The podcast on tying the scarezones together:
"It's our 32nd year and we wanted to again tie all of the scarezones into one fantastically horrific story. And with that, this year I believe we have achieved that and as creators, went really deep in story for this year. But, I think our fans are going to love it.
Right through that front gate, Dr. Oddfellow will greet you right up front and he is promising us immortality. We are of likemind. We enjoy the twisted, the polluted part of the word, we want to see the horrors of the world and celebrate it. So, he's inviting us and he's like "with the souls and the way that you think, I can give you immortality". So he's promising us this and he's showing us how he's extracting souls using blood to make elixirs that promise immortality. Like an old snake oil salesman. And he's promising these things while these other creatures and representatives from what you'll see around the rest of the park are walking around us. In the past, we've kind of done this Table of Contents at front gate and so that's a little bit of what's happening. But in those creatures, it tells the story of his past. So that is what you'll meet going through the streets"