Cryohazard

Client
Canada's Wonderland
Year
2016
Program
Attraction
Status
Constructed (Defunct)
Location
Vaughan, ON

Story

A two-part outdoor attraction designed to fill and constrict a wide, clear portion of the park near a signature roller coaster. Developed as one of several new features for the 2016 Halloween Haunt event, Cryohazard and it’s associated up-charge attraction Experiment 53 lasted only a single season, but tested new narratives and effects.

Proposal Document

cryohazard

Cryohazard was an outdoor Scarezone attraction developed for the 2016 Canada’s Wonderland Halloween Haunt event, with an attached premium up-charge experience called Experiment 53. Positioned at a natural bottleneck between the main portion of the park and one of the signature attractions Cryohazard was designed to constrict and direct the flow of guests around themed set-pieces and costumed actors fitting a story-line of scientific experimentation gone wrong. A massive central set-piece was to be constructed and themed as multiple cryonics chambers undergoing a failure, allowing the stored specimens to break free and prey on the scientists, guards and park guests.

 

experiment 53

Housed within one of the shipping containers flanking the area would be a premium experience titled Experiment 53. This experience would have guests “locked” inside one of the test chambers while a specimen was thawed from their cryonic chamber. Each group of guests would be given a set amount of time to determine the correct combination of buttons and switches to hit within the chamber in order to escape before the specimen broke free.