Boo Blasters on Boo Hill
| Boo Blasters on Boo Hill | |
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Boo Blasters on Boo Hill at Kings Island
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| Canada's Wonderland | |
| Area | Planet Snoopy |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | May 2, 2010 |
| Replaced | Scooby-Doo's Haunted Mansion |
| Carowinds | |
| Area | Carolina RFD |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | March 27, 2010 |
| Replaced | Scooby-Doo's Haunted Mansion |
| Kings Dominion | |
| Area | Planet Snoopy |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | April 2, 2010 |
| Replaced | Scooby-Doo! and the Haunted Mansion |
| Kings Island | |
| Area | International Street |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | April 17, 2010 |
| Replaced | Scooby-Doo! and the Haunted Castle |
| General statistics | |
| Attraction type | Dark ride |
| Manufacturer | Sally Corporation |
| Designer | Rich Hill, Senior Designer for Sally Corporation |
| Model | Ghost Blasters |
| Theme | Haunted attraction |
| Vehicles | 27 |
| Riders per vehicle | 3 |
 Must transfer from wheelchair |
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Boo Blasters on Boo Hill is an interactive family dark ride designed and manufactured by Sally Corporation. The ride is located at four Cedar Fair amusement parks — Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, and Kings Island. Originally themed to Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo, Cedar Fair rebranded the rides shortly after purchasing the parks from Paramount.[1] Each ride's new theme debuted in 2010 at all four parks.
History
In 2006, Cedar Fair purchased Paramount Parks from CBS.[2] Several of the parks attained in the purchase – Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, and Kings Island – had a dark ride from Sally Corporation themed to the company's Scooby-Doo's Haunted Mansion attraction model.[3] During the 2009-2010 off-season, Cedar Fair began the process of removing Nickelodeon and Hanna-Barbera themes from their recently acquired amusement parks.[4] For the Haunted Mansion rides, Sally Corporation was contracted to remove the Scooby-Doo theme and replace it with a new one.[3] The new theme was called Boo Blasters on Boo Hill, which debuted at all four parks for the 2010 season.[5]
Ride experience
Boo Blasters on Boo Hill is a dark ride where riders are transported in an Omnimover-style vehicle. Guests use mounted laser guns to fire at lighted targets throughout the ride. Hitting a target enables additional animation, sounds, and special effects, as well as earns each rider points that are tallied and displayed inside the vehicle.[3] The ride layout and special effects varies at each park location. Initially, each park sold disposable ChromaDepth 3-D glasses at the ride's entrance to enhance the blacklight paint effects throughout the ride.[6]
Kings Island
Guests enter the attraction through the front gates of an old Gothic castle. The queue takes guests through the foyer into the first room, which features large chandeliers, cob webs, and a haunting music track playing in the background. Before boarding the ride, guests walk through a corridor with boarded-up windows on both sides. Once in the vehicle, riders travel through a haunted cemetery and mansion, filled with skeletons and ghosts. The final encounter is with Boocifer, the primary antagonist. The ride ends with a display that shows riders how well their score ranks before exiting the vehicle.
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