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  1. 2 hours ago, themazethinker said:

    eh i think 2012 was worser, only good maze that year was la llorana 

     

    1 hour ago, bendelthegreat said:

    La Llorna, Silent Hill, TCM, and The Walking Dead all were great that year (especially because it was the WD's first year so it was fresh). Alice Cooper and Monsters Remixed were alright mazes.

    Agreed. La Llorona was amazing, but Silent Hill improved greatly the second time I went, Saw is the Law is the second best TCM maze behind BiB, and c'mon now, the first year of Walking Dead was astounding!

  2. The line times were wrong pretty much the whole night. Everything was vastly exaggerated. The longest I waited was 36 minutes for Insidious in what was an advertised as a 75 minute wait. The second time, it said a 60 minute wait and was again only about 25 minutes. Shining after 12 AM, I am not exaggerating, was a walk on. NO LINE. They literally closed the back section of the line and were yelling at the people going to the metro sets to please come into the maze. And it was advertised as a 30+ wait.

     

    Insidious during Early Entry looked like a legit maybe 2 hour wait, with the line going down the stairs where you start. I'm glad I skipped doing that first and went straight to the Metro sets, where Saw had a legit line for a majority of the night. Ash was dead pretty much always. AHS was in the middle. Titans of Terror and Blumhouse were also fairly empty. Keep in mind this is all the first Saturday on Opening Weekend though, so maybe things will change. But if this is an indicator of how the rest of the season will be, then maybe this just might be a fairly dead season... is nobody interested this year? :-/

  3. There's so many problems this year, there's no fixing it other than just tearing a lot of it down and rebuilding. A lot of it stems from the actual inception and early design elements of the maze. They were just thought up poorly. This is a huge step down since last year was their best year ever and this might be their worst (have to do a review and look back at older stuff to confirm that).

  4. In my experience, and this may be personal superstition, but the even numbered years are always WAY better. '09 was pretty good for back than and '13 improved a lot over time, but I know there's a lot of fans of '11, and that's easily one of my least favorites. And '07 was good back than, but in comparison to what the event is now, it's pretty standard aside from that year's TCM and lower lot scare zone.

     

    *PERFECT* - 16
    AMAZING - 14, 08, 12, 10, 13, 09
    GREAT - 15
    GOOD - 11
    AVERAGE - 07

  5. Yeah, I've posted the game plan every year for the last 2-3 years, but it's pretty much the same. Go back to those threads and apply the same strategy. But as wow said, it's pretty simply backlot, lower lot, then upper lot.

    However, I've started doing something a bit different.

    I do the backlot all in Early Entry, do one maze on the lower lot, go up and do the upper lot and TT, then go back down to the lower lot to finish the last remaining maze right before closing. But also keep in mind, I do most of the rides and have dinner there, as well as see the Jabbawockeez, plus I'm usually with about a dozen people who get hungry, are drunk and have to pee, and have other miscellaneous annoying needs every 20 minutes. But that method has worked pretty good for me the last 2 years.

  6. 4 hours ago, zombieman said:

    I don't know why you all think that the theme will dictate the wait times of the houses.  Locations have consistently been the drivers of wait times.  Look at the backlot - the first tent you hit when you get there has always had the highest wait time of the backlot houses, regardless of what's in it.  Same for the Mummy queue houses (when the entrance is on the Transformers side).  Lots of people make the decision to hit it vs make the long walk to the backlot.  I mean, how else do you explain consistent huge waits for This is the End?

    I never saw a long line for This is the End. It was always advertised higher than it actually was. All three times I went, I never waited longer than 15 minutes. And I hit it at different times in my game plan. Each time, it said about an hour wait. And even when elsewhere in the park, the highest I saw it SAID 90 minutes, while Walking Dead, Insidious, and Halloween were often LEGITIMATE 120+ minutes.

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  7. I don't mind The Purge being a staple at the event, as long as each year they try something new and innovative with it. But I believe 3 of those years, it was just a scarezone, and one year a Terror Tram (which TBH isn't all that much different), so finally getting it in maze form is a bit exciting, but at this point seems way too late for me to be very excited. And from what I've seen of construction pix, the Purge portion seems similar to the Gauntlet before you enter the theater facade. Perfect world, it would be one year of SZ, one year of TT, one year of a full blown maze, and then, I don't know, a Purge show like Bill and Ted or Chucky's Insult Emporium, or even just secretly throwing Purgers into scarezones/TT every once and awhile (ala The Strangers).

  8. Shining dominating the lower lot and ToT on the upper sounds logical.

     

    I doubt Blumhouse will get that big of a line. I assume most people will just be confused by that concept, and the IPs in it are either old (Sinister, like who tf cares anymore), not popular yet (Happy Death Day, not like it will be popular though), or worn out (The Purge, being used for a 4th year in a row, hooray -_-).

     

    Insidious will have a pretty good line. The series is still pretty popular, however, it is dwindling. But the last 2 mazes were easily maze of the year material and the property always delivers on Haunt goodness, so I'm sure word of mouth about the maze will spread as one not to miss.

     

    Roanoke is actually more popular than people think. As much as I personally HATED the season, there's an equal amount of people who LOVED it. The divisiveness won't keep people away and will definitely make it the most popular maze on the backlot, considering the other two mazes are pretty low profile...

     

    Saw is not as a big of a juggernaut as it used to be. The new movie will fail pretty hard and even a name change to get new audiences won't help it much.

     

    Ash vs. Evil Dead is only popular in cult circles as it is anyway. I'm sure there will also be confusion as to what the maze entails in terms of monsters. Mainstream fans who know of Evil Dead because of the remake, probably don't know of the TV series, and even than, they'll still be pretty lost considering it's a continuation of the original films and not the remake. So I think that will just have the shortest lines all event long, even shorter than The Walking Dead.

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  9. On 4/4/2017 at 10:08 PM, dereksdominance said:

    Isn't it funny how nobody blinks an eye with victims being literally sliced in half and corpses galore in many mazes and throughout the park, yet the moment something is religious, sexual, or just plain funny people start a riot? I've always thought of HHN as a controversial event and would love to keep it that way.

    Don't give them any ideas, or they'll tackle that next! :(

    I remember after 9/11 at KSF, they got rid of the imagery of skulls on the maps. SKULLS. ON A MAP!

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  10. Exorcist definitely could work with scenes from the TV show. Considering...

    the show turned out to actually be about Reagan's daughter being possessed, so it's definitely a continuation. The maze could have like a 30 years later type feel somewhere in the middle, to now show her daughter suffering, plus the mother returning, and then eventually Reagan being re-possessed.

    The show started off great, with some awesome twists, but then ended pretty damn stupidly. However, there were A LOT of great maze elements.

  11. On 11/10/2016 at 2:30 PM, zombieman said:

    Walmart caved and stopped selling makeup kits labeled "Suicide scar wound" (and the company that makes the kit even stopped selling it - they paid tens of thousands of dollars for those kits to be manufactured and packaged, and they just pissed that money down the drain)

     

    That's like, in serious bad taste though haha if for anything other than a movie FX (which any self-respecting filmmaker wouldn't be using Walmart anyway)

    1 hour ago, zombieman said:

    So I predict:

    We will see Hollywood do an AHS house dedicated to one season, probably Coven.  If the GP responds positively, then maybe Roanoke in 2018 and if PC is finally waning in 2019, Asylum.  They have perfect cover to do this, because lots of people thought the AHS seasons in the houses were too short.  They could claim that by doing just Coven in 2017, it would let people experience the whole season and not just random bits.

    I see them doing Roanoke first, hot off this last season. Also by the time 2018 rolls around, there will be 2 other new seasons to work with, so it'd be weird to simply go back to Coven just to do one based off that with new seasons to work with. If anything, it'll be Roanoke, then whatever season 7 is, and then going back to finish up the rest they missed.

    12 minutes ago, foodstampsFTW said:

    Do you think Universal would cancel a house that's already been built. If they just do Horror Story with asylum and build it, I'd like to believe they wouldn't do something dumb like shut the house down halfway through the event

    Well we've seen them highly tweak scarezones, shows, or parts of the Terror Tram -- even if for more operational reasons. A maze, I mean... I really don't know, but I don't think so. That's a lot of money from the budget down the drain. This is why you gotta go OPENING NIGHT, even if sometimes it's a clusterfuck.

  12. Very depressed. Unfortunately, I feel like the reviews didn't come in as much as they used to on here, which is unfortunate because this was such an exceptional year.

    I would say, "conversation usually picks up around January" but I don't know anymore.

    The forums are oddly dead now. Is it like this too on the Orlando side? :-/

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  13. Didn't you go in 2006? More like your 11th! ;) BUT your 10th ANNIVERSARY.

    I noticed this was my 10th year. And next year will be my 10th anniversary. Opening weekend will be trip number 19 and closing weekend will be trip number 20, very close to the first time I went to HHN which was Halloween 2007. That was such a special night, I'll be very excited to celebrate such a wonderful marriage of Haunt with Universal!

  14. In regards to the Terror Tram this year:

    I've read a lot of reviews and I feel like the consensus at first was, "it's the best it's been in awhile." And then after the first week or two, everyone was like "it sucks." All that work Murdy and co. did to finally make it WAY better and y'all still hated it anyway lol

    So that begs the question, was the TT actually bad this year or are the diehard fans just tired of the attraction itself?

    I feel like they did everything possible to make that attraction feel almost brand new again. It truly hasn't been that good since 2009. If y'all hate it still, then maybe you never liked it in the first place haha.

    Maybe it was the theme or the characters that's not boding well, since clowns are hella overused. Perhaps if it was something different, this newly revived attraction would've gone over better. There were entire set pieces and scenes, literally 5 times more props than ever.

    I know there was a lot of talk for years about "extending the tram" but I always felt like that would be a bit much, since it's such a long attraction as it is. They condensed it, helping with all the cast be more confined to the space and made it more thrill a minute and less dead spaces without talent.

     

    So for those that hated it, what do you think it is that needs to be done to make it better? Did it just need a different theme? Or are you expecting even MORE props/set pieces/scenes?

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