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  6. Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon

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    ^^ Thorpe still have a duty of care, you can slap as many warnings on something as you want but if you don't actively enforce it, you'll be in the crapper. Hypnosis won't be included as it won't work on a lot of people, you really can avoid being hypnotised if you're in the right frame of mind, and the whole thing is a huge health and safety nightmare.

    Augmented reality, now that sounds plausible, especially with their 'future of theme parks' statement, my son has it on his DS and it's great fun, if you scaled that up and used 3d googles, then I can see where that would be a major selling point.

     

     

     

     

     

    It just wont.

    • You need to have sufficient training in order to be able to hypnotize people.
    • The recipient needs to be subjective (only a handful of people can actually be hypnotised).
    • It's just not possible, sorry.

     

    That's not to say that TP won't advertise that there will be (signing wavers on that Psycoaster remember?) but there just won't be. 

     

    Have the Derren IP (IMO) has already done wonders for this experience and it's only been a few months. I say the marketing on this is going to be brilliant. I mean, the man works 12months of the year - and ends up handing out leaflets at his shows - what an amazing idea!

     

     

     

    Spot on!

     

    About time we saw some sort of update I think. Anyone got a drone?!

     

    Dark ride construction topics are dull.  :lazy:

    Just to clarify I wasn't suggesting that it was plausible to utilise hypnosis in this attraction, or even condoning the idea, I was saying in an hypothetical/devils advocate sense - hypothetical just like the likelihood of Logger's tunnel was coming back for the 2015 season... - but if they did, the appropriate warnings and so on would be emphasized before even entering the queue line. I've watched Derren's shows before where some of his methods have worked on some and not all. But I'm sure if they wanted to do it, they probably could. Would it be effective? No. Is it going to happen? No.

     

  7. Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon

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    The thing is, Derren has stated several times in his shows/books without knowing how suggestible someone is or being able to see whether they have any mental or physical dispositions, it could go wrong. If they were able to incorporate hypnosis into it, the ride could go two ways: either the "hypnosis" side of it wont work on everyone or people who have a unknown history of mental/physics problems could suffer extreme problems on it. As much as I want hypnosis to be involved in it, for the safety of others I doubt it will be made a possibility.

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    Let's say for arguments sake, hypnosis is going to happen, it would HAVE to be listed on the board at the front in the safety information. Just like it advises people who are pregnant/have back problems not to ride the roller coasters. If they choose to ignore this information, whether they've read it or not, that is their own decision, and their own fault if it ends negatively. They aren't being forced to ride it and if it's a Derren Brown IP it should be pretty widely known that it messes with the mind.
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