SFGAdv Haunted Castle Documentary.

[Homer]

I'm pretty sure all of us here have some spare time to watch this cheesy yet informational indie documentary about the Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure.

 

In brief, the Haunted Castle was a massive haunted house that was at SFGAdv. However, as stated in this documentary, it was poorly designed safety wise. The fire on May 11, 1984 remained to be one of the park's most tragic events with 8 deaths.

 

Nice yet cheesy time-waster.

 

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

-Part Four

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8JFFPpbZ0E -Part Five (WATCH THIS PART IN ORDER TO GET MY RANT BELOW!)

[NOTE- I can't find Part 6, I looked at the guy's profile on YouTube and it isn't there. Oh well.]

 

EDIT: Part 5 is grade A bullsh*t though, Chiller wasn't closed in 1997 due to "injury", but due to LIM problems, is this ASO propoganda?

 

Yep, Part 5 is pure "LETS BE POLITIKALLY KORREKT!" I side with him for a memorial, but being b*tchy about an area styled with a castle motif and an arcade game that is about escaping from a castle? Then 8 skeletons hanging on a fence? O M G, COINCIDENCE?

[Primogen18]

there WAS a castle game where you escaped a burning casle, and it was there after six flags switched hands, and six flags had nothing to do with the planning of the game so chances are it was purely coincidal but still kinda wrong. Also I agree the doc was cheesy ( i saw it a while ago) but I think it is factual and the guy mostly knows what hes talking about as he was there. If even 75% of those facts are true about how Six Flags reacted directly or the structure of the ride itself, its down-right DISTURBING in my opinion. What a terrible nightmare that NEVER had to happen. Six Flags really f*cked up big time here, and it was this and the other couple events after (but mainly this) which is the reason my friends and I never went to six flags as kids (or not at all) Our parents thought of six flags as unsafe and just never took us or mentioned it, which back then it seems they made a good decision.

 

I agree it goes a little far with references to 9/11 and all, and theres no chance of any memorial. First off its six flags we are dealing with. Second, why would any company build a memorial in a park that would remind people of such a tragedy, especially a tragedy that was 95% THEIR fault??

[YoshiFan]

I think the Castle Escape game was not the best choice for the game. They could have used another game since I think there are more than 1 to choose from.

[DerekRx]

The documentary was pretty nicely done, but yeah, the whole thing with Brutal Planet, the Autobahn bumper car building, Chiller being closed, etc is totally like he had nowhere else to go but needed an extra 8 minutes of filming in order to make it a documentary.

 

I still find it amusing how he points all the blame at Six Flags, yet if not for the clientelle the park attracted, they wouldn't need higher fences to keep people from attacking the actors, nor would the "chain" be needed if people actually used the emergency exit like an actual emergency instead of for smoking pot.

 

While the whole event was pretty tragic, things were different 22 years ago, technology isn't what it is today, nor were safety standards. And Six Flags isn't the one who made that escape from the burning castle game, so how can they be blamed for that?! And the whole 8 skeletons on the fence, gimme a break! Now if the skeletons all had nametags on of the people who died and were running around in early 1980s clothing and awesome 80s hair, THAT would be distasteful! As for not allowing family into the park without paying, who is to say they attempted to contact the appropriate resources at the park. Just going up to the gate and saying "my daughter was killed here yesterday, I want to see where it happened" isn't going to work. I'm sure lots of people would try that "yeah, um, my brother died here, I want to look at where it happened"...and then they find the kid standing in line for Lightning Loops.

 

As for putting a memorial up, I think it really shouldn't happen. They had a garden there for like 13 years, I think thats enough time. You don't see memorial markers over where Lightning Loops used to be, nor any at other amusement places where people died. I remember seeing one the year the maintenance guy got killed at Moreys at Great Nor'Easter, a bunch of flowers etc at the gate he wasn't supposed to be inside of, and that lasted for like a year or 2. I think that's plenty of time, if we had memorials for everyone who died exactly where they died, this world would be covered a few times over!

 

My favorite part though was the one girl who survived, and how Six Flags is the "principality of evil" If amusement parks are such a haven for Satan and friends, then why was she so determined to collect enough Campbell's soup cans so she could go to the park for free?!