ThreeCircles
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Someone on the construction thread mentioned the good possibility that one of the tents would house a military type house. Is this the same house that has the "Pitchfork" role? If so, those early clues would certainly match a Crazies type house.
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This might sound stupid but this being the 20th year would draw a lot of people alone. They might not need movie houses.
I really don't understand this argument. The 20th year? So. Sorry, but I just don't see why that would make it a drawn to the general public.
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Yeah it is. Why are the board's width so long? This is the only site it does that on.
You're not the only one with this situation. This is the ONLY website that I have to scroll left to right. Wouldn't the forum fit to size better if not for the header image. It just seems the size of the header image is huge in comparison to other sites.
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Calm down boys.
Life is short, Drink plenty of drinks from Flashy cups and calm down..
Wait, Flashy Cups, they light up, and have been used to light guests way thru houses. Could the Lantern be in reference to the Flashy Cups?
I think that's it! The lantern is trying to tell us that the flashy, blinking cups and shot glasses will indeed return this year!
Yes!
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Huh... Totally forgot about him... Not seeing him in this house though. Doesn't fit with everything else really. But, i could be wrong.
I'd say he would fit in well with the whole "mythology" theme mentioned.
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Again, it's untraceable and no one will be loosing their job. You all assume these people are correctly leaking their role *and* cast or position. So, two people cast for a role, A and B. Person B sends in I've been cast as Scarecrow A. So, A gets fired and has nothing to do with the leak?
Come on. No one is loosing anything. Period.
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I speculate there will be a few who will not be working HHN whom were cast. LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS!!
I speculate that being very doubtful. Individuals sending in information (that was available to a multitude of people) to a third party and that third party posting it on the internet, well, doesn't sound too traceable to me.
Those people's jobs are fine.
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Chainsaws? No way! I'm so glad this news was broke as I would *never* have expected chainsaws at HHN.
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Well, This is disturbing: http://www.ectomo.com/2010/06/29/megaworm-and-the-gulf-oil-spill/
I'm in full agreement with some of the comments to that article and also hope that the worms wreak vengeance upon humanity. Hopefully humankind has been marked by nature for termination.
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...yet most successful...
That wasn't your point, was it? You suggested that we, and I quote, "give A&D more credit to come up with something a bit more imaginative" in reference to the wedding idea. In essence you suggest that we should place undue faith in A&D because they won't put forth an unimaginative concept.
It doesn't matter how "successful" Carnival of Carnage was, it still remains unimaginative. Throw movies together under an the concept that Jack is bringing them all together.
So, why wouldn't they do such again? Hey everyone, Jack's getting married and invited all of his friends. The event seems to vacillate between very creative and detailed years, i.e., Tales of Terror, Reflections of Fear, and much less creative and detailed years, i.e., Carnival of Carnage and Sweet 16. Perhaps this is for budgetary reasons or other reasons. Whatever the reason, this year certainly seems to be shaping up as a year to chalk up to the latter grouping rather than the former.
Also, my guess is you truly have no clue how Carnival of Carnage, or any other year for that matter, measures success wise.
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All this talk of weddings.... surely we should give A&D more credit to come up with something a bit more imaginative than that....
Really? They gave us Carnival of Carnage. That has to be one of the most unimaginative and least creative themes ever.
It amazes me the extent to which some idolize these people and think they can't or won't put forward a bad idea.
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So the tag line is the bland: Twenty Years of Fear.
<sarcasm>Yay! Another reunion rehash year!</sarcasm>
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I'm of the persuasion that the current page is nothing more than an updated placeholder. They replaced the old one that they've used for the past five years.
Doubtful there's anything to read into it.
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Halloween night was quite slow last year. Longest wait during the busiest portion of the evening was only 25-30 minutes.
Everything was also discounted including the alcohol. Souvenir shots were going for $5 with $4 refills.
It stands to reason they would offer Halloween night on the FFP. They just want to get people into the event and it sounds like they have a difficult time during that evening.
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so you are telling me that the person from creative that told me this was lying, sorry but I asked him the same question last year as he was on my UTH tour last year, and HHN has too much alcohol that their target would be young adults who can't drink it.
USO makes to much money on alcohol that they will never cut it out, and the event I hope will continue to be created for the people who are old enough to drink said adult beverages. the tickets say PG-13. and lastly I think TJ knows the target audeince of his favorite event.
so you can accept the idea or not but it is a fact that HHN's target audeince is collage age 21 - 30. they make too much $ on the alcohol not to target the audeince that will be drinking. they make around $4 million just on alcohol during HHNs.
ThreeCircles how many years have you been going to HHN, and have you ever done the UTH tour?
this year will be my 8th year in a row, and I have not missed a UTH tour, and the year they didn't do the tour I was there on the final night and was able to do the LT and had the Q&A with creative and that large group of fans.
that said I think my information comes from a creditable source
see you in 105 days
Jim
I won't derail the speculation thread with counterpoints to each of your propositions but I stand by the fact that both events target the teen to young adult group. And by young adult I mean up to mid-thirties. Alcohol has nothing to do with any distinction between the events as Busch, formerly owned by a beer co. least you not forget, pushes the stuff just as much as HHN. Bud stands every five feet. And, Busch too "rates" their event PG-13.
I've been attending HHN for five years and HOS for six. Never been interested in any tours from either. And one individual in "creative" does not a HHN make. If HHN's has a target audience of adults they are doing a really shitty job of hitting it.
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sorry to break you bubble, but during our Q&A during secrets of the side show tour a few years back, we were told that HHN's target audience is college age and up, ie drinking age, HOS's target audience is teens and Disney's target audience is little kids. so HHN s is not designed with teens in mind. granted alot of teenagers go to HHNs, but it's target audience is 21 - 30.
nothing personal, but I like that it is designed for adults, there are plently of kid things to do in Orlando it's nice to have an event designed with us adults in mind.
Jim
Sorry, but I wouldn't accept that idea. HOS and HHN have the same core target audience and I would say that's teen through young adult. Most nights at HHN more closely resemble a tween sleep over than they do a frat party.
A thought on the scene names that may have already been expressed and I missed it. It's possible, somewhat even likely, that the identifers we have now are only code names for the actual scene names just like the code names for the houses last year. Perhaps these are no more descriptive than that.
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I didn't think that was 3-d; wasn't their 3-d house the Third Dementia, or something like that?
It really wasn't fully 3D but more of a hybrid, I guess. They used the 3D paints and black lights throughout. The technique made the "burning" areas of the house look 3D.
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Likely the best 3D house I ever experienced was The Hunted at HOS. Totally unique way of using the effect. With that said, I've enjoyed most of the 3D houses as something different from the run of the mill, standard houses.
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Count me in as one who doesn't care about the shows. In fact, I've yet to see any shows at HHN. Bill and Ted is just obnoxious to me and not in the least interesting. Likewise, RHPS just doesn't interest me when done by a theme park cast. I would acutally probably see RHPS but because Universal can't seem to control capacity at HHN, or at least doesn't want to, I'd rather devote time to a house than the show.
About the only Halloween show I regularly see is Fiends at HOS. It's corney and rehashed but I like it. More nurses!
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I'm just not a fan of reunions period. It's a cheap way to avoid having to develop and market a new concept. Just rehashing ideas already used. New will always trump old in my book. And really, how many reunions do you need? 16 was plenty.
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I'm not a copyright attorney or expert but I don't think it's possible to copyright such a general idea as "bloody mary" that resides in the public domain. Sure, a specific incarnation of that general idea but not the general idea itself. Anyone can make a movie about some pretty famous characters, including Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, etc. They're all in the public domain. (That's not to say they can use already created images of those characters but certainly the idea and storyline.)
This article is interesting. There's a whole list of characters in the public domain near the end of the page.
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I was thinking, about everything that is being said and what not. And im concerned that with all the "Rumors" and such going around, are expectations of the event are going to be too high to the point to when it does come in Sept/Oct, were going to be disappointed. Anyone else share my concern?
In my opinion, there's an exceptionally strong tendency among some HHN attendees to greatly exaggerate the event. This tendency isn't new to this year but, perhaps, may be taken to another level since it is, what some posit, a "significant anniversary year". (Overall, I see much less of this behavior here than I do on another HHN site but that's another story.)
Here's my thoughts:
*Fist, while 20 years may mean a lot to a small number of devoted attendees, I'm not so sure it's a big deal in the business sense. I mean, I don't think it's going to pull in a significant increase in attendance, and thus revenue, simply because it's year 20. And I think Universal knows that. Sure, they may throw in a few extras but is it going to be significantly different. Um, no. Keep in mind the fact that each and every year Universal proclaims the event as the biggest and best. "Twenty" may well become the marketing gimmick but result in little real difference.
Second, consider your audience. There are far too many that frequent HHN focused forums that have the "Three year old Santa Syndrome." To a three year old, Santa and Christmas may well become so large in their mind that it eclipses all logical reason. This, it seems, happens with the non-typical HHN fan. They talk only in extremes (HHN is the BEST EVER!), they discount any negative or realistic comments that don't espouse obsession with the event, and they can't objectively consider the event as a whole or in part.
So, will some people over build and over exaggerate the event? Absolutely. Will some be let down? Some. But it's a self-feeding cycle. Those who can't see the event objectively and over build it in their mind are the same people who will most likely buy all their hype hook, line, and sinker.
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Over estimates on wait times are good. Disney excels at line time estimation and I've noticed that if anything they overestimate the wait time.
Spending less time in line than posted wait time = always good.
Spending more time in line than posted wait time = never good.
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I'd like to see a house based on the 1978 version of "Dawn of the Dead." In some ways, it might resemble the old Deadtropolis house from a few years back, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
There was one scene from Deadtropolis that stuck with me, and I hope I'm remembering it clearly: the interior of a wrecked subway car. As you walked through the middle, the lights flickered on and off and a dozen zombie arms came through the windows to try to grab you.
Zombie films are all about huge numbers of mindless eating machines. A thoroughly well-staffed (if not slightly over-staffed) zombie house could be an instant classic.
This is a great idea. At various times, last year I believe, people made mention of a black and white house. Everything in black and white like one was transported into one of the old films. The Night of the Living Dead would be an awesome fit for that. Classy and contemporary at the same time.
And I'll third Carpenter's Halloween. Best horror movie ever, in my opinion. And who doesn't love Dr. Loomis?
So, why wouldn't they do such again? Hey everyone, Jack's getting married and invited all of his friends.
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Was thinking the same. There have been times the past couple of years where the express line was actually longer than the regular line.
I think the "Plus" option is nice for those who want to attend on Fridays. The prices are a bit much though. And considering many of those who buy the frequent fear pass attend the event multiple times it seems odd that they would also pay out the ear for express each night.