Gogs! The Ride

Gogs! The Ride is a dark ride at Oakwood Theme Park in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is based on the Welsh claymation television series Gogs!. The ride opened in 1999 and was built by Mack Rides of Germany.

Attraction Summary:
Gogs! The Ride is a dark ride at Oakwood Theme Park in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is based on the Welsh claymation television series Gogs!. The ride opened in 1999 and was built by Mack Rides of Germany.

Queue and Pre-show:
Guests enter through a cave entrance into the queue line which winds around to an area where they can see some animatronic dinosaurs before entering another cave with more animatronics including one that spits water at guests. Guests then enter the pre-show room where they watch a short video about Gogs! The Ride before entering the ride itself.

The ride:
Riders board one of two trains, each with four cars that seat up to three people in each car (12 riders per train). Each train is pulled by an engine and pushed by another engine on the back of it. The engines are designed to look like dinosaurs and have animatronic heads which move around as if they are breathing. The trains then enter the ride building and go through a series of scenes featuring animatronic dinosaurs, cavemen and other prehistoric creatures. Riders are also sprayed with water at various points throughout the ride as well as being subjected to strobe lighting effects in some areas of the attraction.

Trivia:
Gogs! The Ride was originally called "Gogwana" after one episode from Series 2 but this name was changed before opening due to copyright issues with S4C (the Welsh television channel that originally broadcast the Gogs! series).