Planet of the Apes Ride - Trackless Dark Ride | Pre-show & Ride | Genting Skyworlds Theme Park
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- NEW! Invasion of the Planet of the Apes Ride at Genting SkyWorlds Theme Park in Malaysia. Ride is based off the film from 20th Century Studios.
"A pulse-pounding, 3D indoor ride featuring Caesar and other iconic primates battling for survival." - www.gentingskyworlds.com/
0:00 - Intro
0:14 - Queue
1:18 - Pre-Show
3:17 - The Ride
Video filmed with permission from the park on December 7th 2023.
Like riding through a Home Depot.
😂😂
Was waiting for the Home Depot theme to play 😂
Every time I see one of these action-heavy screen-based rides done with such little care I remember how Disneyland developed Peter Pan, Snow White, Mr. Toad, and Alice in Wonderland in tiny buildings in the 50s that are so much more pleasant than trash like this.
They carred more about story telling back then, now it's about pocket lining.
omg!
Omg!
very true, this ride looks atrocious
True I love those old style dark rides where you feel like you’re actually in a surreal cartoon, it feels more organic and lifelike, screens are ok for background effects blended like clouds or a small projection of one thing but not huge overly lit rectangles
They didn't even try to blend in or cover the edges of the screen. The queue looks better than the ride itself.
I think that's at least partially due to the fact it's a video and not IRL - it's hard to show the real level of integration of the screens with the ride.
Just like Kong n fast n furious
@@QuothHerNevermore Nope. This is just really poorly done.
That's one of the most half-assed rides I've ever seen.
😂 it’s trash
Womp womp
If these rides keep insisting on using screens, I wish they would make an attempt to make them blend in with their surroundings. Every single screen is a rectangle.
5:22 - The screen could have been behind a practical garage door.
6:53 - The screen could have been behind a practical wall that removes the center part revealing the screen behind. It is obvious we're looking at a screen, which takes us out of the immersion.
5:56 - That "window" screen is a foot away from the practical tipped shelf , which makes the window look to be about 6' tall. The human, which appears to be right in the foreground, is 2' tall? Also, they could have put the screen behind a practical window.
8:08 - We go from a screen submerging us underwater, to a practical forest set, to another screen making us come out of the water. They made no effort to merge these screens. They could have even just turned out the lights in the forest scene (no vehicles were occupying it), and that would have concealed it better.
Oh karen shut up
That’s exactly what I was thinking, the ride looks super cheap! Like anybody could do it in their backyard not a good job.
They also did the gunshots hitting things poorly too with just a bunch of blinky lights, I think something like having steam pop out would sold that effect so much better.
Check out Rise of the resistance and Mickey and Minnie 's Runaway Railway. Those are what this ride wishes it was. They're amazing!
@@reverbtheraptor8529 If they just had just sync the sound with the impacts, it'll be way better! This could be made with minimal efforts i bet.
I dont think they'll ever be a screen basef ride that would top the Amazing Spiderman. That ride integrates its screen perfectly with amazing set pieces and an actual story that makes sense for the ride. While being the first and oldest to ever do it.
Transformers is the upgraded version of that rides technology. Both Spiderman and Transformers are the best darknride imo
and I'm a bigger Star Wars fan but like the ride system of these rude a whole lot better. That and the ride doesn't break down as often.
@@JTabor1976 i absolutely love both but transformers always makes me yearn for a neck brace lol
if you have ever been to universal the screens there are really great too, especially harry potter.
Does Guardians of The Galaxy Cosmic Rewind count?
Given how often trackless rides break down, I can’t imagine anyone waiting for this for hours
Thank you for posting. There is a lot of room for improvement on this ride.
8:05 we go in the water then turn right staring down a hallway then back in the water. How did the designers miss this?
Absolutely! That is when I was asking myself what just happened.
I think the previous scene went on for too long, so if they finished the scene entirely, it would cause issues with the cars behind them.
"They won't even notice."
-The Designers
@@keiichimorisato98 nah that's the ride
@awesumtoast97 yeah, of course... but the ride is a dark ride that has to time the scenes, the scene likely went on slightly too long, and they moved the last part of it over.
I thought "how could I have never heard about this ride?"
Then I saw it was not an attraction but rather a series of video clips.
Trackless dark rides truly have just become an excuse for screens and laziness. In theory, they give a chance for great movement and dynamic scenes, in practice they're used as a hall of screens.
I appreciate most of the rides you film, but this one looked like possibly the most boring ride I've ever seen, unless you're a huge fan of the Apes franchise...which, I haven't met many. Stand in line, watch a short movie, get on the ride, watch a movie clip, take some wicked 1.6 MPH turns.... And then watch another clip. This ride is the equivalent to sitting on your couch and flipping the channels, occasionally landing on the same channel showing Planet of the Apes. Thank you for sacrificing time out of your life so we don't have to!
So, honest question… What makes this ride any worse than a ride like Transformers at Universal Studios??
@@davidarrington4144 Never rode that. I don't like these track rides, TBH, except for Resistance at Disneyland... But even their "dark rides" have more than just rolling at a snails pace and watching movie clips.
Set is nicely done but, yeah, no animatronic characters makes a dull experience.
@@davidarrington4144 I'd say they're equally bad.
@therealking6202 Have you seen Fast&Furious Super Charged at Universal Studios Fl?? If not look up some videos on that. I'd take this over Fast and furious Lol🤣😅
Okay, I know I'm overanalyzing this, but how did we "help" exactly? Looks like we mostly just got in the way. :)
All that mattered was that people were applauding us at the ride's finale.
Theme parks can't go wrong if the ride ends with people celebrating you
DUDE! I didn't know that there was a Planet of the Apes dark ride! This is gonna be aweso.... It's gonna be a bunch of screens, isn't it?
Ok, ok, I'll be fair. There are some great rides that are technically just screens (The Back to the Future ride, the Amazing Spiderman ride.)I actually do think that the theming is pretty cool, although a little inconsistent. It's probably a lot more immersive in person than just watching it on a CZcams screen, but c'mon, at least one or two actual ape animatronics could've been really cool in a ride like this.
No reflection upon your videos because I truly appreciate this channel, but it is disappointing how so many of these trackless rides rely so heavily upon video screens. They don't even make much effort to blend the video screens into the attraction. Too bad. This could have been one heck of an attraction. Nevertheless, please keep bringing these videos to us. Blessings to you.
Thanks for the video! 6:25 looks like something out of a trailer dark ride in a travelling fair. Just mannequins and flashing lights - but still the closest thing to an animatronic in the ride.
Love how they don’t even try to blend the screens into the environment… just a perfect square surface plopped into each set
I'm always baffled at how empty parks in other countries are. This ride is ok, but a few things would improve it. At least a couple animatronic apes and maybe a truch moving in or some things like that would have really raised the bar. Also, some of the screens could have things around them making them look less like screens. I'm sure it looks good in 3D, but put some foliage and more warehouse stuff to hide the edges. There's also a few parts where it's like they're just moving the car to use up time.. add some dialogue or, just something could have been planned to fill those moments.
This particular park is about 6,000ft above sea level. The drive up is not worth the hassle and everything over there is overpriced.
Part of it may be that Attractions 360 can go on the emptiest days. That being said, there have to be some busy days or else why build it?
Or maybe this park is a money laundering thing haha
Parks in other countries can be just as popular as in the US (see Japan), but these strange outliers you've never heard of that somehow get budgets are usually offering money to Western corporations to build the parks - making the countries appear friendly to tourists while covering up human rights abuses. The result is that the primary parkgoers are foreign businessmen passing through, while regular citizens are too impoverished to attend. It's a sickening development that even Disney and Universal have been partaking in, and why big business should be fought at a political level.
@@TadThuggish well, at least the next two Universal parks will be in Europe.
Lol
Thx for filming! 👍🏻
Yay welcome to Malaysia.. hope u enjoyed 🤗
Just another example on how the queue is better than the ride itself
Thanks for sharing amazing
Whoa, that's like Web Slingers at Disney's 2nd park in Anaheim, Ca. Or a trip to the widescreen department at Best Buy. Not sure, therefore, why trackless technology was even necessary. Even though projected CGI images cost money to create, the park's owner should have invested more in real, moving scenery, much less audioanimatronics, instead of a lot of static backdrops.
One advantage of trackless would be they can more easily retheme the ride years later.
Obviously the budget was 9.99.
They got a great deal on metal shelves and cardboard boxes.
No animatronics. No special effects. The vehicle just moves from screen to screen.
Even as a Planet of the Apes fan, this ride looks disappointing.
It's terribly boring and lazy
Ikr? The entire budget went to the ride system tech and they forgot about everything else. Even the sets looked cheap.
I totally agree, was well themed I thought but just screens that move with 3D glasses for a franchise like this should of spent more on it!
Should be full set pieces, animatronics, special effects, smell pods, etc!!!!
i love how the pods slide sideways into the loading area. such a cool touch. that's the only positive thing i have to say about this ride.
I would not wait in any line for this ride.
I like the ceiling screen and helping by pushing the crates in the third scene . But... Why is the door to the vehicle so big. The edges of screen not even tried to be hidden. Speakers just on the wall not tried to be hidden. A tank fires at you and the end result is a red light on a container? Turning the vehicle toward another with no effect to show why(talking about how Jumanji did it). Turning the vehicle at the end to show the final themed hallway before seeing the final video. I have more but I still enjoy new rides. It's not expensive to use cheap items for a rides opening. Its ok if it doesn't last over time but for a grand opening the amount of dead space in this is just making me ask who said "this is perfect, let's open to public". Not even a little smoke effect on the gunshots on walls. Just lights and that's it.
I think it has a lot to do with the faith of the country. I had a lot of complaints like this with the rides in Dubai, but then I learned it's against their faith to imitate God. Meaning no animatronics. Although they did get away with a Scooby Doo ride with Scooby spinning his legs to run, but I think it can only be as simple as that.
@@ninedragons1 Very interesting point I’ve never thought about. I will say though, this park has several other dark rides that do feature animatronics including a trackless ice age ride and a boat ride on the epic animated movie (I have videos on my channel if you want to take a look), but maybe animatronics based on fantasy/animated creatures is less offensive to Muslim culture. This could make sense why some of the cartoon rides in the UAE have them but not rides like the one about the history of Ferrari.
@@themeparksbynatti After looking how boring Dubai's Hotel Transylvania ride is I thought what could the alternative be. Use live actors? Can you imagine being paid to do the same motions over and over again as ride cars pass by? 😆
The entrance of the ride was actually nice with how Dracula greets you. He's projected on a see thru screen to give the illusion that he's there. They could've done more with that.
@@ninedragons1 yeah live actors is definitely a possibility. I did a dark ride in Bali that was supposed the first to feature real people, but by the time I got around to it they gave up on constantly staffing the inside of the ride lol. I think the hotel Transylvania ride at Motion gate had real potential though if they got creative with it instead of just placing non-moving figures throughout the ride.
Great venue for a rave!
I'm not even a huge fan of the Apes franchise but this ride could have been so good if more than 2 seconds of thought had been put into it.
That was quite mehhhhh. Thanks for posting, so we know we ain't missing much.
Discount Garth Brooks telling you to get into a hovercraft to help an ancient Roman emperor is wild!
Man, I wanted to see those animatronic apes on horses so badly...
That would be hard
Can you imagine waiting in line for a few hours and this is what you get?
This is basically riding through Chicago.
Unfortunately, the rides now are so boring... without animatronics and only with video clips... Where is the tecnology in the development of new rides?
This feels like it had a very small budget like $3 million on the ride vehicles and the rest of the stuff they went to Home Depot, picked up a couple of steals beams, ladders, and threw them around.
The tv screens seem a bit lazy to me. I mean there's nothing wrong with using a screen every now and then, but at least disguise it as a broken wall or a window. Not an obvious rectangular projector screen. And where are all the animatronics? This ride could be improved by a lot if it had some robot apes swinging on the ceiling, riding on robot horses and popping heads out of garbage cans or something. Maybe even ape figures that don't move. For an ape ride there's hardly any apes
After a day at a park, this is the ride I would do to chill and relax,,I love the movie Planet of the Apes, so this ride will be perfect to relax.
Although I noticed a few details with the screen,,,the edges should've been covered better, you could see them as you get closer,,,but overall looks like a very good ride, although Spiderman screen base ride is my #1.
Thank you for posting this video and sharing your experience with us.
Looking forward for more videos.
Have a Blessed Day.
the title of this clip really needs plural in "Ape". What if the ride had one ape? lmao
I can't afford to take my family to these parks so these videos are so fun for me and my son to check out! Thank you for giving us an experience that we will probably never have!
we're really fed up with fights and war!!!!
I would love to see this with the 3D glasses.
I'm a massive 'Apes' fan, and I thank you for posting this video. I would not spend $10 on a Sunday afternoon or waste time for this drivel.
This looks cool.
I'm sleeping almost during the entire ride.
Wow that's a good ride
It's like riding a roomba
For non Disney or Universal, it’s pretty good!
7:00 the wilhelm scream 😂
I love the rides you film, but I really wish there was an affordable lens or lens filter capable of showing the 3d effects so it isn't always so blurry. It would add so much to the videos. Keep up the great work. Mike - Ashland, KY
Sometimes. If you obtain a set of 3d glasses. Like um from the movie theatre or something. Those will sometimes at least make the picture clear for you watching these. Not always. But sometimes.
Literally take a cheap pair of 3D glasses and take one of the two lenses and tape it over the camera lens... It'll halve the light coming into the camera, but will completely fix the blur from the overlapping images.
Who is arrogant enough to sign CZcams comments?
THAT WAS SICK
The end parts made it all worth it. Also I realize that 3D glasses were part of this experience and that’s why it doesn’t seem as impressive on youtube. 👍🏻
Wow thats one Dull Ride
I'm sooo over screen based rides. I much loved the old special fx hand made that were more surreal.
I was not super impressed with this attraction and I even wore some 3D glasses...I don't know if there were wind or water effects, could have used some smoke/fog effects. It's definitely not Disney, but thanks for taking us for the ride!👍🦧🐒🦍
I like how there’s a massive queue area with zero people in it.
Needs 3d effects, anamatronics, life.
They should close this and renovate it with some animatronics
Wow thank u imbf4om Scotland thank u
07:25 ..... ROLLIN' AROUND AT THE SPEEEED OF SOOOUUUND-
Never seen the movies. From what i interpreted from the trailers, i thought Ceasar was the bad guy
He said "San Francisco Isn't safe anymore"....psychic
Spider-Man at Universal blends the screens with real props and effects so well that to these days has still yet to be topped, and that ride opened in 1998
Everybody is complaining but this very small park went all out on the theming tbh. I think they've managed to put down some amazing rides that I'd definitely could enjoy. Obviously animatronics would be better but they probably didnt have the budget for it and still gave us a fun ride experience
WOW, that looks so cool! I have been an Apes fan since the very first movie
Seriously?
But do you own the TV series on DVD?
Me too. And I am also a black, gay, non binary, gender queer.
What exactly was cool about it?
The 1968 film?
Looked like fun don’t get the negative comments not every ride is a 10.
That queue was so long, thankfully you didn’t have to wait
I’ll give it this: it looks better that F&F Supercharged
An epic tale of triumph and courage.
Well, they got the crappy looking run down San Francisco right!
There he is. The guy who's been politically manipulated into thinking _"SF bad grrrr"_ and has to post it in anything related to it.
@@Taijifufu no, i drove through there 2 months ago on vacation. Drove down embarcadero, past the imaginarium and pier 39. Chose not to stop. It's not the place it used to be.
So you drove down one part of the city and decided it represented the entire place? 🤡
I drove through the area they advertise as being the most beautiful place in the city, the main tourist attraction of the whole city and it was a toilet. Why would I even bother to look at the rest? Ive heard many stories, posted here on the tube, of bad encounters in the city. The story of the news crew who got carjacked, the second crew they sent to do a story on that, and they got carjacked also. We used to love stopping in SF on driving tours, but we wanted to see if it was as bad as the stories say. Sadly, it is. @@PlanetJameson
Pretty cheesy, but par for the course up in Genting Highlands. Lived in S’pore for 6 years and we used to take our young daughter on the rides… good stuff for those younger than 12.
Not a fan of this franchise at all but was excited because dark rides are my favorite and I had never heard of this one or this park for this matter, still going to watch but according to the comments expect disappointment, especially since I've been spoiled by Universal. I can't wait until I see a POV of the DK roller coaster. ❤️
To be honest, considering the park must be on the smaller scale since I've not heard of it, it wasn't terrible. For one thing, the screens are 3D and not being there the other effects, (wind, water, ect.) can't be felt. I've seen worse. The main issues are that the screens are not blended for the most part, there are a couple areas between transitions that would have been better in lower or no light and there were no ape or animatronics. Some of the physical sets looked decent though. Honestly considering I'm not a fan of this franchise it looked OK. Love to see a review from the rider personally.
I don't like leaving multiple comments but I had to check out another video of it. One thing I think is neat I didn't see at first in this one is the ride vehicle tries to give the appearance you're moving via propeller in the back. I feel for safety concerns or money they don't seem to actually run but that would be pretty cool if they did. There is a scene where you see another ride vehicle. It would have been neat, if for at least that scene they actually rotated and had the effect you could feel the propeller from the other vehicle.
so coooooool
This is so interesting and so goofy 😂 I can't stop laughing
They didnt even try to hide the screens. Its like webslingers without the arm workout.
I can see the need for more animatronics but realize keeping it simple reduces the the cost of maintenance. Plus pretty sure it is hard getting technicians and parts outside of America. From the looks of the crowd (lack of crowds) not sure if revenue would substantiate the additional cost of operation.
Not done by the people who designed Japan's Beauty and the Beast ride, that's for sure.
It’s probably more immersive if you have 3D glasses on.
My spidersense is tingling
This would make a great interactive dark ride though...thats whats so sad!
Everytime you see this ride type just shows how amazing spiderman at IOA is!!! Name a similar ride better? I'd discount RoTR as that's much more practical sets
i’m not sure if it’s better but symbolica at the efteling is trackless and pretty cool
@@ashleyinfandomland similar to RoTR in a more physical sets than screens but for Europe is amazing.
Trying to think if the UK has a trackless dark ride. It's a crying shame something like Street Mission doesn't exist but Merlin 🤷🏻♂️
Basically the other similar quality ride to Spiderman is Transformers maybe (though haven't ridden it)
You described this as pulse pounding? 😂
Is that Riley from Buffy?
I can’t help but think that this ride would’ve been way better with a similar track system to what Indiana Jones and Dinosaur have in Disney and in what Transformers, Spider Man and Jurassic World have in Universal Studios. This should’ve been set in the jungle where a tribe of the apes are chasing you, not in some warehouse in New York City
Cool
So you watch the TV,
Board the yellow toilet,
Go under the washing,
Then after the teenage bedroom theming and much monkey business, the ride gets underway and just when it begins to get interesting it finishes.
Yep, I'll take Tower of Terror.
LOL 😅
It took me a few minutes to work out what those yellow things were supposed to be
@@pineappleroad What are they?
@@happyandblessed5640 Hovercraft
If you haven’t heard of it, it is kinda like a flying boat, real ones have a large fan at the back (which is what pushes you forwards)
@@pineappleroad Thanks for that!
Happy New Year!
The designer procrastinated in the designing of this ride and had to come up with something the day before it was due
The queue & physical set pieces are really good looking! just for the rest of the ride to be a flaming pile of dookie.
This maybe one of those gotta be there type rides lol
What will they think up next?
This ride looks fun
Without a great deal of effort this could be a pretty good last of us ride. Change the screens to Joel and Ellie stuff, have a few zombie animatronics around, one great big bloater, then have the chase through the city part be like a fedra vs fireflies scene
I saw this in person. I really liked the queue area. The ride … not so much.
It seems like the ride very rarely if ever has the parallax matching the movement of the ride vehicle. Especially when approaching the screens, you can see a sort of elongating effect in the image.
Driving thru pompano is a better “Planet of the ape ride”
Basing an Apes attraction on the original 5 films would present a much better attraction experience
Or the Tim Burton installment.
I’m sure Universal would do this better but it’s still seems a good ride
NEVER BEEN ON THE PLANET OF THE APES RIDE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I remember doing the 1972 Universal tour which at that time had a Planet of the Apes demonstration so..... full circle?