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Ardent Leisure Group has created 3 new business names. Ardent has also applied to trademark the new names. Is this Ardent Leisure morphing into another company or something else? Maybe trying to shed some of the stink, tied to the Ardent name?

Agreed, that’s why I said “in terms of sets”. They could definitely use it as a daytime walkthrough attraction. I think there’s still potential to amp it up. Firstly starting with the superhero’s makeup, because you could barely tell they were zombies. Secondly, add more zombies scare-actors. Thirdly, dim the lights and the rooms need more smoke. Also change the audio, the moaning and screaming playing on loop gets old and awkward, and add some dead body mannequins around the superheroes to get the point across more. I do disagree with it being “small”. Maybe the batman/robin room was a squeeze but most of the rooms are almost too spacious. I filmed a walkthrough and watching it back there is too much open space which definitely took away from the “scary” factor. Yeah maybe it is a bad maze..

Movie World is still owned by Village Roadshow but the company no longer trades publicly and were bought out by BGH capital. There was very little shake up in management during this transition.

I went for the first time in over a decade on opening night. Overall I really enjoyed it. Main Street was great, Hellbillies had some good scare actor interaction. Killer Klownz lacked some atmosphere. Themed music would have helped this area. Having the bright lights of the carnival games takes away from it all. Wild West at night was cool BUT where’s the fog, flames, actors. A missed opportunity there. It looks great all lit up though. DCeased was a victim of the marketing. You can tell this is where the budget went with the themeing and costumes - both were exceptional. At the end of the day though it wasn’t scary and was all one and done for me. Where were the zombie hoards? I would of loved to see a whole room of zombies and the heroes saving us and then the next scene were running from Batman! As for the other mazes, best of the night was Conjuring. Circurse was fun and I got some good scares but it’s really short. Hellship themeing and audio was top notch but the scares were few and far between. Death Row was solid without being great. A solid 7.5/10 for the whole night.