Uploaded September 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This interactive dark ride was designed and built by Sally Dark Rides for Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana.
The lively, custom-designed family dark ride is set in the Thanksgiving area of Holiday World. This is the location of Autumn Falls, a make-believe town where autumn colors glow all year ’round, and where, in Brigadoon-like fashion, visitors can step back in time and participate in an event that happened over two-hundred years ago when Farmer Van Snoodle’s flock of turkeys disappeared right before Thanksgiving.
Each ride vehicle is equipped with digital scoring consoles to track riders’ scores as they zap the ninety targets located throughout the ride, and turkeys pop up at the sound of the turkey callers. Gobbler Getaway is designed with appeal for all ages: Fun, adventure, and fast paced custom music, along with all those silly turkeys, leave everyone from kindergartners to grandparents with smiles on their faces. Aunt Abigail explains that everyone gets a turkey caller to help round up the missing turkeys, which are hiding everywhere: popping up in the barn, in the cornfields, the hayloft, the stable…even from the well and laundry hanging on a clothesline. Each time a target is hit, a turkey reacts with something silly to say or do and guests watch their scores add up on the in-car scoring console. After the runaway turkeys have been rounded up and brought home, Farmer Van Snoodle doesn’t have the heart to serve one up for dinner. Instead, he proudly unveils PIZZA! And his feathered friends celebrate with a Broadway style musical show.
This interactive dark ride was designed and built by Sally Dark Rides for Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana.
The lively, custom-designed family dark ride is set in the Thanksgiving area of Holiday World. This is the location of Autumn Falls, a make-believe town where autumn colors glow all year ’round, and where, in Brigadoon-like fashion, visitors can step back in time and participate in an event that happened over two-hundred years ago when Farmer Van Snoodle’s flock of turkeys disappeared right before Thanksgiving.
Each ride vehicle is equipped with digital scoring consoles to track riders’ scores as they zap the ninety targets located throughout the ride, and turkeys pop up at the sound of the turkey callers. Gobbler Getaway is designed with appeal for all ages: Fun, adventure, and fast paced custom music, along with all those silly turkeys, leave everyone from kindergartners to grandparents with smiles on their faces. Aunt Abigail explains that everyone gets a turkey caller to help round up the missing turkeys, which are hiding everywhere: popping up in the barn, in the cornfields, the hayloft, the stable…even from the well and laundry hanging on a clothesline. Each time a target is hit, a turkey reacts with something silly to say or do and guests watch their scores add up on the in-car scoring console. After the runaway turkeys have been rounded up and brought home, Farmer Van Snoodle doesn’t have the heart to serve one up for dinner. Instead, he proudly unveils PIZZA! And his feathered friends celebrate with a Broadway style musical show.
