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Now things make a little more sense. Listen Oak Hills, or is it Vincent, the problem here is you are putting the cart before the horse. Why even bother with a floor plan 3-5 years from start up? You have no idea what type of location you will be in. If it is a building THEN you will have to work around existing conditions. If you are in a tent, large ware house, different scenario. I thought I would be in a tent and I ended up building a haunt in trailers!
I admire that you want to build an attraction someday, but the imperative point here is SOMEDAY. I have glanced back at some of your posts, and you have made a lot of them. They all have implied that you are basically under construction NOW! People are taking time to provide input for what they have thought is a work in progress.
Don’t get me wrong, posing questions on this message board can be good for everyone. The person asking gets a lot of information from a wide variety of views and experiences and those contributing get the “creative juices” flowing. But in some of your posts you end up disagreeing with people when you really have NO IDEA what you are talking about! You really want this $8,000 fire effect when people have provided some very creative WORKABLE solutions. Why would anyone want to spend $8,000 for a distraction? Do you really understand what it will take to open a haunt? Tabulate some of the effects and rooms you have inquired about… You will need upwards of $100-150,000 and we’re not even talking about all the other necessities and their cost. I don’t really think you can raise the necessary funding working for another haunt for 3 years!! The experience will be wonderful, but even the haunt OWNER may not be able to buy a whole new attraction in 3 years how can one of his employees afford to?
Do yourself and everyone else a big favor. Go to the conventions and trade shows; take as many classes as possible. Buy the books, DVD’s and magazines. DO YOUR HOMEWORK. They will answer a majority of your questions, actually prevent you from asking some, and even create new questions.
If you want to post questions or conceptual ideas that’s fine, but don’t post that it is this room or that room that you are working on. You haven’t built a wall yet! And until you have actually owned and or operated a haunt you really are no entitles to some of your responses to the people with REAL experience that have graciously responded.
And again I restate, be aware that it will HIGHLY unlikely that you will develop anything that is unique, original or never been done before. It’s not a dig, just the truth. We very rarely come up with original ideas, just unique variations on existing ideas. You may come up with something YOU have never seen, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not been done!
I do my haunts in trailers. I have written several articles about it, taught several seminars on the subject. Did I invent it? No! Do I take credit for it? No! I am merely someone who supports this style of attraction. Only because of the amount of time and experience with the construction and operation of this style of attraction, I can be called an “expert”.
I am NOT here to stifle your creativity. You just need to redirect your energies. Working on specific designs now is merely a mental exercise. Right now your questions and posts are more or less an exercise in futility. We do things today that were not even attainable 3-5 years ago, so effects you are “designing” now may have no relevance in 5 years.
Go do the “homework” I suggested and then we’ll talk! Trust me things change drastically and quickly. What you really need to be focusing on is learning about marketing, promotions, business aspects, financing.. things that provide the ground work to be able to own and operate a business. Ordinances change, technologies change, social attitudes and phobias change….we can do things today for $50 that would have been impossible to do 5 years ago for under $500. Ideas that are “cool” today will become blasé years from now.
People are here to help and they do so readily. But they don’t want to waste their time either. Many of us are busy WORKING on our haunts that will actually reopen in several months. 5 years from now you may not even be INTERESTED in haunted houses...but I’ll still be working on mine.
Now things make a little more sense. Listen Oak Hills, or is it Vincent, the problem here is you are putting the cart before the horse. Why even bother with a floor plan 3-5 years from start up? You have no idea what type of location you will be in. If it is a building THEN you will have to work around existing conditions. If you are in a tent, large ware house, different scenario. I thought I would be in a tent and I ended up building a haunt in trailers!
I admire that you want to build an attraction someday, but the imperative point here is SOMEDAY. I have glanced back at some of your posts, and you have made a lot of them. They all have implied that you are basically under construction NOW! People are taking time to provide input for what they have thought is a work in progress.
Don’t get me wrong, posing questions on this message board can be good for everyone. The person asking gets a lot of information from a wide variety of views and experiences and those contributing get the “creative juices” flowing. But in some of your posts you end up disagreeing with people when you really have NO IDEA what you are talking about! You really want this $8,000 fire effect when people have provided some very creative WORKABLE solutions. Why would anyone want to spend $8,000 for a distraction? Do you really understand what it will take to open a haunt? Tabulate some of the effects and rooms you have inquired about… You will need upwards of $100-150,000 and we’re not even talking about all the other necessities and their cost. I don’t really think you can raise the necessary funding working for another haunt for 3 years!! The experience will be wonderful, but even the haunt OWNER may not be able to buy a whole new attraction in 3 years how can one of his employees afford to?
Do yourself and everyone else a big favor. Go to the conventions and trade shows; take as many classes as possible. Buy the books, DVD’s and magazines. DO YOUR HOMEWORK. They will answer a majority of your questions, actually prevent you from asking some, and even create new questions.
If you want to post questions or conceptual ideas that’s fine, but don’t post that it is this room or that room that you are working on. You haven’t built a wall yet! And until you have actually owned and or operated a haunt you really are no entitles to some of your responses to the people with REAL experience that have graciously responded.
And again I restate, be aware that it will HIGHLY unlikely that you will develop anything that is unique, original or never been done before. It’s not a dig, just the truth. We very rarely come up with original ideas, just unique variations on existing ideas. You may come up with something YOU have never seen, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not been done!
I do my haunts in trailers. I have written several articles about it, taught several seminars on the subject. Did I invent it? No! Do I take credit for it? No! I am merely someone who supports this style of attraction. Only because of the amount of time and experience with the construction and operation of this style of attraction, I can be called an “expert”.
I am NOT here to stifle your creativity. You just need to redirect your energies. Working on specific designs now is merely a mental exercise. Right now your questions and posts are more or less an exercise in futility. We do things today that were not even attainable 3-5 years ago, so effects you are “designing” now may have no relevance in 5 years.
Go do the “homework” I suggested and then we’ll talk! Trust me things change drastically and quickly. What you really need to be focusing on is learning about marketing, promotions, business aspects, financing.. things that provide the ground work to be able to own and operate a business. Ordinances change, technologies change, social attitudes and phobias change….we can do things today for $50 that would have been impossible to do 5 years ago for under $500. Ideas that are “cool” today will become blasé years from now.
People are here to help and they do so readily. But they don’t want to waste their time either. Many of us are busy WORKING on our haunts that will actually reopen in several months. 5 years from now you may not even be INTERESTED in haunted houses...but I’ll still be working on mine.
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