August 26, 201312 yr comment_166971 Isn't that last year's one though? It has last year's logo and park-wide theme (which doesn't make sense for this year), and last year 4 mazes were included in admission, as Passing was a paid extra. Yeah I'm pretty sure that's last years poster! I agree, with the new theme why would they have the old theme and old logo? Because it is obviously from last year? Thorpe Park would have just reposted it because they haven't got one for this year yet - the package is probably the same. It doesn't confirm anything new about this year's event. The massive give-away is the URL "corporate/2012". Yeah, as soon as I saw Thorpe park penitentiary I knew it was old. I guess it's an old one then.
August 26, 201312 yr comment_166972 What would be ultra cool is if they give each group a video camera at the start of the Blair Witch Project maze. Then at the end of the maze, they could rake in a fortune selling the videos to you. I'm sure you can get cheap short throw video cameras that send to a central listener server and then to a DVD printer.
August 26, 201312 yr comment_166974 I have a picture of Passing corridor nothing changed yet still the same as last year. I would uploaded it but not sure how
August 26, 201312 yr comment_166977 I remember going to Fright Nights last year and they did the station up really nice I heard it was down to the enthusiasm of the staff instead of Thorpe themselves.
August 26, 201312 yr comment_166980 I remember going to Fright Nights last year and they did the station up really nice I heard it was down to the enthusiasm of the staff instead of Thorpe themselves. They should do stuff like that this year! It really adds to the feel of FN
August 26, 201312 yr comment_166982 Thorpe Park have shown two images today linking to the films.. More possible details coming up based on this or just to get us excited for it?
August 26, 201312 yr comment_166983 What would be ultra cool is if they give each group a video camera at the start of the Blair Witch Project maze. Then at the end of the maze, they could rake in a fortune selling the videos to you. I'm sure you can get cheap short throw video cameras that send to a central listener server and then to a DVD printer. I think BETFRED would make a fortune on the odds 'will the camera be returned'
August 26, 201312 yr comment_166989 These posts are implying more of a house than a scare zone though.
August 26, 201312 yr comment_166990 I think BETFRED would make a fortune on the odds 'will the camera be returned' I liked the idea someone posted a few pages back about the camera being with an actor who was guiding the group around. I'm not sure how well it would work, and I'd personally not want the end of any maze be met with a photo or DVD booth... That was one of the things which ruined The Passing for me last year.
August 26, 201312 yr comment_166996 Its not a bad idea but the scariest bit is always being at the front, I guess an actor leading it would ruin it. The cameras could work if well monitored!!!!!!!! I'm sure they wouldnt get nicked if they were checked in and out.
August 27, 201312 yr comment_167022 Its not a bad idea but the scariest bit is always being at the front, I guess an actor leading it would ruin it. The cameras could work if well monitored!!!!!!!! I'm sure they wouldnt get nicked if they were checked in and out. an actor could go for the first bit then say this is as far as I can take you?
August 27, 201312 yr comment_167040 My main concern with the Blair Witch Project/ CCR maze is with how much they would probably have to light the course for H&S reasons if it did not make use of the CCR train and guests had to walk around that area.
August 27, 201312 yr comment_167046 Some low-lit lanterns hanging from trees or even ground spots could work. Outlining the path and providing just enough light to illuminate the terrain would be ideal. Just so they keep enough of the darkness prevalent because let's be honest, it'd be pretty **** otherwise. My fear is that Thorpe will instead go for the simpler and stupidly cost-ineffective option of floodlights. The result would be drastically different to makeshift, camp-site-suitable lanterns powered by what looks like a camping generator. Or maybe even oil lanterns for that old-fashioned flickering in the dark effect, making it hard to make out the distance. You'd be properly isolated and it'd feel like you've really left civilisation as there'd be no electricity at all. So many more option than floodlights. Floodlights with no mood, no intimacy, and certainly no atmosphere. By all means, keep the floodlights as a safety measure. But I'd like to see more thought going into the immersion of the actual maze than having it floodlit from some external source.
August 27, 201312 yr comment_167054 So, to those who have worked as a Fright Night actor before or have recently auditioned, can you give any tips or what not on what the audition is like? Maybe even how it works? I've got a few monologues that they asked me to prepare for it, but I'm stumped at which one to use! Any help would be great!
August 27, 201312 yr comment_167056 So, to those who have worked as a Fright Night actor before or have recently auditioned, can you give any tips or what not on what the audition is like? Maybe even how it works? I've got a few monologues that they asked me to prepare for it, but I'm stumped at which one to use! Any help would be great! Hi, did my interview a week or so ago... They will make you do some group warm ups, then they will ask you to think of a character and walk around the room as that character but varying in intensity. After, they will do a running and stopping exercise followed by a group task where you have to scare someone on a chair. Finally they will ask you to perform ONE monologue shorter than two minutes to the entire group... all will say here is use your scariest and most interesting one, take risks. Then its over.
August 27, 201312 yr comment_167059 Hi, did my interview a week or so ago... They will make you do some group warm ups, then they will ask you to think of a character and walk around the room as that character but varying in intensity. After, they will do a running and stopping exercise followed by a group task where you have to scare someone on a chair. Finally they will ask you to perform ONE monologue shorter than two minutes to the entire group... all will say here is use your scariest and most interesting one, take risks. Then its over. Awesome stuff! Mind if I ask what monologue you did?
August 27, 201312 yr comment_167070 I've just had a thought... If the Blair Witch (or any attraction really) uses the CCR route in any way, will it open later than the other mazes? The maze is likely to have the majority of it outside in the open, and I think having it open at 3pm, when it's still light and that, would definitely detract from the experience. Even if they were to use the woods up the hill - which I think is doubtful - it would still be rather light. I'm not saying open it ridiculously late, more like 5-6pm (depending on if the clocks have gone back). But I do think opening it any earlier and it could detract from the experience..
August 27, 201312 yr comment_167071 I think, the Blair witch project could work with the railway being used as part/all of the maze and then maybe some problem and having to go by foot on the rest. Could work quite well.
August 27, 201312 yr comment_167089 I don't like the idea that the maze could you the railway. Walk along the railway path by all means, but there's no such trains in the film and I'd hate to see the whole thing turn into a tourist-y ride-through experience where the noise of the train and the safety of it's carriages removes the immersion of being alone in the woods, on your own, with little light, with supernatural forces around you.
August 27, 201312 yr comment_167093 well I have recently Purchased TBWP for a pound so will be giving it a watch(I was infact looking for the last 3 saw films) but since thorpe are doing something special with this film I made the purchase. Also by reading Josh's post they could do what they did with Dead end open it at Dusk? so 7pm
August 27, 201312 yr comment_167097 The only way I could see the BWP working in the woods is if the train track was boarded over to make it a safe path. Imagine the number of screaming girls that stub their toes and trip over the rail sleepers... Also, forgive me if I'm wrong as I'm yet to actually see The BWP but isn't there a house/shack thingy in the film? If so we could be seeing that in the walkthrough.
August 28, 201312 yr comment_167098 The only way I could see the BWP working in the woods is if the train track was boarded over to make it a safe path. Imagine the number of screaming girls that stub their toes and trip over the rail sleepers... Also, forgive me if I'm wrong as I'm yet to actually see The BWP but isn't there a house/shack thingy in the film? If so we could be seeing that in the walkthrough. yes right at the end
August 29, 201312 yr comment_167179 One more place a maze could go is the Sunken Garden, behind Stealth where the Flying Fish used to be! Its unlikely but possible!
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