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6 hours ago, HHN Pro said:
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2017 for Orlando was a near-perfect year. 2017 for Hollywood looked.... How to put it.... Mediocre.
Last year suffered from a lot of poor IP choices, budget cuts, construction in the park, and the scrapping of The Conjuring.
However, I’ve heard that orlando handled the scrapping well and The Hive was a much better replacement compared to Titans of Terror.
Poor IP choices are mostly fueled by what the GP love (titans, purge, Insidious, Saw) and while they’ve been done well in the past, and even last year Titans and insidious were good (nowhere near 2015/16 quality good) but they had been tired out.
Budget cuts caused a lot of scenes and set pieces to be cut, the biggest example being AVED (which I heard was even a dud in orlando).
The park construction cut out a lot of what could have been a great upperlot Scarezone.
The lineup this year is awesome, is it the dream lineup from the earlier leak? Nope. But is it still a really good lineup? In my opinion yes, except HOB 2 and the return of Toxxic Tunnel.
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7 minutes ago, zombieman said:
Thank you for that clarification! When you say that Blumhouse 2 may have replaced "john's original maze", do you mean original as in original content? Or the original IP that was to have gone there?
Original content. On twitter John talked early on about how he designed an original maze for this year’s event but it was scrapped in favor of an IP maze, and he furthermore revealed that it would be another original maze set in Mexico
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2 hours ago, zombieman said:
Did they just rename the zone? I thought it was called Holidayz in Hell. "The 'Z' makes it Hollywood"TM
The Harvest in Orlando will have nothing to do with Hollywood's event. Well, maybe very tangentially... Orlando's Harvest will be a photo op where they have "something" (character, small set piece, etc) that represents their houses. At least that's what we know at this point. So because some IPs will be shared, Orlando's zone may have a character or two from the shared house.
Hollywood'z Scare Zone (damn, Murdy, now you're making me do it) will be entirely unique.
As for the facades:
Yup, looks like Poltergeist. And thanks Universal for the leak. Someone needs to update their LinkedIn profile...
Weird that they basically copied the existing theater facade from the upper lot in the lower lot. I would assume this would be Blumhouse... Is the rumor that there will be a First Purge house AND a Blumhouse 2.0? I seriously care so little about the park 40 miles from my house...
And that crappy looking strip mall... First Purge I guess? The colors are so garish during the daytime (too playful), but it still has quite a bit of work left. Where is this one again? AHS location? Saw location?
And how freakin' sad is it that we are discovering this from LEAKS and COMPLETED WORK and not from marketing???
If I lived halfway between Orlando and Hollywood, why would I possibly want to head west when they have provided so little?
Holidayz in Hell is our already announced scarezone located out on the backlot, same spot as Urban Inferno. Hell’s Harvest is a scarezone name let slip by John. My best spec since that’s said to be our entrance zone with chainsaws and trick ‘r Treat has been said to be the opening scaramony/New York zone is that we’re going back to 2011 style where there’s two zones in the entrance area (Scream and Klownz) with hell’s Harvest taking over the entrance fountain/universal boulevard area and trick ‘r Treat going by the New York facade by DreamWorks and universal plaza with the flame towers and the Sam photo op.
Horrors of Blumhouse 2 is the rumor. I feel like this one was corporate pushed due to the rumored properties inside (Truth or Dare and Unfriended) that replaces john’s original maze. And he was probably already committed to the first purge as a full maze so just rolled with it as the full one and added Blumhouse instead of squeezing it in there.
The strip mall facade is indeed for First Purge. The colors seem to be just the start. John stated in a tweet that they’ll be destroyed/burned out so we’ll be experiencing the purge while it’s already been happening for a while. This is located at the Ash vs. Evil dead/Krampus/crimson peak/TWD location. Poltergeist is outside of 747 same place as Saw and FVJ and Blumhouse is over at the AHS/FDTD spot
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Along with our maze based on the same film, Halloween Horror Nights 2018 Hollywood will be featuring a scarezone based on Trick ‘r Treat.
This was unofficially announced by John Murdy earlier this evening at Mid Summer Scream. Claimed by him to have been an accidental “oops did I just say that?” Moment. (I believe John was fully aware of what he was doing and was completely allowed to do that, he just announced it that way to be a carny showman)
The location is still not confirmed by Murdy however people have said it is the entrance zone. We know it will feature the school bus kids, Mid-transformed Werewolf girls, and Sam (this one isn’t confirmed. But c’mon. Can’t do this as a zone without Sam)
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13 minutes ago, bggrenville813 said:
I'm into it. Looks like it'll be a fun scare zone. Is it confirmed that it's going in the metrosets? I checked out a couple walk through videos from the Singapore sz and it looks like it'd be perfect for that set up
Indeed it is confirmed that it’s going in metro sets. It’s our gauntlet zone, we start at the start of the year and end at the end of the year. This ones gonna be pretty good I hope
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8 hours ago, Raynie said:
Hi! Not sure if I can post this here, but I have a question about tickets. Does anyone know if you can buy tickets for combo ticket after 2pm that gets you into the park and for HHN with both FOL for the rides before the party and FOL for the mazes? Not just the rides. How much would that cost for a Sunday, if they do sell that option? Thank you.
If my memory serves me correctly, the FOL after 2 pm option was around $200 give or take maybe $10 or $20 pending certain nights. I didn’t buy it last year but I did buy a used pass off of eBay as a souvinear and the front of the line pass says it was only valid during Halloween Horror Nights and not during your time in the day at the park. However all the rides minus Depsicable Me, Forbidden Journey, and Hippogriff are open for HHN and the front of the line pass is valid for all mazes, shows, and rides during the night time event (minus the three that are closed). So you’d be able to ride the rides that aren’t open during the HHN hours while the park is open during the day going through the normal line and during the event use front of the line for everything else. Hope this helps!
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JP won’t be used for HHN this year due to the closure of Jurassic Park for the Jurassic world overhaul. We got Soundstage 29 as the replacement for that venue. So no need to check on that in the future. Great update!
Pretty sure I’ve seen pictures on twitter/other forums that all our locations are under construction. Well I don’t know about 29 but that’s just cause it’s indoor.
Waterworld: Walls are up
Parisian Courtyard: Looks very far along. The facade is intriguing
Mummy: Trick r Treat has entered Scenic (please no black walls)
JP: RIP
SS29: Who knows
AHS Location: Looks pretty far along
Metro Sets: also looks somewhat far along
Outside 747: Tent was up last I saw
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1 hour ago, dereksdominance said:
Trick r Treat is going in Mummy queue so don't get too excited. I'm predicting this will be the cheap maze.
A concept; we don’t necessarily have to have a cheap maze.
Remember 2016? I mean we did have The Exorcist, but that was done by design.
From what people with inside information have said, the event went over budget in 2016 which caused the budget cuts of 2017 (mostly seen in Ash and The Shining). They weren’t planned to be the cheap mazes, talking with John on Twitter there was a lot more planned for Ash (even he was disappointed in it not turning out the way he wanted) and there was a bit more planned for The Shining.
But back to the Insiders, I think a little bit ago one of them mentioned that the events budget has increased as a whole. Seeing as we’re keeping the same maze count as 2016 and 2017, a higher budget year will most likely mean no cheap mazes
*aggressively runs through a forest punching every single tree*
cause knock on wood.
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After years of hearing “I’ll do a maze when Mike makes a sequel” John has finally decided to do a maze based on Mike Dougherty’s 2007 horror anthology Trick ‘r Treat
This maze will be located in the Mummy venue, same place as The Shining and The Exorcist
It went by codename “Olympics” the connection being the 1984 Summer Olympics mascot was Sam the Eagle and Sam is our Halloween rule keeper
Please discuss here. I’m trying to keep this forum alive. It’s so sad to see the place where my speculation began come to be a deserted wasteland
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38 minutes ago, faceleg said:
Sorry, I'm behind and trying to catch up so sorry if this has been addressed.
I don't know if it means anything, but these are all Tori Amos songs, and she is a singer/songwriter with red hair.
I’m pretty sure all those hints related to the first announcement, Stranger Things
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“It’s not a Simpson’s Halloween special. Think of it more as a clip show filled with clips you’ve never seen before!”
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1 hour ago, OhHaiInternet95 said:
I'm not a huge R&M fan, but the Scary Terry sequence was sidesplitting.
"He keeps saying we can run but we can't hide, I say we try hiding."
"But that's the opposite of--"
"Yeah, well, since when are we taking this guy's advice on anything?!"
From someone who is a rick and morty fan, and also watched this episode earlier to solve Legacy’s riddle, Scary Terry isn’t in that episode. And Legacy said “The next announcement is
IN Morty’s mind blowers”
Emphasis on in, clearly. He said it’s quite literal and is a quote so it’s in the actual episode somewhere if Legacy is to be believed
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11 minutes ago, CoopF22 said:
Who knows? The insiders may purposely be being fed false information. Yes that is my wishful side speaking.
It’s very possible. Over on the Hollywood side last year a lot of people were fed misinformation regarding the replacement for The Conjuring. People on both coasts could be fed up with leaks and are deciding to have fun and mess with the leakers and the speculators
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I think the forum dying down is due to the huge shift in the community and speculation. As soon as leaked lineups started coming out speculation started dying. Hardly anybody speculates on the codenames anymore, it’s pretty much we just give our speculated lineups, the lineup leaks, and then everyone speculated what is gonna be inside the mazes. The community shifted from having a large group of people willing to work for the lineup and speculate to people who want the lineup handed to them.
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I’m saying Stranger Things. I think it’s a bit bigger of an announcement than IT which is why they’re hyping it up so much. It could be IT although since that would deserve some hype too. Butim sticking with Stranger Things
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Wow. This forum is dead. We got word that our first announcement is tomorrow and nobodies posted a thing about it. Shame. This is the place where I got my start speculating, it sucks to see it die down :/
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1 hour ago, dykealiscious said:
Well I didn't see anything that specific here including code names, so I thought I'd post it.
Those aren’t the real code names. They’re codename made up by a user on IU Forums as a way of indirectly leaking the lineup
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1 hour ago, mystiquephreeq said:
Don't forget Giger. I'd say Giger was a creative force for Alien.
Murdy's clues are never clear cut. Each hint isn't going to give us an answer. The hints must be combined.
Ring of Fire was written by June Carter Cash. It was sung at Woodstock. It was made famous by Johnny Cash.
I can never remember Murdy's age range. Finding the SoCal band Is proving more difficult.
If I'm correct on the movie:
Ring of Fire + Alien = The Thing
EDIT: The SoCal band is going to be a band formed prior to 1981. Murdy graduated in 1985 (yay for Murdy giving his graduation year).
Only one of the hints is true. John said that two of the three hints he released are red herrings, so while it’s usually the case that the hints have to be combined, it’s not for this one
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7 minutes ago, TheRobcat said:
Terror In The Aisles came out the day Stranger Things season 2 starts Maybe season 1 too, but I don't remember. On his Twitter Murdy makes "time" related comments every time. I will be surprised if it isn't Stranger Things. Terminator also came out that day.
Do you have a connection with the three hints John released this morning? Or to one of the films featured in Terror in the Aisles?
The connection to the dates doesn’t seem strong enough unless there’s evidence from the other hints
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Think I got a connection. I started working with all 3 hints when my friend Manics pointed out that only the third hint connects to Terror in the Aisles so I just focused on that one...
The connection is to John Carpenter’s The Thing. John J. Lloyd died 9/20/2014
He was the production designer/art director for The Thing which is a classic film that was featured in Terror in the Aisles
Manics pointed out that the codename could be ‘John’ seeing as John connects to both J. Lloyd and Carpenter as well as Murdy which is a pretty obvious one. Good reason for him to not reveal it. Similar to ‘Howdy’ in 2016 for The Exorcist.
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4 hours ago, fvcking cvnt said:
isn't Murdy involved more in Hollywood?
Yes. Which is why he’s posting it here... in the Hollywood thread
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1 hour ago, zombieman said:
I'm still surprised that one person throws a list up here claiming it's the real deal and everyone has taken it as gospel. It's an educated guess, people. Aside from TWD, it's pretty safe to say at least three of those end up in 2018. But none of us knows anything for sure until the announcement is made.
While I always take the leaked lineups with a grain of salt, I do have to say that Henry14 is not pulling a twotontick. The lineup was revealed through a series of riddles given by a user on the IU forums and confirmed by several others on the forums, two of which are reliable sources who have leaked the lineup in the past.
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7 hours ago, zombieman said:
I know it won't happen, but if Murdy in some way were to at least acknowledge that 2017 had too many black hallways, I would have a degree of hope. He wouldn't even have to address the budget - just admit that last year was a problem.
Woah it’s been a while since I’ve posted on here... brains been stuck in 2017 with vlog and review videos
I don’t think it’s addressing the entire year as a problem but I did talk with John on Twitter a while back and he admitted that Ash has a lot of cuts to it and he also said that he agrees that Ash could’ve been better.
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Goodbye HHN 2017,
to all of you who I met at the event tonight, it was great meeting you!
Sad to see it go but so glad to have been there to see it all go. Now begins the long trip back to Arizona and the long wait for 2018!
Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood 2018 Speculation
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It’s been alluded to on IU forums that there’s a guest musician so perhaps they’ll be the special guest at the panel
I don’t think they’d announce Blumhouse at ScareLA. Giving Murdy a whole panel to talk about his passion project and how he went about getting permission to do UCM after all those years, creating them to truly be scary to the modern day GP, and if there truly is a musician how they went about designing the score. Plus it’s a Hollywood exclusive, usually those are the ScareLA/MSS announcements