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I have to admit it does puzzle me why the busiest events in the country (Tulleys and Thorpe) are the ones to utilize this technology, I feel like a medium sized event that requires less throughput would a much better fit! Agreed on Crows and Lucifer, from TPW's video it does worry me that Tenement has just spread the actors out thin. Lucifer's Lair was an absolute highkight over the last few years, this version feels diluted, as does The Crows. I do worry for Thorpe, as over the last 3-4 years or so it has had quite a good series of years, but preview night is indicating maybe having a fifth maze might not actually be the thing we wanted.

Yeah the announcements definitely didn't spark too much excitement. Hopefully the new 2 mazes are better in person than they sound on paper! I guess the Fuel Girls might be the most exciting new thing to me so far! Hopefully preview night delivers

Honestly it takes a hour or so on Canva, so lazy.. In other news it seems reviews for Tenement are mixed. In general we have some raving reviews of last night, and then some others like Scaretour and TPW that seem more critical. I hope this does not foreshadow the run, as preview night is usually when the mazes are at their peak (full casts, loads of energy).

So I have some thoughts on Tenement. The Haunted Lantern style tech is great, and Purgatory is a fun maze, but.. Throughput and batching is glaring issues, which Purgatory often seems to have crazy queues st Tulleys. I do fear for Tenement being in such a big event, is the throughput going to be enough? Also batching is everything, Tulleys were batching us at a 20 second or so interval which was timed on a big timer, and it was groups of 1-4, but bigger groups could stick together. Obviously splitting up is cool! But I hope the maze is not too overpopulated and is batched and designed with that in mind. Purgatory also had some light bleed in its first year, which could be an issue. Cool idea, and if executed well could be amazing. But selling too many tickets for it, batching improperly, and design oversights needed to be dodged. Which is hard!