Post by wolfblood on Aug 24, 2009 13:11:56 GMT -8
Well since Silverwood has put an official Scarywood page on their website I'd thought I'd make a official thread with all the details and whatnot.
www.silverwoodthemepark.com/scarywood.php
Daytime family activities-
Days will be filled with family-fun and activities with the park being decorated in a Halloween theme. Kids will be able to decorate their own Halloween cookies, trick or treat along the Garfield trail and participate in a costume contest with prizes awarded for first, second and third best costumes each day. The top ten costume winners will then compete for a grand prize of a 2010 Gold Season Pass with the other nine first place winners receiving a 2010 single season pass.
Contest open to children ages 12 or younger. NO COSTUMES ALLOWED for guests 13 years of age or older.
Scarywood Haunts Come to Life-
On Saturday nights, the park will transform into Scarywood Theme Park consisting of two chilling attractions. Thunder Canyon raft ride will become Terror Canyon Trail complete with fog, graveyards, Sasquatch, zombies, vampires and more. The mild-mannered Steam Engine No. 7 train will become the MidFRIGHT Express a ghost and ghoul ride of terror. Nighttime haunted attractions are NOT recommended for children 12 and under.
In addition, imagine the thrill of riding Timber Terror and Tremor in the dark at night as well as many of Silverwood's other attractions
As for admission, it's $20.49 for general admission....however if you want to experience the haunted attractions it's $27.49 (That's all day admission with the haunted attractions.)
So it's only $7 extra for both attractions, now I've noticed on Facebook there are already whiners on the subject of an extra charge. But as Silverwood pointed out, $7 is cheaper for two attractions then other local haunts. (For myself, it's certainly cheaper then the $13 I had to pay for 1 local haunt here in Washington that to be honest wasn't as good as it was last year.)
Silverwood also pointed out the reason for the $7 extra is due to the fact there's a limited number of people that can experience the attractions each night. I have a feeling that if they get more dates in the future and not just every Saturday, then the extra charge may go away.
Now another thing I might see people whining about is the fact that you only go through both attractions once. Let's compare that to another haunt of it's size, Fright Fest at Wild Waves. It's has two haunts, and for all the times I've been there....I could only go through the attractions once. Now last year they said it would be possible to go through them a second time if the crowds were low, however with that event...it's not happening.
So for me, I'm totally fine with the extra charge and only able to go through once.
As for the attractions, It's going to be very interesting to see how they turn out. For MidFRIGHT Express, I'm looking to see how much they'll theme it. Will they only do the theming at the show stop? Or will they also theme up the forest leading to it?
As for Terror Canyon Trail, this is probably more intriguing due to the fact this is unlike any other rethemed rapids ride I've known. All the rapid rides I've seen transformed into a Haunted attraction are like this.
1- It's just the ride with skeletons scattered about and the water is turned red.
or
2- The water is drained and a maze is built inside it. However, all the rapid rides that have this kind of transformation were the flat kind where there's no real change of terrain.
If Silverwood is doing transformation 2, then it should be interesting since we all know that's a terrain rapids ride. Though I have to admit I'm cracking up at the description of it since it mentions Sasquatch, I remember a while back one of the members here wanted something with Bigfoot for a Halloween event. Well it looks like we got it!
www.silverwoodthemepark.com/scarywood.php
Daytime family activities-
Days will be filled with family-fun and activities with the park being decorated in a Halloween theme. Kids will be able to decorate their own Halloween cookies, trick or treat along the Garfield trail and participate in a costume contest with prizes awarded for first, second and third best costumes each day. The top ten costume winners will then compete for a grand prize of a 2010 Gold Season Pass with the other nine first place winners receiving a 2010 single season pass.
Contest open to children ages 12 or younger. NO COSTUMES ALLOWED for guests 13 years of age or older.
Scarywood Haunts Come to Life-
On Saturday nights, the park will transform into Scarywood Theme Park consisting of two chilling attractions. Thunder Canyon raft ride will become Terror Canyon Trail complete with fog, graveyards, Sasquatch, zombies, vampires and more. The mild-mannered Steam Engine No. 7 train will become the MidFRIGHT Express a ghost and ghoul ride of terror. Nighttime haunted attractions are NOT recommended for children 12 and under.
In addition, imagine the thrill of riding Timber Terror and Tremor in the dark at night as well as many of Silverwood's other attractions
As for admission, it's $20.49 for general admission....however if you want to experience the haunted attractions it's $27.49 (That's all day admission with the haunted attractions.)
So it's only $7 extra for both attractions, now I've noticed on Facebook there are already whiners on the subject of an extra charge. But as Silverwood pointed out, $7 is cheaper for two attractions then other local haunts. (For myself, it's certainly cheaper then the $13 I had to pay for 1 local haunt here in Washington that to be honest wasn't as good as it was last year.)
Silverwood also pointed out the reason for the $7 extra is due to the fact there's a limited number of people that can experience the attractions each night. I have a feeling that if they get more dates in the future and not just every Saturday, then the extra charge may go away.
Now another thing I might see people whining about is the fact that you only go through both attractions once. Let's compare that to another haunt of it's size, Fright Fest at Wild Waves. It's has two haunts, and for all the times I've been there....I could only go through the attractions once. Now last year they said it would be possible to go through them a second time if the crowds were low, however with that event...it's not happening.
So for me, I'm totally fine with the extra charge and only able to go through once.
As for the attractions, It's going to be very interesting to see how they turn out. For MidFRIGHT Express, I'm looking to see how much they'll theme it. Will they only do the theming at the show stop? Or will they also theme up the forest leading to it?
As for Terror Canyon Trail, this is probably more intriguing due to the fact this is unlike any other rethemed rapids ride I've known. All the rapid rides I've seen transformed into a Haunted attraction are like this.
1- It's just the ride with skeletons scattered about and the water is turned red.
or
2- The water is drained and a maze is built inside it. However, all the rapid rides that have this kind of transformation were the flat kind where there's no real change of terrain.
If Silverwood is doing transformation 2, then it should be interesting since we all know that's a terrain rapids ride. Though I have to admit I'm cracking up at the description of it since it mentions Sasquatch, I remember a while back one of the members here wanted something with Bigfoot for a Halloween event. Well it looks like we got it!