October 28, 201410 yr comment_196084 "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.
October 28, 201410 yr comment_196087 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.
October 28, 201410 yr comment_196093 Queue for vampire maze was short by 7pm but hocus pocus was busy until close
October 28, 201410 yr comment_196100 Can I secpnd or third the call for a Ramesis lazer disco party video clip from a helpful visitor please!
October 28, 201410 yr comment_196102 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). 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.
October 29, 201410 yr comment_196249 No you're not! On saturday, these were pretty much our opinions: Cornflakes: "They've used bin linen!" Toofpikk: "No, it's cloth." CWOAfanMalcolm: "Plastic?" Me: "It looks terrible! Nuff said." No you got it all wrong..
October 29, 201410 yr comment_196260 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.
October 29, 201410 yr comment_196266 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 :/
October 29, 201410 yr comment_196267 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
October 29, 201410 yr comment_196268 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.
October 31, 201410 yr comment_196432 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.
November 1, 201410 yr comment_196464 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)
November 1, 201410 yr comment_196465 It is a triggered scene. Triggered by the actor in the castle bit.. Agree with comments of it being scruffy. Also serious lack of triggered effects and music in hocus pocus, which was odd. 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.
November 1, 201410 yr comment_196487 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) It is a triggered effect, I know this because I was part of the team that set up the attraction in its original incarnation. It is a triggered scene. Triggered by the actor in the castle bit.. Agree with comments of it being scruffy. Also serious lack of triggered effects and music in hocus pocus, which was odd. 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. 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. 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.
November 1, 201410 yr comment_196491 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.
November 1, 201410 yr comment_196524 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. Quite simply they don't want to go back. It's not worth it. Too many hours, too little pay!
November 1, 201410 yr comment_196525 Shame. Guess Merlin should learn to hang on to people then, and we wouldn't get these slap dash installations.
November 16, 201410 yr comment_197454 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.
November 16, 201410 yr comment_197456 It was certainly lacking in comparison to other recent years though (like the Voodoo Dolls in Wild Asia as an example)... Mixed bag for all the parks really...
July 31, 201510 yr comment_213638 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.
July 31, 201510 yr comment_213639 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.
July 31, 201510 yr comment_213640 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?
July 31, 201510 yr comment_213641 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!
July 31, 201510 yr comment_213642 Trick or Treat in the Woods sounds very intriguing. Although, outside of Transylvania I'm pressed to think of what other woods they have.
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