Devised and built with Tim Hunkin.
Tim and visited Blackpool Pleasure Beach back in the 1990’s and one of stand out rides for for ingenuity was the “Haunted Swing”. It’s an illusion based on an old Victorian ride. The audience are seated on a suspended bench inside a room and it appears as though the seat swings backwards and forwards until it spins fully upside down. It then continues to keep spinning around and around. What’s actually happening is that the bench is static and it’s the room that spinning around the bench… but your brain makes you think that it’s you who are doing the spinning. It’s a great optical illusion.
Several years later we realised that it could be possible to fit the “Haunted Swing” inside a caravan and decide to try and make it. It soon became obvious that this would be treated as a fairground ride and therefore would need to pass various safety tests for it’s design and manufacture. We managed to make it and it’s still touring around the country 14 years later
