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The lift hill was completed at the beginning of April. By the beginning of March, support columns for the outside portion of the ride were installed.
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By the end of February, erection of the framing for the 3D screens began. A month later, installation of the track began inside the mountain. The first pieces of track and other parts arrived at the park from Germany in mid-January 2014. During the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) Attractions Expo 2013, the characters of the ride were revealed during president and CEO of Cedar Fair Matt Ouimet's keynote address. Wonderland officially announced Wonder Mountain's Guardian-a ten million dollar attraction-on August 30, 2013, on Breakfast Television, a morning news program for the Toronto area. On August 8, Cedar Fair confirmed an interactive dark ride would be built at one of the company's parks. Speculation that Canada's Wonderland would build a new attraction for the 2014 season began at the end of July 2013 when maintenance work on the western side of Wonder Mountain was discovered. Several companies were contacted to design the audio-visual portion of the future ride park management chose Triotech to do so. In 2011, as technology improved and the costs decreased, the park started planning a second interactive dark ride. The technology available at the time meant the cost of building a more advanced dark ride was too expensive for a regional amusement park. About four years later, park management began discussing the addition of a new attraction inside Wonder Mountain. It was designed by Sally Corporation and relies entirely on physical sets and theming rather than projected animations, and uses basic, moving props. Ĭanada's Wonderland's first interactive dark ride was Scooby-Doo's Haunted Mansion (renamed Boo Blasters on Boo Hill after Cedar Fair's purchase of the park), which opened in 2000. Guardian was inspired by the dragon in Thunder Run-another roller coaster located in the mountain area of the park-and Starlight Spectacular-a nightly light-and-sound show focused on Wonder Mountain. Delays during construction delayed the ride's opening until three weeks after the 2014 season began.
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During the park's Halloween Haunt event in October, the animations are replaced with zombie-themed effects. Triotech designed the ride's interactive 3D animations, which are accompanied by other special effects such as wind, adding the fourth dimension. The ride also features one of the largest drop tracks in the world reaching a height of 9.1 metres (30 ft). The steel track was manufactured by Art Engineering it is approximately 304.8 metres (1,000 ft) long and has a maximum height of about 18.3 metres (60 ft). Technology and budget limitations at the time delayed the project's planning and design stages until 2011. Park management first proposed a dark ride located inside Wonder Mountain around 2004. Wonder Mountain's Guardian (also known as Guardian or WMG during Halloween Haunt known as Zombies 4D) is a 4D, interactive dark ride roller coaster at the Canada's Wonderland amusement park located in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. Pictures of Wonder Mountain's Guardian at RCDB