Contacted Tw about dressing up

[xxxdirk]

They said they will check into it and get back to me. A soon as I hear from them, I will let you know, OK?

[Haunted Illinois]

Yeah, I called them too and got the same response. It'll be interesting to see what answer they come back with.

[xxxdirk]

Well, if they take that away from us this year, I most likely will NOT be back. I am not one to dress up very much, but I very much enjoy seeing others dressed up. They try to make this a vanilla, politically correct thing, and I will invest my money at other conventions.

[RJ Productions]

Remember where you are...Las Vegas...casinos....

The last thing security wants is people running around in disguises!!!
It's no different that any store that refuses to let people in masks in during Halloween.

Make-up alone might be acceptable but I'm sure only in limited public areas.
FAce it, they're not going to let Ben Armstrong in one of his AWESOME costume run around the Black Jack Tables!!! Sorry Ben!!! I'm still looking forward to this year's "visitor"!!!

[Jim Warfield]

That dressing up can be scary!
One Haloween someone came through here with a mask on, no big deal you may think?
Guess again, it was an ex-girlfriend ! My wife wasn't too happy!
Then those strange e-mails began.......the really strange thing was that she chose the same name as a common poster on this site, which really confused me at first since I am pretty sure the poster here is a guy, a guy saying Those things concerning old , forgotten (once) precious moments?
I couldn't remember those at all!
Because they never happend!

[Frankenhausers]

I think it is absolutely understandable for the casinos not to have people
in disguiswes running around but on the other hand: there goes the fun.
Did somebody suggest something like an open "changing room" to TW ?
When I visited Chicag in the last years, there was an awful lot of free
unused space on the second floor. I think the same will appear this year.
If they cut off a little from this empty space, put in a few tables, chairs and mirrors
and maybe a few lockers people could change or make up there. Maybe
Vendors could be asked for complemantry items for make up or removal
wich could bring their new products into peoples mothes (and faces as well)
So people who'd like to dress up will have the oportunity to go there,
dress up, make up and, after the show, remove the make up to go back
to the poker tables. That would also be the perfect place to chat and meet.
It's just a guess , what do you think ?

[bodybagging]

frankenHauser great idea but that would mean an effort on TWs part to cater to the Haunt Industry, I dont see it happening. On that note me personally one of the best part of dressing up is not the oohs and ahhs I get from my fellow haunters, Its the gasps and shrieks that I recieve from the Norms.

[Frankenhausers]

yeah, Rob, that's why we do it.
On the other hand, if we need an argument for that , it is that people, dressed up will get more attention in the press. And that is what TW wants and needs.
Good press. I would say it is worth a try, isn't it ?

[Ken Spriggs]

Hmm

May I be a business person for a few minutes?

There are some people that will agree with what I am about to say.....some of your jaws will drop when I say this also.

Look TW does cater to the haunted house people .... A little.....
I started going to this show...yikes...like 16 years ago or so.

I have been an exhibitor for a good chunck of those years.

There is nothing worse than giving your speech to every person that walks up to the table....just to find out they have no say so in the actual purchasing at the haunted house. TW tried to make the show go back to it's roots.....WHICH IS A SHOW FOR RETAILERS TO BUY THEIR GOODS TO RESELL

Now yes it is Halloween related....so of course Haunted Houses will need to be there......but seriously how many people from 1 company have to go to the show?
TW is not the actor friendly show where you can bring 10-15 people of your crew and turn them lose on the show.....that is why Hauntcon and MHC are out there.

If you don't sell products or you don't have a costume shop......you are the end user and you should not be able to access wholesale pricing.

[Tattoo]

TW did not move to Vegas because the "Haunt" side of the show was growing it was because the "Halloween" side was growing. I have also been attending TW for well over 10 years, when the Haunt side of the show was moved upstairs it was HUGE! The vendors were abut 14 feet off of the bathroom walls, as the years went by the upstairs area kept getting smaller each year. Last year it was probably about 60 feet away from the bathroom wall and if you figure that at 2 aisles were talking about the loss of at least 30 - 40 vendors up there.

TransWorld is a TRADESHOW and Ken just made some very good points.

We will have 8 members of the Bad Boys there, we split our group into their areas of expertise and hit the show floor that way. We have experienced and seen first hand how exhausting an exhibitors day can be, It's a lot easier for them to deal with 1 - 2 people at a time than dealing with 10 or more.

The show will be fun because we "The Haunters" WILL MAKE IT FUN!

Looking forward to seeing everyone soon and I wish you all safe travels,

Tattoo

[xxxdirk]

Ken's idea of having a changing area in the tradeshow would accomplish the ability of people to change and hang around the show floor and that is good and fine. However, as someone else said, part of the fun is seeing how "normal" people react to the costumes. Both the screams as well as the ooos and the pictures that they want taken with the characters.

If the vendors only want paying customers at their booth, I can understand that from having a booth at 3-4 tradeshows a year myself. However, I hope the vendors realize that I might enjoy or need to have some non buyers with me at the trade shows. Furthermore, although the non-buyers might not be the ones writing the check, they can strongly influence what I buy or who I do business with. Case in point: Last year at Transworld, I totally missed the Clown closet that haunted enterprises was selling. Just did not see the effect. Lisa, one of those "non purchasers" as Ken said told me about it, I walked over and spent $3000 at his booth on that prop as well as another $2000 that I decided I DID need cause I was there. That is $5000 that I dropped at his booth all because I had an extra pair of eyes with me!!

[Jim Warfield]

Seeing non-haunter's reactions to costuming is sure fun!
The Stormtroopers riding the elevator at Transworld several years ago was hysterical! A young boy's eyes really bugged out and he couldn't stop talking about it! (Sort of fits right in with the good hospital-visiting work that group does)

Of course the religious meeting right next door to the Haunted Attraction ball that year was fun too! The Netherworld Vampiric creature in the hallway sure looked very real and totally believable to those people! (Well, me too!)
(Insert laughter here~)
For some reason next year a similar group was kept well away from haunters?
No FUN!

[Frankenhausers]

I kan understand Ken's argument as a seller and it is perfectly clear that a vendor
goes there to do some business. That's what we all do there. I do my seminars and my shopping and the trest of time I try to have fun there. I think a lot of people
do it the same way and that is what makes TW fun. So I don't see what this
has to do with the question of people looking foreward to appear there for a day or two in costumes - wich had always been a part of TW and was never a problem
not for buyers and not for sellers, I presume - and please Ken, correct me if I am wrong. The changing room was just an idea to make it possible for all of
us haunters (with nearly zero efforts and costs) to do what we love to do without getting into any trouble with some safety person of a hotel/casino - wich is an
understandable problem in Vegas. The question that appears to me is only, should we go on with the idea and suggest it to TW or is it to silly at all.??

[Jim Warfield]

Blame the cell phone! No more phone booths for quick changing!

[screamline studios]

Face it haunters, transworld wants the retail sales, and owners of the haunted attractions, actually let me say it a different way, transworld wants you to bite there big fat ass...Now as a vendor for both retail and haunted houses we want everyone there, this is a big reason i get so pissed over this topic, i love haunts and i care deeply about the season, here is my memory of transworlds past. In 1995 screamline attended our first transworld show as years went on, and our budget got bigger, we were living the high life at transworld, not just "the "beer" or buying for the haunt but truly enjoying the interaction between the haunted house actors in costume and the retailers laughing as they just got the shit scared out of them, So if i am crazy let me know, but as a retailer wouldnt it put you in the mood from a simple scare, to buying from vendors just because the atmosphere felt right for a halloween buying frenzy...
Just some random dude

Jason Blaszczak
SCREAMLINE STUDIOS