October 2006: Quicklinks
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- Survey
- Attraction Update
- Travelin’ the Web
- Gadgets on the Go
- Top Genre Halloween Costumes
- The Coffin Lady Tells Her Tale
- Haunted Holidays
- To Be Captain Nemo
- Run Off and Join the Circus!
- Historic Moments and Observances with a Genre Twist
- Halloween Costumer Personality Quiz
- Haunted Theme Parks
- Annual Halloween Haunts
- Happenings and Conventions
- Event Review: RoboGames
Survey
To take the survey go here: The Genre Traveler Reader Survey
Attraction Update
- Legoland, California: www.legoland.com
- Busch Gardens, Tampa: www.buschgardens.com/BGT/default.aspx
- Dollywood’s Mystery Mine: www.dollywood.com/mmine/default.htm
Travelin’ the Web
- Starship Dimensions: www.merzo.net
- LoveMySeat: lovemyseat.com
- AllSafeTravels: www.allsafetravels.com
Trip Tips
VirtualTourist: www.virtualtourist.com
Gadgets on the Go
- iRobot: irobot.com
- Garmin International, Inc.: www.garmin.com
- Robosapien: robosapien.com
- Adidas: www.adidas.com/us/performance/home.asp
- Resources for Gadgets on the Go
- Travel Gadgets: www.travelgadgets.org
- Travel Gear Blog: www.travelgearblog.com
- Travelizmo: travelizmo.com
Top Genre Halloween Costumes
ExtremeHalloween: extremehalloween.com
The Coffin Lady Tells Her Tale
Craft Coffins: 4halloweencoffins.com
Haunted Holidays
- Brookdale Lodge: brookdalelodge.com
- Hotel Connor: connorhotel.com
- Copper Queen Hotel: www.copperqueen.com
- Ghost City Inn: www.ghostcityinn.com
- Groveland Hotel: www.groveland.com
- Lizzie Borden B&B: www.lizzie-borden.com
- The Plough Inn: www.ploughinn.info
- Queen Anne House: www.queenannehouse.net
- Red Garter B&B: www.redgarter.com
- The Santa Maria Inn: www.santamariainn.com
- Hotel Vendome: www.vendomehotel.com
- Zaballa House: www.zaballahouse.net
To Be Captain Nemo
- Jule’s Undersea Lodge: www.jul.com
- Hydropolis: www.hydropolis.com
- Poseidon Undersea Resort: www.poseidonresorts.com
Run Off and Join the Circus!
Circus Camps
- Circus Liberty Training Fantasy Camp: www.davidlichman.com/circusLiberty.html
- Coney Island Sideshow School: www.coneyisland.com/sideshow_school.shtml
- Circus Camp: www.circuscamp.org
- Circus Smirkus: www.circussmirkus.org/htm/camp/index.html
- Cirque du Jour’s “Extreme Interactive Hands on Circus Skills School”: cirquedujour.com/skills_school.htm
- Circus Camp at French Woods: www.frenchwoods.com/circus_camp.htm
Circus Jobs
- Cirque do Soleil: www.cirquedusoleil.com/CirqueDuSoleil/en/jobs/onstage/splash.htm
- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus: feldentertainment.com/careers.htm
- The Big Apple Circus: www.bigapplecircus.org/JoinUs/Employment
Historic Moments and Observances with a Genre Twist
- International Starman Month: starmanet.com
- Teen Read Week: www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenreading.htm
- Jenkinson’s Boardwalk: www.jenkinsons.com/specialevents.cfm
- International Aura Awareness Day: realityshifters.com/pages/auraday.html
- National Young Readers Day: www.bookitprogram.com/teachers/nyrd.asp
- Bermuda Triangle: bermuda-triangle.org
- Occultopedia: www.occultopedia.com
- 1984 Mac Commercial: www.uriahcarpenter.info/1984.html
Halloween Costume Personality Quiz
You can take this quiz online at: www.funatiparty.com/halloween/costume_quiz.asp
Haunted Theme Parks
- Frightmare 2006: frightmarehauntedhouse.com
- Knott’s Scary Farm: www.knotts.com/special_events/haunt/tickets.htm
- HallowWeekends:
- Cedar Point: halloweekends.cedarpoint.com
- Dorney Park: www.dorneypark.com/public/inside_park/halloweekends/index.cfm
- Hall-O-Scream:
- Tampa, Fla.: www.howl-o-scream.com/tampa
- Williamsburg, Va.: www.howl-o-scream.com/williamsburg/index2.html
- Scarowinds: www1.paramountparks.com/carowinds/#actions
- The Haunted Adventure: www.hauntedadventure.ca
- Halloween Horror Nights:
- Orlando, Fla.: www.halloweenhorrornights.com/orlando
- Hollywood, Calif.: www.halloweenhorrornights.com/hollywood
- Niles Haunted House Scream: www.haunted.org
- HalloWeekends, Worlds of Fun: www.worldsoffun.com
- Paramount’s FearFest:
- Canada's Wonderland: www3.paramountparks.com/canadaswonderland/fearfest
- Paramount’s King’s Dominion: www2.paramountparks.com/kingsdominion/#actions
- Paramount’s King’s Island: www2.paramountparks.com/kingsisland/#actions
- Six Flags FrightFest: www.sixflags.com
- TREE-ker-Treat!: www.bonfantegardens.com
Annual Halloween Haunts
- FearFest: www.scarefest.com/fearfest
- The Darkness: www.scarefest.com/darkness_06
- Field of Screams: www.padutch.com/z/b_fieldofscreams.htm
- Witch’s Woods: www.witchswoods.com
- Screams Halloween Theme Park: www.screamspark.com
- Spooky World: spookyworld.com
- "The Bloody Reign of the Mad Miner": www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/reed/main.htm
- Legend Weekend: www.sleepyhollowhalloween.org/halloween/legend.htm
Happenings and Conventions
Happenings
October:- Los Dias de los Muertos: www.wfu.edu/moa
- Holiday, Springs & Sprockets: www.stevegerberich.com or www.ncmls.org/index.asp
- Star Trek Auction: www.christies.com/special_sites/startrek/overview.asp
- Fall TarantulaFest and Barbecue: www.coepark.org/tfest.html
- Autumn at OZ Party: emeraldmtn.com/autumn.htm
- Screamfest L.A.: screamfestla.com
- X Prize Cup: www.xpcup.com/index.cfm
- The Phantom’s Feaste: www.kcrenfest.com/Phantom’s%20Feaste.htm
- Montreal’s Grand Masquerade: www.grandemascarade.com
- Murder Mystery Weekend at Aspen Lodge Ranch Resort: www.aspenlodge.net/murdermyst.htm
- Annual Halloween 100 Bike Ride: visit www.durhamhabitat.org/about_us/news.php?ID=31
- Pirates, Pearls and Patriots of the South Cruise: www.americancruiselines.com
Conventions
October:- Rock & Shock: www.rockandshock.com
- Screamfest: www.spookyempire.com
- Florida Supercon: www.floridasupercon.com
- Worldwide D&D Game Day: www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20050726x
- Machinima Film Fest: festival.machinima.org
- GenCon So Cal: gencon.com
- Philcon 2006: philcon.org/2006
- Orycon 28: www.orycon.org/orycon28
- ChamBanaCon 36: www.chambanacon.org
- DarkCon 2007: www.darkcon.org
- Fangoria’s Weekend of Horror: www.fangoria.com/special_events.php
- Arisia ’07: www.arisai.org
- Rustycon 24: www.rustycon.com
- COSine 2007: www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine
- Animé Los Angeles 3: www.animelosangeles.org
- Left Coast Crime 2007: www.leftcoastcrime2007.com
- Capricon XXVII: www.capricon.org
- Corflu Quire: www.corflu.org
- Boskone 44: www.nesfa.org/boskone
- ConDFW VI: www.condfw.org
- Fangoria’s Weekend of Horror: www.fangoria.com/special_events.php
- Concave 28: ccaveman@preferred.com
Event Review: RoboGames
- RoboGames: www.robogames.net
- RoboNova-1: www.crustcrawler.com
