Very impressed!
Ghostwood Estates ROCKED!! The CGI in the pre-show was very cool. The ride itself really impressed me!! I'm not a fan of the target-type rides but this one was was excellant. 200 targets to shoot at makes for great overload (which in this case is a great thing). It really does want to make you ride it again and again. The detail and scenery exceeded my expectations completely. If you are within a 300 miles radius I'd make it a point to see this first-rate attraction!!
Larry, you are your crew did a great job! Congratualtions!!
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So what is everones impressions on Ghostwood?
(For those who have ridden)
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Leaving for Kennywood in a bit here. See everyone there!
Can;t wait to see Ghostwood Estates!!
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As Larry said, we were lucky enough to check out Ghostwood Wednesday night and it looks fantastic.
It's very high-tech and filled with tons of detail, as you can probably imagine -- but it still very much feels like it belongs in Kennywood. It's very colorful, very fun, and very much a part of the dark ride tradition that K-wood has developed over the last 100 years.
Kennywood's dark rides have always had a great sense of whimsy and character to them ( the gone-but-not-forgotten "Le Cachot" dark ride featured skeletons jousting on motorcycles, as well as several highly psychedelic scenes) -- and Ghostwood feels right at home.
It's easily the most detailed dark ride Kennywood I've ever seen at Kennywood, and I'm sure the response will be amazing. As was mentioned in earlier posts, the ScareHouse team was lucky enough to participate in the installation -- which was a total thrill.
KDKA TV did a preview of the ride yesterday morning, which you can watch here: http://kdka.com/video/?id=40793@kdka.dayport.com
The Post Gazette did a story yesterday: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08122/877774-55.stm
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I'm heading out and will be at Kennywood Amusement Park. I hope you all can make it ... give me a ring at 314 504 3970 if you end up at Kennywood this weekend and want to find me.
The guys from Scarehouse stopped by last night to check out the place...they said it was amazing. It really is a really cool haunted mansion that you really must see with the LIGHTS ON!
We did so much detail to the place like mudding the walls, to give it stucco look I wonder if anyone will ever see it... you can with the lights on! LOL
I hope to catch some PA people out there this weekend.
Friday is their media party so I'll find out what DAFE thinks then!
Larry
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Here is a tid bit for you...
On the Kennywood ride Kennywood set up the pre-show room and they used Changing Portraits stuff for the walls. We also used some stuff from Haunted Memories, so both Haunted Memories and Changing Portraits will have their art live for the life of this ride.
Larry
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Since we are sorta on the subject of The Haunted Mansion, heres a link to most of the plans for the mansion, I dont know if you can decipher square footage from them or not, they are kinda hard to read even after seeing the hi-res version (you have to give your email address and name to get access to those)
The website is the haunted portrait company so some of you have probably seen this before. Enjoy.
http://www.hauntedportraits.com/Haun...Blueprints.htm
Larry I wish I could be there for the grand opening it sounds really cool, plus ive never been to Kennywood so ill have to get up there soon!
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Unfortunately, I will have to wait a couple of weeks to see it as I'm committed to The Eastern Haunters' Convention, but I'll be visiting Ghostwood more than a couple of times this summer. Kennywood is about 6 miles from my door.
I might be able to get my wife and daughter to renew our DAFE membership and have a sick day, though ;-)
Chris
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Any of your haunted house / dark ride nuts want to meet up on Saturday I will be at the Park all day long. Let me know if you're coming!!!
Larry
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Well we're going to upload several to our website but it won't be until after the ride opens. Larry
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You know I'm not sure how many square feet the ride is but it's not very big... I do actually know how many feet the thing is because I have a blueprint but I don't have it handy. Its not big I know that... maybe 4,000 square feet maybe bigger.
Something like Disney's haunted mansion is probably 15,000 square feet or bigger I don't know. I never looked into it but I'm sure its real big. This dark ride has ten scenes and they're all awesome!
Every scene is HUGE as well... if we took this same space and made it into a haunted house it would have about 20 scenes at least.
You have to remember a massive car has to drive through the sets so the rooms are big!
Larry
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Sounds really nice Larry, how many sq. ft. does the ride consist of?
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