Dan Harkless
Last modified: February 16, 2010
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A fantastic new maze for 2007. The industrial, goth, and modern comic book art influences on the maze put it 100% up my alley. Easily the most beautifully realized theme of any of the Knott's mazes I've been to. Excellent sound design as well.
Moving on from the maze's look and sound, the performers are of course the most important aspect of any haunted attraction, and the monsters of The Doll Factory never failed to "bring it". The girls of the maze, aside of course from being gorgeous to look at, did an amazing job with the creepy doll behaviors. The guys of the maze didn't play such a starring role, but there were a few standouts, like the hulking, intimidating factory worker in the skull mask and the guy that shoot fog rings at guests out of a water cooler bottle. The costume worn by the baby-doll-faced guys was also an awesome piece of graphic design.
I decided to put up videos of the maze that I shot on both October 25th and October 28th, since I caught great different stuff in given locations each time (e.g. in that hallway that leads to the porch façade, on the 25th that girl with the "cracked" face makup was doing that funny routine with the doll dress, while on the 28th she was playing marionette in a different room while the girl with the braids did her wonderful automaton walks in the porch approach hallway). For the same reason, the 28th video is edited together from two different visits on that night, so I could fit in as many highlights as possible, and yet I still had to leave things out that I hated to lose, which speaks really well of this maze.
One example of an element that I was happy to catch on my second 28th walkthrough was the assembly line apparatus in that first room moving, since after enjoying that element when I visited without my camera early in October, I was disappointed to see it either broken (due to guests messing with it?) or just turned off on the 25th and on my first walkthrough on the 28th. The only element I can think of from my visit early in October that isn't pictured here is that the girl with the braids and the great mechanical movements had black scleral contact lenses on that made her look even more creepy and amazing (you can see her in action with them on in the Travel Channel visits Knott's Halloween Haunt video that someone uploaded to YouTube). I don't blame her at all for not wearing those throughout the season, though, as they're absolute hell on the eyes.
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