Thread: what do you think??

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hello everyone. i'm still new to this forum thing so bare with me.
i'm not sure if this is the right place to but this. but here is what i have.. i'm the owner of Demon Acres its a haunted hayride threw the dark back woods. i came up with an idea for a haunted scene. the idea is doing like a killer santa? make like a old ran down work shop with demented reindeer and elfs. then santa comes out and terriers the wagon? whats your inputs on this? i think is a good idea just not sure that other people would think. also open to other ideas for my walk and hayride.


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Any comments???

Hmm now is this to get attraction around christmas time or is it for halloween! i would have the tractor pull the vistors through like barn doors and then your in santas factory and theres like severed heads on lines moving around and elves working but on demented toys and evil things. then santa could be your scare.. posiblly have a few of them pop out in different areas! cool idea!

Are there going to be children on the hayride? I don't think you should make Christmas scary if kids are involved. Adults only? Then game on, it's a great idea for a scene.

I went on a hay ride that had a Christmas scene.. several trees with different themes. One was decorated in different heads, another with body parts and then there was a dimented Mr and Mrs Santa Claus. I liked it! It was kinda pretty with all the Christmas lights but the Christmas music sounded like it was on a warped record and you knew something scary was going to pop out at any time! lol

Since you ask twice. I personally think it's in really poor taste gorifying the Christmas Spirit at any time of the year. I agree with Halloween Scream that it should be strictly an adult event if you decide to do it. But I wouldn't go to a marylin manson concert or any act that has someone biting the head off of a live rat either, that's just me though. You sound like a businessman with a unique idea, go for it, might be the next new great thing. I think you'll draw the ire of more folks than you attract however. But again, that's just my opinion. Happy Holidays my friend.

I'm with Vince and Scream on this. A lot of this business is word of mouth, and if you turn off parents they aren't going to recommend you to their friends, and there's no better way to do that then to scare their kids with Santa. McFarlane tried this theme with their Twisted Christmas figures, and they're all collectors items now because they didn't last for long due to low sales.

Yeah I think the kids would be scarred from that kind of image. Adults are fair game.

I guess it depends on the type of haunt (I call everything a haunt) you have. If it's a fun only type of haunt where parents bring their 5 and 7 year old kids on the ride and you don't have dead zombies or any type of gore then the Santa scene wouldn't be a fit.

If the goal of your haunt is to scare with zombies, death, raging wild actors posing as dangerous villains out to get everyone on the hayride then the Santa scene shouldn't be a problem. If that was the case then parents shouldn't be brings 4, 5, 6 or 7 year old kids along in the first place and maybe even a little older.

But if the child is at the age that their parent think they can handle being scared by the things that goes into a haunt then they should be at the age to know the difference between the Santa at the Mall or the Santa ringing the bell taking up donations at other stores from the Santa that brings them the toys on Christmas. The same would go for the Santa in the haunt.

If it's your goal to draw the parent and their kids of a younger age then no I wouldn't use the Santa or 90% of the things I would normally use. If your haunt is a normal every day haunt then it's the parents responsibility to know what's age appropriate for their child.

your target for this isnt as much adults or kids... its teenagers.. their the ones that think their to good for everything and nothing scares them...
thats where i would go...