Though my "clowns are inherently scary" gene doesn't express itself nearly as strongly as a lot of people's, I do think they can be creepy (cf The Joker), and of course entertainingly obnoxious. (Though humorous...? Not too often.) I therefore kind of missed the old Carnival of Carnivorous Clowns maze when it closed after 2005. The lame Lost Vegas maze that opened in 2006 had a couple of clowns, but other than that, the clowns in the CarnEVIL scare zone seemed kind of without their old anchor.
So I was glad Knott's brought back a clown maze in 2007: Killer Clown Kollege
(one wonders if they went through the mistake of accidentally naming it
Killer Klown Kollege at first 
). Indeed it was a
much stronger maze than Carnival of Carnivorous Clowns, IMHO. My favorite
improvement over CCC was of course the sexy female clowns -- these girls
pulled off a great mix of alluring and creepily mischievous. The small girls
hiding in unexpected places and reaching out from them also got some good
surprises from me on my first time through.
This video was mostly taped on October 28th, with a couple of clips from the
25th. A lot of clowns were missing when I went through on the 25th as
compared to when I first went through earlier in the month, but luckily on
the 28th most of the clowns, including the stiltwalker (always a nice touch
in creating a big intimidating monster, I think), were back. The dancing
platforms were empty on both of my taping visits, though -- the first time I
went, that whole last section of the maze was filled with dancing clowns who
created a really infectious sense of fun. Another thing that got neglected
later in the month was the clown on the ceiling towards the middle of the
maze -- there used to be a mechanical effect where it would shoot forward up
the hallway along a rail (supposed to be getting shot out of a cannon, I
think) -- guess it broke and they didn't bother to fix it. A final note is
that that urinal in the room just before that didn't have a plastic tarp over
it when I first went through. I'd call the guest that must have prompted
that change a filthy dumb-ass clown, but that'd be an insult to clowns.
Dan Harkless
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