Tell-Tale Cart
Prompt: Create a 5 to 30 minute experience that is portable and profitable.
Booths and stands are a cornerstone of many different theme parks and experiences all around the world. They can be an area of increased interaction and more personalized immersion as well as a central hub for commercial transactions. The Tell-Tale Cart is a horror-centric cart that provides an interactive vest for people who believe that haunted houses are not scary enough. This unique experience provides a solution to a growing issue all while keeping the guests immersed in horror.
Key Art
The Tell-Tale Cart Consists of three separate structures. The cart itself is a structure that is able to move from place to place acting as a stage and parks at Poe’s Shed of Terrors to be able to rent Tell-Tale Hearts to those who dare use it. The fear collector is the point of pick up and drop off where the vests are activated and deactivated.
The fear collector has a series of functions. When a guests picks up their vest, it wakens the vest and readies it for the evening. At the end of the night, it will determine how many houses the guest was able to complete determining if they are worthy to join Dread’s Cult. With a series of sounds, lights, and features all on its own, each activation and deactivation is a spectacle.
The Point-of-Sale exists in the back of the Tell-Tale Cart.
The Tell-Tale Heart itself is designed fairly simply with easily changeable features such as LED light colors and a backlit heart disk in the back that can be changed. This is to ensure the theming of the vests could be changed from year to year to match themes. The vest is equipped with vibration motors, air pumps, speakers, and more to trigger physical reactions when scare actors trigger their haunt effects.
Dread Meister or Dread is the head of the cult and the main character goading everyone on to take the challenge and wear the Tell-Tell Heart.
The cultist are the team members who are involved in the process of renting the tell tale heart in a night. Their outfits resemble Victorian era work hand outfits.
3D Model
Initial Ideation
Idea: Poe’s initial Shed of Terrors. Vests sold in the front, a secret shop in the back.
Idea: A street mountebank in a cart going town to town to sell fear.
Idea: A combination of a farm cart to move liquid fear and a shed for the shop with storage on the side.
Idea: Burlap style vest with infused technology.