Eden Musee

New Eden Musee photos in the gallery:

http://pointbuzz.com/Photos/Gallery.aspx?id=708

Thanks Walt! Those are great.

It's nice to be able to appreciate some of the detail they put into the house. Is this one of the light fixtures that used to hang in the rotunda at Hotel Breakers?

Yes it is.

Too bad they ruin so many of the houses at CP with terrible lighting. It is my biggest peeve with their houses. They rely too much on spotlights in your face to scare you.

Bummer especially when they have such nice sets and such with this house and Erie Estate. Light them well and let the scaractors do their job!

They also used a lot of disaster transport props in there like the pipes and the boiler that was in the question line. Also the Pharoahs from the old Pharoahs tomb I thought was very neat!

And I assume the Indians were from Western Cruise.

^ What was DT's question line?

I think he means queue line.

Is this the same company that did Eerie Estate and Happy Jack's?

I haven't had a chance to go through Eden Musee yet, and it might just be the lighting, but the props don't seem quite as professional and detailed in those pictures as the stuff we saw in Happy Jack's for example.

Company? It is all done in-house by Cedar Point. So yes it is the same group that did Eerie Estates, Happy Jack's, Asylum, Club Blood and all of the outdoor areas.

I think it may be because props for a toy factory are a lot easier to make than props for a wax museum.

Oh wow...that's impressive. For some reason, I always thought that Eerie Estate and Happy Jack's were done by an outside company or someone new, probably because CP had never seen houses that detailed before them. I have a whole new level of respect for CP's in-house crew now, as I found their level of detail to be amazing and well thought out.

And yes, ilikemotorcycles, I agree. Pulling off toy props is indeed much easier than wax museum props. I guess I was picturing more disturbingly real wax figures, where those more resemble store mannequins. But, I imagine the cost of more realistic ones is ridiculous and not realistic for an amusement park haunted house. With the low lighting conditions, that detail is probably never even noticed.

Ffej said:
because CP had never seen houses that detailed before them.

And this was mainly due to the fact that the team never got a decent budget to work with. Now that Halloweekends is becoming more popular, more money is being spent on the event.