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WBMW -DC Super Villains Unleashed and the Doomsday Destroyer

Gazza

Giga Poster
This one has sort of slipped under the radar a bit, but Movie World in Australia just had opening night for a new area called DC Super Villains unleashed, featuring an Intamin suspended Twin Hammer called Doomsday Destroyer.
The ride is as you'd expect for a typical looping starship ride, but it has the same newer harness design as Falcons Fury.

But basically, the area is themed to Metropolis city, where villains from various DC franchises have taken over, and there are various little stations where guests can swipe a purchased RFID band and "be bad".

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This vid sums it up
Credit to The Adventures of Theme Park Girl FB
https://youtu.be/EM5-qSNeA9Y?t=409

The first 6:30 mins are a bit of a performance they bunged on for the grand opening, from then on the video shows the various bits of the area.

And the TV ad:
https://www.facebook.com/movieworldgold ... 406577182/

And POV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N9bQcYtZOg

Bizzaro: Screens with the interior of the ace o clubs. Uses eyeball tracking, and guests can use "ice vision" to freeze and destroy the interior of the club.

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Scarecrow: A back alley, where scarecrow periodically releases haluciongens, causing billboards and a door to melt and show freaky images.

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Poison Ivy: A construction site where her vines and venus fly traps have taken over. Swiping your wristband activates a personality test, and the flytraps either snap or spit water, or puff out sweet scented smoke.

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Killer Croc: Croc is busting out of the sewers, water pipes have broken etc. Using hand gesture tracking you can cause the water to surge up and down as you move your limbs. Theres a cool one where you can raise both hands then smack them down to cause a big eruption.

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Sinestro: A luxury car show room. Sinestro goads you into using the power of yellow fear to smash the car up and set the show room ablaze. Again uses motion tracking.



Captain Cold: A liquid nitrogen tanker has crashed into a building. On the side is a touch screen where you play a mini game involving connecting pieces of pipe (remember that game on Win 95 called pipe mania?) When you get them all connected you set off a cold blast of fog from Captain Colds gun.

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Gorilla Grodd: There are screens depicting the interior of a diner. You jump on pressure pads to cause earthquakes and destroy the diner.

Joker & Harley Quinn: Theres a bank rigged up with explosives connected to a high striker. You hit the high striker and depending on how you do you'll get an insult from joker, or set off smoke, strobes, a smoke ring launcher etc.

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Lex Luthor: Lex has backed up a Lexcorp vehicle to a substation to hack the power grid and bring it down. Theres a touch screen mini game where you link together icons to complete a circuit and cause power transformers to spark and overload.
 

Lofty

CF Legend
Re: WBMW -DC Super Villains Unleashed and the Doomsday Destr

I really like the concept, but I'm not sure that the actual implementation was as good? One of my pet hates is static figures being used for animated scenes with voice overs etc., I'd have loved some of the Sally Corp. animatronics being used instead, but know that the budget would be through the roof for the amount that they'd need.

Part of me also thinks that it would have been great to incoorporate all of the singular interactive elements and combine them into a walkthrough style attraction, in which one leads to another and sort of like an 'escape game' type experience where you have to interact with the set to gain a certain goal? Whilst it's fun having them spread about the whole area, I can't seem to figure out what it actually gives guests as a reward apart from 'cool, this area does something' and the return factor is really low?

I will say though that the quality of the theming is absolutely superb, looks fab.
 

Gazza

Giga Poster
Re: WBMW -DC Super Villains Unleashed and the Doomsday Destr

I guess maybe its the same vein as the magic wands at Wizarding World of Harry Potter...kids etc just like wandering around and playing with stuff.
 
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