Six Flags FRIGHT FEST Is Fyre Fest Of Haunt Events
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Six Flags Magic Mountain FRIGHT FEST 2024 Is Fyre Fest Of Haunt Events. We filmed full haunted house walkthroughs of Stranger Things, Conjuring, Army Of The Dead & Even SAW. Trick Or Treat Haunted House Was Closed.
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Despite how atrocious this was, props to the scare actors in the Oz scare zone. They seem very entertaining.
@@jayismyname1943 All The Scare Zone Actors Were Amazing!! Great Acting, Make Up, & Costumes 🤌🏻
@@KevinHeimbach i wouldn't go so far as to call all of the make up and costumes amazing :P
The stuff was pretty good in the daytime and nighttime. Almost every scare zone actor was wearing Prosthetics and even HHN doesn't do that.
Last year I paid the extra money for the haunted houses, which consisted of a few sparsely-decorated, darkened hallways and maybe one or two scare actors or guides. I liked walking around the park and looking at all the costumes and scare zones, but the haunted houses were a huge rip-off. Fright fest is more for people who wanna ride roller coasters and see cool stuff in between rides.. You'd be better off paying $20 to support your local haunt, which is a fraction of the cost and better than anything you'd see at six flags.
😅yea agreed 👍
Shout out to the scare-actors. They are by far the best part of the event. You can tell they're actually having fun despite the rest of Fright Fest being pretty lame.
They’re doing all of the hard work. So are the cast members. Screw the Six Flags higher ups for fucking over them
@@xdevildeadlyx7650yeahhhh I work at six flags the entertainment team is great but man the upper management are terrible they suck at relaying info to team members and sadly it ruins the experience for everyone works and guests :(
Yeah, they sure do seem far better than the set designers and event planners who threw this together.
Ahahahahaha six flags great adventure is probably just as bad. I feel bad for the workers for seem to be a victim to the higher ups. They can’t give information if they aren’t trained properly. *sigh* you should come try my six flags. They seem to be a dumpster fire everyday
Kinda their job dope
From one scare actor to all these folks holding it down: you guys are the backbone of these events and the higher-ups don't reward your passion enough.
I worked at Great America for Fright Fest. I can't speak for everything, but I know our haunt actors gave their all. We got complaints from parents for scaring their kids, when we LITERALLY had constant reminders when you came into the park that as soon as it hit 6pm, shit would go down and there would be no remorse. Good times.
Those are the same parents who would complain about their child’s burger not coming with ketchup, when there’s ketchup on the table ready to be used. Lol just wanting to complain with no valid reason other than “I made a mistake and I’m going to take it out on somebody idc who”
People never fail to amaze me with their idiocy😂✨🖤✨
you gotta specify cali or chicago great amercia lol
@@Kittyhat Chicago
@@DrErikNefariousthat was my childhood family vacation every year ❤️❤️
The scare actors outside seem to be having more fun than some of the ones in the houses. Huge shout out to the scare actors they need a raise for making the place at least fun.
As a scare actor, I can say it's usually more fun to be outside. I'd imagine maze actors have next to no freedom to move around the room, and they receive minimal makeup because really they only have a moment to scare people before everyone moves on. Outside you're in the fresh air with badass makeup scaring any and everybody in your way. Truly good times. Wish I could do it for a living
As a scare actor myself I can confirm it's often a lot more fun to work the crowd than it is to just chase someone out of a room
Stranger Things is giving me Willy Wonka experience 😂
Every IP was giving off Willy Wonka experience!
The unknown would of made it better
@@galaxionart9338 the conjuring house was jarring - and not a spooky, scary way.
Bruh that’s exactly how that “haunt” was
@@galaxionart9338 Truth or Dare was OK, I thought.
As soon as I heard normal ticket holders could just roam this event without paying for fright fest I knew it was going to be a mess
thats how it always is at my six flags
I feel like I need to take back any criticism I've ever had of the HHN houses over the years. Because this right here is video proof of how much worse it could be.
It was so bad it made me want to buy HHN tickets and apologize for criticizing their line up this year 💀
@@christianlaventurieryou should go! the heatwave (at least in hollywood) is bearable and keeps the lines down immensely. dead exposure was great and so was tmc but i’d skip insidious and eternal bloodlines
Six Flags Magic Mountain is literally bottom of the barrel here in California for Halloween events. I'm actually surprised though because the last time I went, it wasn't expensive and the houses looked WAY WORSE than what you see in this video (which is kinda crazy).
I watched other travel youtubers go through this event and was shocked at how lame it was, there were NO scare actors and the houses were sparsely themed. You're the first one to say anything about it. Props to the actors though, Bobo killed me
Welcome to Six Flags. You nailed the Fright Fest experience - all the way down to the fight in the parking lot with a security guard who doesn't even get out of his car.
LOL
I worked at Six Flags as a teen in the late 00’s and it does seem to have gone downhill a bit over the years. I was there for the first time in years over the summer and I couldn’t believe how low effort everything was. I said to myself “this place definitely doesn’t have an Imagineer team.”
They bite more than they could chew. You don't just become a huge event in just one swoop.
Truth. It's overproduced for the given budget, nothing has been perfected and it all reads like a cheap rip-off of HHN. (I'm referring strictly to the haunts vs the actors or their makeup.) If only the community commenting on this video could be employed to produce something better. I can see roles for all of you. Then we might see a great show.
Day of the dead scare zone was giving off ball pit at dash-con vibes
Wow the scare zone actors here are actually pretty cool, instead of the usual jumpscare trick routine of booing you away they get in character a different way to the point where it feels like your having a casual conversation with an actual monster or ghoul
The witch not having blended make up even just under the chin and wearing bead bracelets is crazy
no really, but I was thinking that the bracelets might've been those friendship bracelets people are making/trading and giving to scare actors
The bracelets are from guests given to the actors
@@talwashere8784 yea, I get that. Shouldn't wear them until out of character lol
the kandi bracelets 🤣
Yes! You are correct.
Watched all the ads no skips just so kevin could get some of his money back lol
The Oz actors were like top notch I wonder if they're embarrassed of the rest of it lol
As someone who previously worked in the costume shop at Busch Gardens, including during Howl-O-Scream, it made me so happy every time you brought it up. We always had so much fun with our haunts and I’m glad it sounds like you did too ❤
16:56 - This guy was so over it. Probably his first year, thinking, "What the hell did I sign up for? I've got another month and a half of this?!"
11:53 "yar get the whole fit get the whole fit"😭
I cannot stop laughing at 2:26 with the guy in the face make up with NO make up on his neck, arms or hands in a casual dress shirt. :)
I was involved in Fright Fest from 2006 to 2009. I can't say I'm surprised that they haven't taken a step forward since. Six Flags is an incredibly poorly ran company at the local level.
maybe by next year we'll start to see Cedar Faire impact
Welcome to your first Magic Mountain Rodeo 😂
Boy was it an experience LOL
You have now been initiated into the world of magic mountain fright fest . Wish I could have been there , some of the best scare zone actors out there . That’s the main reason I go , houses are usually pretty lackluster
😂 This is a reminder that Universal is King when it comes to horror events!
I can agree with you, despite Six Flags has more horror-based IPs than Universal this year. Some mazes are not opened in time. Considering Cedar Fair-Six Flags merger now happening, there could be more changes to the Halloween event since it is under Cedar Fair CEO
Curious and unrelated question, Do you know about Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Hollywood?
@@Oscar95451just wait for Orlando’s to open next year. It’s bigger and has 2 more rides
@@Oscar95451 I've never been but I'll be going in October. I'm excited for Orlando to have SNW next year with Epic.
@@doctorvondoom5797 Yep, i know that. I cannot wait as a Mario fan. As a Sonic fan, I would love to see a Sonic the Hedgehog roller coaster with multi launch, loops, corkscrews and inversions at Six Flags parks starting with Six Flags Magic Mountain.
How are they not giving partial refunds if so many of the houses are closed?
YES! That’s what I want to know!
The scare actors look to be the best part about the event. Houses need work.
43:00 - I love the promise of grenadine in the drink and receiving a light green beverage XD (Grenadine is bright red lmao)
I said out loud, "grenadine? Is it in the room with us?:
No...true grenadine is NOT bright red. Real grenadine is pomegranate syrup, which is purple. Still... not green though
Scare actors were pretty good though. Props to them
FINALLY someone tells it how it really is at this event THANK YOU
The Scare actors...wow! They really were having a good time and gave their all, kudos to them.
I can’t believe Stranger Things would license their name out to this
They'll license their name to anything lmao
It's all for profit...
How hilarious that the scariest shit to happen was in the parking lot, you could watch for free 🤣
Your reactions are so funny lmfao. I actually lol'd at "yeah well... The high score is zero, so you can only go up from there"
There is areason Universal has pre-recorded sound effects. Live actors screaming and doing improv is unsustainable in the long term and your results will vary.
leaving it up to random unskilled actors to move your house narrative forward is gonna be a bad time
I know they go home with a sore throat and no voice.
They try u old fuck, they try.@@ryansevilla9588
Not to mention how annoying it is. Last year I went to a local haunt after Horror Nights and after the 40th person screamed in my face I was straight up over it lmao
It’s brutally annoying and cringe too
The 666 actor introducing the house was cast pretty well😂💀✨🖤
Can’t wait for Knotts Scary Farm 👌🏽🔥
Murdoc spotted, what the fuck is a Gorillaz 🗣️🗣️🗣️
This is pretty hysterical after all the bs over the summer about "Universal needs to watch their back...Six Flags is gonna blow them outta the water with all these IPs." 😅 I grew up going to Six Flags and Cedar Fair scare events. Yeah they were fun when you are 16. But they were AWFUL. 😂
Those comments were hilarious
Six flags NE hasn't changed their freight fest in about a decade. They used to have such a good Halloween event when six flags wasn't completely bankrupt
Especially considering that many of those IPs were ones that Universal successfully did for HHN years ago!
I mean, some cedar fair events are still pretty good to this day, Knotts Scary Farm and Kings Islands haunt comes to mind, despite it being overwhelmingly busy every year
I would love to see universal get the conjuring one day
I used to work at Six Flags during fright fest. Everything was just not organized and things would change and no one would be told and then we put up the way originally it was told to us and we would get in trouble for not putting it the way that they wanted because they just would not tell us anything. The characters are not treated well. The guests were my favorite part of working there.
Totally not surprised. Back when I was a scareactor at six flags discovery kingdom, they forgot to finish building our house. It was leftover from the year before and didn’t has smoke our lights for first two weeks. So embarrassing.
Forgot to build the house? Geezes, I knew Six Flags was lazy but that's just incompetent.
While I am sad to see this sub-standard handling of some fabulous IP opportunities, I can't say I'm surprised. Some really excellent ScareActors, though! Thanks for taking one for the team, Kevin.
The sparky sliding dudes were pretty cool. I danced for about 20 years( collegiate level and a short stint at Disney) I've done that and it's pretty hard. It's a great way to dislocate your kneecap✨🖤✨🧡✨💀
glad you liked condemned, we are having fun in there!
Seems like they put all of their budget into the Wizard of Oz Scarezone 💀
the scareactors were clearly doing a great job with what they were given, but hooooly, the descriptor of "the fyre fest of haunt events" is SO REAL
Props to the scare actors. You can tell they are doing their best. They should learn the lesson of doing original houses, and dropping the costly IP's. This looked ... entertaining in the worst of ways.
Feel bad that the actors have to talk and scream all night in the houses rather than pre recorded stuff over the speakers
There's a time and place for it.
They definitely aren't ready... There was lots of missing audio, they need more scares inside the housea bc most of the time was just walking and flashing lights, and the stranger things house was extremely embarrassing when you look at hhn's house bc holy moly..... Fright fest has never been something that is talked about much in general bc it's always like this. Also the fight at the end is just everyday six flags guests behavior:D
The scare actors are the elmers glue holding the event together, bless their hearts
It's so funny how all these people on Instagram in July were like "Horror Nights sucks this year, I'm going to Six Flags cuz of dem sweet IPs". I feel like 6F should just stay away from houses and just make the park one big scare zone for the season. The street actors were pretty great! Thanks for covering this event. New subscriber here.
My favorite maze in Universal the last time I went was a non-IP maze called Holidays in Hell. It was so good they brought it back
People should just go to knotts scary farm
By far the best of the 3
What are IPs?
@@7Lace77 Intellectual Properties. Franchises/characters that are not public domain. In this context we mean mazes that are based off movies/TV shows/games/whatever rather than something the parks came up with themselves.
@@FatherTime89 Ohh ok.👍I figured it was movies n such from other comments, just couldn't figure out IP.
Wish you showed the food prices. $19 hot dogs.
I worked one season of Fright Fest as a scare actor and lemme just say it was the most fun at a job I've ever had. Ngl the year I worked, the haunted walkthroughs had at least more going on instead of static dummies. Shoutout to the scare actors for holding it down though lol
It’s obvious that they’re well known for putting their heart and soul into their original houses than the IPs they bought, besides Saw
11:19 The munchkin skeletons 🤣😂🤣😂
People fighting in the parking lot was the perfect ending
Was thinking about going to Fright Fest in NJ at Great Adventure. I think you just saved me a couple hundred bucks. Will use that money for merch and food/drinks at HHN
That is still a solid park even if the Halloween event isn't great
Standard ticket for FF at GA right now is 65, not 100, if you buy online.
Same! My wife and I were thinking about going to Six Flags for Halloween and after seeing this video we’re gonna look elsewhere
The Oz scare zone was great! I do hope that whoever holds the rights to The Conjuring will see how terrible this was & let Universal take a swing at it one year.
Kevin, if you ever want to experience a low-budget but surprisingly scary haunt come over to Baton Rouge, Louisiana's 13 Gates!! It's better than Frighy Fest. Or you could even go to New Orleans- there's a year-round haunted house with crazyyyyy scare actors!
Well, you didn’t get a party city vecna but that decapitated head in the water jug sure is from party city! 😂 I bought one earlier this year
13:13 The Witch's friendship bracelet says "PHILIP" 😭😂
Okay, but those scare actors? Awesome stuff. Looks like it'd be fun to play one of those characters!
That was painful to watch 😂
People at the end fighting to get their money back
Hats off to using Mombi from the terrifying Return To Oz.
It is the scariest Oz movie
16:57 I didn’t know Kevin was a scare actor for six flags😂
These poor scare actors in the mazes. Their voices are going to be gone by next week 💀🤣
The Conjuring "maze" was probably the best out of the 2/3 things that were actually opened. That doesn't say much though, because it was still pretty "meh" 😬🤷
The Temu of Halloween events 😂
Definitely a $30 experience. That's what you'd see for an average scream park. The Scare Actors did great for what they were given, but they need proper training. The enthusiasm is there, but not the experience. There are methods and techniques to avoid the monotony of just screaming when someone walks by. It's pretty much the equivalent of "Boo". A script for the actors to follow can work wonders. Not their fault. Management is at fault. Tons of dead space in the haunts, so they for sure need more actors. They were not ready to handle those IPs.
The scare actors are giving Spooky Comedian Energy
Sheesh, No wonder why i want to see a Sonic the Hedgehog roller coaster at Six Flags parks starting with Six Flags Magic Mountain in response to Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Boy that upside down bar "theming" lmao
Thank you for your public service. I keep telling my friends to avoid this event so now I can just show them this video
It looks like the returning mazes, the ones Magic Mountain crews are responsible for were amazing! The new ones, that corporate Cedar Fair made them do, and were done by out side teams and designers, were defiantly not ready. Not enough time or money were given by Cedar Fair and made the whole event look bad. Congratulations to the local crew, venders and all the cast that did what they could!
Oh my goodness. 1. I AM SO SORRY THIS EXPERIENCE SUCKED SO BAD WTF 2. I wanted to comment because video hit me with a wave of really awesome nostalgia. I haven't been to magic mountain in almost 20 years. & My parents took me to Magic Mountain a lot while I was younger and we accidentally stayed later when the scare actors came out one year. I remember being around 8 and getting really scared at Fright Nights parade of scare sliders sliding down, the scarecrows swinging things while walking down and really freaking me out as a kid!! You unlocked a core memory of me crying into my dad's shoulder until we were able to leave hahahaha, but also just really enjoying my time at this specific place growing up. Later on I ended up becoming a real fan of both horror & being as scared as I was that night. It's so cool to see. Again, sorry the experience was a mixed bag but - truly, thank you! I'm glad I stumbled on this channel. :D
I will always says Knott's Scary Farm is the bar setter for Halloween events & one of the big reasons is their lovingly crafted original ideas for houses. I agree the original houses here were way more fun than the IP houses. Also, the scare actors seem top notch in personality & energy! They deserve extra pay & all the respect of guests 🖤🎃 Scare actors really make or break an event... And maybe snacks 🤤🫶
Edit: I went to San Antonio Six Flag's Scare Fest (or whatever) in 2020, & while it was obviously lower budget than HHN or KSF, it was still great fun for the original IPs.
Seattle local here--I can confirm as someone who's been to six flags wildwaves' fright fest MULTIPLE times that it is THE dashcon of haunt events. 10 times worse than this.
One time a scare actor scared my dad and failed to do so and went "you're supposed to be scared, man", me and a group of friends got jumped by an angry 12 year old, the scare actors don't understand scare etiquette and mock small children that were very clearly dragged in by their parents and scared shitless instead of leaving them alone (I went in one of the most intense houses when i was 11 and was taunted things like "aww, are you gonna cry?"), and the rides are almost never all open.
Oh, and it didn't look HALF as good as this one here at magic mountain. Looked more like a sad birthday party most of the guests forgot to attend.
Just save your money and fly to knotts or universal
Southern California boy here born and raised and I’ve been going to Fright Fest since I was in high school…they typically deliver - I think ever since they started introducing IPs the mazes suffer tremendously. Six Flags made some really big promises at Midsummer and it’s sad to see they were empty.
Fellow SoCal here went this year and I preferred all the non IPs honestly
Event may be bad but those scare actors are GOLDEN love the witch and the flying monkey
Props to the walk around scare actors they seemed like they were having fun with it, they were easily the best part. The IP scare houses were so lackluster, they came across more like a homemade haunt, the originals on the other hand looked fun, not particularly scary but that's okay.
It's painfully obvious that they aren't ready, I would have expected the staff to the trained more thoroughly for it, I get it's opening night and things can go awry, but this was something else. Hopefully they get their shit together in the following weeks.
Six Flags parks are already enough of a nightmare without the Halloween season crowds...
Usually Netflix takes such care of their IP in theme parks al a Stranger Things at HHN, but this event makes me wonder what the hell the team at Netflix was doing! No offense to any of the actors, prop-makers and set designers but my god that “house” was a mess!!!
Edit: I’d still argue Knott’s Scary Farm is almost up to the level of Universal and only Knott’s could remain equal!
those scare actors are WORKINGG props to them having to work around it all :D
Thank you for uploading this, you just saved me well over $200. I would much rather go to Universal, because there, at least you have top quality haunted houses. When they had saw back in 2017, they had all of the audio from the various films, Strobe lights, and they really gave it there all with the audio in that house. Some of it even made me kind of uncomfortable.
As for the fight, that is typical Six Flags unfortunately.
I had high hopes with cedar fair coming in but damn that’s sad! I went in 2019 and even opening night and all the houses were open, to have so many houses closed is sad!
We went to Six Flags Over Texas on the 2nd night of Fright Fest, and the scare zones and characters were scarce, and so many of the rides were not operating. They need to be better.
Kevin don't be disingenuous. You did not fly out here from Florida to do the Stranger Things house. You were out here for HHN and went to Six Flags while you were here. The locals know that Six Flags Magic Mountain is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to "theme" parks in Southern California. Not surprised by anything here except the fact that these IPs were ever given to Six Flags to begin with.
I extended my trip and paid for hotel and travel to experience six flags. The only reason I went was for Stranger Things:( Six flags was marketing it as to take on HHN.
Call him out like the umpire. Someone loves that we’re commenting and watching this tho.
I did. The same thing…. We all walked across the park to check eveythjng out. Got in line and the worker asked for my wrist band. I was extremely annoyed to have to walk all the way back and wait in line for 20 min just to get a wrist band where they could have literally checked our tickets and just handed us our wrist bands at the front gate.
I’ve had a few questions, from parking price comparisons, to how to get my disability pass ( I’m a disabled veteran) to even just how to do simple things. And it seemed like almost non of the workers even knew simple park questions let alone fright fest things. Six flags is a nightmare compared to almost every other park out there
To be fair, I don't go these events thinking it's gonna be a world renowned experience . It's a theme park, after all. People go for good rides and a fun time. I think the Annabelle house was pretty detailed. You can tell a lot of hours were it into building it. And like others are saying, it's the actors who make the experience fun. I truly feel for them having to work on the over 100 degree weather we just went through. The nights were also scorching. I hope they got plenty of water and/or electrolytes.
I've seen vids of people who enjoyed the haunted houses and the overall experience. Everyone will come out of these events with a different opinion. It's all good. In my opinion, as long as you rode some cool rides, liked the actors, bought some cool merch, and didn't have a terrible time, it wasn't a waste.
You gotta admit, though, if you've been to the Halloween events at all the theme parks out here, especially if you go yearly, it's gonna get repetitive. I don't blame the park for that. They have to do what the big wigs tell them to do. 🤷
My cousin reminded me it’s called Magic Mountain, not Magic Flatland.
The scare actors really made some of those houses and scare zones fun😂 Quite verbal.😈
Thanks for this video, you saved us so much money. We were going to fly up to the New Jersey Six Flags next month to go my cousins and after seeing this, I can only imagine how much worse that one would be! You guys just looked mortified by that experience….plus I know it was like 100-degrees this weekend!
The employee's enthusiasm was great
You filming the fight at the end killed me 💀
This is somehow better than what I experienced at Magic Mountain while growing up there
3 houses closed? I would think that would call for a partial refund. Hope they are learning from all these mistakes and push back the opening next year as they were clearly not ready.
We went to Fright Fest at Discovery Kingdom in like 2012...was pretty fun and I enjoyed the houses...
Fast forward to a repeat visit in 2022...and I seriously felt ripped off...
I almost got sucked into going to Magic Mountain cause Trick r Treat is my favorite Halloween movie but glad I passed...
I just love how fyre festival was SO BAD its become the bar that every other dumpster fire of an event is judged by. I think dashcon could also be used here. As they are asking for so much but then again they had no ball pit and no one pissed in it.
So six flags fright fest is the great value of HHN
So glad my girl and I are going to Knott’s and not this sad excuse for a ‘haunt’…
I can't imagine anything more awkward and embarrassing than being an actor for a fright, and trying to scare someone for it only to fall completely flat
6 Flags is my home park :shudders: often I choose to just drive 879 miles out of my way to at least get to Hershey instead because I just cannot with 6 Flags
Ngl I'm a little dissapointed by the evil game show house because the idea itself is pretty cool. Like imagine a house that was a cross between "Late night with the devil" and "saw"
Sad, the Six Flags Great America FF experience was always amazing.
Yeah, I go to Magic Mountain for the coasters. The events are so hit or miss there. If I wanted a good themed experience, I'd just go down the street to Knotts, Disney, or Universal.