2012 Down Under AGAIN soon...!

Greetings my Haunted Family and Friends...!
Well... it has been 2 years since I have made the 24 hour trip to the beautiful Australian continent and I am about to go again... this time with my wife, Beth and daughter, Kaitlin in tow with me... We will be helping Jay Jones of Amuse Tech at the Sydney Royal Easter Show in April with his HOLLYWOOD HORROR attraction... We will be blogging our experience right here for all of you to watch...

Crazy Bob Turner

HOLLYWOOD HORRORS - Down-Under!

This is the first picture I took of the "Hollywood Horror" attraction I assisted with at the EKKA Festivals in Brisbane, Australia - PRETTY impressive unit!

And a few more...!

Jerry and his new found Aussie LORDI fan!

A cool night image of the HAUNT...!

More Photos...

A little FREE time for the hardworking crew... Thanks Jay...!

Nemesis at his evil BEST!

Jay Jones, the Hollywood Horrors Boss-man!

Pics from Down-Under

Crazy Bob and the cast from Hollywood Horrors.

Crazy Bob playing with some of the patrons...

He is such a sucker for the pretty girl victims...!

Tada!

Final Show night

Well I can not believe it is over!!! Last night (Saturday) was the final night for the Ekka Show. It was a successful run of 10 straight days starting at 8:30 am with makeup and ending with usually 10:00pm in the evening. By any standard,. this is a very demanding and brutal length of time for scaring people. What is really different is here in AUS folks were willing to see the show morning , noon, and night without any hesitation. In the US for the most part it seems that the patrons really only want to come out late in the evenings. Anyway back to the Ekka Show, I was very proud to say that the entire cast of Asians, Italians, German, British, Spanish, one Australian, and two Americans really made a huge hit at its premier showing. I feel that even though the travel hours (32 in flights each way) and the really long hours (average work day of 16 to 18) was well worth all the stress and challenges. Hollywood Horrors was a great success with all the patrons. During the show we faced gusting high winds of over 55 miles an hour, a major rain storm which was a record in the history books for this area and caused major flooding especially at the Show location, staffing a event with a multi international cast, and finally setting up a Scarefactory 2,600 square foot event for the first time really presented some huge challenges. So needless to say, I feel really good that my Hauntertainer training program and my 20 plus years of commercial professional haunting experience really added to the resources of Jay Jones one of the owners and operators of this event.

Oh my, Oh my, Oh my....

Where has the time gone! I am truly sorry for all those days I have not kept up with the blogging however we ...all the staff have been doing many long days and nights trying to build one of AUS. premier haunted house programs. There is a major difference between the USA and AUS events as this is a festival (fair) style where your day begins at 9:00 am in the morning and runs till 10:30 pm. So that means 30 minutes before opening and 30 minutes after closing is also needed to be ready for the festival goers who are truly having a great time seeing this attraction. Do the math - an average day including rebuilding walls, repairing the sets, acting, and meeting TV/radio/ media event staff makes it average 15 to 18 hour days for a straight run of 10 days in a row. I am very proud of the 12 international acting staff who have come together to make "Hollywood Horror" event a success. I will elaborate more on the staff in the next blog. It is also nice that one of my key staff - Jerry Chaffee aka "Nemisis" was able to come and be a part of this training activity as well so as to have my back at the front door of the operations. Jerry by the way is staying in AUS till September 28 and then returns home to Fremont, Ohio to be in time for my beloved Haunted Hydro Park opening 3 days later!!!! AUS currently has several haunted "ghost rides" but no walk through events. Jay Jones and his business partner "Jamie" saw this as a golden opportunity to start a new event at the fairs and festivals that they already have other business activities at. Thus "Hollywood Horror" was born and Turner Enterprise Inc was hired via the "Hauntertainer University" to train all the actors to make this an international success. We have had many interesting challenges so far and in my next blog I will give you more info on those items.
Till then,,,,is Crazy Bob saying see you later from down under!!!