Vampire Coaster at Chessington Full Experience Including On Ride POV (Nov 2021) [4K]

[4K] Vampire Coaster at Chessington, join us in Wild Woods for a stroll through the forest queue line into the Vampire's lair, past Marcel on his pipe organ, and on to the coaster where we take to the skies, soaring over the tree tops.

This was Planit Park's James, who had just reached 1.1m, first ride on this amazing coaster and we check out his reaction to it at the end.

Vampire is an Arrow Dynamics coaster located in the Wild Woods area of Chessington World of Adventures. This fantastic roller coaster opened on the 11th of April 1990 in what was then the new Transylvania area before it was renamed Wild Woods.

The trains hang from the track and swing freely as the roller coaster completes its way around Wild Woods. It has two lift hills, featuring many dives and turns through the trees and around the front of the Vampire restaurant and over the ride entrance and queue line. The ride's layout was designed by John Wardley and the theme was designed by British firm Sparks Creative.

Towards the turn of the century, the Vampire coaster began to suffer breakdowns and maintenance problems and was closed for the 2001 season. At the time it was rumored that this closure would be permanent as the manufacturer, Arrow Dynamics, had gone bankrupt and it was thought that little could be done to rectify the problems with the coaster.

Fortunately, a decision was made to modify the ride so that it could use a new type of suspended coaster train. The track layout was to remain unchanged so as not to require new planning permission but this required that the new trains would have to be able to swing around the tight corners to reduce lateral G forces. This led to the development of a swinging suspended floorless coaster train, manufactured by Vekoma, which is the one that is still in use today. The modified Vampire coaster ride opened in 2002.

A lot of the original theming has been removed which is a shame. Originally, the queue line had castle gates, a fog-filled underpass beneath the coaster track, a graveyard canopy with Gothic tombs, and a dark passageway into the station.

The ride itself has also seen changes, the original trains which were black, and bat-themed were replaced by the Vakoma floorless ones. Towards the end of the ride, the coaster takes a sudden drop into a tunnel, before entering the brake run. The tunnel was originally longer, darker, and themed as a cave, but this has since been removed.

Despite being 30 years old (20 since the new trains were installed) and a lot of theming has been removed this is still one of our favourite rides. We would love to go back to the early 1990s and see this ride with all its original theming and trains. We would also love to see Merlin restore all or at least some of the original theming that it had in the 1990s.
Height restrictions for the Vampire coaster are 1.1 meters (3 ft 7 in) for this ride. To ride unaccompanied guests need to be at least 1.3 meters (4 ft 3 in). Vampire reaches speeds of around 45mph with a g-force of 4g's

Be sure to check out all our Chessington World of Adventures videos in our dedicated playlist:
▶️   • Chessington World of Adventures Playlist  
Including rides, shows, attractions and walkthroughs.

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⏱️⏱️ CHAPTERS ⏱️⏱️
00:00 Vampire Coaster Entrance
00:10 Vampire Coaster Queue Line
02:37 Station Entrance - Abandon all Hope
03:02 Entering the Vampire Station
03:25 Marcel Playing his Organ
03:58 Vampire On Ride POV
05:54 Vampire Exit
06:45 On Ride Photo Collection
07:06 Planit Park’s James Reaction
07:29 Vampire Outro