Escape BoxThe Escape This escape room studio & factory
Factory tour

Step onto the factory floor.

The factory is a working production facility, so here is the tour: the film first, then the floor, stop by stop.

In short: A stop-by-stop tour of the Escape This escape room factory in Bayswater, Perth: a short film, seven stops on the factory floor and the six steps from story to opening night.

Inside the Escape This escape room factory
Stop by stop

Around the floor

  1. Escape This backstage crew planning a set build in the escape room factory
    Stop 1

    Planning

    The backstage crew planning a set build in the factory.

  2. Prop makers at the workbench inside the Escape This escape room factory in Bayswater, Perth
    Stop 2

    The workbench

    Prop makers at the workbench, where props are made by hand.

  3. A hand-made escape room prop being carried through the Escape This workshop
    Stop 3

    Props on the move

    A hand-made prop on its way through the workshop.

  4. The Escape This backstage crew in the escape room factory
    Stop 4

    The backstage crew

    Prop designers and builders, tech and puzzle engineers and the maintenance crew: the people who bring every world to life.

  5. Escape This set builders dressing a library bookcase set during an escape room install
    Stop 5

    Install

    A library bookcase set going up on site, dressed by the set builders.

  6. A crew member installing a stone-wall set in a new Escape This escape room
    Stop 6

    Scenic finish

    A stone-wall set going into a new Escape This world.

  7. An Escape This Production van at the escape room factory
    Stop 7

    On the road

    The Escape This Production van at the factory in Bayswater.

How a world is made

Six steps, one team

  1. StoryA world begins as a premise: somewhere to be, someone to face and a clock running down, from an outback long-drop to a crippled submarine.
  2. Puzzles & game flowThe puzzle planners chart a team’s route through the hour, so each puzzle pushes the story forward.
  3. BuildThe set builders put the whole world up at full size on the factory floor, long before it goes near a centre.
  4. Scenic art & propsScenic artists weather and paint each surface while the props team makes and dresses everything players handle.
  5. Sound, light & techPuzzle technicians and audio producers add the hidden electronics, effects, soundscapes, smells and voices that let the world respond.
  6. Install & playThe finished world moves into a centre and trained game masters run it; what players do and say shapes the next production.
See it finished

Everything here ends up in a room you can play.

Every world the factory makes is playing at an Escape This centre in Perth, Sydney or Melbourne.

Book a worldWork backstage

Questions

Asked about the factory

How are Escape This sets built?

Full-size, in the factory. Escape This’s set builders frame each world’s walls, floors, ceilings and hidden doors at Escape Box in Bayswater, leaving room behind the scenes for the wiring and electronics. Scenic artists and the props team finish the set, and then it is installed at the centre where the world will play.

Where is the Escape Box factory?

Escape Box is at 21 River Road, Bayswater WA 6053, in Perth, in the same building as the Escape This head office; the phone number is (08) 6118 0286. It is a working workshop rather than a venue, so the Escape This worlds made there are played at the centres in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.

Can I visit the Escape Box factory?

Escape Box isn’t open to the public: it is Escape This’s working production facility, with sets and props in progress. The factory tour on this site shows the floor stop by stop instead, and every world made there can be played at an Escape This centre in Perth, Sydney or Melbourne.

How does Escape This make a new escape room?

In six steps, all in-house. Escape This starts with a story, plans the puzzles and game flow, and builds the set full-scale at Escape Box. Scenic artists and the props team dress it, puzzle technicians and audio producers add the tech, sound, light and effects, and the finished world is installed at a centre and run by trained game masters.

What does the Escape Box factory tour show?

Seven stops on the Escape This factory floor: the backstage crew planning a build, the workbench where props are made by hand, a prop on its way through the workshop, the backstage crew, a library set being installed, a stone-wall set getting its scenic finish and the Escape This Production van. It opens with a short film from inside the factory.

What is Escape This building next?

On the Escape Box floor now: Accused, President’s Bunker, Aladdin, Wonderland, Area 51, Super Soldier and Dragon’s Dungeon, plus sequels to The Wizard’s Chamber and Buried Alive. The same Escape This team that made the rooms in the Escape Box portfolio is designing and building them.

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