Monster Mansion
Come inside for a darkly delectable boat ride through a whole mansion’s worth of magical monstrosity! The 25,000 square foot spooktacular has been a Six Flags Over Georgia favorite for generations. You’ll float through the bog where dementedly devious creatures are crawling around every corner and even flying through the air! It’s an entire world of extremely colorful and creative beasts, with faces you’ll never forget.
Objective
The primary purpose of this rehabilitation is to re-energize the Attraction, bringing it up to today’s standards both on an interactive and entertainment level as well as technological while at the same time increasing it’s reliability and decreasing its operational downtime.
History
20 minutes outside of downtown Atlanta, the Monster Plantation attraction is located within the “Confederate Land” area of the park. It was originally designed and produced by Gary Goddard Productions and opened to the public in 1981. SFOG’s Operations and Maintenance staff currently operate the site. Other than minor maintenance modifications, the attraction is much the same as it was when it opened.
SFOG Monster Plantation Attraction Rehab
NEO Entertainment Group, Inc. was contracted by Gary Goddard Entertainment to rehabilitate Six Flags over Georgia’s “Monster Plantation” dark ride. NEO in charge of the main show element’s teamed with FX Masters, for animatronics, figure finishing and special effects, to implement a plan to re-imaging the ride as the “Monster Mansion”. With eight new animatronics characters, ninety-seven mechanically and aesthetically refurbished existing characters, and “the most 4D effects of any ride in America”.
Opening Day
Culminating with Media Day, on May 13, and a Grand Reopening, on May 15, SFOG’s “Monster Plantation” became the new and greatly improved “Monster Mansion”. Touted as now having the most “4D” effects of any amusement park ride the world, the iconic Dark Ride also experienced an overall mechanical and cosmetic face-lift. In addition to rehabilitating the existing 98 animatronic figures, Navigator Entertainment and FX Masters also created 8 new figures and installed 14 effects, ranging from a bubble machine to a mist curtain, on which an animated face is projected.
