The more I think about it the more I think that the theme of this ride is a disaster waiting to happen. By choosing such an extreme theme for a ride the park is essentially excluding a big chunk of it's riders if it ends up having an age restriction. The site certainly gives the impression it will! Doesn't matter whether most of them have seen it behind closed doors ... the films are given an 18 certificate for a reason, and I know that if I had teenage children I most certainly wouldn't want them watching it until they were legally old enough. And not forgetting the big chunk of people who may be old enough to ride but who don't like splatter movies!
So if it get's an age restriction how the hell do you police it? And if an *impressionable* teenager sneaks on, watches the film as a result of the theme of the ride and is seriously freaked out you can bet your life parents will blame the park. Doesn't matter that the kid shouldn't have got on in the first place it will be bad publicity!
And if they dumb it down, well how can you dumb down a Saw movie? It would be laughable!
We live in a violent world where many teenagers regard it as the norm to walk around carrying knives. Bearing that in mind is it really a wise move to theme a rollercoaster on a torture filled, gore laden, splatterfest when the same *impressionable* teenagers will be lining up in their 1000's to ride it?
I'm not a prude nor a killjoy. I just think teenagers are exposed to too much violence as it is. They are only young once, let them enjoy it for as long as possible without the grim realities of the adult world hanging over their heads! Let them grow up in their own time!
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