August 20, 201312 yr comment_166026 Maybe not quite that obvious, but yes, that sort of idea. Maybe more like (from what I hear, not done it myself) the Vampire maze at Chessington, which I'm told is fun scary with a decent narrative, not YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE scary. As for the roaming actors they used to have these at Chessington, all sorts of terrifying things (the best of which were huge stilted three legged things which would chase people for ages), a skilled actor knows their target and how to chose them. Older families would be fine with that sort of thing. Surely anyway if families were there the roaming actors would avoid scaring them
August 20, 201312 yr comment_166056 I doubt there will be any mazes for younger children, and fright nights will remain for over 12s. It will be complicated and wouldn't work to have a less scary maze, as the atmosphere/actors will just mean anybody looking to go fright nights are likely to be those looking for a proper scare, and TP know this. They will just keep going for the true horror events, there wont be a more 'fun scary' one. If people want a more 'fun scary' event, as I said, they can go to chessie down the road
August 20, 201312 yr comment_166069 exactly Don't even know why this got brought up tbh they wont do it You brought it up... - Guys, they are not making this event for families. There will be no mazes for families. I'll ask again, why you are so sure? Having an opinion is different to saying categorically something will or won't happen. You are doing the latter, do you mean to be doing the former? I'm not professing to know anything, but it would be pretty dumb to alienate your new target market a couple of months after deciding what your target market was, wouldn't it? I'll point out again, there is a massive difference between the little children based 'family' event Chessington put on and what I'm meaning by 'family' - I'm talking about the very young teenage market seen squealing away on the big rides in the summer adverts with their parents. Thorpe park is for them now just as much as the old 16-24 independent youth market they've been squarely aimed at for a number of years.
August 20, 201312 yr comment_166081 Shall we settle the family debate by simply saying we'll just have to wait and see?
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166100 There's a difference between a family maze and family attraction though. Alton is a family park, and all their mazes are for over 14s. They still have family attractions though; shows and whatnot. There's nothing stopping Thorpe adding in a small side-line attraction for, say, children aged 8-12 and their families. It will do no harm and doesn't need to be thrust to the public's attention much. Families will find that if it's there.
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166118 Check out the Thorpe park website and see events! Fright nights has changed! Opens on the 5th! http://www.thorpepark.com/plan-your-visit/events.aspx#frightnights
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166121 "They have to make the choice of their own free will" is a line from the movie Cabin In The Woods, which is having it's own maze at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal this year, interesting.
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166122 If people want a more 'fun scary' event, as I said, they can go to chessie down the road Hope you're joking there. There's no reason why the park doesn't do anything to cater for families - they might be using marketing to show the hardcore side, however it doesn't mean they won't introduce something slightly calmer for those who want to experience the event but don't want something so full on.
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166123 If you type that in on google, it comes up with a quote from cabin in the woods
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166125 Cabin In The Woods is one of my favourite recent horrors, exciting times
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166126 Hmm they have just released a quote from Cabin in the woods Beaten to the post note Cabin I the woods is also Lionsgate and dead Silence is done by Twisted Pictures And the first Quote they released 'They're Coming' could be hinting towards Zombies (Night of the Living dead). I may be looking to much into this
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166127 Cabin in the woods is made by lions gate and would fit in asylum building if they painted the roof!
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166128 Here's a clip from the film: SPOILER ALERT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1SV0LInE-s Imagine being put in that room with all the monsters coming out all around you, could be pretty intense!
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166129 The own free will part makes me think that you have to choose your route, maybe a multi route maze so you get split up???
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166131 Unfortionatly, I think I'm correct in saying experiment 10 won't be returning
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166136 I would like asylum and experiment 10 to be there still, although I think exp10 will be gone and asylum will be 100% different
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166137 Guess it will be returning over 'Ex10' and ''Asylum then... Just because they are doing work to it, doesn't mean it will turn out the same!
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166138 and asylum will be 100% different So gone then? Even if this leads to all the mazes being horror franchise themed it doesn't mean the core of the old mazes won't still be there, just tweaked to fit the theme.
August 21, 201312 yr comment_166141 If the mazes do end up getting horror films attached to them, some won't need much work at all. Asylum to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Experiment 10 to Cabin in the Woods (more relating to the latter parts of the film). The Passing to any sort of film about death or the paranormal. Get a completely new maze to replace Curse. A few tweaks here and there and it's sorted. Would be interesting to see.
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