Halloweekends 2011

I believe what's up currently is a placeholder of sorts. I remember seeing it last year as well. I suspect the full site will go up soon.

Yeah, that wasn't even there a week ago. They said the 2012 announcement would be near the end of this week. I would think they'd want to announce the Halloweekends changes first.

You raise an interesting point, Jason. Might they be planning to announce the 2012 news before the HW announcements so as to deflect attention away from the 2012 news?

If the news for 2012 involves a certain up-charge walkthrough attraction, the general public might not really care, thus making the announcement timing not critical. However, the discussed implications of said attraction might be viewed negatively by a certain community, and following up that 2012 news with HW news might serve as some sort of damage control or distraction, so to speak.

*removes tinfoil hat*

It's pretty bad when the new attraction you're announcing requires damage control.

The new haunted bayou is what I'm looking forward to the most, aside from the whole HalloWeekends season in general. I mean, who ISN'T excited for autumn at Cedar Point? The crisp, cool air, the haunted houses, the candy apples, the leaves changing color. :)

I'm so glad I have a platinum pass. Exactly 30 days today 'til we see some screamsters!

I haven't been to the park in 2 weeks. So I haven't been able to see any construction of the bayou house. Does anyone have pics they can post?

HalloWeekends Lady said:
the leaves changing color. :)

I am calling shenigans on this one!! Don't you have to have trees to see the leaves change colors?

So.... looks like with the arrival and location of the Dinosaurs that this will be the final year for Terror Island.... that's disappointing.

Or perhaps, just like paddelwheel, it won't opperate during halloweekends.

Is it unreasonable to think they may turn it into a haunted dinosaur attraction? Up-charge, of course.

I'm sad about Paddlewheel leaving, but I'm really sad about loosing the Island since It's where I spend my time for HalloWeekends :/

Zombie dinosaurs. Now that's just silly.

Ensign Smith said:
Zombie dinosaurs. Now that's just silly.

Well maybe not that. But Universal Orlando had an interesting themed zone at Halloween Horror Nights in 2002 involving Jurassic Park. It was called JP: Extinction if im not mistaken. Plus we dont know really know what the plans are for Terror Island yet.

I forgot my winky.

Oh, wait. Read my sig.

;)

I guess we will know the fate of that area for HWeekends by watching what Kings Island does with their Dino walkthrough this year.

First time poster here, but I've been active for years on another CF park's fansite.

I'm really looking forward to HW. This will be my third year in a row going up there for HW's opening weekend. I'll be heading up with some other current and former scareacters (KI's equivalent of CP's screamsters) again this year. I love that HW opens a week before our Haunt!

I can't wait to go through Blood on the Bayou. If it's anywhere as good as Eerie Estates and Happy Jack's, it will be a winner. And hopefully the giant skull will be returning in some way. Our group sat near the skull last year on several occasions during our two nights there, just watching the interaction with the guests. We were there so much that the skull started calling us his groupies. We couldn't help it though, he was just too funny!

We'll be in Detroit tomorrow for a family reunion, so I'm trying to talk Mrs. Gator into a CP trip on Sunday. It would be my daughter GatorGirl's first trip there (47"... grr, so close!) and reading all this about the park setting up HW is just adding fuel to the fire to get me to convince her that we need to go!

this is just the parks way of quietly getting rid of terror island because they knew it wasn't good enough to compete with the other zones ;-)

in all seriousness I'm curious to see where they move terror island to or what they replace it with for a re-theme.

the ffej man said:

HalloWeekends Lady said:
the leaves changing color. :)

I am calling shenigans on this one!! Don't you have to have trees to see the leaves change colors?

Pardon my nonspecific speech, I love when the leaves on the trees change color in the fall. :b

Gator, welcome to PB. I enjoy reading your posts over at KIC. Have you only visited during HWeekends, or have you came during the regular season too?

josh88 said:
this is just the parks way of quietly getting rid of terror island because they knew it wasn't good enough to compete with the other zones ;-)

in all seriousness I'm curious to see where they move terror island to or what they replace it with for a re-theme.

I think Blood on the Bayou is an early replacement for Terror Island.

With the 2012 announcement causing the removal of PWE and most likely Terror Island next year. They had to do something to make people less angry. That's probably why Blood on the Bayou is going up this year. It will lessen the blow that some people have been hurt by the 2012 Dinos.