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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.

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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.

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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' :P

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I think BETFRED would make a fortune on the odds 'will the camera be returned' :P

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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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..

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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.

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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.

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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

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