Snowball Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 3 hours ago, tink1470 said: I'm contemplating becoming a scare actor this year. Can someone who's worked haunt give me a bit of an idea how it is? Like do you get any say in what maze you will be in? What should I expect with going into the audition? Ive scareacted at multiple haunts since 2014 (minus 2020 for obvious reasons) and have always wanted to take a shot at KI but super anxious to take the leap. My best advice: Just do it! They’ll likely have you do a scream (Go for long and loud), and improvise any sort of character. When I did mine 7 years ago I did a zombie, and they put me in KillMart. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotag Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 3 hours ago, Snowball said: My best advice: Just do it! They’ll likely have you do a scream (Go for long and loud), and improvise any sort of character. When I did mine 7 years ago I did a zombie, and they put me in KillMart. returners usually get a say on where unless you wait till the last dogs dead and then they put ya where they need ya. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenageninja Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 16 hours ago, wolp said: Never posted much and forgot my account so had to register again just to say how INSANE this is. Basically can only have a fanny pack. They won't let you leave the park after 6/7 (also insane), and now you can't bring in a bag? We always brought in a bag with more clothes (god knows the temperature swing from 6 pm until midnight), some light snacks, hats, gloves, etc and rented a locker so we could have a "home base" since stuck in the park. Now we're expected to carry all of that around? how annoying. This is the way the world is going. It's Security Theatre. Sporting events have been transitioning to this over time and now it's only a matter of time before this becomes the full time policy at KI, IMO. The no leaving policy has to do with the amount of drugs and alcohol people do in the parking lot prior to the event. I've never seen so many cheap plastic Vodka bottles in my life, as I had emptying the garbage in the parking lot during Haunt. There's a reason many of us called it the White Trash Bash. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befat Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 Looks like the park map is missing from the Haunt website. The maze description lists the location though. https://www.visitkingsisland.com/events/haunt/attractions?category=mazes Cornered is listed as being in Action Zone but I would assume it's staying in Tower Gardens. Hotel St. Michelle is listed as being in Coney Mall. So I would guess it's going in Action Theater. It'll take some creativity to make it look like a hotel on the outside! (Anyone know why they chose the name "Michelle"?) That means nothing is going the Blackout building. I guess it makes sense to put the hotel in Action Theater vs. the Blackout building. Urgent Scare was set up with different rooms to move through while Blackout/Club Blood was mainly narrow hallways from what I remember. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonofBaconator Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 So will the Wolfpack building be SBNO? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coasterteam Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 53 minutes ago, befat said: Looks like the park map is missing from the Haunt website. The maze description lists the location though. https://www.visitkingsisland.com/events/haunt/attractions?category=mazes We should see the park post the official Haunt map sometime before the 23rd. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befat Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 2 hours ago, SonofBaconator said: So will the Wolfpack building be SBNO? With the number of mazes being cut in recent years, management is probably wishing it had been torn down with Son of Beast. Probably would have added little cost to the overall demolition budget. Now it would be hard to justify the cost of tearing it down as a stand alone project. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagoda Gift Shop Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 There is no "big" map of everything, but at the top of the page for each list, you can click a toggle button to see a map of just the listed stuff. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robintodd Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 11 hours ago, befat said: Looks like the park map is missing from the Haunt website. The maze description lists the location though. https://www.visitkingsisland.com/events/haunt/attractions?category=mazes Cornered is listed as being in Action Zone but I would assume it's staying in Tower Gardens. Hotel St. Michelle is listed as being in Coney Mall. So I would guess it's going in Action Theater. It'll take some creativity to make it look like a hotel on the outside! (Anyone know why they chose the name "Michelle"?) That means nothing is going the Blackout building. I guess it makes sense to put the hotel in Action Theater vs. the Blackout building. Urgent Scare was set up with different rooms to move through while Blackout/Club Blood was mainly narrow hallways from what I remember. Hotel St. Michelle will be in the action theatre. If you ride racer you can see they are working on the front. As far as the name I saw a picture that had all the letters burned out except for HOTEL and HELL in St. MicHELLe (Motel Hell). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befat Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 21 hours ago, Pagoda Gift Shop said: There is no "big" map of everything, but at the top of the page for each list, you can click a toggle button to see a map of just the listed stuff. Nice tip! 13 hours ago, robintodd said: Hotel St. Michelle will be in the action theatre. If you ride racer you can see they are working on the front. As far as the name I saw a picture that had all the letters burned out except for HOTEL and HELL in St. MicHELLe (Motel Hell). That makes sense. Michelle seemed so random to me. Clever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanJay Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 I don’t know if anyone would know anything about this, but I was reading the descriptions for the new Hotel St. Michelle and it honestly seems a lot like a Phantom Theater house. I might be just be making a stretch, but especially with it taking place in the 1920’s, and the detail of going through a boiler room, I have a theory that it may have been planned and partially constructed as a PT house, but have been changed during development to be a hotel. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion742 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 So I was looking through the Haunt 2022 attractions and Drop Tower is not listed as an attraction for this years Haunt. I know it has been closed for a while lately, I don’t know if it is usually not in Haunt by my thought is they shut it down for the rest of the year. And will try to fix it in the off-season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 3 hours ago, Orion742 said: So I was looking through the Haunt 2022 attractions and Drop Tower is not listed as an attraction for this years Haunt. I know it has been closed for a while lately, I don’t know if it is usually not in Haunt by my thought is they shut it down for the rest of the year. And will try to fix it in the off-season. It is usually operational during Haunt. KI is really good at getting rides going, so I suspect it is probably they are waiting on a part that needs to come from the manufacturer and the relationship with the manufacturer probably isn't going to result in a priority... We have had several rides go down due to waiting on a part. I know Delirium has in the past and I believe Drop Tower has as well. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKIVortex Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 It is usually operational during Haunt. KI is really good at getting rides going, so I suspect it is probably they are waiting on a part that needs to come from the manufacturer and the relationship with the manufacturer probably isn't going to result in a priority... We have had several rides go down due to waiting on a part. I know Delirium has in the past and I believe Drop Tower has as well. And KD's is also closed for the season. Makes ya wonder. Sent from my SM-G986U using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coasterteam Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 The 2022 Haunt map was officially released today! Check it out: https://qr1.be/WUZV 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion742 Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 57 minutes ago, Coasterteam said: The 2022 Haunt map was officially released today! Check it out: https://qr1.be/WUZV I am surprised cornered has been moved all the way to Timberwolf! That should be interesting to see how it plays out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robintodd Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 43 minutes ago, Orion742 said: I am surprised cornered has been moved all the way to Timberwolf! That should be interesting to see how it plays out. If memory serves me correctly they tried it there in the past. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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befat Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 7 hours ago, robintodd said: If memory serves me correctly they tried it there in the past. Can confirm it has been there in the past. Problem was, Drop Tower’s lights made it too bright in the maze. Could explain the closure of said ride during Haunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coasterteam Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 57 minutes ago, befat said: Can confirm it has been there in the past. Problem was, Drop Tower’s lights made it too bright in the maze. Could explain the closure of said ride during Haunt. Drop Towers been down for weeks at this point. Don’t think it operated this past weekend at the private P&G event. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoF96" Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Falcons Fury is also down. Was very disappointed to not be able to ride it during my first and only visit last month. Iron Gwazi was very fun though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 2 hours ago, befat said: Can confirm it has been there in the past. Problem was, Drop Tower’s lights made it too bright in the maze. Could explain the closure of said ride during Haunt. That is certainly not the reason why Drop Tower is down. It has been closed since early August when a nasty storm rolled thru.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSummit20 Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 New video will be live 0900 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 We talk with Chad Showalter about Haunt in 2022!! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowball Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 5 hours ago, IndyGuy4KI said: We talk with Chad Showalter about Haunt in 2022!! The sliders in the background have me cracking up. You can see me slide past a few times. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDMC01 Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Good stuff; super pumped for tomorrow night! And yes, the sliders in the background were great - I loved when one of them did a cartwheel! I haven't been to Haunt since 2018*, so I'm super excited to get back to the park! I'm planning on at least going through Chaos, Hotel St. Michelle and of course Slaughter House. I'd also like to check out the new location of Cornered if I get the chance. *In 2019 I was a Scareactor in Field of Screams 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Finally we are getting some media coverage! https://www.wlwt.com/article/kings-island-adds-new-attractions-to-halloween-haunt/41338276 https://local12.com/news/local/kings-islands-halloween-haunt-sets-it-sights-on-scaring-visitors-cincinnati-mason-warren-county-fall-fest-children-makeup-mazes-houses https://www.fox19.com/2022/09/22/kings-island-halloween-haunt-opens-this-weekend/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 2 hours ago, disco2000 said: Finally we are getting some media coverage! https://www.wlwt.com/article/kings-island-adds-new-attractions-to-halloween-haunt/41338276 https://local12.com/news/local/kings-islands-halloween-haunt-sets-it-sights-on-scaring-visitors-cincinnati-mason-warren-county-fall-fest-children-makeup-mazes-houses https://www.fox19.com/2022/09/22/kings-island-halloween-haunt-opens-this-weekend/ You forgot one! https://kicentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/44970-haunt-season-is-here/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befat Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 20 hours ago, disco2000 said: That is certainly not the reason why Drop Tower is down. It has been closed since early August when a nasty storm rolled thru.... Drop Tower is still listed on the main web page but not the Haunt web page. This leads me to believe that even if it does reopen this season, it will be closed during Haunt hours. Drop Tower’s lights ruined the atmosphere the last time they tried putting a corn maze in Timberwolf. I experienced it myself. Just a theory. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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