Hocus Pocus Hall
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| Chessington World of Adventures | |
| Area | Burnt Stub Mansion |
| Status | Closed |
| Opening date | 2003 |
| Closing date | 2018 |
| Replaced by | Room On The Broom: A Magical Journey |
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| Attraction type | House of mirrors |
| Theme | Gothic |
Hocus Pocus Hall was a gothic-themed house of mirrors at Chessington World of Adventures Resort in southwest London, England. Originally the site of several mansions dating back to 1348, Burnt Stub Mansion was a private feature for years, before opening as Hocus Pocus Hall in 2003. It closed in 2018 to be redeveloped as a Room On The Broom attraction.[1]
History
Burnt Stub Mansion
The mansion at Chessington World of Adventures Resort, today called Burnt Stub was built in 1348 in Chessington. In the English Civil War it became a royalist stronghold, later being razed by Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentary forces giving it its modern name.[2]
Hocus Pocus Hall description
Hocus Pocus Hall is a 4-D walk through attraction that leads throughout the mansion, with no age restriction. Theming includes animatronics such as a wizard and goblins,[1] as well as rotating hallways and 3D paintings, for which 3-D glasses could be worn until the 2017 season where these were removed. The attraction would begin inside the main hall of the building where you were greeted by a preshow involving a wizard and the troublesome goblins of the Hall before the room transformed before your eyes into a room full of goblins and eyes from every corner - the bookcase would move aside leading you through a library corridor and into a trommel tunnel. After the tunnel you reach a generator room where goblins are causing all kinds of chaos in the form of animatronic statues and peppers ghost style projections. Guests throughout the scene are challenged to interact with buttons and pressure pads, even putting their hands in holes for a surprise or two. Guests were then led across pressure pads in what looked like a garden scene before reaching the “farting chair” - a chair which farted when someone was to sit on it. The next scene was the wizards bedroom where guests witnessed the goblins interacting around the sleeping wizard. The floors were then uneven as the attraction approached the finale, the mirror maze. The maze also included a drop off point for the 3D glasses until their removal. The mirror maze themed around a garden hid a few surprises as guests would get more Android more lost whilst being surprised by goblins appearing through the glass. The attraction ends at the end of the mirror maze just to the right of the manors entrance.
During Howl-o-ween the manor can be found decorated in UV spiderwebs and on occasion had a makeover to “the mystery of hocus pocus Hall” which featured a new sound track. [3]
Room On The Broom: A Magical Journey
On the 13th September 2018 on the resorts social media they have said that the Hocus Pocus Hall is for SALE.
‘Situated in the unusual location of our Theme Park and Zoo, the one-of-a-kind Hocus Pocus Hall would make a magical home! It has some unusual but charming features, including a spinning tunnel, a mirror maze and a farting chair’
It was revealed on 17th October that Hocus Pocus Hall would be redeveloped as a Room On The Broom attraction based on the book by Julia Donaldson .
www.chessington.com/2019
See also
References
- ^ a b "Market Square". Chessington World of Adventures. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
- ^ Leisure/tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge By David Crouch, 1999, Routledge,ISBN 0-415-18109-7
- ^ "Hocus Pocus Hall review". T-Park. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
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