Urgh… where to begin?…

Well, first of all, my disappointment has faded a lot since I visited Madame Tussauds last week. And I was toying whether to actually write this post. But while researching what other people thought of this attraction, I became furious again, and felt I just had to put this together. Some caveats. Alien Escape is part of the whole Madame Tussauds experience (which is genuinely excellent). So it is short and it shouldn’t be viewed in isolation. So why are you bothering to write this negative post Chris? I’ll tell you at the end!

Let’s start with a positive. What it does, it does well. You do feel like you could be on an alien ship, it’s believably atmospheric and the hulking Xenomorph was pretty good too. But that’s it.

The experience is far too short. I know its part of a longer day but still, it’s about 2 minutes long. I found the whole thing very dark, so it was difficult to see much of anything. I saw pictures afterwards of a man with a ‘face hugger’ but I didn’t see that in there. They also cram you in with far too many people. I was at the back, and several times I heard screams but I have no idea what they were screaming about, I didn’t experience anything remotely scary. There are no animatronics at all. The ‘face hugger’ (if it was there) should have tightened, the egg pods should have opened and the Xenomorth should have moved.

But I could forgive all of that if it wasn’t for one thing. You have to pay for it. That’s right, it’s not included in the admission price… and it used to be! When it first opened it was free entry! It costs you 5 pounds per person to queue up for a 2 minute no scare experience. Don’t waste your time or your money! Unless Tussauds include it in the admission price again and stop forcing people through in large numbers, then avoid like the plague.

1/10 stars (it’ gets 1 because of the feeling of anticipation I had on entering… nothing came of it!)

Chris

@cw_stagg