An excellent episode.
In this episode, the Mystery Inc. gang must solve another mystery when a manticore is haunting a theme park.
There is a whole lot to love about this episode. Creepy Spooky Terror Land is a wonderful setting for a Scooby mystery. It has a wonderfully atmospheric and creepy feel to it. The use of lighting and the darker colors in the backgrounds create a wonderful sense of eerieness to the whole episode. It also feels truly massive with always a new and equally atmospheric area for our heroes to explore. The manticore is a great villain with a delightfully creepy design. The mystery itself is quite good and takes some very unexpected but clever turns. The humor is quite charming. Though it may not be laugh out loud funny, it definitely made me smile, multiple times.
As many of you may know, this is one of the few Scooby-Doo series to feature an ongoing storyline and for those following this storyline, there are a lot of great twists there as well. This is an important episode to this storyline and features some extremely smart and shocking twists in this way as well.
This episode is directed by Curt Geda. He directed various episodes of this show as well as the direct to video short Scooby-Doo! Spooky Games (2012). He was also a storyboard artist on the direct to video Scooby movies, Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005) and LEGO Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood (2016). Outside of Scooby-Doo! he also directed the popular direct to video movie, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000). The episode is written by Adam Beechen. This series is the only Scooby-Doo! project he worked on. Outside of Scooby-Doo! he worked on such shows as Rugrats and Jackie Chan Adventures.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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