Duel Behind the Scenes Effect

Duel

Behind The Scenes.

Here is a chance to look behind the scenes of Duel The Haunted House Strikes Back!

'Pre -pare to Duel'


External View looking up to the tower	Duel Sign	Front door and entrance to the Duel.

The main entrance hall showing a portrait	The main entrance hall showing another portrait, below this portrait is the Vortex machine that emits the potent Musty aroma	Another view of the main entrance

Used as a store room. This is the room behind the door in the corridor that links the gallery and the drawing room. The board on the wall covers the window that looks out onto the graveyard.	The remains of an old table that once stood stately in the drawing room of the queue area, this table used to be covered by a lacy table cloth with a blue and white vase on the top. Note the large perspex panel in the corner, from the fireplace.	This corrugated metal stud wall separates the queue area and the hidden room originally on the other side of the wall hung the portrait with the moving eyes; the block work behind the girder is the side of the chimney stack, the fireplace in the queue area of the drawing room.

Another item of furniture that has been removed due to vandalism. This small plant stand used to be near the fireplace when used, I'm not sure what the white plastic weight was used for but this and other remnants of the haunted house are hidden away in this mystery room.	Video wall boxes, these must have been here since the 2003 changeover as they refer to the screens used to display the instructions video in the queue area.	Hidden in the corner of the room is part of a stone balustrade; the only place I know where this is used is in the ghoulish garden area near the statue of death.

Drawing room fireplace	A stuffed animal on the firesurround	The Fire showing the end credits.

Drawing room/ Dolls house Internal Queue area facing the ride station door.	Ride station with vacuum cleaner	Ride Station

Ride station	Ride station	The original entry for disabled riders

Ride station exit from control tower	Portrait in ride station from control room	Chandelier in ride station taken from control room

Control Panel and camera monitors	Safety announcements control Track layout monitor	Track layout monitor. This monitor shows the position of the cars as they move around the track. It also highlights any errors.

Control Panel showing track lay out and spacing between cars.	Control Panel switches	Close circuit TV monitor, you are being watched!

CCTV monitors	The Laser disc player that works the Emily Alton Effect	The monitors used for the Laser disc effects Emily Alton And Fire.

The monitor showing a rare image of Sir Henry Alton.	Track layout	Effects plan layout

Workshop the cars are constantly stripped down and rebuilt to make sure that they are running smoothly	Workshop the cars are constantly stripped down and rebuilt to make sure that they are running smoothly	Car in for service

Large hinge pin between wheels lifts the safety bars	Guide wheel under car follows the lay out of the track	Car Control System. Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall

Car in for service notice the white wheel that is used to raise the lap bars. Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall	I think this is the sound system for the haunted house Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall	Main computer and electrical system

Main computer and electrical system	Main computer and electrical system	Main computer and electrical system

Poltergeist room looking towards workshop.	The poltergeist room, here the walls creak and the lightning flashes	The screaming bust this was another new addition when the haunted house changed over to Duel. Originally there was a different bust that was inanimate.SS.

This is the mechanism that works the screaming bust.	This is a room used by staff to for their breaks. It is situated behind the screaming bust. If you ever ride and there is no sound effect on the screaming bust it means someone is having a break. The staff tend to turn off the sound as it is too loud.	Another photo of the green room area behind the screaming bust. Only accessible from the outside.

In the green room are some of the old props, this picture once hung in the drawing room before being vandalised.	Many of you who have rode the Haunted house will remember the tea service, unfortunately removed again due to vandalism.	Ornate mirror that is usually missed because of its position in the ride

Chandelier in the haunted Dining Room	Facing towards the demons Ornate cornice with skull	Dinning table with moving chairs

These candelabras move spookily on the table	Dinning room chandelier with mirror and cobwebs	Ornate marble effect flooring in the dinning room

Art work that is usually missed includes this raftered plasterwork	Another moving chair in front of mirror	Close up of chair

The demon in his resting state behind the large mirrored wall	A sinister shot of the second demon at rest awaiting to pounce on unsuspecting riders	Gothic lions head on the torches that enshrine Trommels tunnel

Gothic arches that lead to Trommels tunnel	Eerily the car awaits another day	Old fashioned style ghost train effect using florescent paint on black board.

Fire Exit to the side of Trommels tunnel	The large skull edifice of Trommels tunnel another old ghost train effect used superbly in the house	Stone wall effect leading into the tunnel

Behind the scenes look at Trommels Tunnel. Trommel is a Dutch word for Drum.	Trommels tunnel from the other side. Although named Trommels tunnel the actual haunted house name was the Tunnel of Doom.	The exit of Trommels tunnel

Old monitors from the ride station, awaiting disposal.	Old audio equipment awaiting disposal	Looking back through Trommels tunnel.

There are two sections of bats in the Haunted House.	Set 1 spin around and capture black light to great effect.	The second set of bats rotate over and over.

This section of track leads into the window zombies. Also where the Giant was situated.	Large window shot showing cleaned glass to allow the zombies to look through.	Looking back at the zombie window again this is where the giant looked through in the old haunted house.

Zombie attack, again originally part of the giant effect. This was where his fingers would crash through the windows.	This frame once housed one of the portraits in the ride station entrance . Sadly now used as a prop in the house	Note the markings to show where this portrait would have been hung during the construction of the haunted house.

It was here that you could hear the 'Are you scared of spiders'? sound effect with a small shadow of a spider seen on the wall behind	The remains of the giant spider that originally dropped down on the car as you entered underneath	Another shot of the giant spider.

Close up of a smaller spider	Zombie in the Hall of Spiders	Zombie in the Hall of Spiders

Zombie in the Hall of Spiders Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall	Close up of the LED screwed to his chest Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall	Giant Spider in the Hall of Spiders Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall

Electric Bill await his redundant job to plunge the house into darkness	Electric Bill Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall	The remains of the old skeleton effect above the track in the skeleton corridor a skeleton would drop forward this is also the place where originally the ghost that haunted this corridor would fly to.

The skeleton Corridor with very little happening in it now	The Skeleton bed effect now lies in a state of disrepair	The Skeleton in the bed has now lost his skull

This effect used to illuminate as the car rode past and the skeleton would rise from his bed.	Another shot of the skeleton in the bed.	Vampire/Zombie if you notice to her left is the cross that she now holds. Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall

Vampire/zombie women, originally the place for skeleton bomb.	Close up of Female Vampire/Zombie	Above this window used to flicker to draw your attension to another skeleton scene

Behind the scenes look at the abandoned window	Behind the scenes secret room in the skeleton corridor. Inspection chamber for the skull light fittings.	These are the remains of the skull light fittings unfortunately the skull globes have gone.

Skeleton bathroom explosion scene	Skeleton bathroom explosion scene	An unknown effect! I have rode this ride from the start but can not remember this mannequin head. Possibly an effect that was never finished.

Close up of head.	A place very rarely seen by guest, down the middle of the ride is a passageway used to evacuate riders in an emergency	Emergency tunnel

Emergency door into ride at hall of spiders.	Screaming banshee 1	Screaming banshee 2

Screaming banshee 3	Screaming banshee 4	Tigger (named by staff at Alton Towers because of the orange and brown colours used when first installed)

Is this 666 on this keystone?	This reptile is missed due to people looking at the Monk	Eerie monk in the cloister

Behind the cloisters looking towards the Monk	Looking from behind the cloisters at a Duel Car.	Above the entrance to the Ghoulish Garden .

Rear view of Death Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall	Another rear view of Death opposite the Monk Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall	Close up of the undertaker

Undertaker.	Undertaker. Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall	A Gargoyle another piece of themeing that goes unseen

Lunatics hide out Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall	Closer shot of lunatic	Vulterous birds around the feet of death

This house within the garden has flickering windows		Death awaits thee in the garden

Skull edifice	A pillar monster waiting to turn. It is here that another vortex machine emits a ghoulish garden smell. This smell is called 'Garden Shed'.	The remains of the scale model of the haunted house that stood on high as you moved deeper into the garden

Zombie Cellar oil drums Picture Courtesy of Tom Lyall	Oli Drums	Zombie Volt

Window zombie from behind.	Behind the zombie window.	The zombie in the furnaces, note the stop switch to cut the electric.

Zombie in the furnaces taken from the front.	Coffins from the crypt.	Photo scream, This half skull half demon pops up to scare you for the photo.

The photo scream effect at rest.	The remains of the Dragons lair.	Ride exit station