Pirates Themed Boat Dark Ride | Revenge of the Ghost | Gardaland 2023 

They are pumping all the water to the new Lego water Park, I hate all the branding they are doing

It wasn't created by Claudio Mazzoli, It was Richard Crane, one of the best in theming at the time. Mazzoli created the ship in the battle scene and the resturant in the village outside the attraction

@Scattix best in theming? besides the decors there is nothing to look at. A ride full of missed chanses

They removed a lot of elements and projections in the last 20 years, also the lighting is all over the place. Check out the original version of this ride that was much better.

The pirates on strike too

It traumatized me as a kid, It used to raise its head and open its mouth

@@gaia7240 Absolutely! And, if I remember right, it even emitted some smoke from its mouth! It was glorious and terrifying!

🎩i agree

Even in 92 was lame, and I love this ride.

This ride opened in 1992 and it was spectacular. Imagineers from disneyland came to help designing and building the ride. At the time there were no projections on the walls and the experience was unbelievable, at the same level of pirates if the Caribbean. More animatronics, they were new and top technology at the time, more storytelling about two souls guiding you through the whole ride. Still beautiful today but yes, the projections are very weak.

What? Smaller parks? Gardaland is the most visited park belonging to Merlin Entertainments, the second company of amusement parks in the world... It doesn't seem a small park, at least in my opinion.

100000000000000000% this. Saying this is "comparable to Pirates of the Caribbean is like saying Frosted Flakes is comparable to pancakes. Yes, they both have pirates in them but that was the ONLY thing the 2 attractions have in common. The animatronics that did move were jittery and only had one movement. Lights just "switched" on during scenes for the first half of the ride and then slowly faded up on the second half. While I don't have an issue with using them in rides, the projections were washed out and the "actors" look like they were picked up from a middle school drama club. I understand that this might not have had the biggest budget, but you can clearly tell they blew 90% of it on the sets and the rest of the immersive elements were a total afterthought...

This Is not a small park, or ti be precise It wasn't when the ride was realized. Back in the day It was Majestic. Now half of the animatronics are broken or removed, the story has been changed so much by the video and doesn't male any sense now. Since It has been never repaired or replaced in time, its still quite good for having 31 years. But the park direction doesn't want to fix all the problem and bring It back to its old beauty

This ride is 30 years old, It used to be even better

He never opened his eyes, but he was much more animated and his face looked much better as well

It used to be better trust me, new owners are being cheap now

@gaia7240 you italians need to protest so they will fix the park

The soundtrack is called "the black skull" by Raniero Gaspari, its on youtube

It's 30 years old, many things broke down and they replaced it with projections

Bats

the original version of 1992 was way better and ahead his times, animatronics' movements were better too, they made this cheap 2.0 version of the ride to cover years of lack of mantenainance, with projections completly disconnected to the original stories, the origina version was way more dark and misterious, with diffused fog (in the forest for example... It's not a mistery: Merlin doesnt love animatronics...

This ride is from 1992, then cheaply updated (removed many animatronics, changed storyline and added projections. Sally dark rides better stay away from this, we have enough cardboard cutout rides around the world made by them