Headed out to the local amusement park for opening ceremonies on the fall festivities.
I don't think I've ever seen a conjoined twin pumpkin before. I REALLY want to carve it.
hEt was stuck, having had eye surgery the day before (lasik) to where rides were out of the question, so we mostly just wandered and hit the shows.
Waiting for the new one here, I noticed they had a cumulus fog machine (or other brand of similar design). Surprises me due to the primary reasoning for running these is perceived health benefits. This might be the next thing I save up for.
Clarence really struggled with the show. I might bring Vera another night as a result. They didn't specify no pics, so...
Normally they just remix pop songs into a song and dance routine for these shows. THIS one however, was much more akin to a shortened stage show you'd see at Disney or the like, with an actual story being told and only intermittent story related music.
THIS beast was not only pretty darn cool, but it's easily doable.
Rest of the decor is as expected, really. Though I did note they've moved to black label fog juice on the machines, again, a health over cost move.
The second show as largely forgettable...
However....
There was a THIRD show.
This one cost more. I knew only 2 things about it:
1: It's called Seance
2: it involved a spirit table.
I knew I had to see this show, and had several tell me it was well worth the extra.
Maybe 20 minutes.
The bad: This was NOT a spirit table session of old. There was no actual spiritualist involved, and no cold reading coupled with SFX to get a jump. I had brief hopes.
The good: It is a fantastic combination of script and effects. Best described as, the old Extra-terrorestrial Encounter at disney world put into a seance setting.
Since that only scratches the barest understanding for the relative few who ever experienced that thing: The audience has 4 volunteers for the table. The other 35 or so are put into a bleacher setup.
Very good overacting 'professor' gives a spiel and starts the seance. What follows is a very slow and very well built up gorilla girl illusion with some other hinkiness built in. The bleachers have various effects, blowing on you, strings to touch your head, pneumatic whips to tickle your legs, etc...and the whole bleacher set is on a hellavator rig so it bumbs and drops at programmed times.
The table similarly has other effects. The culminating gorilla girl transformation and escape is well done...if blatantly obvious to one such as me.
Probably the scariest thing I've ever seen locally. I laughed the entire time. I'll take this kind of thing over any of the escape room or extreme haunt BS every day of the week.
