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[2023] The Curse at Alton Manor

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Trooper Looper said:
I don't want this to be true. NOT THE SINISTER GARDEN!!

From: https://twitter.com/JakePrice_0/status/1585653595864719361?t=cxG5Wt99bGdFESr4WuNaSw&s=19
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Well sorry to say it, it is true. This confirms stuff is happening to the garden.

As for not being able to make scenes as detailed these days, they absolutely would be able too, far more detailed with modern technology. Should they choose to however, is a different story.

I for one will reserve judgement until opening day to see what it is like.

I always found the garden scene a bit jarring in the sense that as a rider you enter the ride through a very big house frontage then end up in a 'garden' while also being very aware that you have not actually left the building. So it sort of heightened the sense of being false.

I think we are going to see an attic scene added somewhere, perhaps the little screens you look at through the walls hold a clue?

It is clear to see in the daylight how shoddy these bits of theeming now look after 30 years. Not too sad at their removal to be fair.
 
Just wondering after reading the Smoke and Mirrors book in which the Trommel tunnel is supposed to be, or was, stated as being the tunnel to Hell yet didn't quite seem to feel that way.

Maybe in the area where the giant used to be might be designed to represent being in Hell better? About the garden above, that bit of theming could honestly be knackered after 30 years and perhaps was in no fit state to carry on and about to fall apart? Given how much of the ride was left deteriorating after all this time is possible.
 
QTXAdsy said:
Just wondering after reading the Smoke and Mirrors book in which the Trommel tunnel is supposed to be, or was, stated as being the tunnel to Hell yet didn't quite seem to feel that way.

Maybe in the area where the giant used to be might be designed to represent being in Hell better? About the garden above, that bit of theming could honestly be knackered after 30 years and perhaps was in no fit state to carry on and about to fall apart? Given how much of the ride was left deteriorating after all this time is possible.
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I don't it's knackered. I work on the Haunting and most of the original set pieces, even the lights in the cellar are in really good shape. The only things that have deteriorated are outside the rides facade such as the garden wall on the right side of the house. These rides were built in a 4 year gap and I'm sure Sparks Creatives has a higher quality of building and designing than Space Leisure ever had.

If it was the animatronics from the HH, that'd be understandable, but the set pieces should be absolutely fine in terms of their age.
 
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Double post sorry. The only reason I can think of why those specific pieces were taken out was because from what I've managed to gather, that column from the Hall of Spiders is where the 2nd Zombie popped out of, so maybe they removed that column to get access to the mechanics to remove the zombie from it.

With the Grim Reapers structure, maybe that was removed because of the restricted access to the lighting system that shone from under the Reaper, and they needed access to tamper with that.

The reason they're in the Invitations queue? From the videos I've seen, they've been there for quite a while now, definitely over 2 weeks. Maybe Lack of spare room to put them inside the show building and didn't want them being wasted while they were removed....

Or they're going to the scrap yard at the end of the season..
 
AT86 said:
I’m pretty sure Alton Towers aren’t so short of storage space that they have to resort to keeping things in queue lines because there is no where else for them.
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Definitely, but I can't imagine them wasting them when they're not being used at the moment. It's scarefest, they're spooky props that are currently unused in Duel/HH, who wouldn't use them in a queue for ambience?
 
They wouldn't risk permanent damage to scenery items they intend to keep, especially for such a marginal gain as a bit of dressing in a temporary queue.
 
They absolutely wouldn’t expose set pieces to the elements to pop those exact ones back into an attraction again…they’re using these because they can. It has nothing to do with storage anything being retained will be kept safe from the elements. Anything past it will be chucked or remanufactured.

Ents have literally looked at the “chuck heap” and chosen what to salvage for The Invitation. Almost the entirety of Scary Tales was the same with the bulk of stuff from Storybook Land.

It’s simply creatives saving money/being over budget and using what they can.
 
Trooper Looper said:
Definitely, but I can't imagine them wasting them when they're not being used at the moment. It's scarefest, they're spooky props that are currently unused in Duel/HH, who wouldn't use them in a queue for ambience?
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Troops are you/would you go to HH first day launch next year? I'd love to see you vlog and for your reactions. You remind me of a Francis Bourgeois type but for the HH.
 
I won't be at the park for 2023, given the distance for me, no point going if Nemesis is out even if we get Haunted House back looking better than ever but I will be keeping an eye out on things. Just hope all goes well, though a 2024 return for me is certain barring anything happening to me.
 
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