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Black Death
The Year is 1348, and Italy is neck deep in corpses of the dead. Plague ravishes the once great Italian Countryside.However, another disease is spreading, in which the diseased,once dead, return to life, but not as humans. but monsters. Their only purpose? To infect you, kill you, and make you one of them.

Basically have fog fill the streets of San Marco with corpses and old decrepid things, such as carts and boarded up shacks, etc. You could have the infected running along the streets, their faces and bodies contorted and grossed out with sores,growths,lesions,etc. Plague doctors also roam the streets, (because plague doctors are creepy).

If I was an actor in this area, I would totally yell out BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!

Heres a sample of what I think the logo should be.


As you can tell, I really like the idea of a plague area. Why? the costumes are easy to do, its easy to decorate for, and not only is italy great for the plague, but so is banbury cross/england and heather downs.

Also, this could play into Dead Line ,basically its the same disease, but it has been dormant for over 600 years
 

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How about this, scrape the different themes. Who cares about vampires, wolves, or ghosts. Theme the entire park after the Black Plague. Give people a little history lesson, much like Ripper Row. The black plague did originally start in an Italian village; however spread all across Europe. The only difference is the one the park would do would have zombies after all the definition of a zombie is anything that dies and comes back to life.

This way you can show how different villages and countries dealt with the plague, you can show off the different lifestyles. Also you can be extremely immersive because no theming is really required, they could go minimal on this. The only thing that they really need is proper lighting, fog, and plenty of scare actors.

Best part is the theme is cohesive. Instead of walking through a haunted forest only to hear the loud beat of Demon Street, you would see a very consistent and flowing event.
 
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they have PLENTY of rats to use, after all , they covered france in them befoire Demon Street.I also remember them having lie rats in containers at certain spots in france, they could do that at any country that is a seaside port.
 
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Preston, were not saying nes idea is better than the other, its just were all talking different ideas we have in our brain.Your idea is very good, as its hard to theme something other than clowns for festa.I feel like that would be great in festa, and have it bleed into san marco for the plague idea. The two can mix together nicely.


I also had an idea for an original maze to replace bitten.

Towering Oaks Brewery
After several fatal accidents, a well respected brewery in The Black Forest is forced to shut its doors.However, legend has it the ghosts of the deceased haunt the brewery, condemning anyone who enters to a fate much like their own.


This would be an excellent maze, because of the parks previous link to AB, and it is in theming with germany and Oktoberfest, because whats more german than beer? Costumes would be very easy to make, with overalls, ghastly makeup, and what not, the only thing they would have to worry about is transforming the interior to a brewery, but if they can transform CoP into Deadline, they can transfrom Bitten into this.
 
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^ That sounds like a wonderful idea! An old haunted brewery in Germany could be very scary. I am only worried that the park will take this as another opportunity to use more unflattering German stereotypes. The park has been terrible about doing this recently. If they do this like Deadline however, I think it will be very successful. In other words, the zombies in Deadline are not necessarily Italian.

Edit: I think it would be awesome if the park would set the entire thing in the middle of the thunder and lightning storm. That would be a good way to tie in the German theme. Almost all old German horror movies have a thunderstorm somewhere. That, And I just think it would be cool.
 
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Oh good somebody else voiced their opinion on the fact that, they've been getting rather stereotypical with their German stuff. It always makes me uncomfortable, seeing stuff or show with extremely unflattering German stereotypes

A haunted brewery would be interesting to see. I don't think they could link it back to AB specifically though.

My concern would be is that Bitten is VERY narrow. And if I remember correctly, most of the houses in that spot in the past have also been that narrow. I don't think there's enough room to work with to turn it into a brewery, without changing the entire path completely.
 
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I like the creative ideas - mixing Marco's Revenge with the plague. Face make-up, including open facial wounds would be creepy and easy to apply - just need to figure out how to still incorporate chainsaws in to the theme. Everyone loves a good chainsaw scare!
 
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I think people coughing and hacking on me would scare me way more than fake chainsaws.

Those who know me and have seen me going through "13 Your Number's Up" will back me up on this.
 
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Well, the thing about plague and disease and whatnot, is, it is always evolvoing and adapting. This is why its so scary. You could have a modern setting with the same virus, hence why they could keep deadline and what not and be spot on with theming.If banbury cross looks too much like 1960s london, they could have it be a more recent strand. Actually, that sounds cool! London could be on the urge of anarchy as the ancient virus resurfaces and shows no signs of stopping. the streets are filled with panic and blood, as the unaffected kill anyone they suspect to be infected.So, you retreat to the countreyside(heatherdowns), but there farmers have been infected, and they are now cannibalistoc animals. You flee to Ireland to find the city of Killarney is boarded up, but you manage to get in, and find yourself in a refugee camp. Once you are rested enough, you head out into the Irish forests, where vicious creatures and infected hunt you down. Meanwhile, France has fallen. The streets are full of panic, as buildings burn, and smoke fills the sky. Germany isnt better off, as they seem to have regressed to a panicked and superstitious state, and the few survivors ,now insane, will save you the noly way they know how...to kill you before the virus does. You manage to get to italy, but realize, this is wher it all started. There is no escape from the Red /Green Death

In the modern city section, like england, have a fenced off area, and have a bunch of crashed vehicles look like theyre burning and smoking. Mass chaos, police sirens, etc.italy and germany should be older and more vintage looking. In Killarney, have the nurses do Jello shots and have it be a vaccination, but it only prevents an airborne transmission, and can still be contracted through fluids. and everything.make it one big thematic experience.The whole park is essentially one big maze, with extra mazes thrown in like usual . And, the beauty of HoS, is, you odnt have to be theme appropiate if its good enough.
 
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Ive been making some alterations on Marco's Revenge (My Terror-Torie), Mix the black plague with it that the Demons who killed Marco Polo. Demon Fair would be Marco's Fair. Thats all the ideas i have for Festa Italia.

Now to replace Bitten i would have all three attractions going on in that area like years before but with a twist... In years before there was Bitten, Hunted,and Harvest Hollow.

Bitten's Replacement - Grimm's Revenge... Grimm Hollow's family has died. He took his family's body's and hid them in there home. He stuffed the body's removing the organs on the inside of there body's ,leaving the organs outside everywhere. Grimm went crazy after his family died yet today he stills have fun times with his dead family members. Anyone who dares to go around his manor he will kill and add to his collection.

Hunted's Replacement, Tormented Tales, Hollow Manor, - Child Hood Memories -
Grimm Hollow starts to remember his to tormented childhood with people trying to kill him and catching him and doing things that are sick. Enter if you dare into this home in which he grew up in and experience what happened to him to make him MAD!

Harvest Hollow replacement(Scare Zone) -
Escape- You have gotten away from Grimm Hollow or have you..? Run, Try to escape while you can if not ...Hahaha let's just say you will be a Delicious dinner.

Anyone like it...?
 
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sounds good. maybe childhood memories could be that he was employed at a orphanage. or maybe he was put there at some point. have ghost kids/the people who ran it coming at you.
 
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I was thinking there could be a house based off of Curse Of Darkastle... Use the current building with the ride and all but use the extra lines outside for waiting to get in the house.when you enter the Building... (The current queue line). Then have people dressed in ball gowns/suits haunting the guest who enter. when entering the first room where it tells Ludwigs childhood and so on... Have actors lined up beside the screen and when over have everyone start chasing everyone out of the room.
When getting off the ride the exit will be a short haunted room with people with fans and actors screaming "HURRY GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN LUDWIG IS COMING" and have a actor dressed as him come chasing everyone until the exit of the building. I know it's not much but it would make it better.

ADDED: Make Oktoberfest a Terror-Torie under the name - Ludwig's Curse where people dressed in ball gowns/suits roaming in Oktoberfest and have have wolf's walking around with Ludwig. At the most 30/40 Actors roaming all of Oktoberfest with creepy silence with white makeup. 10 actors dressed with ball gowns/suits, 10 actors dressed as wolfs, 10 actors as grey statues that move when someone walks by them, Then lastly have two Lugwig's have one on the Verbolten side of Oktoberfest and the other one by Curse Of Darkastle.

The actors inside/outside would be dressed like this:
 

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I think your idea for Darkastle's building itself may not work well with crowd management and could cause some other issues, theming the entire hamlet to Ludwig and his castle/grim party is actually a fantastic idea. Great way to expand on an existing theme! Outside of the Festhaus plaza, Oktoberfest really has no HOS theme or decorations. I would quite like this. I don't know if this theme would clash with the carnival-y theme the area has, though, and the "new" Oktoberfest is a superbly poorly-laid out hamlet. It would be rather difficult to decorate, considering the park's increasing habit of minimally decorating an area. They would have to go well beyond even Ripper Row's thematic elements in order to keep guests from saying, "What's this random lady in the frilly dress talking to me for?"

And maybe Ludwig and Ulrich were long-time friends, and Ludwig went to the Casket Club to ease some of his stress of being the evil ruler of a castle? Yes, that would keep the Night Beats/Open CASKet vibe going. :p
 
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Joe said:
I think your idea for Darkastle's building itself may not work well with crowd management and could cause some other issues, theming the entire hamlet to Ludwig and his castle/grim party is actually a fantastic idea. Great way to expand on an existing theme! Outside of the Festhaus plaza, Oktoberfest really has no HOS theme or decorations. I would quite like this.
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Thanks! Took me a while to think about it... I know it could cause some issues for Darkastle but with some changes it would be pretty good. Im going to think up something for France...
 
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My idea's for France (Aquitaine)...
As a Terror-Torie i would call it... Black Death (Jacques Idea) Well in "Black Death" Black Plague is spreading through France. People dieing on the streets, dead body's fill the streets, some persons have turned crazy with the Black Plague and started killing the infected and uninfected. Can you escape the Plague hands?

Catacombs replacement - The Crazies - The uninfected tried to trap the persons with the Black Plague into this dark and mysterious building in the east France. Enter if you wish while trying to battle the Plague and "The Crazies". Escape if you can!

Now in this house the maddest of the mad will haunt this house with persons screaming, dieing, killing, going crazy, acting childish.

Anyone got any suggestions for this idea of mine...?
 
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