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Face Off - In the Flesh by taylor_pwt, on Flickr

The Purge: Anarchy by taylor_pwt, on Flickr

Bayou of Blood by taylor_pwt, on Flickr

MASKerade by taylor_pwt, on Flickr

Face Off - In the Flesh by taylor_pwt, on Flickr

Bayou of Blood by taylor_pwt, on Flickr

The Purge: Anarchy by taylor_pwt, on Flickr

The Purge: Anarchy by taylor_pwt, on Flickr

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Yup, the day time games are also not showing up for me. All games have been turned off.

Half the games, if not all of them, have been turned off and can no longer be played. I'll see if I wrote down one of my extra accounts somewhere though later.

Let me rephrase, they now use Context Optional to make and maintain the Facebook (and twitter) app they use to post/schedule their social media. They do not even bother using a custom application to hide it on Twitter. When you go to one of Universal's tweets and click the method it was sent ("Social Marketing Suite") it will take you to a log in page for Context Optional. Coffee table books is a great idea and all but I'm not sure if it'd have the same wide appeal every single other piece of HHN merch has. I don't know how many people that go to HHN would want to buy a coffee table book. DVDs on the other hand I could see being a great hit and selling as well as the hoodies and such.

Context Optional just changed the HHN FB page to a generic version, let the waiting begin. http://www.facebook.com/halloweenhorrornightsorlando

B&T would never ever happen for the same reason why the take down old B&Ts off youtube, even when the event is over. House and scare zone videos would be awesome though. Although I could see some problems with filming in some of the zones like Nightmaze. A light would ruin the zone.

Nice review, agreed with most of your ratings and your opinion of Death Drums. (Which I keep hearing people say how much they love it...)

If they wanted to do it them self they'd have to set up a flash player to stream the content the decent IT person was on the street filming. Further, the decent IT person would need to buy Universal some servers or optimize their current ones for live video streaming. All of Universal's flash, the more advanced web designing, and many many other things not related is done by X Studios. So they'd more than likely end up hiring them to set them up a flash page that streamed the live content the decent IT person was filming. I thought the stream was great quality last year. Perhaps it was your internet and or connection to the stream that was the problem. There's many other things to consider besides them using a bad camera. Facebook marketing until this year was not a big deal for Universal. It became a much bigger focus this year when Universal hired Context Optional. To do a stream on Facebook it'd be the exact same thing as setting up an external page expect the page would be in a facebook application. Universal uses X Studios to design their facebook applications, so it'd be the same exact process as I put above with a little bit of more coding junk and such added. When I mentioned the ads I was explaining the company that Universal hired obviously couldn't put up ads on the streaming page so they had to pay for the expenses of a server that does live video streaming and such somehow.

Streaming online via a professional company and not some live show site like uStream does have it's costs. Universal hired a professional company to stream live, the same company that streamed the opening of Harry Potter for Universal. No one from Universal sat on a bench somewhere and just turned on their terrible webcam and started streaming on uStream. They used real cameras and since they didn't have any ads the professional company has to get the money for bandwidth and all from somewhere. Video streaming takes up tons of bandwidth. You can't just use some laptop camera with HHN as you wouldn't be able to make out anything in the dark. Not to mention Universal using uStream isn't too professional looking, even when they tried to integrate it in a Facebook app this year it didn't look great. You did hit another point though when you mentioned that it didn't convince people. I don't think for the effort and money and all it gave outstanding results, or else we'd see it back.

Well, I'd assume the company that did it last year charges for their services. This year Universal had a whole new social media PR company that is one of the best there is. I'm sure the money that they paid for the live feed was used for Context Optional this year.

It's fit to the size of your TV.

The yarn room has to be one of the worst executed rooms this year. The yarn in the room is straight and the costumes didn't have any yarn that was straight. As far as scene of the year goes... Winged Demon towards the end of the run was great. Get Lucked has to be my favorite just due to both casts of actors being amazing at their roles and being extremely consistent. Some nights of closing weekend I'd go through HR 20 or so times and every time both casts in that particular room would try to be scaring. They actually managed to get me multiple times every night.

All the house videos are up on Universal's site on the attraction page. He just combined them into one.

If this zone was like it was last night it would have ranked much higher in my books. Good way to end the event off though!

It's not a hard thing to do. To get pass initial security you put it in your pocket. To get pass HHN security you go to one of the scream early. To get into the house with it you just put it in your pocket again. Although, I could see them getting rid of scream early or adding security checks to the areas next year. Especially if things like this continue... I'm assuming this is why Nightingales was closed last night too.

Chow: "YOU TAKE THEM TO..." Crowd: "FUN SPOT, IT'S HUUGE" Chow: "Let me finish my line bitches... YOU TAKE THEM TO LEGO LAND, IT'S HUUUUUGE" Last show was a blast, I just wish they made it a tad bit earlier so you don't have to choose between closing a house out or going to the final B&T..

Do you happen to be the pilgrim last night that among many things said "So many nightmares but only one vault!"?