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25 minutes ago, MoonKnight said:

I get the shymalan and walking dead, but is the bugs due to your own fear? I agree about the clowns but the It movie looks like it's going to be huge I remember hearing the trailer broke records for views so the general public is still interested in clowns.

 

im lucky my biggest phobia is being buried alive so there's not many houses that can realistically pull that off

Lol it is. I know HHN is so much fun because it's horror, buts bugs and spiders take it from "fun horror" to "hell no I'm not going near that with a 20 foot pole". 

I would actually LOVE an IT House, but when I said I'm over the clowns, I meant like the fluorescent clowns we see so often at HHN. 

 

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4 hours ago, Itsjosie said:

since there's not much else to talk about, I'm posing a question. Name any house original or IP that would piss you off the most if Orlando were to announce it today. 

Mine would probably be either a Slenderman house or Lunatics Playground 2: Now with extra 3D

Any M. Night Shymawhatever movie, It Follows, anything with bugs/insects or anything Walking Dead related. I'm also super over the whole clown thing. And I think last year Hollywood had a scarezone that was basically oversized vermin and insects. It looked so stupid. 

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30 minutes ago, Nightcrawler said:

btw, since we're kind of on the subject of Blumhouse, I'll be having a month of free Netflix, do you think I should watch 'Sinister 2' in preparation for the House?

Just have a whole Blumhouse marathon. I know Insidious is on there as well as a few others. 

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5 minutes ago, RevFreako said:

It's a shame Blumhouse doesn't have its own humanoid (CALM DOWN) icon. Their icon is a house. If they had, like, the equivalent of the boy fishing from the Dreamworks logo, they'd be set.

Blumhouse does have the creepy opening for its horror movies with the ghost looking girl. But she looks a little too generic I think to really stand out. 

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Yeah but at least this is more fun than collectively being annoyed at marketing. This thread doesn't specify what kind of speculation has to be discussed. 

 

Also, Disney poutine is lovely. 10/10 strongly recommend. 

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12 minutes ago, Alice said:

 

Looks like they're listing the top 10 they WANT to have at HHN, which is weird because I thought twisted taters were already there. 

 

Nah because I've definitely seen everything else on that list at HHN. Poutine is the only thing on there I haven't seen. 

Listen guys, let's make a pact that the first person who finds poutine at the event this year needs to post its location in the group. Deal? 

I am not above asking a monster mid-attack where my gravy fries of goodness are. 

"GIVE ME YOUR SOUL" 

"Only if you buy me poutine first" 

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Boom this list

It's the first thing listed. 

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Just now, criticalanalysis said:

 

WUT. Where was that?!

 

DUDE RIGHT. Last November I saw some list post about the best HHN food and poutine was on there. I was there enough last year that I thought I would've seen it, but I also have a very loyal relationship with twisted tators so maybe I walked right past it and didn't notice. Anyone else heard of the mysterious HHN poutine? 

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37 minutes ago, alien1207 said:

Reading you guys talk about this event is incredibly upsetting. The fact that you have such disregard for how the actual event runs and are so selfish in your ways is so off-putting to this community.  You realize that you are probably like MAYBE 1-2% of the people attending the event. You spend the entire year on this forum and book tickets in advance. You are not who Marketing is worried about. People obviously have studied and their only job is to figure out when is the best time to announce these things for ticket sales. Which, gives horror nights a larger budget to create these houses that you love so much, in the future. To get mad about that, with the little marketing knowledge you all seem to have, is so bizarre to me.  Maybe you should make a "Screw Marketing" thread, so we can talk about things that actually matter instead of having to listen to you complain that you aren't Horror Nights #1 Customer and concern, since ya know....you're already loyal customers and they don't have to worry about you coming back. I do not think you realize this is a seasonal event at a amusement park whose soul purpose is to collect your money, not make sure you have every single detail about the event before their summer season is over. 

 

Bless you, this is literally what I have been saying since the beginning. We can all agree that we love HHN, that's why we're all here. But at the end of the day, this is a theme park event that is going to make money no matter what. Yes, I'm sure they do care about the diehard HHN fans, but they also know that we're going to attend and give them money (almost) no matter what. We're not their concern. Do I think what they're doing this year as far as marketing is good? Hell no, I hate it and it's annoying. Am I still going to spend hundreds of dollars to make my annual pilgrimage and go? Hell yeah. And I'm sure the same goes for everyone else here. You have every right to be upset with marketing and complain about it, but let's remember this is a speculation thread. If you hate the event and what they do with it so much, don't go. Save your money or put it towards a new adventure. I'm done now, I promise. 

 

So...did anyone else know they had poutine last year at HHN because real talk I'm high key bitter I didn't see it at all last year during any of my visits. 

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Does anyone know where I could watch Trick R Treat? Is it on Netflix or something? I've actually never seen it and I feel like I need to watch it before I go this year, and just in general as a horror fan. And speaking of hordes, I would LOVE to see a scarecrow horde near the dust bowl house. The scarecrows last year were really fun. 

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28 minutes ago, Jediwhit82 said:

 

 

For me one of the biggest problems with horror nights that has always ruined the mood, is the ending of rides, Mummy works because it ends with Brendan Friaser getting killer, but all of the others are too happy. For me the biggest offenders are gringots and transformers. I wonder how much it would cost to make an alternate last screen, like in Gringots have Voldy kill Harry, and then in transformers, have it end with Megstron beheading Optimus. Just something to keep the horror alive even on attractions.

 

Have you seen what they do at HHN over in Japan? They change the ride videos so that they fit the horror theme. For example, I remember seeing a video of their Back to the Future ride in Japan and at the end, you get transported to a house in Japan and the grudge ghosts come out. It's really cool and I soooo wish our HHN would do that. 

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1 hour ago, Oysterhead00 said:

 

I believe to be a millennial male, you have to have at least considered a man bun.

 

To be a millennial female, you have to have averaged 5 duck lips photos on social media per week for a 2 month period.

 

However, if you have a regular Starbucks order that is over 20 syllables long, you get a Millennial 4 Life card.

 

So glad I'm old and my parachute pants, Whitesnake and Dokken iron-on patches on my stone washed jean jacket, and scar on my left ear where it used to be pierced are the only regrets of my youth   

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1 hour ago, N i c k said:

What age range describes a millennial?

I believe millennial describes anyone born between 1984-1995

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34 minutes ago, Alice said:

Idk, as your resident milennial, I found that most people who watched it really liked it too. And I usually HATE both that kind of music and that kind of dancing. I guess my enjoyment came from it being one thing that wasn't truly SCARY. The more things like that, the happier I am

 

As second resident millennial, agreed. I did notice a majority of the fans were around my age, so it might just be a generational thing. Maybe AoV is Universal's way of bringing in more college kids. I know last year I forced a bunch of my friends to come with me one night and they really enjoyed AoV and it was one of the things that made them want to come back. I mean, one of the girls I brought was not digging the event until she watched AoV and then she wanted to stay longer and enjoy the event. For the HHN veterans, the show might seem totally out of place, but it does bring in a crowd. 

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13 minutes ago, Tich0las said:

I'm probably in the minority on this one, but I enjoyed AoV last year more than Jack's show during 25.  I don't see how AoV can top itself, so the excitement will probably diminish each year it returns.

 

 

 

I really enjoyed it too. I grew up dancing so I'm mildly biased, but I know every night I was there it drew a huge crowd so it's not like people didn't enjoy it. I thought the placement was a bit off (walking through Banshee with Fall Out Boy playing in the background was odd), but it was still a great show. And I will fight anyone that thought the dream sequence part was anything less than amazing. Even if you weren't a fan of the show as a whole, you have to admit that part was awesome. 

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24 minutes ago, Alice said:

Okay, so looking at a few of today's tweets, it seems like the 'rewards' for Soul Collectors may be based through the social media sharing buttons on the site...they are talking all about recruiting friends...@sounds like a pyramid scheme but okay, lol

 

Noooooo. My friends already know I sold my soul to this event years ago, don't make me spam their social media accounts so I can get fun stuff. 

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2 hours ago, PeoriaBJJ said:

more PUMPKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I wonder what it costs Uni to have AoV for the whole season? Its gotta be crazy expensive.

 

I LOVED AoV, but could you imagine the amount of pumpkins they could put in with the budget they used for that show! ALL the pumpkins!! 

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Oddly enough, I gotta agree with Critical again when it comes to The Shining. I would honestly bet money that the blood elevator scene is going to be done FvJ style with a screen. Plus the hotel is so massive I can't imagine that they would do it justice. But then again, people were unsure about the Exorcist house last year and that was done pretty well. 

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7 minutes ago, OhHaiInternet95 said:

I'm betting they were originally planning to announce something by now. But then the Conjuring fell through. I think getting an extra original house is worth it.

 

I would much rather have an original than the Conjuring. It was a good movie, but the only thing I can think of when I imagine a Conjuring house is people clapping at me while I walk through a dark hallway. 

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22 minutes ago, Sledge said:

Honestly, my first thought was it was just a picture from the scarezone a couple years back. But it didn't look familiar and I didn't see it in any pictures. 

 

Could be him screwing with me, but given what he has access to it wouldn't be far-fetched to believe it was actually something from this year.

 

The green glow next to the skull is a very Avada Kedavra green. My only other guess would be something from the voodoo house.

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That looks like something from Knockturn Alley. Your friend might just be screwing with you. 

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1 minute ago, TheLadyGator said:

I don't know if this matters, but Hall-O-Scream tweeted about ticket prices today (they haven't tweeted anything since June 5). I know Universal probably won't want them stealing their Thunder for HHN, so maybe that will be an incentive to announce something today? Disney and Universal tend to piggyback each other with annouencements according to my friends in Disney Marketing (i.e. Volcana Bay/Avatar). Just a thought  

 

Does anyone know if there have been any announcements about Not So Scary yet? I bet once those come out, Universal Marketing will start making a bigger deal about HHN. 

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I keep hearing stuff about people that went the Sunday after the hurricane and couldn't even do anything it was so crowded. I went that night and was able to do all the houses once without express and see Academy of Villains. I've never bought express out of the three years I've gone and I've never had a problem. You just have to go in with a plan. 

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Before I go to HHN I like to watch any of the IPs featured and watch youtube videos from past events. I also have a cheesy Halloween playlist on Pandora (Monster Mash, This Is Halloween, Ghostbusters, etc.) that I listen to while I get dressed and put on my war paint for the night. 

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3 minutes ago, elhev said:

I always get the blinky cup .  To me HHN is a vacation of sorts (probably my fave of the year) so I like to have a drink or two.  Like with any event there are those people who don't know their limits and end up vomiting in a corner or acting like a-holes.  I don't think it strictly applies to HHN though, I mean just take a walk down EPCOT's world showcase and you are sure to find a group of drunken college kids drinking (or puking) around the world.  

Ok but in those college kid's defense, most of them are in the College Program and trust me, they need to get drunk at Epcot on their days off to survive being an intern there.