that is a very intersecting idea.
Much as I love this movie:
The 2001: A Space Odyssey Trip to Jupiter ride.
Sleep. Eat. Jog around the compartment. Do it some more. An hour and a half later they flash some colored lights in your eyes and kick you out the door (monolith shaped, of course.)
Saw: The Experience
Fasten your seat belts, I’m moving this from MPSIMS to Cafe Society.
Donnie Darko, the Ride. Is is a ride? Are you really at home, dreaming? Are you slowly regaining consciousness in a hospital burn ward after losing your arms and legs in a car crash? Are you reliving the moment of your birth while experiencing the death of the universe? Are you choking to death on a carnival hot-dog? Is it only a carnival of the mind? Will you ever know for sure as your existence dissolves into the mire of the yellow silhouette of an indifferent razor’s edge on the cusp of awareness?
Hypercube: The Discovery.
Driving Miss Daisy: The Ride. Now you get to see what it’s like to drive Miss Daisy!
Merry-Go-Round: The Movie. Epic low-speed horse chases circling a city block until everybody involved decides to stop. And nobody is brought to justice!
As a Michigander, I am happy to inform you that they are still a penny at all Meijer’s supermarkets.
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The Battleship Potemkin Bumpy Baby Carriage Down The Steps Ride
Actually, that could be kind of fun…
Is there a separate line for Daves vs Franks? i.e. breathing or nonbreathing 
Movie-to-ride: Joe’s Apartment. It starts with a ride through a filthy apartment with dirty dishes and clothes all over the place. Then the ride moves on to a giant urinal with a urinal cake manufactured by Phil I. Smith Systems (P.I.S.S.) A jet of yellow water shoots on you from above. At the end of the ride, you slide into a big fat full of live cockroaches.
The Big Lebowski Ride: You have to avoid people pissing on your rug, random marmots being dropped on you, having your johnson cut off with a pair of giant scissors, getting KO’d by a bowling ball, having your new car be smashed by a belligerent Viet Nam vet, losing a toe, or just falling victim to a plain old heart attack in a parking lot.
Naziworld, where you can ride through ghettoes and gas chambers and the like.
Wow, :eek:.
No joke – A “Moby Dick” ride already exidsted at the now-defunct Pleasure Island in Wakefield, MA, which was open from 1959 19 1969, built by Cornelius Vanderbuilt Wood, who was responsible for the original Disneyland (and had a falling out with Walt) and Freedomland (the short-lived amusement park located inside New York City, and was larger than Disneyland). While it was open, Pleasure Island was the largest amusement park in New England.
Here are some pictures from the ride.:
I actually had a dream last night where Disney had significantly upgraded the railroad ride around a Disney park (it might have been an entirely new park) into a sort of flume ride—the bit where you passed through Splash Mountain was truly impressive, as the ride had been made into a sort of massive, swirling Art Nouveau masterpiece the size of a skyscraper, but the next part wasn’t so fun. You passed through an intricate, anamatronic diorama from Disney’s latest award-winning, animated adaptation…
…Maus.
:eek:
Think I would think twice before getting on a ride called Deliverance, particularly if it had the tag line “You will squeal like a pig”
The Human Centipede Experience might be interesting.
Actually, as I think about it, attractions in Cornelius V. Wood’s amusement parks frequently were based on REALLY unpromising premises. Moby Dick was downright warm and friendly compared to some of the others. Consider:
The Wreck of the Hesperus – what could be more fun than a ride based on the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem about a tragic shipwreck in which not only is the entire crew killed, but also the captain’s flaxen-haired young daughter, tied to the mast for safety? But that was one of the attractions at New England’s Pleasure Island*
The San Fancisco Earthquake – at New York’s Freedomland one of the rides in the California section was “The San Fancisco Earthquake”
http://www.dafe.org/articles/parks/freedomland.html
st’ve been on this ride. It was so popular that, when Freedomland closed in the early 1960s, this ride ggotr transported to the Lake George NY amusement park, where it continued to run for decades. I think it’s finally closed now.
The Civil War. According to this site (but not in my recollection), the South in Freedomland featured a Civil War camp, complete with derailed trains and burning houses! What fun!
http://www.junipercivic.com/LatestNewsArticle.asp?nid=346
When you come down to it, an awful lot of attractions feature pretty dismal things that have lost their sting through distance. Viewed objectively, who would’ve thought that Pirates of the Caribbean – a ride depicting naval warfare, imprisonment, marooning, implied rape, torture of the Town Fathers, and rampage and pillaging would make for a proper amusement?
*The titular Hesperus was wrecked on the rock called Norman’s Woe , a reef off Gloucester, MA. I finally got to see it from Hammond Castle in Gloucester several years ago, and was really amazed. Not only is it pretty small, it’s amazing close to shore. It looks as if a ship would be courting disaster to approach it, because it’d risk coming aground as much as striking the reef. Moreover, it seems close enough that, it you struck it, you could just walk to safety. But I’m sure things look a lot different in as storm.
have a look:
At least we know how the ride ends. Why aren’t there any people coming out of the exits?