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Saws and Steam: Into the Machine was a Bioshock house.

I've been told the originals will not have announcement videos this year.

They weren't announcing in March/April then, or doing two announcements a month.

They don't announce the IPs because of the rights. They do it to extend media coverage. Giving each house its own announcement allows ten weeks of media instead of one. The rights can be negotiated for all the houses to get announced at once, if they wanted to. They plan everything to the day. It's basic project management. With everything that gets coordinated few an announcement (graphics, blog post, website update, social media plan, and press releases), they have to have a hard date. It also helps them try to avoid announcing at times where bigger media things are occurring so HHN won't get swallowed. And typically, the IP agreement includes an "announce by" date. If something changes (or isn't ready), they just change the date. Here's a bit of sausage making... Insiders getting a release schedule is a recent development, so we can't really tell how common delays are. This year, nearly every announcement is delayed but not by so much to make the schedule appear like bad info. That said, this is the first time the "early HHN roll-out" is competing with Potter. And Potter wins every battle.

Flip tents 1 and 2.

They're staging Hagrid stuff in there. Creative was already supposed to be cleared out, but haven't. The partition allows A&D to get to work.

There isn’t a “Graveyard” series. The phrase on the list (that being: “Graveyard: Hide and seek with kids”) isn’t a title. It’s a location and story description. The house, as presented, is playing a game of hide and seek in a cemetery. It wouldn’t directly connect to Carnival Graveyard in any obvious way, if it connects at all narratively. They’re two completely different ideas and concepts.

Orlando's HHN budget has increased yearly for nearly a decade.

Or my wires got crossed and Creepshow is a Hollywood exclusive.

Think a game of Hide and Seek in a graveyard. Like, a cemetery.

I expect a Terra Cruentes house next year, but that’s it.

Still a few weeks until zones. Next house in a couple of weeks. Except Terra Cruentes is a different “world” than the one that the icons live in. Terra Cruentes is a story the Storyteller told.

She hopes so. I don’t think there will be. Nor do I think Leave It 2 Cleaver is happening.

I’ve been told the announcement was pushed back simply because the products Orlando needed for the announcement weren’t complete.

I want to clarify some things regarding “Marketing versus A&D:” 1) Through 2007, A&D led the creative process for nearly all aspects of the event. Management was hands off and, because of the event’s success, has no reason to get involved. A&D built the website, designed the icons. There were some conflicts but, generally, the event was entirely theirs. Everything changed in 2008. Comcast was guiding decisions, and Harry Potter changed the national view of the resort. Roddy left. Oh, and HHN saw a decrease in attendance. From 2009 to 2011, Marketing gained more leverage. In 2012, TWD happened. 2013, when it took over the park, was the peak of a five year turnaround. Marketing got their win and essentially became co-equals. 2) Marketing (as a field) requires an immense amount of creativity and creation. It’s just a different focus. While A&D is free to create “for the art,” Marketing creates for a purpose. That’s why Comcast pulled them up to the table in the first place. It’s not A&D’s job to present the event to the masses; it’s Marketing’s job. To dismiss them as “those who think they can create” is an insult. I’ve done marketing design, and I put just as much (if not more) thought and effort into those products as my “fun” stuff. 3) My “old school versus new school” comment was intentional. There are some vestiges of the “old Universal,” complete with the “whatever man” and “this belongs to us” mentality that existed through the aughts. The “new” Universal, the Comcast Universal, is corporatizing how they operate. Fans may hate it, but it’s the only way the resort can succeed moving forward. (Side note - the “old school” mindset is where a lot of the current indecision with the parks is coming from).

Old school versus new school. And TWD.

In a way, that sums it up.

Oh?

I LOVE Deep Star Six.

It doesn't have to be. There's plenty of creative license a poet can take. I mean, "Howl" part 1 is one long sentence.

He’s still in Hellgate. He just never had control of the remote. Since the only thing the inmates wanted to watch was reality TV, that becomes his new obsession. There’s a riot... inmates escape... blah blah blah... they start torturing the guards with twisted recreations of their favorite shows. It’s 80% done in my head.

I’ve said this a dozen times. If Bloodengutz returns, it needs to “Bloodengutz Presents: Reality Terror-vision.”

So, I was wrong on Pumpkinhead. To make it up to everyone, here's a replacement clue: https://imgflip.com/gif/2yemyx

Prepare yourselves. This is going to turn some heads.