No need to travel to Transylvania this Halloween season to encounter vampires, ghosts, illusions, apparitions and various other members of the Living Dead. Right here in Kansas City, you can experience extreme haunts with spine-chilling thrills. Worlds of Fun is Kansas City’s largest, bloodiest, and goriest Halloween event!
Families with small children can enjoy Halloween treats, not tricks, during the daytime hours, when Worlds of Fun offers scare-free fun. What kid doesn’t love pirates? Kids can shake their booty at Charlie Brown’s Pirate Adventure, and grab treasures during Snoopy’s Big Treasure Hunt. The Magical House on Boo Hill is a haunted house just for the small fry. And illusionists John Bundy and Morgan dig up a treasure chest full of pirate magic in a brand-new show, Skullduggery. There is also a collection of silly midway shows, including a witch’s storytelling sessions, a used coffin salesperson’s spiel, and the teasing of a teeny-tiny witch doctor. There’s even a Halloween costume contest. Little ghouls will be enchanted.
The spooky stuff starts at 7 p.m., and children under the age of 14 are advised to leave the park. As darkness falls and a murky fog drenches the area, the Overlord awakens and calls his army to rise and transform the park.
And what an army it is! Over 300 terrifying characters lurk fog-filled midways in nine different horrifying haunts. Hordes of Screamsters inhabit the Fright Zone; a psychotic serial killer turns his victims into dolls in Master McCarthy’s Doll Factory; inmates take control at Lakeside Mental Hospital on Asylum Island; a crowd of zombies and madmen stalk the grounds of Camp GonnaGitcha; over a century’s worth of bloodthirsty vampires skulk within the catacomb, Lair of the Vampire; ghosts and other creatures of the night live again in Dominion of Doom (my own personal favorite haunt); Old MacDonald’s Farm becomes a massacre in Bloodshed; outlaw spirits click their spurs in Outlaws Revenge; and a pack of deranged clowns and circus freaks taunt those who wander into CarnEvil.
Admission to Halloween Haunt includes 175 acres of thrill rides, shows, and attractions for one drop-dead price. All-day admission is only $40.99 on Saturdays and Sundays, and FrightNight admission is only $26.99 after 6 p.m. on Fridays and after 4 p.m. on Saturdays.
Halloween Haunt is open every Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday, through November 1 (limited ride availability and Camp Snoopy closed Friday nights, Haunt evening attractions closed Sundays).
And don’t miss the song and dance revue at Meat Cleaver High, where the cast of teenage dead heads is stuck in the 60’s at a “Haunted Homecoming.” They’re dying to entertain you.
THE FINE PRINT
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Comments
Amusement parks are a good safe way for kids of all ages to get a bit of a scare, safely, on Halloween.
Great article. Almost makes me want to go.
My son's baseball team did this a couple years ago, and these tough-guy athletes ended up screaming like little boys and clinging to their parents.
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