Aaronupsidasium
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I don't believe Universal made any plans to do a Treehouse of Horror overlay.
Based on comments about this topic from other sites the most of it is that Disneyland can do overlays because the ride system is the same but they can just add decorations, swap out AAs, projections and music.
With The Simpsons you would need:
*completely new script with expensive voice actors
*completely new animated ride film and pre show
*completely new ride programming to match the new film
Except for the theming and upgrades they made from BTTF, that's the budget of the actual Simpsons Ride just for a seasonal overlay.
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I've seen random comments that they're working on the timing for it. I hope that's true so I can see it in a couple of weeks. Haven't watched any videos of it so I have no opinion wether it was controversial, though I probably believe the crowd flow issue. The besides Death Drums, which most people walked past, the last show in that area was in 2007, which was before the parade building and The Simpsons was built so I imagine too much traffic blocked by the crowds watching the sacrifice.
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Have they been using the flat panel wait time displays? I hoped they could change the background for HHN.
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Loved the topic last year so I'll throw my two cents:
1. Halloween: really big franchise in the location that always has huge lines.
2. Walking Dead: hhn fans are sick of it but the show still pulls in more viewers than almost all of network television. The hype of the house and entrance should build a giant line.
3. Alien vs Predator: still skeptical whether this is going more American Werewolf instead of Resident Evil. Still should be packed.
4. From Dusk Till Dawn: not a great ip but
Like Silent Hill it's something that more people have heard of than have seen.
5. Roanoke: looks like the fan favorite
6. Giggles & Gore: disaster houses usually have huge waits but this might not be enough of a draw
7. Dracula Untold: the house nobody's excited for all the way back by the library.
8. Dollhouse of Damned: this location can have huge crowds (In between, Catacombs,La Lorna) or the smallest (The Hallow, Alice Cooper). Looking forward to it but not the most original idea.
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I thought this was a random IP to be added to HHN until I looked into the El Ray Network:
El Ray is co financinced with Telemundo (Ding!)
And is only available one Comcast (Ding!), Direct Tv and Time Warner (Ding!)
Hopefully the blatant amount of synergy this year will give the parks a huge budget.
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There's one problem with your advice...you can't get to Kidzone until 6:30pm. They have a barricades with employees checking for a wristband or pass to get through.
They remove it promptly at 6:30, so I'd recommend doing the couple studio houses that are open and when it's almost 6:30pm head toward the barricade and try to cut ahead of the crowd waiting there.
Weird I've been doing that plan for three years and have never seen that. It's been Frequent Fear Nights only though.
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My advice for a one night HHN with express:
Have an early dinner at City Walk maybe around 4 or 430. I haven't been to any of the new restaraunts but I hear Antijitoes is the best. Get to the metal detectors by 530 and you should get in easy when the front gates open at six.
Hang a right and go down Hollywood to Kidzone. Do Roanoke, Dollhouse and Halloween one of them without express pass so you can do it again (my pick would be Roanoke) The house should just be opening and you usually can get through them quickly with less walking if you do them in that order. They're also supposed to be ones you'll want to do again later with express.
You should be in time for the first Bill & Ted show. After that go around the lagoon to San Fran for Giggles and Gore and Rocky Horror. Houses near shows get longer lines after the stadiums let out so pay attention to the show times even if you aren't going to Rocky Horror.
Come back to the entrance and start doing the studio houses with express (From Dusk Till Dawn, Dracula, AvP and Walking Dead). They should all lead into each other if you go from the entrance to New York. Use your remaining express to redo one of the earlier houses (my guess Roanoke) and then redo one in standby at the end of the night (my guess AvP).
Rides aren't that necessary especially if you're doing one night but Mummy is kind of horror and it's cool to go on Rip Ride Rockit and Kang&Kodos at night. Express for Rockit is a must! Horrible lines.
Have fun!
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I'm guessing the theme is going to be Hunger Games (in between Catching Fire and Mockingjay) or fairy tales (Frozen, Meleficent). Coincidently these have been the last two themes for The Hanging and Hollywoods Bill & Ted.
As for music:
Wasted and Turn Down For What
Anaconda- Nicky Minaj as the opening which can be tied into the viewer discretion pre show.
Bang Bang by Jesse J and Burn by Ellie Goulding could be set to some pryro.
Fancy or Black Widow Iggy Azalea
Happy Pharrell Williams
Everything Is Awesome from The Lego Movie
Hooked On A Feeling or Come And Get Your Love from Guardians of the Galaxy
Harlem by New Politics as the rock finale
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Wonder how they're going to do The Purge announcement since it is not at the front of the park like in Hollywood. My guess is that at 630 they'll make it and then bring out the scare actors.
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I predicted this movie to be Dracula's Game of Thrones, they even cast Tywin! Though I can't see it being much of a house since the movie looks a lot like 2009's Dracula house which featured a lot of Vlad the Impaler influences.
I'd thought they'd learn their lesson from 2011's The Thing, which ended up being a flop movie and one of the less popular houses of that year. Still loved the house and enjoyed the movie.
Hannibal would be a much better use of synergy since it's a show that is gaining viewers and an IP that hasn't been (officially) used at HHN
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My "best" guesses for Cryptic Performances so far:
1. The Purge- using a mask to keep your annonymity
2. Insidious- Rose Byrne is going to be in this year's Annie remake
3. AHS: Coven- New Orleans...maybe to obvious
4. Nightingales French Revolution- The Mikado uses executions and be-headings as part of the plot
5. Original Medieval House- been watching a lot of Game of Thrones and the song and musical are kind of about royalty
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A fun piece of trivia, The Conjuring is probably the only movie to be rated R for being "too scary". There's barely, if any, sex, violence or language in it though the ratings board refused to send it out as PG-13.
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Qbert - the sound made when he moves from cube to cube
Remember the cubes in Cabin In The Woods? Think it's a given that it would come to Hollywood this year.
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I'd be bummed if Walking Dead doesn't come back for third and final year. Even though I haven't liked the houses so far (thought the street experiences were very well done), season 4 has been a mass improvement to the show.
If they finally put in a sound stage they could create the grocery store scene with the walkers falling through the roof top.
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I don't remember seeing many previous houses with too much sexual innuendo, though this year we got the porno theater in AWIL and the, um, tree scene in Evil Dead. They seemed pretty careful that guests who had seen the movies knew what was going on but it would fly over the heads of the other guests.
I totally get toning those houses down since AWIL and the new Evil Dead were HARD R's while I believe the original Evil Dead was rated X.
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To be fair, you usually can't show blood, gore or dismemberment in a PG-13 movie so I would consider Cabin, Werewolf and Evil Dead as R Rated. Also killing children will get you an automatic M rating from the ESRB, so I think you could count La Llorona too.
I prefer a focus more on scares and atmosphere than gore and sex/nudity. Aiello definitely has less gore than Roddy but I think 2011 was the perfect house mix of gory and atmospheric and everything in between.
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Ok so back to spec...
What effect, if any, will Diagon Alley/Gringotts have on HHN this year? It's opening in Summer, yes? Will they have it open during HHN?
Apologies if this has already been discussed...
Gringotts will have overnight maintenance like Transformers and Forbidden Journey so the ride can be open 365 days a year. This might affect how late they can keep the ride open or at all. Transformers closed an hour early last year.
I think we'll either see:
1. London and Diagon open with just Gringotts, Leaky Cauldron and the gift shops.
2. Everything blocked off and they'll just use the same lagoon path as the last two years.
I've thought a good compromise would to use option play the spookier HP music (Prisoner of Azkaban for Hogsmeade and the Deathly Hallow films for London/Diagon), so you don't have any actual "Horror Nights" elements in the Wizarding World but doesn't take you completely out of the event.
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Would love to see a house inspired by the cult in HBO's True Detective and try to tie it in with some of the Carey mythology.
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I wasn't crazy about the Ghostbusters rumors since it's more of a comedy (the first one is def not family friendly if you count all the sexual innuendo). Though if you connect it with the Hellbent story it might be dark enough for HHN. It also fits a lot of the clues and be timely with Ramis' death. It would be the craziest thing HHN ever did to make a house/maze based on an un-made movie.
I hope Hollywood gets CITW and AWIL. They were great out in Orlando. Lionsgate seems extremely liberal with licensing (they gave their entire catalog to Thorpe Park last Halloween). They seem to have a great relationship with Hollywood and Drew Goddard was no where to be seen in Orlando. On the flip side, John Landis was the main force preventing the Werewolf house from being made. Since he was extremely happy with the final Orlando house and is long history with the Hollywood park, it would be great to see it there. Also, everyone would hate to see those amazing wolf puppets put away in a warehouse instead getting shipped to the west coast.
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@HorrorNights The MIB or the IBM... Or the NBA
HHN - Orlando @HorrorNightsORL Mar 2
Netflix getting a horror upgrade this month
- Below
- The Blair Witch Project
- Blood: The Last Vampire
- The Caller
- Dead Before Dawn
- The Experiment
- Fright Night
- Ghostbusters 2
- House of the Dead 2
- The Mothman Prophecies
- Night of the Living Dead (1990)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 2
- Quarantine 2
- The Returned
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
- Starship Troopers: Invasion
- Summer's Moon
- Urban Legends: Final Cut
- Wishmaster 1-4
- Zombies of Mass Destruction
Ghostbusters: epic franchise, MIB is inspired by it, Ghostbusters II for the netflix mention. Also the Malcom fits in with it. And the Highway to Hell reference may pointing to the never made Ghostbusters Hellbent/Go To Hell movie.
So I say a Ghostbusters Hellbent house.
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While the Malcolm clue fits in pretty well with Dr Who, I wonder how much it would fit in with HHN and how many guests will recognize a show that is generally only available on Netflix.
My worry is that it would end up like the Resident Evil house: generally unscary with a lot of references that barely anybody gets.
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I always said if they were going to do a Nightingales sequel they should do it in the Disaster que and based the story off the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
They could finally bring back the attraction turning into a house concept. Have you go through the Earthquake ride and then exit the train at the maintenance bay and continue through a house where The Nightingales pick off the survivors of the massive earthquake.
The capacity of the trains should be good enough to get people to the house though it would have to be a two park event (cutting out the right side of the park) so that the queue could fill in the rest of San Fransisco starting at the Disaster entrance.
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If you're not a member of Orlando United forums, it would be a good idea to sign up in the next 15 minutes....
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AHS seems to take a classic horror trope (ghosts, witches) and turn it sexy, shocking and subversive. If they were to incorporate Josef Mengel (which they kind of already did in Asylum with James Cromwell's character) it could be about his experiment victims becoming mutants or freaks.
Houses With The Longest Waits
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Went for the first time this year last night (Sunday) and holy hell I've never seen it that busy. I usually go the Sunday after Columbus day and have done a few hell week Thursday's but I've still never seen a 180 minute wait which is what Walking Dead and Halloween were posted as. It was woman using the men's bathroom, Mummy single rider line all the way out of the tomb busy.