Rise

The Dark Coaster Based on the Dark Knight Trilogy

Creative Concept

“Embark out into the chaotic streets of Gotham as you join Bruce Wayne in a fight against Bane to save the city from the League of Shadows in this dark coaster that lets you experience the immersive world of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy. “

Concept

Inspired by Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, I did a personal exercise to make the complex world of Nolan’s Gotham come to life through the use of the trilogy’s themes such as fear, chaos, and pain in one unique ride experience. Unfortunately theme park rides often fail to make a lasting experience past “wow moments” due to their short time spans, high guest turnover, and tight project budgets/timelines. There are a few industry experiences that capture the theme of an IP while giving the guests something they can’t already get from the property’s world at home from a film. This trilogy was a great exercise as it was hard, as always, to capture such a complex story/characters in an experience under 10 minutes. The other stark challenge was to bring that complexity to a worthy experience that put guests into the middle of the action of the franchise and held true to the high quality of source material. In Nolan fashion I think its important that the ride is obviously thrilling, has unexpected twists, and somewhat expands the world to make sure the experience is new. “Rise” should be an experience that builds onto the world of Gotham, the same as the films did, rather than retell or work within the parameters of the franchise’s history. As a result the theme of RISE, for the guests, is the idea of hope. Rising to a challenge and being part of the solution. The theme of hope was touched on in all three films as it was the symbol of Batman and could be used to evoke each guests unique moment for them in whichever film resonates with them. By giving this to the guests in RISE they might be able to live that moment for the first time rather than just watch it on screen.

World of The Dark Knight

In Nolan’s world, Gotham is a mix of both orderly and disorderly urban chaos. It plays on both the beauty that humanity can build but also the rot and the danger. By using American cities from the real world such as Pittsburgh, New York, and Chicago the movies were able to express to us a realistic Gotham that was grounded in our reality but through the story and the super hero characters lifted it into a realm of the guests imaginations. In RISE the same sort of textures and patterns used to illustrate Gotham will be employed here. Gotham’s dense urban playground will be centre stage as we watch the events of the ride take place.

Story Summary

“A Hero can be anyone”

Embark out into the chaotic streets of Gotham as you join Bruce Wayne in a fight against Bane to save the city from the League of Shadows in this dark coaster that lets you experience the immersive world of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy.

RIDE VEHICLE

The ride vehicle will be based on the Motorbike Roller Coaster, most often manufactured by Vekoma, to depict the Batpod shown in both the Dark Knight and the Dark Knight Rises. Its dynamic movements and ability to be up close and personal to the action at high speeds makes it the perfect ride vehicle to explore Nolan’s world.

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