Deadline
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RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
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Are you craving brains this morning? I have huffed a lot of HOS fog gas this season and I am still OK...I think.
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Are you craving brains this morning? I have huffed a lot of HOS fog gas this season and I am still OK...I think.
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
So I don't know if this is new or not, but there's now a poster somewhere near the security camera room for "Gasparich Hot Dogs." I didn't get a picture, but there was certainly a good chuckle to be had.
In other news, this seems to be another failure year for Dead Line. How one of the park's best designed houses ever can continually perform so badly, I have no idea.
So I don't know if this is new or not, but there's now a poster somewhere near the security camera room for "Gasparich Hot Dogs." I didn't get a picture, but there was certainly a good chuckle to be had.
In other news, this seems to be another failure year for Dead Line. How one of the park's best designed houses ever can continually perform so badly, I have no idea.
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
My friends and I all ranked it in the bottom two this year (with 13). Part of this may be the QQs, as I said in the other thread, but it really lacked any tension this year, as well. It tells a story, but I didn't find myself so much scared as vaguely curious.
My *impression* of both Deadline and 13 was that they both made two major mistakes:
1. Not enough staff; and
2. Too many "intermission" rooms.
I WANT to be on my guard against constant scares and startles. I should not be able to wander from room to room just admiring the scenery.
Including un-scary rooms (like toilets and empty hallways) just gives me a chance to relax further. The higher the tension, the better the overall experience, in my opinion.
Zachary said:
My friends and I all ranked it in the bottom two this year (with 13). Part of this may be the QQs, as I said in the other thread, but it really lacked any tension this year, as well. It tells a story, but I didn't find myself so much scared as vaguely curious.
My *impression* of both Deadline and 13 was that they both made two major mistakes:
1. Not enough staff; and
2. Too many "intermission" rooms.
I WANT to be on my guard against constant scares and startles. I should not be able to wander from room to room just admiring the scenery.
Including un-scary rooms (like toilets and empty hallways) just gives me a chance to relax further. The higher the tension, the better the overall experience, in my opinion.
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
Sadly, a lot of those "unscary rooms" actually have very, very good hiding places and, in the house's first year, provided some fantastic scares. The mop room and the bathroom scene both have absolutely golden hiding places that I have yet to see used a single time this year. Very, very disappointing. I want to love the house just on the basis of set design and story alone, but when it performs this badly, I simply can't justify praising the thing. So much wasted potential.
Nic said:
Sadly, a lot of those "unscary rooms" actually have very, very good hiding places and, in the house's first year, provided some fantastic scares. The mop room and the bathroom scene both have absolutely golden hiding places that I have yet to see used a single time this year. Very, very disappointing. I want to love the house just on the basis of set design and story alone, but when it performs this badly, I simply can't justify praising the thing. So much wasted potential.
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
Last year they had this one really wild chic-zombie in the subway car who was just all over everyone. I miss her.
Not to mention the webcam. My letter to customer service...
"Good afternoon,
Can you please tell me whether or not there will be any live webcams in the haunted houses this year for Howl-O-Scream? Last year they were in DeadLine and Root of All Evil. If so, what are the links to them on the website?"
The canned response...
"No webcams planned for Howl O Scream."
Last year they had this one really wild chic-zombie in the subway car who was just all over everyone. I miss her.
Not to mention the webcam. My letter to customer service...
"Good afternoon,
Can you please tell me whether or not there will be any live webcams in the haunted houses this year for Howl-O-Scream? Last year they were in DeadLine and Root of All Evil. If so, what are the links to them on the website?"
The canned response...
"No webcams planned for Howl O Scream."
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
I feel this blueprint is kind of misleading to some readers. I originally was searching through the forums and I thought this was the layout for Deadline, then I tried to match it up to the actual maze and when I went back to re-read I see this is the layout for Curse of Pompeii. I know it is similar to Deadline, but like with the WIcked Woods: Ripper Row layout, it should probably go under its respective house forum to help no confuse people.
CastleOSullivan said:
I feel this blueprint is kind of misleading to some readers. I originally was searching through the forums and I thought this was the layout for Deadline, then I tried to match it up to the actual maze and when I went back to re-read I see this is the layout for Curse of Pompeii. I know it is similar to Deadline, but like with the WIcked Woods: Ripper Row layout, it should probably go under its respective house forum to help no confuse people.
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
Does anyone have any information about the creative process of this house? For example:What contractors did the park use? How much help to the park get from Tampa? One thing I've always wondered, is if Busch Gardens Williamsburg uses a complex venue flow book like Tampa. Other than Phil Raybourn, who were the primary set designers?
Does anyone have any information about the creative process of this house? For example:What contractors did the park use? How much help to the park get from Tampa? One thing I've always wondered, is if Busch Gardens Williamsburg uses a complex venue flow book like Tampa. Other than Phil Raybourn, who were the primary set designers?
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
It was built and designed by oak island (same company that did fear fair and 13)
It was built and designed by oak island (same company that did fear fair and 13)
CastleOSullivan said:
It was built and designed by oak island (same company that did fear fair and 13)
CastleOSullivan said:
It was built and designed by oak island (same company that did fear fair and 13)
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
Oak Island was pretty much all I knew about it. When I look at Blood Asylum in Tampa, I find many similarities, but I thought they don't work with Oak Island anymore in Tampa.
Oak Island was pretty much all I knew about it. When I look at Blood Asylum in Tampa, I find many similarities, but I thought they don't work with Oak Island anymore in Tampa.
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
Actually, BGT uses Oak Island Attractions to basically set up and run Christmas Town. In fact, OIA sent some of their employees from BGW's Christmas Town down to Tampa to get their Christmas Town on track for their first year.
Actually, BGT uses Oak Island Attractions to basically set up and run Christmas Town. In fact, OIA sent some of their employees from BGW's Christmas Town down to Tampa to get their Christmas Town on track for their first year.
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
Yes. You're correct. I should have said for Howl-O-Scream. BGW still uses OIA for both Chrismas Town and Howl-O-Scream. Anyway, I would love to continue this conversation in one of the Tampa threads. If anyone has any more info my PM box is always open.
Party Rocker said:
Yes. You're correct. I should have said for Howl-O-Scream. BGW still uses OIA for both Chrismas Town and Howl-O-Scream. Anyway, I would love to continue this conversation in one of the Tampa threads. If anyone has any more info my PM box is always open.
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
^Pic #2 - baby hanging station. lol
Bathroom looks pretty accurate too.
^Pic #2 - baby hanging station. lol
Bathroom looks pretty accurate too.
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
Just got back from Pompeii. The "metro" there is nothing like that. haha. It's a series of train lines that run around Vesuvius. It's called Circumvesuviana. It'd be pretty neat if they could incorporate some cool "authentic" information like that into the houses.
Also if you ever go to Italy, beware, the real trains around Naples are much scarier than the one in this maze. :exclamation:
Just got back from Pompeii. The "metro" there is nothing like that. haha. It's a series of train lines that run around Vesuvius. It's called Circumvesuviana. It'd be pretty neat if they could incorporate some cool "authentic" information like that into the houses.
Also if you ever go to Italy, beware, the real trains around Naples are much scarier than the one in this maze. :exclamation:
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
This is supposed to be the construction site where the are finishing a band new line. In this maze, you are mostly running around the site of the fictional line, Linea Rosso (Red Line). Finally, you wind up meandering into the "even more dangerous" Linea Morte (Deadline).
I do agree though, that A few more references to the real train lines in Italy would be cool, but that was not the goal in designing that maze. Italian trains would be too much of a foreign concept to people. They do, however, have some signs written in Italian, but they chose the style that is very well-known, yet still contemporary to horror fans.
This is supposed to be the construction site where the are finishing a band new line. In this maze, you are mostly running around the site of the fictional line, Linea Rosso (Red Line). Finally, you wind up meandering into the "even more dangerous" Linea Morte (Deadline).
I do agree though, that A few more references to the real train lines in Italy would be cool, but that was not the goal in designing that maze. Italian trains would be too much of a foreign concept to people. They do, however, have some signs written in Italian, but they chose the style that is very well-known, yet still contemporary to horror fans.
RE: Dead Line (2011 to Present)
My travels in Italy and their train system left me quite intimidated. One of my traveling companions got pocketed a camera while boarding the subway. Definitely an experience.
My travels in Italy and their train system left me quite intimidated. One of my traveling companions got pocketed a camera while boarding the subway. Definitely an experience.