The B-Side

Info has been compiled from Twitter, Theme Park Adventure and The Los Angeles Times:

So far the following mazes from 2009 are slated to return:

Dia De Los Muerto

Terror of London

Lockdown

New scare zone to replace Gauntlet will be Necropolis: The City of the Dead an vampire steam punk theme. Concept art seen above.

New mazes to raise the dead and shake the nerves of terrified guests:

Fallout Shelter - The denizens are insane and they haven’t seen the sun in decades. True terror in the atomic age.” - Designing your fears by Daniel Miller (Lockdown)!

Sleepy Hollow Mountain - Log Ride

Ghosts and ghouls, witches and goblins, long-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night…take a dark ride through haunted Sleepy Hollow. The witching hour is at hand and the legends of long ago haunt the living. Specters and witches are on your heels as you try to out run The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Can you keep your wits? Or will you lose your head?
Brought to you by Haunt Designer, David Ortiz (Dia De Los Muertos)!

Virus Z - Fiesta Plaza explodes with a brand new zombie nightmare. The virus is out and the end is near…Virus Z - enter the barricaded town of Pleasanton where the virus has turned the entire population into ravenous zombies. Fiesta Village Virus Z - from the insane mind of Brooke Walters - designer of Doll Factory and Terror of London!

Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: The Knott’s Resort Hotel (upstairs from lobby)
City/Town: Buena Park, CA

Vampire Queen and Labyrinth Fairy Queen Haunt Icon Sandy Graham has been battling cancer. A special art show benefit has been organized. The art pieces for sale will be original works by Knott’s Berry Farm designers and artists. The price points are lowered for this event. 100% of the profit will be given as a gift to Sandy to assist with her medical bills. A $3 donation will be asked at the door for admittance. Open to the public. Thank you to all!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30518918&id=1505340388&saved#!/event.php?eid=108289029207188

Also Theme Park Adventure’s T Shirt Benefit Drive is also available to help Sandy.

http://www.themeparkadventure.com/

CALL FOR ALL HALLOWEEN HAUNT FANS’ SUPPORT

Once in a while, life throws us a nasty turn that really makes us all stop and take pause. This is one of those moments.

Sandy Graham, long a familiar icon of the Halloween Haunt event at Knott’s Berry Farm as Queen of the Vampires, has been stricken with cancer. Out of respect for Sandy, the details of her illness are being kept out of the public spotlight. Sadly, we can assure you that this is a most serious case that requires the love and attention of her family, friends and fans everywhere.

To help counter the enormous costs that Sandy is soon to be facing between medical bills, home care and food, the Haunt Family is coming together as one to help raise money to help Sandy in her great time of need.

Theme Park Adventure was asked to design a logo that could be printed on shirts, with approximately $10.00 of every sale going directly to Sandy’s donation fund. TPA Founder Rick West created the logo, at the top of page; this is a brief explanation of the design:

Over the past many years, fans and employees alike of Knott’s Halloween Haunt have come to know and love Sandy Graham as the Vampire Queen. While Sandy’s contributions to the event have varied on and off stage, it is her Queen persona that has established her firmly as a cornerstone of the Scary Farm.

We chose Latin as the language of the designs text - it is ancient, beautiful, and allows us to convey the meaning behind the shirt itself without blatantly becoming a billboard for our cause. The word “Suscipio” in Latin translates as “Support” and/or “To Raise Up”. And that is exactly what we have come together to do for our beloved Queen - support her, love her and to raise her up in prayer, wishes of strength, positive karma - whatever you choose to call it. We come together as one in Sandy’s hour of need and stand as the hands at her back; she is not alone and never will be.

The shirts are being provided by PSYCO Designz in Southern California, which is offering its printing services free of charge. The only cost being recovered from each purchase will go toward the actual cost of the shirts themselves.

Below the logo is a drop-down size/order button; once you make your selection, you will be taken from the Theme Park Adventure site to the actual donation page, which is hosted on PayPal^TM.

We ask you to open your hearts and wallets and show your love and support for Sandy by proudly wearing one of these shirts. Thank you all so very much in advance - your contribution is appreciated.

Click here to visit site and purchase shirts.

http://www.themeparkadventure.com/

March ‘Monster’ Madness Will be held this year on Saturday, March 13th, 2010!

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BREAKFAST!

Start your day off by filling those tummies! Meet at Denny’s on the
corner of ORANGETHORPE and BEACH (North of Knott’s) between 8:00am & 8:30am. RSVP’s not required. For those who RSVP, I will make sure we get a table big enough for all of us!

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MARCH ‘MONSTER’ MADNESS
You are invited to a gathering to spend the day at Knott’s Berry Farm

ORGANIZED BY: Bunny the Clown

WHO: For EVERYONE who WORKS at KNOTT’S SCARY FARM & their Family and CLOSE Friends!

WHAT: An Annual Gathering of Monsters

WHEN: SATURDAY, MARCH 13th, 2010, 10AM

WHERE: Knott’s Berry Farm Theme Park

WHY: To bring all the monsters together for a day of fun. To return
to the place that makes this all possible!

HOW: Meet up at the front gates of Knott’s around 10am. Show up anytime.

It will be easy to find us. Just look for the large group wearing haunt gear!
MORE INFO: just send me a message!

~~TELL A FRIEND~~SPREAD THE WORD~~POST THIS ON ANOTHER GROUP~~

http://www.myspace.com/ksfbunny

By Rick A Mortis

Awww Haunt….fog, boysenberries, screams, fog, boysenberries, screams…it’s like crack I tell you!

This year I hit up Halloween Haunt twice. I will be giving a point system out of 10 for the mazes and shows. 

10 = Pee your pants and get fetal - ok, ok The Jonas Brothers do the same for some of us.

1 = This sucked so bad it was like watching Twilight!

Also to any talent out there and may be reading this. You all rock and any grade I give is only due to talent that I experienced that night. As a monster I know some nights are good and some just plain suck.

So no more stalling away we go boils and ghouls.

PYROMANIAX (Timber Mountain Log Ride) = 4

Same theme from last year about moonshiners and firemen that mutated and there’s a fire and stuff. Talent wasn’t around much when I went through. Kudos to the guy on the harness at the end, you rocked it. I wish there was more time for this to get decked out.

BLACK WIDOW’S CAVERN (The Calico Mine Train) = 4

Same as last years about giant spiders in a mine. And like a broken record I wish they had more time to dress this. Also the second time I went this year the shows finale of the giant spider was broken, which is a shame for anyone.

Alien Annihilation = 3

The maze I hated last year. I will say the maze looked better artistically and the talent was a improvement. Of course a friend in our group got laser tag guns the first time we went, the second time did not. It is still very lame that most monsters will not interact with anyone that is not carrying a laser tag gun. I would like to see a overhaul on this maze still.

The Slaughterhouse = 7

This maze was a huge let down last season, the Slaughterhouse actually stepped it up this year. Uncle Willy’s BBQ, was more twisted this year. The only problem I did have is my second time all the girls where missing in the cages, which was a bit of a let down. Since it ruined the scene of a man selling the girl in the cage for meat. The VIP maze was awesome!

LOCKDOWN: THE ASYLUM = 7

I really wish that they would’ve just called this Lockdown. I think it made a lot of people compared it to the far superior Asylum. Talent was on the ball here. Lots of energy in here. The nurses rocked it well. The only annoyance I had was the song NWO by Ministry was on a loop and it gave me flashbacks of my days in Industrial Evil as a zombie. Read the rest of this entry �

This week a whole bunch of Halloween events start up in the land of theme parks here in So Cal.

Click here for info on Halloween Haunt at Knott’s Berry Farm:

http://drunkrockers.com/BSIDE/?p=299

Halloween Time at Disneyland and DCA:

http://drunkrockers.com/BSIDE/?p=304

Universal Horror Nights:

http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/hollywood/2009/index.php?ref=http://www.google.com/search?q=universal+horror+nights+2009+hollywood&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8

Queen Mary Shipwreck:

http://www.shipwreckhalloween.com/

The cemetery gates are starting to creak as the 37th annual Knott’s Scary Farm gets slowly ready to open its gates from Sept. 24 through Oct. 31, 2009.

13 blood curdling scream filled mazes will throughout the Buena Park theme park. Construction is currently underway.

The following list of mazes has been released by The LA Times:

http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/halloween-haunt-2009-4863/#more-4863

New for 2009:

Uncle Bobo’s Big Top of the Bizarre in 3-D replaces Killer Clown Kollege (under Xcelerator)

Terror of London featuring Jack the Ripper and Dr. Jekyll replaces 13 Axe Murder Manor (in Mystery Lodge)

Dia de los Muertos in 3-D featuring a Day of the Dead theme replaces Lost Vegas (at the bumper cars)

Lockdown: The Asylum updates the existing maze as a high-security penitentiary for the insane (backstage near Ghostrider)

Returning mazes from 2008:
Alien Annihilation 3-D laser tag
The Labyrinth
Slaughterhouse
Club Blood
Cornstalkers
The Doll Factory
Pyromaniax
Black Widow’s Cavern
Quarantine

A review can be read here of last years Halloween Haunt:

http://drunkrockers.com/BSIDE/?p=71

By Rick A Mortis

Awww Haunt….fog, boysenberries, screams, fog, boysenberries, screams…

This year I hit up Halloween Haunt on Saturday September 27, 2008. I will be giving a point system out of 10 for the mazes and Hanging. 

Ye be warned there be spoilers ahead!

10 = Pee your pants and get fetal - Yeah and I know Hannah Montana does the same thing for most people.

1 = This sucked so bad it made Indian Jones and The Crystal Skull look good.

Also to any talent out there and may be reading this. You all rock and any grade I give is only due to talent that I experienced that night. As a former monster I know some nights are good and some suck.

So no more stalling away we go boils and ghouls.

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Halloween Haunt is just around the corner. Here’s maze info.

 http://haunt.knotts.com/

The Slaughterhouse
Main Gate Area - New!
Folks from near and far come a-runnin’ for Farmer Willy’s world famous BBQ! Why you can smell the sizzling meat all the way from the interstate! Just take Exit I-13 and follow your nose! Venture through the Slaughterhouse where Farmer Willy will auction you off to the highest bidder, tenderize you with his chainsaw, and grind you into a tasty meat treat. Bone appetite!

Quarantine
Fiesta Plaza - New!
In March 2008, the U.S. Government issued an emergency order sealing off an apartment complex in Los Angeles. A HazMat team was sent to investigate the quarantined building. Authorities have now denied any knowledge of the incident. The residents were never heard from again. There were no explanations; there was no evidence, until now. Experience the truth for yourself when you try to escape Sony Pictures’, Quarantine.
www.containthetruth.com

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