[Halloween Horror Nights 29 Speculation]

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.

[HHN 27 Discussion]

5 hours ago, Pandry said:

Just to echo other comments as well:  I've been doing HHN since 2004.  I've also been a Disney AP holder for many years.  I can honestly say that at Epcot, especially during Food & Wine, there are more rowdy drunks (though mainly limited to the World Showcase area) than I've ever seen at HHN.  People literally go with t-shirts advertising "drinking around the world." They're not there to ride Spaceship Earth.  They're there to specifically get drunk.

 

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.  

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, zombieman said:

 

I knew of no such rumor, so I Googled it (because Google is the most accurate source of information outside of Pravda).

 

From Undercover Tourist HHN Hollywood 2017 Survival Guide: "This year you can buy alcohol (beer) at Duff's Brewery in Springfield."

 

From HHN Hollywood 2017 FAQ:   Is alcohol served at the event?  Alcohol will not be served nor permitted at Universal Studios Hollywood during Halloween Horror Nights.

 

So there you have it!  Absolute clarity on the subject.  

I'll check with Alexa when I get home.

 

 

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.

[Ringwraith's Employee Preview Review]

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.

[HHN 27 Discussion]

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.

 

 

[Ringwraith's Employee Preview Review]

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.

[HHN 27 Discussion]

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.

[Ringwraith's Employee Preview Review]

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.  

[HHN 27 Discussion]

On 9/6/2017 at 11:32 AM, hunnylvr said:

 

I completely forgot about that.

 

USO hopes you forgot about it as well

[HHN 27 Construction]

9 hours ago, Badge said:

I will never understand why they attempt to set up the stage every single year only to break it all down.  Just the other day in a TimTracker video, they were setting up the whole video wall with all the small screens. Like...why? Sure it's getting tested, but taking it all apart just to set it all back up a few days later defeats the point since it will all have to be retested when you put it up again. Also, I'm sure AoV has been using the stage at night to rehearse, but did they really need the video wall up? Couldn't they have done without most of the stage and just taped off areas where stage elements would be? Just seems like such a big waste of time every year. 

 

Also, I'm a little upset that the Purge zone is getting the EXACT same setup for the auction as we had in 24. Storage containers on both sides, the school bus and then the stage above the bus. Like, they couldn't have come up with anything different? Heck, the signs they are putting up are still saying it's the 24th annual purge. Besides the new smaller stage by the ice cream place, this zone is looking like an exact copy of 24. I just hope that they include a lot of the new characters from Election Year because those light up masks look pretty awesome! I am also hoping (but I doubt it will happen) to see the Christmas light car from Election Year.

 

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 27 Speculation]

15 hours ago, Oysterhead00 said:

 

Fortune 20 company if this is a dick measuring contest.  

 

And if you delivered the results that HHN has, you would NOT be lambasted.  You'd be given a big fat bonus.  

 

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.

 

 

[HHN 27 Speculation]

10 hours ago, Oysterhead00 said:

Be careful not to feed my ego....I'm just some idiot who works in Marketing trying to defend the Marketing Team from people continually crapping on them  
 

 

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]

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.

[HHN 27 Speculation]

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.

[HHN 27 Speculation]

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.

[HHN 27 Speculation]

4 hours ago, QueenoftheBunnies said:

I'm pretty sure they planned on doing something more with the Soul Collector idea and it fell through. I also think that countdown was originally for something much better than a damn wallpaper. I swear, I want a tell-all book from the Universal staff about this year's horror nights. There's no way all of this was just out of pure laziness. Some kind of shit had to have gone down. 

 

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

[HHN 27 Speculation]

4 hours ago, WESKER69 said:

laziness... IP issues... loss of brain function for deciding to end B&T for more Potter...

 

The event starts in 25 days & they still haven't announced the 4 original mazes or Blumhouse of Horrors. Back in the day, this wouldn't be a big deal because we'd at least have fun distractive updates on the website that'd tease & hint to whats to come while building a deeper mythology and story. Of course, at the same time, back then, the even't didn't start as early as it does now. So yea... its just terribly handled.

 

 

This post for the win

[HHN 27 Speculation]

 

7 hours ago, criticalanalysis said:

 

Because their original work made the event popular.

 

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

 

Know thy history.

[HHN 27 Speculation]

25 minutes ago, biomegaceu said:

Um we are getting four original houses and only two of the scarezones are based off IPs. I would say you might be blowing it a little out of proportion there. 

 

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/

[HHN 27 Speculation]

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.