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Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon, previously called Derren Brown's Ghost Train, is a dark ride in Thorpe Park in Surrey, England.


Merlin Magic Making, the creative division of Merlin Entertainments, designed the attraction in collaboration with Derren Brown and his team.

Derren Brown is a British illusionist.


The ride is a 'Simulated dark ride' made by; Sim works, while the virtual reality content and delivery were produced by; Figure Productions. Severn Lamb and Intamin developed a transit system that takes passengers from one scene to another in the show building. The Dark ride includes; Virtual reality (VR) and Live Action. The music of the ride is made by; an IMAscore.


Set in a dilapidated Victorian railway depot, the ride was first opened in July 2016. You sit as passengers with a VR headset on and are told that demons and zombies have surrounded the train. After it has happened you have to flee the ride and you have to go to another car, there you will get a VR headset again and there the story ends and you get out. And at the exit, you have another mini show, and then through the souvenir shop to the exit.


𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 ...Did Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon already have a dark ride? 'Phantom Fantasia' in 1983, and from 1994 known as 'Wicked Witches Haunt.' That was a dark ride made by; Mack Rides. The ride closed on July 21, 2000.


𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐨 ...' Ghost Train' is the name of a fairground attraction, where visitors ride in a cart through a haunted house.

Because 'Phantom Fantasia' was such an attraction, they kept the name at Derren.

Merlin Entertainments are also the owners of 'Alton Towers and 'Legoland Parks.'


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