KevinR1990

The situation with Audrey Geisel and Seuss Landing is always going to be an obstacle for bringing it back to IoA, but it didn't necessarily stop them in the past, and now you've got the same situation at the Studios park with J. K. Rowling and Diagon Alley. That said, there seems to be some reason as to why they stopped holding it at IoA and never brought it back even after replacing Amity with Diagon Alley, so the chances are pretty good that they'll stick to the Studios park. IMO, holding it at IoA in the early-mid 2000s was probably done more to promote the shiny new park than anything.

What sticks out to me is that this is the first zombie house they've done in years that isn't The Walking Dead. It feels like just yesterday when they had every Orlando scarezone be Walking Dead-themed. My, how the mighty have fallen. And for some reason, the idea of a "Paris overrun by zombies" house reminds me of Killing Floor 2.

It would be The Walking Dead all over again if they brought the Potterverse into Halloween Horror Nights. They'd race to cash in, and the soul of both HHN and Harry Potter would be lost. At least the target audience for The Walking Dead overlaps with that of HHN; if they did a Potter-themed HHN show, on the other hand, they'd have to either tone it down (and the rest of the event, for that matter) to accommodate the parents with kids, or face a furious outcry from such. J. K. Rowling probably knows this, too, hence why Potter and HHN haven't met before. (Remember the wrangling they had to do with Audrey Geisel for Boo-Ville at Islands of Fear?) I say that the current strategy is the best: leave Diagon Alley open during the event (it's a good crowd sink, after all), but do nothing else. Anybody think that they might move the Academy of Villains show to the former Bill & Ted space, with the new show put on in the current AoV space? Given the popularity of the AoV show, I wouldn't be surprised if they moved it to a bigger arena.