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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:09:50 GMT -5
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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:11:29 GMT -5
Does anyone know what happened in the "Mirror of Death" and Sacrafice rooms? Is the Mirror the same trick as the portrait in the foyer?
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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:12:52 GMT -5
The Mirror of Death was in what later became from those pics, the Séance Room. The last year I worked there it was the Changing Dracula...I don't know what they did with the room in the later years. The Mirror was actually two rooms, made to look just alike, seperated by a sheet of glass made to look like a mirror. Uncle Theo was the Talking head that was under the mirror and would talk to the guest. The actor that controled him was in a side room that was once the Make up Room, right next to the steps.
The Sacrifice was a really cool bit,but took way too long. Originally, there was a guy in black robe, standing behingthe table which held a scantily clad young 'virgin'. He would do a bit on the power of Satan and such, then cut her heart out. Dan Boland was the first to do this, and just grossed so many out when he would 'bite' the heart.
Later the Sacrifice was changed to just a spook in the room. We started doing the Blood Blessingthen..people could get a drop of blood on their forehead...but of course some got nuts with the blood and people started coming out of the place covered in fake blood..that got nixed. Finally they got the guillotine and the room became the execution room.
Couple of notes...the Lab, duiring that first year was not a lab, but had a hole looking down to the Dungeon. A guy dressed as Frankestein would lurch around the outside of the room. The whole floor inside the Lab walls was covered by a cage sort of thing.Unfortunatly, guests tended to toss things down on the boats or yell that someone was going toscare they riders. The floor was installed and the Lab was born.
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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:14:00 GMT -5
Tell us more about that first year the castle was opened Anish please...it is really cool to read what the original rooms had inside them. Thanks.
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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:15:07 GMT -5
Nah..I'm sure y'all would rather hear RWK talk about how he got to go in the Castle or some such silliness..
..or not!
Couple of things...the Castle originally had something like 25-30 cast members. There were two actors in most rooms upstairs, and like 9 or 10 in the Dungeon.The front room had four people at times...Drac, Light guy, Coffin girl(me) and floor girl(me sometimes, a girl that acted insane sitting in front of the coffin) The Bridge was actually a two part room at first...you went thro the catacombs to get to Sacrifice. The frame at the top of the bumper ramp at the end of the Maze had a person in it(me at one time, first place I got hit by a 'guest'). We did makeup in the bathrooms by the office that first few weeks...there was a graveyard on the roof leading to the exit stairs..there were also real rats under the floor right were the makeup room door was located(but the makeup room was not there yet) and Tickets was always at the bottom of the ramp.
...hhmmm...got to hit the bed as the kid has school tomorrow...I'll try to remember some more stuff from the olden days.
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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:15:58 GMT -5
Wow...more great stuff Anisha. I do remember hearing about a haunted forest or graveyard on the roof when you exit the castle before going down the stairs to get out. Tell us more about that and some other things that were changed after that first or second year. I really wished they kept the sacrifice room. It looked so evil and 1970's if you know what I mean. Tell us more please. Thanks again. Dave
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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:16:58 GMT -5
ahh the good old days after they took out the mirror that spot sucked know body could come up with something good for there, anisha do you rember that killing drac. scene that you had to be 6/3 with a 28 waist to work it
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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:17:51 GMT -5
Yeah. Phantom...I never had to do the dying/changing Drac in That Room. But they really had to take the mirror room out, it was just too much empty space(tho why they never did anything with the upstairs is beyond me).
I still would love to hit a lottery, and build my own damn Castle.
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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:18:35 GMT -5
the worst though was the projection image the Nicky got that he thought was the greatest thing but realy sucked
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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:20:03 GMT -5
What was the biggest difference between Brigantine and Dracula? Was Brigantine longer than Dracula and on multiple floors whereas Dracula was only on one floor except near the end where you went up and down the stairs? Also, who had more actors? Brigantine or Dracula? Dracula had the advantage over all the others, though with the Dungeon boat ride, the 1919 old mill. Did anyone actually dress as the Count in Castle Dracula or Brigantine? Which opened first, Brigantine or Dracula? Both were built in 1976, right?
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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:20:42 GMT -5
ok first things first since i hung out at brigantine a lot before i knew about draculas.. brigantine was longer walk and as far as i know the only one that allowed you to actually walk to the top and then back down.( the view from the top was amazing!) brigantine had employed 20 actors/ actresses for a season, this did not include the ticket takers(who also dressed up as a ghoul throwing your change back at you!!) and some guys dressed as actors who just handled technical problems , as they arose. there was a dracula in the brigantine castle. however he would always dress as the count, but sometimes a ghoul...but bascially do the same thing( welcome you in and tell you he hopes you make it out!) the best rooms were the rat room and the long spiral stairways that made you feel like you were in an actual castle! both were built in 1976 and lasted a while( castle dracula lasting longer) the real biggest diffrence i can imagine was the walk through, it was longer in brigantine and really had a great view when you got to the top. the actors/ actresses were great, and scary as all hell! i spent a lot of summers there as a kid, and was there so much we actually helped scare people when we got asked to hang out. we would walk around and explore off the beaten paths sometimes, and found a lot of neat hallways that lead to other parts of the building and even a room that was a secret room that was decorated, but never used. i spent a lot of years there as a child and thinking about it now... wish i had some memorbillia to remeber it by, who knew it would burn down when i was a child.... did manage to get some brick on one of the remaining light poles that used to be the parking lot across the street from the castle.. its on this website somewhere....check it out. so i slavaged something from my childhood on what i thought was the best walk trough haunted house ever!!
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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:21:45 GMT -5
I was in Brigantine twixe....and you are so right about the view!! The really cool thing about the place was..well..it's place! Out on that pier was just perfect. I would have loved to been there during a stormy night!
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Post by Bill Cherkasky on Mar 13, 2005 11:22:26 GMT -5
yeah absolutely! i was on that pier one night when a pretty good t storm came in.. we just about entered the rat room and it came in from the sea... we seen lightining all night... and it got nasty as we waited to get in rat room( cause you come out of the casltle on top to go back in via rat room) we seen a hulluva great light show before gettin ushered in ( the guy who worked the rat room even got a lil freaked when a lighting bolt came down not a mere mile from us!!) it was a great view! and they held us inside untill things got calmer. we even lost lights for about a minute or so while we waited ( made the castle even earier!) hey countess if you like to gimme a ring on AIM my name there is glnnj319 drop me an im like to chat about it some more!
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