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Taking this with a grain of salt. You are the one who said Scream didn't get scrapped and was coming in the form of the TV show and that RHPS was returning for another year.

Just saw the unreleased HHN commercial. Jack has Freddy and Jason in a locked cage. He also has walkers in another cage and releases them onto a man and woman locked down to a chair and gagged. Apparently the scream mask scene was shot as well but won't be seen in the commercial for obvious reasons. But it was filmed with the original scream mask not the show one. This commercial should air Monday.

From what I'm hearing, this house may be dark horse HotY contender. I'm actually more bummed I'm missing this than any other house.

EDIT: Ignoring until officially confirmed

Just got off the phone with Guest Services about the APH login issues. They said the IT department was working on it and it should be fixed later this afternoon.

Considering the 2009 commercial had multiple IPs appearing... I'm inclined to think what he's saying is very possible.

Plus, and I may be wrong here, but I doubt an IP holder would let their "monster" be trapped in a cage. Same goes for the Walkers. The blending of three different IP's and an Icon just seems like a lot of hurdles had to be jumped to get all the parties to agree to this concept. Granted, it is a good concept and would show the fans who the real Ringmaster of the event was, but it just seems strange. Also, with the amount of time they have had, you think they would have wanted to fit the Purge in there somehow. Looking back at the HHN 17 commercial, all three IP's were shown, but never together on the screen at once in their physical form. They each attacked one their own. I feel like the main focus will be Jack (and hopefully Chance) of the commercial and the IP's will just be logos. If by chance they are physically represented, I doubt we will see them on screen at the same time. Personally I want the commercial to include the four other main "Icons" as well with just a glimpse of them. They all played an important part in making what HHN is today and they deserve some screen time as well. Plus it would make the Icon's section of the park a little more "well know" when people see the Icon's in the commercial and then see them in the street. I feel like a lot of guests won't have any idea who guys like The Usher are which is a real shame.

On Tuesday I was in the park and was introduced to a nice young lady who is a designer for the Event. She did not reveal any details but happened to mention that she had just been assigned to create logos for the zones. Apparently they hadn't planned on any and then at the last minute decided they needed them after all. So too late for website reveal but likely to be featured in the brochure.

So I was a little surprised that Universal doesn't have logo art for any of the scarezones this year for the first time in a long time. So with that being said I decided to create my own. Luckily all the scarezones are based off of past houses, with the exception of Evil's Roots but that's loosely based on Grown Evil, so it was easier to imagine what the logos might have looked like. I hope you enjoy!

Roanoke was the worst original house and Dracula was the worst IP. both were equally awful. Giggles was funny and i always had a good time with both casts

Dracula is either 2nd or 3rd worst tied with Roanoke from last year. Roanoke had great sets but despite the cast's effort it just wasn't scary, while Dracula was able to catch me off guard a couple of times with great sets but lack of coherency.

There should be lots of Trump, Cosby and 50 Shades of Grey. Some ideas could be Bryce Dallas Howard wearing high heels in Jurassic World, Schwarzenegger riding an EVC instead of a motorcycle, Cookie from Empire, JK Simmons from Whiplash, a Cinderella/Game of Thrones mash up, Colin Firth from Kingsman, Brian Williams, Frank Underwood from House of Cards, anything from Mad Max. It'd be great if they brought back original characters like Phil the Ultimate Fan Boy.

I love the idea and decoration of this scarezone and it would be my most anticipated BUT the Jack show is right freaking there. Concerns over noise leaks and more congestion than usual make me wary of a zone I want to love.

Could we see roller-skate Mary Shaw here?

https://www.universalorlando.com/rsvp/hhn25/rsvp.aspx

Hopefully we get a representation to every icon and year if we are getting a bore of a name as this. Maybe to simplify it for the GP? Maybe Cryptkeeper, Dr Agana but name her something typical like Crazy Doctor so only fans know it, Lady Luck, Terra Queen, Knightmare (from 2002), Crazed Asylum Breaking Point Maniac (from 2004), Cindy, Eddie, Treak and Foon, and even FEAR if you want but I want a huge representation from small icons to huge but mostly from the past for this zone to work. If it's just going to be a copy and paste of 7 and Face Off with generic minions it will be boring and a waste of time.

Anticipated as always for this show but I hope I won't feel too old to get the references, not knowing much about this year's music and i felt it's been extremely lacking this year but I always felt that. So hope they hit home with a lot of movie references especially when we have Jurassic World, Furious 7, and Minions hitting the billion mark so they can rip on their own movies, also all the bombs of the summer like Fan4stic and Pixels and with the laughing stock of Donald Trump i feel this year will be plenty easy for the writer.

If you haven't seen this yet, Nancy Murphy took this pic! The Lantern is in this zone - over by the Gardens of Allah!!! This leads me to some speculation, as most of you should know by now, about four months ago I asked any sources I may have had to no longer give me any "inside information". But long before I did that, back in early 2013 I had heard that the original plans for "street experiences" that year were to have been something sorta "arboreal" actually fitting into a real theme - "What Evil Has Taken Root?" But then, something happened "higher up" most likely involving the IP contract with AMC and we got only TWD in the streets that year. So now, I gotta wonder, is Evil's Roots what What Evil Has Taken Root? was originally supposed to be? Will we be getting a taste of what we should have experienced on a much larger scale two years ago?

I'm getting big Blair Witch vibes...

Posted some construction pics of Evil's Roots. A lot more went in today. Looking sufficiently creepy.

G&G was my least favorite house last year. The cast I had wasn't really into their roles, the sets weren't noteworthy, and the hallways before the finale were lame. You missed out on Halloween though.

I am quite intrigued with this house. I went to HHN the year they had the original but never went into the house..

HHN fans complain.. it is what they do.. They complain when they bring IPs in..they complain when they have originals.. Reality is many people who attend HHN (who aren't hardcore fans) have probably never seen the original AWIL house. The house was a great house that they were super proud of so why not bring it back again for the anniversary? The way I look at it is.. if you aren't happy they are bringing it back.. don't go in it! I am excited for the AWIL house. I think it was a great house when they first had it so I have no doubt it will be a great house this time around!

I have a feeling this is where the crouch tunnel will be this year. It makes sense here.

Terrible or not, it helped me understand the effect and now I'm even more excited so thank you! Damn, this maze can be something really special.

I understand you aren't being as histrionic as others here. It was the overall commentary starting this thread that had me scratching my head. Honestly, I'm still scratching it with your comment about "forcing people to buy a second night".. That's ridiculous. Honest to god - this is what I'm talking about. Everyone wants more, more, MORE. So, they give us MORE, and now it's a plot to make them more money. Jesus. This is why we can't have nice things. As for "stuff" being in the warehouses - well, I'm sure some of the props from the rooms are there, decorations and such... but those wolves? Well, let me just tell you, it cost them to re-do this. Some of those wolves were in no shape to be used again. One of them is actually at A&D's offices where it sits overlooking the group. It's in NO shape to be used again - he's trashed, but he makes a good watchdog for A&D. I've seen it myself. Plus, Mike said that the wolves were going to be improved and there would be more of them. Those things had to cost them a LOT. I'm extremely interested in seeing what they do to improve on the masterpiece.

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From @MagicCityMayhem

My aforementioned picture if you look from the tip of the Sharks nose you can see the arch way of fun house lights (at least thats what it looks like to me) sorry it's not the best quality!

From Designing the Fear

Just a heads up everyone, I've updated the first post to include all of my wallpapers so as to keep everything easy and in one organized place. I also added about 5 new ones including this one. Enjoy!

I know many think quite highly of me, but I am hardly perfect. Sometimes Dr. Jimmy makes mistakes. Sometimes I make a BIG mistake. I have reported here earlier about my many encounters with the wonderful fox-masked girl, to be specific the one with the dark brown or black hair. From other's encounters with her, I have learned she is using a character name of "Rosie". I had not seen her for a few days since she last stormed off when I had failed to notice her watching me eat at the Monster's Cafe. Last night about 1:30 AM or so I was heading down Hollywood Blvd with BSquare near Mel's when I was confronted by the Fox Girl standing in the dark with the same crossed arms pose that I had seen before. I asked her "Are you still mad at me?" She nodded. I offered her a piece of candy in atonement "I'm sorry Rosie, would you like some candy?" She recoiled and just glared at me. Slowly she reached up and pulled her pig-tails out of the shadows into the light.... they were light brown with blonde highlights!!!! I gasped and sputtered to Bruce, "oh my God the wrong hair color that's the other Fox Gi-" Before I could get the rest of the sentence out she exploded: HOW RUDE!!!!!!! I think I may be doomed.