Legacy
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I've been told the originals will not have announcement videos this year.
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19 minutes ago, OhHaiInternet95 said:
Walking Dead and FDTD were announced by the time Diagon opened.
They weren't announcing in March/April then, or doing two announcements a month.
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14 hours ago, ForeverEvil1 said:
I wouldn’t hedge your bets on that. They still gotta do IP announcements seperate because right.
Up until June 7th, any announcement would still put us on a faster pace than last year.
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.
12 hours ago, zombieman said:The problem with planning every house announcement to the day has a huge risk of some bigger unplanned event occurring that would normally cause an announcement to be postponed. Natural disaster, airline crash, school shooting, IP agreement falling out, etc.
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.
11 hours ago, kablue said:Do announcements usually get postponed as often as they have this year? It seems like every few weeks there's going to be an announcement and then it get's postponed.
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.
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7 hours ago, ForeverEvil1 said:
Confirmed:
Stranger Things 2/3 - SS25
Nightingales BP - Tent 2
Uni Monsters - SoX Warehouse
Unconfirmed:
Ghostbusters - SS22
Killer Klowns - Shrek
House Of 1000 Corpses - Tent 3
Tooth Fairy - SS24
Appalachian Mountain Yeti - SS24
”The Depths Of Fear” - Tent 1
”Graveyard: Hide N Seek” - Parade Warehouse
Flip tents 1 and 2.
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5 hours ago, mz_ said:
Do they still store anything in the back half? I know they used to store some of the parade stuff. When taking the tour one year, you could just see all that stuff from some of the house areas (lights on). Maybe just to partition the house area from the storage area better?
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.
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21 minutes ago, HorrorUnearthed said:
I've always wanted a Return Of The Living Dead-esque house coming to the event and it'll be awesome to see it coming true in this original, I'm very interested in this house, if it's another chapter of The Graveyard Series since first one Carnival Graveyard and this one about Hide & Seek, each one is about different themes. It'll be really cool if that's what they are doing this house.
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.
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Orlando's HHN budget has increased yearly for nearly a decade.
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5 minutes ago, themazethinker said:
so apparently graveyard MIGHT get replaced by creepshow.
Or my wires got crossed and Creepshow is a Hollywood exclusive.
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Think a game of Hide and Seek in a graveyard. Like, a cemetery.
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41 minutes ago, HorrorUnearthed said:
After seeing how they did Festival Of The Deadliest, that mixed how they did HHN 15's scarezones for Terra Cruentas, there are a lot of ways they could bring it to Universal and try their best to recreate the visual look it had at 15 maybe not all the way but enough to praise 15 you know. The icons wouldn't be included.
Yeah I doubt we'll see her get as much as a due since she was just a promotional icon but you know that's where it sucks that we can't do dual parks anymore. Islands for Terra Cruentas and Universal for the icons but with that said, we still got HHN 29 to experience lol, so lets hope this year does really well and see what it brings.
I expect a Terra Cruentes house next year, but that’s it.
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12 minutes ago, HorrorUnearthed said:
Well we are 129 Days away from HHN, so hopefully we get something about the tickets and about the scarezones because those definitely have to be mentioned, as for the other originals, I wouldn't doubt them releasing them at the same time like they've done back at 27, releasing them and then the videos and info tied to them. I mean that's the best unless will continuously throw out more time-wasting tweets. I really do hope they actually give us better info and more insight into this year's event. No update had been done to the site except for the house page, but you'd think they'd have some cool theming to the site like last year, this year's site looks compared to Hollywood's.
Still a few weeks until zones. Next house in a couple of weeks.
9 minutes ago, USHER6998 said:I think a cool scarezone could be a area that’s like a sacrificial ritual to summon terra queen for 30 next year! Maybe even have some of the icons there!
Except Terra Cruentes is a different “world” than the one that the icons live in. Terra Cruentes is a story the Storyteller told.
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11 minutes ago, HHN Pro 2 said:
So there will be an Icon house?
She hopes so.
I don’t think there will be.
Nor do I think Leave It 2 Cleaver is happening.
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I’ve been told the announcement was pushed back simply because the products Orlando needed for the announcement weren’t complete.
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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).
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2 hours ago, Midnight Detective said:
Can someone explain to me why A&D/Marketing clash so much? Has marketing ever made an overriding decision that down the line resulted in being the right move?
Old school versus new school.
And TWD.
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1 minute ago, zombieman said:
I had the same Q, so went searching another forum. My summary is probably not fully accurate. Ifrit clue suggested announcement yesterday or today. A bet over Butterbeer was made: Creepshow vs HOTC vs Classic Monsters. Creepshow was seen as a strong rumor for this year - possibly even started build. (King Creepshow vs TV series Creepshow was still being volleyed about.) Then someone suggested that Creepshow had been "Screamed", which was in line from a recent Murdy tweet where he said he was thrown a curveball. Announcement was not made. (Evidently, something is happening with Marvel this weekend, so announcements are now expected in May.) Someone concluded that Creepshow was now off the table; Legacy said whoa there, Nelly!
Did I sum that up about right, Legacy?
In a way, that sums it up.
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33 minutes ago, TheRobcat said:
weeelll, looks like Creep Show likely imploded.
Oh?
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20 hours ago, mystiquephreeq said:
The Abyss and Leviathan are movies that came out in 1989. There was one more titled Deep Star Six. All of them dealt with otherworldly creatures in the deep ocean. The Abyss was less monster movie than the other two, but The Abyss is far more recognizable.
I LOVE Deep Star Six.
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1 hour ago, mystiquephreeq said:
Grammar rules: You capitalize the start of sentences and proper names. In poetry, each line is a sentence.
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.
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13 minutes ago, Hhnsophmore said:
Stranger things 2
Halloween
AHS
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
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14 hours ago, OhHaiInternet95 said:
As I've said, a good backstory for this would either be his ghost becoming a demi-god of sorts and haunting the old studio (like Gabriel from Supernatural), or him and other inmates escaping and holding a TV studio hostage.
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.
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I’ve said this a dozen times. If Bloodengutz returns, it needs to “Bloodengutz Presents: Reality Terror-vision.”
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So, I was wrong on Pumpkinhead. To make it up to everyone, here's a replacement clue:
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Prepare yourselves.
This is going to turn some heads.
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Depths of Fear
in Haunted Houses
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Saws and Steam: Into the Machine was a Bioshock house.