Tourists To Take "The Ride" Of Their Lives?

This isn't your grandmother's tour bus! A new interactive theatrical bus tour has arrived; it's officially hitting the streets next month, but it's being unveiled for preview this Thursday. It's called "The Ride" and it's kind of like the Michael Bay of city tourism.

According to their website, "The Ride takes everything that makes New York, New York and kicks it into overdrive. Riders will board The Ride, a super-sized, technologically amped up vehicle that travels the streets of New York." There are forty video screens incorporated into the bus, as well as 3,000 LED lights, and a sound system that will be simulating sounds of... the city that you are actually in and can probably hear just fine! They list off some specifics of what the system will be used for, notably recreating the sounds of the rumbling subway and thumping nightclubs.

Improv actors will also be on hand during the 75-minute long tour, and according to Crain's, "even local bystanders will be worked into the experience.” What do you think they should include in the tour to give passengers the real NYC experience?

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on August 9, 2010 2:27 PM

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Barbj8

Their website is very lame.

Mark

Officially the stupidest thing ever.

robingee

Why ride a bus to simulate NY? Just take the real subway, eat a real hot dog, walk down a real street?

Reflect

Dont forget old people who get on mass transit that forget to take there roaches off

before they leave the house...

Wza

The bus should have the smell and speed of a cab.

Kelles

Can the actors shoot at the riders w/paintballs? Will the sound system play sirens, gunfire and loud music?

hellx

Hilarious! The windows are only on the left side of the bus!

Goodbye United Nations building on First Avenue and everything (the Library, Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building, and the Met) on the right hand side of Fifth Avenue.

What other famous NYC sights will tourists on "The Ride" miss?

dev

for a real new york experience, perhaps they can have a domincan stab one of the passengers in the back of the head

John L

They should have a racist like you to talk about the city's ethnic history.

FinalShaft

hehehehe so sick...but funny.

FinalShaft

I'm sure the price to get on the bus will provide the real NYC experience.

otta

Hmm, if they're going to recreate a real subway experience, I'd throw in a rat family or two, some proselytizing, maybe some puke, too. Welcome to NYC!

Kojak

Don't forget installing a 'Smells of the Subway' odorizer on each bus with various smells ranging from the puke from a drunk teenager from the rancid feces of a homeless man.