MoonKnight

I've only started posting recently but been lurking for years and in the past few years we've had more information by now. So people are just grasping at straws seems like it anyways

Agreed. Some people are taking this stuff as gospel, things could be changing right now or the information being passed could've been wrong from jump. Only things for sure are AHS and Shining in my opinion everything else is speculation until it comes from UO

I've never read any King novels but seen several adaptations only one I could see working would be It, Carrie, and Cujo. This is just my personal taste but pet cemetery, 1408, thinner, the mist, secret window, dead zone, lawnmower man I've seen and don't think they'd work. I think not having King properties is not that much of loss is what I'm saying, I think his adaptations have been more misses than hits maybe the source material is great but most people are more familiar with the movies than novels or short stories I agree just a house during a plague with plague doctors, plague infected, paranoid villagers could be a great house without gargoyles. I'm probably most excited about the setting than it being a sequel

I was thinking the same thing that's why I had to ask. But that's what happens when there's no news seems like people cling on to anything. Maybe i imagined it but I thought one of the early rumors was an "it" house, with the movie it seemed to make sense to me but the rights are always a problem. I'm not sure why they picked vampires as the replacement personally I think there are so many other ways to go even if they already had a '70s aesthetic picked out. I was thinking they could've done a sequel to Dead End which was a house I really enjoyed from 2012, but isn't on anyone all time top ten. With the Gothic/catacombs sequel combo house they probably wouldn't want to do more sequel houses though.

Just making sure. Because then my next question would've been were these clowns that became vampires or vampires that went to clown college to entertain other vampires at birthdays and such

I thought I was keeping up with this stuff but must've missed something where did vampire clowns come from and is that joke?

The first year I went to HHN was 2012 the first Sunday in October me and some friends were doing a bachelor party weekend and went to a Bucs game in Tampa and on the way back decided to go. We didn't get express, didn't even know it was a thing until I saw 2 lines for all the houses. The lines were pretty bad and one of my friends was dogging the event all night because of the waits. I Promised myself if I ever got to go back had get an express pass. Ive been lucky to go twice since and will never go again without an express pass. I only go for a weekend from New Orleans, so if I want to see everything and still enjoy everything I have to. I'm going this year and will definitely be getting express again. ive never been on the UTH tour and was thinking of doing that also. Can someone give me an idea of how long is the tour? Any word if pics will be allowed?

And drinking!!! speaking of which my only drunk person experience was in 2013 my first year with express and there was a huge guy probably in his 40s or 50s waiting in the regular line and as he saw me and my wife walking up he yelled to the people around him "the next person who passes by in the fastlane I'm knocking out!!!" He then stared me down and said "I guess that's you!! I need another drink" and then lunged at me, I never stopped walking so he wasn't even close. I'm surprised there isn't more incidents because more people are drinking there than not

So Hollywood is getting an Insidious house and a Blumhouse mashup house? And Orlando is only getting the Blumhouse mashup house correct? One side effect of the lack of announcements is it seems like the forums have been more active than last year and the year before. I've been a lurker here for years but only recently began posting with all the speculation and rumors going around. So if there is any silver lining to the news drought there's that.

If there was a game over house I'd love to see something from bioshock. Some rapture residents and of course a big daddy or two

I like the idea of the forgotten or lost icons getting houses they could all be brought together by a main icon. Maybe use the old line they get stronger when people fear or know them like the Greek gods, the main icon is using the forgotten to make him or herself more powerful. At this point though it almost seems like the people in creative aren't sure what they doing, is that possible? It's June 23rd and it seems there's more confirmation on houses and even zones and no one knows about the icon. Every few days there's a new rumor. unrelated note I was thinking how cool it would be to bring back the tornado effect from the twister attraction for the scarecrow/dust bowl maze. Not sure how difficult or what would be involved but if the entrance to the maze was stalks or corn and a small dust devil whirlwind in the background that would be an amazing scene setter.

There's a local haunt nearby that has an attraction where the story is a voodoo priestess is calling up the dead in a typical above ground New Orleans cemetery and you happen to wander in the middle of the ritual. People start popping out of mausoleums, out of the ground, and worshippers of the priestess chasing you. That could be some of it

I had the victim right in front of me in the purge house and it was the first time I had seen something like that in a haunt and that probably made me pretty biased towards that house compared to most other people especially people here. I thought it was someone cutting in line and then she got attacked I didn't see it coming at all. I talked about that for at least month after. I hope they do more if you catch it it's a great moment

Thanks traveller it worked for me too. I owe you one.

I don't think it will be lady death (which means you can bet on her being the icon) I think it will either be the grim reaper or the caretaker. I only starting attending the event a few years ago but I can remember the old HHN sites and the obvious care and love put into the event. The one website I remember most vividly was the year the Usher was the icon with the hub being the movie theatre and each theatre was for a different house and there was a cohesiveness to the entire event. Lots of people have said HHN 25 was close, but I suspect the grim reaper or caretaker because they are easy and safe choices. But I'd love for it to be an icon no one has even thought of yet it's June 17th and we know very little for sure which makes me very happy. I was watching Hot Fuzz a couple of months back and thought if the idea behind the town elders was taken more seriously and darker and boiled down to one person (the mayor of Carey perhaps) who was a character who should be trusted and respected but was secretly behind sinister events to "protect" the town and people he was elected by could work as an icon. But I'm pretty burned out on anything political as I'm sure most people are. I envisioned the mayor having a sash like mayor quimby and almost a Hannibal lector type where if someone defaced public property or other minor offenses he would take it so personal the punishment would be death.

Definitely fidget spinners. I'm going with guardians of the galaxy and wonder Woman, especially with justice league coming out in November. Probably fast and furious 8 anyone who saw it could tell you it was pretty much a parody of itself.

I think universal wants to keep the "magic" (pun intended) of the hogwarts express and having tents be under it people would realize it's pretty much a monorail with tv screens for windows. Isn't that area for a lot of employee uses, parking, cast services, etc. seems like the smart move would be to go back to islands of adventure. With the hulk refurb done, and kong open, I'm not sure what else they have going on at the park. I did see a rumor that they were removing or changing dueling dragons. But if Nintendo world is going to take as much as room as appears and then they move the tents to take up space that is used for other purposes, then seems like a lot of moving around of mutliple things when they could just use islands. It would be like robbing Peter to pay Paul. My history isn't the best but the first year I went was 2012 which was the year with no scare zones just roaming hordes. Wasn't that due at least in part to the construction of diagon alley? Would this mean that HHN would suffer during the Nintendo world construction if it wasn't moved to islands?

Seems like we would've heard something by now that's why I asked. If its coming back does that count as one of the 9 houses or will it be a bonus house?

Has there been any mention of a VR house or experience (whatever you want to call it) this year? I didn't go last year, but sounded interesting to me. I remember the reviews being kind of hit or miss, either you loved it or hated.

Is this an idea you plan on building? Or just an idea you are trying to brainstorm? The red lady could be a patron from the funhouse who was scalped resulting in her face being exposed flesh and red who was saved by the cultists. Maybe her hair got caught in vortex tunnel, carousel, etc

I'll be going Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 haven't decided what I'm going to do yet. But if anyone can spare another upc I might just go a la carte, instead of doing a vacation package I was looking at also possibly doing ffp, depends on how much of a discount I could get with a upc. Website says "up to $50 off" but that would make the Oct 1st ticket about $10