Just because it was conceptualised like that doesn’t mean it can’t be expanded and enhanced into something completely different. My opinion still stands that those riding The Haunted House/Duel/The Curse/whatever it is will be mostly travelling to Forbidden Valley for Nemesis or Galactica - having a family attraction directly next to a thrill zone is a waste. That spot would be much more beneficial for a thrill attraction, not a family attraction.
Assume it’s linked to the ‘this is my house’ stuff?
To an extent, but unfortunately it does also encourage laziness. It's the old paradox of choice problem, we may have more ride design options now due to modern tech, but that doesn't necessarily translate to better decisions being made. The painful irony of much of our modern world. Just look at how bland and undetailed so many of our modern buildings are... squared aluminium panelled buildings and boring glass skyscrapers, mostly. Or weird silly looking shapes. Even with more tech available. Theme parks have followed the same kind of trend. Yeah you do get brilliantly detailed stuff like Avatar and the brilliant ride scenes Disney imagineering and co did for the Rise of the resistence (who were given absolutely gigantic budgets), but even Disney/Universal are relying on screens and VR more and more, and many of their practical effects have been neglected.
Well said on the physical v screen argument, and definitely true for Haunted House. Jurassic park (the 1st film, not the ride) followed that formula pretty closely . Most of the dinos were animatronics, some life size. The dinosaur scenes that they could do feasibly they did using hydraulic driven physical animation. Where they wanted to do stuff that wasn't feasible like the dinsoaurs running or walking, they overlayed the images of the props with computer generated effects. I agree with you that this kind of physical/digital approach is a good one, for rides like Haunted House especially. What we want in Haunted house is as much possible that's physical with only the completely unfeasible effects being done by projection mappers.
Not really Victorian. The half timbered design and the turrets on Haunted House make it more of a cross between a tudor style and the neo-gothic styles of the towers. I don't think there are any tudor/half timbered buildings or cottages in the towers grounds. But who cares; It worked though, and that's what matters. Since 1992, it has progressively looked a lot faker and less authentic though, that's for sure.
Could that be Emily Alton maybe?
We’ve literally had one piece of content from the press so far. Too early to really comment on whether it’s uncreative. Find it difficult to see how that decision can be made from a dolls head and one picture.
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I get what you mean, but I'm just worried that they'll completely avoid the 'laff in the dark' feel the ride once had for a more scary experience. Yes, horror is a very subjective genre and not everyone will always be scared of the same thing. I'm still hoping they don't make Emily and major factor of the ride like popping up in every scene, or at least talking to you like the ghost host and feel that removes the 'less is more' feeling the original ride had.
Yeah, who said otherwise? I was answering your idea that a ghost train cant be family friendly. It can, it was built for that reason, in that location and it was popular.
I was worried about this too when I first heard the rumour, that spooky dolls is a very overused cliche, and wastes the potential they couldve gone with, but if this is a whole new attraction then we will have to wait and see how good it is on its own feet. It could still be great fun. The idea of being inside a haunted dolls house is a great original concept.
I think this seems plausible ( and likely)
I agree. It fits in with the Property Repossesed poster at Scarefest with the red writing saying "possesed want to play."
You're right that being inside the dolls house is quite creative, but i think it potentially could also limit the creativity a bit as well as every scene has to be themed to a house whereas the original HH had so much variety in its scenes, from a possessed room, a gothic hallway with giant hands crashing through windows, a endless void of screaming heads, a swamp full of man-eating creatures and the environment trying to kill you. No way scenes like that would work in a dolls house, which personally for me really limits to what they can do on the creative and idea side of things. I don't want just spiders and toys in there, I want all types of paranormal beings that stick out from one another.
