Dracula's Castle

Flight of Dracula

(@OSUPhantom)

Flight of Dracula is a suspended family coaster that sends guests on a high speed flight through Dracula’s Castle and the forests surrounding it. The bat-shaped vehicles take guests on a thrilling, yet family friendly through steep drops and tight turns as scary as an encounter with Count Dracula himself. The queue snakes its way through the park’s centerpiece castle up to to Dracula’s chambers where we board our vehicles. We are launched forward through and arched tunnel and launched up into the air to the highest point of the coast before diving downwards. We twist and turn, our vehicles swinging through the thick forest of the castle grounds. We turn into another launch section sending us right into the mountain face as the base of the castle where we diving and turn through the catacombs and caverns. The sounds and sights of the seemingly thousands of bats fill our ears as we fly through the near darkness. We drop out of the mountain and fly down the side into a sharp turn that sends us back into the forest for a series of helixes that lead into the final launch into a massive half pipe curve before slowing down back into the station.

Nosferatu Walkthrough

(@Miru)

Similar to the Sleeping Beauty walkthrough, this is a walkthrough attraction through the Dracula Castle based on 1921’s Nosferatu, using cutouts, figures, painted sets, and interesting lighting techniques to convey the grim story of Count Orlok, the pestilential and dreaded “Nosferatu” on his search for blood, the plaques written by Ellen, who is the one being targeted by him. Walk up the steps and hear Orlok’s clanking lapels of his trenchcoat and the grinding of his nasty incisor teeth. Indeed, there is no music or dialogue to be heard, only horrific and atmosphere sound effects to accompany the shadows and sets. Buzzing mosquitoes swarm around you, showing the disgusting power of the Nosferatu, as you also hear rats crawl around as you walk through leg ticklers. We even get an up-close & personal encounter with the beast himself.

The nightmare continues up until you reach the top of the castle, where you see the sunlight, and the last message is more ominous than reassuring. “Orlok has been destroyed, but he has left his deadly toll on the world.”, this message attributed to Knock. We then see the headstones of both Ellen and Knock, now together in death, Knock having sacrificed his life to destroy the castle of the Nosferatu and render them extinct, as we hear the castle rumbling and crumbling away in the distance.