They were fairly close. Burton's Sleepy Hollow came out in 1999 though. So it's a few years later, but I'm sure they were riding on the coattails of the Sleepy Hollow craze. (if there was one. I was too young to really notice.)
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It actually lives on forever with majority of its skeleton props in Catacombs. As for the location Elmo and his friends built there own little hamlet causing Jack the Ripper to move to Festa. I still hope some day we see a return of the ripper and out of the streets in London and in his own house again but I think we may see a poe house instead.The Kid said:
I remember back a while ago Sea Dog Cemetery was a scare zone. Or so my parents told me. Of course I knew it wasn't but I still had this strange feeling it was at one point a scare zone in Banbury Cross.
When searching the interenet on Themepark insider tonight look what I found from 2003:
Also look at this about Disorted Dimensions:
When searching the interenet on Themepark insider tonight look what I found from 2003:
Look at that! After all these years I never knew that, crazy. I'm still looking so I'll see what I find.
Also look at this about Disorted Dimensions:
I guess 13 wasn't the first house to do the Fear of Height effect at BGW.
Sea Dog Cemetery was in what was previously the petting zoo area. Banbury's pirate-themed scarezone was named Piratical Purgatory. Distorted Dimension's last room was a spinning tunnel, not a fear of heights gag.
After more digging on Themepark Insider I found out about what they did to Tradewinds for HOS.
Of course they don't mention the best part, It was backwards! It was incredible there was strobes and the lights were changing color as creepy circus music played in the background. It was the little things like this that made HOS for me.
Yup. Trade Winds and Turkish Delight have both had Howl-O-Scream overlays in the past and, in Trade Winds' case, ride changes (running it backwards). Why the park still doesn't do this is beyond me.
Earlier today I found pictures of Sleepless Hollow Manor. I only found one in house but I found a few from outside.
Can anyone figure out what is to the right of this photo?
Some people have told me this house was either one of the best houses done by BGW or needed to work out a few bugs. Can anyone explain what the house was like?
Can anyone figure out what is to the right of this photo?
Some people have told me this house was either one of the best houses done by BGW or needed to work out a few bugs. Can anyone explain what the house was like?
Zachary said:
- Too much effort
- Don't want to spend money on extra props
- Hamlets like Festa aren't scare zones/terror-tories
- Makes too much sense
Pandora, I think you mean Turkish Delight, was enclosed and had a clown. Trade Winds only had creepy music and ran backwards.
I mean, we could have specially themed rides that changed their normal operation and decoration to enhance the unfamiliar and therefore scarier nature of the holiday. OR we could have a DJ and lots of booze. Ehh? Ehh?
If you drink enough, it feels as if the rides are running backwards! Almost the same thing!
Pretzel Kaiser said:
Can we get specially themed rides that changed their normal operations and decoration to enhance the unfamiliar and therefor scarier nature of the holiday AND lots of booze?
Fair, you always had the ability to get drunk, you just had to walk more than 10 feet.
I found some logos while looking around tonight.
This was sadly all I could find of the Jack's Nightmare Express Logo.
But! I did find a great trip report from 2005 including Jack's Nightmare Express footage! Here
This was sadly all I could find of the Jack's Nightmare Express Logo.
But! I did find a great trip report from 2005 including Jack's Nightmare Express footage! Here