RE: Howl-O-Scream 2011
1. With the return of clown in Festa, I hope they bring back the effects they did with the teacups many moons ago. It was simple, but completely changed the ride.
2. Does anyone who keeps bringing up the 'complaining parents' actually have kids? Do you bring them to the park during HOS? How do they do?
Those who don't have kids, do you think less of the parents who bring their kids? Have you ever seen a parent at Guest Services complaining and what were they saying? I think you guys underestimate us parents.
I have two kids, four and one. They have gone every year they have been alive (and the years I was pregnant) and I have never once had a problem with anything in HOS where I felt complelled enough to march my way to Guest Services to complain. I obviously don't take them through the mazes, but we do go through the scarezones. Anytime I get near a scaractor while I'm pushing my stroller, they do one of two things: NOT jump out, growl, yell, etc until my stroller has passed -or- become kid friendlyish, giving my son high fives, patting my daughter on the head, waving. On the few times where a scare close to my kids can't be avoided, my son laughed at the people screaming. He thinks the bush people are hilarious. He played a game of tag with a werewolf that afterwards actually got him to distract some people coming close to his post while the werewolf jumped out from behind a trashcan and scored a huge scare. My daughter sleeps through the whole thing.
Maybe that's just my kids, I don't know. I teach my son that this is all fun and none of it is real and he gets it. The only thing scary in life is no education and a bad credit score. Vampires, werewolves, witches, all that stuff...are just joys of Halloween. But my son is PUMPED for this year and I can't wait to share it with him.
