Six Flags Fright Fest 2024 (Magic Mountain)

[downunder]

Cool. I'm going this Friday, maybe I'll get lucky with the mazes, maybe not - have a Sick Flags Day.

I have the worst channel on youtube, maybe I could qualify myself as media lol.

 

[Wishmaster]

I'm hearing media day will be this upcoming Friday... and for what it's worth, it was media day last year that they had all the mazes ready to go. So I'd gamble they're all going to be open by then.

SFMM will really get flamed for their misfires this year.

 

[Jerroddragon]

lol, this is in the kids area during the day

 

[Max]

Trick r treat facade. Pics from five fires twitter

 

[Jerroddragon]

I also hear some houses have a no video policy

So either those who sneak it will have those videos or official partners

So some mazes won’t have as much coverage as the houses do at HHN

 

[Clive]

I also hear some houses have a no video policy

So either those who sneak it will have those videos or official partners

So some mazes won’t have as much coverage as the houses do at HHN

Yeah there's a reason there's a no video policy haha

 

[Jerroddragon]

Yeah there's a reason there's a no video policy haha

Lol

Yeah, I assumed that as well

Funny how HHM and scary farm can operate with streamers but this event can’t

 

[Rideguy70]

Yet in the HHN thread we were all complaining how annoying the streamers in mazes are, so...

 

[Spideeey_24]

 

[Malachi]

I’m here tonight and already issues with Army of the Dead and Trick R Treat. They allowed people to line up for TrT. They seem hopeful that they will open. Just saw above. Great it works for the media and not GP…

Conjuring had some spooky moments )my first time in this one). It was clear by a team huddle outside they are workshopping these haunts. Better toward the end.

 

[Jerroddragon]

Yet in the HHN thread we were all complaining how annoying the streamers in mazes are, so...

I mean

I’ve gone 4 times and not once did anyone ruin my houses so just depends on your luck

Also
1) some streams do suck
2) some people just complain about streamers because they don’t want them to exist regardless of having an issue in person

 

[DTH]

This is why I am so grateful we got to see HHN do this maze. I know it was hit or miss for some people (dark wallz transitionz) but I thought it was freakin' great. This on the other hand.................I don't know WTF that was.

 

[Malachi]

Stranger Things is not very good either. They make HHN look like all stars with that IP and that says a lot. They have ghillie suit scares

 

[Freak]

This is why I am so grateful we got to see HHN do this maze. I know it was hit or miss for some people (dark wallz transitionz) but I thought it was freakin' great. This on the other hand.................I don't know WTF that was.

HHN Hollywood’s house had some flaws (Black wallz was the biggest one) but what the frick is THIS!?

 

[Michael S]

It doesn’t look terrible. It does look a whole lot better than your standard, run of the mill Fright Fest attraction (definitely got to give them that) but it has some major flaws, as well.

It’s a bit of a jumbled mess. The sound is a little quiet and not layered. The lighting is a little generic for my taste and doesn’t quite capture the aesthetic of the film. And there’s no real thru line to follow in the attraction.

Idk. Maybe it also wasn’t so smart to have 3 of your headlining IPs be ones that HHN has already done, and done well. They’re just asking for comparisons at this point, and, in each matchup, Universal is the clear winner.

 

[Jerroddragon]

Conjuring, army of the dead and truck R treat

Were all closed, when I went. No wait times in the app to check anything

Went to customer service, told them my story and issues and got. Phone number

So yeah they don’t care, I chatted with them and they would not change my daye

I’ll do a review later, it really is a fun event when it works but it mostly doesn’t
The scares are the MVPs, they really try to make the event elevated from what they are working with

 

[Spookies n' Stuff]

This is why I am so grateful we got to see HHN do this maze. I know it was hit or miss for some people (dark wallz transitionz) but I thought it was freakin' great. This on the other hand.................I don't know WTF that was.

I'll say I don't hate it, it absolutely could've been a lot worse.
It definitely has home haunt charm to it, a lot of it looks genuinely made by people who care a lot, but you can tell those passionate people were not given HHN-tier or frankly even scary farm-tier financial resources to work with. IMO next year they should outright cut 1-2 mazes to divert the budget to the rest, in a market this competetive it wont matter if you have the most IPs and the most number of mazes if the quality isn't up to snuff.
It's cute, and the actors and designers definitely cared a lot, but as a final product thats locked behind a near 100 dollar hard ticket, this aint it.

Has a ton of similarities to the HHN and Murder House Productions mazes, but it kinda falls short of both of them and doesn't do enough of it's own unique take on these scenes for me to really be drawn in and wanna visit, which is kinda a massive shame because this is the one thing that actually got me interested in visiting fright fest after all these years of never going. Would not be surprised if that little "no filming/pictures" policy is extended to every maze next year if getting to see videos them dissuades other people like it just dissuaded me.