Dobba
TS Member
IPs work at HHN because that's the nature of Universal Studios, franchise based rides and areas. Saw: The Ride opening normalised IPs at Thorpe Park, so them appearing at Fright Nights isn't as jarring as an American TV show suddenly rocking up in the middle of Staffordshire would be. Plus, in hindsight, the original attractions are almost always the ones you look back at more fondly as they've not had a portion of the budget gone on doing a deal for the rights.
Alton Towers could get an entire scare line-up just focusing on the area themes they currently have, excluding CBeebies and Walliams (though adding a family friendly overlay could be done easily and cheapily to bring those areas into the event) and in some cases already have done in the past with the likes of The Sanctuary, Darkest Depths (despite it being nowhere near Mutiny Bay) and Burial Grounds. An Emily Alton escape room could fit perfectly in this new Gloomy Wood building, assuming that's the intention of the planning application and if the park wanted to spread scares around the entire park you could have a Ministry of Joy attraction where Altonville is and a Voodoo or even poachers who have grown tired of hunting animals and has decided to target humans themed attraction in Katanga Canyon. If the park spent a little bit of money on giving the bandstand in the gardens some restoration work they could even put a show on in there, with a band dressed similarly to the Alton Ancestors performing in there, maybe with the Ancestors dancing along, harkening back to what would have been going on in the pre-themepark heyday of the grounds.
Then, if you get to a stage like now where mazes are stale and you want to move on, you have a whole array of props created for these attractions that could easily find a home in the area of the park that inspired them, building further on them whilst giving the designers a blank slate for the next maze/attraction.
If they were going to 'borrow' anything from the HHN blueprint, I'd much rather they went down the icons route than IPs. Emily Alton is now an established character, with the likes of Dr Kelman and even the Dark Forest wraiths waiting in the wings to be built upon if they wanted to go down that route. Or if they preferred an entirely new character to market, there could be an array of BBC Ghosts style characters that have had something to do with the land the park stands on over the centuries.
Alton Towers could get an entire scare line-up just focusing on the area themes they currently have, excluding CBeebies and Walliams (though adding a family friendly overlay could be done easily and cheapily to bring those areas into the event) and in some cases already have done in the past with the likes of The Sanctuary, Darkest Depths (despite it being nowhere near Mutiny Bay) and Burial Grounds. An Emily Alton escape room could fit perfectly in this new Gloomy Wood building, assuming that's the intention of the planning application and if the park wanted to spread scares around the entire park you could have a Ministry of Joy attraction where Altonville is and a Voodoo or even poachers who have grown tired of hunting animals and has decided to target humans themed attraction in Katanga Canyon. If the park spent a little bit of money on giving the bandstand in the gardens some restoration work they could even put a show on in there, with a band dressed similarly to the Alton Ancestors performing in there, maybe with the Ancestors dancing along, harkening back to what would have been going on in the pre-themepark heyday of the grounds.
Then, if you get to a stage like now where mazes are stale and you want to move on, you have a whole array of props created for these attractions that could easily find a home in the area of the park that inspired them, building further on them whilst giving the designers a blank slate for the next maze/attraction.
If they were going to 'borrow' anything from the HHN blueprint, I'd much rather they went down the icons route than IPs. Emily Alton is now an established character, with the likes of Dr Kelman and even the Dark Forest wraiths waiting in the wings to be built upon if they wanted to go down that route. Or if they preferred an entirely new character to market, there could be an array of BBC Ghosts style characters that have had something to do with the land the park stands on over the centuries.
