Oysterhead00

I'm doing the tours Oct 3rd. For HHN22, the first time we did one tour, I remember saying something to the guide at the end when they ask for feedback with how they did and I asked if he was doing any afternoon tours the next few days that we were there, and his response was "We're sold out for the next few weeks". We always go the last week of Sept/first week of Oct so I would assume ALL tours sell out if the first 2 weeks sell out. Booked mine for Sat so I'll go to HHN Thur and Fri night, do the tours to see everything with the lights on, then go Sat and Sun again. That's REALLY the way to do it. Go to the event first (obviously) so as to not spoil the scares, but then go back and do them after as it really changes the houses...you notice sooooo much more. Plus, you're looking for stuff you saw with the lights on and are distracted and the scareactors take notice and scare the bejesus out of you since it's obvious your mind is wandering

Quite possibly...I really don't know. Between production companies and stuff, it's usually a tangled mess...but maybe earlier 80s was a simpler time. Like look at Spider-Man and Fantastic Four with the Marvel/Disney/Sony/etc situation. I was just making assumptions and talking out my @$$. Ha ha ha. I'd have to assume there's some sort of royalties that would have to be paid out though. Again, I don't know.

Absolutly! I'm doing both the morning and afternoon tours this year. I love them and think they're worth every penny. I've also paid more than both tours combined to go on photo workshops so that's a big part of my decision. Seeing the houses with the lights on, and seeing the attention to detail, and hearing the stories is worth the price of admission in my opinion. The photo opportunities make it a steal!

Sorry, maybe my comment was confusing (I don't know what every area is called), but if you scroll up there's news footage about Diagon Alley and rides being opened, Bobby, What kind of tour are you talking about? The tour house rosters aren't known yet, but the Unmasking the Horror tours are just tourguides bringing you through the houses with the lights on, giving you little trivia facts and trying to answer questions while you take pictures. If you're more interested in the verbal content, stick up front by the guide(s). If you want to take pictures, stick to the back so you get the rooms to yourself. I don't know about the other/expensive tours.

They are probably still under the "licensing window" where they don't have to pay for the rights again...and can put in literature "The highest rated house in the new millennium returns!!!!" or something along those lines. I have to remove myself from much debate on the merits of this house returning as I didn't see it the first time and am so happy it's returning Regarding it returning...if it was as far and away amazing as I'm lead to believe from reading the forums, telling the GP who attends on a whim and doesn't come every year that "your favorite house is returning!" is brilliant. It sounds like they're catering to the fans thoughts....while promoting the 9th house...while saving some $$$$ on props. But it's far from free...even if they had left the house standing and didn't have to rebuild it (which isn't the case), there's still 6 weeks worth of scareactors and flashlight cops and line enforcers they have to pay so it's not a cash grab. I'm sure we'd all rather have Dead Exposure or Hellgate Prison return in a "room by room 100% accurate recreation" but can't really complain about this.

Sorry for my marketing bitch fest last night...rough week at work coupled with a few "adult beverages" to unwind and got worked up I have no problem with anybody's opinion of the event and respect each and every opinion, it's just that this year has been REALLY heavy on the bitching and just had to vent about the "us vs marketing" mentality. --------------------------------------------------- Sooooo glad Potterland is open this year. I have daily park tickets so don't really care about the rides, but the people eater effect and being able to run in, in the dark, and get some cool pictures of the streets and the dragon breathing fire are just going to be awesome. Should also tempt a lot of people since that's the dead area of the park.

Yes, I deleted my last comment...for some reason it posted when I was halfway through and missed half of what I typed. And of course I lost it all Don't feel like retyping it all right now...but I'll type this much. Your Michael Bay argument amuses me because...well, Platinum Dunes did BOTH Purge movies as well and he was a producer of both of them. Yes, it was a success on a small budget...but again, the amount it grossed is a direct correlation to the interest in the IP and the number of "butts in seats" was far short of the number of people who watch TWD every single week. Everybody knows who Freddy and Jason are, so that's a GREAT idea to have in your commercial and such...but what is the #1 horror IP right now in terms of tweets, facebook posts, news coverage, commercials, etc, etc, etc. The Walking Dead. End of discussion. And I'm not saying it's quality over quantity or anything like that, but who would be better served advertising a new car during the Super Bowl: Ferrari unvieling a new $400k super car or Toyota unveiling a new $30k crossover? It would be the Toyota of course as the return on investment would be so much greater. People watching the superbowl interested in buying a new car would be interested in the new Toyota a high percentage of the time. 0.001% would be interested in a $400k sports car. The number of people who would plan a trip, book a flight, book a hotel, and buy tickets to an event for Jason are expoentially less than the people who would do so for TWD. It's simple economics. Not saying I don't like Freddy more than TWD (I had a full door sized poster of Freddy in college with his eye cut out to be my peep hole in my door), but it's all about return on investment. And while I realize it's a TON of overlap and not taking Blu-Ray and OnDemand sales into account, last year hundreds of millions of people watched TWD...and Purge 2 made the same $65M in boxoffice I mentioned earlier. I'm not making an argument based on quality of films (Hell, Avitar is the number 1 film of all time and sucks in my book!) just on the business sense and the fact that people here can't realize that they are such a vast minority and insignificant and should just enjoy the event for what it is: The premier mainstream horror event in the world. Enjoy it and a accept it...and stop bitching about it.

Who made the decision? The smart people that saw that the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street reboots opened between $35-$40M and both finished up with about $65M. (source: boxofficemojo.com) A HORRIBLE drop that shows that other than the fanboys (aka: us) nobody cared about the movies and they disappeared from theatres and were on DVD within 2 months. And last season of The Walking Dead averaged about 14M viewers per episode. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Walking_Dead_episodes#Season_5_.282014.E2.80.9315.29) As far as attendance, at a decent $10 average price per ticket because I'm lazy and don't feel like looking it up (and live in NY where an IMAX ticket costs $25) that would mean about 6.5 million people in North America went to see each movie. 17 million people in the US tuned in to last year's TWD season finale (Edit: oooops, that was the premier, the finale was just under 16m). Yes, we all don't like it...but let's stop acting like they're doing it out of spite. Apple charges $1500 for the same laptop you can get with windows for $400. Do they do it out of spite? No, they do it because it's a capitalistic word and supply and demand. Our demand here on the forum isn't even a blip on their radar when they look at their metrics. They aren't running a charity for horror fans...they're running a business.

This meal thing is only the first 2 weeks, right? If not, my friends and I would (literally) eat it up and sign up in heart beat. The food isn't high end cuisine by any stretch, but it sure beats most of the cafeteria food in Universal. And for the photo ops with the scareactors alone, it would be well worth it.

That's interesting. The place looks AMAZING (especially for someone who enjoys exploring abandoned places)...but for a movie theme park renowned for making "life-like movie quality sets" you'd think there'd have been a cheaper alternative to do it locally. I mean I see the realism in it, just a bit surprised.

Really? Wow, that was unexpected! ...not sure if I'm a fan of that

Never saw the movies so maybe the colors are related to that...but the chalk drawings and red lighting and stuff makes me think I might be "that guy" walking through a non-3D house with 3D glasses on The pictures and stuff are REALLY making hope this is an Unmasking the Horror / Behind the Screams tour house when I'm there!

Think that was in the wrong forum Forever ;-) This house looks and sounds amazing...hope it makes my side of the argument for 3D houses being awesome not quite the barren waste land it is. Hoping this re-invigorates the 3D semi-annual 3D houses and makes it a fan favorite like it always is for me.

I'm really trying to keep my excitement in check about this one. If you look at my signature I missed HHN23 and have heard such great things about this house for 2 years...and heard about the disappointment for other sequel houses like Run from 2006...so the fact that this is an exact replica of the house that blew everybody's mind with an added wolf couldn't make me happier 2 years of hype and regret for missing it...hope it lives up to it! But, like everybody else, I'm not exactly thrilled with the idea of repeating a house unless they start making 9 houses the new norm and pick a "greatest hits" each year that is really cheap to do. If they make the 8th house be a repeat that would really stink...unless there was an obvious increase in the time and money spent on the scarezone props or something (granted, the parade limits that).

2 virgins, 4 guys that have gone one more year than me (I couldn't go to HHN23...none of us went to Sweet 16), one guy who's gone 3 or 4 times, and then another guy who's gone twice.

Oct 1, 2, 3, and 4. We gotta get our money's worth for our RoF+Express for the time we're down there Going with 8 other guys this year and cramming in both UTH tours as well as catching the Bucs game on Sunday. Then I think I'll fly back to NY and sleep for a full week to catch up.

I think the site's founder knows how to use the spoiler tags And if you don't want to know stuff, don't go to the FB page, or the Periscope (whatever that is), or click on any topics that have the media preview in the subject. Problem solved.

I'm curious as well. In the past it's just been really informal. You go to the VIP room, ring the doorbell (it's always locked) and they just look for your names on a list. I always had my email confirmation printed out and they never took it. Now that you actually book online and can select "kiosk" I'd imagine you get some kind of ticket...but if the past is any indication, you just need to show up and say your name and don't need any ID or anything.

I can confirm that UTH tours are valid for Oct 3rd, RIP tours are NOT being offered that night: There are certain event nights that we are not selling RIP Tours but those have been posted on our website for some time now. In regards to October 3rd, it is one of the nights we are not selling RIP Tours. However, the Unmasking the Horror Tours you are attending on October 3rd are still going out as planned during that day.

On the 1% chance that Run is actually pulsed...I'd have to bump it up to #1 on the queue time list as that line would take forever. Otherwise, the IPs will probably all have the longest line as is par for the course (except for when there's a house like Dracula Untold that nobody cares about)...that's when I'm there early in the season. A few weeks in, the "fan favorite original" line usually creeps up into the realm of the IPs.

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Close your eyes, grab the railing, and walk. Problem solved (and I've done that myself before).

There's usually a thread like what you are proposing along with one for when people are doing the UTH tours. Maybe JDW will set them up as it seems he's going to the event now

I hope you're wrong I missed the AWIL year and am really hoping to see that house with the lights on and I LOVE the 3D houses as your pictures will still work with the glasses (to a limited degree as there's no black light shining on them), The Penn & Teller house was awesome. And yes, I'm THAT guy...who always loves the 3D houses. Ha ha ha. And while the one side will still be showing Shrek, I don't see how that could possibly impact the other side seeing as how it's unused. Could be interesting walking through a haunted house hearing Shrek and Donkey yelling through the walls.

Each time i've done the UTH tour they've said no video...but always wondered how they enforced that one unless you had a go pro strapped to your head or a 90's VHS camcorder They better not restrict pictures for any of the houses, I never heard that one before and I'd be really pissed if they did! None of the IPs this year have a movie coming out later this year or anything, so hopefully that's not an issue. Granted, I'm sure Insidious 4 will be coming out, as well as The Purge 3 and the annual rumors of new Freddy and Jason movies...but nothing based on a future release that could spoil the movie for the GP if images leaked out. Last year I heard that RoF+Express sold out. Someone here or on FB or somewhere else was bitching about it. But that's second hand knowledge from a not exactly iron clad source. We go every year at the same time (late Sept - first week in Oct) and have had late additions to our party who haven't had any problems buying the passes...though we still all try to buy them early just to be safe. It's really the best deal going. We get 4 nights with express for $55 a night. Can't beat that when you're an out of towner who flies down just for the event.