I would also LOVE to see a proper scare zone created using Haunted Hollow. Not like before with just the addition of live actors, but the whole thing turned into a proper scare zone! Due to it's location it already has a naturally scary 'theme' to it - this could be captured on and expanded so much further!
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Imagination
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oldgitben said:
YES! The 2007 version with the butler and proper despatching! None of this stupid Skelvin crap.
PeteB
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Mattiaaa said:
You mean 2008. 2007 was no Duel live, that was also the first Scarefest.
2007 - nothing!
2008 - Butler (Amazing all round)
2009 - Butler (Now more family friendly, and pants tbh)
2010 - Skelvin's Yoohoo Peekaboo thing (pants tbh)
2011 - nothing!
2012 - ?
djtruefitt
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I think they will keep the TOTT in a similar layout to the past but probably refreshed. And the 2nd maze has plenty of room upstairs. I just wonder where the entrances and exits to each maze will be, as well as queues.
It wouldnt surprise me if on top of the two in the towers there is also one (maybe two) near the hotels.
It wouldnt surprise me if on top of the two in the towers there is also one (maybe two) near the hotels.
Imagination
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After recently being there for a project being done in the Towers, I came across a day when I was inside and there were many Ents seniors and a team of people analysing the different rooms on the different floors - this years incarnation will be a very different experience.
Dave
TS Founding Member
I don't think budget cuts will affect Scarefest and Fireworks too badly as they get people in to the park, the two mazes in the towers will be interesting as the building itself gives the maze so much atmosphere. Will be interesting to see how you enter and exit the mazes though.
I imagine carnival will continue in a separate venue, there are plenty of places to put a scare maze in... i just hope they improve the maze this year as last year it lacked a good finale and at times any decent scares. The team in-charge of ents has just had a bit of a shake-up with some very good talent so hopefully we will see good things.
As for Duel Live Towers always state that it scored badly with guests so i guess that's why it's gone, seems a shame really as the first 2 years where quite good.
I imagine carnival will continue in a separate venue, there are plenty of places to put a scare maze in... i just hope they improve the maze this year as last year it lacked a good finale and at times any decent scares. The team in-charge of ents has just had a bit of a shake-up with some very good talent so hopefully we will see good things.
As for Duel Live Towers always state that it scored badly with guests so i guess that's why it's gone, seems a shame really as the first 2 years where quite good.
Yes, I doubt the second maze in the Towers would be Carnival!
The question, therefore, is where's it going to go? Obviously the Black Hole tent is no longer with us, and the CHS will probably be busy with corporate events, so what other large buildings are there in that area...hmmm...
The question, therefore, is where's it going to go? Obviously the Black Hole tent is no longer with us, and the CHS will probably be busy with corporate events, so what other large buildings are there in that area...hmmm...
Rob
TS Team
I personally think that Carnival and another new maze will be up at the hotels this year. This is what I would like to see also.
Where in the monorail audio does it state that there will be multiple mazes in the Towers though? I had a good listen to the audio from the car parks to the entrance and from the entrance to the car parks on Sunday and neither of these mentioned multiple mazes in the Towers, just that TotT would return.
Where in the monorail audio does it state that there will be multiple mazes in the Towers though? I had a good listen to the audio from the car parks to the entrance and from the entrance to the car parks on Sunday and neither of these mentioned multiple mazes in the Towers, just that TotT would return.
smudge
TS Member
I would love 2 in the towers - I think it could be easily done too, just look at how successful TOTT is / was. No better setting IMO.
Im hoping for / predict:
-COS - this must be at the hotels
-New Maze - would love to see field back, but doubtful, so maybe some 'experiment' style - to compliment SW7
-TOTT - Refreshed hopefully - maybe this could be upstairs this year?
-Something dark & sinister again, (fitting in the towers)- using Hell/the devil as a background theme.
-N;ST Live / scarezone in que
-Wouldn't mind zombies back!
-Dark forest scarezone, (As people pointed out a while back there was new lighting heading towards Swiss Cottage - maybe even incorporating Swiss Cottage)
Finally just a pipe dream but;
- An 'Altons History' walk-through scaremaze, in the conservatory & the surrounding gardens - one can dream! Although I have though about how maybe it can work:
Instead of opening up the gardens (which is impossible at night) - the experience starts at one of the entrances to the garden and your group are taken on a 'tour' by a 'normal' AT tour guide (in character; an old caretaker or something), but during the tour you encounter strange goings ons you see figures / Actors around the gardens, all the time the tour guide telling you legends & ghost stories about Alton ( not completely fictional, but heavily exaggerated), the gardens and the conservatory, then the finale being the conservatory itself. Then your tour guide 'finds' you as you exit and leads you back to 'safety' and out of the garden.
Granted, I know that is hard to read - sorry.
Im hoping for / predict:
-COS - this must be at the hotels
-New Maze - would love to see field back, but doubtful, so maybe some 'experiment' style - to compliment SW7
-TOTT - Refreshed hopefully - maybe this could be upstairs this year?
-Something dark & sinister again, (fitting in the towers)- using Hell/the devil as a background theme.
-N;ST Live / scarezone in que
-Wouldn't mind zombies back!
-Dark forest scarezone, (As people pointed out a while back there was new lighting heading towards Swiss Cottage
- maybe even incorporating Swiss Cottage)Finally just a pipe dream but;
- An 'Altons History' walk-through scaremaze, in the conservatory & the surrounding gardens - one can dream! Although I have though about how maybe it can work:
Instead of opening up the gardens (which is impossible at night) - the experience starts at one of the entrances to the garden and your group are taken on a 'tour' by a 'normal' AT tour guide (in character; an old caretaker or something), but during the tour you encounter strange goings ons
you see figures / Actors around the gardens, all the time the tour guide telling you legends & ghost stories about Alton ( not completely fictional, but heavily exaggerated), the gardens and the conservatory, then the finale being the conservatory itself. Then your tour guide 'finds' you as you exit and leads you back to 'safety' and out of the garden.Granted, I know that is hard to read - sorry.
Dave
TS Founding Member
Not sure any of the mazes will be in the gardens, i know the mazes looked quieter last year than when they where up at the hotels but the operating day was longer so guests spread out through the day more and it seems overall they where more lucrative on park.
It would be nice to have an extra attraction up at the hotels but i doubt it. With 2 mazes in the Towers and one somewhere like CHS or even a building like the Goal Striker or Edge games both of which are quite sizable they can have their mazes without hiring tents
It would be nice to have an extra attraction up at the hotels but i doubt it. With 2 mazes in the Towers and one somewhere like CHS or even a building like the Goal Striker or Edge games both of which are quite sizable they can have their mazes without hiring tents
Ben
TS Founding Member
I thought Goal Striker was relatively small, just a cut out of a football net and a kicking space?
Im very excited there are to be 2 mazes in the towers. Id imagine ToTT keeping its current queue and The new one to start via the x-sector tunnel (I used to love being batched in there!)
Im very excited there are to be 2 mazes in the towers. Id imagine ToTT keeping its current queue and The new one to start via the x-sector tunnel (I used to love being batched in there!)