Shade
10-09-2007, 02:47 PM
Keep in mind that I have never run a haunted house (except a neighborhood one in the back yard) so I really have no idea what I'm talking about.
Since we've had the discussion about haunts running groups through too close together, here's a thought that I'm wondering if it might alleviate the groups running into each other.
Would it be feasible (given enough space and budget) to build a haunted house that was basically two identical haunts laid out next to each other? Like an "A Track" and a "B Track?"
I realize this means double on a lot of expenses. Twice as many props to buy and also twice as many breaking down. Some actors, if you built it right, could hit the track on the left and then the one on the right. (I know this is doable, because at least Spider Mansion and Haunted Mansion recycle actors multiple times throughout the haunt. Probably other haunts, too.) But you would probably need to hire a few more actors as well to accomodate a two-track operation.
If you did that, couldn't you basically keep sending people in at your same present spacing but instead, one goes into the A Track and then next goes into the B Track?
I don't doubt that it would affect your bottom line in terms of money. But if you're really doing it "just to thrill people" and because you are "passionate about Halloween," then wouldn't it be worth the cost?
Since we've had the discussion about haunts running groups through too close together, here's a thought that I'm wondering if it might alleviate the groups running into each other.
Would it be feasible (given enough space and budget) to build a haunted house that was basically two identical haunts laid out next to each other? Like an "A Track" and a "B Track?"
I realize this means double on a lot of expenses. Twice as many props to buy and also twice as many breaking down. Some actors, if you built it right, could hit the track on the left and then the one on the right. (I know this is doable, because at least Spider Mansion and Haunted Mansion recycle actors multiple times throughout the haunt. Probably other haunts, too.) But you would probably need to hire a few more actors as well to accomodate a two-track operation.
If you did that, couldn't you basically keep sending people in at your same present spacing but instead, one goes into the A Track and then next goes into the B Track?
I don't doubt that it would affect your bottom line in terms of money. But if you're really doing it "just to thrill people" and because you are "passionate about Halloween," then wouldn't it be worth the cost?