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The new double-seated Haunted Castle cars and track system are the products of the I.E. Park Co., ride manufacturers of Italy who are also the makers of Soli Bumper Cars.
The design references the hearse cars that were a feature of the original Haunted Castle.
However, the new cars are much more sophisticated, with the ability to rotate on their chassis, providing a variety of viewing positions. |
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| Above: Installation views of Swamp Monster animation. Below: Grave Diggers scene showing reaching arms mechanism. |
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| John Wood, President and CEO of Sally Industries, commented to Laff In The Dark on Sally's work with R&R Creative Amusement Designs and Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk: "Over the years we have collaborated with R&R Creative Amusement Designs on a number of outstanding dark rides |
| and themed attractions. One of the first jobs was for Santa Cruz's Neptune's Kingdom where we created animatronics for the Captain Ned and Seaweed show and the miniature golf course that R&R designed and produced. The Santa Cruz Haunted Castle project is one that both Sally and R&R Design looked at very closely over the years. It was inevitable that they would change it out some day and we were happy to be selected to be part of the team. In this case, R&R did the complete production of design, audio and specifications. We translated their drawings into moving and talking |
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Above: Sculpture and Mold Artist Russell Hall (left) and Sally Corp. President John Wood |
| animatronics, show action equipment and special effects. Our package included the amazing guillotine, breakaway dock and floating bottle gag as well as all show control and show programming. We stayed in constant contact with them along the way with progress photographs and submissions for their approval. They never visited our facility during the entire process to inspect our work. We've grown to know each others capabilities quite well!" |
Sally Corporation Creative and Production Team for
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Haunted Castle:
Drew Hunter, VP-Design Services
Rich Hill, Design Lead for the Haunted Castle project
Todd Gillrup, VP-Production
Mechanical: Harold Esposito
Sculpt & Mold: Russell Hall
Scenic Art: Ric Hostetter
Pneumatics: Steve Phillips
Electronics: John Stegall
Woodworking: John Tedder
Finish Art: Luda Budnik
Programming: David Jones
Project Management: Donna Gentry,VP-Projects
Installation team: Harold Esposito, Ric Hostetter, John Tedder, Leo Dorado |
Suffice it to say, we've shown you just a few of the ghostly inhabitants of the
Haunted Castle. There are many more awaiting your arrival. Go and visit!
You'll have a scary and funny trip - in other words, you'll Laff in the Dark!
Photographs and production material provided by:
Sally Corporation
R&R Creative Amusement Designs, Inc.
Our thanks to all who provided assistance for this feature:
Rick Bastrup - R&R Creative Amusement Designs, Inc.
George LaCross - Editor - Laff In The Dark
John Wood - Sally Corporation
Drew Hunter - Sally Corporation
and a special thank you to:
Jan Sherman - assistant V.P. Creative Services - Sally Corporation
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