Greetings world~
Is it me but October is like the IT month!
Well there's Octoberfest which is like an annual family event to me. Then there are many public holidays like Hari Raya Haji and Deepvali. As (soon-to-be) part of the Malaysian work force, public holidays are like shining and glowing dates on the calender. Of course, there's also the much anticipated event to round off the IT month..
HALLOWEEN
I always love the idea of Halloween as a kid. What's there to not love? Dressing up and getting FREE candies from your neighbour like WOW! Who wouldn't want that? But it seems like it's never a Malaysian culture so it's okay.. *watches Disney Halloween special*. As an adult, Halloween became bunny ears and alcohol so.. *shrugs* not my kind of thing (boring ohhhh me).
Silver lining moment when 2 of my favorite things decided to join forces and become...
Malaysia's VERY FIRST Halloween Escape!
Poster of Pure Evil! More info at OWG.
Guess who jumped up and down when Elie invited me for the Opening night? NOT ME. I handled it maturely and checked the dates and venue before saying 'yes'. Haha WHAT A LIE!
Of course I'm EXCITED! Who wouldn't be? Imagine the usual escape room but this time, with a Halloween theme.
Extremely kiasu and reached before 7:30pm! It was raining so I guess even without the water rides we're really in WET world!!! (Geddit Geddit? No? Okay..)
Anyway, since I am rather unfamiliar with Shah Alam I started my journey early so I can reach on time. But if you have any sort of GPS app, then just by key in "Wet World Shah Alam" and it's actually a rather breezy journey. I can verify that even WITH rain, there's no jam or flood! There's a decent number of parking spaces as well just in case you're those people who are paranoid about the fuss to get a spot.
Arrived and saw the Huge Halloween Escape Wet World entrance. So unnecessarily excited when I signed in as a Blogger! But I still spent some time admiring the small spooky decos they put on!
Blood and skeletons everywhere!
What is fun without some rules. This is where I learn I'll get into trouble if I punched any of the ghosts.
I'll be honest. I am MORTIFIED of ghosts. I screamed when I saw those zombies wandering around outside Sunway Lagoon Scream Park. I also somehow convinced myself to line up for Scream Park and I.. FOUGHT IT LIKE A BOSS ran out at the last minute.. Very embarrassing! I know! So I kept pumping myself up before going in so that I don't lau sai when I walk in.
My OOTD and a very fat arm!
Rompers courtesy of cousin-who-shall-not-be-named
Arm candy is a present by my adorable friends
Keep thinking to myself that I will start to make a lau sai face when any sort of crazy scary stuff appear so I took a lot of pictures before going in! hehe.
So happy the moment I step into Wet World. Saw a pool with those water rides. So tempted to jump in for real but unfortunately, for safety reasons, the water parks all closed. But they do have buff lifeguards standing guard just in case anyone fell in.
I will come here some day IN THE MORNING!
Found an advantage of coming early! Made it to the opening water and mist show! It's actually more like an opening act to 'greet' us and if the water show doesn't end, we won't be able to enter the main attractions because...
of her...
Looking very hipster and dead
The water show started and it's a projection image of 'the one' that we're supposed to escape from in the escape room. It's not scary since it's made of water but her words will really chill you to the bones. Don't miss this if you're going there!
'You think you can escape me?'
'Well we shall see'
The amount of effort they put in making the place Halloween-ish is unbelievable. As I mentioned just now, even their entrance is swarmed with blood and skeletons. Everything looks like they either wanna warn you or kill you; enhancing the overall spooky feeling. Also, their props are CRAZILY WELL DONE! Looks so real! Escape Room is responsible for all the decorations and I believe if you have been to Escape Room, you know how realistic their props are.
Guess what scared me?
Ancient mummy! I didn't dare to go close because well.. there's no guarantee that the thing wouldn't open its eyes right?
Die die also must pose nicely. Pose for 3 seconds and jumped off the platform!
IN MY DEFENSE, IT WAS QUITE LIFELIKE!
Yes. Death! Great! Brrr
Look at this! Limbs ALL OVER THE PLACE! Actually it's all over Wet World! Even on the water slides!
Look at me! Aren't I a badass?! Honestly, I did not notice the head hanging there because it was pretty dark. Now when I noticed it... AHHHHHHHH
These decorations are actually the keh-leh-feh (extras) to the main creepers of the night!
Nope
Okay HELL NOOOO
I distinctively told it that I WILL PUNCH IF YOU COME ANY CLOSER
I think they thought I was the crazy one for screaming while pressing the shutter. Their make up is so annoyingly real. The worst part is..
They REALLY GLARE AT YOU OMGGGG!
I was quite worried will their eyeballs pop out!
I think she can tell I'm genuinely afraid so she turned hipster for me! How nice of you of white face zombie sister!
I am serious about the glaring at you part. Their eyes are like super big and they just stare you down as if they're judging your soul! And you can't help but glare back and feel the chills down your spine. Even brave people like Steven got that geli feeling when they're staring at us. LIKE REALLY REALLY STARE!
They brought the whole park to life by being so realistically dead! *ba-dum-tss*
And I honestly think they're very professional. They walk like they're limping the whole night. They never smiled or spoke. They just.. stare.
Not only that. Watch out.. They might appear near you when you least expect it. They don't make any sound when they walk. Try not to scream too loud in their faces I guess (guilty...).
The nurse one scares me the most because I think it can sense me feeling scared so she deliberately come really close to me. I think she hates me for telling her I'll punch her...
All the scary things aside, the park has great facilities to make sure you enjoy the park fully. There's lockers for the ladies who prefer to not hold their handbags, shower area, toilet, food stalls etc. So it is unlikely that you'll leave the park halfway.
Lockers
Food stall just in case your tummy got hungry
Speaking of food, I was being courageous (because there's limbs and zombies everywhere wtf) and explored the entire park for food. Haven't eaten anything since brunch and I was so famished. Isn't it funny how I know what to eat in Subang and Klang but not in Shah Alam? Initially, I found a very normal food stall selling Hawaiian Chicken and Fried Chicken. Decided to walk around to see is there more alternatives and found the stall above selling... non conventional food.
Blood pack, eyeballs spaghetti and finger sausages anyone?
The uncle selling the food is very nice and he keep reassuring me that it tastes really good but I really had a bola kecut (balls shrinking) moment and figure I should just buy normal looking food instead.
But what I didn't know is that the organizers are so sweet and awesome. They prepared tables for the VIPs, medias and bloggers so we can have some inside scope to the whole idea behind the Halloween Escape. Guess what they served us?
So honored actually. I feel so speeeecial
My dinner. Here's a closer look to my eyeballs spaghetti and finger sausages.
The psychological barrier needed to be overcomed to eat this
Blood packs! Elie and Steven is so fixated over looking for the right blood group so that there won't be any complications after the "transfusion" HAHAHA
Star of the night! These pumpkin buns are so yummy and adorable!
Thank you food for looking like food!
Looks aside, the food actually tastes like well.. normal food duh! It's just the psychological barrier of thinking that it's gross. But if you ever came here, I dare you to try! Be like me.. drink blood, eat fingers and chew on eyeballs! MUAHAHAHAH
IT IS TIME TO INTRODUCE THE MAIN EVENT OF THE NIGHT!
After dinner, we were ushered to the Escape Room area and OHMYGOSH WHY IS THERE SO MANY BRAVE PEOPLE? Look at the line!
The lines also get longer as the night gets later. And when you walk anywhere near the area you can hear people SCREAMING! No joke SCREAMING! I keep hearing different guys and girls screaming and banging the wall as they try to make their way out. I have never heard screaming in the ordinary Escape room so it must be some serious sh*t in there! But I think Malaysians really hyped out for a good scare so if zombie apocalypse ever happen here, I think most of us will do just fine.
Fail selfie before going in
I think the most fail part of the park is that it's not camera friendly but then again I doubt a brightly lit park will scare anyone.
More rules and regulations
This is it. The moment of truth...
Behind this face of evil lies the maze of Halloween Escape
The Escape Room staff are extremely nice and polite. I think my aura of fear is radiating so greatly that they can feel me shivering. My goosebumps were up all the time since we decided to go in. So I mentioned I chicken out at the very last minute in the Sunway Lagoon Haunted House right? SOMEONE GIVE ME A MEDAL OF HONOR BECAUSE I, STEPHANIE CHENG...
COURAGEOUSLY RAN OUT... AGAIN!
I am probably the laughing stock of the night but still.. I really cannot get over my fears. I have very good reason please! I have very good memory and I am very imaginative. Also, I learned Teakwando before so I will injure someone! I swear! *big pile of excuses*
But I did walked in a little bit and I saw a white figure with a really loud screaming voice and I know for sure I will have a cardiac arrest wtf. But the rest went in and here's Mr Editor's experience:
It's honestly not THAT scary la. The room itself is divided into two stages and you have to make it through the first stage to get to the second stage. All while having ghosts running around in there. Sounds okay right?
According to the staff, very few people can actually make it out. With all the stress and fears, I guess not many can really fire up 100% of their brain. And the good news is you can go again and again and again until you're satisfied. For only RM 38! Usually a 45 minutes Escape Room also cost around the same price right? SO WORTHY! *kiamsiap Chinese*
When 3 of them came out, they told me that luckily I didn't went in because FOR SURE I can't take it. I will take their words for it.
Managed to have a little chat with Jason and Victor, creators of the Escape Room (Forgot to take pictures with them) and they told me that the whole reason why they decided to do a Halloween Escape is because many Escape Room challengers find the still room experience INSUFFICIENT to satisfy their need for an adrenaline pumping experience (you sicko!).
These people want more scary! More fear! They want a lau sai experience basically and thus Halloween Escape was created with extra servings of scary and fear.
Time for some Q&A! Had a small chat with Steven from Wet World to know more about Halloween Escape! Here we goooo~
Q: Why Halloween Escape? Where did the idea come from?
A: Wet World Shah Alam is a very family oriented theme park and we want to target a new width of customers especially the youngster to come to the park. With Escape Room, we hope to attract them here and create a new width of customers to Wet World. We invested a lot of time in this, almost 3 months so we hope it'll turn out well.
Q: The decorations are so well done and exquisite. Are they removed so the 'morning' customers won't see them?
A: No. The decorations will be up the entire month of October.
Q: What if I saw the Escape Room in the morning/ weekdays and I am willing to pay to go in. Can I?
A: Nope. There won't be any special effects or ghosts in the morning/ weekdays. So it would basically be nothing there.
Q: I saw children running around wanting to go in so are they allowed in? I mean even adults get frightened!
A: They can but the thing is, they would have to be accompanied by their parents and their parents must make sure the kids can handle it. We will give them some warning but it is ultimately the parent's decisions.
Q: What if I really get a cardiac arrest in there. Is there any emergency plan?
A: Well of course! We have first aid and clinic. We have a course of action in case of emergency. But we already put up signs that this attraction is not suitable for pregnant ladies or anyone with a weak heart so hopefully everything will go well.
Q: We understand there's a lot of competitor like Sunway and Genting doing the Halloween thing. So what distinguishes you from them?
A: First of all, we have the whole Escape Room idea which is first in Malaysia and it has never been done before. It will be difficult to beat giants like Sunway and Genting but our idea is special and we hope to be able to attract a new range of customers.
Q: Will normal operation proceed as usual for October?
A: Yes our park will operate as usual.
Q: Will Halloween Escape last beyond October?
A: It will depend on the response and so far the response is really good.
Okay.. If you're really chicken like me or you need a little warm up, there's also 4 mini escape rooms besides the main escape room.
4 different themes!
This is like a smaller version of the usual Escape Room and you didn't have to solve 20 million clues. Maybe around 3 or 4 because you're only given 10 minutes for all the room EXCEPT The Ring which you'll be given 15 minutes. I FINALLY FOUND SOME COURAGE and went in with them to The Ring. The awkward moment when a camera crew came in and I was froze there because there's a little something in there..... along with sound effects. Lau sai face caught on camera! Great!
The 4 challenges are NOT EASY because since 7:30pm to about 11pm only 3 teams made it out/ escaped. You can line up again and again for this too or you can take the easy way out as ask them for the solution.
Since it's rather time consuming, the line moves quite slowly and the wait is so painful! FRET NOT! They thought of everything for us. There's all the wonderful zombies there walking around spooking people. Thank you nurse zombie for making me cry while lining up..zz.
Made friends with the zombie sisters because they're quite nice.
I told them I'm scared and they really walk away! haha
But I think to them, I just make a really nice slave to massage for them
Oh by the way, the zombies dances too. Zombies nowadays have to be multi-talented too! It's a tough world out there. Saw them dancing at first at the dinner and I was conveniently there when they performed again. These zombies can move yo!
Also got a fried chicken while enjoying the zombies WERK IT
Crawl zombies crawl!
Good job zombies! Now shoo..
Besides that, there's water show again from time to time. Probably for people who missed the opening. I guess the waiting can be a pain in the behind but given there's quite a few things to look at, time does fly by!
With slight difference from the opening act. I think the opening act one is creepier
AND THAT! Kinda concluded my night! I spent almost 4 hours in fright land and I honestly had a lot of fun experiencing new stuff wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy outside my comfort zone. Gonna end this post soon but before that..
If you can't beat them...
Join them
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? No better way to spend your weekends than the crazy Halloween Escape! For more details head to here or here!
You think you have balls? Let them prove you wrong
Goodbye now livings~ I shall see you all soon!
