The 5th Dimension Chessington - Full Ride Compilation
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- čas přidán 4. 02. 2017
- The 5th Dimension was a huge dark ride at Chessington opening in 1987. It was originally created as a parody sci-fi trip through cyberspace. For its second year, Chessington reworked the ride with a simpler story followed Zappomatic through the TV on a hunt for The Gorg and this became the best known version.
This montage is edited from various donated video sources to cover the complete ride experience. I'll upload an unedited POV in the near future! - Krátké a kreslené filmy
CZcams really is the e closest we’ll ever get to a Time Machine. Fantastic. I LOVED this as a kid.
Chessington should make a museum of the relics of its previous closed rides like the Fifth Dimension, Terror Tomb and Bubbleworks (if they've got them stored somewhere) At least it would show a history to these now forever gone rides, how many remember them and showing newcomers what the old Chessington was in the 1980's and 90's.
They did create tombstones in the Transylvania/Wild Woods area paying tribute to old rides. It's on a long path going up to the Pirate Cove area. The tombstone for this ride says "Zappo Matic: 1987-1995. Sadly left this world for another dimension".
They also couldn’t do it because most of the props from the rides were either scrapped or sold. It would be a good idea though!
Omg I literally just thought of that like a theme park museum with all the items from closed rides in it.
This actually gave me goosebumps. Took me back to when I was single digits.
I love this. Really good work putting this together. The 5th Dimension lives!
It was my favourite ride in Chessington. I had a soundtrack tape of this and listened to it again and again. Thanks for sharing. I'm 42 now..
I am feeling quite emotional after watching this! I have such great memories of The 5th Dimension! I can't wait to share this with my sister!!! :) Thank you so much for all of your hard work! Being able to see this again means a great deal!
And I always thought I was the only one that treasured nostalgic memories emotionally
I can assure you that you are not the only one.
Its so treasuring emotionally looking back at some dark rides that we went on, enjoyed and had very vague memories of, particularly in the late 80's to the late 90's when they were in their prime. It brings a childhood nostalgia back to us now as grown adults
I couldn't agree more!
This video got me right in the feels. Nostalgic and emotional. I remember when i was about 5 id always go on the 5th dimension countless times whenever we visited chessington. Was gutted when it was replaced by terror tomb.
This is a fantastic video! Brings back so many memories of one of my first and favourite dark rides. Great work as always :)
You said one of your first, try to think what was the first Dark Ride you went on wether in UK or abroad??
Wow! Just going to share this with my daughters xx
It was the first ride I ever rode! I miss it.. ;(
Am I the only person who is scared of zappomatics design?
Did he not have fisher price roller skates on his feet? 😂
I am so happy to see this! I was there in 88 and 89. I remember being devastated when it was replaced!
how was it
I was there when it opened in the Summer of 1987! 😃
There used to be a documentary on this ride but unfortunately it’s been made private. It had some interesting information about the ride and it’s backstory.
Hands down, it's the best ride that I have ever been on
So 80s!!!!! Love this it was so weird, I was only around 6 or 7 when I went on it... I just remember the huge plug at the beginning and the weird smell of the ride haha
This was my absolute favourite thing when I was a kid. I seem to remember having a 5th Dimension brochure or guide or something (or maybe it was just a Chessington brochure) with pictures of Zappomatic and all the other animatronics. I really should dig that out of storage. It could be a useful piece of history.
All my childhood memories !! So happy to see this!!! Well done
Ahhhh the 1980's what a great decade :-)
This is just imo not great
@@igotdarkaether4813 WTF really??
Well I totally disagree with you, among many many others!
Have a good day/evening. 😁👋🏻
@@mikekaraoke I honestly can’t tell if your being sarcastic lol and the how old are you?
@@igotdarkaether4813 Well i'm not being sarcastic!
There is nothing wrong with them animatronics, special effects, set pieces, and the smell pods if you could smell them!
By your comment you never went on it!
There are Dark Rides out there now me and many others find not just great but utter shite-like Scooby-Doo Ghostblasters!
+ BTW i'm 39, how old are you? And what don't you find great about it??
@@mikekaraoke I’m 13 LOL
This used to be my favourite ride at Chessington when I was little. I was gutted that they removed it.
Thanks for sharing this!
Wasn't there a huge wolly mammouth with red glowing eyes in the ice station? I remember it scaring the crap out of me when I was a kid.
You’re right!
It was wonderful to see this again, thank you for sharing it 😊
I missed the chance of that ride. I born in 2000
Love it! Thanks for this! Will you be doing one for Toyland Tours?
Unfortunately we have no footage to share of Toyland Tours at the moment, but will be featuring it in other ways, keep an eye out!
Cool! Can't Wait!
@@EuroThemeParkArchive How will you feature Toyland Tours?
@@EuroThemeParkArchive i am excited
@@ToonyKid Love how you asked him that, when that was 4 very long years ago lol
To be perfectly honest, this actually looks better than Tomb Blaster or even Terror Tomb (the worst out of the 3 rides in the building)
yes
So camp. So amazing. I rode this.
I was -17 when this was made.
Best thing chessington ever did.. or have done imo.. yes im that old but being ableto button smash a borg! XD
Oh no major sad right now i cant find your documentaries anywhere its all i want to watch they were incredible?
They were taken down to be remade and expanded, supposed to be ready last summer but the pandemic really delayed the plan unfortunately. Im hoping they'll be ready by next summer when I have the time again and there are a lot of new ones being made too!
Chessington should remake this ride
Woah child of the 21st century so I missed out, but I’m gutted they got rid of this trippy ride!!
What happened to your documentaries? I loved them!
Attraction Swirl Coming back improved this summer
When was this PoV filmed?
i love zappomatic and the punkamatics
It was the 80s, cocaine was popular...you’d need some to create something like this.
i recognise the voice of this guy who voices zappomatic but cant think who
and the pineapple and the punkamatics and the gorg
i went on it in my dream
I was on this ride yesterday!
I’m watching this trying to remember the theme tune - doesn’t sound as I remember it though lol
the theme tune was cyberspace
Did Terror Tomb replace this ride?
yes
Is that ride gone because I haven’t seen it
It’s dance Moms yes it became terror tomb which is now tomb blaster
Isnt this ride now Tomb Blaster?
It is - after fifth dimension, it became terrortomb, and then it’s now tomb blaster. Its amazing how they changed the rides and kept the original track the trains run on
Yes it is CZcamsrs
I went on this only once when I was younger and I never went on it again the 5th dimension for me was terrifying I didn’t like it I didn’t like when it went dark I really wanted to get off the ride but I couldn’t at the time.
i wonder if someone still owns the robot?
There is supposed to be a grave of some sorts down by the vampire ride
What is this now?
Tomb blaster
Before tomb blaster it was terror tomb
i did a play of it
Shame it wasn't a proper full POV rather than a theatrically edited version.
Few good quality, uninterrupted tapes exist because most commercial cameras could only record at short intervals at the time. It took us 4 years to find enough footage from old studio tapes to edit this complete ride-through, with as much detail as possible and the original audio which was thought lost for many years. After all, no video can ever accurately simulate the experience of going on the ride.
The story was truly awful. Of all the ideas they came up with this. Find the gorg while I make a gun... I'm still making a gun... Now shoot the gorg with this gun. I was always confused as a kid of why we were in a TV and why Zapomatic would make a gun that he could not fire.
It’s got an interesting story behind why it was like that, interestingly that wasn’t actually the story the ride started out with. Keep an eye out for a documentary we’re producing that goes into the ride’s making!