Graw Posted October 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 yeah agreed. saw was actually brilliant this year on my 2 run throughs. in my opinion, it's really just got good. cabin ill be sad to see leave too, best maze ive ever done at thorpe :-(. and yeah, MBV needs to go. I actually thought it was great last year but this year and in 2013 it was ridiculously awful. I wont care if it leaves at all. RubyRed95 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RubyRed95 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 yeah agreed. saw was actually brilliant this year on my 2 run throughs. in my opinion, it's really just got good. cabin ill be sad to see leave too, best maze ive ever done at thorpe :-(. and yeah, MBV needs to go. I actually thought it was great last year but this year and in 2013 it was ridiculously awful. I wont care if it leaves at all. I've never liked it honestly- in the first year it creeped me out bc I swear it was a lot darker? Don't quote me on that but I used to feel it was genuinely frantic and really claustrophobic and now I just amble through :') a revamp is needed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 I recon Lionsgate are pulling the plug. The whole point of the Lionsgate sponsorship, was a horror movie takeover, and after Thorpe added 3 attractions of their own brand with no relation to Lionsgate, Lionsgate probably thought, why bother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FrightNightFan Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 EXPERIMENT 10! EXPERIMENT 10! think it needs a petition lol Chaz and Coaster 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Punchline Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 I think Thorpe should follow on from what Alton Towers have done this year at Scarefest- from what I've heard sub species (their own new maze) topped everything at Thorpe park and was very unique. I think Thorpe should put a lot of money into theming and have a lot more actors and they're sorted. A lot of the rooms in Thorpe mazes are plain and look like white cardboard or black felt, and it's hard to build an atmosphere like this if I'm honest. JammyBand 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Punchline Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 I recon Lionsgate are pulling the plug. The whole point of the Lionsgate sponsorship, was a horror movie takeover, and after Thorpe added 3 attractions of their own brand with no relation to Lionsgate, Lionsgate probably thought, why bother. The Big Top, Containment and...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Studio 13 The Punchline 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
400400 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Studio 13Imo worst Halloween attraction I've ever done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graw Posted October 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 yeah, the big top is miles better than studio 13 ever was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge2002 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 I feel like Sub-Species at AT has really set the bar for what Merlin are capable of. I know this will be an unpopular opinion but I think they should just start charging for their mazes and reduce the number. It will alleviate most of their logistical problems, and hopefully push for A better quality of maze. I love that Thorpe go for the more extreme side of things but I wish they'd pour their budget into 3 amazing mazes rather than spreading it out so thinly that we just get 5 "okay" mazes. Saw alive going would be great news. Mainly because if they gut out the the rooms, it's one of the very few areas of the park where they'll have a vast area of flat, expansive space to work on a new maze with. JammyBand 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyMoo Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 That Big Top music haunts my dreams... RubyRed95, Mad Coaster Man, The Punchline and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchada04 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 The Big Top has some great tricks in it. Not necessarily very scary but different to all other mazes they've done and a lot more entertaining. The mirror maze, fun house etc. A lot more entertaining than some of their previous attempts at mazes.  BWP will be easy to replace with their own walk in the woods. Maybe then the shed can make a bit more sense than it currently does. They'll probably reuse the shipping containers and just retheme them again, the fact Ex 10 was great shows they have potential. Cabin I guess they could just make a multi route maze (that's if they still can use that space...) and Saw Alive could be rethemed. Though I'd guess if Saw The Ride is still Saw themed then the maze might stay?  I don't want them to bring back previously done mazes. Move onwards, not backwards. Yes Asylum was well established, but it was time to move on. Next year, Big Top will be well established and they'll know what they're doing with it so it'll open on time. Thorpe have shown that they can create some great mazes without IP's and I'm sure they'll succeed again. Plus, 3-4 new mazes for next year is brilliant! Towers got a hefty budget this year it seems with 2 new mazes and one properly rerouted and Chessie has 2 new mazes so I think it's safe to say they won't see huge changes next year so it suits Thorpe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordanluke2009 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Saw Alive has to stay for Saw The Ride to not be rethemed. I'll miss Cabin definitely the maze is very well designed. I just hope next year wows me even more than this year. Imo they need to bring AtmosFear in to theme the mazes then I'll be excited and to make new concepts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Coaster Man Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 That Big Top music haunts my dreams... Â I was working in the queueline shop for it at one stage last week, and after about 3 hours of the Mirror Maze music, it really did get stuck in my head! I do wish they could use a slightly longer looping piece of music for it, that said, it's a fun job. MattyMoo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchy Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 What I would like  Thematic areas/scare areas. These are areas of the park such as swarm island, which are thematically lit and have relevant scare actors within them  At least 1 maze which takes more than 10 minutes to go through. (Cabin took us the longest and that was just under 3 minutes, Just for comparison, the towers mazes were 11 minutes (TOTT) 12.5 minutes (Sub Species) and 13 minutes (Molly).  Chainsaw endings are boring. Shake it up a little, How about one where you have to crawl through a wood cutter to exit and as your foot goes through it starts up.  Every maze should have a reason why you are there (thorpe forget this), a reason for you to have to go through the maze (They miss this too), an engrosing posably real story (http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/surrey/surrdata.php loads of local ghost stories here, pick one) , atmosphere a climactic end.  A better thought out version of containment. This was the only maze this year at Thorpe that had all 5 of my demands and unfortunately the problems were a bit hit and miss, the final room, when we went through, didnt even have the red chord, which was key to the solution. pluk and Kerfuffle 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Users Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 I don't think any of the old mazes are coming back but I think both Se7en and Experiment 10 could work really well with Cabin's layout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MachoMachine Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Every maze should have a reason why you are there (thorpe forget this), a reason for you to have to go through the maze (They miss this too), an engrosing posably real story (http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/surrey/surrdata.php loads of local ghost stories here, pick one) , atmosphere a climactic end.    The Big Top does actually have a story behind it (it's fictional though!), but you can only find it out if you attend the Campfire Stories they have on at 10:30ish for Shark Hotel guests. It was really interesting and interactive, it also gave a reason for the chainsaw! I think if they actually showed these stories during the daytime somewhere in the main park it would be good, almost like a pre-show but not quite. Ryan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyMoo Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 There was no red cord in the final room for us but we still worked it out? I just thought all those cords were a decoy! MachoMachine and Ryan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pognoi Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Just sayin', babadook maze would be dank Mad Coaster Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graw Posted October 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 yeah same, we didn't work out the code from a red cord. it was some thing (can't even remember what) near the coat hangers/curtains whatever at the back of the room  also, I still want a swarm maze to happen really badly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L7123456 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Just sayin', babadook maze would be dank Yes! This would be awesome!! And they could make it so good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyMoo Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Yep it was two names of elements = Antidote, and you then looked them up on the periodic table, and the atomic numbers were the code for the padlock 400400 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshuaA Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Yes! This would be awesome!! And they could make it so good! As much as I love film, I really don't think it would work. The Babadook is more of psyological depression film than any thing else. It would take one hell of a imagination and a budget to do a Babadook maze, and what would the actors be? I feel like the main focus of the film is far apart from a horror maze. IMO The Babadook should be left from being destroyed by Merlin.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Users Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 At least 1 maze which takes more than 10 minutes to go through. (Cabin took us the longest and that was just under 3 minutes, Just for comparison, the towers mazes were 11 minutes (TOTT) 12.5 minutes (Sub Species) and 13 minutes (Molly). Â What I will say is that this is always going to be an issue for Thorpe, particularly since they have now lost the arena and I'm a Celeb space. Towers has the advantage of already having a huge space. It sucks but I'm not going to expect Thorpe to ever have something like The Sanctuary where it probably took a good minute or two to get from the marmalisation scene upstairs to the first operating scene downstairs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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