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Halloween Candy and the Spooky Ride Survey!

The 2005 Halloween season has been flat in a few ways, sure, but there's a lot of great, new candy out there. We saw a big batch of it a few weeks ago, but here's even more new Halloween candy, either completely fresh or in brand new spooky packaging. Or maybe I just didn't see them last year. On the more depressing side, Lucky Charms cereal is currently available in a special Halloween edition, but it's the same exact shit as last year, right down to the cutout masks. They could've at least swapped some of the marshmallows.

Surrrvey: What are some of the scariest amusement/theme/blah park rides you've ever been on? Feel free to provide links if you have 'em, assuming you know how to do a freakin' HREF code by now. You've already read about my favorite, but here's another...

The Golden Nugget, also from Wildwood, currently inactive but still standing, so there's some hope for a revival. My friends and I more simply referred to the ride as "Mine Shaft," and while it'd later be reformulated with a stupid dinosaur theme, the generalities remained. Riding in a mine cart, you twizzed around a track that had just enough dips and curves to be construed as a roller coasted. The "attractions" inside were greatly varied; some were purely adventure-themed, but others were meant to be frightening. There were a lot of really old, vintage Epcot-style human figurines doing normal mine worker stuff inside, and though they weren't intended to be scary, they certainly were if you went on the ride solo. All these creepy statues looking at you in the dark. Shivery.

The best part was that, near the end of the ride, you'd actually go outside, on top of the mine. You had a totally awesome view of the entire Wildwood boardwalk from there, and it was distanced just enough from everything else to give you these awesome moments of peaceful solitude, with the ocean winds blowing in your face as various skeletons hit giant rats over the head with hammers in the background.

Posted by Matt on 10/05/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 88 comments

Thanks Allison!

Chestnuts roasted by Kyle @ 10/06/2005 7:46 PM

Matt, I’d love to see Ghost with the Most go 3-D in tissue ghost format!

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 10/06/2005 8:31 PM

LOL Carri

Seriously Matt, make some more Ghost with the Most. They are absolutely hilarious. I personally like the crap-tastic drawings, but it wouldnt hurt to go 3-D… what would youdo about the words, though…

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 10/06/2005 8:38 PM

The ride to which dohopoki makes reference at the very beginning of this thread was called Phantom Theater. It was lamer than lame, featuring a host of cartoony-looking anamatronic characters with only slightly sinister looking expressions on their faces. The best part of the ride was near the end when you could catch a glimpse of some pimply-faced King’s Island employee scanning a dozen surveillance-camera feeds for naughty children spitting their gum at the robots or copping feels in the dark. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

As coincidence has it, I spent an evening at KI just last weekend. Their seasonal decorations and attractions are cool enough, but nothing to get too hot-n-bothered over. I must say that I wish KI wasn’t trying so hard to be like Universal Studios what with all the movie-themed rides and whatnot (the "Italian Job" and "Tomb Raider" rides fall totally flat when compared to proven entities like The Vortex). KI should stop worrying about the "Paramount’s" prefix of their name, and focus on what brought them to the dance to begin with: kick-ass roller-coasters. Instead of wasting money on movie tie-ins, they should spend it on higher hills, bigger loops, and longer tracks. Harumph. Harumph.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 10/06/2005 8:51 PM

Not really a ride, but a HAUNTED HOUSE IN OLD TOWN, FLORIDA! These guys on the street practically dragged you in, and when the spiders dropped on my head inside, I almost lost it.

That place was DARK- the kind of dark where you are feeling the walls helplessly and thinking "please don’t let anyone touch me right now!"

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 10/06/2005 9:08 PM

I like the Robin side of Batman and the front row of Nitro,

Ironically, my only ride on Nitro WAS in the first seat, and it was awesome. I can’t decide which front row seat was better: Nitro or Apollo’s Chariot.

and Superman Ultimate Flight kicked some major ass. Only ride that i’ve EVER screamed like a little girl, and I haven’t been a little girl in a LONG time!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/06/2005 10:08 PM

Allison,
I live in Raleigh, NC, but I grew up in Knoxville, TN (where my folks still live) so excursions to Dollywood were the norm. It used to suck when it was called "Silver Dollar City" in the early 80′s, but when Queen Dolly took over, the place EXPLODED with hillbilly goodness and more fun than a jug of white lightnin’ can provide. :D

Chestnuts roasted by Jillybeann @ 10/06/2005 11:28 PM

And incidentally, off-topic, but my dad buys his tires from Johnny Knoxville’s dad. He owns a huge tire super store in Knoxville. Just thought I’d add… :)

Chestnuts roasted by Jillybeann @ 10/06/2005 11:38 PM

I’ve seen several types of candy/gum at Target and Wal-Mart.

Target had:

Eyeball gum in small ice-cream like containers. They also had gummy brains in another food like container. Gummy fingers, gummy flies (I think), and one other box that had a mix of three different things (looked like a pizza slice).

Wal-Mart had:

Two types of liquid filled gum. One is called "Pumpkins", and they look like little pumpkins and the liquid inside is a bit sour. The other gum is called "Blood Drops" and the liquid inside is sweet tasting, then it tastes like cough syrup.

Chestnuts roasted by MLD @ 10/07/2005 1:37 AM

If you had a cool operater on Hell Hole at Kennywood, he’d let you sit in the middle of the floor and as it spun you’d go off-center and be flung to a wall, then you’d have to climb up like spiderman. That was always amwesome too, to climb around and end up upside down.

Chestnuts roasted by Funky Boo @ 10/07/2005 9:32 AM

I think it WAS called Phantom Theater. Granted, I realize it was lame but the anamatronic during the line wait made 4 year olds feel like they were about to step into the portal of hell to have their souls ripped into confetti. I don’t know what it actually talking about but with the voice it was using you know it was something along those lines.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 10/07/2005 10:32 AM

it would like to participate of the films of the Power Ranger

Chestnuts roasted by Danilo Lasalvia @ 10/17/2005 1:19 PM

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