The outback’s most famous recluse writes it all down: the house tour, the tourists, the axe and his beloved dunny. Newest entries first.
In short: These pages are the musings of Huge Axeman, the invented outback celebrity whose locked dunny is The Dunny escape room at Escape This Manly and Escape This Perth CBD. Read them before you play without worry: the Axeman never reveals a puzzle, and each entry links to real facts about a visit.
Huge Axeman is the fictional, somewhat unhinged Aussie celebrity at the centre of The Dunny, an outback outhouse escape room designed, built and run by Escape This at Escape This Manly (2B The Corso) and Escape This Perth CBD (Hay Street Mall). In the room’s story you slip away from a tour of his property, use his old dunny and the door slams shut.
This diary is fiction and parody written by Escape This. It imagines his voice and adds an axe called Bev, a dog called Smoko and a tour guide called Kev; the room’s story only says he went crazy and took to the bush several years ago. He is not a real person, the diary describes no real person, celebrity or event, and no puzzle is given away.
Whatever sits outside the Axeman’s ramblings is real: the Manly and Perth house rules, prices, ages and escape rates on these pages are drawn from Escape This’s live bookings and game data and refreshed as they change.
Huge Axeman’s Diary is a comic, made-up journal on The Dunny’s website, written by Escape This in the voice of Huge Axeman, the room’s fictional outback celebrity. He writes about his beloved dunny, his house tour and the tourists who get stuck, and each entry sits beside real facts about playing The Dunny in Manly or Perth.
No. Huge Axeman is a fictional parody character Escape This created for The Dunny, and his diary is fiction. It stays inside his own invented world, the dunny, the house tour, the outback and his axe, and describes no real person, celebrity or event. His axe Bev, his dog Smoko and Kev the tour guide exist only in the diary.
No. The Axeman keeps the way out of his dunny to himself. The diary tells you about the outback setting, the house rules and the fun of it, but never how a puzzle works or what order to do things in, so it is safe to read before you play.
Two are. The Manly entry dated 20 July 2022 is the day The Dunny’s Escape This booking records at Manly begin, the year Escape This took over the venue, and the Perth entry dated 18 August 2023 is the day The Dunny opened at Escape This Perth CBD. Everything else is dated for the story; the facts beside each entry are kept current.
Roughly monthly. New entries in Huge Axeman’s Diary go up on their dates through 2027, each covering a different part of a visit to The Dunny, from booking and ages to phones and the leaderboard, so the Axeman usually has something fresh to say about himself.
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