Hop aboard for a tour around the world...
Hop aboard for a tour around the world...
| Fairs Attended | Hyde Park Winter Wonderland (from 2019) |
|---|---|
| Type | Dark Ride |
| Audience | Families |
| Built | November 2019 |
| Owner | James & Bridget Burton |
| Home Country |  United Kingdom |
Spinning ride vehicles
It's a Small World Adventure is a family dark ride which takes riders on a journey through scenes depicting characters from around the world.
The ride is owned by UK showman James Burton, and premiered at Hyde Park Winter Wonderland in 2019. It is built inside the shell of George Irvin's former arcade building.
The spinning ride vehicles are fully enclosed, with perspex windows allowing riders to view the animatronic scenes as they pass.
The first half of the ride features scenes from various countries including the USA, France, Italy, Egypt, Germany and China. At Winter Wonderland, this culminates in Santa's Workshop, with an animatronic Father Christmas thanking visitors for riding. The second half of the ride is a little trippy, as the cars spin their way through a mirrored corridor covered in multi-coloured lights.
As travelling dark rides go, the scenes and animatronics are good quality. However, overall It's a Small World Adventure manages to feel a bit "strange" ... Perhaps its the weird rainbow light corridor ending making it feel as if they ran out of budget to finish the ride. Or maybe its because you spend most of the ride wondering just how they can get away with such a blatant ripoff of Disney's It's a Small World!
It's a Small World Adventure
Ride token
Boarding
Let the adventure begin
Doorway to the ride
Ready to go
Entering inside
First scene
Uncle Sam
China
Jungle
Santa's Workshop
Father Christmas
Multi-coloured mirror corridor
