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It's obviously not REALLY in 3D...because life is in 3D. Technically, every house is in 3D You get crappy cardboard glasses, but they're not red and blue or anything like that. In fact, if you go to a convienience store around the 4th of July they'll typically have "3D Fireworks Glasses" and I think they're pretty much the same thing. I have no idea how they work, but they tend to make certain colored things (or maybe just the brighter colored things) stick out and seem closer than they are. Or maybe it's stuff pained in paint that reacts to black lights. I have no idea about the technology behind it....but anyway, they paint stuff (like the demon faces in the released picutre) on the walls and they seem to stick out. They paint crap on the floors and if you look down while walking, it gets a bit disorienting and feels like stuff is higher than you think. The scareactors can wear all black so their bodies are hard to see and don't stick out at all, and then a mask that has the 3D affect and it looks like they jump out and are right in your face. It's gimmicky, but it works. I get "virtual tummy" watching 3D movies...and rides like Spider-Man and The Simpsons mess up my equilibrium. Funny that I go on all the coasters, but then pass on those rides. This is NOTHING like that. It's fun, disorienting, but not real 3D. The video below shows a walkthrough of Jack's Fun House in Clown-O-Vision and shows you how the house is set up. All the bright, dayglow, neon colors would be affected by the glasses...so you get the idea. EDIT: That is not my video, just something I found on YouTube...so I'm not the idiot yelling out stupid crap thinking I'm cool the whole time. Just hope you don't get behind this guy in the Conga line!

I think most people who go to HHN are horror movie buffs...and we've all turned on the TV late at night and some cheesy ass horror movie was on that we just couldn't/wouldn't turn off because we got into it and there was nothing else on. Some turn out to be gems like Killer Klowns from Outter Space...and others turn out to be dog crap like the remake of Black Christmas or Valentine's Day (what a coincidence that I picked 2 crappy holiday movies). I think this house is just a send up of those crappy late night movies with a crazy director who murders all the actors. So I don't think it's a non-stop laugh out loud house, but a house that we'll all find funny and laugh at the ridiculousness of the movies (or cringe with flashbacks to some guilty pleasure we caught on TNT at 2am) and probably get a few good scares from the Scarteactors when we're busy taking in the sets and props and they're able to catch us by surprise.. This isn't high up my list of houses because some of the others have me so intrigued, but I'm sure I'll love it. Some of my best scares are from the brighter/funnier/3D houses because there's so much "eye candy" that I'm not paying attention and some scareactor will follow right behind me leaning over my shoulder until I finally feel someone behind me an look and then scares the crap out of me.

JWFearman, let me thank you in advance for this picture. It's amazing and I'll be re-creating (aka stealing your artistic idea!) when I got to the park in a few weeks. Awesome shot

Not hoodie related, but shouldn't stuff start showing up on the online store and at the parks pretty soon? Seems like each year about a month out, someone finds a shirt or something in a Universal Store a bit early....or the stuff shows up on the online store (but is unorderable). Just seems like by now, we usually have some merch pics other than just a pin....

Hmmmmm, Fargo Woodchipper perhaps?

Well, it's not really 3D. It's just that you wear these glasses that tend to make neon colors (for the lack of a better term) jump out and look closer than they are. Sorta like how black lights make neon colors stick out. So it's mostly a color scheme and glasses that "enhance" the affect. Scare actors can wear mostly black and then just have their faces/masks or, say, claws, painted that way so you see them stick out. It's really cool. The houses tend not to be scary, so lots of people hate them...but others, like myself, absolutely love them! I'm sure one of the more die hard fans who knows EVERYTHING about the event will eventually chime in with the type of paint, glasses, etc

I would love for it to return too....because they didn't have it any of the times I've gone. I think it would be fun.

Legacy (I think) said the same thing on Rumors quite a few times, he must be close to some people with Shell Shock (PTSD sounds too glossed over, shell shock better encapsulates the traumatic effects in my book so I continue to use it) A couple years ago they had the Zombie Nazi zone and I don't think anybody had a problem with it. Havoc had lots of gunfire. So I don't think anybody walking around the park should be affected and I think most vets know their situation well enough to know if it's something they want to go into. The house itself could be too much, sensory overload that they can't escape...but the super natural aspect added and the fact that they know what's coming when they go into the house (not a surprise like a car backfiring in the middle of a quiet street) I would hope it's nothing that would cause problems for Vets. Of course, I have no military experience...but know that all the Vets I know, and a TON of the Vets I "meet" online, play Call of Duty religiously. Including one who lost friends and was injured by an IED. Call of Duty is a stress release for him...and as messed up as it sounds, I think it helps him adjust and deal with his past.

For those of you as clueless about 3D projection as I was:

I love noisy houses too. Explosions and gunfire all around you will be disorienting and lead to better scares I feel. This is definitely the house I'm most looking forward to.

Ha ha ha, I posted the same exact thing over on Rumors this morning. I have to hold onto the railing to walk through the vortex tunnel thingie...and sometimes even close my eyes. I'm sure I'll have my eyes closed tight this year!

Any idea what's in the blue barrel? I think the fog machine stuff usually comes in the "four quadrant" looking clear/white squarish containers (have no idea how to describe them). Wondering if the blue drum means a return of foam or something else?

1. Nightmaze 2. Acid Assault (formerly #4) 3. Canyon of Dark Souls 4. Grown Evil 5. Your Luck Has Run Out 6. 7 EDIT: Moved up Acid Assault after seeing the props and 3D Projection samples!

1. Nightingales: Blood of Prey I loved the War SZ from a couple years back, can't wait to see a full house. 2. Nevermore: The Madness of Poe Not a fan of Poe and not a big literary guy. Wasn't too excited about this house (was actually preferring the Casino that was thought to be there) until they released the picture. Now I CAN'T WAIT to see the rest of the house. 3. H.R. Bloodengutz Presents I love the comedy houses.... 4. The In Between ...as well as the 3D ones. Granted, they usually aren't scary, but they are a blast. My group tends to go through these houses multiple times if possible. Also, love it when Scareactors wear black and then a neon mask so with the glasses and lights it looks like a floating head. Lots of fun. 5. Saws n Steam I liked the Scarezone, but I'm not a huge fan of Steampunk stuff. But the blue prints they released of devices in this house has me intrigued. 6. The Thing The first Carpenter film is one of my favorites of all time and I'm looking forward to the sequel...but with the amazing original houses this year, it's surprisingly far down my list. 7. The Forsaken I know some of my friends would go insane if it was a pirate house...but I wasn't too psyched for it. And the website reveal really does nothing for me. 8. Winter's Night Cemetery Could be amazing, could be lame. I really know nothing about it so it's at the bottom because I'm not that excited as I know nothing to get excited about.

Oh yeah, I use the "Holy S#!+...you got me!" congratulation for the Scareactors. I have to admit, going with a group of 30-something year old guys in a big group we hardly get any scares so we PURPOSELY try to talk and distract ourselves walking through the houses/streets to bring on more scares. Nothing is more frustrating than walking through a house with a group of girls in front of you and behind you getting ALL the scares while you get largely ignored. Of course, got my HNN Shirt to see if that helps fix my problem this year.....

In my best Ricky Bobby voice: "Sweet Baby Jesus, let this be true...." I for one LOVED the parades (I think I only went 2 years that had the real/full blown parades). Even if it's a partial procession to a venue that would be cool...but a real full parade with beads and coins (aka FREE souvineers) would be amazing.

I think 90% of the people who go to the event care one bit about tying everything together or back story. If the house/sets look cool and they get scares, they like it. If they catch a bad/off shift and don't get the scares, they don't like it. Other than us "fanboys/gals" I don't think it means anything to anybody. I went in 2004 and 2005 knowing nothing about it or Icons or anything else and loved it. Now, I'm addicted to these sites before the event, and then go and enjoy it for what it is and don't really care much about the THEME or anything, thought I do look for it throughout. While the 10% of us might be disappointed, the 90% of the General Public aren't going to notice or care. If they had a theme, and then came up with some great idea for houses and were told to include The Thing due to the movie, that's fine by me. I don't doubt that the pics are real, but the fact that Death/The Reaper is holding a Straight Flush of DIAMONDS and not Spades (as seen everywhere on the official site, FB, "first 21 prizes", Twitter, Logo, Ect) tells you that Universal A&D had nothing to do with it.

Not only the cross, but how about the collar covering the neck? Ha ha ha..

Hmmmmm, we've all heard the rumors about less scareactors being hired....maybe they've decided to "Relocate Resources" to the streets and construction. (Yes, that's an HR euphemism for putting money into things rather than people!) Coupled with rumored helicopter in The Thing house, the couple week advance start sounds like their trying to spruce up the eye candy for the whole event. If this is true, I'm THRILLED by it...but I'm sure others would prefer crappy sets with more scareactors.

I LOVE "select color" stuff like Sin City and I have a collection of NYC posters with a yellow cab and the background all B&W and stuff like that... A fake B&W WWI house with everything black and white EXCEPT the blood would be amazing. Black, White, and Red Blood....no other colors. Would love that!

While I'm a HUGE video game fanatic going back to the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 (yeah, I'm OLD) I don't see any video game houses any time soon. 1) Too many people won't know about them. 2) Games like Bioshock (which would lend itself very well to a HHN Audience) can't be replicated in a live event...and can't even be made into a movie because they can't get the budget under $200M even with the director of the first two Pirates of the Caribbean movies. 3) Videogame Nerds (like myself) will NEVER be happy. The GP being aware of the house just isn't there. The "risk vs reward" is just horrible....the people they would be catering to are the EXACT people who will bitch and moan about every little thing. I've said it before, and will say it again, the ONLY video game I could see being made into a house would be SILENT HILL. All you'd need are some scantily clad hot deformed nurses, a big pointey beaked thing with a sword on steroids, and a metric ton of smoke machines and burnt set pieces. But even that would be better served as taking place in East Bumf*ck, Ohio and be a generic house and not directly tied to the video game series.

Hell yeah....2004 was my first year and the big ass chainsaw people and bikers on full sized real bikes in IOA are STILL the first two images that come to mind when I think of HHN.

Oh, absolutely. If that were the case, they should "disregard" any scores that clearly indicate cheating/spamming/etc. They can do the math knowing the algorithms of the inherent chance of the site to see who simply spammed it and who acutally figured something out. The person who did it "legit" should show up as an anomaly compared to anybody else who simply cheated and did the refresh cheat. Anybody with an XX% increase over the field should be written off as "cheaters" and not be eligable for any contests. I didn't realize they were doing anything like that other than the "First 21 Respondents" thing from Facebook.

Hmmmmm, if the houses were to go in chronological order and be the "progression of luck/chance/whatever" with different manifestations in each zone/house/scare zone I'd be in heaven. That would be what I've been hoping for. Show Luck or Chance or Fate or whatever back in the 15th century when Columbus was sailing around the globe...during some Catecomb-like period...during Prohibition gambling...during WWI...during Salem Witch Trials....etc. Having a different version (Icon v1.0, Icon v2.0, Icon v3.0, etc) of the Icon/Theme along the way. EDIT: And of course, you'd need some Easter Egg / Cliff Hanger when you exit the park hinting that Luck/Chance/Fate has always been around and he/she/it will be there in the future, so watch your back!

It's a stupid online game...who cares? If this game was something that required SKILL and people were cheating by just bulk spamming and getting lucky, that would suck. But people who understand the coding have said it's PURE LUCK...so it's not like the "Real fans" or "Smart people" or "Honest people" were being screwed over in some way. The game is fixed, by it's very nature, so I say cheat all you can.....as long as you share the fruits of your labours here