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For Your Amusement: A Theme Park Podcast

How to Create a Scare Maze - with Designer Gus Krueger

For Your Amusement: A Theme Park Podcast

Wood Elf Media

Leisure, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9741 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Creative Designer Gus Krueger takes us step-by-step through the process of creating aMAZEing experiences at Knott's Scary Farm's . Consider supporting us on our FourthWall for Bonus Episodes, Merch, and More! www.fyapod.com CREATED & HOSTED BY Ryan Bergara & Byron Marin EDITOR Byron Marin EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Ryan Bergara Byron Marin Social: http://www.instagram.com/fyapod http://www.instagram.com/ryanbergara http://www.instagram.com/byronamarin FYA Logo by Arthur Kierce (@theonekierce) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to For Your Amusement, a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park attractions to determine if they are world class.

0:14.5

I'm Ryan Bergara.

0:15.5

I'm Barron Marin.

0:16.7

And today we are going to actually be learning how to design a maze.

0:20.9

That's right.

0:21.8

And by maze, I mean a haunted house like the ones you would see at Halloween Horror Nights or,

0:27.3

notably Not Scary Farm.

0:29.6

And today we actually have creative designer from Not Scary Farm and just Not Sparry Farm in general,

0:35.3

Gus Kruger, who also designs the mazes there. Yeah, that's right. It's a lot of fun. Obviously, we do awesome stuff all year, but scary farms are the most fun of all. And, of course, guys, thanks for having me. I'm always a pleasure to talk to you guys. Thanks for coming out again. Thank you for braving the SoCal traffic to get here that's right i did it for you crossing

0:54.2

county lines welcome to the teague room grange of uh faith and loyalty um and then also we're

1:01.4

going to be doing a little bit of a preview of this year's event because not scary farm about to be in

1:05.7

full swing it sure is as is you are very well aware of yes uh i got my not scary farm farm slider shirt on because Byron and I were lucky enough to be able to go to the media preview.

1:15.6

We saw you there looking great on a balcony.

1:20.7

Overlooking ghost town.

1:22.1

Thank you.

1:22.9

Thank you.

1:23.3

And then if you recall, Gus was on the show last year to talk about Eight Fingers

1:28.3

Nine, which is returning this year, as well as a bunch of other mazes returning.

1:32.6

So maybe we just start there really quickly and just kind of jump into this year's event.

1:37.4

And then after that, as I mentioned up top, Gus has a presentation that you, this presentation, you showed it at midsummer screen.

1:45.0

Yes.

1:46.0

This presentation was prepared.

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