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------------------------ NOTE: This isn't meant to be a spam post but a shoutout to everybody for ideas. ------------------------ Right now I've taken on a project thats starting to shape up nicely so far. Its called HorrorNightsCollector.com and it set up to collect pictures and information about every single artifact and memorabilia item that is out there regarding Halloween Horror Nights here in Orlando. I've more or less shoved aside everything else like World of Warcraft to realy get this off the ground. Its an honor realy to be able to do this and you have no idea how much fun it is to finally be able to contribute something to the Horror Nights Fan base community thats not yet been done. Finding stuff that you never knew existed shows up at the most unexpected times.. just awesome!!!! Like everything thats being started up takes a bit of time, right now the site has about 50ish to 100 page views per day - 10 visitors/day average with about 25 different html pages online (1991-2008 + the index page... legal info page.. etc.) I just gotta say thanks to Keri Hracs and Sean Hill aka 'Gambit' and Tommi for helping me out with sending pictures and stuff.... thats exactly what I'm hoping this project will turn into: everybody sending pics and info of anything thats not on there yet. This way every single HHN item will be on there in no time. We got 302 pics and 68 items on there right now and counting. The big goal is having at least all the official merchandize sold (like pins, shirts shot glasses, and blinky cups with secret Legendary Truth info on the bottom <--- inside joke .) uploaded to the site when the new Horror Nights season start. A lot of other ideas are being played with including Tommy's idea that I'm calling 'FreE-Bay'... a way to bypass e-bay fees for Horror Night Item listings thru a save Clasified system for sellers/collector. Still thinking on how exactly to do this but its something to play around with. Another idea thats being worked with is a 'Featured Collections' Section where everybody can submit pictures from heir whole collection. Gambit gave me this idea by sending pics of his collection. As a serious note: Some of the Halloween Horror Night items that are around are soooo rare and so 'hot' that they cant be made public. I'm hoping to loosen this up a bit in time... Last thing I want to happen is that people get in hot water but it might be that no rules are broken by sending pictures without making a profit from reselling the uber-rare items. Its a sensitive thing realy but who knows... we'll see what happens. All I gotta say is that those items realy deserve to be up there. Final thanks goes out to 'Vegas'. It was his idea to somehow document everything that is floating around relating to Halloween Horror Nights. So thats how I came up with the site. Would be cool if we ever get over 1000 items listed to the database. Let me know your ideas you think would work, post away:

Translation: HHN would still be great if it wasn't for today's dope-smoking, gender-confused, snowflake kids! Now git off my lawn! I am old enough to totally agree with this. The following is totally off-topic, but related to JDW's comment. Ignore if you like, but it's interesting if you have kids: I have twins. My 14-year old son is scared of haunted houses. Barely made it through Walking Dead attraction in Hollywood. My 14-year old daughter? LOVES the haunts. We just went to a local haunt three days ago that had a one night special run in March. SHE researched it; I had no idea they were even opening the house for a night. Last year was her first time at Knotts and she's begging me to take her to HHN this year. What is really interesting is that she doesn't watch any horror movies. She has no idea who Chucky, Freddy, Jason, Red Faced Demon, Annabelle, Carrie, Regan, the Alien (or the Predator) are. To her, the true face of horror is having no phone data for the weekend. So I think her reactions in a maze are about as pure as you can get. She's been through the local haunt (Reign of Terror) about 6 times now and still insists on holding my hand even though she now knows what's coming up next. As a father who knows Daddy's Little Girl will too soon be grown up, I cherish this and wish I could freeze time to keep her this age. While I'd love to think she loves haunts just to spend time with dad, it will be so interesting to watch her evolution - will she become a next-gen me and love haunts for the rest of her life? Or will she outgrow it? Or will it become nothing more than an excuse to party when she goes just with her friends? And in 20 years when she is mind-tapped in the Matrix, will she be complaining about how "today's" haunts are nowhere near as good as when she was a kid?

It's a different generation. A different era. This event is not for tailored to us. Or, more specifically, to those who want creepy park atmosphere, super immersive experiences, and a full out theme. It's about party atmosphere, selling to the widest audience, and selling alcohol... Which all means money. The event still has appealing aspects in various degrees but, it just isn't going to sit in a holding pattern. If you want it to change, change the people who pay because that is the only way things change. As that won't happen, you either change or move on.

Collection continued... HHN 2009 and 2010 mini ticket signs HHN 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010 cardboard ticket standees HHN XX event guide signed by the guys from Ghost Hunters and my HHN 1999,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010 tall shotglass collection HHN 2003 actual lighted drink sign used during the event and all my flashing cups HHN 2005 Ticket dangler HHN 2005.2007.2008.2009.2010 pins. The last pin is my HHN 2010 annual passholder pin. It's still in the plastic so the pic is a little blurry. Well thats everything except for my HHN t-shirts. The battery died on my camera so I will add them later...

Here's a little part of my collection :-)