Christmas Nightmare at the London Bridge Experience
In recent years, the London Bridge Experience has celebrated Christmas in a number of different ways by focussing on the darker side of the festive season. This year sees the return of the Christmas Experience which utilises the sets and designs from Romans through to Victorian London, but with some new and interesting twists along the way.
Upon arrival at London Bridge Station it is always interesting to see the amount of people milling around waiting for either the Dungeons opposite, or standing around watching the live show outside LBE. This corner of London really is the home of historical horror entertainment! The carnival barkers outside, as well as the ticket sellers all stay in character which adds up to a great start to the whole experience. It’s just a shame that the real entrance is then hidden away down a backstreet. We understand that a lot of the pathway along and above LBE is due to be redeveloped in the future which will really help visibility of the show going forward.
Once inside, we first encountered a frail but suitably scary lady who set up the story of the whole attraction. Explaining the jump from Victorian parlour room to ancient Rome in the next scenes, the Christmas experience uses a “recently discovered portal in time". A few of the group laughed at this concept but once we stepped through the door this was quickly forgotten. What then followed were the usual historical tableaux, all slightly changed to give a link to Christmas. Along the way, we experienced such diverse things as a drunken celebration of Yule with the Vikings through to meeting Charles Dickens promoting his latest new “Christmas novel”
All scenes were presented in the usual comedy/horror style and succeeded in getting our party laughing uproariously one moment to jumping in fright the next. Very soon, we arrived at the Tombs, and as wimps and small children were given the chance to leave, we headed downstairs to start our real scares!
The Christmas version of The Tombs is not really any different to the usual show. Starting with the fun Hellevator, what followed was a good 15 minutes of scary live actors, intense shocks, some great scenery and a few effective animatronics. The passageways were as tightly packed and as narrow as always and the new wooden pallet maze section created for Halloween works really well and adds a fresh element to an already exciting attraction.
Although there were a few places where the acting talent seemed quite low on the ground, the actors that were there were brilliant. They knew how to work each scene and were able to give every member of our party a great scare. Most of our group were London Tombs virgins, and they were all blown away by the length, intensity and pacing of the attraction. Which is hardly surprising as even to seasoned veterans such as us, The Tombs section is still the scariest thing in London!
Once inside, we first encountered a frail but suitably scary lady who set up the story of the whole attraction. Explaining the jump from Victorian parlour room to ancient Rome in the next scenes, the Christmas experience uses a “recently discovered portal in time". A few of the group laughed at this concept but once we stepped through the door this was quickly forgotten. What then followed were the usual historical tableaux, all slightly changed to give a link to Christmas. Along the way, we experienced such diverse things as a drunken celebration of Yule with the Vikings through to meeting Charles Dickens promoting his latest new “Christmas novel”
All scenes were presented in the usual comedy/horror style and succeeded in getting our party laughing uproariously one moment to jumping in fright the next. Very soon, we arrived at the Tombs, and as wimps and small children were given the chance to leave, we headed downstairs to start our real scares!
The Christmas version of The Tombs is not really any different to the usual show. Starting with the fun Hellevator, what followed was a good 15 minutes of scary live actors, intense shocks, some great scenery and a few effective animatronics. The passageways were as tightly packed and as narrow as always and the new wooden pallet maze section created for Halloween works really well and adds a fresh element to an already exciting attraction.
Although there were a few places where the acting talent seemed quite low on the ground, the actors that were there were brilliant. They knew how to work each scene and were able to give every member of our party a great scare. Most of our group were London Tombs virgins, and they were all blown away by the length, intensity and pacing of the attraction. Which is hardly surprising as even to seasoned veterans such as us, The Tombs section is still the scariest thing in London!
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