While the vibe of Rod Serling’s iconic TV show can be felt everywhere at The Twilight Zone by Monster Mini Golf, visitors won’t see the program’s creator there. “I saw it on Facebook,” says Hahn, who remembers “a little bit” of the series but knows “The Twilight Zone” mostly from the now-closed Disney ride.ĭeloriea has watched the show on Netflix, however, and counts among his favorite episodes the one about “the last guy on Earth who breaks his glasses.”Ĭontact John Przybys at or 70. Patrick Deloriea, 25, and Rebecca Hahn, 25, both of Las Vegas, stopped in on their day off. The grand opening is scheduled for Thursday. Work on it began in July and the course had a Dec. Vitagliano said the attraction, located near the Bally’s food court and sports book, cost about $1 million to create. I Love this glow-in-the-dark stuff,” she says. “We walked by the other day from the Monorail,” Kim says. They also like miniature golf and enjoyed the chance to combine the two. Kim and Scott Bass, vacationing from Sabetha, Kansas, remember the show well. The last hole features the fortune-telling machine from “Nick of Time” at which each player will receive a fortune. Golfers begin the course by walking through the opening-credits door, which Serling’s narration notes, is unlocked with “the key of imagination.” Golfers then progress along each hole and its themed episode. So we took the simplicity of (miniature golf) and gave it a twist. So you can go with your children and their children, and you can all play the same game. “I think the other thing is, it’s multigenerational. For 10 bucks you can play a round of miniature golf and you’re here for an hour. “There aren’t too many things that (cost) less than movies, especially in Vegas. “I think one of the reasons is, it’s affordable,” she says. Of course, there’s also the appeal of miniature golf which, she says, remains a popular pastime. “We want people to take their time and have some fun,” Vitagliano says. Golfers can, for instance, take a seat in bed next to Talky Tina or take Burgess Meredith’s place among stacks of books post-apocalypse, take a photo and then send it out via social media. The attraction is designed to be interactive. “There’s just something about the unknown that’s always going to be appealing to everybody,” says Vitagliano. The Syfy channel’s “ Twilight Zone” marathons also have created a new generation of fans, she says, and CBS recently announced that a new incarnation of the show is to appear on its subscription service. Henryesque plot twists and episode-concluding morality lessons. Christina Vitagliano, founder of Monster Mini Golf, says that when casting about for a theme for the new course at Bally’s, “The Twilight Zone” seemed a natural.īut doesn’t the demo for miniature golf skew younger, to a generation that’s not familiar with the 1959-1964 TV show? Not at all, she says, because the original series - there were two TV updates and a movie, too - remains popular in reruns, beloved by fans of creative storytelling, O. Monster Mini Golf, the Las Vegas-based company behind the attraction, also operates KISS Monster Mini Golf at the Rio. The Kanamit from “To Serve Man.” The unlucky bibliophile from “Time Enough at Last.” The hitchhiker from “The Hitch-Hiker.” The aliens who plagued the country lady in “The Invaders,” not to mention the unfortunate jack-in-the-box neighbor from “It’s a Good Life” or the frantic guy in the window seat from “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” The 10,000-square-foot attraction features an event room, a gift shop, a wedding chapel, arcade games and four bowling lanes, but it’s the “Twilight Zone” props and scenes painted on the walls in glorious black-light black-and-white that’ll most vividly jog fans’ memories. It’s be just the sort of day a hapless golfer would have at The Twilight Zone by Monster Mini Golf, a just-opened game center at Bally’s built around the classic Rod Serling TV series. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal hear about the guy who tried to relax with a round of miniature golf after a talking doll told him she wanted to kill him, but a mean little kid threatened to wish him into the cornfield and he broke his glasses and a big alien guy finally ate him? 6, 2017, at Bally's hotel-casino, in Las Vegas. 'The Twilight Zone by Monster Mini Golf' on Wednesday, Dec.
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