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  1. the emails say "Operatives are instructed to monitor the official LegendaryTruth Facebook page to learn more...." facebook fails to load half the time so it is hard to follow in the park same with the Wait Times, the message is either Wait Times is temporary unavailable or even better Wait Times are only available when at the Universal Resort, I guess the system was not updated to reconize that the houses and queues are outside the park. It worked two or three times and the wait times displayed were not close to reality.
  2. Props to the Walkers at the end of Walking Dead yesterday. I was the first one through the house, and their coordinated attack in the very last scene literally had me on the run. Also, not sure which scene it was in Werewolf, but I think it was before the transformation room. Whoever is in there scared the living snot out of my husband, which is no easy task. I laughed my way through the rest of the house. Wish I knew who it was. He just refers to it as, "Some guy pranced out and attacked me!"
  3. I hate to say it, but they need to just kill this show. Without callbacks, there's literally no point because no one cares. Yes, it's obsence and offensive. That's what makes it Rocky Horror. Either have the balls to do it right, like it was done in years past, or don't bother. I long for the original days when they first had it and emphasized that there would be filthy language and offensive words right from the start and encouraged the crowd. Too bad they're not as dilligent about kicking out people who smoke in line as they are in attacking those who use the F-words. Heck, I'd like to see them throw out people screaming swear words in other parts of the park. From what I've heard around me already this year, Rocky must be the only place that swearing is banned.
  4. So basically it's pointless for them to have this show. The ones who would be offended at the callbacks are the same ones that will flee the minute the Sweet Transvestite makes his appearance. The ones who understand and love the show won't come to see it in its neutered form because, really, what's the point? Rocky Horror is the sort of thing that, if you're going to do it, you have to do it completely or it's just not worth having at all.
  5. As the others have said, an accident. But why be pissed about it when you got a more intense experience? I for one would love a no-holes-barred house where they scareactors could really attack. Consider it a badge of honor. That's how my husband felt when an overhead scareactor at HoS misjudged during the first week a few years ago and accidentally popped him in the head. Poor scareactor freaked out (I imagine lots of babies would report it), but he thought it was great.
  6. I'm a Jumpy Screamer. Even though I have no actual fear. I'll cringe and duck and jump and scream my way through the houses. At times I will take on the Protector role, particularly if I'm in line with some Petrified types. I've even had total strangers latch onto me in houses, and I do my best to navigate them through, but of course that just turns them into scareactor bait.
  7. Even worse this year with people not knowing WTF was going on. Was at the first show yesterday, and there were a couple of people doing call backs and maybe five stood up to do the Time Warp. Very disappointing, as I'm sure it won't be back if this keeps up. I felt sorry for the cast because it was a very small, unenthusiastic audience overall (including the requisite jackass with their young kid).
  8. Another vote for looking for peeps with Nightmares shirts. I wear mine probably about half the time and alternate with vintage Vault and other HHN years. Feel free to join me if you see me & the hubby. We're there almost every night we can be with FFP+exp. We usually start out in the holding pen in the kid area, although sometimes we start at Finngenan's. My picture is on the photo thread, but just look for some crazy old short reddish-brown haired woman with glasses carrying a little Freddy Krueger doll.
  9. This is me, taken at HowlOScream Scream Cam this year. Please feel free to attack, torment, fold, spindle and mutilate me in the most brutal ways possible. I generally wear a Nightmares or Vault short or past year HHN, and I might be carrying a little Freddy Kreuger doll.
  10. Oh Havoc Team B, how I love thee. I suspect I will be crawling on the ground by the end of the season at the knees of that giant hulk. La Llorana, props for my best scare of the season so far on opening night. It was early, so likely Team A. I was admiring the gorgeous set design and had no idea a glowing white figure had snuck up on me and was just waiting for me to turn. My scream was piercing as I nearly wet my pants. Afterlife Team A was on fire last night. That's not one of my favorite houses, mainly due to the rather dead end, but y'all had me loving it last night. I was run ragged through that entire house. Best run through ever in Evil Dead last night, too (sorry, don't know which team).
  11. I've got mixed feelings this year. In some years past I went every night, stayed until the last possible moment, and was gripped by a deep depression that lasted for the next month. This year I skipped some nights, and now that it's over, my feeling is more of a low-level melancholy. With that said, even though I don't miss the event itself as sorely as in years past, I do indeed miss certain elements very deeply. When I was there for the Transformers announcement, I pined for Alice, Horrors, Gothic, perhaps even some Penn & Teller, and the streets teaming with trick-or-treaters, warriors, and chainsaws (and maybe a few Walkers). Those are some of the things I really, really, really miss when 4 o'clock rolls around each night and I feel like I should be getting ready to go somewhere. The scareactors totally made the event this year; it would have been mediocre had they not poured their hearts and souls into it, and the fans saw that and appreciate it.
  12. i love the looks from fellow guests you get when hugging. I got a hug from my favorite Cast A jock, and the people in front of me were looking back like WTF?!
  13. OMG, you all rocked the park last night! Most intense night of the event. I love you, all my little trick or treaters, and of course I can't forget the vicious chainsaw prisoners who wouldn't even let me pause to wait for the hubby. Loved the warriors sneaking around in the bushes and queue lines too. Alice, Alice, Alice, you're the house I already miss. Was happy to get to say goodbye to my favorite jock but sad that it's another house that passes into history. Got my best scare in Silent Hill; knife-wielding nurse was behind me, while I was totally oblivious till hubby made me turn, and I screamed like a maniac. Then she got me again! Dead End was packed with scares, and Penn & Teller was the most energetic I've ever seen it. I always love the slots room, and it was great fun to have Sigfried get in my face, then get double teamed by Roy and Elvis. My poor little Scratchy doll is still traumatized by all the maltreatment he received in Gothic. Gonna really miss good old House of Horrors, where the scareactors had stealth down to an art, and I loved the aggression of the zombies outside Walking Dead, who bounced me around like a pinball machine. Overall, this was a "meh" year in terms of the whole event, but individual scareactors, houses and hoards turned what could have been a bust into some wonderful memories.
  14. Sigh. This is the one house from 2012 that I'm really, really going to miss this year. I enjoyed Gothic and House of Horrors, but Alice won a special place in my heart. Amazing energy throughout the entire event run and just a fun experience all the way around, especially Team A (not dissing B, it's just that our timing put us through on A 90 percent of the time).
  15. Wow, last night already? I'm going to miss all my Cast A favorites in Alice so much, as well as Gothic and HoH, and of course all the trick or treaters. The weather is suitably chilly for autumn, looks like no chance of rain, so I'm ready for one last night. Hoping it's a terrifying one!
  16. Cast A gargoyle at the end of Gothic by the bungee guy, I'm so sorry I stepped on your foot on Sunday. I was mesmerized by the bungee and had no idea you were standing right behind me till I stepped on you and nearly had a heart attack! Then I was torn between my terror and stammering out an apology. It was epic when you scared me again on the other side.
  17. The only bad thing about this show is that it had no repeat value for me. Saw it once, and it was like "been there, done that." I really miss Rocky and saw it every night because...well, because it's Rocky. Death Drums was a freakin' cluster traffic-wise. I have nothing against the show itself, and it would have been fine in Beetlejuice, but it was totally idiotic to put it right in a main thoroughfare multiple times a night.
  18. Not much I can add to all the other accolades, but I still can't believe that this turned out to be my favorite house of the year. Not that I have anything against Alice Cooper...I don't have much of an opinion on his music one way or another. I figured it would be an okay house, but as the event draws to a close, it's firmly in my number one spot (particularly Cast A, since I tend to do the first set). I even gave it kudos in my Examiner column this past week: http://www.examiner.com/article/alice-cooper-takes-the-lead-my-halloween-horror-nights-house-rankings It's my favorite surprise of the year.
  19. Hope you don't mind if I add in one more. I know people will run backward or jump forward because of a scare, but for God's sake, don't keep running into the person in front of or behind you. Once maybe, but then you should get the concept and temper your fear with a bit of courtesy for those around you,. This is especially bad with tour groups (so many of those this year) or trains of teeny bopper girls who seem to think it's really, really cute. I've learned to always carry a water bottle or mini umbrella, and the second time they run backwards into me (I'll give 'em one freebie), they hit the point of either one of those objects before they hit me. Amazing how it instantly cures them from doing it a third time. Running forward into me is a bit more tricky, but I've administered a well placed cow kick a time or two (most recently to some idiot male teen in a tour group whose group of fellow males was worse than any gaggle of girls), and that takes care of it. Hey, I can't help it. I'm a relatively short old woman, and it's my automatic response to the pain of your idiotic body slam.
  20. Ah, Alice, my favorite house, and my favorite jock under the bleachers. We pretty much always go through on Team A, since we're always in the Kid Zone pen, and that whole house is always spot on...mental patients, jock, ceiling guy (how the hell do you get me every time), and that final room (loved the "The Vault is dead!" my husband got taunted with tonight). Horrors Team A is always great fun, too, and I was so happy to get a great double team scare in Walking Dead tonight right in the beginning of the barn. That house seemed more aggressive at the beginning of the season, so that was like a taste of that vicious old aggressiveness that I love. Gothic gave me a good scare last night, but I'm having a mind blank so I can't remember the details. Love that house, tho'. It's up there with Alice and Horrors in my top 3 for the year.
  21. Loved it when my giant Radioactive Man got tortured in the plant room of Dead End last night and when Sigfried threatened him with a noose in P&T. Hubby said he got stabbed while I was in the restroom, too (possibly by a pumpkinhead...it was over in Kids Zone). Still trying to figure out who called me out by name over on Hollywood when we passed through the Iniquitis. Mad props to the vampire in HoH who scared the crap out of hubby on Thurs. I've never seen him jump like that before, but someone appearing out of thin air will pretty much do that to you.
  22. This year, I went to HHN planning to really love the Penn & Teller, House of Horrors and Walking Dead houses and thinking "meh" about Alice Cooper because I'm not a big fan of his music. While I do love Dead and Horrors, Penn & Teller is pretty "meh" for me because I don't get a lot of scares in there, and I'd like more comedy. Meanwhile, my big shock is just how much I'm enjoying Alice Cooper. That house is viciously aggressive every time I go through. I make no attempt to try to understand it or make sense of the scenes. I just go through and enjoy the attacks. Dead and Horros were my top two at the beginning of the event, but I'm shocked that Alice is rocketing up there now. Anyone else surprised by what you like and dislike this year?
  23. In years past, the Disaster queue house has always had daylight issues in the past in the early hours of the event. Normally it's a detriment because you can see the scareactors so you don't get the "surprise" scares. However, with Walking Dead, I find it to be as much about the environment as it is about the scares, coupled with the fact that Walking Dead fans will love seeing the details you absolutely don't see when it's dark. The scareactors are aggressive enough to make the scares work when it's light in there, too. It's like two different houses in day vs. night.
  24. For me, Express is an insurance policy. I'd probably do just fine with Stay and Scream, although this year the soundstage lines are getting long very fast. We knock out Horrors, Cooper, P&T, and Walking Dead very quickly, though. But I like seeing how many houses I can do without it, then using it to repeat favorites or to do another complete round. I never have to worry about the line lengths because, no matter what, I know Express will always get me one complete round.
  25. Loved the scareactor in Alice Cooper who was waiting right on the other side of the drapings as I lifted them gingerly to make my way through and to the one who nearly body checked me. That house has a great, consistent energy level. Gothic and Dead End were really rockin' it last night, too, and I loved the chainsaw-wielding female prisioner who kept laughing at me manically in preparation for menacing me with her chainsaw.
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