Haunt Review: Six Flags Discvoery Kingdom Fright Fest (Sponsored By Snickers)
This year I made it up to Discovery Kingdom to check out their Fright Fest. The admission to fright fest is included in the price of your ticket but to visit the mazes is an additional fee. A bracelet was $12 for annual passholders and $20 for VIP line access. I had just purchased a standard bracelet but once I saw the line inefficiency going on I quickly grabbed a VIP pass.
First lets talk about the day activities the park hosts for the kids during the day. They offer Tiwck Or Tweat Twail, meet your favorite character handing out sweet treats on a trail. Pumpkin Patch Place, enjoy a haw maze puppet show, talking pumpkin and more. Witch’s Lair Cooking Decorating, Witch’s Brew & Island Zoo, a wildlife show with witches and animals. I did see this show and it was pretty fun! Finally , they have Hypnotist Steve Byner.
SCARE ZONE
Arachnid Alley: They say this was a big spider scare zone. I did not see any spiders that I do not remember and I had passed through this area a few times. I did see webs up in the tress though. Maybe I was just not paying too much attention?
Mt. Rotting Cemetary: This was not much a scare zone as it was just decorated. To be honest I did not even know this was an area until looking at the map and I had been through it a few times. It just looked like general park decorations.
Cirkus Berzerkus: Clown themed section of the park that was very small. It was kind of unusual though. They had built a section for you to walk through with the clowns that you had to take voluntarily to expeirence it. It was walls made of just Jail like bars, you could see right through the “maze”. Very strange choice. It kind of works though? Not sure what I think of this.
Bloodbath Bayou: I had been through this pathway as well and they did have guys out running around but the theming was very limited. There was some good terrorizing of some guests going on though so It was the most pleasing of the scare zones that I had seen.
MAZES
The Boathouse at Blood Lake: This maze was located in the station for the splash ride at the park. They were sending you in small groups to go through the maze to help with the expierence. Very scarecly themed maze and a whole lot of Drop Window scares. The best part was the inside rain scene. Once you exit the boat house the maze winds down a walled pathway with more decorations. There was hardly anyone in here working. Very weak as far as scare or entertaining factor: overall rating: 5
Massacre Mine: This was a strange maze. Not in a good way. Just strange. The walls were far apart and not tight enough to immerse you into the feeling of it being a maze or a mine. Especially with it being a mine I would hope it had a tight corridor. PLUS, no freaking roof….come on. A roofless mine? This is maybe one of the biggest bone head designer moves I have seen at a Halloween event. Another strange thing is I ran into more vibrating “animatronic” puppets than I did actual people. They just kinda….twitched….or shoock randomly. Very non believable or scary. Most guests were just laughing at them. There was one scharacter who was working the entrance and was giving the guests a good scare. That is the only reason I will be nice with my rating here. Overall rating: 5
Arsenic & Arania’s Nightmare Manor: This as a creepy mansion type maze. You wondered through rooms of a mansion with hardly anyone around to scare you. I dont remember much about this maze other than one very cool and possibly best thing I have seen at any park this year. There was room with very little decorated. Just looked like maybe a living or something. In this room was a red Velour Chair. No one sitting in it of course. It seemed as though all scharacters took the night off here. Then it happened. The chair sprang to life! Someone was in the chair! It was just a costume! This was seriously fantastic. It scared the hell out of the guy in front of me too. I wanted to just stand there and watch how it all worked but the flow of people kept me moving alon. This maze was ok but the chair brought it over the top and is why it will get a better rating. Overall rating: 7
Slaughter House Pig Farms: A hill billy pig farm with a twist. They have ran out of pigs and now they are using humans. This maze was ok. Decently themed, had a nice fridge scene in it. The ending was kind of weak and had of course a chain saw guy(see my big write up on chainsaws and why they should just go away at haunt events in my big finale write up in the next week) I have been through plenty of these hilly billy themed mazes and it was average. Nothing memorable from here. Overall rating: 6
Captain Bloats Shipwreck of Horror: This maze was located in the Sharks building. They did not cover up some of the shark tanks which was pretty cool but they also left up exhibit boards. What the heck guys! cover that stuff up! It totally killed the maze. The floor was still blue carpet and way to lit to be dark enough to be scary. The walls had TONS of detail into them but little to no effort into anything. I did not see more than 2 people inside the entire maze. This was just a
