KBrylczyk

For a tiny figure 8 coaster, that spins like a maniac!

Edit - Didn't read the rest of the thread.

Guys! Guys, guys, guys. Listen, guys.* Hear me out, OK? 500 foot Screamin' Squirrel. I just blew your minds. Of course, that's probably from the amount of blood rushing to your head. *and girls.

Annnnd we're done here.

Has it been confirmed forever dead? I drive by it all the time. It is sitting in pieces across the street from Mandalay, right next to the forgotten remains of the SkyVue ferris wheel. I don't understand why a property doesn't grab it. There's no manufacturing costs. Just buy the metal and hire some dudes to slap it together! That thing could be up and running in a few short months!

Soooooooo, I'm just now realizing that we're going to this park for Scandi 2014. This will be awesome.

I've ridden enough Disney coasters to prepare myself!

Unfortunately I doubt it will help Harry Potter. Simpsons is a simulator through and through, so an upgrade is great. For Potter, though, the image will be better but the integration will still be crap. The whole zipper-style they devised with the vehicles entering the domes was a great idea on paper but poor on execution. Also, the speed difference between screen scenes and live scenes is kind of ridiculous. Spider-Man / Transformers managed the speed differential perfectly. Potter goes from 0-60-0 in 1/2 of a second. I'm reallllllllly hoping they fix it for Hollywood. I do love the ride, I just feel it needed an extra year of incubation in the lab before being made.

Say that 5 times fast.

Gentlemen, as a man of science, I have checked all of the hypotenuses and double checked the flux capacitation dynamic to come to the Pythagorean conclusion that, yes, Hulk is awesome.

What the crap am I looking at?! Sections of that track just look...WRONG! Not in a bad way, but in a "they broke the laws of physics" way!

You just made me google the hell out of Sub Terra. I had never heard of it until right now and it sounds amazing! And on a more thread-friendly note, I still have yet to visit a Legoland. Everything I've seen from them looks like it'd be a lot of fun, though! I've got to make a trip to the one in SoCal sometime soon.

Yup yup, sign me up.

Yeah. A coaster that actually runs.

Calling it now. Soarin' technology with a film that is halfway decent for once.

Just posting again to say I fixed every Vine video embed. Enjoy!

Alrighty, here's my Fright Dome trip report! FYI - Pictures are pretty crap due to to insane amount of fog and darkness inside of the dome. I tried, but this is the best you're gonna get. Also, obviously I wasn't able to take pictures inside of the houses, so we're stuck with pics from around the dome. No worries, though! I left my apartment 20 minutes prior to opening because, well, I live 3 miles away and didn't think I'd have a problem getting there. I was wrong. Apparently there was a very minor fender bender on I-15 North that I managed to get stuck in. It took me 45 minutes to get to Circus Circus. 3 miles. 45 minutes. Thanks, rubbernecks! Once parked and inside the hotel, I ran into another brick wall. There was one ticket booth open with two people working it. Between those two people and myself? A 6-deep family that was playing a game of 20 questions about the event. Usually that would take one person to assist them, yes? Well, it did. The other person just made eye contact with me and continued to act like I didn't exist. 5 minutes go by and the family finally gets their tickets and leaves. Guess who suddenly realizes I exist? Not the person helping the previous family. No, it was our eye-contact friend who suddenly chimed in and said she could help. I guess she ran out of Candy Crush lives. After buying my admission and Fast Pass, I was off and into the Fright Dome! I just want to take a moment to remark on the employees. Many were great, friendly, and very helpful! A select few left me scratching my head as to how they managed to get hired. For instance, one of the greeters (the person who tells you to put your phone away) at Zombie Quarantine felt it was necessary to use excessively colorful language directly in front of guests waiting to go into the house. It wasn't under her breath, either. It was more or less shouted. I wish a supervisor had happened by at that moment, but it didn't happen. Ah, well. Looks like I need to get my Six Flags reminders somehow. Anyways, let's get down to it and talk about the attractions! TH13TEEN -One of the best haunts they have this year! It was also the first house I hit and there was nobody else in line, so I got to go through alone, save for the guide. The actors had a great time setting me up for multiple-person scares and I was jumping, shouting, and laughing myself silly the entire time. The theme is supposed to be a tour of a voodoo mansion, but it loses sight of it very quickly and ends up just being a mix of all kinds of things, ranging from devil worship to vampires. It was also one of the longest haunts and was on the second floor. I went through three or four times all night and had fun every time! Camp Chainsaw - Another good haunt, and this one is outside! Don't let the name fool you, though. There is a serious lack of chainsaws until the end, and even then it's lacking. This is themed around some backwoods camp where the chainsaw people got in a fight with the lumberjacks. Or miners. Or something. I don't really know. All I know is that the guide I had the second time around was hilarious and there were some good scares scattered about. There was one room that was so thick with fog that you wouldn't know someone was in front of you until you ran into them! Zombie Quarantine - Good concept, poor execution. I'm sure that this haunt could be excellent if they invest more live actors in it. There were a bunch of rooms that had dummies in them rather than humans. However, the scares were good when they happened. I went through twice and both times it felt like half of the cast was on lunch break. Clownaphobia 3-D - Absolute worst haunt I have been through in YEARS! It was slow, boring, cheap, and excessively long. Aside from the actor who introduces you to the maze, the actors were dreadful! Nobody cared. Actors would go back to having their side conversations with each other before you even left the room. Not character side conversations. No, full on Valley-girl "OMG Pete posted on Facebook that blah blah blah" conversations. Horrible. It's the longest haunt on site and is sucking up space that could be used for something so much better! Just skip it. The Collector - One of the best here. The sets were very well done, and I was surprised they put so much effort into the opening facade! Every other house had been a black tarp curtain. This was modeled to be the front porch/door of a country house! Very well done and plenty of scares, as well as some very cool effects throughout! I went through this one three times and never got bored. Hotel Argento - Ah, the one everyone's been talking about. You go through alone! Sure, it's a good marketing tool, but I've been through a bunch of haunts alone before. This is just the first one that was designed for it. That being said, they did a damn good job. The scenery throughout is basically the same and the length leaves something to be desired, but I sure had fun and screamed my head off. Unfortunately I only had the opportunity to go through once as the line grew a bit behind me. Due to the whole "going through alone" aspect, the line CRAWLS. I'm fairly certain they let one person in, then wait for them to get to the exit before the next person is allow in. I was in line for 15 minutes with only 4 people in front of me. When I came back later and saw a line of at least 30, I laughed and walked away. It's a great house with a great concept, but they need to make it much longer and pace people through it better than they are currently doing. Since this is the first year I'll give them a pass and chalk it up to growing pains. This must absolutely be hit first unless you want to waste most of your night waiting. I had a great time and I'm looking forward to the fun again next year! Now, though, I need to visit the rest of the Vegas area haunts and pick which one is best, haha. On with the pictures and videos! Vine Videos - [vine]https://vine.co/v/hHOa3rZ9MUF[/vine] - The scene by the main entrance. [vine]https://vine.co/v/hHOaz3tmUKU[/vine] - Limb Blaster (Canyon Blaster) flying by. [vine]https://vine.co/v/hHMljlPdQj6[/vine] - More Limb Blaster [vine] [/vine] - Zombies! [vine] [/vine] - Lights over Massacreade. [vine] [/vine] - Scareactor stalking the entrance area to Hotel Argento. [vine]https://vine.co/v/hHMeaiBX250[/vine] - Themeing [vine] [/vine] - Hotel Argento's entrance. Hotel Argento's facade The stage by the entrance Random scareactor that honked at me. Pretty lasers! Hotel Argento's facade again. That TV screen has the IR Camera feeds from inside. The Collector's sign. A little extra touch. There were faces like this over all of the ambient lighting. It was Panic House 4D but still had all of the Spongebob art. I think it made it creepier.

Just a heads up for everyone - I'm going to be live tweeting Fright Dome all night tonight. I'm just about to head over. Follow me on Twitter @DrMambo85 for the updates. Otherwise, check back later tonight for my full report with photos!

I can't wait to visit next Thursday. I'll take plenty of photos and I'll also provide a full report, including Hotel Argento!

Just what I wanted to hear. Thank ya, sir! Haven't been since March of 2011, gonna be a good time!

I really need someone to clarify something for me. I'm doing a last minute trip to the parks tomorrow and Wednesday. Haunted Mansion Holiday and Space Mountain: Ghost Galaxy. Are they open with the halloween themeing all the time or just on the Halloween Party event dates? Thanks!

Sounds great! Thanks!

Robb/ Elissa - Since Scandi is already confirmed, does that mean the dates listed are final? What I mean is could I book my airfare around those dates tomorrow and be just fine come June?

Yeah. Hopefully ones that work. Thanks, btw, for breaking it last year, hahaha! Stop forcing me at gunpoint to give you money!

Yeah Wonderland is easily the nicest and well run CF park. Not even a contest. Good ol' Canadia, eh?