Halloween Haunt Sightings 2015

Today (August 8th) I had a short discussion with Dave Frazier the General Manager of Valleyfair.

It was brief but we still talked on a few things. Many of you may have heard rumors of the Wild West coming to Haunt. Those rumors are true. Dave said that haunt will incorporate the Renegade/ Chickie's and Pete's area into a Wild West type area. From what he was saying it seemed that it would be a scarezone or a day event. Also it is true that Hellside Farm will be moving to soak city. As you may notice that the amphitheatre curtain is open. No they are not preparing to demolish or "blow it up" as Dave says (although he wishes to do that) they are only taking haunt props out of storage. 

You can also see that they brought out the Haunt plinko game

They are making pretty good progress on the new Chateau Du Damne

Dave did say that they have started putting together the haunt on the inside

and they will start painting the facade very soon.

Here is a picture of the Hellside Farm scarecrows being prepared

(Photo taken by Dave Frazier on Twitter)

Zombie High has not shown any changes yet (on the exterior)

Dave also mentioned the Bumper Cars will close in about a week for the Asylum setup.

I would like to thank Dave Frazier for taking his time to speak with me and to let me use his photo

(shown above the zombie high one)

Written by:

Caden Riley

Valleyfair Haunt Blog

 The new Chateau Du Damne 

If you haven't already heard Valleyfair is building a permanent Chateau du -damne building. It is located behind where Mr. Cleavers usually is and no from my understanding there is no plans to move or remove Mr. Cleavers. On the webcam the space maybe looks smaller than the space in the arcade even though they probably don't use all the space in the arcade. In an interview with Mr. Dave Frazier he said that the haunt department is leaning towards permanent haunt buildings cause of the ease of setup for each individual haunt. this means Haunt can leave the basic structure of the walls up giving them  more time to focus on detail of the haunt. I currently have very little information on this years haunt lineup. 

Notice the spooky spider in the middle of the picture?

          

In my first visit to Valleyfair of the season, I had the privilege to attend the Soak City preview night! I arrived at the gates around 4:40 and at 5:00 some VF staff members came and said hi. At that point we where waiting for the "OK" from the Lifeguards. One of the staff members had already checked my gold pass so when they opened the gates I ran to the Breakers Pipeline. I already had my swim suit on so I ran up the stairs and eventually reached the top. I was privileged to be the first rider (Excluding the people who tested it) to ride the breakers pipeline (the yellow one) When I finished the ride and exitingly I met the one and only... Dave Frazier, to my excitement I went up to him to confirm who he was and he was who I thought he was. We talked a little about the project and more.
I then decided to ride the breakers plunge and it was equally as awesome. After I finished the ride I went back up to Dave and briefly talked a bit more and then left soak city. after spending a few hours with friends I came back to soak city and rode the rest of the slides I then was Introduced to Ryan by Dave (Ryan's page is Thecoasterlead on Twitter and Instagram) we then discussed more about the project and other fan pages. This was a review from the Valleyfair Haunt Blog.