CGA has released their Haunt website, which can be found here, and on top of that, they have announced 2 "new" Haunts for this year. The first is a twist on their original Slaughterhouse maze. The new Haunt's name? Slaughterhouse: Annihilation. We're not too sure about how much will exactly change in this maze, so if you have any hints or clues as to what this retheme is, comment down below or send us a message!
The other "new" Scare Zone includes Dead Man's Cove: Forsaken Souls. Again, we don't know what's going to change, so we're just going to kind of sit back & watch what happens this year at CGA's Haunt, and how all this "new" stuff pans out.
It looks like Canada's Wonderland is receiving a Terror of London Haunt for the 2011 season, and it looks to be replacing Slaughterhouse. With that said, it looks like the London themed Haunts are spreading like wildfire this year, also given the new London Terror Haunt at Worlds of Fun, which is replacing Dominion of Doom.
Dorney Park has announced their new Scare Zones for this years Haunt, which include Age of Darkness, Cut Throat Island, and Grave Walkers. These scare zones are replacing the Gauntlet, Pirates Passage, and Headstone Hallow.
On a website note, Halloweekends at Cedar Point has a preview website up, which can be viewed by clicking here, and Valleyscare in Minnesota has released their Haunt website, Valleyscare.com. Other websites up include Worlds of Fun, and Dorney Park.
It looks like Canada's Wonderland has officially released their new maze for the 2011 season! With the addition of Terror of London, their maze lineup may be affected, but we aren't exactly sure how, yet. The CW Haunt website still has yet to be released, so we'll have to hold off on official announcements until then!
The past few weeks I have been on vacation, and have failed to keep the site updated, so we're going to do an all around update on everything going on in the Cedar Fair Haunt industry!
One little bit I noticed right off the bat was that at Valleyfair in Minnesota, a new Haunt was announced at their recent Coaster Craze event. The new Haunt, Camp Wekilou, will actually extend outside of the park boundaries, and go into Picnic Cove, their enormous picnic area, making this Valleyscare's biggest haunted attraction yet.
Heading south, at Coasting For Kids, a charity event to raise money for the Give Kids the World Village in Florida, Worlds of Fun announced that they are receiving a new London Terror Haunt. However, despite the announcement, we're unsure whether it is a zone replacement (which in that case, it would replace Dominion of Doom), or a new Haunt. Stay tuned!
Dorney Park hasn't released much info regarding any new Haunts, however, after a little bit of digging, we found that on Newsplusnotes, there was a leak regarding a possible new Haunt location. No theme or rumors have been released, so we'll have to keep our ears and eyes peeled to see what's going on in Pennsylvania.
Canada's Wonderland is one of the few parks where we haven't heard anything regarding any new Haunts this year. The other park that we haven't heard much about is California's Great America. If anyone has any leads on what might be coming to CW or CGA, feel free to leave us a comment!
A unique rumor/news bit that we found out about a while ago regarded a new Haunt at Scarowinds. What makes the rumor unique? Well, nobody knows what the new Haunt is, and apparently, it's staying that way until the Haunt's Opening Night. Rumor has it, it might be some sort of lab theme, but that's all we've heard, and that's not a very strong rumor to begin with. We'll have to watch out for what Carowinds has up their sleeve!
Cedar Point has released information for their popular BooBuzz event, which includes a tour of their new Haunted Trail. Yep, you read that right, a new Haunted Trail? What does Halloweekends have in common with Scarowinds? Neither park has released what their new Haunt is yet. We are eagerly awaiting the release of the Haunt websites for all CF parks. This should be an interesting & creative Haunt season!
Kings Island has yet to release any information regarding any new Haunts for this year, however, they have posted a pretty funny Youtube video regarding the information about their Job Scare.
As if that wasn't cool enough, there is talk of a Toy or Doll Factory being added to Kings Island, as well as some major improvements/modifications to Wolf Pack. However, the Doll/Toy Factory rumor was around last year too, so who knows what could happen. They also announced on their Twitter that 2 new mazes will be added to this year's event.
Kings Dominion in Virginia has been awfully quiet, although they did confirm that their Haunt will include one more maze and one more zone that the previous year's event.
New Haunts a plenty all over the Cedar Fair chain! We'll have to keep our eyes & ears open for any other news and rumors about. Again, feel free to comment with any tips, leads, etc.
Knott's Berry Farm has released their full lineup of Haunted Attractions for the 2011 season. As noted on the LA Times Website, there will be 3 new Haunted Houses, and 1 entirely new Scare Zone. Here's a bit of info about each new maze.
> Invasion Beneath – The military battles against creatures emerging from a fissure in the Earth's core. Replaces the perfectly themed Black Widow's Cavern (Calico Mine Ride).
> Endgames: Warriors of the Apocalypse – A post-apocalyptic arena where gladiators battle to the death for the entertainment of the rich and powerful. Replaces the pointless and endless Labyrinth (In Camp Snoopy at the former Peanuts Playhouse location).
> Delirium – A wasteland along the blurry line between nightmare and insanity. Replaces the mediocre Club Blood vampire maze (Ghostrider warehouse).
Invasion Beneath, as noted, will replace Black Widow's Cavern in the Calico Mineride, Endgames will go in a new location in Camp Snoopy, replacing Labrynith, and Delirium will replace Club Blood after its stay in the Ghostrider Warehouse.
The new Scare Zone for the 2011 season will be a branch off of Ghost Town in a formerly vacant section of the park during Haunt.
> Gypsy Camp – Werewolves stalk a gypsy encampment seeking revenge for an ancient curse. (Along the Ghost Town backstreets near the Lockdown and Delirium mazes)
Sounds like this should be another great year for Knott's and their Halloween Haunt!
One thing I should mention is that in Endgames, the maze replacing Labrynith, Knott's will do something very few parks have tried. Using televisions, they will show other guests walking through the maze using video cameras/monitors in certain rooms.
We aren't sure how it will work out, or if the effect will prove to be useful or even innovative, but we sure cannot wait to see that, along with all the rest of the new Haunts at Knott's this fall.
General Information:CedarFairHauntNews (CFHN) is a publicly run website and offers a place for fans of the Cedar Fair Halloween Haunt industry to view information, rumors, and news about all of the latest things Halloween Haunt. Not all posts on this blog are true, therefore many of them are labeled as rumors. We will try our best to make sure that our viewers can distinguish the rumors from the confirmed news in the industry.
Your License to Us:By submitting material to us, you are representing that you are the owner of the material, or are making your submission with the express consent of the owner. By submitting material to any public posting areas of this website, such as any message boards, classifieds, forums, or community publishing areas, you agree that we (including our partners, agents, affiliates and service providers (collectively, "Third Party Providers"), may reproduce, modify, and distribute such material as we see fit in any medium and for any purpose. You also agree that we, including our Third Party Providers, may identify you as the author of any of your postings by name, email address or screen name as we see appropriate. We also reserve the right (but assume no obligation) to delete, move, or edit any postings that come to our attention that we consider unacceptable or inappropriate, whether for legal or other reasons.
Use at Your Own Risk:We provide the material available through this website for informational purposes only. You may only use the material and the services available through this website for your personal and non-commercial use. We try to ensure that information we post to this site is both timely and accurate, and that the services offered are reliable. Yet despite our efforts, errors may occur from time to time. In addition, some reports, such as stock quotes and related financial news, may be delayed at least 20 minutes due to requirements of the stock exchanges and/or financial information services. Before you act on any information you've found on our site, you should confirm any facts that are important to your decision. IF YOU RELY ON ANY INFORMATION OR SERVICE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS YOU MAY INCUR THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR USE OF ANY SERVICE OR ANY MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED FROM OR OTHERWISE PROVIDED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE.
For clarification, We are in no way owned or operated by Cedar Fair L.P and have no affiliation with Cedar Fair L.P in any way, shape or form.
