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Whacky Shack
Dark Ride at Waldameer Park, Erie, Pennsylvania. Opened 1970.
- Height
- n/a
- Drop
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- Top speed
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- Length
- 488 ft
- Inversions
- n/a
- Ride time
- n/a
- Designer
- Bill Tracy
Whacky Shack is a haunted house dark ride at Waldameer Park in Erie, Pennsylvania. It opened on May 24, 1970, and was designed by Bill Tracy with Amusement Display Associates, who also built the park's walk-through attraction Pirate's Cove in 1972.
Cars run on an electrified track through a two-story building, about 488 feet of track in all, past haunted scenery, optical illusions and flashing lights, with sudden changes in direction. Bill Tracy built Whacky Shack dark rides at a number of parks, and the park says Waldameer's is the last one still in operation.
Sources
- waldameer.com/park-attractions/whacky-shack (Park ride page: classic dark ride; cars on an electrified track through a two-story building; optical illusions, haunted scenery, flashing lights; the last remaining Whacky Shack in operation.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldameer_%26_Water_World (Wikipedia: opened May 24, 1970; Bill Tracy and Amusement Display Associates; 488 ft of track over two stories; Pirate's Cove 1972 by the same designer.)
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