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They they still have the double-shot refills for souvenir cups? It's still a pretty good deal since that's about half the price of a double at most bars.

Soundstage houses usually open before 6pm for the Stay & Scream guests, so when they open the front gates at 6pm the lines can be already be around a 1/2 hour. Based on what I've seen online, Evil Dead gets crowded the fastest, so I would do CITW and AWIL first and Evil Dead as the last house of the night if you want to see them twice.

I downloaded the HHN 23 App tonight. Don't know if it's official but it did have updated wait times on it. The last wait times it posted were: Walking Dead: 60 min Resident Evil: 45 min Evil Dead: 60 min Cabin: 60 min American Werewolf: 65 min Llorona: 45 min Havoc: 90 min After Life: 60 min

But how do get from that entrance to the soundstage? I'm wondering if they take you through a backstage or maintenance gate.

How do you get from the entrance to the house? Is there a path underneath Rockit?

Pretty sure it will be The Walking Dead. I think they did a good job of spreading the houses around. Disaster queue and the MIB Sprung tent usually have the longest lines once it gets dark out, so it was a good idea to not put IPs in those spots. I doubt the employee preview is good indicator of waits since there are a lot of fire drills and technical issues with the houses. I did read @DesigningFear that Afterlife had a 60 minute wait (maybe the longest of the night?). 3D houses are always very popular. My general advice would be to get there when they open at 6, go straight to the Parade building (Walking Dead), KZ Tent (La Larona), then MIB Tent (Afterlife) without express. Then do the rest of the houses with express, then redo what you liked with express or vice versa. The studio houses can sometimes be walkons after midnight.

I was hoping they would do overgrown vines at the entrance.

I hope nobody that works for Universal knows what dead cats smell like!

HHmm..Duck Dynasty?

Wyndott Estate is the last house to fill a "medium" size sound stage solely and I remember it being incredibly epic. I have no blueprints or information to back it up, but that's how I remember it. SS 22 is a small SS but with one maze it always gives a lot of space and atmosphere, so I have good hopes for American Werewolf. I know Evil Dead won't fill all of SS 24 but I've been so pumped CITW that they would give it as much room as possible since it's such an unconventional house. These are just nerd theorizing and musings anyway. I just hope it all ends up awesome!

Kind of confused at how this house will be getting it's own(pretty big) soundstage while CITW is going to share a soundstage with Resident Evil. Even though SS 21 is huge, CITW is not getting as much real estate as Evil Dead. Of course it might just be that they thought they were going to put American Horror Story in that house before. I've been hoping CITW is a truly epic house and it should get all the room that it needs.

It's hard to see all of HHN in one night, even with an express pass. My plan of attack is to get to the metal detectors by 530, get into the park around 6 when it opens of guests. Head to parade building, Kidzone Sprung Tent, then MIB sprung tent and then you should be ready for the first show of Bill & Ted at 7:15. You've just hit three houses in about an hour without an. express pass. You'll probably need an express pass for the rest of the houses in one night and you should have some time for food and to be able to get see the first three houses.

Weird that they don't have the Kang and Kodos ride listed. It's a new attraction and they're characters created for Treehouse of Horror.

HHN has been using subtitles for years. For example: 2006: Scream House: Resurrection All Nite Die-In: Take 2 Psychoscareapy: Maximum Madness Dungeon of Terror: Retold The People Under the Stairs: Under Construction Psycho Path: The Return of Norman Bates Run: Hostile Territory 2007: Jack's Funhouse in Clown-O-Vision A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dreamwalkers Friday the 13th: Camp Blood The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Flesh Wounds Dead Silence: The Curse of Mary Shaw PsychoScareapy: Home for the Holidays The Thing: Assimilation Vampyr: Blood Bath 2010: Horror Nights: The Hallow'd Past Catacombs: Black Death Rising Havoc: Dogs of War The Orfanage: Ashes to Ashes ZombieGeddon Hades: The Gates of Ruin PsychoScareapy: Echoes of Shadybrook Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate That's three events (which were pretty great by most accounts) where almost every house was subtitled. Yeah the Urban Legends pre fix is kinda bleh but Florida has much more of a Cuban than Mexican Latino population so most guests might need some help understanding that La Llorona is the Mexican Bloody Mary

I think we'll see The Body Collectors, Nightengales and The Foresaken causing gruesome mayhem in the facility. Merman should be the last scene in the control room. Hopefully they will play REO Speedwagon like in the movie

Bring back the guy in the shark costume from last year for Sharknado!

From what I understand, the space available for the parade building has shrunk since with the addition of the floats for daytime parade. Even though they moved Macy's floats outside it seemed that House of Horrors had a lot more truncated sets than the previous parade building houses.

Wonder what Pitbull and Flo Rida songs they will use this year.

DC Comics gave Universal a cease and desist in for the 2006 Bill and Ted Show for using Lex Luther without any parody. As for The Man of Steel they could use General Zod played by Michael Shannon, who based on the trailer, CANNOT CONTROL THE VOLUME OF HIS VOICE!

Christine was directed by John Carpenter. My idea would be a 3D house based on They Live, the movie directed by John Carpenter and released by Universal. Roddy Piper would give you the "glasses" like in the movie and all of the aliens and conformist messages on the billboards would pop in 3D. They could also do a Carpenter tribute house featuring scenes from Halloween, The Thing, Escape From New York, The Fog, ect.

Carrie was already used last year at Knott's Halloween Haunt as a promotion for this year's remake. Since it's being released by Sony, I doubt it'll end up at HHN. Sony seems to exclusively use license their movies to Knott's (Evil Dead, The Grudge, The Stepfather)

It's pretty much impossible to have a full scarezone along a parade route even if it's a daytime parade. That year didn't have any scarezones in New York or Hollywood BLVD since it was a two park event. I think the scarezones have been nixed because of the Superstar Parade. Full blown scarezones requires sets and props that need to be left out during the day and those would block daytime guests trying to view the parade. Basically they assume we'd rather have a scarezone in NY and Hollywood instead of a parade.

Eraser > chalkboard > opening of the Simpsons > Treehouse of Horror?

I think it'll be a homage to the genre of the cabin in the woods, not exactly an adaptation of the movie. Cabin in the Woods was a pretty great movie but wouldn't be very well suited to be adapted into a haunted house. Evil Dead was released by Sony and they seem to only exclusively do IP deals with Knott's Halloween Haunt.

The old stunt show was great. I at least got to see one Bill & Ted show there even though I was only 11 and only remember the reference of Will Smith dragging the alien from ID4 while doing a parody rap of the Fresh Prince theme song.