dreamscape115

Here is my Idea, Have scarezones in kidzone, where canyon of dark souls was, A carnival type one in front of simpsons, something in front of MIB, where grown evil was and then the NY Alley (where Your Luck has run out was), and in front of disaster. You could also do one on hollywood Blvd and NY but the sets would have to be more on the sides of the street maybe like acid assualt utilizing projections? That gives areas 7 scarezones that would def not conflict with daytime parade routes and 1 that sets could be minimalized. I understand MIB is a highly Congested area but when I was there last year in front of Simpsons was only moderately congested and the canyon of dark souls worked well. I think it would be cool to have even 1 big scarezone from where grown evil was through the kidzone courtyard all the way to the end of simpsons. Just one massive scarezone with lots of scareactors. It would might make it a little more unnerving because for me alot of scarezones in the passed you walked in and out of and it took 15 seconds, this way if it covers one side of the park it would take you at least 10 minutes to walk through it.

It would have to be EITHER Parade OR Show in beetlejuice and I dont think they want to sacrifice that venue again. if a show is in beetlejuice, the queue for the house in disaster winds down the street through the parade gate OR with a parade the queue will have to wind through Beetlejuice as you can compare with 21 with Death Drums and 22 with 20 Penny. And no, 2 parades a day wouldnt be IMPOSSIBLE....Improbable maybe. think of it this way, they did Superstar in afternoons and Mardi Gras at night I believe, didnt they? I think the main concern would be A. the beetlejuice/Disaster house traffic jam, and B. the Sets for street experiences because even with roaming hoards like this past year. you see Gravestone and Masouleum props in the middle of the parade route. You bring up a good point with "Crappy Street experiences" that was my complaint for this past year also, I want the zones back so sets can be built up, the sets were half the experience of the scarezone! I dont think roaming hoards got a lot of positive feedback because everyone I have talked to hated it so maybe HHN will scrap the Roaming Hoard Idea...only time will tell!

I am not gonna make very much speculation because there is no telling what the amazing team of halloween horror nights is conjuring up this time, I am just gonna say what I personally would like to see myself for 2013. I really liked the Idea of bloody mary although she wasnt, in my opinion, used to her full potential. I like the Idea of a more supernatural/horror being like Bloody mary or Fear. All the popular icons are more human serial killers and maniacs like the usher, director, storyteller, jack and the caretaker and I like the supernatural element to the characters of Mary and Fear. I would love to see another Icon like bloody mary that has the supernatural element to it BUT can speak like a human (unlike fear). I think this idea is cool because if you take the Front gate video concept from bloody mary and make it into a LIVE concept with a scareactor on a pedestal like saws n steam or path of the wicked that can taunt guests with a distorted microphone to make them sound demonic. The front gate video and Commercials were probably the most unnerving thing for me personally that they have done at HHN and if they did a LIVE mary type character taunting guests that would probably even freak me out just a bit (I dont get scared easily in all honesty). My guess is IF they keep with their new traditions and have a Movie Promo House this year the only one I could see is Riddick which might be an interesting house but other than that I really dont see any horror movies from Universal coming out this halloween or at least none announced as of yet. Carrie would be a stretch only because it is produced by Rival Company MGM. I would love to see them Team up with After Dark Films (the production company that puts out after dark horrorfest film festival) because After Dark is a very underrated film company with some awesome ideas. Maybe with the success of using the silent hill franchise, Resident Evil will be next, although with 5 films and not another one slated until 2014 that call may be quite a stretch. I highly doubt they will do anything with classic monsters as we have seen them in recent years with Ripped in 2009, Hallow'd Past in 2010 and just recently House of Horrors in 2012. With the Success of Walking Dead House maybe it would be cool to have either an American Horror Story House or Supernatural but Supernatural is a stretch. I dont even want to guess the original houses because they have had some unique ideas no one would ever even think of in a million years like almost every house from 21 (the in between, the forsaken, nightingales, etc). I personally didnt like roaming hoards with universal only because a big portion of scarezones in the past were based around sets and the Gravestones and mausoleums, although pretty cool, got old rather quick with very little variety. I love the scarezone sets in the passed and would greatly like to see the zones return just for the simple fact of sets and the guarantee you will see every hoard. maybe a little of both like the iniquitus or a "Nomad" type hoard but then some set scarezones as well. Like i said these are all opinions and what I would personally like to see. I would really like to see all original material this year, perhaps one single house based off something else but since we have seen a lot of "based off of....", sequels and rehashes since sweet 16, 28 out of 54 total houses since sweet 16 which is more than half of the total houses in the last 7 years, it would be really nice to see an all original year.