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9/25/2017

Knott's Scary Farm - The original is still the best

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Wow, where do we begin with Knott's Scary Farm 2017. 
To say that Knott's Scary Farm is hitting on all cylinders this year would be an extreme understatement. From top to bottom this is probably the strongest Scary Farm in a decade. The mazes are amazing, the scare zones are amazing, scares around every corner and more fun and screams are lurking in the fog than ever before 

Pictures by Matthew Nelson and Gregg Condon
Written by Gregg Condon

Welcome to Knott's Scary Farm
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This year unlike the past few years, the entire park is full of decorations 
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Look at that beautiful glorious fog 
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New for this year, Trick or Treat Light's Out 
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They've taken what was already one of our favorite Scary Farm mazes and improved it by turning the lights off and giving everybody flashlights. 
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Back for it's third year is Paranormal Inc 
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The maze is still amazing. Only thing we'd say here is maybe for next year a different pre-show storyline. They've done an amazing job of freshening up mazes with tweaks and this one could use a couple of tweaks to make it even better than it is. 
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Still one of the most technologically advanced mazes at the farm 
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A behind the scenes look at how we film and shoot Scary Farm 
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Welcome to Knott's Berry Farm by day 
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Dark Ride by Night!!! 
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Honestly, we aren't sure what we can say about Dark Ride that wouldn't make it sound like we were just blowing Haunt Fog up Jon Cooke's ass 
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This maze is simply perfect. Take everything we love about amusement parks and scary events and mash them together. 
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We really felt like we were in an episode of Scooby Doo (not the crappy movie, the awesome original cartoon). It was just fun and scary and perfect. 
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We know a lot of you don't like scary things, but we implore you, go to Scary Farm ... walk through Dark Ride. You'll fall in love with it. ​
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So a couple final thoughts on Dark Ride: 

First, we can't believe this wasn't a concept that wasn't thought of before. It seems kind of like a no brainer. Why it hasn't been done before is beyond us, but we're glad it hasn't been because this feels fresh and fun. 

Second, the cool thing about Dark Ride is, and I'm sure it's something the maze designers have already thought of, they can keep the general "theme" of the maze but they can change out the actual "Dark Ride" part of it. I mean, could you imagine them re-creating Knott's Beary Tales as the "Dark Ride" part? People would freak, in a good way. 

All in all this is probably in my top 5 Scary Farm mazes of all time. And that's saying A LOT. Because there have been some amazing mazes throughout the years. 
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Ghost Town in the fog is always amazing 
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New this year 
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Daytime POV 
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Nighttime POV 
It's simply brilliant and fun both during the day and at night
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Surprise, she's still here!! 
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Sometimes it's the little touches that make this an all around amazing event 
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Red Barn ... we really enjoyed it last year, some small tweaks and it's even better this year
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Let the bodies hit the floor 
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Amazing decorations in The Hollow 
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You'd think after the heaps of praise we just did on Dark Ride that would mean the other new maze for 2017 Pumpkin Eater would have been a tremendous let down. Nothing could be further from the truth. 
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The amazing 1, 2 punch of these new mazes using classic scares scattered with new technology are amazing. You can really feel the difference between the two given their two designers but yet they both totally work in the grand scheme of Knott's Scary Farm as a whole. 
So some final thoughts on Scary Farm 2017 ... 
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We know it's still early in the season, and we have a LOT of events to go to still, but it's going to be REALLY hard for any event to top Knott's Scary Farm. From the time you walk through those gates you are immersed in everything scary. 
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The team this year has really outdone themselves and the original quite frankly is still the best. 
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We were hard-pressed to come up with a maze ranking this year because everything was so solid. Even a couple of mazes we were kind of 'meh on last year had comeback years. It honestly seems almost unfair to rank these mazes.

Yes, Dark Ride was obviously our favorite, but everything else is really a solid #2. There is not one "bad" maze. We didn't have one bad experience in any of these mazes. All were filled with fun and scares. Each time we went through the mazes over our two nights of Scary Farm they were all solidly on-point.

So do yourself a favor, get to Knott's Scary Farm. You won't be disappointed. 

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