![]() “It takes most of the year leading up to Haunt to get it all done.” “Our costume team comes together around February or March and we start taking inventory of what we have and tackle new areas for what we want to add,” said Julie Skene, area manager for entertainment. There are about 500 costumes, and Peacock said that when they say “hoards of monsters,” they mean it with hundreds of actors taking part in the experience. “We’re always trying to keep it interesting and exciting and the creative juices flow and develop these themes and we start building it.” “We’re always trying to identify new experiences that are unique that our guests haven’t seen before,” said Peacock. ![]() ![]() The creative services and events team are the “imagineers” of the park and they come up with the concepts around the haunted attractions, the mazes, and the outdoor scare zones. “We’ve got to develop new mazes and themes, so the work behind the scenes in terms of production takes six to eight months.” “Planning really begins a year out with thinking what attractions we’ll have the next year because the builds take a while,” said Grace Peacock, director of communications at Canada’s Wonderland. With everything being built and made in-house with its design team, costume department, makeup artists, prop builders, carpenters and painters, it’s no small process. 29 this year, basically begins when the previous year concludes. The preparation and planning that goes into Halloween Haunt, which runs for select nights between Sept. The 300-acre property chock-full of rollercoasters and rides will soon be ghoulishly teeming with mazes, haunted houses and monsters. Throughout the fall, the nights of terror transform the park from a land of wonder into the closest thing you’ll find to Halloweentown from Tim Burton’s film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Each year ghosts, ghouls, and goblins gather at Canada’s Wonderland to provide hair-raising and bone-chilling scares to the souls brave enough to enter the amusement park during its Halloween Haunt event.
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