Dickens World Victorian London, and ended with a simulated drop from a sewer into the Thames River. Though featuring Magwitch, the ride did not follow the plot of "Great Expectations". Instead, it emphasised the criminal elements of Dickens' novel, featuring a jail filled with criminal characters from several of the writer's books. The ride closed in 2013. The 4D film in Peggotty's Boathouse tells the story of Dickens, featuring an inflatable Catherine Dickens, a winking Nellie Ternan, and a spray of water in the face during the Dickens's trip to America. The whole is framed with a magic lantern theme. The attraction
Abel Magwitch is surprised by Magwitch: "[a] fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin." Magwitch tricks the seven-year-old boy into believing that he has an accomplice who is