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Hopping on here to see what everyone is thinking. This was the year I was going to skip and for sure attend the 30th. I live in Canada and it gets costly to travel and especially if I bring my kids. Well I found cheap flights so now I have a scheduled trip! (kids are not attending HHN- don't worry) I am excited for the rumors because I love the idea of more original than IPs. I just hope this isn't being treated as throwaway year from the higher up fiance ppl. They're riding on the success of stranger things and I *really* hope the other mazes will have a decent budget too! Maybe budgets were increased due to the success of last year? An underwater maze sounds amazing!! Graveyard has so much potential too. Not sure about house of 1000 corpses.. anyone know what that is about? Something creepy and haunted would be awesome. There is also no Blumhouse from what I can tell.. I'd rather see another original. I too am on the fence about ghostbusters but I do enjoy the comedic houses.. they're a little refreshingly different which mixes up nicely. What is everyone thinking? Have the leaks been better controlled? I see no ideas for scare zones yet. oh and PS- there better some great effects in these mazes. I have really enjoyed where they have been going with it- snow in the shining, the storm in poltergeist- wind and rain effects.. it was so good and really added to the experience. I really hope they continue with it.

Wondering if you all feel construction is behind compared to prior years. Normally there would be a bunch of vlogs about park updates but I was watching Tim Tracker the other day and it sounded like even he was suprised by the lack of changes in the parks. I just hope with the marketing is going, that construction and the builds are just going ahead like normal. We are travelling from Canada and have already arranged our tickets-- just getting worried that this year is gonna be a mess. :/

Ditto from a married woman with 3 kids!! Husband and I were discussing the possibility of leaving the kids behind to go to HHN! One can dream but the kids doubt have it. We'd have to lie and say we were going to a conference.

That is very true. Maybe it just shows more division between departments and less communication-- maybe due to structural changes. I am grasping at straws but you're right-- all is not lost. One question-- who oversees this all? Wouldn't someone see this as a bad idea.

omg- scarezone just released their podcast where they were counting down the ticker to zero.. did anyone hear the disappointment?

Do you think they just don't have a budget this year? They messed up with VB and although a nice park they are getting bad reviews. 2 of the IPs they have a promoting a new season of a TV show as well as a new movie? They just can't put it all together because they are too busy with other things?

i dunno-- i travel from canada (the land where i can't even enter the sweepstakes) and i wish i didn't buy my tickets. think i would have skipped out this year. oh well-- i am sure i'm a small part of their market that they probably don't care about us.

omg- well this in of sorts a nightmare.. like not the one i was hoping for. i can't even get into the site.. the sweepstakes link doesn't work. i didn't think i could get even more disappointed.

Thanks Scott- I wasn't sure if anymore news was pointing to more information being released. I remember when i signed up for that, the countdown seemed so far into the future and now we're almost here! My trip countdown in reaching the 40-mark. Crazy!! I wonder if Universal peeps are feeling the pressure too. Really only a month away now.

What is happening Thursday? Sorry-- been too busy to follow posts closely

I am having issues even buying tickets-- getting the rush of fear passes and they keep telling me there is an internal error and they are getting IT to look at it. I have an annual pass and am trying to buy them with the discount. The rep has been very nice and opened a file to call back when they're ready-- but I am very surprised as that is a lot of lost revenue if they don't even have all the tickets

Didn't get one either. I wonder if it is because I'm in Canada? I had to fit my whole mailing address on one line.

bummer.. well i guess i have no excuses so back to work i go. maybe next week??

Anything? I have been adulting for today-- any announcement at all!?! I am worried that this is just a result of them being behind.

Same goes if you're ever in Toronto!! I'd love to check it out. We're travelling with our kids and are already planning to leave them for 1 evening for HHN so I'll need to see what we can do about them but it would be really fun!! I am sure we met and talked.. hahah. small world!