I think it's pretty categorical now Diogo and I won't be coming to the Scarefest meet, and very unlikely to go Scarefest at all. As I put before, our preferred way of doing it is to arrive Thurs night and have a full day on park on the Friday where its quiet and we can get a lot done. On 18th the park closes at 5pm. And the waterpark isn't open late enough to occupy the rest of the evening. I can't stay late on Monday 21st as I have commitments Monday termtime evenings. Even if the Scarefest meet was the middle weekend, on the termtime Friday the park still closes at 7pm. Not worth the 150 mile drive at this point, because of which we like to make a proper break of the trip, for the event where the main draw is rides in the dark.
kydog1299 said:
PS: Don't get angry over an event, which for 1. Hasn't even kicked off, and for 2. None of us know about yet. Because face it, none of us know at the moment if some of the mazes will have changed, do we? Even if they haven't, like I said, it's not for us enthusiasts, it's for the general public and visitors. Stop moaning, and think of the positives. Were lucky to get events like this with the amount of cuts and money loss recently.
1) The announced closing at 7pm in week 1
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2) The announced closing at 7pm in week 1
Now I realise that technically speaking thats only one reason, but I thought it was such a big one it was worth mentioning twice.
And in the present economic climate, Alton Towers are lucky to have people willing to spend the quite significant amount of money it costs to visit the park and stay on resort - to make that choice to go there over going somewhere else (where before they may have done both). They need to pump the money into the big events like this, as they did with Alton Towers Live! because people will make the effort for the specials. It's only two weeks in the year this can happen.
But having seen the lighting and atmosphere in the rest of the park outside of the specific Halloween additions degrade year on year since 2010, we can be forgiven, with the cuts to opening hours being the main flag, that this event is not going to be as big as it has been and thus unlikely the lighting etc this year wont improve on last year either. I dread to think how much worse it can get. It makes me cry inside thinking of how those huge white floods (why not at least colour them! It's only a piece of lighting gel that costs literal pennies) destroyed every small bit of effort in lighting Nemesis, Air and Thi3teen last year. And as for the excuse of 'health and safety' - Haunted Hollow was practically a blackout to walk along.
I don't mind if the mazes remain the same themes as long as they have some improvement to them. I can understand not having the budget for something new, but if what they have is done really well people generally will be quite happy as the extra maze ticket prices will be seen as worthwhile having forked out for. And has the potential for extra sales where people would like to repeat it and have another go.
Agreed also that 'Duel: Live!' would be great to see back again - we did it when it was Skelvins Creepy Zombie Something (I don't recall the name - theres the problem. Duel Live! is pretty clear). And it's lack of existence in 2012 likely contributed to that feeling once you were out of Towers Street and away from the Towers, it didn't feel like Scarefest. Even, as a suggestion if paying actors for a full day is too much, only do that in the evening - normal Duel during the day and a special Halloween live version after 6pm. It's the little things y'know?
