Post by joccosjazzland on Jun 15, 2024 3:18:42 GMT
The past few months i’ve dedicated a large majority of my time to archiving and recovering media of the dark ride Jocco’s Mardi Gras Madness, a shooting gallery dark ride that was situated at Jazzland/Six Flags New Orleans. It has some lost media that i would like to bring awareness to:
The preshow
i’ve found a few comments across the internet recalling and describing it, and it can be seen playing on the TVs in some media of the ride (none of it can be made out). All the comments recall it being styled as a news report, some mentioned specific details such as a panicked/distraught Mardi Gras king and someone interrupting the broadcast shouting “long live Jocco!”.
The haunted houses
For Fright Fest 2004 and 2005 Jocco got a haunted house, 2004 was “Jocco’s New Orleans Nightmare in 3D!” and 2005 was supposed to be “Jocco’s Carnival Of Creeps”. New Orleans Nightmare utilized the show building of Jocco’s laying plywood on the track for guests to use as a path, removing ride props and adding new 3D ones. Carnival Of Creeps was never opened to the public due to Katrina destroying it and the park but some employees got to experience it. New Orleans Nightmare doesn’t have any photo or video of it and Carnival Of Creeps has one photo of the exterior and a few of its state post storm.
Mardi Gras Y’all
I don’t know much about this, I actually forgot about it until I was looking back at an old conversation to see if there was information I had forgotten/lost. Heres a paragraph discussing it taken from an old forum:
“Mardi Gras Y'all was more of a street party formed by the cast (and costumes) of State of Rhythm. They danced around in mardi gras outfits, rollerblading around to upbeat mardi gras music and two people were up next to the Jocco animatronic dancing around as if they were in a Mardi Gras parade. It was a nice little form of entertainment, ashame they had to cut that. But then again it wasn't much to write home about.”
If you want to learn more about the ride, I have an archive of the found media/information of Jocco’s and post about different things relating to the ride under Joccos Jazzland on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. A heads up that the archive is a bit messy right now as I’m moving it to a different platform.
The preshow
i’ve found a few comments across the internet recalling and describing it, and it can be seen playing on the TVs in some media of the ride (none of it can be made out). All the comments recall it being styled as a news report, some mentioned specific details such as a panicked/distraught Mardi Gras king and someone interrupting the broadcast shouting “long live Jocco!”.
The haunted houses
For Fright Fest 2004 and 2005 Jocco got a haunted house, 2004 was “Jocco’s New Orleans Nightmare in 3D!” and 2005 was supposed to be “Jocco’s Carnival Of Creeps”. New Orleans Nightmare utilized the show building of Jocco’s laying plywood on the track for guests to use as a path, removing ride props and adding new 3D ones. Carnival Of Creeps was never opened to the public due to Katrina destroying it and the park but some employees got to experience it. New Orleans Nightmare doesn’t have any photo or video of it and Carnival Of Creeps has one photo of the exterior and a few of its state post storm.
Mardi Gras Y’all
I don’t know much about this, I actually forgot about it until I was looking back at an old conversation to see if there was information I had forgotten/lost. Heres a paragraph discussing it taken from an old forum:
“Mardi Gras Y'all was more of a street party formed by the cast (and costumes) of State of Rhythm. They danced around in mardi gras outfits, rollerblading around to upbeat mardi gras music and two people were up next to the Jocco animatronic dancing around as if they were in a Mardi Gras parade. It was a nice little form of entertainment, ashame they had to cut that. But then again it wasn't much to write home about.”
If you want to learn more about the ride, I have an archive of the found media/information of Jocco’s and post about different things relating to the ride under Joccos Jazzland on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. A heads up that the archive is a bit messy right now as I’m moving it to a different platform.
