[pointperson]

In this topic post reviews and discuss this years Halloweekends.
It seems this year is the best year of Halloweekends yet. With two new haunted houses: Happy Jack's Toy Factory and G.A. Boeckling's Eerie Estate, new shows: The Return of Dr. Cleaver, The Edge of Madness and A Halloween Hullabaloo, and amazing discounts, Cedar Point has really taken Halloweekends to a new level.

I will write a review about my trip on the 10th. Including a review of the Boeckling's Banquet at the Eerie Estate.
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[pointperson]

Saturday, October 10th-Crowded but Fun

The ride to the park was pretty good , with not a lot of traffic on the roads. We arrived at the park around 11:10 and parked in the 4 row from the front. We then headed to guest services to pick up our tickets to the Boeckling Banquet; when we went inside we asked the employee and she told me to see the lady in the back part of the office. That lady then asked me for my name and I.D. She said that there was no tickets here and she had to call the office. It turned out she thought we were there for Comp. Tickets, so after I repeated that we were here for the banquet tickets, we were done and out within 5 minutes.

We got through the gate around 11:25 and headed to Raptor. We waited about 15 minutes for it and had a great ride near the back, but my feet were freezing because I took off my shoes. After a quick pit stop at the restrooms we headed to Dragster. The line was already near Power Tower and this was before the public came in. We waited in line for about 45 minutes. The first train of the day only had three rows filled and was way over-launched and flew over the top-hat. After getting off Dragster we had to rush over to the Banquet. We made it with a minute to spare.

The house looked great and was very cool. The actors/servers were all very fun. The food was very good and it was really fun to have dinner in a haunted house. Harriett Spleen "the cook"was really cool. She asked us what our favorite character was at CP and when someone said Snoopy, she replied that she should be favorite because she is the one with the knife in her hand and that Snoopy is a stinky dog with fleas. I had a great laugh. The skull dessert was cool and the raspberries were delicious.

After the banquet we headed out and got a locker for are gifts. Since we were all stuffed we decided to look around in the stores. We seen that the Snoopy Boutique had 50% off and took a look at the sale merchandise. It was mostly little note pads and key chains. We also noticed that a lot of the stuff said Knott’s and Geauga Lake on it. We then headed over to the Cadillac Cars, which is this years tradition. The tradition is every year we pick a not so popular ride to ride every trip and this year it was the Cadillac/Antique Cars. We then headed over to Millennium Force which had a 1hr 45min line. We got to the station and next to get on, when the train didn’t park right in the station messing up all the blocks. When the Anti-Rollbacks kicked on when the train stopped on the lift everyone went crazy in the station and were saying that train derailed and stuff. It was kind of funny. We waited about another 20 minutes, while maintenance went up and down in the cart and parked the train in manual (which goes a lot faster then Dragster in manual mode).

After Millennium we went to get in line for Toy Factory. Since we got in line about 10 minutes before opening we got in within 30min. The house is just crazy with the mirrors and the Barbies. We got scared so bad by the crazy bunny thing in the stuffed animals. And the end is just “WOW” wasn’t expecting that. After that we headed over to Estate. We waited about an hour, but the line moved so slow it felt like 5. The house is very well done, but the some of the ghosts weren’t very good except Harriett who let us escape with our lives because she liked us. But in the end the house was very cool. We then headed towards the back to get some fries and get in line for CornStalkers. The line took about 45 minutes. It was about the same as last year, and I still got scared by the horn, just like last year. Upon exiting we walk through the Fright Zone which was really packed. We walk over to Terror Island, which has a better line setup that goes through the boat house instead of the free when I went last year. The island was good and is probably my favorite walk through and the guy on the bungee scared the crap out of our group when he sling-shot out in front of us. Carnevil was about the same as last year. We began heading towards the front exit, but first we made a detour to ride Witch’s Wheel which was a walk-on. We got are things from our locker and checked out a few shops and I bought a Halloweekends blanket at the Plaza gift shop. We left around 11.

I think this years Halloweekends is the best year so far. The park looks very good and the decorations are always getting better. I liked the dug up STR grave and the Corprate skelletons are always cool. Everyone in our group enjoyed the day and didn’t mind the crowds. This was my friends first halloweekends/first haunted house and they loved it. Thanks for reading...

And if I can figure out how to post pics I have a few from Saturday.
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[jeffgn]

Great trip report. I went on Saturday and got as far as the parking lot. Wow. I don't think I've seen the parking lot that full in a long time. When I got there it was all the way out to the toll booth. Good thing I only live about 20 minutes away.

All the "new" haunted houses are awesome. I've had mixed experiences as far as scares. I've been through erie estates at least a 4 or 5 times over a few weekends. If they have good screamsters running it, it can be very scary. A week ago they all seemed to be in my face through the whole thing. The week before that I could walk through and people would just say boo.

The toy factory is really well done. 100000% better than the old one. I also think its a better use of the available space. I loved the hall of mirror's at the beginning and getting pee'd on at the end.