Project Description
Traumatica, Haunted House Productions
Europa-Park, 2017 – 2020
Since 2012 Europa-park had been teaming up with Leisure Expert Group for the production of the haunted houses for their Halloween event. In the initial years, this event was called Halloween Horror Nights, however in 2017 Europa-Park created a new Halloween concept called Traumatica. The overall concept is a post-apocalyptic atmosphere where multiple groups battle each other to reign over the wasteland.
For the first year of Traumatica all previous haunted houses were replaced with new houses: The Fallen, Ghouls, The Pack, Shadowborn and The Resistance, of which the first three were designed and produced by us. Over the years, the overall theme in the houses stayed the same, yet the houses were adapted with evolvement in storylines. In 2019 Ghouls was completely re-designed within the same theme, as well as major upgrades to the remaining houses.
Services
Schematic Design
Elevations
Dimensioning
Floorplan
Materialization & Color Coding
AV Design
Production
Scenic production
The Fallen at Traumatica
The Fallen is set in a family house owned by servants of an ancient evil that has taken over world domination. The insane and despaired living in the house scoured the darkness in search of living food to feast upon or humans entering their house to offer to their oppressors.
The Pack at Traumatica
The Pack is set at the Silver Bullet Saloon, which is known as the wildest bar around. Every Halloween there is a battle for power between new groups happening at the Saloon. And don’t be fooled when entering, none of these groups will have the intention to let you leave without a scar.
Shadowborn at Traumatica
Shadowborn is set in a manor where an escaped group of The Fallen house now raids through. In the manor the hunters become hunted as the crazy humans start taken their revenge with sunlight, wooden stakes and more torture methods. And if you are one of the chosen, you can enter the hidden world of “Forbitten”.
Ghouls at Traumatica
Ghouls is set deep below the surface in pitch black caves and darkened caverns where the horrid creatures known as the Ghouls live. These creatures were exiled from the outside by the new race dominating the world and live on the thirst of fresh blood.
The Resistance at Traumatica
The Resistance is set in a laboratory where operation Reboot upgrades the dead and wounded soldiers into cybernetic warriors. They were planned to be sent back into the war against the night creatures of Traumatica, but due to a demonic computer virus the they found a new target, mankind.
OTHER PROJECTS
Park Entrance redesign
Leisure Expert Group was responsible for masterplanning and designing the 2020 upgrade of the entrance area of Djurs Sommerland.
Speed Zone
To continue the Festivalization rebranding after the Main Street and Wilderness, Walibi Holland created the Speed Zone area as third to transform. We created many festival experiences as official design partner of Insomniac Events, making us the perfect supplier to create a festival like atmosphere in the theme park.
Sonar Station
Leisure Expert Group has been assigned by Wildland Adventure Zoo Emmen to redesign the Terra Explorer experience located in the Nortica area of the park, into the Sonar Station.
Tornado Springs
For their 2020 season Paultons Park will introduce the new "Tornado Springs" themed land.
Haunted Houses
After working for Chimelong Paradise on "The Drain" in 2017, we were asked to redesign 2 of their other existing Haunted Houses into new experiences for their guests to enjoy. The results are Master Puppeteer and Cursed House which are our 2nd and 3rd Halloween Houses in mainland China.
IAAPA Theatre
Leisure Expert Group was asked to design the IAAPA theatre for the annual IAAPA Expo Europe in 2019 and produce all events taking place there. Next to the time coded opening ceremony we worked on the stage design and provided front of house staff during all events.
Land of Legends
Land of Legends is a unique new themed area at Bobbejaanland with a completely new coaster, yet it is also an upgrade of some existing rides to the current thematic standards within the European theme park industry. The area shows the potential of taking a birdseye view and think outside the scope of the new ride itself and then explore the possibility to upgrade other rides in the park as well, in order to create a brand new themed area. Having worked with Movie Park before on ‘Walking Dead®: Breakout’ and ‘Excalibur: Secrets of the Dark Forest’, we were asked to help with the redevelopment of a distant corner in Nickland.
Wilderness
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
Wild Asia
Throughout different stages Leisure Expert Group developed the Wild Asia Area at Djurs Sommerland where guests can be immersed into a place full of myths and legends hidden deep down in the wild Jungle of Asia.
Time Machine Restaurant
Aboard the AIDAnova, passengers can indulge themselves in a dinner show of magical proportions as Professor Tempus will take them on a time traveling adventure into the depths off the Ocean. Leisure Expert Group was closely involved with this project from the very start. Together with the talented team of AIDA, we were responsible for the storyline, the conceptual design of the restaurant and the production of the full content for the dinner show. As all designs were completed and the content was produced, we also took the responsibility of the art direction for all scenic elements and we show-directed the live performance together with the live entertainment crew of AIDA.
EDC: Kinetic Energy
As Leisure Expert Group celebrated their 6th edition as Insomniac's official design partner, they created a masterplan and designed the experience that guaranteed the perfect guest journey at world’s biggest pop-up theme park.
PAW Patrol: Adventure Bay
The famous cartoon dogs’ hometown of Adventure Bay has been brought to Movie Park Germany for their 2019 season. We have worked closely with ‘Nickelodeon Creative’ to bring this popular IP (Intellectual Property) to life in a playful and child-friendly themed environment. Having worked with Movie Park before on ‘Walking Dead®: Breakout’ and ‘Excalibur: Secrets of the Dark Forest’, we were asked to help with the redevelopment of a distant corner in Nickland.
Traumatica
Since 2012 Europa-park had been teaming up with Leisure Expert Group for the development of the haunted houses for their Halloween event. In the initial years this event was called Halloween Horror Night, but continued as "Traumatica" in 2017.
Escape: The Grimm
In 2019 Leisure Expert Group celebrated their 6th edition as Insomniac’s official design partner with the development of the Escape Festival in Southern California. For this Halloween themed event, a new masterplan was produced based on a newly written story line and from there the festival was made into a successful reality.