Dead Exposure: Death Valley (HHN 2024)

[Brian G.]

Could you imagine wearing that suit during the heat wave.

Gorilla was definitely missing the first night, understandably.

 

[viking_wizard_eyes]

Gorilla was definitely missing the first night, understandably.

Not during my runs.

 

[Brian G.]

Not during my runs.

Guess I got unlucky. Ran it 2 different times and it was empty.

 

[Spookies n' Stuff]

Occam's razor, guys. I'm guessing that suit was just too much.

That was my guess. I've done DE 3 times now and did not see the gorilla once. If I had to speculate, they either didn't have a tag out from the start, or the tag out was overwhelmed by the suit and the heat very early on, and it was probably recognized shortly after by supervisors or whoever that the suit for the remaining performer was unworkable in the heat as well, despite them managing to persist for week 1.

I remember hearing back in 2018 that a bunch of Demogorgons were passing out in the break room from how not breathable those suits were, and I've had a friend recall a few years back a very similar issue in Origins over at Knotts where one tag out for the Catawampus switched roles very early on due to how cumbersome that suit was, and the other tag out did shortly after that, requiring them to recast mid-season and only have 1 catawampus the rest of the year.
Big creature suits are hard as heck to work in let alone in these conditions.

 

[Wesker69]

Gorilla was definitely missing the first night, understandably.

Not during my runs.

Yea, my monkey photos are from Opening night & Night 2. Only one cast had the damn dirty ape, the other was vacant.

 

[viking_wizard_eyes]

Guess I got unlucky. Ran it 2 different times and it was empty.

Yeah it was luck of the draw most of that night in each house. I hit DE early in the night and then back-to-backish toward the end and he was there each time, so who knows.

 

[DTH]

With tag outs, would it make sense that the worst time to go through a maze is every 30 minutes? Like 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30 etc etc. I hate getting a room where a character is switching or clearly just left. One time I got Leatherface peeling off the face of a table........not a human, a table! Good for him for committing to the bit tho.

 

[Wesker69]

They're on set generally 45min. Unless you know the specific set times, it's just "luck".

 

[BatCom]

Do they switch off in full view of guests or do they hold the line to allow the house to clear and actors to switch?

 

[Spookies n' Stuff]

Do they switch off in full view of guests or do they hold the line to allow the house to clear and actors to switch?

You won't often see two of the same character as they swap out, but you will sometimes see the current on stage actor leave set while youre walking through, most mazes have built in backstage corridors to make it easy for them to get through without disturbing the guest flow.

 

[Wesker69]

After 2 weekends I can confirm the cast for this house (like the other houses) is not fully staffed resulting in empty booholes/scenes. This includes the damn dirty zombie ape.

From last night:


You will either see THIS... or



Last night, the zombie was in a lab coat instead of the hazmat suit.

Depending on which cast you get will depend on if you see this recent change or not.

 

[Spookies n' Stuff]

After 2 weekends I can confirm the cast for this house (like the other houses) is not fully staffed resulting in empty booholes/scenes. This includes the damn dirty zombie ape.

From last night:

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You will either see THIS... or

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Last night, the zombie was in a lab coat instead of the hazmat suit.

Depending on which cast you get will depend on if you see this recent change or not.

Last night I saw a hazmat zombie, wanna say that was around 10 pm.

Gotta say, as much as its a bit of a bummer that I never got to see the gorilla, I'm just glad anyone's in there at all now. Plus, if you wanna nitpick, it does kinda make sense from a visual implication standpoint that one of the hazmat zombies would essentially recreate the chimp dissection across the room on their non-zombie coworkers, zombie muscle memory or something.

 

[Wesker69]

Last night I saw a hazmat zombie, wanna say that was around 10 pm.

I finally got a "body" during my final run at close, but the first two trips was "empty".

Now we just need a zombie on BOTH casts in the room

 

[Spookies n' Stuff]

I finally got a "body" during my final run at close, but the first two trips was "empty".

Now we just need a zombie on BOTH casts in the room

I have no basis to go on, but I'd be curious if HHN is doing a weird staggered cast switch like knotts last year and that's why its inconsistent whether you see Cast A, Cast B, or nobody at all depending on timing.
That or the performers are getting shuffled around between rooms depending on whos out for the night and who has to leave early etc, probably the simpler explanation at least.

 

[saint.piss]

Fyi... the Gorilla is back. Friend of mine went through the house tonight and he has returned!

 

[Freak]

Fyi... the Gorilla is back. Friend of mine went through the house tonight and he has returned!

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THE GORILLA LIVES!!!!!!

 

[jarmor]

I legit did not read up or follow this house on the thread and was really expecting a house a la Dead Exposure in Orlando. I was disappointed. . .

BUT the gorilla was there during my run.

 

[Wesker69]

THE GORILLA LIVES!!!!!!

Not on late Sunday night when I went through

I legit did not read up or follow this house on the thread and was really expecting a house a la Dead Exposure in Orlando.

That was your first of two mistakes. Never expect the same experience on both coasts just because they share a name/theme similarities.

While I dislike the name use, the house is still great but even the ops said it should've been titled "Toxic Tunnel".

 

[DTH]

It doesn't share any Toxic Tunnel material though. It'd be an easy pivot with a few tweaks here and there, but associating it with Toxic Tunnel wouldn't be my first thought.

 

[Michael S]

While I dislike the name use, the house is still great but even the ops said it should've been titled "Toxic Tunnel".

Respectfully, that makes no sense. Toxic Tunnel was called that cuz you are literally walking through a tunnel to get to Metro. Why would the house be called that when you’re not just in a tunnel the whole time?