Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride | |
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Alton Towers | |
Area | Cloud Cuckoo Land |
Status | Removed |
Cost | £8 million |
Opening date | 1 April 2006 |
Closing date | 8 November 2015 |
Replaced | Toyland Tours |
Replaced by | The Alton Towers Dungeon |
Ride statistics | |
Attraction type | Dark boat ride, Elevator |
Manufacturers | Mack Rides Rexroth Bosch Group |
Designer | Willy Studios |
Theme | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
Capacity | 1000 riders per hour |
Vehicle type | fatty , Elevator |
Vehicles | 10 boats, 2 elevators |
Riders per vehicle | 2 |
Duration | 11 minutes |
Construction | JJ Cavanagh Construction (started mid-2005) |
Projection | Electrosonic Bose |
Elevator show | Falcon's Treehouse nWave Digital |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride was a dark ride located in the Cloud Cuckoo Land area of Alton Towers theme park, Staffordshire, England. It was based upon the famous 1964 Roald Dahl book of the same name, and took its thematic inspiration from the illustrations of Quentin Blake. The ride closed at the end of the 2015 season and was replaced by the Alton Towers Dungeon in 2019.
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