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We're booked, doing Animal Kingdom first - ride the coasters, then out of there - single rider line all the way for Everest, We will get there a good while before park opening. Then the Studios, ride the coaster, done everything else before, maybe do the Movie ride and the Tower again if crowds are good. Then we leave. Epcot maybe if we're doing good for time. Test Track single rider line, been there before, not interested in Soaring or Mission Space unless there are no lines. Then Magic Kingdom, we've pre-booked fast passes for the main things we want to do - which start from 5pm. Anything else is a bonus, done it all before. MK is open until midnight that day. Going on a weekday in late October, no magic hours to compete with for the first three parks. Doing MK on a non Halloween party night. Our goal is very modest, so I think we're a chance. I'm not a huge Disney fan, so I'm not real fussed.

Go go dancers up the front like Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights, pyro as well. Zombie Strippers maze LOL - that's starting to sound like some of the clubs in Surfers. Sccoby Doo might be good if they wanted to go for a more light hearted maze for the scaredy cats. I think they need to further monetise the event, because they get big crowds, but how many actually paid? Generate more revenue, most likely more budget, more mazes.

The Panic rooms take 2 groups per hour (according to the booking engine), so they're earning $160 / hour for 5 hours, $800 a night. I find that hard to believe that will cover costs unless multiple groups can be in there simultaneously. I'm ineterested to see how big these things are and it sounds like they will be occupied by multiple scareactors, maybe they will be like mini-mazes; or just a backyard shed. All will be revealed soon.

Mystery Manor sounds cool, I might have to check it out. I think Hair Raiser is a really good drop tower with a real kick. The jolt at the end ins't too pleasant, but otherwise it's a good ride.

Trapped at Knott's last year was $60 for up to 6 people, and that must have had at least 10 rooms that required escape from if memory serves right. It's not good value at all, I might be tempted to try one out of curiosity, I'm waiting to see what the people I'm going with think. I wonder what they'd do if you fronted up alone to do one and you've paid for it?

Is anyone going to try the panic rooms, has anyone booked already?

At those prices the panic rooms better be something special.

I go to Halloween Horror Night, Knott's Scary Farm and numerous other US haunts every year and I think Fright Nights (which I attended for the first time last year) compares very favorably with the big boys on a number of fronts. The soundstage mazes were impressive and wouldn't look out of place at HHN. The other two mazes were pretty good, I've been in worse clown mazes than the one at FN. And the Ultimate Tour was excellent. One the minus, the scare zones weren't quite as good and the lack of attractions relative to the size of the crowd really told. I like what they've done this year that looks like it will improve the event (more scare zones?, better non-soundstage mazes, panic rooms, 4D film). I wish Universal Hollywood would put on something in their Shrek theatre to eat up the crowds at HHN. Even though I'll be doing HHN on both coasts, Knotts and so on this year. I'll be up again for Fright Nights (or Night in my case).

^Nice observation about Emma Stone. That would be good for a commercial. Zombieland 2, now that's something I'll be looking forward too. If only Bill Murray could make a miraculous recovery from that gunshot wound.

^To put it in perspective, I do travel to at least some of the best parks in the world every year - so I'm a bit jaded and when compared, DW is pretty much Pissweakworld. A nice little tight woodie zooming through the bush would be cool or perhaps a Maverick style coaster.

^I know, what a revelation, I felt like I truly attaned enlightment when I realised this about Dreamworld. I've been to Dreamworld once since 2003, and that was one visit too many.

I doubt they will put anything in I'm dreaming about, not even something modest. I can't see Six Flags Over Coomera doing anything impressive - feel free to surprise me.

^That will be cool, I'd laugh if it accidentally got screened during the day, parents might not be though. The Friday the 13th 4D film seems to be being farmed out everywhere, Frighdome in Las Vegas is screening it too during their event.

I wish they'd tell us more about the Panic Rooms, it will interesting to see how they will work and what they are. Locals tell me they will be $20 a room, I presume with multiple people allowed - but I guess we'll see.

They were talking about in on TripleM this morning and it made news, must be a slow news day. I'll take a side of bullshit with my breakfast. Well if he has got the $$$, I'll put in my wish list: *Dueling wood coaster, one side Intamin prefab, the other RMC. *Expedition GeForce clone, just double the size. *Quadrupled sized version of Maverick. *600 foot version of Millennium Force. *A thousand foot Intamin rocket. *And anyone should be allowed on the kiddie coasters. *Oh and q-bots that teleport you to your ride. I'll believe it when I see it with respect to Wonderland 2.0.

I agree it's all relative based on amount of coasters ridden. I can see why someone could prefer Arkham: longer ride, has inversions, legs hanging, plenty of force - and with the new restraints, no bleeding ears. I know I used to think Demon at Wonderland was the ants pants, until I went overseas. Then I thought Magic Mountain was the shiz until I went to Cedar Point. Then I thought Cedar Point was the big Kahuna until I went to parks which had one or two coasters I liked better than anything at the Point. As far as Australia goes, while my vote goes to Superman. I've got a bit of a soft spot for Jet Rescue, that is an excellent ride.

^I've been to Halloween Horror Nights before, the opening ceremonies are always pretty cool - and then when it's done they release the crowd and the scare actors charge at the crowd. I'm doing lights-on tours of 6 of the HHN mazes too. Busch isn't bad, it's a solid haunt. Though the mazes are nowhere near the level of HHN in terms of set design.

^Yeah I checked that, MK is open late because Mickey's Halloween isn't on that night. I'm not super worried because there isn't a lot I want to do. I'm mainly there for the Halloween events at Universal and Busch.

^^^Single rider lines can be awesome, Men in Black at Universal with 3 accross seating, the single rider line rocks. I'll definitely take your tip on Test Track.

^^Mission Space and Soaring weren't there last time I went. Only on the maybe list, Mission Space, to me, is just a glorified centrifuge and for Soaring - I'm not a fan of simulator rides.

This thread is cool, I will be attempting the Disneyworld in one day madness next month, probably on a Monday in late October (we might do Tuesday as well, not sure if we'll have time). I only want to do the coasters at Animal Kingdom, and apparently there's a breakfast that gets early entry, so I figure we get in early and knock them off quick. Only want to do Rock'n'Roller coaster at the Studios, hit that next. Been on the other rides there, the Hollywood Tower and Great Movie Ride would be fun to re-visit though. If we're going good for time, maybe visit Epcot, (been before not a fan) - only Test Track (haven't been on) interests me. MK last, and I plan on using the MyMagic to book 3 fastpasses for this park. Not looking to do many rides here because I've been on most of them. 7 Dwarves is a priority for a fast pass, not even sure what else I could be bothered with for fast pass - I haven't checked out whether I can book across multiple parks in one day. Want to ride Barnstormer because it is new to me and I'm coaster credit whore. Who knows, we might do that very quickly or it might take all day. That's my minimum goal for the day.

I don't know if I want to see who comes first in the Beat Off. It will interesting to see if, or how much, they have to cut out of last years "hero" mazes to fit them in their new locations. Now let's see what the panic rooms are all about.

Well I didn't see that coming 2 repeats and 4 IP mazes. I see they've added an unlimited maze fast pass for $100 that wasn't there before.

Outlaw Run, it was amazing, just delivered in all kinds of original ways. Honourable mentions: El Toro, Phoenix, Expedition GeForce, New Texas Giant, Boulder Dash, Superman (SFNE) and Maverick. I've only been on 2 RMCs so far, but I'm confident I'll love the rest of them.

Ultimate Tour has unlimited fast lane for Superman and Scooby, so I plan on getting a few laps on Superman at night. I want to do the two soundstage mazes at least 6 times. And I plan on taking advantage of all the free food and drink in the VIP lounge. The tour / mini show you get with the Ultimate Tour takes a while. Unless a meteor hits Movie World, it's going to be good fun.