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homerhorizon.com NEWS<br />
the Homer Horizon | March 15, 2018 | 3<br />
Adventure seekers to have<br />
new conquest in Lockport<br />
Legacy Adventure<br />
Park owned by LTHS<br />
grad to open April 14<br />
Jacquelyn Schlabach<br />
Assistant Editor<br />
When storytellers brainstorm<br />
together, anything is<br />
possible.<br />
Creating new worlds that<br />
haven’t been discovered and<br />
designing ways for people to<br />
experience those worlds is<br />
exactly what Zombie Army<br />
Productions does, and will<br />
be doing, for the new Legacy<br />
Adventure Park opening<br />
April 14 in Lockport.<br />
Co-owner, creative director<br />
and operations manager<br />
John Laflamboy, is also<br />
co-owner of Zombie Army<br />
Productions, which operates<br />
HellsGate Haunted House<br />
in Lockport next door to<br />
Legacy Adventure Park. The<br />
LTHS alum wanted to create<br />
a place that offers something<br />
for everyone in the community.<br />
“We are creating all these<br />
different micro-adventures<br />
that you can have out here,”<br />
Laflamboy said.<br />
Throughout the 66 acres of<br />
forest and trails, guests can<br />
play paintball, archery tag,<br />
outside laser tag, zombie tag<br />
and engage in a zombie hunt<br />
and treasure hunt. Many of<br />
the games include the use of<br />
radiofrequency equipment,<br />
which require the players<br />
to wear an electronic device<br />
to track their progress in the<br />
games.<br />
Players in zombie tag<br />
are assigned the task to escape<br />
the zombies, played<br />
by real-life actors. The radiofrequency<br />
device will let<br />
the player know when zombies<br />
are close, or when they<br />
Kyle Laflamboy looks over one of the paintball fields at<br />
Legacy Adventure Park, which is set to open April 14 in<br />
Lockport. PHOTOS BY Mary Compton/22nd Century Media<br />
themselves have turned into<br />
a zombie. The twist: Guests<br />
are playing for cash and<br />
prizes.<br />
“We’re doing these special<br />
events throughout summer<br />
that’s all for cash and<br />
prizes,” Laflamboy said.<br />
The treasure hunts are<br />
geared more toward families<br />
and involve solving riddles<br />
and puzzles as they venture<br />
out through the course. The<br />
zombie hunt, designed specifically<br />
for adults, is a fivehour,<br />
live-action game where<br />
players can find special laser<br />
tag devices throughout the<br />
course, as well as a medical<br />
bag if someone is losing life<br />
based on the results from the<br />
electronic device that each<br />
person will be wearing. By<br />
next year, Laflamboy will<br />
have the zombie hunt developed<br />
into a two-and-a-half<br />
day hunt that spans a weekend.<br />
Recently, the park has purchased<br />
set pieces from CPX<br />
Sports in Joliet, which closed<br />
at the end of February, to be<br />
used for the paintball attraction<br />
at Legacy Adventure<br />
Park. He said the purchase of<br />
John Laflamboy checks out<br />
the gargoyle in one of the<br />
fields at Legacy Adventure<br />
Park.<br />
three apocalyptic buses and<br />
other vehicles and set pieces<br />
from the famous courses at<br />
CPX is a homage for those<br />
in the paintball business before<br />
them.<br />
“It’s a really big deal for<br />
people who play paintball,”<br />
Laflamboy said.<br />
Laflamboy added that<br />
their niche will be focus-<br />
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