Thought it’d be best to start a thread for UTT/ Platinum reviews. Just so we can the spoilers out of the main FN thread. 

Edited September 28, 20196 yr by FoolishMortal999

UTT Review:

Early Entry: Great as always

Canapes and Meet and greet: Went for about 45 minutes until 5:30pm. Members walking around with food and cast members such as doll haus.

Talk to Maze Designer: Moved into the roxy theatre. Video didn't work (think this was intentional) and some microphone issues to make it a bit more of a light hearted part of the day. Just talked about what mazes they had this year really.

Buffet: Very nice, dishes such as fish, carved meats, assorted salads and desserts, chocolate fountain, fried chicken and spinach, mushroom and baby tomato pasta (loved the pasta haha)

The Tour (SPOILER HEAVY AVOID UNLESS WANTED):

This tour is based on a musical festival which was a bust and was on the lands of a drug cartel. You jump in a car and get taken over near the studios somewhere near topgolf??  A man kills a dude and holds his head. Tour guide runs away and the drug cartel owner yells at you to come to a shipping containers. Bunch of cocaine and you get told to run to a plane to take off to become her workers. Plane gets shot up by police and you get taken to another tour vechile. A girl in our tour was directly at the window and the tour guide popped up (she freaked out and fell over) so dont do that! You get taken back and that was the end of it. I honestly wish there was something more to this (I was thinking paradise country) to make it more interesting and longer? It was done in 10 to 15 minutes. 6.5/10 Theming was great!

Fast Track: Very useful to get everything done, did the mazes 6 times and rides 4 times. 

Panic Rooms: We didn't attempt these as we were not interested.

The souvenir is a fright nights pen in a coffin box.

I did the platinum tour and overall it was a great experience. Being the first night there were issues but at least the tickets were a bit cheaper. 

- SPOILERS AHEAD -

Our group got to enter first and we had photos taken at the entry of the VIP room. We were greeted with drinks and canapés and given our tour gift - pen in a coffin shaped box. We were supposed to be going to do the panic rooms at 4:45 but we weren’t taken over til just after 5:00. I did the Dark Room and we were the first ones to escape - and in 18 minutes. 

We were escorted back to the VIP room and lead straight into the Roxy theatre where we realised we missed basically all of the cast and crew meet and greet. Chilled for a bit then got taken to the viewing area for the opening - where they realised they didn’t have a spot for the platinum people so we had to squish in front of the UTT people. 

The opening was some of the ‘baby-faced’ killers dancing and a live singer. We were taken to the IT maze first and were basically the first ones to enter. Unfortunately they took all 20 of us in and I was lucky - or not so lucky - last in the line. I missed all the scare actors. But the set was really detailed and I especially liked the sewer. Then the group behind us caught up to us and started pushing us and I was nearly trampled (hey, I’m a petite, short chick). 

Then we were taken off to do the terror tour. Our group was split in to two and we had to wait near Wild West Falls for a bit. We were joined by a ‘late-comer’ which I thought was strange. I won’t go into detail about the tour but the ‘late-comer’ ended up pissing off one of the drug bosses and they tied him to a tree. I have an inkling that this was all staged as I didn’t see him again after that. Very enjoyable but I agree with the previous poster in that it could’ve been a bit longer. 

After that we went to experience A Grave Death. We got our make-up done to look like The Joker (seriously.....)

I don’t want to spoil the experience as it was one of my favourite things of the night but I will tell you that you are given a panic button should you not be able to take being ‘buried alive’. 

After that was free time - 2 hours to do whatever we pleased. We did the mazes - thank god for fast track! - backwards on DC rivals, forwards on DC Rivals and a ride on Superman Escape. Grabbed some food - which was amazing as always. 

Our tour guide - Lucy - was awesome. Took our feedback and I even got an email from her the day after. 

In case you were wondering, the spiel about ‘experiencing the mazes in a different way’ means to be able to go through by yourself or with just your friends. Had I know that earlier in the night I definitely would’ve gone through IT by myself.