Worlds of Vampire Bikers

Worlds of Vampire Bikers at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri

Haunted Houses, Horror Movies, Costume Bashes, along with Classic Monsters & Ghouls come out every year in October for the Halloween season. This time of year every cable channel is featuring reruns like “Nightmare on Elm Street”, Friday the Thirteenth”, “The Thing”, “The Exorcist”, and “Child’s Play”, while highly anticipated new horror movies are released in theater and on DVD. Halloween to me is not just trick or treat - it’s one of my favorite party spells.

In the Midwest, thousands of people line up to get the bejesus scared out of them at some of the top rated haunted houses in the country. These haunted houses are built like movie sets with hundreds of actors and scare experts. And Midwesterners love it!

This brings us to Chromed Out Magazine’s haunted theme pick of 2009 - The Halloween Haunt spectacular at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri.

Not only does Worlds of Fun have the top rated new roller coaster in the world (The Prowler), but during September 25 - November 1, 2009 Halloween Haunt is one of the largest Halloween events in the country featuring daytime scare-free family fun, and night-time monsters at play. Over the past several years Worlds of fun has become the Halloween destination for families in Kansas City and in the Midwest. The park attracts with Scare Zones, Mazes, Family Fun, and Exclusive Halloween Shows.

Chromed Out Magazine got the call to help with some new additions to the Halloween Haunt’s Pagan Playground for 2009. Club Blood and Biker Vampires!

Club Blood is a new underground hot spot for blood thirsty vampires. People can venture underground where human victims are drained of their life to nourish the children of the night and drink their favorite libation. Paint the town red!

When Chromed Out’s Terri Barber (center with Ruth and Michelle - pictured below) first told us about the idea of Biker Vampires, we thought… well of course! A lot of bikers think they are vampires anyway. And don’t forget about Kiefer Sutherland and his band of biker vampires in “Lost Boys” swooping down onto their unsuspecting victims by night. The question is what can we do to help?

The scheme was for us to enlist a group of real bikers and their bikes to be a part of the promotional photo shoot and play the roles of biker vampires during the evening haunt on Friday and Saturday nights. Well, I don’t know how many vampires have ever played bikers before, but bikers playing vampires did not seem to be a far reach.

We organized a team of bikes and bikers along with Pat Hahn and the Newcom ers Harley- Trike driven hearse and met at Worlds of Fun to get transformed. The set was hauntingly appropriate and decorated with caskets and tombstones plus the staff was very into the whole vampire thing.

My favorite part of the shoot was at the costume, make-up and hair department. It was every bit of what one would expect on a Hollywood film lot. The vampire false teeth were a little difficult and the mascara was not my usual Chromed Out 43 shade, but the finished result made it all worth it. We had three sexy girls and three male bikers (maybe not so sexy) for the shoot.

Brent Barr was the director for the operation and was creatively focused. “I think he has a secret passion to be a Vampire Biker.” Overall it was a great day, a lot of fun and Chromed Out would like to thank Terri, Rick Wheaton, LB, Jack, Ruth, Pat, and Michelle along with the Worlds of Fun staff for pitching in making it a success.

So make the haunted hike to Worlds of Fun September 25th thru November 1st for this Halloween experience. Try to get there before 7pm so you can watch the opening parade and witness the dark Overlord summoning his army of underworlds as the park transforms into the Halloween Haunt.

The park closes down on November 1 and reopens in early April. Don’t forget the best way to enjoy the park with all their world class roller coasters, rides for all ages, Oceans of Fun, food, drinks, shows, cabins, RV hook-ups, and special events is to buy a Season Pass.

Worlds of Fun is Biker Friendly and Biker Fun.  

Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun are located
off the east loop of I-435 at exit 54 in Kansas City, Missouri.
www.worldsoffun.com