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Loved the topic last year so I'll throw my two cents:

1. Halloween: really big franchise in the location that always has huge lines.

2. Walking Dead: hhn fans are sick of it but the show still pulls in more viewers than almost all of network television. The hype of the house and entrance should build a giant line.

3. Alien vs Predator: still skeptical whether this is going more American Werewolf instead of Resident Evil. Still should be packed.

4. From Dusk Till Dawn: not a great ip but

Like Silent Hill it's something that more people have heard of than have seen.

5. Roanoke: looks like the fan favorite

6. Giggles & Gore: disaster houses usually have huge waits but this might not be enough of a draw

7. Dracula Untold: the house nobody's excited for all the way back by the library.

8. Dollhouse of Damned: this location can have huge crowds (In between, Catacombs,La Lorna) or the smallest (The Hallow, Alice Cooper). Looking forward to it but not the most original idea.

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I'm gonna have to disagree a bit here

Halloween: One of the best/biggest IP's hhn has ever had and the house in this spot usually gets really long lines and it'll only be worse with this big of a property.

TWD: Third year so it'll go down some BUT it's hhn's biggest house ever and it's still a huge IP so it'll still get a huge crowd. Plus, it's right after FDTD, so once that line gets real long, people will pass that up and go to TWD instead because it appeals to them more.

FDTD: Not something that too many people are really into, but a lot of people have at least head of it and a good amount of the 30+ crowd has seen the original film.

AvP: Big/Good property, the only reason it isn't #2 is because FDTD is the first house people see (assuming they don't go through Hollywood.)

Roanoke: Not an IP but it's the biggest original house and it's the first house you go to if you're going counter-clockwise.

Dracula Untold: Unreleased IP and many people don't get what makes it "untold" so it's just another vampire to them.

G&G: Short house, short line. May get kinda long in the middle of the night but that shouldn't last long.

DotD: In a spot that often has low wait houses, doubt it will be an exception.

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I have to agree with Aaron here. As much as I love FDTD. AvP is going to draw more people I'm pretty sure. Just from the name and the film history. FDTD will be close behind that due to the original movie and the series. Honestly it will be really close between those two. The rest of my list would go with 4th. Dracula would be higher if we knew more about the movie, but alas it hasn't come out yet. I'm sure it will be a great house though :P

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From the beginning:
1. Halloween
2. Walking Dead
3. AVP
4. Dusk Till Dawn
5. Giggles & Gore (Bill and Ted spill out)
6. Dracula Untold
7. Dollhouse of the Damned

8. Roanoke (just think the name hurts general public interest)


Then about 2 weeks in after word of mouth really gets going, BTS pictures are out, some "snuck in camera" videos start showing up YouTube, etc...the lines will shift houses quite a bit:
1. Halloween
2. AvP
3. Walking Dead
4. Dollhouse of the Damned
5. Roanoke
6. Dusk Till Dawn
7. Dracula
8. Giggles & Gore (I'm still hoping this is the surprise house like The In-Between)

I might be seriously overestimating the popularity of Halloween with the younger generation. AvP is my most anticipated house, and I think that could be the largest line just because it's something completely different so the creatures and sets have more of a "wow" factor where Halloween might seem boring with a guy with a mask and a normal house. Also, if people were blown away by American Werewolf in London last year, they'll be drooling at the prospect of Alien puppets.

Walking Dead will be up there...and if it's as good as they're implying it is, it could easily be #1 with 3+ hour lines. Not sure how "double the size" will impact lines though...will that make the lines quicker or longer?

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I think it will make the lines about the same length. It's still a house where people go single file and, unless there's a lot of crawling rooms or rooms where you might get held up in, it should all be the same as any other house (except the 3d ones-those can really disorient people!).

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I think it will probably be this

Halloween (let's be real, this house will be a mad house... literally...)

AvP (Many people know this franchise. I'm expecting huge wait)

TWD (always has a long wait plus it will be longest house and idk what that means for the wait time, making it shorter or longer)

Dracula Untold (People will see dracula and run to it)

Giggle and Gore/Dollhouse of the damned (Both intriguing names that pop out to common fears)

FDTD (IP I guess... Feel only certain people know this movie and especially the show)

Roanoke (Not saying this won't be HOTY because I have my bet that it will be, but not intriguing enough to the general public)

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The house times were actually close to half what the signs said last night. Halloween said 50 minutes and was almost exactly 25, while TWD said 60 minutes and was almost exactly 30. It may have just been more limited pulsing going on during EP; for Giggles & Gore they actually tried to pulse the line but gave up when the line stalled and was still extended outside of the facade for 30 seconds.

Generally the soundstages all had the longest lines last night, followed by Halloween. The original houses were the shortest.

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Went Saturday Sept 20th...have had better HHN nights, I can tell you that much...but that's a subject for another topic, as far as wait times, here were my experiences...

LONGEST waittime (posted) was Walking Dead at 90 minutes, and I believe this to be close to accurate since in the middle of the event, the line in front of the stage criss crossed several times over...Walking Dead is still a hot seller for HHN, so it will likely be a tie between this and Halloween for longest wait! Got into the line 10 minutes before park closing and only waited about 10 minutes (by sheer luck!)

AVP, I actually waited approx 50 minutes, posting stated 75 minutes (thank goodness this was overestimated because I would've missed the Walking Dead house close to closing). TIP: This house uses a lot of mechanics, etc, therefore it went down for several hours when I first got to this house, really screwing up my timing to visit certain houses & the B&T show, so if you can do early and assure its working...do it (we wasted about 45 mins in line with NO word until we asked an employee who said the house was "down" indefinitely).

Halloween was an actual 30-35 minute wait (posting had 75 minutes)...mind you this was UPON PARK OPENING, so i would imagine this one pushed 90+ mins later on because crowds were flocking to this one.

Dracula Untold I waited about 45 minutes (posting outside said 60), so this one was the closest to the posting.

Lastly, From Dusk Till Dawn, my actual wait was maybe 15 minutes with a posting of 45 minutes up front (sweet).

The other 3 (originals) I did as part of AP early entry so I can't speak to those since I pretty much walked on...

...so take comfort in that Universal has been overestimating wait times, but be prepared to wait and for crikey sakes, GET THERE EARLY!!!!!!! Even with early entry (and no thanks to AVP breaking down) I nearly missed a house!!

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After the first two nights, the waits were about the same. Max times I saw are listed in parentheses. Dracula is the least busy simply due to its location. Should have a much longer wait for a sound stage house.

1. TWD (75-90 min)

2. AvP (45-75 min)

3. Halloween (45-75 min)

4. G&G (45-60 min)

5. FDTD (45 min)

6. Roanoke (30 min)

7. Dollhouse (30 min)

8. Dracula (30 min)


Have they been using the flat panel wait time displays? I hoped they could change the background for HHN.

They had a specialized wait display for HHN. Looked like a giant flat screen TV turned vertical. There were several spread through out the park.

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AvP got up to 120 this weekend? O.o I never saw that lol. And TWD was 90 at one point Saturday with a 40 min Express line. If you hit the houses right, you don't need express, since I did 22 houses in 2 nights plus 2 shows all while moving at a slow pace ;)

And just be thankful we're not Hollywood. On Saturday, these were the waittimes around 10:

AvP-140

TWD-110

FDTD-100

AWiL-90

Clowns-70

Dracula-25

FacOff-10

For us at 10:

TWD-90

AvP-90

Halloween-75

Giggles-60

Dracula-50

FDTD-25

Dollhouse-25

Roanoke-20

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I'm glad I took your advice! Didn't wait longer than 20 minutes as well. Waiting 75 min for TWD or Halloween would have been miserable!

That's my thoughts. I mean there are ways to do everything in one night but that sounds so stressful and I don't want to deal with that. Opening night we got there around 8, we did every house, strolled through every scarezone, RHPS, and ate at Fast Food Blvd. We left at 11:30 :P

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Dusk Til Dawn and the originals seem to be around the shortest. Poor FDTD seemed to float around 20 to 30 minutes; I guess it just isn't enough of a major property to attract attention and its position as the first queue in the park means that the general public will usually hit it early and then forget about it later on.

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Went for the first time this year last night (Sunday) and holy hell I've never seen it that busy. I usually go the Sunday after Columbus day and have done a few hell week Thursday's but I've still never seen a 180 minute wait which is what Walking Dead and Halloween were posted as. It was woman using the men's bathroom, Mummy single rider line all the way out of the tomb busy.

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Last night saw the highest posted wait times for every house that I've seen.

Halloween 180

TWD 180

AvP 150

Dracula 120

Giggles 110

Dollhouse 100

Roanoke 90

FDTD 90 (this was under 45 most of the night, but towards the beginning it was mobbed)

Just woahhh 3 hour waits?! Some express lines were 20 minutes when I went on the 9th and it was busy. I bet they could have been an hour last night

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The 19th was crazy busy with it being UCF night. But I felt Thursday the 23rd was even worse. I wondered why there seemed to be more than the usual amount of teenagers that night. Found out Orange County schools were off on that Friday. The streets were extremely congested. We left around 10pm and the lines waiting to get through security at that time were the longest I've seen. Just insane for a Thursday night.

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