King's Dominion Halloween Haunt TR: 10/4/08

[Kingbooba]

OK, so last night, my parents, my cousin, and I went to KD for Halloween Haunt. They were pretty busy. NOTE: This may contain spoilers.

 

We arrived at 6:00. After we got into the park, we headed straight for Maze of Madness. The line wwas full and backing out towards the fountains. We got in line of course. One cool effect on the outside of the maze is an electrocution chair. It would go off every few minutes. I'll admit, my mom and I got startled by it numerous times. Anyway, we waited about an hour. MoM was ok. The strobe lights caused my dad to get seperated from us. The mirror maze was rather annoying. But at the end, this girl holding a club scared me and chased me down to where you first go in the maze. Overall, I give Maze of Madness an 8/10.

 

We then went through The Harvest scare zone. I seriously saw only one or two scareactors in here. We stopped at Wayside Grill. They closed while we were waiting. So, we continued through The Harvest, seeing the Blue Ridge Bloodbath's line was out to that water spraying game and Blood Shed's line was out to the KD Theater. Finally, we stopped at a stall near Blood Shed and got an icee and Diet Coke. We moved on to Toxic Plague. We sat down to finish our drinks and a scareactor sat down next to us and we talked to him. He said he worked in Toxic Plague and was going to make sure he got me. We finally finished and got in line for Toxic Plague. We waited about 10 minutes for this. One cool thing I noticed in line was a truck dumping what looked like goo, but I'm not sure what they used, as it was very thick looking. Anyway, Toxic Plague was by far my favorite and the scariest maze we did. The bug effect on the floor where it felt like they were crawling was cool, and the feeling of bugs falling on your shoulders, and the giant animatronic overhead. There were an awful lot of scareactors on the floor. I give Toxic Plague 10/10.

 

We headed to Club Blood right after this. We waited probably about 20 minutes for it. We saw numerous scareactors walking down the exit path, scaring people in line. We were the leaders of the group here. This was... an interesting maze. Certainly not for young kids. There are tons of dancers that are barely wearing any clothes. About halfway through, we had to go to another mirror maze. At the end, we saw a door with exit sprawled on it in "blood", and an animatronic head. However, there was a door leading to another section with a queen vampire sitting in a chair. She was pointing in the other direction. We were going to continue through, and she finally said "Wrong way.", but wasn't directing us. Finally, she got up and got really pissed off yelling "WRONG WAY!!" and turned us around through the exit door, leading us out. One notable thing in the maze was full body bags hanging from the ceiling. One scareactor was hiding behind one and jumped out, scaring my cousin. Anyway, I give Club Blood a 6/10. It just wasn't scary, and the end was stupid.

 

We went to Ricochet next. Only my cousin and I did this. We waited about 10 minutes for it. When we were on the ride, these guys behind us were ACE members, so we talked to them during the ride, as I am an ACE member.

Next was Carnevil. Oh my god. This was the best scare zone EVER!! The clowns would get up in your face and copy you and dance with you. HILARIOUS!! We went to some food place by the Carousel, waiting forever to get some drinks. We finished Carnevil, skipping Big Top Terror, as we just didn't feel like going through it. My cousin and I rode the Dodgems. We then headed to VooDoo Swamp. This wasn't as good as last year. There weren't many scareactors though. We got through it quickly and my cousin and I rode The Crypt. I swear we were stuck upside down at the end for a few seconds. My mom had to use the bathroom while we were on The Crypt, but wouldn't go by herself. So we all went together. After that, we headed to Alien Outpost, but the line was half-full, and it sucked last year, so we skipped it. My cousin and I decided to ride Avalanche, which was a walk-on. After this, we headed to Dominator, which was closed. A train was empty on the lift. Berserker was also closed, so we just headed out.

 

Overall, it was a fun night, and my dad and I are going to the ACE event next week. My whole family is hoping to go at some point.

 

Haunts:

1. Carnevil (Scare Zone)

2. Toxic Plague (Maze)

3. Maze of Madness (Maze)

4. The Harvest (Scare Zone)

5. Club Blood (Maze)

6. VooDoo Swamp (Scare Zone)

[mike541x]

Cool TR.

 

How were the crowds on Saturday?

[Kingbooba]

It was busy when we first got there, but it seemed as the night went on, there were dying down.

 

Maze of Madness was an hour wait.