JackTheREAPER

I'm starting to wonder if Nightengales is still returning....

oh yeah, I forgot about Mary Shaw..... and her heelys.

hmmm Asylum In Wonderland as a house.... that would be awesome!

My first thought about "party" was that it was referring to an icon house. Kind of like how the icons celebrated the event's "Sweet 16" party, but now it's the 25th. Dr, Jimmy did mention that throwback house in his April video. And there was the cryptic performance of "old friends", and the icons could be known as old buddies. Who knows.... I think Party could be a reference to an original house featuring the icons celebrating the 25th.... but that's just an idea.

Anyways... I'm moving over to the real spec thread. See you guys there.

So... you're saying Cassilda is a clue to something of HHN25, that has been around for about 3 years. I don't think so. She's just a fan with sources from universal. She certainly is entertaining though, I'll give her that.

I could only understand "You Fools, You Think You Can Stop Me." Anyone else catch the next couple sentences?

I was thinking it could be a completely original werewolf themed house but reusing the wolf puppets. I also thought of the possibility of a new All Nite Die In, featuring AWIL and the puppets. I don't know. Like I said, they might just be reusing the house to save money on their extra house, and using the money elsewhere like scarezones... I want more than 4 scarezones this year. They have so much more room, give me 6 zones (hopefully the parade issues are taken care of). Hell, bring back the midway of the bizarre.... Just please, do something to really make this a real anniversary year, and not just the same IP centric, non themed year with a "25!" slapped on it....

3D werewolves. An American Werewolf In 3-D, Music by Metallica. No but seriously though. It's like there's no way around this. I've tried to find clues possibly connecting to a different property but, of course, no luck. I just want a real anniversary year...

THAT'S SO AWESOME!!! Thanks, Reaper!!

Hey Reaper, I was wondering if I could get a new sig for the 2015 HHN season. I'd love if you could make me one with the Freddy, Jason, and Leatherface cards from the Carnival of Carnage, with "JackTheReaper" but in the Carnival of Carnage font. If you could add a mix of the 2 pictures below in the background, that would be awesome! I'm sure it'll look awesome! Thanks!

Could be that A&D dropped a house and replaced it with one of their most recent popular houses, to save a ton of money by reusing the house, so that they could distribute that money in more important areas of the event, like towards scarezones, shows, LT maybe, or even the up charge house. Come on, if they are doing 9 or 10 houses, that's money being taken away from scarezones, so it's better if they drop one IP house for a past one. And trust me, I'd love it if they would put even more money into the scarezones to make them even better than they were last year, maybe even have 5 or 6 zones like they've done in past years, instead of just 4. Even if they reuse an amazing house.

Yes, something I've brought up multiple times in the past is the concept of the "Prop Master" icon that was "set" for HHN24 but then was scrapped. I was thinking that maybe they scrapped him from last year, to save him for this year. Maybe he could take the leading role, like Fear did in XX. Or maybe he's connected to Jack. Who knows.

I'm not sure if I'm on to something or not here, but here's something I picked up from the April Fools video. Dr Jimmy mentioned the "Arsenal vs. Chelsae" soccer scarezone. He then talked about the group known as the "Chelsae Smilers", who would utilize the white van that has been used for the walking dead and the purge. But he said they were going to paint it blue. I know that blue is the Chelsae soccer colors, but it's also the color of the TARDIS. And from recent research, there is also a group of monster known as "The Smilers" in Doctor Who. I've said it before, that I don't watch the show, so I'm not a Who fan, but I did some research on the chelsae smilers and some Doctor Who stuff came up about the smiler monster. This is like the wildest guess ever, but who knows. I'm just trying to get some guesses out there. I was just thinking: Maybe this is our "upcharge" house. It could tie in LT, by taking place as a Legendary Truth investigation inside Shady Brook, and features Mary Agana. (Since the wiener can't take away the rights from her.) It's just a wishful thought. But the Legendary Truth up charge house seems like the perfect opportunity to utilize the concept of Shadybrook and Mary Agana.

Never mind. Ignore this. Spot on, Legacy! Well Done!

I'm still doing my own work on Doc's Cryptic performances. 4 Is really getting to me, but I have some ideas. I'll post my thoughts once I get everything organized. Dr Jimmy... You're an evil genius, sir.

It's still just more Walkers to me... no matter what they title the show.

That's true. I'm not sure Universal would startvon ads like that this early, AND have Insidious and NOES locked in with it, since Mike has only locked in a couple mazes. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) I flipped because it was taken down from YouTube, as if it were an actual leak but it's possible tht the creator of the video did that to tease us, and make it seem that way. Who knows. Though the ending graphics were believable and well done (loved the Jack logos.), I'm not 100% this is legit. We should just wait for Dr Jimmy's video coming out in a few days.

Oh man... I was just about to write that I believe it's fake until I tried to watch again to realize it's been taken down from Youtube........ I'm freaking out right now.... Everyone here watched that.... right?!? Could it be A&D messing with us, or was it legit?? Could it be true? Nightmare On Elm Street, Insidious, and Friday The 13th this year?

Well I think if we want to view this realistically, we first have to debate what past original franchises can be continued. (Unless they do something along the lines of a reboot, which I don't see.) So let's debate, shall we? Here are some past house franchises that I personally believe can be carried on. Scary Tales Nightengales (almost a guarantee actually) Catacombs Psychoscareapy (yes, I believe it's possible, if they go into a deep storyline.) I also like the "Scarezones into houses", or "Houses to scarezones" Idea. I think it's highly possible for multiple past originals. Anything on my list you don't agree with? Anything you want to add?

The In Between took the true potential of 3D house effects, and took it to the max. The only 3D house that was properly done was The In Between in my opinion. However, I will say that Afterlife had a great backstory, but it's downfall was the effects and how it was coordinated. P&T was a really fun house, but it lacked scares. But like I said, The In Between is how all 3D houses should be. I feel like after a while, they got really cheap with 3D houses and thought "Oh, well since it's in 3D maybe people will only pay attention to the glowing stuff and not notice at all how cheaply we constructed everything." I really hope if we get a 3D house again for this year, (Which I think we will.) It needs to utilize the elements that The In Between used.

Indeed, the facade was absolutely stunning, and so were the sets! I can see Crimson Peak being a beautiful house as well, from the small clips of the trailer.

True. I was very disappointed in the Dracula trailer after hearing that the film was probably going to become a house, and had extremely low expectations in the house until I went through it, to find a beautifully designed atmospheric house. I enjoyed it a lot. I have no doubt Crimson Peak has a lot more house possibilities than we can see as of now.

I can definitely see Crimson Peak happening. Yes, it obviously has a lot of marks on it, and it comes out literally during the event (like Drac last year.) but somehow I'm still not sure if it's a big possibility. There's a number of films that have been speculated, lots of them coming out this year. This one truly does stand above most, but after watching the trailer, I just don't see a lot of these scenes having the capability to be turned into a house. What I do think, is that there are parts that could still be used and could be totally awesome. For all the ghost style events (Like the part with the ghost coming out of the floor in the hallway), they could easily use projections. I could see a stunning facade. The only thing is there wasn't much darkness in the trailer. But hey, it's an early trailer. And this kinda stuff was said about the Dracula Untold trailer, and they still made it work great. I still want to see a bit more on this movie though. Hopefully they release a new trailer soon, so I can get a better idea.