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    The Hoodie Brigade

    in General Halloween Horror Nights - Orlando

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    When I said I wanted a hoodie, I expected to get AT LEAST the Halloween Horror Nights logo on the front in big letters. Not the logo scaled down to fit in the corner where a shirt pocket would be. They could have done what they have currently and then the houses on the back, they could have done a bloody spade, they could have done quite a few other designs that would have made it worth buying. It's literally just a black jacket with a logo in the corner.

    And don't say "$40 dollars isn't to much". With that money I can get a hoodie I would actually wear. In fact, I could get a cheap hoodie and make my own HHN hoodie if I wanted. I'm not gonna buy something just because they put it out. I'm a customer. It's great that some of you like it, but I don't. I'm not happy with it and I'm not gonna spend money on it. Yes we begged, but I think most of us expected them to put a little more effort into it than they did.

    HHN 21 Merchandise

    in Halloween Horror Nights 21

    Posted

    I am happy for the fans who wanted a simple, cheaply priced zip up. You got what you wanted, and that's nice considering that the community doesn't get much consideration when it comes to merchandize. I hope you guys make some sort of dent in sales to prove to Universal that hoodies are a worthy venture for HHN.

    It's personally disappointing because I like flashier designs when it comes to specialty apparel. If I'm paying good money for a piece of clothing, I want strangers to stop me and be like, "That's an awesome xyz! Where did you get it? What does it mean?" And, I'm sorry, but $35 is good money to me.

    In comparison, I'm loving Howl-O-Scream's hoodie this year. The front is simple but not so simple that it's boring. I changed my mind at the last minute about the 2010 Hollywood hoodie and bought a black Universal Orlando hoddie with pink cursive across the front instead. Could not be happier with that decision. Hoodies are more novelty collectibles to me than actual clothing. I don't buy them to keep me warm, I buy them for the intrigue, shock value, and aesthetics. I buy the pins for nostalgia. And that's what this topic really comes down to: a balanced scale of opposing values, neither more important or validated than the other. It's a personal preference.

    To me, this is a mediocre product with a last minute decision style, much like the one from Hollywood last year. Universal obviously met their quota though, or else it wouldn't be rearing it's endearing head here in Orlando this year. So for two years in a row, they've used the same design for this product. And just to clarify, we don't know how well it actually did with the general public last year.

    Now, I was a South Florida teenager just a short while ago, and when it came to hoodies and t-shirts all I cared about was cool looking band apparel. The louder, the better. I had a Bob Marley hoodie covered in pins, patches, spikes, and whatever other random crap I could get my hands on. You needed earplugs just to chance a glimpse at the damned thing. This HHN hoodie is the antitheses. It's not what the majority demographic of the general public is going to reach for on the shelves. These teenage and young adult males are going to go for the Rockabilly shot glasses. Alcohol is one of their biggest forbidden and favored fruits. It's got a skull, dice, and a well endowed lady on it; ergo, its the coolest thing since sliced bread for them.

    This is what I DON'T want to see happen: just enough people buy this hoodie to reach the year's minimum quota and the design keeps getting recycled because of that. I don't want it to be 2015 by the time we get an alternative design, but to play the loyal consumer game in order to get better merchandize further on down the line is unfair. Why can't it be great now? This isn't even really a game of You Can't Please Everyone. The community is obviously split down two different value systems.

    I genuinely hope that this testing of the waters results in timely and beneficial actions for everyone. If it's just fluff, all the more disappointment. : (

    I agree. They seriously could have done an actual pull over hoodie with the same logo on the front, just bigger. Big disappointment. There's a huge difference between simple and boring designs.

    Experiences in line

    in General Halloween Horror Nights - Orlando

    Posted

    I have only had 1 interesting situation. Normally I'm not even paying attention to the others around me. But we were towards the end of Havoc last year, and my brother and friend were in front of our line. Well, this was my brothers first HHN (which by the way he loved!), and Havoc was one of the first 3 houses we did with him. He was 12 last year. Anyways, we were towards the end of the house, and 1 scareactor got my brother really good, and kind of ran/rushed away from the actor and accidentally ran into a random guy in front of us. The guy turned around, yelled at my brother and told him to "stop it". First of all, it was an accident. Second of all, he had no right to literally get up in my 12 year old brother's face and yell at him. Once we exited the house he darted off and we couldn't find him, because we would have confronted him about it.

    That's about the only thing I can remember to be honest!

    The In Between

    in Haunted Houses

    Posted

    Hmm.. Should have looked closer. But the caption on facebook is "Didn’t your mother tell you never to play with Ouija boards? You never know what trouble you could get into….or what evil you might release when you step inside… The In-Between."

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