Experience
Several patrons enter a small, lightly decorated room through a doorway. There is a fireplace on the opposite wall, but no obvious exit from the room. The door they entered through is closed by friendly haunt host. After the door closes, the entire room rotates slowly around the horizontal axis 90 degrees forward until the group is now standing on the "wall" with the fireplace. At this point, the group can drop down into the fireplace, one at a time, and exit the room through the chimney, a small horizontal tunnel that must be crawled through.
Blueprint
The room is a specially constructed cube, suspended on two poles anchored outside of the east and west walls. The rotation works by the room pivoting on those two poles, allowing 90 degrees forward (allowing exit tunnel access) and then 90 degrees backward (reset to entrance position). The chimney tunnel, constructed on the interior of the room needs to be big enough to crawl through comfortably, so will be oversized from a real chimney. All room decorations, like tables, chairs, pictures, props will be bolted down so that they are immobile.
Sketch
Coming soon.
Practical Considerations
- Some kind of warning to patrons should be given since the door closing behind them leaves them no where to go.
- The rotation should be slow enough so that patrons know what is happening and that that risk of harm is very low.
- The cycle time for room tilt and reset would create a bottleneck in the haunt flow, so plan for how to handle this. Maybe a fork in the path so that only every other group of patrons is directed into the room?
