Dante's Inferno (ride)

Dante's Inferno was a

Grim Reaper, as well as a mad scientist and several dragons

The passenger rides in a

sound effects, such as screaming, though some of these are lined with small, impish wall tiles. Little direct influence of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is to be found, though this was not always the case.^[2] The ride seems to have no particular theme in its current state. Across from the first gorilla is an unlit display showing a man with a crown opening a window, which appears irrelevant to a horror

-themed ride.

The ride has elements similar to a roller coaster, including hard-whipping turns and, midway through the ride, coming outside and being pulled down a steep slope before being plummeted through another set of doors to more horrors. Early in the ride, one specter is lowered before the tracks, but otherwise there is glass (or in the case of the begging man, mesh) between the rider and the various scares. Unlike either the Ghost Hole or the Spook-a-Rama, the other Coney Island dark rides, nothing comes directly at the rider, or threatens to do so.

The ride lasts one minute and forty-five seconds. The admission price was $5.00 at the time Astroland closed.

The ride is portable,

Luna Park

and a small rollercoaster is in the area where Dante's Inferno was.

References

^ LaCross, George. "Hell on Wheels". Laff in the Dark.
^ Coney Island Dark Rides
^ Operating Dark Rides
^ http://shutterfreaks.com/gallery21/main.php/d/70784-1/_DSC6010-Giant-snake.jpg ^{[bare URL image file]}

External links

"Dante's Inferno". Astroland. Archived from the original on October 4, 1999.
LaCross, George. "Hell on Wheels". Laff in the Dark. Come On Down for a Hot Time at Dante's Inferno at Coney Island's Astroland Park!

[1] LaCross, George. "Hell on Wheels". Laff in the Dark.

[2] Coney Island Dark Rides

[3] Operating Dark Rides

[4] ttp://shutterfreaks.com/gallery21/main.php/d/70784-1/_DSC6010-Giant-snake.jpg ^{[bare URL image file]}

[2]

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