SteveJ Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 "Less guests will enter the queue meaning staff can relax and be lazier with operations" This just means you don't realise how rides are operated Of course some guests buy fastrack impulsively as soon as the advertised queue time goes over 10 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insider9150 Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Visited yesterday evening and found the park amazing, a lot of nice touches that beats Thorpe hands down. The market square area look brilliant, the creepy tree in the middle made it, also a nice touch with the colour changing lights around the buildings made the area really light up. Both the hollows and hocus pocus were great but had long queues, wasn't to keen on the show in market square though, the sound was terrible and kept feeding back. Loved the laser on Rameses Revenge, great idea and the music was good, had heard that they were playing club style music but all I heard was Halloween music, shame, but was still excellent. What amazes me with chessington, is the amount of care and thought they put into their Halloween events, compared to Thorpe Park. The parks rides are lit lovely. and the music they play gives the park a great atmosphere, but could do with area Halloween music instead of the same playing everywhere. Will be revisiting again on Sunday for one last time, and will take load of pics. HermanTheGerman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James39 Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Queue for vampire maze was short by 7pm but hocus pocus was busy until close Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Can I secpnd or third the call for a Ramesis lazer disco party video clip from a helpful visitor please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 The Hotel guests Fastrack till 11am did cause a burden on Scorpion Express as loads turned up all at once, resulting in an entire train and a half to be taken up by them... Perhaps using Towers' method and giving out a free Fastrack package for the day's visit would be a better option for this next year... Note that Towers does the same method as Chessie from Scarefest onwards - Fastrack until 11am on select rides (not The Smiler or CBeebies Land). Â When they used to have the whole day thing is when it created those MASSIVE Fastrack queues. Far better having the current system, as at least it only affects the first hour of the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pognoi Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 No you're not! On saturday, these were pretty much our opinions: Â Cornflakes: "They've used bin linen!" Â Toofpikk: "No, it's cloth." Â CWOAfanMalcolm: "Plastic?" Â Me: "It looks terrible! Nuff said." No you got it all wrong.. Kerfuffle and paige 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFarmerDean Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Well Chessington certainly did not disappoint again... The effort put into this event is just outstanding; lighting, in particular black buccaneer and vampire were great again like previous years, and now Rameses with its music and lasers just really made my day - the 2 Halloween scare attractions were brilliant as usual but with such storyline comes a horrible throughput! I do have a short video I recorded of the lasers on Rameses on my phone but will not upload so may have to wait to get home; the lasers are all colours and can pretty much do anything, as well as goes in time with the music, which unfortunately I didn't hear club music but it was playing various music, mainly Halloween. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFarmerDean Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 I've uploaded it, so hopefully the link works... Recorded this little bit while waiting for the minimum of 15 people, which seemed to be happening most of the day, clearly the ride isn't popular enough :/ pluk, Cal, alexander and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPJames Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Wow that's so cool! Thanks for the upload, I wish I could get down and ride this with all the lasers and music. Shame the event only lasts till Sunday and I'm at thorpe on Sunday Hope they bring back this feature next year though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 236 Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Those lasers look awesome! Ramesis at night just looks fantastic like pretty much all of Chessington. Hopefully I'll get to see this one day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Nice! Thanks for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imagineer Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Went to Chessington last night - quite a mistake. It was heaving! Did both walkthroughs though.   Mystery of HPH was good, the highlight being the first scene/projection mapping. But the fact that there was no music outside the attraction meant a very boring hour + wait. The throughput is particularly bad, especially because of the disabled entrance being batched half and half.  I don't know what was going on with Haunting in the Hollows, again there was no music in the queue and it looked a mess! Cables everywhere, with the tower looking particularly bad. In the first year the drapes cover the doors so you couldn't see the strobe - now you can see it all the way from the Graveyard. Also it meant that the 'children' entering was more of a surprise (because you couldn't see the second set of doors.) Ruins it for me. Also little details missing - like the howl of the Werewolves during the graveyard sequence. It's a shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Ruins it for me. Also little details missing - like the howl of the Werewolves during the graveyard sequence. It's a shame. The werewolves howling isn't a triggered effect. It occurs right at the start of the audio loop in the graveyard area. (I know this because last year, the werewolves "howled" inside the funeral parlour) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraX Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 It is a triggered scene. Triggered by the actor in the castle bit.. Â Agree with comments of it being scruffy. Also serious lack of triggered effects and music in hocus pocus, which was odd. Â I wonder why the hocus pocus hall music is playing across the whole park, but not outside hocus pocus? What happened to the Chessington halloween music? I'm assuming it's because a new team did it all this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imagineer Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 The werewolves howling isn't a triggered effect. It occurs right at the start of the audio loop in the graveyard area. (I know this because last year, the werewolves "howled" inside the funeral parlour) Â It is a triggered effect, I know this because I was part of the team that set up the attraction in its original incarnation. Â It is a triggered scene. Triggered by the actor in the castle bit.. Â Agree with comments of it being scruffy. Also serious lack of triggered effects and music in hocus pocus, which was odd. Â I wonder why the hocus pocus hall music is playing across the whole park, but not outside hocus pocus? What happened to the Chessington halloween music? I'm assuming it's because a new team did it all this year. Â I know the Ents team always suffered with change overs of staff. What with the department restructure in 2012/13 and then the departure of the Production Manager, Production TL and Operation Manager meant that pretty much everyone doing it this year was new. Â The music outside Hocus Pocus is controlled from the attraction itself. It could be that, in 'turning off' the original attraction they are unable to play the music. However it could have been done, but would have involved more work in the set up and then after to return it to its normal state. Kerfuffle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraX Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 So a rush job compared to last year. Couldn't they have asked the team from last year to help out? No triggered lighting or audio effects, or separate music for each scene either, which is a shane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imagineer Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 So a rush job compared to last year. Couldn't they have asked the team from last year to help out? No triggered lighting or audio effects, or separate music for each scene either, which is a shane. Â Quite simply they don't want to go back. It's not worth it. Too many hours, too little pay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraX Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Shame. Guess Merlin should learn to hang on to people then, and we wouldn't get these slap dash installations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPJames Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 It's not my video but I feel obligated to share it, it shows an amazing atmosphere and proves how great chessington's Halloween event really was! http://youtube.com/watch?v=iHtvjTN8HWw So upset now to have missed it this year but will definitely be visiting next year, hope the attention to detail over the park remains like this. The park looks far superior to both fright nights and scarefest which I both visited this year. pluk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 It was certainly lacking in comparison to other recent years though (like the Voodoo Dolls in Wild Asia as an example)... Â Mixed bag for all the parks really... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFarmerDean Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 So in a video released by Chessington recently... Informs us about two new attractions for their Halloween event. http://youtu.be/HVZ7hLwJEEA Trick or Treat in the Woods and Curse of the Lost Tomb. So no other information has been given, but I'm somewhat concerned vampire haunting in the hollows has been replaced, unless the trick or treat in the main square is literally just been given a revamp but seems a bit exaggerated having it in a new attraction release video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchada04 Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Haunting in the hollows is safe. Bits of information on the website about them all but nothing about Hocus. Maybe that's for trick or treat woods? Curse of lost tomb is an Extra Charge. OldFarmerDean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFarmerDean Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Ah thanks for this extra info... What other space does Chessington have for the extra attraction? Like I heard they had another attraction the year I didn't go called the krypt or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshC. Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 The Krypt was located in the hospitality marquee I believe, which is behind the shops and such in Wild Asia I think. Then again, Krypt was Kobra themed, so it made perfect sense for it to go there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merry-go-girl Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Trick or Treat in the Woods sounds very intriguing. Although, outside of Transylvania I'm pressed to think of what other woods they have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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