The Crystal Maze on TV was all about people being shut in rooms and trying to solve fiendish puzzles with shouts of help and advice from their team mates before being locked in there 'for ever' if they failed to escape with the 'crystal'.
Well - meet the 'zombie apocalypse' version in Wales.
Based on the hit 90s Channel 4 TV show of the same name, Cyberdrome Crystal Maze attractions across the UK pitted teams against challenges as they progressed through zones including Aztec, Future, Medieval and Industrial Zones, mirroring those faced by contestants on the show. Canaston Bridge was the last of the Cyberdrome Crystal Maze sites to close its doors and has since fallen into disrepair.
Now, new images have revealed the neglected and rotten state of the once-popular Welsh tourist attraction that resembles something you might see in a zombie movie.
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Creepy tombstones, Aztec skulls, and silent dark corridors are all that remain of the Canaston Bridge attraction in Pembrokeshire, which has been deserted since it closed its doors in 2010. The site is now a shadow of its former self, frozen in time from the day the final visitors crossed the threshold, but slowly deteriorating.
The Crystal Maze section of the attraction while it was open was followed a year later by the bowling alley, but the business survived for just 15 years.
In parts of the building, it is as if the visitors who flocked there every year only left yesterday. But in other areas there are props covered in cobwebs and broken and smashed arcade machines littering floors covered in stained and rotting carpets.
The lanes of the bowling alley remain and many of the original machines and props are still there including gravestones, statues, and medieval houses.
Unlike in the TV show, originally hosted by Richard O'Brien, teams at the Crystal Maze attraction could not be "locked-in" if they failed tasks in the computerised game but would lose crystals from their score instead.
The final room contained a replica of the crystal dome from the TV series and teams would hit a series of lights on the inside of the dome for points, rather than jumping to grab tokens or frantically gathering them from the floor like in the TV show which was reprised with new host Richard Ayoade in 2017.
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It is not clear what the future holds for the Canaston Bowl, home of the old Crystal Maze attraction, but for now the halls that were once filled with the sound of visitors enjoying themselves and the toppling of bowling pins remain silent and forgotten.
