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Christine as in the Stephen King novel and movie about the killer car and the man who loves it? (More common than you'd think...) I know that you people said Stephen King isn't coming, but I might as well get the guess out of the way and go with something Stephen King related.

That may be a three in the top right? 3. Maybe. Not sure what that means.

This has nothing to do with speculation about haunted houses... but I just want to let you know that I've listened to this song about four times in a row. Thank you for posting it. Also, throwing my guess behind the 99 Red Balloons guess. It just seems like it has weight. That was a horrible pun, oh my christ.

I've done most of that this year except warn about the flash, although that last one's mostly because someone else in my party takes the pictures for me and I end up forgetting to mention it. Thanks for the advice! I just don't want to feel like a heel for fucking up someone's routine.

I'm a little curious about something... Not sure if I should turn this into a full-on thread or not, but what would you all say is proper ediquette for asking scareactors to take pictures with you?

Yuuuuuuuuup.

I'm trying to go into this with an open mind. In my opinion, no icon is better than a poorly conceived last minute icon that barely has any presence in the event. While P & T concerns me, hey... I don't know. One scarezone only kind of sounds like it would suck, but... Well, we'll see. Open mind, like I said. If anything, this is going to be amazingly different, and that has some merit to it all its own. I've never been disappointed with the event overall. It's always been one of the highlights of my year.

People might not be fans of Penn and Teller just due to their political preferences... though that's getting beside the point. People worried about Alice Cooper need to question whether they wouldn't be adverse to The Shining showing up. The man is rather important, just like Stephen King, when it comes to overall horror influence in mainstream culture. He's responsible for rock taking on horror imagery across the entire genre, and Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, and many others would not be the same without him. I personally am extremely excited for his house, and my opinion of how this event's going to turn out has improved dramatically. While the management may still be a total shitshow, the announcement of a Silent Hill house (which I honestly could not believe the first time I saw it), and the promise of some original houses, especially the DE-esque house, has me extremely excited. :3

Anyone who's seen Spider-Man: Shut Off The Dark can testify to that.

Talked to a couple people in the stores across the park last night. Apparently, hoodies are completely sold out for this year. No more until next year. Sorry, guys.

Sorry that your post doesn't really say anything really conclusive. Don't worry, you can try and make a good, critical post again later! :3 Anyways, last night was incredibly rainy. But... holy shit. It was SO worth holding out for it. Great houses this year, was really really surprised by Bloodngutz and The Thing. Nightingales was freaking amazing, and I really, really hope that they show up in another house, it's an awesome concept. All in all, a great year, and I can't wait to see the scarezones in action! As is Acid Assault looks awesome!

I wouldn't bet on this working for you. Phone connection is shit inside the park due to everyone trying to call each other. Every year I'm pretty much unable to get anything out. So yeah, sorry. :T

I'm probably going to be too busy flitting around from house to house and trying to catch Bill and Ted to watch this. Still, it looks like a neat addition, especially with the rotating shows.

Right, so, let me get this straight... This is how I currently see Into the Machine. If I'm wrong and there's no connection, this works well for a fan theory, right? So we start out with Saws and Steam, right? Mass anarchy in New Yorkshire's streets, something like a riot or something. Man against man, brother against brother. Nobody's going to be able to stop it. The police have pretty much said "Screw this" and they're not bringing their mechanotrolleys or whatever in to calm down the rioters. Give or take, maybe twenty years for this. The ocean is pretty much still screwed. Maybe the population's dropped a bit from all the unchecked killings. New Yorkshire has cooled down, but it still needs power. This is where The Horizon comes in. I'm imagining something like a Soylent Green scenario here where people are just scraping by, living in ruined tenements with little to no power. The Horizon keeps this all running. Maybe across the entirety of America they've got these running, or maybe it's just New Yorkshire. The fact of the matter though is that every day of every year people are getting processed into water. The killing never stopped. It just got more orderly, more managed. The system no longer perpetuates the people, it's the people who expend themselves to take care of a system that serves nothing but itself. Gears running that do nothing but suck up more water, and by extension more lives. Thoughts?

Thanks!

Right, just a quick question, how exactly am I suppoed to balance the ship in the game for the Forsaken? Arrow keys? My mouse? Every time I play the game the cannon just makes a beeline for the right side of the screen and I get screwed over.

Holy shit this is going to be a fucking amazing year. Every house intrigues me, every scare zone intrigues me (Acid rain doesn't mean blisters, guys! We may be looking at something more like Fright Yard than anything!), I am excited. Also, good on this forum for actually managing to figure out a lot of this stuff (especially the houses) before the reveal happened! You guys all rock. :3

We wants the redhead, we wants the redhead! Honestly the tone I got off the picture is more of a ghostly feel than demonic. They're already doing demons in another house from the look of it, they're not going to overlap with the pirate (Maybe not even a pirate ship? Just more of a ship full of ghosts jealous of the living?) ship house. I think ignoring the ropes would be a bad thing to do. Those ropes look a whole lot like rigging. And there's tattered sheets up top, which could serve for sails.

You're implying that this or HHN is a family website. ;3 Anyhow... who's to say that this house will mimic the plot structure of the prequel? It could be a thematic "best of" like Doomsday was.

Universal tends to hew towards false locations as well in order to keep themselves unchained by history. The Universal Palace Theater, all the permutations of Carey, Ohio, the fact that Paulo Ravinski comes from a "non-descript Eastern European country"... it all pertains to the fact that otherwise they would have to fit their creations into the history of a specific area to keep the illusion up.

This is probably really, really wrong, but if the three people represent the living, dying, and dead. And this statement is stated by someone who would like to meet them... Maybe it's coming from someone inbetween? Neither living, dying, or dead?

Gambling in Atlantic City wasn't legalized until the 70s so I'm not exactly sure that's all that plausible...

Hell yeah, casino theme. What the hell's wrong with a casino theme for this year? There's a very strong running theme through Halloween stories of Faustian bargains that the antagonists (and sometimes protagonists) take part in. This running theme can be played with a lot of ways and make for a lot of houses. And casinos represent the most basic version of the Faustian bargain, soooo...

I was gonna do it anyways so welp It is pretty much impossible to accurately drop anything when you're doing it on the internet anyhow. A delay of a few hours should be expected out of common sense.