Voyage To The Iron Reef Opens At Knott's Berry Farm

This is where the queue begins for Voyage To The Iron Reef

This is one of the interior walls where the queue circles around inside.

This is another wall that sits in the middle of the queue.

When you get off the ride, you can check out onride pictures along with top scores.

Here's a shot of the queue building before boarding the ride

Summary

Knott's Berry Farm on May 13, 2015 open Voyage To The Iron Reef to members of the media and season pass holders. A lot has been expected out of this attraction since it was long due for Knott's to get a proper dark ride.The queue was kept minimal but still themed to the ride.You are handed 3d glasses before getting on the ride. We thought these would be like all others that get you a bit dizzy but these were good actually. You didn't get any vertigo sensation wearing them.The cars that you ride in are very comfortable. There's no seatbelt or any type of restraint on it. It just slides open and close with plenty of room to move around inside. In front of you there's the ray gun, 4 per car and you use those to shoot down the evil metal fishes and to defeat the Kraken at the end.We weren't able to take pictures or video during the ride so I'll give you a rundown of it. When you go in, you're in a submarine and dive under the sea to begin the fight. You move past the first screen onto another one and start right off shooting at the menacing steampunk fishes that are trying to take over the boardwalk. The laser guys are quite accurate and easy to handle. You move from screen to screen to build up to the octopus fight where you shoot at its laser touting tentacles and destroy them. You can also shoot at the rest of its body and parts start to come off from it. There are really cool air jets throughout the ride to give you that 4D sensation. They are just right in terms of pressure to feel them but not be bothersome.They air jets are well synched with the action going on the screen so when the octopus jets off, you feel the wind caused from the propulsion it makes. When fighting the Kraken, you also get some really good synched air jets there. Particularly when you give chase to it, it does give you the sensation as if your car is going after it.The story is real easy to get into and you can really into the story of it shooting at all the things that come at you. There's several easter eggs hidden throughout the ride, be sure to check them out when you ride Voyage To The Iron Reef.The first 2 times we rode it, there were some issues but Knott's and Triotech were on hand to fix them right away. On our 3rd ride, everything was perfect and way better than our first 2 times. Had we only ridden it once or twice, we would have been disappointed. It is a new ride so kinks are to be expected. I give this ride 2 thumbs up and recommend you ride it when you visit Knott's. The ride is cool, the graphics are great, the overall experience is amazing. Knott's did an excellent job with this attraction and can't wait to see what other dark rides pop up in the other Cedar Fair theme parks.