BenjaminNicholas

Private RIPs on sale if you call Uni direct. Just snagged 10/4 for my group. 10/5 unavailable as it's a media night.

But Disney seems to do a better job of handling the drunks. It also helps that it's a mainly daylight park experience, wherein HHN is not. There have been pictures of 2017 HHN Holly with beer being sold in Springfield. They're out there and it's not an entirely dry event anymore.

Devil's advocate or not, the celebration of a Halloween event like this should be enough to keep most bible bangers away. Aren't these the same folks who refuse to celebrate this kind of thing anyway? Don't sanitize my horror. Don't play politics with my houses. If it's frightening, LEAVE IT BE. I'm a liberal, but this is some serious snowflake bullshit. Go to The Holy Land Experience if you want that. Let us have HHN.

My main concern is HHN Orlando being up to speed this weekend. Full props, full stages, full costuming. EVERYTHING. We pay thousands to attend this event. We deserve a 100% show. Irma was a bitch, yes, but she's gone now... Work hard to use these few off days to get things where they need to be. Opening weekend felt like so many things were missing. They can and need to remedy this. If Uni isn't offering me a discount on tickets or tours, I expect the event to be a finished product when I get there.

I'd also be fine if evil won. Are people so fragile in their belief systems that they can't fathom evil actually winning? LOL. Besides, this IS a Halloween event.

I'll give them a full week to pull things together. With the team they have in place, it's more than possible. If a Broadway show can retool, add songs, choreography, set pieces, props, etc in one or two days, with the actors learning these things at a moment's notice, then HHN can learn from their mistakes and give us the show we deserve.

I had some fear that these kinds of last minute corporate decisions would hurt the event. If the idiots running USO think that offending religious folks is a problem, clearly the event is going in a direction I couldn't care less about. This is about scaring people... Not about being politically correct and appeasing the snowflakes. I hope that USO reads these boards, takes the criticism and makes positive changes, quickly, into the event.

USO hopes you forgot about it as well

Agreed and agreed. Moreso, I'm bummed about- again- a repeat in the scare zone. Couldn't they have imagined something different? I mean, really. Nearly identical setup from 24. Boo.

HHN budgets/profits are small potatoes compared to the budgets I work with. But I digress... Marketing for HHN hasn't gotten better. It's gotten worse. Whether you think they 'need to market' or not isn't the issue. Unless you have exact figures to share about how much money Universal (Comcast) is making from this, I'd say that what we're seeing is disorganization and a real lack of unified effort.

I'm also in marketing. For a Fortune 200 company. And I crap on USO for their laziness and lack of preparedness. If our team handled our marketing and advertising like this, we'd be lambasted... Deservedly.

Private RIP here, second weekend. And I learned a lesson from years past: Always ask for a energetic guide who can last all night. We've had a couple years where the guide needed a rest several times throughout the tour. It was a total mood killer.

Eli Roth lazily handling the commercial is neither here nor there to me. A big 'meh' I'm curious to see how long they plan on holding a full reveal. Perhaps they'll never fully reveal the whole thing, letting people figure it out for themselves once they hit the gates.

The one thing we can always agree on here: That TWD isn't coming back to Orlando. I won't miss those craptactular houses in the least.

I don't want a book. I want marketing to pivot beautifully and do their job.

This post for the win

Exactly. It was ORIGINAL CONCEPTS that created and made HHN what it is today. Know thy history.

And how many houses are based on IPs? Yeah. Let's revisit that and then tell me how original HHN keeps getting. I'm showing doubt, not blowing anything out of proportion. As someone who has been to every HHN since year one, I see the writing on the wall. Oh yeah, ditch Photobucket. They suck. https://imgbb.com/

I hold out hope that the level of detail this year will make it worthwhile. As for the actual houses, so far, I'm unimpressed. IP.... Rinse... Repeat. Welcome to Comcast. It's HHN for the masses and as long as the general public knows it's based off a film, why do anything original? In an odd way, it's the same thing that's happening to Broadway: Just musicalize a movie that people know. Original work be damned.