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Scarefest 2014

I hadn't experienced it before as my first Thorpe visit tied in to Fright Nights, paired with being at the front of the group. The only odd niggle I had with it was an actor randomly decided to throw a few explicits and the bird at me. At no point did I consider this to be scary in the slightest, rather unnecessarily rude.
 
Forget Alton Towers and Thorpe Park! Tulley's Farm is where it's at for Halloween.

No seriously, it is generally fantastic with a large range of scaremazes. I'm hugely disappointed that I won't be able to visit this year!
 
The Yorkshire scare ground is very good that is just one long maze but it uses the natural area very well. Although some of the people are more a scary then the actual event. It Wakefield after all.
 
I wanna go to Tulleys Farm this year, it's not all that far from me and its open on the 10th, which suits me as its the day before my Opeth gig... :')
 
Just had to stop myself paying for the sleepover thing if anybody is interested let me know
 
So The Sanctuary will be pretty much exactly the same as last year now, yay. Really have no interest for the mazes this year, I will likely do them only once each this year unless they turn out to be significantly different/better than last year.

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Not really. The story evolved from year 1 to year 2 slightly so it could have moved on again this year as well.
 
The story changes last year were very minor. A slight script change to fit in with the opening of The Smiler was hardly something worth looking forward to.

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Don't really know how they could have evolved it that much without him... all we would get is a new actor that says "I am the new owner, after Dr Kelman, suddenly... disapp- resigned" or something along those lines.

I'm not too bothered with Sanctuary staying the same. It's a pretty fresh maze when you have right next door to it TOTT which is in desperate need of an overhaul.
 
I beg to differ, Sanctuary is probably the stalest maze of them all. Yes, TOTT is beyond repetitive now but at least to some extent it feels more thrilling, atmospheric and holds its own weight in that sense. Ultimately, something will be done with TOTT, however there are only so many routes you can potentially go down with The Sanctuary's theme that inevitably, due to the ever shrinking budget, will never come to light.
 
The issue the sanctuary has is it's story was so linked into The Smiler that it has now become redundant. I think it was a great example of a maze with a good narrative but now that narrative has been over taken with the ride it has nowhere to go.

Generic scare mazes like TotT and Carnival have longer shelf life's as it's about the scares, story based mazes like Sanctuary and Field will only ever last so long before they feel a bit meh.
 
It sort of ran across a trilogy, year one was zombies attacked Altonville, year two was a few survivors have tried to return to Altonville (and a few loonies), year three was researchers/ army trying to study the zombies then everything went wrong.
 
Dave said:
It sort of ran across a trilogy, year one was zombies attacked Altonville, year two was a few survivors have tried to return to Altonville (and a few loonies), year three was researchers/ army trying to study the zombies then everything went wrong.
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Ah right. I assume this was located where the lodges are going? And how did it work? Was it a maze or a walkthrough, and I'm sure it's much less scary in the open than in a building.
 
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