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instamatic

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  1. Disclaimer: I grew up going to Hollywood's event and I've only been to Orlando once (2011), so my word may not be the best. Orlando and Hollywood really seem like two different beasts. Based on the one year I attended I really preferred the originality of HHNO's houses as HHNH is always so IP heavy. HHNO has better scarezones as far as theming and scares go, but the layout of the park doesn't lend itself to them as well as HHNH. HHNH has a more agressive cast in their mazes, the Bill & Ted show is much funnier, and the Terror Tram is AWESOME. This year will be exciting as they're putting two of our mazes and a scarezone down on the backlot for the first time ever. I can't wait to see how that pans out. I really couldn't say which resort is better since I have a fondness for both. I'm excited for both coasts' lineups this year. It will be cool to see how HHNO pulls off La Llarona since that was an epic maze over here. I got some really great scares in that maze and watched numerous other guests leaving the house bright red with tears. It will be also be neat to see CitW and AWiL since we're not getting those. I'm hoping HHNH will turn it up and bring it in El Cucuy, Insidious, and Black Sabbath.
  2. Mazes like La Llorona and El Cucuy make a lot of sense here in Los Angeles as our demographic is heavily Hispanic. I was surprised to find out that Orlando was getting a La Llorona house, but then again I'm not very familiar with the demographic in Orlando. If the maze does migrate to Orlando, I also can see them going with a generalized Boogeyman house and not one specifically based on the El Cucuy legend.
  3. The rock legend themed houses seem to go over really well here in LA. The music scene out here is HUGE though, so maybe its the appropriate market. I LOVE AC, but was disappointed in both houses we got. The soundtrack was fabulous but the scares just weren't there for me. I grew up listening to Black Sabbath because my mom is such a huge fan. I'm interested to see what Murdy does with their music, but I don't have high expectations for the house at all. I'm anxiously awaiting HHNOs full site review!!! I can't wait to go this year
  4. Chainsaws were the "survivors" for our Terror Tram last year and it was very effective. I got a few really great scares from them. They even ganged up on me as a hoarde and caused me to run for the first time ever at a Halloween event. But HHNH's Terror Tram is much more contained than a general street experience, so what proved to be quite successful here may be a complete failure in Orlando. It seems like your TWD maze was worse than ours last year, but ours was still pretty bad. I think it was due to overkill at our event as TWD was spread over two major attractions instead of focusing all of the creative effort into one killer house or attraction. I have hopes that HHNH will up their game this year, and I'm very excited to see HHNO's on October 3! I just hope that ED and TWD are the only two experiences that both coasts are sharing, or else HHN will be repetitive for me this year. LOL
  5. Even with all the gore we have year to year at HHNH, HHN 21 still did a better job than most years I've attended my coasts HHN, and it was 1000 times more scary. Granted, I prefer the more psychological story-driven approach as that scares me more.
  6. The only problem I have with both events sharing houses is that I've been looking forward to going back to HHN and seeing the originality I loved in 2011. Now, if that is the case, I will be paying twice to see essentially the same thing. Kind of a bummer.
  7. All I really want from HHNO this year is as many original houses as possible. I've only had the pleasure of visiting HHNO once, in 2011, so I don't know a whole lot more about it than what I've read on these boards. I'm from LA so I've been attending HHNH since I was a kid in '97, pre and post hiatus. I know we've had original houses before, but none of them were memorable except for Monsterquarium and La Llorona. What I really remember from our event is Freddy, Leatherface, Chucky, etc. My familiarity with these characters and their stories kills the scares for me a bit, last year's TCM maze being the exception. So imagine my delight when I see that the year I finally go bicoastal there's only one IP based house, especially since it ended up being 1000x better than our version of it. The only house that let me down the whole night was Saws 'N Steam. I honestly didn't get the story and there was a major lack of actors when I went through, but the rest of the houses were amazing. I got major scares in Nevermore and Nightingales, and the 3D in The Inn Between played so well with the actors and scares. I just loved it all. Lurking the boards last year I was pretty surprised to see you guys ended up with alot of the same mazes as us. We had TWD (which was just ok as the TWD Terror Tram experience outshined it), Silent Hill, Alice Cooper Goes To Hell, a sequel to Welcome to My Nightmare (which you ended up with), and a classic monster house that was shameful at best (you guys are super lucky you got your cool tribute house and not our craptastic dubstep one). Seeing that makes me nervous there will be a lack of original houses this year and that half of your event will be extremely similar to ours. Whether it was simply better, or because it was my first time, HHN 21 topped any of the HHNs I've been to growing up. Except for '97 as that was my first and I will always hold the nightmares it caused a six year old me dear.
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