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I hope your right and Comcast won't f it up. I doubt it too but even monkeys playing darts can get a bullseye every once in awhile. I worry about this year but I also worry about it becoming a habit in the future. I hope those worries are for not and everyone complaining is blown away this year. I don't feel that it's too soon to begin worrying about quality this year but I don't feel that we can judge the houses based of names. You can't judge a book by it's cover so we shouldn't jump to conclusions based on titles alone.

Comcast is known for spending the least amount of money to make the most amount of money. When it comes to HHN they will absolutely downgrade the houses and the event itself if they feel it can help their profit margin. This coming from someone who worked for the company for several years and has been a customer of theirs for 15 years. They are all about making more money. Event quality doesn't matter to them, people coming in the gates do. If people still come for a dumbed down event then they will continue to dumb it down. For someone to think that they won't do the same thing with HHN as they do in the rest of their holdings is just absurd.

I don't understand why everyone is still trying to decipher the codes. JW spelled it out for everyone a few pages back. I think everyone's speculation focus now should switch to what we will see in the houses that are happening and what the scarezones will be and where they will be. To continue to worry about the "clues" is a waste of time.

I'd love it if P&T prove everyone wrong it'd be great. If they prove me wrong I will give them their props for sure. I have to agree and disagree with you foREVer56. People can express their dislike for the premise of the houses without going through them. What they can't do is say the house sucks outright without going through it. Not being impressed by the house list and not being impressed by the actual house are 2 totally different things. I for one am not impressed by the idea of the P&T house but will go into it with a totally open mind and as I already said I hope they prove me wrong. The truth is nobody has any clue what the event will be like until after we've been through the houses ourselves.

If the rumors are true and I have no reason not to believe they are true then I'm both disappointed and excited. I'm excited for The Walking Dead. As far as I'm concerned it's the best show on TV and I'm all for it. I'm all for Alice Cooper. He is an icon in metal and he's always been influenced by horror and horror has been influenced by him so I think that house will be cool. Silent Hill, Meh I don't know. I'll give it a chance but I haven't really played the games. From what I know it has the potential to be a cool house. It's something we've speculated about for years and obviously they've listened. In that aspect I'm happy. I feel they are giving us something a lot of you have wanted for a long time and I'm all for giving the fans what they want. Gargoyles could be a great house. It's an original idea and I'm all for original. I'm sure the scares will be good in that house. You'll never know what is a prop and what is a scareactor so I really think this house could be good. Victorian mansion, I'm torn, it could be great but when I think of a Victorian mansion I think 2 story house, we all know they can't do a 2 story house. I think the facade for this will be amazing. As for the rest I just don't know what to think. It's another original idea so I'm looking forward to it. Dead Exposure I hated the original house and honestly don't care to see it back. It does nothing for me. That brings me to Penn and Teller. They have nothing to do with horror. Obviously this is the comedy house. It could go either way but I'm leaning towards absolutely hating this idea. They are funny and I love the Bullsh!t show. I just don't see what they bring to a horror themed event/haunted house. Could be good but absolutely does nothing to make me look forward to the event any more. As a whole I like the ideas except for the 2 I mentioned. What will make the event for me is the scarezones. I read on another site that we may only have one official zone and I really REALLY hope this isn't the case. I hope that info is false. They can easily move props in each night and have 6 zones. If they only have one it will absolutely ruin the overall feel of the event for me. I love the atmosphere and without it, it's just the studios at night with some haunted houses mixed in.

Just to be very clear Grimp0nd and Sakura will be with me. I have no clue who mr.luck is or why he's saying he will be with us. I feel he's just trolling but if I'm wrong feel free to message one of us to set it up if you really want to meet up with us mr.luck or Matt or Diesel <------ whatever you want to be called we're always looking to add to our group. That goes for everyone else too, if your serious and want to meet up just shoot one of us a message.

There is a movie coming out called Storage 24. It's a Universal movie that seems to feature a giant spider trying to kill people in a warehouse. It could be something or it could be nothing. At times in the trailer it looks like the "creature" is a spider at other times it doesn't. It is a Universal movie so it may fit. Check out the trailer and tell me what you think.

I don't think it'd be the normal version of the show. I think it would be a geared more to the adults and they could hire a few people to do it. I don't think it would be a big deal to have it open considering the issues at hand.

I'm reading into your first line. Can I assume that there will still be 7 houses and they are just trying to figure out the logistics of it all? Or something different and outside the box. I'm not asking you to give up all of your info, just a bit more than you did As for the rest you gave me a much needed laugh today, Thank you.

I've been giving it a ton of thought and really think another tent is the way to go. They are very expensive but I feel it's needed. If the put the 7th house in SS23 then that will create tons of crowding issues in the front of the park. If they put it back near the other tents it would be basically the same as using the parade building in terms of crowd flow. I think that would be the best bet. I just hope it's in the budget to do something drastic like that.

I worry about this causing havoc with HHN. If it's a partial tear down then ok but the timing seems very off. Also why would they tear the electrical out now if it was still going to be the site of a house? It's a ton of work to tear electrical out, make improvements and then build the house for HHN. Here's a copy of the permit http://parkrumors.com/images/ss44.jpg It clearly states Demolition, New Foundations, Building Shell and Interior build out. I have no clue what the interior build out could hint at? This sure does throw a wrench into things either way.

I'll be there on October 24th, 25th, 28th and 31st.

Thank you MZ_. I was really kinda worried about that. You've put my mind at ease and I look forward to my FFP with express.

Yes there was some in Nightingales. If I remember correctly it ran along the top of the "bunkers"

I called it weeks ago and again last night. Now this picture of what looks to be Dale's RV all but proves nobody was looking too much into the background of the generic site. Weather it's a coincidence or not that background coupled with the room names and the RV sitting near the disaster queue all but confirm that disaster is a Walking Dead house. If you haven't watched the show go do it. You won't be disappointed and it may make that house a bit better. You'll at least know what is going on a bit better. I too thought that some we're looking too much into the generic site but the more I look at it I'm not so sure it's as generic as years past. There has to be a reason for some of the letters being different. No point in doing it unless there is a reason. The background of the generic site mixed with everything we know about a Walking Dead house being a possibility seem to point to the background being done on purpose. The ROT that you pointed out Jeramy, that leads me to believe even more that this is the case. Maybe I am seeing what I want to since I'm a huge fan of TWD but there are way too many coincidences to just push them aside as nonsense.

I see what everyone is talking about when it comes to the background on the teaser site and the similarities to the walking dead photo. With the code names for disaster queue I honestly feel it's a walking dead house. The walking dead season 1 had memorable scenes in a hospital hallway (When Rick was waking up and discovering the disaster) and on a rooftop (It's where they left Merle handcuffed). If that's the case it seems like we may get a house reviewing what we've seen on the show so far. Hopefully if that's the case it takes us into the prison too. My thoughts on the parade affecting the scare zones. I honestly believe they will be bringing the larger props in every night for one or two of them. All indications are that the parade is a hit. I don't see them stopping it, I see them changing the time, I don't know how much they can change the route if at all. Maybe someone with more knowledge on this subject could pitch in their thoughts on that. Knowing that they have brought props in for scare zones each night leads me to think that is the route they will go. Last but not least my thoughts on the generic site. I'm thinking the last 2 letters in too are actually numbers. Either a countdown as Grimp0nd mentioned or hinting towards a theme of 100 years of horror. I can't believe that they would not at least have some mention of it. Of course I know it's technically the 99th year but everything is 100 years of Universal this year. I think that theme will roll right into HHN. I expect a house dedicated to the 100 years. Maybe a room for each decade or something (I'm not sure exactly how many scenes go into each house). That would be a great way to bring H.R. Bloodengutz back into the fold this year again.

I have to agree with Zombiegeddon it was a fun house. I like those "dark humor" style houses too.

That was a great reply to that. I wouldn't have been so nice, so I must commend you. I wanted to respond to him, then I read your post and realized you took care of that comment in the best possible manner. Thank you. Wow wait this isn't even a speculation page. It's WISHFUL THINKING. I have to post, sorry. We can wish for anything, doesn't mean it will happen but we can still discuss what we'd like to see. I want to see some kind of combination of 2 parks and 2 icons. Ol' Gimp0nd over there might want 1 park and 1 icon but 10 houses. We know 2 parks, 2 icons and/or 10 houses is very unlikely this year but we can still have fun discussing our ideas. No matter how dumb the ideas that we come up with may be to you. You may have your opinion and I have mine. Everyone on this forum wants to see something different next year. I personally like reading everyone's ideas and thoughts so keep them coming. No need to bash someone's idea or conversation this early in the game. Relax, have fun, smoke a jeffrey and rub a furry wall.

Jason, I don't consider you a member of the general public. I think we're on the same page with the characters we want to see. I'll buy first round, you know I have no problem with that. Although according to the good Dr's post we may have to wait a year to see it. Unless they just have one big celebration for the 100th year and side step the fact that it's Universal horror's 99th year.

I like this idea. Especially the Bloodengutz introductions but I'm sorry I have to agree with JW I think it's too early to go back to Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolfman. Now if they did something minus those 3 characters I'd be all for it. Maybe they could somehow combine those three and do some sort of all black and white room for all of them and really play up the original versions of these characters. That's just my thought on how it could be done. Although being the 100th year it would be a travesty not to have some mention of the classic's. I'd love to see some of the lesser known Universal monsters. Someone/thing like The Creature or The Metaluna Mutant. I know I'm going very far back and I also know that the GP doesn't know who these characters are. To me that's the perfect opportunity to introduce some younger people to some older characters. Just my 2 cents, not that anyone cares.

When I say 2 parks I meant what they did at HHN 15. They wouldn't need to use all of both parks. I made mention of them not using the Potter area and obviously the Amity area wouldn't be open. How much of each park they would have open is obviously up for debate. I just think it's the perfect year for both parks considering it's HHN 22.

I honestly believe that next year will be in both parks. Looking at it from a marketing standpoint - HHN 22 Double the terror or something similar to that. They could have an icon for each park (assuming they can get 1 icon right) My idea in terms of icons would be evil twins separated at birth. They are both sick and twisted but in different ways. One could focus on the gore that we all love and the other could be psychological. Picture the studios being done with all kinds of blood and gore, more scenes like the scene in saws n steam where the guy was cutting the persons leg open and things of that nature. Really play up the blood and gore to maximum levels. Then IOA (excluding Potter of course) could be filled with houses like the in between. Just really trippy houses that instead of relying on gore they rely on special effects and mind games. That's just an example of what I wouldn't mind seeing next year. I'm not trying to say that I know what they're gonna do by any means, just what I wouldn't mind seeing.

That would be awesome. I've always wanted them to do that. Professionally film every house, with scareactors, every scarezone and Bill and Ted. I would pay 20 maybe 25 for that DVD every year. They could just release it the following year. Basically you could get this years DVD starting right before next years event.

Ok no offense but I'm not going to argue with a little kid who seems to think he knows everything. I only work with stuff on a daily basis for a marketing/auction/shipping company here in Pa. I will make a few points and that's it. Why would an IT person be behind the camera? I don't even know what to say to that. You questioned my internet connection but honestly that's a joke, I have very reliable and VERY fast internet. The quality wasn't very good compared to other streams I've seen. Including one I'm watching currently on Facebook in HD. Facebook wasn't big for Uni until this year, your right........................how does that have anything to do with them not being able to do a cheap stream on facebook this year? My most important point I want to make is what you don't seem to realize I'm trying to say. It's cheaper long term in the real business world to do as many things in house as possible. You keep trying to throw all this knowledge at me and truth is I don't care to hear business dealings from a 14 year old. All I'm trying to say is they should already have people currently in their employment that know how to do a cheaper stream than what they did last year if indeed they hired an outside company to do it for them. If the company I work for which employs a whole 7 people can figure out how to stream cheap, quality streams for our auctions right in our webpage and facebook, universal could do the same. It cost's us in the ballpark of 700 dollars for us to stream a 2 hour auction. I think Universal has that laying around somewhere. Once again it all boils down to cost vs reward. Weather they hired an outside company or did it in house. There wasn't enough reward last year for them to do justify doing it this year.

Good review Jason. I had a blast and you know I can't wait to do it again next year.