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1. AVP: Alien Vs Predator 2. Roanoke: Cannibal Colony 3. Giggles and Gore Inc. 4. Halloween 5. Dollhouse of the Damned 6. From Dusk 'Til Dawn 7. The Walking Dead: End of the Line 8. Dracula Untold

Moving on to Crows, I've seen a lot of talk about a "reverse Thanksgiving" and "Cannibals" along with some ties to the Roanoke Island Colony (aka the Lost Colony). What if Crows is actually a sequel to Nightingales? I mean, Nightingales was made to be a franchise house, and the monsters are actually a good, horrifying explanation for the colonists' disappearance. Thoughts?

Any chance the witchcraft house and voodoo scarezone might be tied to AHS: Coven?

Wasn't A&D going to do an Urban Legends: El Chupacabra maze in 2012?

I wasn't really thinking of using IP's, although I'm thinking of adding a custom American Horror Story house developed with Ryan Murphy

Halloween Horror Nights: The Place Hell Calls Home Hell Finds a Home Icon: The Man In Black/Sandman Jeremiah Solomon, a veteran of the Mexican-American war, found religion when serving in the U.S. Army. After losing his right eye in the Battle of Buena Vista, Solomon was discharged and began his career as a traveling priest. Jeremiah traveled throughout the midwest, testifying in the name of the Lord to throngs of sodbusters and their kin. However, he also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and would often hear "The Voice of God" in his solitary time. Solomon eventually found his way to the newly founded community of Carey, Ohio and spent only a few days preaching to the god-fearing folks before moving on. It wasn't long before the Voice of God told him to return to Carey and give them His word, lest their sins cast their souls into eternal damnation. Solomon returned and set up the First Church of Carey, much to the admiration of the townsfolk. It wasn't long before the first young girl went missing. For several months, the children of Carey were disappearing, leaving the town in despair. No one suspected the righteous preacher would be the perpetrator of these crimes... Until the bodies were discovered, rotting in a mass grave behind the church, their eyes now only hollow sockets. The town set upon Solomon, dragging him to his own church where they prepared to lynch him. Solomon was calm the entire time, telling all who would listen that the Lord would gladly take him into His arms. Solomon also predicted that the Lord would take vengeance against Carey for their heinous crime against the Lord. His body swinging above the pulpit from which he had preached, the townsfolk went on with their lives, believing they had seen the last of Jeremiah Solomon. Forty days passed before Jeremiah came to the children in their slumber, clad in trademark black suit and hat, telling them to join him in his war against evil... cursing the town and their offspring for all eternity. Now Carey has become a sinister place. What many perceive as a peaceful small town harbors dark secrets, and any outsiders who attempt to expose them will feel the wrath of the townsfolk who abide by One Commandment: Protect your own. Thy will be done. Houses Vengeance of the Dead (Soundstage 20) Deciding to make some easy money during Prohibition, some locals started an undercover moonshining operation on the outskirts of town. When the police chief discovered their plot, he assembled a group of vigilantes and slaughtered everyone involved. Now the estate where the moonshiners worked out of are haunted by their spirits, who, as legend tells, have been waiting an eternity to exact their revenge. Shelter (Soundstage 21A) Carey Memorial Hospital hides a dark secret. Unbeknownst to their terminal patients, the hospital staff was trying unapproved drugs for their own gain. When the drugs began taking more… adverse, side effects, the dying patients were locked in the old fallout shelter. In their degenerative states, the patients might view anything as a threat, and attack anyone in their path to find shelter. Uprising: Class Warfare (Soundstage 24) Negligent managing practices led to a dozen worker deaths. Now, the 99% have risen up and are taking arms against the owners of Serenity Textiles. These workers will fight to the death to protect their own. Precinct 13: Bluebloods (Disaster Queue) Carey Police Chief Wyatt Spade uses moral authority as justification to murder interlopers who break the law in town. But what the town doesn’t know is why Spade and his “bluebloods” really need so many dead bodies. More bodies mean more organs to harvest, more money to make, and less blood running through your veins. Desolation (Sprung Tent 2) "Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword." (Deuteronomy 13:15) The First Church of Carey is a relic of the past, and the evil that has haunted the town for centuries. The Man In Black is far from gone, his soul still walks among the living, and in his wake you will understand Desolation, for your soul is his to claim. Hypnophobia: Night Terrors (Sprung Tent 1) When the children of Carey sleep, the Sandman comes for them. The terror you felt in your worst nightmare is nothing like what the Man In Black has to offer you. Enter the world of childhood terrors as all your worst fears come to life. Waking up will not save you. This is my first shot a creating a completely themed HHN event. The Sandman was inspired by (obviously) the Nightmare on Elm St. films where a psychotic killer terrorizes people in their sleep, although in this case the Man in Black is attempting the have you join his demonic cult. I'm still working out the final two houses, so if anybody has any good suggestions you can just send me a PM, and I have some scarezones which utilize the "Walking Dead" approach and create the same world, although in this case, the themes and actors are much more varied and include: an area with the eyeless ghost children of the Man in Black, an occult-ish church revival with a "fire and brimstone" motif, a journey into the afterlife where angels and demons hide, and a journey through the charred ruins of the Carey State Penitentiary, although I'm looking to add at least one or two more. Any criticism is appreciated as this is an ongoing creative project for me.

California Adventure would be the obvious West Coast choice for a special ticket Halloween event. The park already caters to an older demographic and could continue to with the Halloween event. Disneyland Park has the event for the families, but California Adventure would be for the older crowd. There's plenty of space, especially in Hollywoodland (All the empty Soundstages), for mazes, and scarezones because of all the paths found around the park. I actually designed a California Adventure halloween event a while back that utilized a Twilight Zone theme to tie the whole park together and keep it from becoming a gore fest.

Does anybody know if there are any of the Leave it to Cleaver masks for sale? Those are some of my favorite costumes from HHN.

So I guess they just announced the Resident Evil maze. Resident Evil: Escape from Raccoon CIty. Here's the link

Well, in 2010, Havoc was tied to Jack the Clown because he was the herald of Chaos. And since this new version of Havoc has the Dogs getting loose I feel like Havoc: Chaos Unleashed would be a good tagline.

I think the Wendingo maze sounds really cool and unique. Really cool stuff!

So all the ideas on the Your Nightmares area seemed to be directed for HHN. I've designed quite a few independent mazes for Knotts, so this thread is for anyone who's designed a Knott's or non-HHN maze. ------- Trial By Fire [Ghostrider 2] For years, the small New England town of Salem’s Hollow have persecuted those they believe to be witches. Tired of being hunted, the true mistresses of evil have decided to lay down some judgment of their own kind. It is the season of the witch, and revenge for these ladies is trial by fire. Shattered Dimensions [Ghostrider 4] In a top-secret government testing facility, something has gone wrong. An experimental teleportation device has opened a portal to another realm, releasing a dark, evil force in the process. The creatures that inhabit this netherworld feast on the souls of the living. When traveling through the shattered dimensions, the blood pumping through your veins may cause you to become their prey. Home Is Where the Heart Is [Front Gate] Frustrated over what she saw as society’s eroding moral values, Cybil Zangara transformed herself into the Matriarch, and began taking in lawbreakers, vagrants, and general troublemakers to give them a dose of special motherly care. The Matriarch is a firm believer of discipline, so be sure to follow her rules, because the Matriarch and her “family” of mothers will go to extreme measures to make you a better person. When it comes to your capacity for pain, mother knows best. Beyonders [Necropolis] You’re definitely not in Kansas anymore. Journey to a post-apocalyptic Oz where the Wicked Witch rules over all the land and anarchy rules. In this dystopian landscape, Beyonders, like yourself, are not welcome. A storm is brewing in the land, and when it hits, the terror unleashed will be like nothing Oz has seen before. Song of the Siren [bumper Cars] Their song beckons you forward into the shipwrecks of the deep blue sea. But beware, for appearances can be deceiving, and these succubae would like nothing more than the flesh from your bones. Many have fallen for the song of the siren, will their call lure you to your doom? TALL TALES [Ghostrider 3] Something is ahappenin’ in the small mountain town of Shady Creek, California. An army of strange creatures seem to be jumping out of the pages of TALL TALES COMICS and are terrorizing the townsfolk. Truth is far more terrifying than fiction! Icon: The Matriarch, from the maze Home Is Where the Heart Is. She is tied to the other mazes at the event through her "rules", I.E. "Don't judge a book by it's cover" (Song of the Siren), "Play with fire and you'll get burnt" (Shattered Dimensions), "You'll find nothing but trouble away form home" (Beyonders), "Treat others as you'd like to be treated" (Trial by FIre), "Don't believe everything you hear" (TALL TALES). The "rules" are hidden easter eggs in each maze, written in different places, such as appearing on a page of the TALL TALES comic or flashing on a computer monitor in Shattered Dimensions. Her mutilated "children" roam the park and attack unsuspecting guests along with the "mothers" who pick out visitors (actors) and perform gruesome torture in front of crowds. I'll post full descriptions of each maze as I finish them.