Howl-o-Scream @ BGE steps it up...

[TexTitan01]

http://www.screamscape.com/html/busch_gardens_europe.htm

 

Busch Gardens Europe has released details about this year’s Howl-O-Scream which will take place every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from September 14th to October 28th. New this year will be The NeverAfter, an entire village area devoted to the macabre and loosely based on the fables of the Brother’s Grimm. The NeverAfter will be home to two all new mazes this year: Grimm Hollows: Deadtime Stories and Tormented Tales. It will also have it’s own scare zone called The Beaten Path. Grimm Hollows: Deadtime Stories will be a maze based on the childhood home of the Brothers Grimm. In Tormented Tales you’ll enter into the pages of fantasy fables, encountering witches, dwarves and other villains on your way.

This new village area in Festhaus Park (the old Drachen Fire area I believe) is where the park will really amp up the scare factor. Guests have been asking for more frights, while the park has held back a bit to keep the event still family friendly for the smaller guests still in the park after dark. This new area is away from all traffic flow and you’ll have to willingly enter into it, so at that point your fair game. As such, all attractions within The NeverAfter will warrant an all new “6 Pumpkin” rating added to the old 5 Pumpkin scale and are not suited to anyone under 17.

 

Looks pretty interesting, hopefully there wont be some lawsuit that rises up because it was too scary. Then again, you have to go in willingly. I remember when I used to live in Dallas there was a privately owned haunted house that was like genuinely horrifying to go through, with like pig-blood splattered everywhere, etc., I wonder if this new area will be along similar lines...

 

Should be interesting, hopefully I can make it out at some point and get the $hit scared out of me

[freestylenut]

Sounds interesting. Sounds like BGE does the same thing Lowry Park Zoo does here in Tampa with the 1-6 Pumpkin scale and more "family friendly" areas and an area where kids should "enter at their own risk".

 

Of course, I man up my son any chance I get, so I always do the 6 pumpkin stuff with him anyway! He's itching to go to HHN with me every year, I figure this'll be a good practice slate for him.

[hazzaman]

why do you have to be 17? in UK they have scary mazes at themeparks for halloween and man there scary!! people come out crying but you only have to be 12 and over..

[Kingbooba]

They've been keeping it family-friendly.

[cfc]

Looks like Euroburg and Knott Paramount's Kings Dominion are both ramping up their Halloween events a bit this year--and that's a good thing.

[lil jimmy norton]

Nice, I will be there on the 15th and 16th.

[Hercules]

This sounds pretty sweet. I'll be there the third weekend in October, so I'll be sure to hit it up.