A dark ride or darkride is an indoor amusement ride consisting of a vehicle and animated scenes. Leon Cassidy of the Pretzel Amusement Ride Company invented and patented the single-rail dark ride in 1928. Notable dark rides include the Futurama at the 1939 New York World's Fair and The Haunted Mansion at Disney theme parks. A dark ride does not necessarily have to be dark. Disney's "it's a small world", for example, is a brightly lit dark ride. The roots of the dark ride go back to the late 1800s to "scenic Railways", "pleasure railways", and "mill rides". A boat dark ride is sometimes called an Old Mill or Tunnel Of Love. In the United Kingdom, dark rides with a scary or ghostly theme are called ghost trains, although the 'ghost train' term is more usually applied to the simpler midway or traveling funfair style of dark ride as opposed to modern hi-tech dark rides. Notable UK examples have included 5th Dimension (Chessington World of Adventures), and Haunted House (Alton...This information was automatically generated from Freebase article Dark Ride. You should replace/update it...
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