Zombie Lodge catalog on Ebay.

[Dr.Terror]

I didn't want to post this until the auction was over, just in case someone might have been watching it.

tinyurl.com/yte9y2

[1992]

Ohh no... That upsets me that someone is making money off these because these catalogs were free and quite useful. I don't have this one but I did have a few Alpine Funhouse catalogs. One of which I used to make my HO Scale Alpine Funhouse. The brochure was the correct size for HO scale so all you had to do was back the brochure with some plastic and spray on 3M glue and then cut it out. This would make a fine HO scale model although I would recomend to whomever bought it who wants to model it to first make a color copy so as not to wreck the brochure.

Maybe the person who bought it might be kind enough to scan it for everyone else.

[robert]

It's too bad Funni-Frite went out of business about 6 years ago. They were in Ohio. They were like the modern day Bill Tracy company. Without them all we basically have is Sally Corp. for quality new dark rides. The recently demolished Haunted Hotel ride at the former Myrtle Beach Pavilion Park was built by Funni-Frite in 1978 as Haunted Inn. It was remodeled by Leonard Pickel and Sally Corp. Leonard Pickel from Charlotte, NC is supposedly still in business (he builds haunts), but Funni-Frite is not. This catalog even has the floor plan to the attraction. It's a real shame when parks decide to remove, raze dark rides that were made by companies no longer in business or people no longer alive. What that means is unless someone has the original plans, a copy can never again be made making the dark ride lost forever (like Hunt's Whacky Shack, etc.)

[1992]

I forgot to mention.... I find the floor plan of this portable darkride to be very attractive. I've never seen a room like that with doors in a circle. Thats something I've only seen in cartoons as a kid. I always thought this was a fab idea but I didn't think it actually existed in real life. I should save these low quality photos to my drive before they're gone, I think I'll do that now.

So.... The begging question is did anyone on this board buy this brocure? Ohh.... I remember back when I was at collage, I made a scan of my Alpine Funhouse brocure... I don't know what happened to it. If it was on my old PC the chances are great that it was either on a ZIP disk or on the drive that broke. I might be going their again soon for a job fair so perhaps I can make a scan of it again using a USB drive. I wouldn't be a d!ck about it, I'd share it with everyone.

[1992]

I went back to get the photos and I noticed a few cool things. First you can save a pretty high quality version of the scans to your drive. The image of the front is good enough to make a model from I think. Also on the last page you can see a price stamped on the bottom. $26,000.00 isn't bad for a new ride. Its just a little bit more then a mini-couper. However I think this ride was from the late 60s early 70s and so 26,000.00 was a lot more money then it is today.

[1992]

This is a great carnival walkthrough (*looking at the brochure scans further*). Does anyone know if any of these exist or travel any longer? I'm a big carnival buff, I used to subscribe to Carousel magazine and I used to check out MattsCarnivalWarehouse and Ride-n-Rumors all the time. I've never once seen any photos of this ride or any mention of it.

[Dr.Terror]

At a local haunt called Scareworld, in the one of the attractions, 13 Floors, they used this gag.

1992 said:

I forgot to mention.... I find the floor plan of this portable darkride to be very attractive. I've never seen a room like that with doors in a circle. Thats something I've only seen in cartoons as a kid. I always thought this was a fab idea but I didn't think it actually existed in real life.