Fright Fest 2007

[BP317]

A bit of a sneak peek maybe?










New banners made for this year, no more Mr Pumpkin










Layers of fog


Terror Twister mid cycle


Unfinished Tinsetown signage








Yes, Rue Le Morgue is back to "Bodies" every cycle. And yes there is PLENTY of fog!






Skywhirl cages

[ttd rox]

Cool pix! I can't wait to go!

[demon boy]

OH THE ONE DAY HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!! 10AM TOMMOROW CANT COME SOON ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great pics by the way. They really make FF look amazing(which it will be). But i do like the old banners better....

[frightfestkid]

The black moon will comeout tomarrow, tomarrow, frightfest starts tomarrow. Its only a scare away.

[Viper 06]

Hey, This is a copy-paste of a post in the Dead Man's Party Topic, I thought it would be more useful and exciting to those of you over here who plan on going tomorrow.

Let me list the fright fest activities for you.

Carousel Plaza- (No Transformation)
Carousel Plaza features the normal blood pool as well as a huge new animatronic scarecrow, almost as tall as the carousel!
Superstition- Shuttle themed to Elvira's haunted theme park with new film, which takes you on the ride "The House of Superstition" The you enter under a ladder, with umbrellas open inside all over the ceiling. The pre-show area shows a film where Elvira talks to the people designing her park (Wolfman, Dracula, and Frankenstein) who come up with rides such as "Squeel of Torture" "It's a small small terrifying world" and more.
Haunted Castle 3-d- 3-d show in pictorium going through a haunted castle (Imagine that). There's one scene which suggests the devil torturing opera singers and is a little graphic, and personally a bit boring to me, but great 3-d visuals, especially of the exterior. If you take this as purely visual and disreguard the loose plot, it's good.

Hometown Square-(No Transformation)
Love at First Fright- Halloween show which invites you to spend the night with Jack and Katie...in a graveyard. LAFF is extremly popular and played to capacity crowds every sat/sun last year, arrive early to see this great show.
Zombie Jamboree Parade- Starring the cast of laff, this is the nighttime parade featuring all the ghosts and goblins of fright fest.
Illinois Trollway- On the bridge between HTS and County fair the trolls guard the bridge.
Coffin of Fear- lay in a coffin filled with meal worms for 1 minute and get a t-shirt and exit passes.
Wheel of fright- spin the wheel and eat some sort of gross-out food to get exit passes and a t-shirt. Gross-Out foods include the classic Madagascar Hissing Cockroach, Nightcrawlers, Rocky Mountain Oysters and more.

Southwest Territory- TINSLETOWN
Tinsletown features the dead actors and actresses and stagehands of the long abandoned studio 13. Features of this section include the Tinsletown Walk of Fame, Your horror Screen test, and more. All the Buildings have been named "studio 1-12" with 13 inside the arcade. It should be noted that the studio is fenced in including The Terror Twister Plaza and Studio 13, Raging Bull, Giant Drop, and Viper are not included in the Scare Zone.
Studio 13- The brand new haunted house in 2007 featuring 13 different rooms with 13 different horror films. nominal fee required. The films include "A Nightmare on Elm Street" "Saw" "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" "Friday the 13th" "The Ring" "Cujo" "The Excorcist" "Psycho" and more.
Your Horror Screen test-The head director of Studio 13, wants you star in his next smash horror film, this takes place on the streets of Tinsletown.
Terror Twister- Chubasco transformed! They close in the walls, blast techno music with crazy lights and smoke.
The Human Freak Show: It moves to the mission this year. See show guides for more details as i have never and dont' ever intend to see this show.
Susan Rosan: Mistress of Mesmerism- This year she's in the amphitheatre, it's a hillarious show to watch or participate in, Not sure how they deal with the sounds of roller coasters and the cold as you are supposed to concentrate really hard for it to work...
Snakes on a Train- Is not technicaly in Tinsletown, but anyway, it's viper with rubber snakes.

County Fair has two scare zones
RISE OF THE DEMON half
A haunted trail behind the rock wall takes you past the terrible industrial accident that created the demon. Low ceilings, loud noises, and four terrifying demons are sure to give you a fright in this free attraction.
Demon- Transformed for fright fest includes a new sign, the demon song, and lots of red lights and smoke.
Monstet market- they change the name of farmers market
Dead End drive- spooky halloween theming is added to raceway.
american eagle- the station is taken over by tiny and used as her nest, and therefore is covered in spiders.
Transylvannian Idol- Kareoke continues on the market stage...poor people have to listen to that whilst eating.

AREA 51 Half-
AREA 51 moves to the train station area in county fair featuring commando characters, and aliens alike. It seems like you really need to get into the theme of this section to make it work...gotta say the Scareacters missed the mark, but we'll see how things go over the next month.
The predator- Iron wolf gets a new theme to go along with area 51 this year. We don't really know if they're doing anything but change the sign.
Fliddler's Flung- Bodies are placed up against teh walls of fiddlers as if they were flung out of the cars
American Eagle- Who's station has been taken over, as tiny's nest.
Train- will be closed this year, sadly.

Yukon- No Transformation
All that really happens here is looney tunes dressed up in halloween apparel, but this year there will also be a trick-or-treat trail for kids, presumably in bbnp.

NECROPOLIS-
Picnic grove is transformed into the mythical haunted city of the dead. zombies prowl the streets and lead you to...
The Mausoleum of terror- additional fee required for this haunted house bringing you into the necropolis mausoleum.
This year, be sure to stray off the beaten path for several new show scenes where they normally house the Freak show, as it has moved to Tinsletown. For the squemish, note that the scareacters are more agressive in this area, and it's not recommended for children under 12. It's not really terribly scary if you are above twelve, but they really hit the spot in some places. The "Camo tunnel" you enter through with the living bushes is definetly a highlight.

Yankee Harbor is themed as usual featuring pirate flags, and skeletons.
Monster mash- ERC gets smoke and music.

CARNEVIL of DOOM
Thought was actually put into the mardi gras scare zone this year, with more then double the amount of clowns as last year here, fun house mirrors line the streets, and evil clowns look down at you.
Manny B. Monster Show- Manny B. and the gang doing halloween songs. I don't normally watch a whole show of Manny B. But i highly reccomend stopping for a few minutes. The bits they do are hillarious and they are really talented.

Seven Sins Cemetary- Orleans place
Orleans Gets a frightful transformation into a cemetary taken over by vampires and werewolves. I'm not sure how I like the set up this year, It seemed a bit cluttered, but I won't say anyting else, and let you draw your own conclusions in a week. But let me say this, if you're looking to get scared, by guess is the characters will be hovering outside theatre Royale.
The Birds- Condor will be haunted this year...we don't really know what they're doing yet, but I've heard there's a different ride cycle.
Rue le Morgue- Enclosed bumper cars with music and lights.
Dead Man's Party- A new musical revue in Theatre Royale. Based on last years show, and other parks dead man's party's you can guess it will include songs like "No one lives forever" "Bring me to life" "Ballroom blitz" "dead man's party" and others.

[frightfestkid]

Coffin of Fear- lay in a coffin filled with meal worms for 1 minute and get a t-shirt and exit passes.

Is there an extra cost for coffin of fear.

[Viper 06]

No But it's only done once a night, and you probably have to be over 18.

[Mr.SIX]

[quote="Viper 06"]
The Birds- Condor will be haunted this year...we don't really know what they're doing yet, but I've heard there's a different ride cycle.


How would they make a different ride cycle for that?

[coasterkid94]

Great pics, sfgam07. I have never been to FF, and those photos gave me a good feel for the atmosphere of the park.

[DejaVuGurl1203]

Yay, can't wait. Leaving soon. My first time going on the first Saturday. Usually I go Sunday & Monday.

[demon boy]

See ya later boys! I"M LEAVING FOR FRIGHT FEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[frightfestkid]

If I go im leavein in an hour or so.

[Demon_07]

Did you take those today?

[Mr. D.T.]

I see LAFF did get a new sign and that looked ugly compared to the old one. At least Mr. Pumpkinhead is still around at the Main Gate and on top of Sky Trek. He comes alive this year by the giant balloon in front of the carousel.

Transylvanian Idol is a mere rip-off of Great America Idol which obviously means more Best of Both Worlds, Wannabe, Bohemian Rhapsody, and other hits of today sung by our very own youth generation.

It's a shame the train doesn't run this year I haven't an idea why.

[Mr. D.T.]

I see LAFF did get a new sign and that looked ugly compared to the old one. At least Mr. Pumpkinhead is still around at the Main Gate and on top of Sky Trek. He comes alive this year by the giant balloon in front of the carousel.

Transylvanian Idol is a mere rip-off of Great America Idol which obviously means more Best of Both Worlds, Wannabe, Bohemian Rhapsody, and other hits of today sung by our very own youth generation.

It's a shame the train doesn't run this year I haven't an idea why.

[Mr.SIX]

I just got back from Fright Fest and all I have to say is it was amazing.

Studio 13-This haunted house was good but it was too dark to even move. My group ran into about 20 walls and you cant see the scenes. But other than that it was good. Some of the scene could have been better but it might just be because its opening day.

Tinseltown Terror-It wasn't terrifying at all kinda a shame.

Necro-It out did it self everyone was up doing good scares all the shovel people scared the crap out of my group.

Mausoleum of Terror-This was better than last year they redid the layout and had some surprises in the mirror maze.

The Birds-It had a new ride cycle it spins aroung alot at the bottom then slows down to a almost stop at the top which is kinda creepy.

Rise of the Demon-This was a nice free house it wasn't too much it was just loud. But they did a good job for a small space and about 4 or 5 people in it.

[Demon_07]

cool.....I'm excited for rise of the demon.

[yeti_cat]

So I went to fright fest, and I have a list of recommended do-s and don't-s:

DO: Stay Until Dark
the park transforms very nicely when the sun goes out.

DON'T: Expect to be scared
by most of the actors working. Granted, it is the first weekend, but most of these people (and I know quite a few of them personally...no offense friends) don't really know how to scare in this environment. Street acting is a very different type of acting, and not enough of them have gotten into the flow of it yet.

DO: Try and get your rides in early, lines grow and grow and grow.

DON'T: wait to go eat.
they won't let you back in after 7pm, even with a wristband (they were giving us bands instead of hand stamps (is that new/normal?)
so if you leave the park to get dinner, go earlier than later.

DO: See the freak show if you haven't before,
if you have, its not the same quality of show as it has been in the past

DON'T: see Dead Man's Party
unless you enjoyed the movie "high school musical"....nice costumes, but that's pretty much the only good thing i can say about it besides the choreography-though both were lacking in creativity, they were well executed.

DO: see LAFF
its not the most amazing thing in the world, but I will always leave that show amused.

DON'T: be fooled
the little kid with glasses hiding behind the support for iron wolf isn't scary, and he doesn't work there.

[sixflagsgurneeboy]

I see LAFF did get a new sign and that looked ugly compared to the old one. At least Mr. Pumpkinhead is still around at the Main Gate and on top of Sky Trek. He comes alive this year by the giant balloon in front of the carousel.

Yeah i saw that sign for LAFF Show is interesting this year recognized some performers from Show Stoppin earlier in the summer...... When i was there this Saturday, they were trying to get Mr. Pumpkinhead to work correctly as i was resting on the benches next to blood Pool. At first the sound track played with no animation from Mr. PH which happened for a while so i just went elsewhere in the park hope to see it in action later on. Unfortunately after i had exited for the day (didnt get hand stamp Arggggh!), it was finally workiing and i got to catch it from a distance. I thought it was really cool to see that as you enter the park. The kids loved it. They should bring it back next year too. It was quite warm at the park so didnt stay that long so i know i will be going back soon hopefully on a cooler day..

[Demon_07]

lol, the little kid with glasses......

[TK895]

It was hotter than heck yesterday. But plenty of fun. Hopefully some rain tonight will cool things down for the weeks to come.

I hope to scare you soon.

[frightfestkid]

Rise of the Demon-This was a nice free house it wasn't too much it was just loud. But they did a good job for a small space and about 4 or 5 people in it.

Rise of the demon is free?????

[Mr.SIX]

Yea its free

[Sedir]

For the $5 before 5 deal can you buy tickets before 5 and then use them afterwards?

[Bob O]

Sad to hear that Giant Drop isnt being themed again this year, I take it that also means no sound effects??