Thorpe Park has teamed up with binaural audio immersive experience giants Darkfield to bring The Terminal to Thorpe Park Fright Nights.
The team behind immersive experiences such as FLIGHT, COMA and SEANCE has created a unique experience for Thorpe Park named The Terminal.
This binaural audio experience will consist of guests getting into pods before travelling to an intergalactic utopia through audio and numerous effects.
Darkfield experiences combine audio, effects and more for truly unique and immersive experiences. We experienced FLIGHT in Nottingham and were blown away by the sheer immersiveness of the experience as inside an unsuspecting shipping container was a plane cabin. We took our seats, fastened our belt buckles and the experience began and it was an unforgettable one!
Check out my review of FLIGHT by Darkfield HERE
Thorpe Park has released the following details about The Terminal and they are as follows:
It’s time to pack your bags and enter your cryo-pod aboard The Terminal for a one-way trip to an intergalactic utopia! You’ll find yourself drifting into an eternal slumber as you dream of the promised new land in a faraway galaxy.
On your journey, your safe haven gets hijacked by unearthly creatures leaving you and your fellow passengers in perilous danger.
Drifting in and out of consciousness, trapped in your own cryo-pod, there’s nothing you can do except accept your fate and pray you make it in one piece.
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This immersive attraction will transport you into deep space using high-tech audio technology and special effects.
After boarding The Terminal, you’ll be escorted to your private pod to put on your headphones, relax, and let cry-sleep take you in its arms. What could possibly go wrong?
The Terminal will be an upcharge and is recommended for ages 13+.
The attraction is wheelchair accessible and will contain strobe lighting, loud noises and effects.
It’s great to see Thorpe choosing such unique attractions as part of their Fright Nights line-up. Darkfield is certainly a unique experience that leaves a mark long after you go home.
Check out the trailer for The Terminal below:
The Terminal Review
Updated 03/10/2022
Fast forward a few weeks later and I was able to experience The Terminal at Thorpe Park and I assure you, all of the excitement I had for this attraction vanished within seconds of the attraction beginning.
DARKFIELD are known for their incredible audio experiences so naturally, the audio is wonderfully immersive but what lets The Terminal down is the ridiculously cheap feel to the attraction with black wooden seats inside with zero theming and absolutely no effects of any kind.
The storyline is also a little wishy-washy and whilst the audio is great the story drags on and completely alienates you from any experience.
You’re sitting in the dark, wearing headphones. No great theming like you’ll see in other DARKFIELD experiences, it’s just a black box.
You enter into a themed lift, vibrations occur to simulate movement and travel and then the second you step off the lift, black pods, and plunged into darkness and a waft of cool air on your face simulates you entering a cryo-sleep.
For audiophiles who enjoy the binaural experience, you may enjoy this. For anyone else on the planet, you’re going to find this experience very very boring.
DARKFIELD do much better attractions than this and I feel this will be a one-season wonder.
I’m now incredibly worried about what The Invitation at Alton Towers will be like not to mention The Exorcism located at Fear at Avon Valley.
The one saving grace for me is that the Alton Towers version looks to have exterior theming and a little bit more to it. I can only hope that the one at Alton Towers is more immersive than the black box that Thorpe Park has been stuck with.
Darkfield do MUCH better than this, you can check out their better attractions HERE
