Not So Spooky Farm

Not So Spooky Farm is a family friendly event at SilverLakes Athletic Complex in Norco CA. This event is a fun journey with a moral lesson that you take in your car. It's set up like an immersive play in which you drive to each scene following the lead character. The soundtrack comes through the radio in your car. The lesson is a good one. I enjoyed the story. The actors tried hard but it would help if they used the space a bit more and maybe added more actors. The set was interesting. There are giant screens playing odd cartoony ambience like the flying Pegasus in one scene. The pirate ship is great and I would've liked to see all the scenes have sets of that quality. I went twice. Early on opening day there was little wait, but the actors were still figuring things out a bit. I went back on Saturday night at 7:30pm and the actors were much better at interacting with cars and the costumes were better too, but unfortunately the wait in line was over 2 hours so we watched a few cars leave after waiting a bit. We could see the boys in the vehicle in front of us were getting restless as they started hanging out of the windows shortly before the vehicle left.

WASTE OF MONEY & TIME!!! I REGRET BUYING IT. I'm so angry and disappointed. You can find something better on You Tube for free. I attended yesterday to the Not so Spooky Farm event with my Husband and 3 year old daughter. I thought the event was going to be Halloween themed and it was the complete opposite. On their website it shows a Halloween presentable drive thru entrance. When I pulled up their was no entrance decor all I saw was a chain fence, nothing like they advertised on their website. It was poorly executed, looks cheap and amateur, some props were broken, and paint was chipping. It looked like they grabbed leftovers from everyone's garages and backyards and put this production together. I didn't take any photos because I was embarrassed to post them on social media bc the drive thru quality was dreadful and horrible. Now I wish I would have taken some photos so you could see how ugly it was.

This is a copy of the letter I wrote to the event planners AS WE SAT IN LINE: "I just needed to write to let you know how poorly our experience has been. We haven't even gotten in yet, because we've been sitting in line for almost an hour and a half. But, so far it's been terrible. We were at the end of a line when we came in (15 minutes prior to our reservation time) and they moved us to a newly opened line where we are now waiting at the front. We've watched all lines next to us be let in and we haven't moved. I asked the attendant and he said there was a hold up, but they seem to be letting all of the other lines in every five minutes just like they are supposed to. First it was postponed, which I can understand. But having a reservation and still waiting for over an hour with a car full of five year olds is just ridiculous. You guys need to tighten up the operation or don't charge for this. What a miserable time. I won't be recommending this to ANY of my friends to this event ever."Once we got inside it was the crappiest experience ever. Thank goodness my child has questionable taste because she liked it. But for $65 it was the biggest rip off. The sets were crap, the actors dialed it in (like at least TRY to learn the lines and move your lips), the radio station kept switching. And on top of it, since we were in the first car position, everything happened behind us. We went two weeks ago and I'm still passed about it. Oh and, SURPRISE, they haven't responded.

Perhaps my expectations were a little high considering the amount of money I paid for this. The acting wasn't great - a lot of the characters either didn't know their lines at all or only half of them and just gestured through the rest (the main actor knew all of hers). Some sets were great while others were alright. The wait wasn't long to get in though which was probably because we had one of the earlier tickets, 5:00p. The kids seemed to enjoy all of the lights and projections on the screens, so that was a plus. All in all it wasn't worth the hour drive to see, in my opinion.