For those interested, here is the mask used in the preshow for FrostBite. It costs $750!
Frostbite
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RollyCoaster said:
Night Groot King. Guardians of the Game of Thrones!
I don't even know what you guys are talking about the story but I liked the large scale of it, totally different. However someone said the actors need to grow into it, it would help if they were 12 feet tall to match.
I think the trailer is okay, but I think BGW's scare cams with the same angle throughout have an adverse effect on me. Tampa has been slacking with their scare cams, but unlike BGT, I don't think any of Williamsburg's scare cams have made me more eager to experience a haunted house.
This is an awesome video that the park posted on Facebook about FrostBite. It's interesting to see a visual reference like this, because I do wonder how they came up with 300 feet of ramps in the maze. Most of it is probably the part covering the loading and unloading platforms, but ramps have to be very gradual to meet ADA standards.
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I went through last night around 9:40 after waiting about an hour and it was amazing. it was hands down my favorite maze of the night and i will definitely be going next weekend to do it again. The strobe effect was amazing as well.
In case anybody wondered, the animation in the armor room was recycled from this proof of concept for Curse of DarKastle's stereoscopic 3D. Given that Busch Gardens was able to do so much with the DarKastle footage in FrostBite, I wonder about their current ownership status of the footage now that Falcon's Creative is licensing the film to anyone.
Anyway, it's the same animation. The only difference is that they use the final (skeleton) stage of the model below and it floats around for a while. I really love the pieces of DarKastle's history in FrostBite, and I am eager to see what is left from CoDK this season.
Anyway, it's the same animation. The only difference is that they use the final (skeleton) stage of the model below and it floats around for a while. I really love the pieces of DarKastle's history in FrostBite, and I am eager to see what is left from CoDK this season.
I attended Howl-O-Scream last year for the first time and I immediately recognized this animatronic as the same one that is at the end of Blood on the Bayou at Kings Dominion. It felt so out of place to me in this maze in my opinion (I’ve always thought KD’s Halloween event quality is better, but I’m definitely a little biased). Ironic how both of the new 2017 mazes at both Virginia parks had this same prop.
Soooooooooo awful last night. The stacking was the absolute worse we were backed up before we even entered "the maze". There were huge parts with blue plywood just thrown up, long sections of black plywood with frames, the snow king guy on a throne (maybe they'll re-use it for Santa?) and that horrible fake "snow" (looked pretty until you tried to breathe). By far the worst house of the night.
Don't have time for a full review, but I want to say that it's disgraceful that Frostbite in its current state is even a product that BGW is selling to its guests. Normally I would launch into a tirade about the thematic inconsistency between the seemingly unrelated "medieval castle" and "Arctic tundra" themes of the maze, but those themes are so poorly executed that it's not even worth anyone's time, and the "maze," if you can even call it that, has far bigger problems. This is the trashiest, most haphazardly constructed, amateur maze I have ever seen in a theme park. The blank plywood walls, plastic siding, huge empty rooms of seemingly nothing but black sheets, are only the beginning of the cheapness that make up this maze.
I hesitate to even review Frostbite as a "maze" because in the past my negative reviews of mazes have involved critiques to the theme or storytelling; the outright laziness of a maze has never dropped my criteria so low as to actually question the existence of the house, but Frostbite has done it. Frostbite amounts to little more than tiny square rooms of white painted plywood, plastic rocks, and mindless stretches through the bowels of DarKastle through what looks like convention-hall curtains. There are scenes literally consisting of nothing but duct-taped plastic, or of a dinosaur skull glued to the floor, or of black fabric, or my personal favorite, the finale which has the old Enchanted Laboratory gargoyles standing behind black-painted traffic barriers. And that's not to mention that several scare actors had literally no makeup whatsoever and were almost indistinguishable from the guests.
It's not that the story was weak, or the sets weren't conducive to scares, or that the maze was incohesive (all of which happen to be true). It's that the park didn't even try. Frostbite isn't "low quality," it's "no quality." I would expect middle schoolers to construct a less minimalist maze. To think of how elaborate HOS's mazes in the reign of Masquerage or even Bitten were, or to even consider the immersive detail of Haunt's mazes not an hour away, makes the "barely acceptable for a local pumpkin patch haunted house" appearance of Frostbite appalling. It's embarassing that the amount of fucks given by HOS and by BGW have fallen so low that this is the experience they find acceptable for guests to have. The level of unprofessionalism and laziness in this maze astounds me.
I hesitate to even review Frostbite as a "maze" because in the past my negative reviews of mazes have involved critiques to the theme or storytelling; the outright laziness of a maze has never dropped my criteria so low as to actually question the existence of the house, but Frostbite has done it. Frostbite amounts to little more than tiny square rooms of white painted plywood, plastic rocks, and mindless stretches through the bowels of DarKastle through what looks like convention-hall curtains. There are scenes literally consisting of nothing but duct-taped plastic, or of a dinosaur skull glued to the floor, or of black fabric, or my personal favorite, the finale which has the old Enchanted Laboratory gargoyles standing behind black-painted traffic barriers. And that's not to mention that several scare actors had literally no makeup whatsoever and were almost indistinguishable from the guests.
It's not that the story was weak, or the sets weren't conducive to scares, or that the maze was incohesive (all of which happen to be true). It's that the park didn't even try. Frostbite isn't "low quality," it's "no quality." I would expect middle schoolers to construct a less minimalist maze. To think of how elaborate HOS's mazes in the reign of Masquerage or even Bitten were, or to even consider the immersive detail of Haunt's mazes not an hour away, makes the "barely acceptable for a local pumpkin patch haunted house" appearance of Frostbite appalling. It's embarassing that the amount of fucks given by HOS and by BGW have fallen so low that this is the experience they find acceptable for guests to have. The level of unprofessionalism and laziness in this maze astounds me.
I imagine it’s because last year they used a lot of the scenery from DarKastle to their advantage. Since they gutted it a while ago they don’t have that to play off of anymore
Is it possible that because of mandatory shut downs they simply have not had time to finish paint and dress?
Finished or not, since Busch willfully presented Frostbite in its current state to the general public Sunday with no indication that it is still a work in progress, I think it is fair to judge the maze that guests saw this past weekend as the finished product.
While I do not condone their decision to open HOS before it was ready; I am not willing to judge anything, until I have seen the actual final product.
If on Friday it is still nothing more than "A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE," I will feel free to pillory it with abandon, however.
If on Friday it is still nothing more than "A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE," I will feel free to pillory it with abandon, however.
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