London Dungeon Halloween 2014
In recent years, all the Dungeon attractions have undergone a re-brand and as part of that makeover have adopted the moniker "The Home of Halloween". For most of the attractions this has meant the introduction of a new character, the Master of Tricks and his wheel of misfortune.
In London, the Master of Tricks is effectively the first scene before the tour starts properly and in traditional Dungeon's style, involves some audience interacting, mild teasing and ending with one lucky victim chosen to spin the wheel. Fortunately for us the wheel chose a trick style forfeit, so we got to watch the poor victim put her hand in a box of eyeballs!
As we were ushered out, the Master of Tricks hunted down all the children in the group and gave them all a "treat card". Assuming there must also be some "trick" cards as well we headed off to the main show to expect more Halloween fun.
From this point, the show was the usual mix of history, scares and bad puns that the Dungeon's do so well. Apart from a few extra pumpkins scattered around the venue there was nothing else that really marked the show as any different. Granted a few times the cast would give out extra "treat" vouchers- Mrs Lovett being particularly flirtatious with her selection, but it would appear that no one had been tricked by this point.
So by the time we got to the courtroom at the end, we were surprised when the clerk to the courts asked inf anyone had a trick card. Out of our group of 40 or so - not 1 person had one so the court had to pick victims in the usual way. This wasn't a problem but we did start to wonder what our treat cards were going to get us. As it is - we are still wondering - as we then completed the whole of the rest of the show without the cards ever being mentioned again.
in the past, the Home of Halloween has been sponsored by Chupa Chups meaning that everyone got a small treat, so we were expecting something like this at the end of tour. Unfortunately there was nothing and after surviving the drop ride and checking out our photos, we just filed out into the gift shop with our treat cards in our pockets. A missed opportunity.
The small niggles about the treat cards aside - the London Dungeon is still a great attraction and feels so much fresher than the old venue. On our run through the actors were all very impressive (especially the incredibly camp but fabulous plague doctor!) and all the effects and tricks seemed to be working throughout. Certainly the changes made to the boat ride make it more coherent than it was in the past
In London, the Master of Tricks is effectively the first scene before the tour starts properly and in traditional Dungeon's style, involves some audience interacting, mild teasing and ending with one lucky victim chosen to spin the wheel. Fortunately for us the wheel chose a trick style forfeit, so we got to watch the poor victim put her hand in a box of eyeballs!
As we were ushered out, the Master of Tricks hunted down all the children in the group and gave them all a "treat card". Assuming there must also be some "trick" cards as well we headed off to the main show to expect more Halloween fun.
From this point, the show was the usual mix of history, scares and bad puns that the Dungeon's do so well. Apart from a few extra pumpkins scattered around the venue there was nothing else that really marked the show as any different. Granted a few times the cast would give out extra "treat" vouchers- Mrs Lovett being particularly flirtatious with her selection, but it would appear that no one had been tricked by this point.
So by the time we got to the courtroom at the end, we were surprised when the clerk to the courts asked inf anyone had a trick card. Out of our group of 40 or so - not 1 person had one so the court had to pick victims in the usual way. This wasn't a problem but we did start to wonder what our treat cards were going to get us. As it is - we are still wondering - as we then completed the whole of the rest of the show without the cards ever being mentioned again.
in the past, the Home of Halloween has been sponsored by Chupa Chups meaning that everyone got a small treat, so we were expecting something like this at the end of tour. Unfortunately there was nothing and after surviving the drop ride and checking out our photos, we just filed out into the gift shop with our treat cards in our pockets. A missed opportunity.
The small niggles about the treat cards aside - the London Dungeon is still a great attraction and feels so much fresher than the old venue. On our run through the actors were all very impressive (especially the incredibly camp but fabulous plague doctor!) and all the effects and tricks seemed to be working throughout. Certainly the changes made to the boat ride make it more coherent than it was in the past
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