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They said there are a lot of requests for Slaughter Sinema to be added to the UTH tour. Was told it was not originally part of the tour because of cooling issues during day. So maybe they will find a way to replace something with it. I think they just don't want their tour guides to be saying "Schittie's Kidz".... Also, if anyone has taken JUST the AM or PM tour, I'd be interested in knowing how they split it up, because the full day tour is the 4 Soundstages, then a break, then the 2 Parade buildings (or vice versa). So clearly if you do just the AM or PM you either get one of the SS or three of them. So which one is the odd man out? I'm guessing it's one of the IPs, so that each tour has one. List of things NOT TO MISS from some of the houses. Go back and redo if you miss any of these: Poltergeist Scary Tales Carnival Graveyard Dead Exposure Stranger Things There are THREE GATs in the houses: Carnival Graveyard - early on in the "pop the balloon" section, there is a large RED button lit up on your right Press it and the person ahead of you gets a squirt of water on their butt. HOLD IT DOWN and they get a nice, long stream. Carnival Graveyard - later on, before Luv Shak, there is a large RED button lit up on your left as you round a horseshoe shaped path. Press it and you get squirted. This was not working the second weekend, but this is what I was told. Stranger Things - Very early, in the lab, you will come to the elevator with the dangling legs. Press the BLUE lit elevator button, and the legs will thrash, along with sound effects. Interesting stuff from the tour: Slaughter Sinema - All of the movies came from spitball ideas for original houses. These were ideas that couldn't be stretched into full length houses. Slaughter Sinema - One of the movie trailers in the queue is for "Scarecrow: the Reaping". Another is for "Hive". BUT if you are not paying attention, you may miss the trailer for "Hive 2"... Could this be an easter egg of a future house? My tour guide winked, shrugged, and said "May Beeeee". Carnival Graveyard - Universal Palace Theater sign to right at facade. Carnival Graveyard - Two "hidden Jacks" in the house early on. They are items with his face painted on them. Carnival Graveyard - Dueling Dragons sign just before Luv Shak. Buried in a pile o crap on your left. VERY hard to see, but it's there. Carnival Graveyard - Giant skull on left early on is from Festival of the Deadliest. Carnival Graveyard - Near the pickup truck is the marquee from RUN. Next to it is the ice cream cart from Vamp 55 scarezone. Carnival Graveyard - Lucille (Negan's bat) is hanging on a wall to your right just after the "Ring the Bell" scene. Carnival Graveyard - What is happening in Luv Shak Carnival Graveyard - Scares that may be missing later in the season Seeds of Extinction - The first house with zero humanoid actors at all and no voices. Seeds of Extinction - The Sunglasses shop at very start is "Jack & Eddie's" Seeds of Extinction - The Home Security shop immediately after is "CJ McPherson's Home Security" (Dead Exposure) Seeds of Extinction - The Baby doll shop is called "Let's Make a Baby" Seeds of Extinction - The left side wall has posters for the Festival of Rock. Playing at the festival will be the "SIF Squad" - a reference to SIF - Stuff In Face Seeds of Extinction - At the convenience store (whose name is a reference to Ghost Town) is a rack of Ultra Violent comics referencing many past houses as well as ones that have not happened (yet...) Titles are: The Radioactive Hunchback, The In-Between, They Came from Planet 7 11, The Rhyme in the Corn, Nights of Fright, Asylum in Wunderland, Creatures!, Strange Mysteries, Grotesque Gastronomy - Flesh Eaters from the Crypt, Captain Action, The Corpse in the Trunk, True Suspense Stories Seeds of Extinction - The 144 oz Lightnin' Gulp cup is next to the soda machine. It's massive. Seeds of Extinction - When the meteorite hit, the art gallery was presenting an exhibit showing pictures from the Dustbowl Era (nod to Scarecrow: The Reaping). There is a quote on the wall introducing the exhibit: "Leon Rigsby was a photographer, naturalist, and environmental prophet. His collected works in the "Cracked Dirt" series, gives the viewer a glimpse into the history and landscape of the American Dust Bowl of the nineteen thirties" "It will take a miracle from the highest point of Heaven to bring green back to this dirt." "Only scarecrows stand sentry on the farmlands. I have not seen any people on these lands in many weeks." Seeds of Extinction - those are real Cessna parts... Just to the left of that is a table with a note on it. The note reads: "To my dearest Sarah, I can't believe that in less than a week I will get to be with you again. I've been counting down the days. As pretty as the flowers are here, you're still the most gorgeous one to me. See you soon baby! Yours truly, MOMO" <I have no idea what MOMO is supposed to mean. The signature was silver Sharpie over black sharpie, and did not match the letter in any way. Very strange...> Seeds of Extinction - Not a spoiler, but the slanted walkway is supposed to represent the 2nd floor of the Mexican Restaurant caving in. The ADA path to the right is the first ADA bypass that includes a scare. Poltergeist - Things that may not be happening later in the year Stranger Things - There is a scene (I think early on) where you see a hanging sheet and a Demigorgon shadow goes by. This shadow is actually cast from a tiny 4" Demigorgon statue. A nearby light rotates to create the effect. Yet another "puppet" in this year's event! Scary Tales - VERY early in the house, you pass through the inside of a turret that is very dimly lit. Along the right and left sides of the walls are torch sconces. Each sconce has a hanging object that depict a scene you will see. I have pictures of all of these. Impossible to see or understand during the event, but shows the lengths A&D go though to add the tiniest of details. Scary Tales - Humpty Dumpty was sculpted and constructed as a complete egg. It was then shattered and the pieces you see could actually be reassembled into a full egg. In the house, Humpty was killed by a cannonball. You can see the cannonball in the wall just behind him. Scary Tales - This is a spoiler, but it's kind of hard to follow the rooms because our brains are trying to make sense of the fairy tales not matching the images we are seeing.