Kurseddragon
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Hello.
I live in Southern Cali again, and I thought about auditioning here again, but decided against it. May work at Knott's as talent or supervisor (I've applied to supervisor, but they pulled the job from the job board and I haven't heard anything so I'mma assume nah).
Anyway, this lineup doesn't really peak my interest all that much, but I feel like it will for a lot of 'classic' people.
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More info for the one or two people who care:
Did preview night last night. Tooth Fairy is actually kinda good? It's real dark. I don't like how many objects that CGA puts in the middle of the floors, but whatever.
They said they wanted to try a shit ton of stuff for this maze. They have a crawling area, and a specific floor at the end (I haven't seen it used yet, though). But overall, it's good for a CGA maze. Idk anything about the Knott's maze, but from what I was told, it has very few similarities to that one; so it's its own thing.
Also was told during orientation that Toy Factory would probably come back since the person who runs the event loved the maze so much. So idk.
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The costumes for the stranger things demon is also apparently as challenging, or more challenging than the Alien suit from whatever those years were. So that's kool.
Apparently like half or more than half overheated on preview night, I think.
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Prob not gonna do a review thread so if anyone has any questions. Just ask.
Quick overview:
Didn't go last year so can't compare.
I think the overall has gotten worse since I worked in 2015. Like noticeably worse.
Trick r Treat: 100% bias. Still my favourite maze. Black hallways and all and shit. The transition black hallways saying what's coming up is way better than just black hallways. Or picture frames or whatever.
Stranger Things: Kool. Then black hallways. But then kool again.
Classic Monster's: Tbh, not the worst. Sets arent great but at least had some sort of differences I think. The first part and then separation to another part is kinda kool. Think it could be expanded.
Halloween: overall good. Not much else to say.
Purge: holy shit trash. Wtf.
Blumhouse: honestly not terrible. Not great. The Girl part is probably the best tbh.
Poltergeist: Pretty good. Lots of blackout/puppets.
Walking Dead: Walking Dead.
I don't like scarezones being one way walks. Really pulls me from immersion. I wanna be able to stand there and watch or pay attention to detail. Feels so forced.
And scarezone 1 feels like trash to do that in, but it's the only one where you're not forced to walk.
Terror tram was really bad. What did they do. It already sucked and they just. Wut.
Overall. I didn't like the line up before going. I think the event has gone downhill. My little amount of friends who still work there from when I worked say it's changed and it's more strict and they lost scaring freedom. So. That sucks. Also no gogos? Gr8.
I'll be at Great America. Which isn't any better. Lol.
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It was like. A kool room. Then black hallway. Then a kool room again.
But yeah. That line is ridiculously long.
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There's a lot of black hallways.
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Is it still better to go back lot to lower lot to upper lot?
Or lower lot then back lot then upper lot?
Rides excluded.
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All casting emails have been sent so if you didn't get one you're not cast at this time.
Some might trickle in or after opening weekend when everyone quits tho.
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Hello,
Very random topic but I'm kinda desperate.
My dog got ran over by a car and shattered his leg on July 27th. I'm still just a college student so obivously money is non-existent for me. The vet bill ended up being $7,000+.
All the details are in the GoFundMe link.
I'm not asking for donations, but if someone were to, it'd be greatly appreciated. All I'm asking is for a read and a share to get the page out there.
I can answer any questions if they're not answered in the link.
Thanks.
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8 hours ago, Hatchet said:
Glad to see Toy Factory getting the boot as its about time, that maze hasn't been good since like 2010. Also I gotta agree Backwoods was a big let down I never got a single good scare once in there and the bungee scene was unused. Same with Zombie High that maze hasn't been good the last couple years each time I went through it in 2017 literally there was no one manning the bungee scene which is the highlight of the maze what a disappointment. I just hope CGA finds a way to hire more scareactors because thats their biggest issue not enough people to fill out mazes and youll walk through entire scenes often with no one in them especially in like Cornstalkers where half the maze or more is empty. I know Madame Marie's is getting some love with the Blackout effect added to it which should breathe some new life into that maze but did the people in charge mention some of the other old mazes getting any improvements at all? Also did they mention how come they scrapped skeleton key rooms this year? @Kurseddragon
They struggle hiring because people quit. I obviously don't know facts and only worked there one year but it felt like more than half the people in the mazes by the end of the season were new hires lol. Even then, the new hires quit. And they hire pretty much everyone as far as I'm concerned, apart from the obvious ones who wouldn't work. I'm sure they expect people to quit and all, but like. Damn. They need new management tbh, because the two 15s and a 30 for this job is ridiculous per night. I know other places have it worse and even Universal had been worse in the past but like. If you want people to stay, make adjustments.. it's just poorly managed. But maybe I'm just spoiled after working at Horror Nights first. Idk. I'd help them run it if they hired me lol.
Anyway. I didn't even know they got rid of skeleton key. Maybe not making enough money. Not popular enough. Requires separate auditions and whatnot. Probably hard to recast at CGa. I'm just guessing though.
And no, they didn't mention any revamping of old mazes. Just said they were there again and that the scarezone and tooth fairy was new. And I love doing new shit even if it ends up sucking.
Although I'm glad I didn't end up in chaos house or I would've died from that mess.
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So if I do the 4 pm option, can I be downstairs or on the backlot for the early opening mazes? Or they forcing me to exit and go back? I know it was semi discussed two posts ago but I feel like this might be different.
It's either that or free parking for me but I'm thinking the early entry since I'm going one of those days anyway.
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On 7/20/2018 at 4:15 PM, wow said:
Guessing Toy Factory or Cornstalkers is biting the dust. Toy Factory was amazing last year and the only house where I got legit scared, felt like something at HHN. Constalkers is fun but was severely understaffed all last year, same with Zombie High(but that’s always a dud IMO except for the Prom and Bungee scene).
Is the new house an Orphanage or School or something like that? I really hope it’ll be the Scary Tales zone from last year
So basically the house lineup is:
- Chaos House
- Madame Marie’s Massacre Manor
- Backwoods(AWFUL maze last year; never got a good run through and was really corny but the set design was amazing)
- Roadkill Roadhouse
- New Maze
- Zombie High
- Cornstalkers or Toy Factory
- Wax Museum
* ik it sounds like I hated last year but it’s always a ton of fun, just wish they had more staff.
Guess I'll just say the new stuff since, whatevz.
Toy Factory is gone is replaced with Tooth Fairy.
Whatever the scarezone outside of Demon was is replaced with Reepers (I think they spelled it like that).
And funny, I was in the prom scene at Zombie High last year. Although I ended up just walking around the entire maze at some point and hung around the exit as well toward the end.
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I know like maybe two people here care about this haunt, but since I'm working it again, I felt I may as well post something.
There's two new things this year compared to last year. One's a new maze, one's a new scarezone. One of a long-time running maze will not be there anymore.
Idk if I should post them or not. But maybe. I'm sure you'll find out soon if it's not already somewhere on the internet.
I'll be in the new maze as a 'child.' Because both my personality and my stature is that of a child.
I didn't wanna do scarezones because their break scheduling sucks. A lot.
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I am so sad I won't be working this year. ): Been waiting for Trick r' Treat since I started working, or even just going before that... And now I live in Norcal. Wasn't even able to visit last year. I'm going out of my way to visit this year, but still. Really wish I could work. D:
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Well, won't be going this year. Had planned Nov. 4th like over two months ago and every person fell through except me. Since I'm in NorCal, it's not really worth the drive to go alone. First year I'm gonna miss since 2009. ):
Does anyone know if they sell some sort of wristband/bracelet and are there still limited edition Chucky pins? Also, does anyone have an extra sipper cup from last year?
Also Great America's run is over. Was an interesting experience. I'll talk about it in the other thread if anyone cares.
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Is there a map online? Or can someone take a hawt pic? Thankz.
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I generally don't like the merch they have for some reason. I think I personally like, approximately one item/apparel they have per year, if even that (although I got absolutely nothing last year, 'cause they sold out of souvenir cups and I'm made [btw, if anyone has an extra souvenir cup from 2016, lmk, I need one for my collection]).
The zip-up was the only thing I was really interested in, although I think most of the reason for me this year is that I'm just not a fan of most of the IPs, or not a big enough fan, I should say. But I also have literally like 15 zip-ups/hoodies, so I really don't need another. I'm going the last weekend and I might be able to get an employee discount if I do things right, and it's already gonna be heavily discounted, so I'll see when I go (if I go).
Kool vid, glad it didn't skip things. I agree that they should've kept the "Come Play With Us" style with the rest of their merch.
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7 minutes ago, themazethinker said:
well you can actually
catacombs [ insidious further ]
mummy [ mummy ]
chucky [ you can keep it since chuckys already there ]
psycho [ freddy's dream world ]
zombie [ leatherfaces meat locker ]
wolfman [ jason
Frankenstein [ Frankenstein ]
end [ last scare from leatherface ]
It honestly probably would've been really confusing for guests because of the layout and there were no real transitions (besides some stairs sometimes). They didn't really add much in terms of design with their overlays. If they did though, it would've worked. But it's also too late for that now.
Although tbf, monsters remix and Face/Off were prob really confusing too..
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2 hours ago, Joejoecorn said:
What John said about the scare zone props for hellthat they can putting out before the eventoween scarezone that they can putting out before and
wut
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19 minutes ago, themazethinker said:
that's pretty damn good
wait a minute i don't know how to put my signuature
Account settings, signature.
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48 minutes ago, themazethinker said:
okay i'll make it short and simple for you, you can remove the brain idea and just add the images and slap my name on it
http://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nosferatu-1-615x349.jpg
http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/G-sy7hAZ2nnl.jpg
http://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Pinhead-Hellraiser.jpg
I skipped one image though.
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21 minutes ago, themazethinker said:
since my names themazethinker how about a picture like this but inside the brain are sections of diffrent ips, like for example the frontal lobe will have classic monsters the occipital lobes modern the temproal lobe are remakes etc etc
You know that's gonna look like garbage because you're asking for too much in too little of a space? Regardless, gonna need the pics you want me to put.
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Just now, themazethinker said:
how about a signature with every ip hhn has ever done
Alright, get me a pic of every IP HHN has ever done.
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Anyone want a signature? I know these things aren't as popular as they used to be, but I'm bored.
Also if anyone's got rekt in the Photobucket change, let me know. Might be able to upload it somewhere else, maybe, but it's not a guarantee.
K thx
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Queen Mary Dark Harbor 2019
in Other Haunt Destinations
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Applied for Knott's as Assistant Stage Manager. Got an interview after receiving a no. Then didn't get a single thing after the interview. Not even a no. Just nothing. Called, they didn't know. KOOL.
Applied to the same thing at Queen Mary and got Support Usher instead.
Think my scareacting days are over (just not feeling it this year at all, which is why I didn't apply).
But I'll be here. Supporting. I don't even know what my literal duties are yet.. Lol.