Meet Rob Green, a saxophonist, audio engineer, event producer, and puppeteer who turned his Jeep Wrangler into a Hogwarts Express Magic Art Car, complete with a 40-minute immersive ride called “Escape the Forbidden Forest.”
“I want my guests to experience an emotional roller-coaster ride of adventure that transports them out of wherever they are.”“I’m such a silly weirdo. If readers are wondering if I’ve lost my mind, you bet ya!”
I’d gone to the storage facility expecting just to see Green’s art car, after having to miss a ride he held earlier this month in the Pine Barrens. But instead, much to my surprise, I was treated to his full homespun amusement park ride experience with eight of his friends.“When you board the art car, you have no idea what’s about to hit you and that’s what I love,” he said.
“It rolled into my head fully formed. I said ‘Oh my God, how fun would it be to have the Hogwarts Express and take witches and wizards to Hogwarts?’” he said. “I designed it to be something that I would be unable to contain myself if I saw it go by.”to create his ride, which is currently in its fourth iteration. While he has panels and a fake smoke stack he can affix to the Jeep and trailer to make it look more like a train, his art car is far more experiential than visual.
As the video of the train departing the station begins, Green pumps the Jeep’s gas pedal in time with the sound of the chugging locomotive, creating the feeling of being on a real train. And when a giant ogre is about to smash the train to pieces as it travels through the Forbidden Forest, he quickly accelerates the car to escape its clutches, sending riders flying unexpectedly backward.
“Nothing else matters but the here and now when you’re on that ride,” Green said. “I try to deliver a full immersion experience, but the thing that holds it all together, the glue, is your imagination.”
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