And the Chinese weren’t nearly as subtle as the poor Movie World staff member was. I should know – I was denied my chance to parasail in China because I weighed too much. I felt pretty bad for her when they had to inform her she was too large to ride. Thankfully she was (literally) too big to ride with her. The most scary part of the ride, for me, was a mid forties woman trying to seduce me. It bumped around a lot, it goes backward at one point, and there’s some unintelligible speech from an animatronic Scooby Doo from time to time. I’m not really a fan of wild mouse style roller coasters, so my review of this particular one will be brief. The younger girls made our choice for us, and soon I found myself standing in line for Scooby Doo’s Spooky Coaster. The Spooky Coaster was not nearly as popular. Roller coaster or haunted maze? The line forms for the Psycho 3-D maze. We fought our way through the crowd and were immediately struck with our first tough decision. Fright Nights weighs in at a much more affordable $39. A day in a theme park in Australia will usually run you $70-$80. Temissa, dressed as a female Edward Scissorhands, issued us with our tickets and soon we were on our way. Having spent my day on the road I didn’t have a costume on me and damned if I didn’t feel like the odd one out in a park full of vampires, witches, and Ghostbusters. The front gates of Movie World were fully choked with revelers by the time my friends Temissa and Stuart arrived with Temissa’s cousins along for the ride. I don’t think I’ve ever seen FMB’s on a 12 year old before.ĭemons and ghouls. I’d been up since 5am having played impromptu babysitter for my friends Mark & Sheree’s adorable son and a day of roller coasters hadn’t done much for my energy levels.Īs the regulars filtered out, a crowd of irregulars started to develop.Ī pair of mid fifties couples dressed as witches talking raucously about their sex lives.Ī mother in full skank attire with her three equally skankily dressed daughters in tow. The park’s day guests were slowly filtering out as I hunkered down underneath a tree and fought off the urge to call up like a homeless person and catch some Zzzzzs. I was fresh off an exhaustingly fun day at Dreamworld (read about that real soon) when I stepped off the bus out front of Movie World. I love theme parks, I love horror movies, and I love girls dressed in very little. A racy vampire themed burlesque show a demon fueled bit of acrobatic theatre and a night club complete with cage dancers and snakes lure in the adults. Murderers and monsters of Hollywood fame prowl the streets and the park’s most famous thrill rides remain in operation well after the sun has gone down.Ī slew of more adult entertainment options take over the usually family friendly theme park. The 1920s themed streets of Movie World are transformed by clouds of dry ice drifting out from windows and up from the sewers below. Fright Nightįor the month of October, Warner Brothers Movie World on the Gold Coast throws open its doors at night for the big kids to come play. And it was the opportunity to really celebrate Halloween that drew me to Fright Night at Movie World. It’s a sad and sorry state of affairs, but that isn’t to say there aren’t some fun Halloween activities still on offer. Hell, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a home decorated for Hallloween that wasn’t hosting a drunken Halloween house party. A few persistent parents might organize a trick-or-treating run, but they’re destined for disappointment. So where scores of American children are out trick-or-treating while their older siblings bump and grind in their sluttiest outfits, Aussies seem content to make a token effort. It’s as if with each mile it has to pass over the Pacific diminishes its strength somewhat. Much like Valentine’s Day, the commercialism that makes Halloween so huge in the United States hasn’t really bled across to us here. I’ll have to share that story sometime.īut back to Halloween in the Land Downunder. I’ve had the pleasure of celebrating the holiday in the United States once before. Oh, there are Halloween parties and kids at school work hard at drawing Jack-o-Lanterns and crafting glitter coated ghosts, but the holiday is a pale comparison of what is a $6 billion dollar industry in the United States. We don’t really do Halloween in Australia. It’s a time when couples can come up with obnoxious yet inventive ways to pair their costumes.Ī night where, as the great Barney Stinson says, every girl out there seizes the opportunity to flaunt their sexuality a little. It’s a time of year where nerds can celebrate their nerdiness by crafting elaborate costumes and won’t be judged. Halloween holds a special place in my heart. If a girl dresses up as a witch, she’s a slutty witch. “You know what I love about Halloween? It’s the one night of the year chicks use to unleash their inner ho-bag.
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