With the hearse now comfortably occupying its spot at the foot of Towers Street, and the Towers due to be closed in the coming weeks, this year’s Scarefest is very much on the way. As such, Alton Towers have today been tweeting cryptic information regarding this year’s offerings.
The park first confirmed the return of Zombies! Scare Zone, though stating its location as “a new unexplored area of the park!”, as well as announcing that Carnival Of Screams is to be located near Zombies’ original location, which adds weight to rumours of the Goalstriker building being a suitable scaremaze venue.
3 mysterious hashtags were included in the tweets: #SW, #TMOJ, and #TS. Two of these have now been identified as The Ministry Of Joy (seemingly an aspect of the new maze’s theme) and The Sanctuary, which the Official Alton Towers Website has now been updated to reveal will be the name of the new maze for 2012, replacing The Boiler House:
“The Sanctuary is a new scare maze that invites guests to book an appointment at an abandoned facility, but a terrifying twist awaits. New developments on the X Sector site have uncovered an area of the Towers where human experiments were rumoured to have taken place in the early 1900’s by a controlling force known only as The Ministry of Joy. What starts out as an innocent visit through The Sanctuary soon takes a turn for the worse. Will you make it out with a smile on your face?”
The alleged X Sector location of the maze implies that it will tie in with the theme of next year’s new major coaster, SW7. However, this begs interesting questions about its venue, given that there is no obvious space in the area itself, which is occupied by SW7’s construction site. Interestingly, however, the resort have also Tweeted that a “previously undiscovered area of the Towers” has been discovered, implying perhaps that this year the Towers could be hosting two mazes.
Here at TowersStreet we are immensely excited for this coming Scarefest, and will aim to bring you updates in the build up to it as soon as we can! In the mean time, discuss this news on our lively discussion forums, and like us on Facebook for by-the-minute updates from the Resort!
