanu Quest for the Golden Idol at Lost Islands theme park and it was really good.

that preshow is too good

They replaced the wax museum for this? At least the wax museum was scary.

Many people say they do not like this ride however I actually think it is better than many dark rides I have been on. The pre show is a little long and as mentioned you either like or dislike the shooting feature. The thing I liked most was unlike most dark rides there was enough light from the screens that you could actually see and enjoy some of the other features. On most dark rides you are in total darkness and only see the scenes presented for a short time. Again you do loose the surprise factor you get on some other true dark rides but I feel with this format you do not miss any of the many features presented during the ride. One last comment, if they are trying to get $25.00 for this ride that is way too much. Most people would not pay that price even for a major thrilling roller coaster. Most likely it would do best at a $5.00 to $10.00 per ride.

Nice

the animatronics are great

The reason why Toy Story Midway Mania is such a good attraction is that it is literally themed as a series of carnival midway games, which involve shooting or catapulting or throwing or spraying or tossing something ot a target. Every other screen-based shooting dark ride fails because the game mechanics don't properly match the theme, and quickly get repetitive.

The person heading the pre show & heading the ride had to be two different people 😂

I wish to go someday

Okay, I've been to the building this ride is in... WHERE is it? does the elevator actually go up or down? Bravo for fitting it all in there.

wow

Better than anything Disney is doing right now

Sally dark rides also made it they told me.

That music at the start sounded familiar... 😂

It looks like a great ride, It seems pretty pricey, and that is usually unwise for most show operators. This ride, otherwise, seems pretty interesting. I liked how the ride had really detailed theming, even on the ride vehicles. And I especially liked how they did not limit the show to the screens, but had really terrific set pieces and anamatronics throughout the show ride. I did not like the "shooting" part of it, and I thought there were too many screens for the sake of shooting. . Not everyone who comes to a park want to play shooting video games. That's for little kids. And the shooting only takes your attention from the show and set pieces. The set pieces and animatronics looked really good, and were very entertaining. I love the pirate, wrecked ship and treasure theme, and they did a good job with the set pieces. I applaud them for making such an elaborate ride, and while there are too many screens, I loved the set pieces and theming. I thought it was just as good as any Disney ride. But if they are actually charging $25 per ride, (is that per group or per person?) that seems foolish. You want a lot of people going on your ride, to bring back others, and to go more than once. The crowd is where the real money is. But at $25 per ride, you are going to put a lot of people off. I realize they need to recoup their outlay for the new ride, but they need to be smart about it and keep the prices under control. At $5 or even $10 you would bring people in, but $25 is just expensive enough to turn people away.

You can tell a lot of money was put into this. It's a big production value, but you have no clear ideas where to be shooting and too many things going on at the same time to be meaningful. The acting is not good and connecting to the characters is near impossible. All I'm saying is you could ride this once, but once is enough. There was a touch of cheesiness that I enjoyed, but I still have no idea what the point really was. Is it a shooter ride, an effects ride? Are you going for the gold or shooting the animatronics, or on screen threats? Thanks for taking the hit for us. Great video

Those projections are really sloppy. Either 3D align them, or back project them!

Isn’t a dark ride supposed to be dark?

3 things, 1-sally still havnt figured out realistic moving animatronics 2- this should be 3d 3- they really need to fix that blindingly obvious stitch on the first tenticle fight screen

One of the best rides i've ever seen, pirates Shanghai eat your heart out

Jim Cummins voice the prospector?!

I believe that this replaced a very bad wax museum!

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ok but why was the guy on the elevator vid caked up tho

Where is this? At the Monterey Bay Aquarium?

Does anyone know what those glowing machines were before boarding the ride? looks like they accepted quarters

🤔What theme park is this new dark ride at and what company made this new dark ride?

Disneyland totally ripped them off! I hope they sue them!

The skeleton organ in the thumbnail looks like its from Goonies.

I can walk there in half an hour.

Looks like fun, but the question I have is, is it worth getting the unlimited ride option? It doesn't seem to cost much more, but I don't want to be bored shitless after a few ride-throughs.

💜💜💜💥🐐🌺🌺🌺💐

Compare this to Disney California Adventure's Webslingers. This pre show is better. This actually has physical sets. The physical set pieces move, and were possibly interactive (I couldn't tell). This has animatronics. Its just a better ride overall, even though the budget was surely a fraction. And yes, Disney's screen quality is probably better, and these animatronics were lacking a bit of movement...but it still beats Disney+Spider-Man...

I wouldn't recommend the elevator for weak hearts.

The physical effects were nice - the screens took away from it - at least make them 3D - random shooting at stuff - needed to be darker and more submersive - I couldn't understand anything they were saying. Do all rides like this require video screens? they should be replaced with more animatronics.

Will we ever know WHAT camera he uses?! 😮😮😮

That "elevator" would be totally different, and nothing, if you had your eyes closed.

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Yeah this looks fun. If you’re 5.

I rode it. The video doesn't do it justice. My only complaint is the ride needs more time inside. Other than that, it was fun.

A ride around a bunch of TV screens......how dull!

As good as any Disney ride, with no long waits.

Overall kind of impressive. I didn't think I'd be onboard for this once I saw/heard how much it was trying to emulate music and visuals *similar to* a certain Disney ride. The more I watched, the more interesting it got. The pre-show speech was a little long and in today's SJW society how long until protestors complain about some racist stereotype and ruin it for everyone? I'd better go soon before that happens. Well done for an indoor, rails shooter.

**Willem Dafoe looking up gif**

Now the ride doesn't look half bad, but I'm tired of this modern trend of most dark rides using video game elements as a substitution for actual engaging scenes and theming 🙄

Whats with the fake pirates of the carrib song?

Why are you alone? That's weird. The pirate song is a total rip of Disney

These dark rides with shooting features are overrated. It takes away from being able to view what ride itself.

I bet Disney Lawyers smell blood in the water. There's some reeeeaaaaaly close IP copyright infringement going on here.

Pin?

This replaced the Spirit of Monterey Wax Museum? Another ride that’s just a bunch of screens? Sad. I know the musty old museum was janky and ridiculous - that was part of its charm.

The pre show better than the ride is crazy 🤣😂😂😂 this should of been a dark ride not a arcade shooter

Screens. I HATE screens

Im so sick of screen rides

Omg the actual ride is awful. Comically.

That looked pretty uneventful.

Meh. I'd still rather ride this than Webslingers...

Totally unimpressed. That session with the donkey was way too long., and the story was noisy and confusing.

Pre show was good when I went on it but the actual ride and shooting mechanics suck

Looks terrible

Man, the game in the ride is lame. 😒

WOW this is lame

total failure.