If I didn’t know what was coming I would be tapping out halfway.” “When you get it really dark, and the lighting’s there and the sound, it’s over. “Seeing this maze now and seeing this maze at night are two completely different things,” Tomberlin says. The budget coming in at more than $1 million not including labor includes the execution of creative elements ranging from more than 50 custom-made corpses to animatronics, puppetronics, projections and fog among other things, much of which was turned off during the media preview. This is more than double last year’s numbers. Joining a group of five, Tomberlin gave us a 30-minute walkthrough of the maze during the day while sharing the story and facts about all the work that went into the production expected to bring in 40,000 to 45,000 people during its 22-night run this year. I had the chance to come face-to-face with the house before the attraction opened to the public during a media sneak peek of “Fright Nights,” featuring a behind-the-scenes highlighted tour and talk about the production. It has 30 show scenes and 110 actors so it is quite impressive, and we brought in a lot of people from Universal Studios to actually build it.” “We are excited to bring the Winchester Mystery House ÔFright Nights’ back to life for a second year,” Brett Tomberlin, president of Imagination Design Works, says about the interactive, multi-sensory “Curse of Sarah Winchester Maze.” “…we can say we have the longest haunted maze in the United States at 40 minutes.
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