Project 42

In 2018 and 2019, guests were invited to assist the Phalanx on an assignment that required every shred of courage in scare maze Project 42.

Fact File

Location: Nemesis Sub-Terra Building
Scare Rating: 5 Pumpkins
Opening Year: 2018
Closing Year: 2019

Experience

Live action horror maze, Project 42, saw guests invited into the Nemesis Sub-Terra building to assist the Phalanx in their latest assignment.

Valiant volunteers were required to enter the underground compound in a bid to outwit what awaited them inside. They then needed to rescue the technician and find a vaccination for the escaped human test subjects, which had been infected by a mutant antidote, using every shred of courage and determination to get in and out without contracting the infection themselves.

The scare maze began with guests watching a short pre-show video in a covered section of the exterior queue line. This video providing guests with a briefing of their assignment, before directing them into the facility.

Guests entered the building via a decontamination tent, before making their way through a locker and storage area. They would then find themselves in the animal testing lab, although it appeared all of the animals had escaped from their cages.

Moving onwards past different experimental equipment, guests would eventually find themselves in the main room of the facility. Here they would be able to catch sight of the Nemesis egg, a key feature of the original attraction.

Proceeding further still, guests would enter a part of the facility overgrown with vegetation. The chaotic and loud finale of the maze took place within a scaffold structure erected outside of the building, where Phalanx Operatives fought off the facility’s infected inhabitants from above, enabling guests to escape.

History

Following the closure of Nemesis Sub-Terra during 2015, the attraction sat SBNO, with its building going unused, for a number of seasons. That was until Scarefest 2018, when it was announced that the Phalanx required assistance with their latest assignment, Project 42.

The attraction featured some incredibly detailed sets which completely transformed the building and set up opportunities for the actors to achieve some good scares. It seemingly developed the concept that was the basis of the Dark Apocalypse scare zone in 2015 and 2016.

When Project 42 returned for a second year in 2019, the pre-show tunnel saw the addition of a second screen which meant that all the group could see the pre-show, and therefore understand the storyline of the maze. Inside, the maze’s sets were almost completely re-done, allowing for a more winding route through the building, and offering more opportunities for the actors to deliver scares leading to a higher level of intensity than in 2018.

Despite boasting a spectacular lighting and sound package, Project 42 was often reviewed as one of the weaker attractions during its two year run, with guests generally agreeing the experience lacked the cut-throat intensity and claustrophobic sets of the other mazes.

The Phalanx are assumed to have been successful in their mission in 2019, with volunteers no longer required in 2020.