No Boo Necklace available for purchase this year. Do you think this is a money grab?? or trying to make it family friendly?? Only works in the streets not inside mazes. They also have an interactive lantern for purchase that interacts with mazes, entertainment and around the park.
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They are once again open on Wednesday Nights in the month of October always a really good night to go for lower crowd levels.
They've had No Boo necklaces at other Cedar Fair parks for years. They've been harmless at the other events, but I have mixed feelings on them being at Knott's. In terms of whether or not it's a money grab or trying to make the event more family friendly, I'd say yes to both. People who have used them seem to enjoy them, and I haven't noticed it causing any real problems at other events, but I could also picture them really throwing off the "nowhere is safe" vibe that makes Scary Farm so special. Hopefully it'll be fine just like it has been at the other parks.
For better or worse, for my upcoming trip I decided to make Wednesday my Universal/HHN day and then focus at least the next two nights on Scary Farm. Hopefully Thursday won't be too much worse than Wednesday.
Puppet Up should have never been in that giant theatre. Its too small and niche a show to fill that space. Its also a show that exists outside of Scary Farm, so I wouldn't waste my limited Scary Farm time to see a shorter version of a show I could see outside of the park.
It appeared to fill up that first year-or at least, it filled the theater MUCH more than the improv show that had been in there in 2018. They could have recycled out some of the staged bits sooner than they did, but otherwise I quite enjoyed it.
Any ideas of where Room 13 will be? It sounds like it needs to be in the Roaring 20's section, but the only maze location that has been there was the Bumper Cars and that hasn't been used in years. I'd be excited if that was coming back.
I just hope The Hanging is funny. The last few years it was really cringe-worthy.
I guess near the Walter Knott theater, if the tagline is to be believed, but I can't really picture how/where that would fit within the area I'm picturing. The last time I was at the event, the Roaring 20s scare zone didn't yet exist.
I didn't think either year I saw The Hanging was great, though I felt the 2019 show was significantly better than the 2018 show. I do think society has changed, and so it'll be nigh impossible to pull of a Hanging that everyone universally adores. I don't think the difference is
just that 'people get so much more offended now', although there's some degree of that. The bigger issue is that everyone gets entertainment, news, etc. from their own bubbles and niches, so there isn't much of a 'mass culture' to speak of in the way there would have been ten years ago. So the jokes need to be super big and broad-which increases the chances that most jokes will refer to things that seem super dated/past their prime or go to the obvious targets (i.e. the Kardashians). So even if they really truly go 'we'll take no prisoners with our level of offensiveness', I imagine there's a fair chance that the show will miss most of its targets anyway. It's always been a bit of a luck of the draw or required a certain alchemy for a show like this to work, and it's only gotten harder over time for everything to come together in the way it needs to in a 'pop culture offensive' sort of show. Perhaps they'll really stick the landing this time, but in my view there's a better than average chance that many people will watch the show and wonder if the park would've been better off just keeping The Hanging in the past.
Glad to hear that Dr. Cleaver sounds like a good time. Though I hope he does better than Ed Alonzo-I saw him at Worlds of Fun and I'd say his show was more odd than it was funny or shocking. There was one bit with an audience member that clearly didn't work the way it was supposed to. Hopefully Dr. Cleaver has aged better.
