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I know this wont happen this year, but wouldn't the London waterfront be a great place for stay and scream or early IOA since it's both surrounded by fences and it's a train to Universal WITHOUT going into Diagon Alley?

Good news guys! after years of waiting the Halloween house will be announced this week lol

Hey instead of going in the middle of the event as I did in years past, I'll probably be going the last two nights of HHN, as well as opening night of course. I don't have any question about opening night, but what's Halloween and the last night of HHN like?? Which of those night is more packed, if packed at all? And are the casts as intense as normal nights more or less? I'm taking my friends, some of them first timers, to the last 2 nights, so any advice on giving them the full experience on those nights would be great!

Great...Now I can finally see what that orange light was from construction lol.

Hopefully the street's budget boost will show through the quality of the makeup appliances, the quality and details of the props/environment, and the quality of the costumes.

I hope they have one of the dolls look like the Babyface Killer from hills run red. If you don't know who that is look him up.

I know that the scenery will be great and as for the scareactors that's for me to decide not now but on the days that I'll be going. Hopefully I'll be there on the days when all of the casts are at their best and most frightening. I will say though that the only thing I'll have LOW expectations on is the "flying bats" scene, if they even have. Yes, I hope they'll have scareactors in the room dressed as bats with a projection of Vlad's flying bats playing on the walls, which is similar to the forest scene in the Evil Dead house last year, along with some bats hanging on the roof like the Vaseline-covered vines and cables in past houses. But To be honest with you guys I'm comparing this possible scene to the "Pause room" in Resident Evil, where we thought it would something more (SAs in "pause" position) but it was just 2 static character props. Now don't get me wrong, I expect good things of this house, but it's just that one scene i won't expect. PS. Was there ever a post/thread that had the criteria on judging HOTY? I could swear I remember seeing it before. This talk of HOTY makes me want to review it again. If there was can someone send me a link to the thread or post? You don't have to PM it to me you could just post it here as well.

Honestly when I hear it having the possibility of being a sleeper hit, I'm not really skeptical about it. I can actually picture this house being really good. Unfortunately I don't have very much to go on about this house except the trailer and Dracula: Legacy in Blood.

Everyone here has different ideas about what will happen, but one thing is for sure. AVP is going to be one of those houses where Mike and the A&D team will probably have to use everything they learned over the years, from new technology, detailed environments, and extremely amazing costumes. Based on how Aliens and Predators have been around for a long time it's safe to assume that it's been on the table for a loong time. What I think we can agree on is that no matter what's going to happen, this will be one hell of a house.

Well I guess we now know where the 6'1"-7' scare actors come in. Oh my gosh I'm so excited right now that I won't have to rewatch those awful movies since they are making this wonderful IPs their own! Also do you think they will have AWIL-style puppets for the Xenomorphs, a couple of costumes for the Aliens or even both?

Ohh that makes sense. I was wondering why it was dead on twitter for some days. Hopefully Mike will reveal something this week then

Still, Aiello has only announced 2 of the 8 mazes leaving us with 6 remaining. If I remember correctly he doesn't announce on weekends right? So Aiello will probably have 4 mazes revealed the same week as hollywoods since 2 of our rumored mazes are shared with Hollywood and the other 2 being whatever. Basically I'm just trying to find hope to at least have 1-2 mazes revealed this week. All this waiting is driving me insane Lol.

I think that they should have the purge announcement voice where both Louie's and the Twister Queue, warning you about the purge infested area and preparing you for what's to come. Then every hour or so an alarm blares throughout New York which will lead to hundreds of purgers yelling "kill them all!" Or something like that and scattering.

To be serious, I have no idea what the reason is for the icon and theme declination and it could be various reasons. Still, whether it is because of new executives or because of a slowly dying creativity bank (I hope it's the former and not the latter). Logically it's probably A&D trying out new ideas. Either way, everyone has their own opinions and feelings about this other than my own and I acknowledge that. Also think about this. Themes are difficult to pull off; make a couple of mistakes and the theme is half-ass, and we all know that they don't do half ass things, especially on purpose. Unfortunately themes are limited and therefore repeated. Take Jurassic Park and Frankenstein for instance. Different plots but same theme (don't play God). Themes also restrict the event, since the housesand sometimes the scare zones are restricted to comply with the theme such as 2008 with tales and fables and 2009 with movies. How can they give us a wide variety with such a restriction. Believe me, I love themes and icons, but even I understand this unfortunate fact. We can't have it all in one year ya know. Don't worry my fellow fans of horror! Be optimistic and not as negative and morbid as A&D's horrific creations! Remember both A&D and HHN is like a human being, growing with both the past present and future generations. Like us, it learns from mistakes and good ideas. Don't lose your cool if it makes a mistake one year because it's sure to fix it the next. Like a person waiting for dessert or a person waiting for the skin flick on Cinemax, you just have to be patient, and soon you'll have what you wantmaybe

I know that they are not having Diagon Alley open during HHN but is the London waterfront still in play? If so then that's where I'm placing my money on where a Mask-a-Raid will be. If not, then it would probably be in either shrek alley or plaza of the stars.

Is this a leak? Geez how many leaks are going to happen lol? I mean I love early reveals but there is something about leaks that feel more disappointing than excited. Ah but I shouldn't be fussing, it's not like we didn't knew it was coming. Anyway, I can see much potential in that sprung tent. If what I remember about Nevermore is correct then Halloween will be just like that, having a huge feel inside that small tent. I have a feeling I will love this house.

I'm curious about why they aren't using SS22 since it's been used for a long time. Did something change or happen?

What was the most scareactors in TWD houses? If Aiello said it would be double the scareactors then that would be 25-30 right?

I love it how not only will there be an outdoor facade for the entrance but for the exit as well. Has an outside exit facade ever happened before? ( I know outer facades for the entrance have happened)

Yea you're right lol apparently I followed the official and the fan since they both looked the same. Just forget everything I said as I will now put on the cone of shame and try to erase this blunder from my mind

I thought so at first and I double checked. It's the real account. If you want to check it's called "horrornightsorlando." Plus they always try to connect with followers, asking for fan favorites and what not. I just thought it was one of those posts but once I looked at the background it showed the ghoulz, Mask-a-raid, and corp concept art from Hollywood, which made me wonder

HHN Orlando posted a picture on Instagram that said "choose your scare zone" with the 3 scare zone choices for Hollywood in the background. does this imply something?? Someone put it on the thread, I cannot at the moment Although that was what HHNO posted, the caption only asked for the year of a favorite scare zone (not a hint), so that's why I'm not sure about this

Man, and I was hoping that KKFOS would be it, but that makes much more sense haha! It's been a while since I posted anything but I have been lurking through each page, and I've been growing stronger with the Force of anticipation *said in Emperor Palpatine's voice and grin*. Now I'm pretty sure it will be fine for two house to fit in SS24. I mean, SS24 is the same size as SS23, and SS23 had Nightingales and The Thing in 2011, and both were great! One question that concerns me though pertains to the Walking Dead house in the probable SS25, and if it can be answered for me that would be great. If this will be a monstrous house from what I'm hearing, then it can be assumed that the maze would appeal more to the "scenic-over-scare fans" with the enormous scenery that the maze would possibly be laden with. So my question(s) is: if it's going to be twice as long to walk through, then wouldn't it take as twice as long to build? What is the average amount of weeks for a normal house build? Can we assume that they already started building this maze?

it's good to finally be back! whether they demo KidZone or revamp the whole area, hopefully they will keep in mind the surrealism and "atmosfear" of HHN and maybe keep ET (I love the ride and was always confused whether or not it was a part of KidZone). If it's a credible possibility that we will have a all-day haunted house, I'm all for it; plus it's pretty obvious that Universal will keep horror in mind if they're building a haunted house. Regardless, HHN is one of the paramount events of Universal, so it makes sense that they'll keep us devout fans in mind. Who knows? Maybe they'll make it better.

This is related to the videotaping and remembering houses. I'm trying to find videos walkthroughs of the in between and nightingales but I can't find them at all. Are there any videos for them?