Meeting fellow BGWFans: 100,000 Pumpkins
It's the anticipation that gets you. Whereas some theme park experiences get you with steep drops, eerie music, or buckets of glitter, the BGWFans Meetup Experience has surprises, thrills, and free bottles of water lurking at every turn. There is no escape.
The sound of my heart pounding still echoes in my ears as I remember slowly, cautiously, hopefully approaching the group by Open Casket. The fear of wondering if you will be liked is quite frankly enough to drive a man mad. The anticipation is certainly the most terrifying part, but the experience itself certainly has its thrills as well.
Between sneaking evil-like through the bowels of DarKastle, to the shock of being handed waters from a friendly member, to the thrills of coaster rides, to the joyous music of shrubbery complaints, everything was magical and mystical all at once. There was even a stint of hiding within a dark corner of Grogan's Pub, where mysterious new faces appeared out of seemingly nowhere, time after time. I won't even mention when Alpenghost stopped by for a bit... may not be suitable for young children.
That's not to mention the nerve-racking guarding of Zachary, standing guard and assisting him in his unruly 2015 coaster photo-taking. Nor does it begin to describe the near-vomit inducing Turkish Delights rides. Nor the Gavin/duckling jailbreak. Nor the fear of seeing what has happened to Festa lately.
Was it fun? Absolutely! But certainly worthy of more than five pumpkins... maybe six, maybe seven... but 100,000 seems about accurate. Fun, scary, and thrilling, I highly recommend annoying your local Zachary on Facebook until he feels forced to let you meet up. You'll be glad you did.
Overall experience: 10/10
Special Comment: Experience is not for the faint of heart. A certain Gavin was once heard screaming hysterically in the middle of the experience.
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