#alton towers scarefest

[sanctuarynurse]

Hopefully i'll manage to get a few more night time ride photos at fireworks but here's one from my recent trip to Scarefest with the full moon on show! Got the most amazing front row ride at night as well with all the stars in view. Praying i can get a couple more in to finish the season but i'm definitely not ready for this season to be over.

[multi-fandomdisaster]

PHALANX MAZE!!!

THERE'S GONNA BE A PHALANX MAZE!!!

[rose-grimm-spirit-does-dumb-shit]

Compound is a scaremaze, a good scaremaze.

The idea with this design was to absolutely take advantage of the whole "weaponising your DNA" part of the lore to make a mutated Seek the Truth activist, after all that is what you're detained under suspicion of being! Going with Honey Badger as a base species for the fun of making a species known for their violence and tenacity so dangerous that even they feel ashamed of it.

The eyes, teeth and general growths of this design were very fun :)

Oh and before you get any ideas, @cherrykitkat has this one on hold as well.

THE LINEUP

Day 1 - The London Dungeon Day 2 - Magma Day 3 - Coven of 13 Day 4 - Orion Day 5 - Vampire Day 6 - Below Day 7 - Curse at Alton Manor Day 8 - Wolf Legend Day 9 - Depths of Darkness Day 10 - Octonauts Rollercoaster Adventure Day 11 - Electrick Circus Day 12 - Mandrill Mayhem Day 13 - Survival Games Day 14 - Mystic Timbers Day 15 - Compound Day 16 - Tiger Rock

[ghostyboys]

Tried to be scared in burial grounds but the music was too much of a banger

[givepie]

Went to Scarefest @ Alton Towers last night and did my first ScareMazes. In fact, I did all the scaremazes + scare zone [except for Tiny's cause of sensory reasons and Panic cause of money + time] with 2 night rides on Galactica.

All this to say, I found The Invitation absolutely HILARIOUS and I would love to see a transcript or the actual audio if there is any. Anything to hear "what have you been eating 🤨🤨🤨??? Chips. Chips????" Again. Cause Holy shit how did they write that without laughing.

Also if we know the VA it would be nice to see that, too. Cause I want to know that man who was able to recite all of that in that fuckin tone. That is true talent

[travelsinstaffordshire]

THE SMILER | Alton Towers | Scarefest 2023 | In The Queue and Offride PO...

[stainedmystery]

File 10: Choppy Water

[ahsokajedi]

oblivion, alton towers scarefest (21.10.23)

[howdoesthisappwork]

Phalanx scare maze 🥳

[myusernamechangesevery5minutes]

I hope everyone had an amazing Halloween yesterday! 🎃

I’m so pleased with how it all turned out because there were a few moments where it seemed impossible to get this finished on time.

Hopefully there will be chance to build another one of these in the future, or other movie props/ saw traps, as this was a lot of fun to make.

Comment below, what trap next?

[toylandtours]

rip the alton towers dungeon welcome back toyland tours (i am booed of the stage)

[sanctuarynurse]

I wish i had gotten more photos of the towers lit up but i was enjoying myself at the park so much i barely got any photos/videos sfhcx

[multi-fandomdisaster]

Am I the only one who finds it interesting just how much Alton Towers decided to change the description for Burial Grounds from last year?

Here's last year's Burial Grounds description: "The Unchosen, a cult obsessive of modern-day fanatics obsessed with the lore of the Beornen invite you to their sacred sanctum of ancient burial grounds. Keep your pace amongst the desecrated realm of unearthed bodies, flaming shrines and monstrous deities. Stay too long and they will choose you too - are you ready? Burial Grounds is a free-flowing outdoor scare zone shadowed by the mighty Wicker Man where you'll encounter the rejectors of modern-day society fulfilling their terrifying primal instincts.”

And here's this year's: “Burial Grounds is a free-flowing outdoor scare zone shadowed by the mighty Wicker Man where you’ll encounter the rejectors of modern-day society fulfilling their haunting primal instincts.”

They just...cut out the entire beginning of the description and changed "terrifying" to "haunting." Which is particularly strange to me considering how much effort last year they put into specifying that the characters we interacted with in Burial Grounds were the Unchosen, NOT the Beornen. The description they put out this year, however, could easily imply that it's the Beornen that we're encountering.

Now for the real question: Will we still be encountering the Unchosen in Burial Grounds, or will it change and we walk through a Beornen ritual instead?

[rose-grimm-spirit-does-dumb-shit]

Themed park merch haullll!

Got a Nemesis Reborn resin, two nem pins and a sub terra, three nem patches, a Panic Reloaded pin, Panic patch, Creepy Caves t-shirt for a tenner and a Howl'O'Ween hoodie for 30 instead of 40.

Pretty damn good ngl.

[ghostyboys]

This could very well be an entirely lukewarm take, but after going down a research spiral related to the Sanctuary (alton tower's 2012-2014 Smiler themed scare maze) and being in despair that there wasn't even a bootleg recording of the experience:

I believe that in all parks with haunts in the halloween season, the parks should do an official recording of each scare attraction. While I can see a few downsides to letting the general public record (lights on cameras diminishing the experience, scare actor discomfort in front of cameras, and the general public already misbehave a lot in mazes so letting them have cameras could exacerbate that issue in a few different ways) I think that it is hugely important to have a recording in terms of archiving the history of the park to have any recordings at all.

Think of all the hard work that goes into making a scare maze. Weeks of planning themes and stories, hundreds of props and set pieces, elaborate lighting and effects, hours put towards making costumes and makeup perfect, and the dozens of talented scare actors working their asses off to give guests a fun scare. Yet there's only about a total of, assuming a maze gets a two year run, two halloween seasons' (approx a month) worth of few-hour time slots that they will ever be appreciated, analysed and experienced at all. But if there was even one walk through recording of each maze, all of that could be fixed, and many of the issues with the GP recording the events can be easily avoided by just having the parks themselves do these walk through videos.

Plus, I can think of a lot of accessibility benefits to recordings, too. A lot of people (frankly myself included) dread going into any experience where they don't have a general idea of what is going to happen. Plus, for some people that just can't experience certain mazes at all (eg, wheelchair users not being able to access Towers' mazes that are within the ruins themselves), but might have wanted to see the contents, it's definitely not a perfect solution, but it's better than them never seeing the inside of the maze.

Towers have kind of made a step towards this; they did a series this year with a handful of actors and tiktokers going through some of the mazes, and you could kind of see what was going on, but it was clear that they also wanted to obscure as much as they could. It's nothing grand, but definitely better than nothing at all. But, I think it would be way better to just get like one professional recording per maze!

Is this rant mostly because I'm bitter about there being no footage of the Sanctuary other than a few photos and one very crunchy audio-only recording?

.............. yea, admittedly, but I do think I have a point. I don't want these mazes to be only hazy memories after their runs in the park.

[justdaniel-eh]

COMPOUND Game

Did you guys try the Amigos in the Afterlife game. Yes?

Well cool so did I and at first I fucking HATED it because it felt so poorly made. Upon second playing it was just my blind judgement and half asleep ADHD brain trying to read a lot of instructions - though it is still VERY flawed. But what else did I expect, we're never getting the same quality as The Smiler game again.

SO I took it upon myself. I decided I could make a game.

This screenshot is of my VERY early and work-in-progress build of it - but it fully works. And is playable and you can beat the current test room. I'm currently just trying to get some nicer assets in before getting to work on stuff like cameras, shaders, menus, etc.

I would get a video but I can't really be too bothered right now honestly. So here's a rundown of what the game plays like

Player moves around maze to get to the key and then get to the goal.

Avoid guards who will force you to restart if they touch you.

Once near guards, they will slow to show you're within their range.

If you are close enough and in their line of sight they will chase you down.

If you get far enough away they will leave you alone.

Anyway, I'll hopefully have some more done before Friday - I'd really like to try get this game out about half-way through Scarefest, because it's not too big of a project. Just a bit of time needs to be put into it haha.

I also have plans to take it further than a COMPOUND game. The general premise could be applied to many of the scare mazes, just means I'd have to make skins for it all... maybe give them some unique mechanics and more.

Anywho. That's all. Bye bye :D