Land of Illusion - Middletown, OH

Mike Heffron
Jan 7, 2020
2 min read

Updated: Feb 21, 2020

Originally known as The Middletown Haunted Trail, the Land of Illusion Adventure Park has expanded over the years to become THE place for fun throughout all seasons in the southern Ohio region.

The Project

The centerpiece of Land of Illusion is their three-story custom built ticketing building. As the first thing patrons see when entering the parking lot and before entering the park itself, it was important that this attraction packed a serious visual punch. In addition to the ticketing building, the park wanted to update their food service vendors with branded digital signage to display their menu items with a brilliant flourish during their nighttime operation hours and replace their main park directory with an interactive digital display. Land of Illusion promotes three distinct seasonal experiences: the Aqua Adventures Water Park in the summer months, the Haunted Scream Park in the fall months, and the Christmas Glow Park during the winter holidays. Because of this, they required their signage to be flexible and reflect whatever theme was currently in season.

The Solution

In 2017 Liquid Video Solutions was chosen to tackle the project. For the ticketing building, LVS used the multiple stories and numerous windows to their advantage. A high-resolution LED video wall system was installed in four different locations: the two main windows of the center tower and in each of windows on the northern and southern cupolas. LVS designers created custom video and audio content that would stream and loop seamlessly across the four video screen arrays and a set of high-powered speaker systems. These content experiences are able to be changed easily, depending on the season, by the park staff.

As the finishing touch, a DMX-controlled full-color LED lighting system was installed including strip lights, wash lights, and an effect light located in the eye of the stone griffin centered on the building.

For the smaller digital signs, LVS chose UHD displays protected by molded and climate-controlled enclosures to withstand all outdoor weather conditions. Three displays were installed at the food service building and a 75" monster of screen became the park directory adorned with a faux stone structure to create a monumental appearance. Land of Illusion continues to live up to it's award-winning reputation. From their huge water park, to their haunted scream park boasting over seven individual haunted attractions and roaming actors, to their Christmas Glow - Ohio’s largest Christmas drive-thru, featuring over 3.5 million lights; you are guaranteed to enjoy visiting this amazing park.