BrotherAlpharius
09-24-2009, 08:32 AM
I’ve just come back from two weeks in Orlando, Florida and it was fantastic. “Well lucky you,” I hear you say (or think), “but this is a 40k forum, not a holiday feedback site”. Bear with me, it will become clear. Now unlike the rest of my holiday companions I’m not a hardcore whiteknuckle ride junkie and frankly I was pretty apprehensive about going on some of the rides, but not wanting to let the side down I was determined to go through with it. First up, The Tower of Terror – as my friends eagerly told me how it drops you 13 storeys I started to find the idea of sitting on a bench in the sun looking after everyone’s bags quite appealing. But then I realized that, short of sky-diving or bungee jumping, this was the closest I was going to get to Deepstriking (thanks for bearing with me). Others around me looked nervous but I grinned as we boarded our drop-pod, sorry, lift. As it turns out the Tower of Terror is only vaguely how I imagined a drop-pod ride and then only if the drop-pod was landing on a daemon world made of rubber! However the genie was out of the bottle and I started thinking what you could do if you took the money and expertise behind the Orlando theme parks and combined it with the intellectual property of Games Workshop.
So far, for rides I have:
Gargant Terror – like Tower of Terror but you are all strapped in the back of a chimera which is picked up, shaken and then dropped by a gargant.
Deepstrike! – a drop-pod simulator based on the Mission Space centrifuge technology subjecting you to serious g-forces as you are fired from a battlebarge and down to the surface of a hostile plant.
Da Mek’s Wurkshop – like the General Motors Test Track but with Ork buggies – hold on tight as you hurtle through a track littered with hazards.
Devoured – (water raft ride) as toxic fluids spill across the landscape you just have time to leap aboard a raft of floating debris before being sucked up the feeder tendrils into the mouth of a tyranid bio titan, you then race down its gullet into darkness and are carried around through bio corridors lit by eerie fluorescent spores haunted by scuttling nid critters before finally a battle cannon shell impact blows a hole in the beast’s belly and you are hurled back out into the light to escape!
I thought of loads more but rather than bore you with an exhaustive list, I give you the tip of the iceberg, now what other rides can people think of? I’m sure there must be something for every race.
So far, for rides I have:
Gargant Terror – like Tower of Terror but you are all strapped in the back of a chimera which is picked up, shaken and then dropped by a gargant.
Deepstrike! – a drop-pod simulator based on the Mission Space centrifuge technology subjecting you to serious g-forces as you are fired from a battlebarge and down to the surface of a hostile plant.
Da Mek’s Wurkshop – like the General Motors Test Track but with Ork buggies – hold on tight as you hurtle through a track littered with hazards.
Devoured – (water raft ride) as toxic fluids spill across the landscape you just have time to leap aboard a raft of floating debris before being sucked up the feeder tendrils into the mouth of a tyranid bio titan, you then race down its gullet into darkness and are carried around through bio corridors lit by eerie fluorescent spores haunted by scuttling nid critters before finally a battle cannon shell impact blows a hole in the beast’s belly and you are hurled back out into the light to escape!
I thought of loads more but rather than bore you with an exhaustive list, I give you the tip of the iceberg, now what other rides can people think of? I’m sure there must be something for every race.