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  1. I spent 2 weeks in Orlando at the start of the season, just for HHN. I live near USH and went there several times as well for HHN. I felt it was a so-so year for Orlando and another poor year for Hollywood, which is stuck on a terrible downward trajectory. My end of season rankings are (Best to Worst): Slaughter Sinema 2 Goblin’s Feast Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Legacy of Leatherface (HOLLYWOOD) Insidious: The Further (ORLANDO) SMALL BUT DISTINCT GAP Monstruos 2: The Nightmares of Latin America (HOLLYWOOD) Major Sweets Candy Factory Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (ORLANDO) Dead Exposure: Death Valley (HOLLYWOOD) Terror Tram (HOLLYWOOD) A Quiet Place (ORLANDO) A Quiet Place (HOLLYWOOD) Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines (ORLANDO) MASSIVE QUALITY CHASM Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America (ORLANDO) Triplets of Terror Insidious: The Further (HOLLYWOOD) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (HOLLYWOOD) Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines (HOLLYWOOD) The Museum: Deadly Exhibits The Weeknd: Nightmare Trilogy (HOLLYWOOD) The top 4 were outstanding I went into the event feeling Slaughter Sinema would be a no-brainer, and it was. The fact that next 3 are on top really surprised me. Goblins was the setpiece showstopper, and just blew me away. I could not visit without doing it once or twice. Not a fan of IP, but Hollywood knocked it out of the park with TCM. Totally unique presentation. Unique story. Relentless actors. Copious detail throughout the house. You'd think you were in Orlando. Orlando's Insidious was perfect for what it was trying to do. Its intensity matched TCM beat for beat. It was this year's Poltergeist. Monstrous is a Hollywood thing. Orlando just doesn't get it. This house brought back El Cucuy and introduced two more nightmares. Great job - another Orlando quality presentation. Major sweets - best use of F&F, and a really fun house Ghostbusters in Orlando had massive sets and paced the movie very well. I had not seen the movie going in and it made me want to see it. Dead Exposure was Hollywood's foray into the franchise and I think they did it justice. It had a Patient Zero feel to it, but they did not do a Black and White presentation. It was full color throughout. Terror Tram in Hollywood was much better than prior years. Think Orlando's Blumhouse zone, but each booth being a whole set where an act was performed (each of the quality of the Brazen Bull at Torture Faire). Both coasts did a decent job with Quiet Place. Now mid-way through Dec, they get mixed in my mind. I liked Orlando's more, but each had their moments. Biggest problem was no way to hide the scares of the monsters. Universal Monsters was a disappointment, but less so in Orlando. One thing that bugged the hell out of me was that Orlando made Bride Black. Why? Do that anywhere else (Darkest Deal was one of my faves; Oddfellow cast as Black was perfectly fine as we had not met him before). But don't change an IP character just because you want to be progressive... From here on out the events hit the skids... Orlando mucked up Monstrous by rearranging the order of the monsters, and by making seemingly reskinning the Chupacabra house. Triplets of Terror was an overcomplicated mess of a story. We are to believe three 9-year olds are able to go into hiding in the sewers for 10 years and survive on their own? And successfully repeat it five more times? The killers we finally meet in present day are 49 year olds? Gimme a break... Hollywood's Insidious house was very small and cramped yet very long. Only a few "rooms". Mostly black hallways. Unlike Orlando which presented each part of the story in succession, this was a mish mash throughout. Hollywood's Ghostbusters was relegated to a tent, and it showed. Mostly consisted of largish rooms connected by black hallways. None of the rooms were nearly as grand as Orlando's. Hollywood's Universal Monsters had nice sets, but tons of black hallways. Voice lines were repeated on 5 second loops, so conga lines meant hearing the same lines repeated throughout the house. House was notoriously under-staffed. The Museum should never have opened. The only good part was the fact it had the "From Egypt" box in front of the house, mentioned in the Slaughter Sinema preview... It felt like it was supposed to be an IP house that fell through and got quickly re-dressed. The Museum was by far the worst house of the year....until I went to The Weeknd house. The 2022 house was really good. This was dismal. Also notoriously under-staffed, it relied on static figures in all but the first room, so if it was under-staffed, there were zero scares. Black hallways were everywhere. Lazy John Murdy. Hollywood has got serious issues. Crowds this year were not big. Yes, there were 2 hour waits at times, but only at certain times and for certain houses. The houses were clumped into three regions, so you would see big waits at one clump and small waits in the others, then the crowd would move to another clump. Here is the reality for ANY night of that event: Insidious wait time was always well over an hour, any time of the night; Ghostbusters (directly next to Insidious) was usually a 5 minute wait. TCM wait time was always over an hour; Weeknd (same clump) was usually a 5 minute wait Dead Exposure/Monsters clump was always between 10 and 40 min. Quiet Place/Monstrous2 clump was always between 10 and 50 min They had a Purge show - which was utterly unchanged from 2023... No other entertainment - not even Death Eaters this year. Oh God...they DID have a "Late Night with Chucky" show... A tame version of the Insult show of long ago or even the Chucky show at Orlando. This was "presented by SyFy" (SyFy canceled the TV show a week into the event). Ouch! Go ahead and watch one of the Chucky HHN shows on YouTube. I DARE YOU to make it to the end.,.. People tried to leave mid show and couldn't because it was in a theater. It made Jabbawockeez look like Shakespeare... Hollywood's food offerings for HHN are dismal. Regular items with a themed name. Orlando's HHN food item offerings are legendary. The best park haunt of 2024 for me was Knotts Scary Farm - I should be a bucket list item for anyone living in Orlando. More affordable than HHN, more houses than HHN Hollywood, each one nearly HHN Orlando quality. Every one an original story. So here's the thing - We all know Orlando throws a shit-ton of cash behind it's event (well, except in the same years they are spending $4 billion on a new park). They have all new houses every year. Visit a house or miss it forever. Hollywood does pretty much the same thing, except on a shoestring budget. So you may have 8 "new themes" but very little budget behind each one. You therefore have crap houses for the most part. They have been living on what used to be a good reputation, and used to sell out almost every night. Not amymore. Knotts on the other hand... They used to have a crappy reputation. They had at least 10 mazes a year, each of which were pretty much like HHN Hollywood houses today. Lots of plywood and dark hallways. They kept those houses up for 5-6 years and brought like 3 new ones per year. They have tweaked this business model in the past seven years - to great success. Today, they have 10 houses. They retire 2 hours per year and add 2 new ones per year. BUT they throw all the money into those two new houses. The result is that they have rotated out all low budget stuff and now have uber quality houses. So in 2024 you have 10 Orlando-quality houses (one is a stinker that they are retiring at the end of this year). In fact, in 2022 and 2023 they retired 2 quality houses at end of those years, and replaced them with even better houses. The result is Knotts at the top of its game now, offers better rides and excellent quality shows at a very good price point. If you buy their equivalent of an Express Pass, you can use it unlimited times to get into the houses, and each entry is truly a walk-on. They have so much to do, it's really hard to do it all in one night - not because of the waits, but because of the sheer amount of stuff. If you went to Knotts once every 4-5 years it would be all-new to you. They are definitely stealing business from HHN Hollywood - and rightly so. I am looking forward to Hollywood's response. If I was in charge there I would let John Murdy go, and try to bring in Patrick Braillard or Jon Cooke to fill the massive void that is HHN Creative. The mindset in Hollywood is stagnant, and needs fresh blood. I mean, the HHN lead doesn't even live in the country and the quality has not been affected by his remote leadership. While that sounds positive I suggest that the quality was so low it couldn't get worse even with no resident leadership. Sorry, but Universal needs to wake up and deal with this. John, it's time to hang it up, and head into that long black endless hallway you built. So my final ranking is: 1. Knotts - best overall event (this year) 2. Universal Orlando - Only lower because it was a "meh" year. 2019, 2021 or 2022 would have ranked #1 3. ANY mall haunt 4. Universal Hollywood - Overpriced, overhyped dreck
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  2. A couple of weeks back, they filled a couple of permits to build a new warehouse/parade building as the newest house locations. From what I’ve heard, this could be the last year for the sprung tents at Orlando before they move to Hollywood, which I actually find this very interesting. If they do a sequel or two of the houses from previous years that were over there, then they could do a send off kind of moment cause why not?
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  3. This is telling to how off this year was for people, lol. My list below is much different than yours. For background, I've been attending HHN in Orlando each year since 2016, only missing HHN Lite. I don't live in Florida but love the event so much that I take two trips each HHN season, one in early September and one in early/mid October. I've always gotten FFP+, and starting in HHN 30, I added express. This year, I only attended closing week on 10/27 and 10/30-11/3 & I got the FFP+ without express. If I was able to go in September, I likely wouldn't of returned in October. I am glad I attended HHN 33. There were bright spots to the event. However, this was my least favorite year attending for a multitude of reasons: Weak scare zones See my comments below on scare zones. Next to no HHN vibe/atmosphere, specifically from a music standpoint Music is one of the most important aspects of HHN. It brings an ambience to the park that is needed for the overall experience and theme of the event. The parkwide loop was utter garbage this year. Every year, I look forward to what songs I'll be adding to my library based on what Universal plays in the houses, zones, shows, etc. I added two songs to my Apple Music this year. For reference, I added 24 songs to my library based off music from HHN 32. Since 2016, I think I've added over 200 songs that were used at HHN. Because of the mediocre music, the event lacked the usual vibe it has and it suffered because of it. Lack of offerings outside the houses & insane wait times Nightmare Fuel 4 was the only entertainment offering at HHN 33. It was also one of their weaker shows, especially in comparison to last year which was, imo, the best theme park show I've ever experienced. There was no lagoon show, even though it was fully functional unlike previous years. There is so much empty space that could have been utilized throughout Studios. It hasn't returned in a bit but there was no Simpsons hoard/ HHN presence from the entrance of Museum all the way to Central Park. I don't think they were playing HHN music near Dreamworks & the lights were turned on in that area. This was probably due to there being no parade houses this year, but I can't recall an event year where there was an HHN free zone outside at the park. In past years, The Simpsons Ride would be open on busier nights but it was never utilized. This year Transformers wasn't open at all, only leaving four attractions to experience (Gringotts closes at midnight every night, so there's only three rides to go on from 12-2am). A Quiet Place, Ghostbusters, and Insidious were the only IPs at the event this year (I don't count Universal Monsters because it is an original concept houses just with the use of IP characters). None of these are at the popularity level of Stranger Things, American Horror Story, etc. from years past, so there was crazy wait times spread between all the houses & rides (although, Rip Ride Rockit had shockingly low waits this year every time I looked). Meh food & specialty drinks I did enjoy food at the Monstrous booth, Triplets booth, & the Ghostbusters s'more was certainly a hit for Universal. Nothing really stood out, though, that I hope they bring back. This year, I didn't even bother with drinks at any booths. The drinks at the event since HHN 30 are just sugar bombs or thick in consistency, which is f'ing gross. Word of advice, just go to Finnegans, Chez, or leave for CityWalk if you're looking for a good cocktail. Even if the lines are long, the drinks are a million times better & stronger. I also love beer and they haven't changed the offerings since HHN 30. They added one new pumpkin beer this year that didn't taste like pumpkin at all. The canned cocktail actually wasn't bad. Still, the beverage team needs to give the offerings a major facelift for next year. Not being spoiled with express Not having express is awful haha. I understand why this event is not everyone's cup of tea. To go from open to close and not accomplish everything would leave a terrible taste in my mouth if I were a first time visitor or casual guest. Being able to speed run the event makes it a million times more enjoyable. It gives you more time to relax, enjoy the zones, grab a nice meal on CityWalk, not have to get to a stay and scream holding area by 5pm or stay till close, show up early for a show and get a good seat, enjoy the rides, not have to stand for so long. I could keep going... My group and I caved on closing night and we bought the after 11pm express. Was $117 after tax each. We ran all 10 houses while also stopping for food, drinks, bathroom breaks, and doing a ride or two before the event ended. If you are a diehard HHN fan & can swing it, get whichever FFP suits you best + express. It's so very worth it. Based on how quickly it sold out this year, make sure to purchase it as soon as it becomes available in 2025. I firmly believe the creative team, scare actors, service workers, etc. really give it their all and deserve praise for the event this year, even with it being below average in comparison to other years. It's not for a lack of effort or care, HHN 33 just didn't hit for me, as it didn't with the majority of fans. With that being said, the following are my rankings. None of the houses were strong enough to enter my top 10 all time. Usually each year, there's a standout house that makes the list, but that didn't happen for HHN 33: House Rankings - A Quiet Place One of the coolest houses I've ever done. Sound design/how they somehow made the house low volume, puppets, and large room scenes were all awesome. Surprised with how longtime HHN fans don't view this in a brighter light. Universal tried something new with this one and, I believe, delivered on a difficult concept. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Very fun and had some awesome rooms. Always love a cold house, even though some rooms weren't as cold as others. Stilt walkers were great and it was a much better house than I expected. The movie was one of the worst pieces of dog shit I've ever seen, so I had no expectations this would be enjoyable at all going in. Slaughter Sinema 2 Good ode to the original which is one of my favorite houses ever. Enjoyed all my runs of this and loved the movie ideas. Major Sweets Candy Factory Best F&F house we've gotten yet. Incredible detail and delivered a fun factor with a lot of quotable lines. Goblin’s Feast Same comments as Sweets. Also enjoyed the location of this and the easy access to Bloodlines. The Museum: Deadly Exhibits I don't think this wasn't as bad as people said it was, but this is where the events houses went into meh territory for me. Cool costumes & big scare actors in the last few rooms. Clearly repurposed Bloater outfits from Last of Us from HHN 32. Triplets of Terror Cool it got a soundstage & the concept is good. The one scare I really liked was the one in the kitchen where the beep from the oven goes off and the huge dude pops out on the left side. Other than those things, this was a whatever house. Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines Great sets & rooms. Always happy to see any of the Universal Monsters represented at the event, and I was hyped for this one based on the story/concept of all female characters. That being said, the dialogue was hard to follow. The audio may of just been low in the five or so times I ran this. There was also too much empty space in the house. Insidious: The Further Definitely scary, detailed, and long, but I think people thought this was so good because nothing else was scarier or strong enough to say it wasn't #1 overall. Because of the waits, I only ran this twice, and one was during stay and scream so I couldn't see anything. Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America First run through was easily the worst I've ever had in any house across the eight event years I've attended. It was around 1030pm on 10/27 and there was like two scare actors in the whole house. It was better my other four or five runs, but I still thought this was the weakest house at the event. The huge animatronic bird was cool. Scare zone Rankings - Torture Faire Well themed and the scare actors were having fun. The only true enjoyable zone this year. Swamp of the Undead Central Park always has a great zone. They must've had a humidifier running at the entrance and exit of this zone because I would leave wet every time I walked through. It was a cool touch I hadn't seen before. Also, cool to learn a prodigy scare actor in Mike Aiello's son was working this zone. Demon Queens Props were fine. I liked that Surr3al was interactive and had a show of sorts. Nothing special about this, though. Enter the Blumhouse Whatever. Duality of Fear Moving forward, they shouldn't even call this a zone.
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  4. Just got my newest, weirdest, and trippiest concept done that is a Psychedelic themed house inspired by the original 1969 Woodstock and the annual Burning Man art festival, taking place at Bethel, New York on the exact year the historical event happened for my themed event concept of Halloween Horror Nights: Face The Music. I hope you guys enjoy this! https://docs.google.com/document/d/14qyFP5J04Qekyrwur6L2a84NQ2c_pWgsx982LjJXUAE/edit
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  5. What about a Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss haunted house or scarezone? Sure not many people know about these animated series, but these are adults animations with violence and horror content in them, so they may work for Halloween Horror Nights.
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  6. Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but I found a new song for the playlist, and for the HHN 19 playlist - This instrumental version of the song played in the deli scene in Scarey, and also the original version of the scene from 2009. Honestly surprised it hadn't been identified before!
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  7. At last! My arm is complete again! This is my very first take of doing a haunted house concept that is both based on a musical play and a movie. Sweeney Todd is another piece I’m proud of writing; I was taking all the theatrical stuff to my highest level and it even brought me to another area. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RIppLGlcjD8WR8IFSjisxe9WlxLTKLc-QtzjiiN2RnU/edit
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  8. Hey everyone! Just got another new house concept done that took me more than a week, which is also music-related and this was one of the most requested ideas from readers on Discord. Just like what I did with Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward, I also gave My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade a house treatment that is lyrically about death and the reflection of life. I was inspired by one interpretation that was written by one fan on Reddit at the band’s official page, which made it more easier for me to adapt, translate, re-listen to the music, and understand the lyrics more with a bit of my own take to offer a unique experience done by a fan like myself for an offering that will blow y’all away. This isn’t like any other concepts I had done before, but man I am so proud of myself for all the hard work, effort, and inspiration. I hope you guys enjoy my newest piece! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qgxo48eEFXbP_ZPDhTXQSiDFnqdYhU1oMK8OdYECO78/edit
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  9. I got my newest haunted house concept done a week ago. This is my take of doing a New Orleans themed house with Jazz and Voodoo that takes place during the Roaring Twenties. I was really going all out on this. I hope you guys enjoy this newest piece of mine. Next I’ll work on another concept that is music-related. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QM1IIe6bvDvccqMSMGCc85SDC7ccsQY48CFbcgMVNIU/edit
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  10. With Christmas over until this December, I’m right now working on the themed event concept of Halloween Horror Nights: Face The Music, starting with the main doc first by adding a premise and icon backstory, an overlay for the Archway, music playlist, and original music compositions. Could add more if necessary, but I wanna make sure it looks done enough to show y’all what it looks like so far before it’s done again. I’ll also give my old concepts a cast update as well for more details, additions, and better quality of writing, but it could take for Face The Music to be similarly on par with Memories In Darkness and Jungles of Fear cause I’ll be very busy at work to remodel at my job other than my full house family, which are always a top priority.
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  11. @Sinfear Just gave one of my house concepts a vast update for more details, additions, and better quality of writing. This is also the comedy house for my HHN themed event, Jungles of Fear that revolves around the Kremlings from the Donkey Kong Country series. Next, I’ll make one more house to complete the total, then update a couple of more houses, and finally complete the event concept. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kquh6GKLEIsPbWprZxEH8QISvAPCOnnGI4mVPzyQ-sc/edit
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  12. @Sinfear Recently got my newest house concept done for the Jungles of Fear themed event that I’m really proud of after all the hard work. This is my take of doing a Caveman house that represents many different eras of the Stone Age and all kinds of the Homo human species with the inclusion of some extinct animals. I hope you guys enjoy this piece of mine. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NaujgCZzVNYsdJUcOgtK4K31rJ9cwbq-GAsQBNrVm6k/edit
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  13. Hazbin Hotel isn't as similar to Universal Horror Hotel. UHH is a hotel haunted by lost souls, HH is a show where a Princess of Hell has an uphill battle rehabilitating demons. My thoughts, the lineup is solid, but AVP is now a Disney property so it's unlikely. And since the Hollywood Universal Mazes include music by Slash, would Dracula's Bloodbath and Clowns 3D both have original Slash music for the year? Because that'd be awesome! My concern with the scarezones is that Helluva Boss is at the gates. While I'd be fine with horror cartoons being represented in Halloween Horror Nights, having the first scarezone be Helluva Boss seems risky. I'd swap it with Dark Angels. I'm a bit more curious as to what the scarezones would entail, though.
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  14. I like this line-up! I don't attend Hollywood's event, but it is a very strong line-up. Clowns 3D could be a sequel instead of a repeating maze, but it wouldn't surprise me with La Llorona coming back this year. Pretty sure Alien Vs Predator is off-limits because Disney now owns both IPs. The Exorcist was just featured at the event last year, so I highly doubt Murdy would want to repeat that maze. Blumhouse is working on an Exorcist reboot for 2023 and there is a pretty strong relationship between both companies. The Exorcist (2023) almost feels like a given as it's a way for Blumhouse to promote the new film. The next Universal Monsters maze will most likely follow Dracula, like maybe House of Dracula? Either way, I think you're correct about the next UM maze focusing on Dracula. Hazbin Hotel feels similar to Universal Horror Hotel, but I like the concept! I'm surprised AWIL hasn't made a return, as it won maze of the year in 2014 and is deserving of a return. I would say it's definitely on Murdy's radar.
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  15. Thanks! I thought it’d be fun to do house inspired by an anime series for myself. The rest of my house ideas are also on Google Docs, and I’m working on my next one right now. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11VKaDeRSk25dkj5ZLq_iICYPJF5YgbeIGgbQ501ogiE/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/11GMMubevP6-SnNok3l7PTM5j-o_5qg3fV9dKenp_baE/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/10rSGZ1xD3zZpCownYi1wB8DrKtLR0qyCUtESdLRPA1o/edit
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  16. Here’s my biggest dream house for HHN inspired by the Jungle Book as a spin-off of Scary Tales like Asylum In Wonderland from 25 but not in 3D. I think it would fit perfectly for either Soundstage 23 and 24 for a big and immersive experience to make guests feel like they’re walking through an actual jungle, and they’re big enough to bring larger-sized and taller plants in. It would make a lot of sense to give it a haunt treatment cause you have more than enough characters and the books are more darker than the Disney adaptations. Would love to hear some of your own ideas and suggestions of my dream house to mix in. Title The Jungle House: Perils of Terror The Backstory Mowgli was unexpectedly separated from his/her (yes, there’s a female version of that character in certain adaptations) wolf pack family and gets lost into the deepest, darkest and most dangerous part of the jungle, as you follow his/her perils from start to finish. Description “Lost In the deep, dark jungles of India after a separation from the wolf pack, Mowgli the young and wild “human-cub” goes through the dangerous perils of what he/she called home as you follow through. Who could make it out alive the most?” The Facade The facade is a large ancient Indian ruin with terrifying stone gargoyles of mythical creatures in Hinduism, surrounded by jungle plants and misty fogs. Howling wolves along with other animals noises and eerie traditional Indian music could be heard. Room Number One The first room is filled with treasures, cobwebs, animal corpses and Indian artifacts. Guests will be greeted by a chaotic bandar-log (monkey) with a sinister smile who laughs like a maniac. Two more of the monkeys defends their treasures to scare off the guests with large, blood-stained bones in their grips, yelling at them to go away. Room Number Two The second room is an outdoor jungle with plants, trees, and bushes. Behind you is the ruin you had walked through. While walking through deep, dark jungles of India, two Bandar-logs with vicious gorilla-like faces jumps on the trampolines, hiding around the plants to scare off the guests. Room Number Three The third room is also the same as the second but with Bagheera brutally eating either a hunter from a village or a British Colonialist on an ancient stone table and Baloo coming out at the guests for a scare, as you enter the next room. Room Number Four The outdoor jungle experience continues with vines and leaves hanging to walk through on the left and right where Mowgli with wounds and cuts on his/her body pops out behind them, wearing only a pair of loincloth/bikini-like two piece on. The main character begs for help from the perils and find his/her wolf pack family. Room Number Five The next room is a cave of dark psychedelic colors of meaty snake coils built by Kaa (as a female naga with a sari on and humanize-reptilian head shape). You hear her seductive voice in a mothering tone, telling you everything is okay and stay safe with her while seeing Mowgli struggling in a cocoon of thick, heavy coils with only his/her head visible. The naga slithers out of her coils she made as boo-holes to scare the guests, yelling at them how delicious they are with her forked tongue sticking out of her mouth. Room Number Six You’re back in the outdoor themed area of the jungle, noticing Mowgli managed to escape from Kaa with an empty cocoon of her coils, but she comes back for another scare out of the bushes, yelling at guests that they’ll will be in her grasp and stomach other than saying how delicious they are. Room Number Seven Continuing the outdoor experience of the jungle, you hear loud animal noises and stampedes with elephants, rhinos, hippos, leopards, and gazelles coming out of the plants, trees and bushes left and right. Room Number Eight You then enter a village that was destroyed by the animals after a stampede where some of the villagers pop up in front of guests for help. One of them is even a cannibal who is suffering from starvation. Room Number Nine You enter one of the village’s homes featured gory corpses of the victims who were killed by Shere Khan. One of his victims is still alive, warning the guests to get out. The tiger himself hides behind one of the white bloody curtain cloths that may look like if they were entrances to the next room you go to but aren’t for a scare with a burnt mark on his face after being caught on the red flower (fire) by Mowgli before you exit to different paths of the final room from the left and right. Room Number Ten (Alternate Left) You’re back at the outdoor jungle again with a wildfire occurred after all the destruction happened at the village where you see Shere Khan eating Mowgli for vengeance, walking into a dark, pitch black cave with very little lights for one last scare from the tiger himself before exiting. Room Number 10 (Alternate Right) Like the left side of the final room, you’re also back in the jungle with with a wildfire happening, but you’ll get a different experience, as you see Mowgli killing Shere Khan with a knife and also eating the tiger’s organs out of his body to survive. You walked into a dark, pitch black cave for the final scare from not only the main character, but also his/her mentors Baloo and Bagheera. @themazethinker @Grime
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  17. OCTOBER 31st Stingy Jack is back, with a new mix of terror to shock and horrify you! Using his magic to overtake an abandoned toy shop, he's arranged for a new set of terror to remind everyone of the true meaning of Halloween. Return to his world if you dare, but keep in mind: he's not messing around! Another set of Halloween-inspired scenes make up this journey to Stingy Jack's world. And to be honest, Jack's return is just an excuse for another set of Halloween scenes. I promise, while I might retread familiar ground I'll try to keep the scenes different. ROOMS: Facade: Guests find themselves walking up to an abandoned Toysaurus shop, overtaken with pumpkin vines bearing many Jack-O' Lanterns. The windows have the same swirl pattern as The House That Jack Built featured, and the vines hold the door open. Toysaurus: The building has been cleared out, even the shelves. However, standing upon a stage is Stingy Jack, who ushers guests into a world of terror! He's his old, wisecracking, charming self. Guests exit the scene through a giant wooden doorway decorated with old-time Halloween-themed signs, with the opening draped with black fringe curtain. Are You Ready?: The Halloween signs continue to appear in the dark hallway, lit with a black light. Stingy Jack can be heard, asking guests if they're prepared for the terror within. Guests pass through another fringe curtain, into... The Maize Part 2: Where guests find themselves in a moonlit cornfield. Like the original house, scarecrows lurk in the corn. Unlike the original house, as guests turn a corner they find a combine rushing towards them. The Sheet Maze: Exiting the corn, guests find themselves surrounded by white sheets hanging on clotheslines. A menacing silhouette can be seen behind one sheet, and he seems to be raising his knife... only for a clown to attack from an opposite sheet. (The shadowed killer is projected onto the sheet.) Masks: Guests enter a hallway covered with Halloween masks. A scaracter hides in the wall, wearing a suit covered with masks. Pumpkin Carving: Guests enter the gaping maw of a giant Jack-O' Lantern. Inside the gourd, pumpkin guts hang from the walls, over the walkway, and pumpkin creatures attack with giant pumpkin saws. (Steak knife sized saws.) As guests wind through the mazelike walls, the final turn hides a giant knife piercing the flesh of the squash, that will be lunged towards guests. The Coven: As guests exit the pumpkin, they find themselves in a witch's shack. The witches' song from MacBeth can be heard. (I may be taking that bit from All Hallow's Evil. Sorry.) A hag and a younger witch tend to a concoction, interacting with guests. This distracts from a crone on the other side of the room, who splashes the contents of her cauldron onto guests. (Water, fog, and lights.) Guests exit the shack through a giant, overturned cauldron, a green fire-and-ice light providing the spill, and into... Spinning Tunnel: A green-lit spinning tunnel. On the walls is the shroud of smoke, and skulls. Graveyard: Exiting the brew, guests wind up in a graveyard lit with orange, purple, and green stringlights. It's Halloween, and the dead are throwing a party. As guests make their way through the tombstones, Halloween party music plays and zombies and ghosts attack. One of the zombies is a man in a pumpkin suit. Guests then enter the mausoleum, the opening of which is a white fringe curtain coated with static.... Horror Film: Because it turns into a black-and-white vampire movie. Guests pass by a coffin, which will open... only for no one to be inside... until a vampire emerges from the false back of the coffin. Guests then enter a film studio archive, where Frankenstein's Monster, a mummy, and a killer doll lurk. Horrorthon: Guests exit the archives, and enter a theater through a tear in the movie screen playing scenes from Horror classics. Several horror fans are in the seats, dressed as monsters. Most are static props, but a few are scaracters. An usher (NOT Julian Browning. Unless they really want Browning.) forces guests out for not having a ticket. Trick Or Treat: Guests then enter a space made of candy. Lurking in this space is a giant monster made from various "loser candies". Those chalky disks, candy corn, razor apples, stuff that gets stuck in your teeth, all that fun. Distinctively different from the Summerween Trickster, of course. More Yeti-shaped. That said, a victim will burst out of his chest, begging for release before getting sucked back in. The Olden Days: Guests then enter Stonehenge, surrounded by druids in robes. A lead druid, face covered in markings and a long, grey beard, attacks guests with a scythe. FINALE: The Harvest Lords: Guests then find themselves in a valley of sacrificed animals and people, covered in fog. As guests navigate the walls of the dead, deer skull-headed stilt walkers attack.
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  18. He said that that he, "provoke them in a way that they would try to scare," and then said the result was that he "scared them." It doesn't take too much deciphering to see it wasn't a complement or a casual exchange like you describe. Scareactors will accept complements, gladly. But stare-offs (which he later described it as) legitimately pull a scareactor's attention, especially when they don't initiate it. While they are many times used as a distraction for another scare, when a guest starts it it's a lose-lose. If the scareactor breaks first, then the guest assumes they "won" (or scared the actor). But because the actor didn't start it, there's no scare actually set to distract for. If I were the scareactor, I would be mumbling "Asshole" under my mask if this happened to me. Scaring is a job that people do because they love it. That's the only reason why they scare. They don't get paid much and the amount of abuse the typical scareactor takes on a given night damn sure isn't worth what they do get paid. Until you do it, don't assume you have any idea what the job is like. There is so much more to it than wearing a mask and yelling, "Boo." You wouldn't tell a mechanic they're doing it wrong (unless you're a mechanic also), so don't do the same to a scareactor. Doing so makes you, yes, obnoxious.
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  19. Personally, any action that could even be perceived as "provoking" a scareactor is a bit obnoxious. There are the obvious things, like screaming in a scareactor's face or trying to scare them. But from my perspective, those acts were JUST as obnoxious as the people who would walk through saying, "Why doesn't somebody scare me," or standing in front of me waiting for me to jump at them. There are so many things that happen to scareactors on a nightly basis, and opening night can be a massive system shock to rookies. While it's possible this scareactor was tired or just didn't care, it's just as likely they were punched the set prior and the last thing they want to do is scare someone. "Provoking" them in any way, doesn't really help them as people. While I completely understand the guests' desire for high energy, all the time, that's easier said than done. Let the scareactors be scareactors and enjoy what you can of the event. If the energy is really that bad, find a coordinator and say something. But remember that the coordinators and stage managers are constantly in the scarezone/going through houses. So they see exactly what is going on.
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  20. Don't be that guy. No one likes that guy. Seriously.
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