Halloweekends 2012

^ Nice.

10 billion? Really? I'd say more like 5 billion. It's not THAT bad......even if it is the most non feeling flume I've ever been on.

He had a smiley. He might have really only thought like 3 billion. :) Agree though...loved the reuse of Shoot the Rapids.

I'm sure Intamin is dissapointed they couldn't get the water to flow any slower.

Once you've seen a billion indestructible zombie Hitlers, you've seen them all...

djDaemon said:
I suspect part of the reason the maze is an upcharge is because a maze, by design, will have very low capacity.

At Knott's, the term "maze" simply refers to any indoor haunted house. The terminology threw me off a bit too the first time I heard it.

Via LA Times

At Knott's Berry Farm, the premium maze is dubbed Trapped because visitors are led into closed-off sections and then challenged to find a way out. The $60 premium charge buys about 25 minutes in the maze.

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The experience is so frightening, he said, that park visitors are given a safe word to shout to exit the maze early.

Sounds like this one is actually a maze.

Good Suggestion.

http://blackoutnyc.com
This was the first place that I heard of that you go by yourself.

Good catch, I didn't see that part. Who would have thought the "maze" would actually be like a maze?

Blackout NYC sounds completely insane. I heard about them a couple of years ago and the stuff they do is just nuts.

It is nuts indeed. I don't think that extreme would be enjoyable.

I was at CP earlier and decided to ride Mean Streak as my last ride of the night. It was PACKED in the day, so I had to pass on it as I made my mid-day rounds through the upper portion of the park area.

While making my way through the line, I was surprised to see how much progress was made to the new Haunt.

These pictures are awful, but at least they're something. If you squint really hard and maybe use your imagination a bit, you can see the outer shell of the building.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/Titandwedebil/P8100419.jpg

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/Titandwedebil/P8100420.jpg

I definitely think there's a line between just how "extreme" a house should be. To me personally, there's nothing really "scary" about gore and how some haunts go overboard with the graphic scenes. If Blackout NYC is the maze I'm thinking I read about over a year ago, then I don't really care about houses that use "shock factor" as a means to scare people.

I'm all for using psychological elements to really get people scarred or out of their element as that's what I like to do. But I think haunts that show scenes like zombie-esk women holding fake dead/demon baby fetuses is crossing the line. I'm aware there's an element of horror to it, but I think it borderlines "gross and shocking" more than "scary".

That's just my opinion though.

Well, Blackout is having people pay to be, pretty much, assaulted.

^Pretty much. There's some shock value style gore included too, but the review I read was mostly all about the very real physical tormenting that goes on as you go through their house. Water boarding, getting chained up, being forced to crawl through small dark spaces, etc.

Here's a floor plan of the new haunted house guys.

http://i.imgur.com/c7jMd.jpg

After reading about Blackout NYC, it sounds really messed up and doesn't seem mentally healthy for anyone involved. I can't believe it's allowed to operate honestly. It sounds like it's crossing a line that could cause lasting mental damage (PTSD, etc.), and that'd be such a shame for a person to live a tortured life over a a poor decision for entertainment.

I found some of the reviews disturbing that people felt addicted to being sexually, physically, and emotionally abused in the house. I could totally see these same people wanting more, taking some kind of psychedelic drug, and then who knows what happens. Blackout NYC sounds like an accident waiting to happen to me.

I don't think it's crossing a line. It sounds like it fills a niche for those who crave a "Hostel"-type experience. It's not something I'd personally be interested in doing, but I dig that something like that exists.

Here's a floor plan of the new haunted house guys.

http://i.imgur.com/c7jMd.jpg

Wow, thanks for posting that!

The floor plan makes the building look a lot larger than it appeared to be in real life. I guess we'll be getting some pretty narrow hallways. :p

I agree, it looks bigger than I thought it would after seeing the site. The haunted house at Little Amerricka has the narrowest corridors I've ever experienced.