DONKEY'S SHERRY at Shima Spain Village / Park España in Osaka 1997
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- In 1997 I took a research trip to Parque España / Shima Spain Village, a Spanish-themed amusement park in Osaka, Japan. It contained the single worst/best dark ride I've ever seen in my life, "Donkey's Sherry". I present to you now an extremely rare (and possibly the only) video* of this now-closed ride. Keep in mind that the source video was only SVHS quality, and it's VERY dark; be sure to watch it on a bright monitor, and even then you may only be able to make out bits and pieces.
Basically, the ride is a "donkey-ized" ripoff of the "Pirates of the Carribean" -- but it's a "dry" ride where you ride in sherry barrels on a motorized track instead of boats. The ride opens on the grounds of a Spanish vineyard, where an anthropomorphic donkey crew in authentic Spanish costume is busy making sherry.
Drinking some of their libation, the donkeys get drunk and party and throw up. Then there's a brief spooky interlude suggesting the inquisition, with axe-wielding donkeys, ghosts and bats (which in turn rips off "Haunted Mansion" with some pepper's ghost effects). Suddenly the drunken donkeys begin to terrorize, pillage and burn the village, all the while dressed as conquistadors.
Keep an eye out for the incredible deus-ex-donkey denouement: an 18-foot-tall donkey conquistador warrior with laser beams for eyes! Just after that, there's a trippy sequence involving over-sized donkey-head wine bottle stoppers and walls of sherry barrels bursting at the seams, overflowing with wine.
At the end, a boat filled with drunken donkey musicians sails into the nighttime horizon, singing and dancing with inebriated glee. As the sun rises, riders return to the vineyard, and a lone farm donkey stands on all fours (sans anthropomorphic clothing) just outside the main house -- making it seem as though the entire thing was all a booze-induced donkey dream.
Sadly, the attraction closed in late 2003, and the building has been repurposed as numerous other offerings. Currently, it's a ride based on the Nutcracker: • Illumination Ride "The...
*UPDATE 2/29/21: Another video has been found! And it's slightly better quality, probably recorded on DV or Hi8? • 志摩スペイン村 ドンキーズシェリー 2002年頃
Who knew this was the secret spin-off of the Shrek franchise...
NOT ME!
This is nightmare fuel. Very interesting!
booze, fire and don-quistadors? this ride looks nuts, but in a really fun way
You win today's internet for "Don-Quistador"
As funny as the Don quistadors word is, I feel the need to point that the conquistadors uniform was worn by Spain's army in general
わー懐かしい 大好きでした
ありがとうございます!
I LOOOVVVVEEEE THIS VIDEO PLEASE DON'T LET IT DIE?!😭🥺😍🥰🤩👍
Greetings! May I use this footage in a video I'm making about bizarre dark rides? I will give your channel full credit.
Sure! :)
This ride looks really cool honestly, for a dark ride, when compared to some others in Japan, the amount of moving figures in this is impressive.
I argee
Do you have any other janky dark rides to reccomend?
Fascinating video. Was at this park myself, but a few years after this had closed sadly. Thanks for sharing. Trying to understand the ride plot though. Obviously, a drunk party takes a dark turn. But whats deal with donkeys at end on boat or the realistic one after.
If I were to guess (and it's only a guess,) I'd speculate that it was something like "Once upon a time animals (or donkeys) could speak and act like humans, but they screwed up and went to hell (or the underworld) as punishment. Then they were given another chance, but this time, no human-like abilities.
@@jenniferbourne1053 Alas it’s even weirder than that. I detailed the plot in the video intro comment text below it ;)
UPDATE 2/19/21: another video has been found, and it's better quality! ua-cam.com/video/STmY9aRZRZY/v-deo.html
this ride looks fun! 😂
It's now a Nutcracker ride. I wish this park collaborated with an XBox franchise.
This park is in Mie, not in Osaka. I miss the ride. I loved it when I was a kid!
Thank you for the correction! This trip was so long ago, I didn’t remember :)
@@DaveCobbIdeaguyThank you for the video! The ride had been demolished because of the aging degradation. I was looking for such kinds of videos!
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