Talk:River caves
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[edit]I've seen several river-caves rides (the one at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, the ones which used to be at Dreamland Margate and at Battersea Funfair, the Bubbleworks at Chessington World of Adventure (in its previous fizzy-drinks incarnation), and probably others I now can't remember), and none of them have been the least like an indoor log-flume; they necessarily have at least one lift-hill, but the Bubbleworks is the only one I've been on which had a drop (a much shorter drop than any log-flume I've been on), and even that had only the one drop.
A much better analogy is with ghost-train rides. River-caves rides take the rider past a series of tableaux (traditionally, the wonders of the world).
One of the errors is that the river-caves ride cannot, as claimed, be a version of the log-flume ride, because river-caves rides long predate log-flume rides; the River Caves at Blackpool opened in the early 1900s, whereas according to the Wikipedia log flume page, the world's earliest log-flume ride didn't open until 1963. 193.122.47.170 18:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)