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Ok well let me tell you this, we ended up going late (around 8) and my group was very uncooperative with where to go because the girls were REALLY scared lol. So we did NOT hit everything, which means I will not have a review for everything.
First things first, I went opening weekend and yesterday (closing weekend? lol). So basically I was mainly looking for changes.
The reviews will be in order of what we went through:
Klownz: Area was great, I still wish there were more chainsaws there, I only saw maybe 2-3 chainsaws here. Personally, I think chainsaws are a great way to "pump someone up" who is just entering the park. It was fun watching some of them chase people in the locker rooms and even in the gift shop haha. Only problem was the girls in my group ran into guest services and stayed in there for a good 5 minutes which wasted precious time
I also liked watching one of the clowns (or... klownz) skip around while holding a bag of popcorn - offering it to guests. There was also a huge crowd surrounding the Ringmaster. I'm not sure what the fuss was about but I suppose he was telling jokes or something. 8/10 would be a 9/10 if there were more chainsaws, but thats just my preference
Reapers: Went straight down to lower lot next because I assumed lines were long already, plus some of the best mazes are here. Like what some other people said, it was cool that the Reapers added some facial hair, mohawks, etc. to their costumes. It made them seem unique. And I saw the same exact thing Grind saw... a Reaper literally slide/leaped to the floor and did a handstand with his chainsaw. IT WAS AMAZING. There were also Reapers hanging out in the bushes by the JP entrance, there were some good scares there. Another funny sight, the Reapers were in a circle and fistpumping and jumping around, then some girl tries to copy them so they just stare at her for like 30 seconds. She walks away and they all follow her hahaha.
9/10 big increase because Reapers seemed much more enthusiastic and cooler this time
Hostel: Next up was Hostel, I told the lady in the front the code: "Harvest Festival" and got a card. The girls in my group got scared and thought it was a code for them to scare us more LOL. The maze was much more memorable than the last time I went. Scareactors were on their A-game. I had ALOT of good scares and I found myself looking down/ducking alot of the time. I got to Steven's scene and I wasn't sure what Steven looked like so I just yelled it out haha. I BELIEVE it was him because he got in my date's face and went that "extra mile" for aggressive scaring haha.
9/10 still not perfect because it reminds me of Saw but still a great maze with very enthusiastic scareactors
Alice Cooper WTMN: This maze seemed about the same, there werent many changes that I noticed. For some reason, alot of the SA were picking on my date so she claims that she hated the maze but in the end she said she loved it haha. She kept asking me about the "story" of Alice cooper and there was not much i could say haha. Memorable scare when i walked past the woman-spider thing, I never noticed that there was a boohole on the other side of the room and well.... i kind of ran into the spider thing was was nasty... hahaha.
9/10, no noticeable changes but still an amazing maze
JP:
The Mummy:
Terror Tram: Wow, alotta changes from opening night. There were ALOT more chainsaw people at the drop off. Last time there were about 4, yesterday there was at least 8. The little midget SA was taking a break (or maybe we were walking too fast) and so we didn't get much from him. The good news: there was little to no traffic at the Bates' Motel. The SA were very aggressive here but it was DEFINITELY missing the fence maze which was the best thing of the TT when i went opening weekend. However, there was alot of traffic when you start on the "hike". The bushmen were VERY well hidden and got me a couple times. Funny moment when Norman Bates called a... i must say... a very LARGE and TALL lady a "sir". Then he quickly corrected himself and said "ma'am". I'm not sure if it was on purpose but it was definitely funny because she DID look like a man. LOL no offense to her... There seemed to be MUCH more SA in the area which is good because when I went opening weekend, there seemed to be a lack of SA. They also added a bunch of neon green lights at one of the buses so the "mutated soldiers" would fit into the area. Hmm, the ending was different from opening weekend. The tram guide kept the Ghostface costume on and kept us entertained... saying he was naked under the costume and such aha.
8/10, much better than opening weekend but losing the fence maze makes it lose a potential 9/10.
The Simpsons: Can't believe we wasted an hour in line for this ride. Girls wanted to go on it cause it was their first time.
La Llorona: 95 minute wait. Really. Girls wanted to go in this cause they heard it was "the best maze". Which is true (in my opinion), but it DEFINITELY wasn't worth a 95 minute wait. The line went as far back as to the Gibson Theater. Not much changes to say about this maze other than the SA being much more aggressive than in opening weekend. Great final scares (the ones outside of the maze haha)
9/10.
Because of the long waits for Simpsons and La Llorona, we couldn't hit anything else. So we went to the last showing of Bill and Ted
Bill and Ted: Much much much better! I found myself laughing alot more and the crowd was very into it (especially when Rebecca Black is killed by the asian guy from The Hangover). I noticed that the dance routine in the end isn't as long and the whole show didn't seem to drag on. I wasn't a fan of the music but it was enough I guess. Captain Mexico had a bigger role and was much more funny in this version. I noticed they changed Osama's girlfriend to the girl from Twlight. Much better,
8.5/10
I wish i went to The Thing, i wanted to see the changes, but i guess its alright. Thats it for this review folks. Happy halloween
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went again last night, will post up a review later
i wasnt able to go in everything though :/
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sounds great. yeah i remember when i went, it went off alot of times while walking through that small room.
plus it wasnt much of a scare because you already saw the truck and kinda knew what it was gonna do
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hows the truck effect?
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Well, i know many of us want to meet some of the scareactors that are from here. And many of us want to use the codename "bansheeman."
This thread can be for scareactors to post what character they are, what location theyre at, and what times they are normally there. This helps me and possibly others out because its a pain to scroll through pages and pages of topics just to find out who's doing what and etc.
So... scareactors (or if you know a scareactor's info), please post here
As far as i know, Stevenfortmrw is in the Hostel maze (but i dont remember which area and what times), Trevler is a zombie in zombieville, and Hobbz is a chainsaw guy at the drop off of TT.
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Yes, DTH, thats the code i'm looking for :/
Any ideas on what it could be?
Go look at the Zombieville discussion thread. It'll tell you when you can NOT find me there.
Lately, I've been playing it towards the front of the street near the white van, and moving a little bit down the Fast and Furious walkway when I can get away with it.
From Trev:
So, just to make it easier for y'all to stalk me, here are the times you will NOT find me in Zombieville. Each period lasts for 30 mins.
7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30, 1:00
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hey whats the secret phrase for hostel again? i forgot :/
i'm planning to go again this saturday ! yay!
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ok guys thanks now I can revise my plan
*-Questions
*Game Plan 2.0*
1.) it takes about 30 minutes to get to Universal so we are planing to leave around 3:00 to 3:30 so we can get there around 4.
2.) ok were gonna try to get front gate and get close enough to see the Opening Scaramonies then head straight to The Thing: Assimulation
3.) then we will head directly to the lower lot to Welcome to My nightmare
4.) Next we will hit Hostel: Hunting Season
5.) We will hit Jurassic Park in the Dark (since usualy at this time it is walk in no lines)
6.) The Mummy (same as above)
7.) after we will head back up and the Terror Tram
8.)We will do our Merch shopping at the stand in the terror tram line
*that Merch stand in the TT line does it usualy have everything that the Universal store has?
9.) La Llorona
10.) Eat Probably Flinstones BBQ.
11.) Bill & Ted
12.) House of 1000 Corpses
13.) Wolfman
14.) Chainsaw Chase Out
Thoughts?
looks solid.
and about the merch stand, i'm not so sure about it having everything the universal stores has.
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So, just to make it easier for y'all to stalk me, here are the times you will NOT find me in Zombieville. Each period lasts for 30 mins.
7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30, 1:00
i'll find you when i go again later this month... hahaha.
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My gameplan gave me alot of extra time.
I went early and was near the front of the opening scaremonies.
From there I would recommend going to The Thing first because its on the way the lower lot (plus you get some good scares if ur the first ones there). After that I would recommend going to WTMN and then Hostel. After that, JP and then The Mummy and maybe WTMN or Hostel again (its totally up to you, but i would choose WTMN because not alotta people knew where the queue was for that maze; making wait times short if the park just opened).
When me and my friends followed^ that, it was only 8:00, we only used up an hour and we went through all that.
So we took a break at cinnabon and decided to go to the Simpsons because it was only a 25 minute wait (thats up to you though; we went because the wait usually jumps up to 1 hour later on in the night).
From there we went to TT and took another break because it was what... like 10-ish by then? We bought some food and waited in line for La Llorona (i believe this line was the longest I had to wait for, and even then it was only about a 35 minute wait; plus we had more time to eat in line hahaha).
And of course, we took another break just because we had so much time on our hands lol. We walked through the "game" section where people were shooting hoops and stuff and walked through Klownz and into Wolfman. Wolfman didn't have that long of a wait (15-20 minutes because lines died down for it). After that, we hit Bill and Ted at 12:15 (lined up around 12) and ended up walking through Freakz into HOTC. HOTC had an alright wait (30 minutes tops) and then we exited through Zombieville.
We decided to go through The Thing again (because the first time, we had the backhand of the scares, and this time was no different
The night was almost over and we honestly could have went through Wolfman again but we were tired and decided to leave lol.
With the gameplan I had, i believe if we hadn't taken breaks, we could have finished everything by maybe... 12.
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this is hard, but i'll have to go with la llorona haha. Especially because it had a different vibe from all the other mazes
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second best maze of the night.
i loved the sets but ill be honest, i had low expectations so maybe thats why it was AMAZING for me.
giant black widow shot water in my eye which wasnt cool but it was acceptable haha.
scare actors were VERY aggressive in this maze. music wasn't very loud which was cool because I expected it to be as loud as the music in JP: in the dark.
if you want, you should definitely hit this twice if you finished everything in the lower lot because not alotta people know where to queue for this.
5/5
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BEST MAZE OF THE NIGHT.
Also the LONGEST WAIT of the night.
The maze was awesome, just something totally different from HHN's other mazes. The scrim was awesome.
The wall with La Llorona pushing against the wall (like freddy krueger) was the creepiest part
Wish I could say more but I'm really tired lol.
There was also a REALLY creepy la llorona eating... yeah i dont wanna spoil that part, but it was disgustingly awesome LOL.
final final scare they always had after u left the maze got my friend hahaha. she chased my friend all the way down the hall.
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Creatures looked great.
SAs looked great.
But like everyone else had said, there weren't enough scares.
I actually went through twice though, because it was amazing to look at what Murdy did with the maze.
Creatures looked really awesome.
3.5/5. I wish I didn't have high expectations for this maze.
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YAY we skipped the Mummy tunnel this year. haha
Okay, so TT was alright this year. Not the best (maybe cause im' tired of the same route) but alot better than last year (which seemed to lack scareactors when I went).
I felt like they should have added more chainsaws in the beginning. There was a cute scareactor that was scaring people hahaha, i dont wanna reveal too much but he was great.
The line backed up alot when we walked around Bate's motel into the fence maze. But I guess it was better than the clusterfuck of walking THROUGH the tiny hallways of bate's motel.
Alotta great scares in the fence maze, but after that, it started to tone down. Bushmen were great, I honestly could not detect them unless they had scared someone else ahead of me hahaha.
Uhh after that, it kinda went downhill intensity-wise. WOTW set was about the same. I got shot with water/blood FULLBLAST by one of the zombies which wasnt very fun. And I wish they added more chainsaws in the end as I only saw one.
3.5/5
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Show was... ALOT better than last year (or was it the year before that was bad?)
My favorite parts were with the Pirates and of course... CGI GUY! (I hope that doesnt spoil you, but you should def be expecting cgi guy during the show lol)
I didn't really like the Tron parts but i guess it was a "main" part of the storyline.
The cast was great but i honestly feel like it went a little longer than it should have. (or maybe i just didn't like the songs they danced to at the finale).
Dancing was top-notch.
But I felt REALLY bad for the cast because people started leaving in the middle of the show. :/ Kinda disrespectful if you ask me. Maybe they didn't like the partially-racist jokes?
But i guess the cast had fun with it because as some people tried to leave, they danced in front of them and blocked them from leaving LOL.
One cast member was grinding on a guy cause he was trying to leave ahahaha.
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This maze was great. 4/5 from me.
Steven's scene was awesome haha. The girls outside talking to you about the art show were really great (although some people didn't understand them because they had never seen hostel)
Sound was awesome, i liked the little "peek holes" that kinda showed you what you were about to see. Maze was great but i totally MISSED THE FINAL SCARE BECAUSE THERE WAS A SOUND PROBLEM.
Ughh that thing hurt my ears. I won't reveal too much but the guy popped out, pushed the button that makes a big sound and the sound system blew up or something...
All i heard was a large beeping mosquito noise. For those of you who don't know what the mosquito noise is, its just one really long and annoying "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
I dunno, but that ruined the maze for me. It was doing great up till then. :/
Sound problems not goooood
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Maze was still top-notch but repetitive for me (since i went last year).
4th Best maze of the night for me.
Would recommend going to this last or second to last because the wait time dies down towards the end of the night and of course if you've already been in here, theres no point in going again when theres new mazes to go through!
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Zombieville was great, had alotta scares but I didn't see Trevler :/
Freakz was also good.
The reapers weren't scary. Honestly I would have preferred PIGS over them. They just seemed more badass than scary. And there was one out of place Reaper with a shaker can. What was that about? LOL Wish they still had sliders there though.
Don't remember much from Scream.
Klownz was alright, i think they needed more chainsaws honestly. Seemed to be lacking that.
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Definitely skip mummy and simpsons if you can stand to, and I'd even skip JP if you're willing. Hit either the thing or LL first, then hit lower lot IMMEDIATELY. I'd recommend to probably do LL first, as it's line seemed to be the most consistently long. Other than that your game-plan should hold up.
My gameplan was flawless. We honestly could have finished everything by maybe... 12 if we didnt take 3 long breaks.
At first, we watched the opening scaremonies and went to The Thing.
From there we went down to lower lot and into WTMN and then Hostel. Then we went on The Mummy, and then JP, then the Mummy again and back into WTMN (because not alotta people knew where the queue was for it)
Then we went upstairs, had some cinnabon (Snack break) and decided to go in The Simpsons because it was only a 30 minute wait (whereas it would have been 60 in previous years).
From there we went to the Terror Tram and then we took ANOTHER break and went into La Llorona. It was only about 11 by this time.
So we decided to kill some time and take another break (wow, we're fatties lol) and we went into Wolfman. From there we went into line for Bill and Ted at 12.
After that we went in HOTC and then back into The Thing for another run (Because that wait was pretty short compared to the others).
Then the chainsaw chaseout
If you follow that^ gameplan, you should have plenty of time if you dont take breaks. ;o
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were the lines actually 60 min long? how long was the line for la llorona
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Yeah, i'm curious.
Do u think i can make it through the night doing okay by going to... The Thing then WTMN then Hostel then JP, The Mummy, Terror Tram, Snack, La Llorona, The Simpsons, Bill and Ted, and then either HOTC or Wolfman?
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Looks like ill be going to The Thing first this year. so i can get to it later when the lines begin to get longer
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did anyone see the costumes of the chainsaw people on the TT ? they looked SOOO SICK !
Care to explain? I'm trying to do homework at the same time, and watching videos won't help. LOL
I also liked watching one of the clowns (or... klownz) skip around while holding a bag of popcorn - offering it to guests. There was also a huge crowd surrounding the Ringmaster. I'm not sure what the fuss was about but I suppose he was telling jokes or something. 
Rampage's Review
in HHN 2011: Reviews
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The Thing sounds better from the way you guys make it sound haha. Even though I didn't hit everything like my first time going this year, I DEFINITELY had more fun (or it could be that my group had better personalities than those in the group i went in with the first time)
I think its a better to go towards the middle/end of the month because SA get a better hang of things, they find new tactics to use, and there are better changes to mazes/scarezones/tram/etc
La llorona was still great but def not worth a 95 minute wait. I woulda probably went to Wolfman/HOTC and The Thing without that wait. Yeah it was weird, the lines LOOKED normal, there was only an extra queue next to the entrance but it wasnt that long. So I assumed it would only be about 40-50 minute wait. But the line curved and curved, soon it went around the Curious George playplace thing, then went around the back to the Gibson Amp and back again to the normal shrek queue. Craaaazy line.
This makes me wonder if we can actually put another maze at the Gibson Amp. There is definitely enough space, but where would the lines go? Especially the over-flow lines.
I wish i stayed to watch the Ringmaster haha, i never watched Insult Emporium (other than on youtube). I was gonna watch it in... 2008 but the Insult Emporium got canceled like two weeks into the event and it was too late