Please note: this review is for the 2006 season rather than the current season.

Terror on the Fox

by pud27 after attending on Saturday, October 7, 2006 at about 6 p.m.

Fun Factor: Very High Fear Factor: High

Review

Signage / Visibility / Location

Terror on the Fox is very easy to find. It is only a little ways off of the highway. Once you pull off and turn, there is a sign pointing the way. The house is located on the grounds of the National Railroad Museum, right on the shores of the Fox River. The overall atmosphere is pretty cool. The parking area and first waiting area is next to the road, but once you board the train, the atmosphere really kicks in.

Wait Area / Line Entertainment

For entertainment while waiting for the train there was a sound system blaring music by Alice Cooper and others, and video of the house being projected on a boxcar. At the house there was a video screen playing clips from the house here as well, and people dancing in strobe lights in various second floor windows. There was covered waiting for the train, but uncovered for the house.

Most Unique

The coolest part of the house was by far the cave, and the animatronics in it. I don't want to give anything away, but it will definitely take you by surprise. The cave itself was very realistic, especially since it was made out of Styrofoam.

Actors' Performance

The actors were awesome. They stayed in character the whole time, and really knew what they were doing. They did a good job with picking out the people to scare, and picking the right way to scare them. We did not catch up to any other groups, nor did any catch up to us, and we were taking our time going through it, so they did well with group spacing too. The scenery was great; it looked very realistic. Their incorporation of animatronics and live actors was perfect, not too much or too little of either.

Appropriate For

13+

Summary

We waited for the train for about 20 minutes, and then waited another 17 minutes or so on the train before we moved. This was because they stopped selling tickets at 11:30, and this was the last train for the night. It could change later in the month if the crowds get bigger.

The train ride took about 8 minutes. This was our first time there, so the train ride was really new to me. I thought it was cool, although the train was slower than I had hoped it would be. They had a strobe light and a fog machine on the train, as well as a few actors walking around scaring people. The only problem I noticed was after a while the fog to get sickly because there was no ventilation.

We had combo tickets, so after the train ride we went through the 3D Carnage house. It was cool seeing how the paint and scary scenes came out at you, and the vertex was pretty cool in 3D as well. There were only a few actors inside this part and it only took three minutes to walk through. Overall, it's worth the $3.00 extra, but only once, and only if you want to walk through the vertex.

After the 3D house we walked a little ways through the woods to wait in line for the main attraction. We only had a short wait, about 8 minutes. The facade on the house was awesome. It looked like a real old mansion, but it was mostly made of semi trailers. It was by far the coolest looking house I have been at. It was smaller in person than what it looks like in advertisements and on the video screens, but it was cool nonetheless.

Overall it was very well done. The whole experience starting out with the train and ending up at the house is cool. Almost everything about this haunt is unique and different from any other house I have been to. The staff was great, actors and non-actors. Even the guy who answered my email earlier in the day was friendly and helpful. I would recommend this haunt to anyone 13 or older; however, if you have seen a 3D house and a vertex take the non-combo ticket and save your three bucks for another house.

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May 1st, 2024 4:53 p.m. CDT 24.07