And from various sites we have various bits of information. Thankfully, it looks like with all the testing they’re not doing the COVID everyone-stationed-at-the-treasure-room thing like last year, so should at least look like a regular series.
New treats include:
- A game where contestants must carry eggs between two kitchens through a long oven, but one of the kitchens is upside down.
- Metro Station: A new underwater game set in one of the fort’s cisterns. Looks like a key game as well.
- The Trapper’s Hut: A new character, Canadian Trapper Gary Boo, asks contestants to cross a room full of traps to reach his hut.
- A game which seems to involve transferring between two mid air ski lifts.
- A new telephone box game, this one suspended 25m above the sea, and likely to drop if they don’t get the riddle in time.
- The Bingo’ssbo – Pere Fouras’ favourite host Cyril Gossbo is back with a new show, contestants are put inside a rotating cage and have to pick out numbered balls to answer questions. They may not be alone.
- Pere Fouras is back in the watchtower, although we don’t know if this is permanent or for a new ‘bit’ – The BEEF (Bureau d’Etudes des Trials (Epreuves) du Fort), where he will try out experimental games on the contestants. This sounds a bit like it might be a bit like Patrice Laffont’s Time Machine, and it will be a different idea every week but without the scene decor.
- The prison’s been updated, and looks like a red clepsydre game now, which suggests adventure horror. It’s also been suggested it might be run twice a show.
- And Willy Rovelli’s been imprisoned after opening a speakeasy last year. He will host a new gross eating game.
- Magik and Megagaf are back, as well as Delphine Wespisier in her various roles.
- As well as the usual game updates and new Judgement and Council games.
Should be fun, and should be with us in about a month’s time along with more Toujours Plus Fort!, Fort Boyard’s Bit On The Side. Hopefully it won’t get pushed around by Euro 2020 too much. Also last year was probably the first year I can think of where I just stopped watching the series halfway through because it wasn’t really offering much so hopefully that won’t happen again.
But hold! A new season of Fort Boyard also means a new edition of the Fort Boyard video game (subtitled Toujours Plus Fort!), and this is promising an additional FIVE events over last year! Sensibly though, it sounds like you’ll be able to buy the new stuff as DLC if you have the second edition (Escape Game). Unfortunately we don’t know how much that’s going to be – £40 probably. Tentatively dated for June 24th release.
In other news, if you ever wanted to run round Fort Boyard in a Turkish free to play FPS, well apparently now you can.