RingMaster

Hmmm....a museum of antiquities devoted to holding artifacts of Horror Nights' past, perhaps? I know I'm gonna get reamed for this, but this could be a combination of the Museum of Horrors ('98) and Horror Nights Nightmares ('04) houses to give new people a crash course into the history of HHN (much like Horror Comes Home and The Arrival show of '06 did), leaving the rest of park to completely fresh and new mazes.

So, wait, now they're using the last two Chucky films but replacing two dolls with two clowns? Anyway, the idea StevenForTmrw posted about the four original icons passing their heritage on to new icons is very interesting, to say the least, and ties in well with the idea of having a Family Tree/Root of All Evil. Perhaps Eddie will be the next of kin in the Schmidt family, seeing as how he was re-written as Jack's brother way back when. But I rather see Chance as the next iteration of Jack....or the idea of the character Jill as mentioned in a previous survey a few years back (the same survey that had ideas thrown about involving urban legends, movie-themed houses, and a Stephen King-themed event).

^^ Yeah, most of, if not all of, the big props in the Disaster queue remain in their spots and they build around them. Maze blueprints from Doomsday and LitC show the outlines of the plane and shark props in their respective places.

One of the rumors indicate a Greek Mythology house devoted to monsters such as Medusa, the Minotaur, and other beastly baddies. Think a house version of Clash of the Titans.

Cindy - shadow of The Caretaker Terra Queen - shadow of The Storyteller Chance - shadow of Jack The Usher - screens movies of Director, so technically shadow of The Director I keep rambling for no apparent reason.

The Terra Queen was supposed to be the icon for XV, but we all know how that went down. There are also minor icons/characters in different houses/zones/shows from over the years, such as Samhain from RoF's Hallow, Meety Meetz from last year's Leave It To Cleaver, Nightmare from Islands of Fear's Lost Continent zone (I forget the name of it), Darkness from Sweet 16's Arrival show, Chance from CoC, etc.....

Popular icons (Jack, Caretaker, Storyteller, Director, etc.) against lesser-known icons (Terra Queen, Cindy, Eddie, Darkness, etc) perhaps?

I need to go to bed, I've been reading this and the Construction threads for the past hour and a half. Anyway, I'll drop in my speculation and then I'll go to sleep: I remember for XIV there was a scarezone called Point of Evil, in which a giant machine was gathering up all the fear and evil from across the the planet and concentrating it all into one point, which was at Halloween Horror Nights. A year later, a tree grows in the exact same spot. But I'm thinking to myself, what if that machine wasn't gathering fear and evil from OUTSIDE influences, but rather from INSIDE influences? As in, harvesting whatever lied beneath said machine? Perhaps we have a situation to where the Machine was like the Gorewood Tree, gathering up dark energy from way below the surface of the Earth. Flash forward to now. The recent speculation of a Greek Mythology house has me thinking about one aspect of Greek Mythology in particular...Hades. The Underworld. Think about how trees get water and nutrients from its roots alongside using the sun as another source of harvesting energy. What about harvesting the power of a demonic underworld via roots from a tree? As we've seen in several instances, trees have been used as portals to another world with giant holes in them (yet I do not know the specific term for it). Alice fell inside one and landed in Wonderland. Darkness enters and leaves our world through one. In the Tim Burton flick Sleepy Hollow, The Headless Horseman did the same thing Darkness did with the Tree of the Dead. So considering the past several houses/scarezones have taken place in the confines of the small town of Carey, Ohio, it is safe to assume that Uni Creative is basing this year's event in that very town, encompassing any and all icons and characters that inhabit the Halloween Horror Nights world. And in that small town lies the very Root of All Evil itself, the entity that has its direct connection to the Underworld and is harvesting its very energy to wreak absolute havoc amongst the human population. I do believe we are looking for a tree. For the tree is most often considered to be very essence of life itself. The tree that lies in Carey, Ohio, however, is the exact opposite: it is the very essence of DEATH. ....'k, I'm off to bedtime now.