Amber
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So that narrow walkway area that you could walk through the amity construction area that had all the universal movie posters on the walls is blocked off too?? that actually does suck then, why couldn't they have kept that?
The path is VERY narrow, so I didn't walk down it. I believe it's open but it's such a pain during regular park hours that I can't imagine how bad it was last night if it was open.
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Then what the heck is everyone complaining about?! They made it sound like the ONLY way you could go is clockwise around the park following only one direction....
The path where 7 was last year is the only path around the park. So, if you're coming from, say B&T, instead of cutting through Amity or down Shrek Alley you have to walk around through hollywood to get to, let's say, Disaster. It just makes for longer walking time.
(That was explained poorly, I apologize.)
It's better explained with visual representation or seeing it at the park yourself. Simply put, there's just a lot of construction fences up through main walking parts of the park that make traveling from one end to the other a pain in the ass, if you hate walking.
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Last night was the 4th employee preview that I've attended so I knew what to expect out of it. Working at Universal, I'm used to dress rehearsals and ironing out the details of things. I expect clusterf***'s and chaos. With that said, I'm in agreeance that last night was the worst employee preview that I've attended. Unlike a few others here, it had nothing to do with wait times but more to do with how situations were handled and the way information was distributed.
For example, I started my night at House of Horrors, a house which was set to open at 7:30. Around 7:50 when the house still wasn't opened I kindly asked the greeter when she should expect the house to open and if she had any information about what was going on. She just looked at me and said, "I don't know, I don't have a radio." and went back to chatting up someone else. To me, that was a totally unacceptable way to handle the situation. Personally, I would never say that to a guest employee or not. Later on during the night at the soundstage houses there came a point where all three went down for a fire drill. I was in line for Dead End at the time and when I asked when it was possible that it might open again I was told, "I don't know. Not tonight." And again, was promptly ignored. To me it seemed like there were a lot more difficulties than previous EP's and that the staff were either nonexistent or simply didn't know any information. It also seemed to me that a lot of (if not all...) of the houses and streets were half-staffed. It's been confusing to me reading reviews about the houses because my experience of all of them was that there were a lot of dead areas where there clearly should have been actors.
As far as houses go, I'll have to wait until after opening weekend to give any sort of review on them. The sets are beautiful though and surprisingly, I had the most fun inside the Penn and Teller house which was completely unexpected.
The streets I had no expectations for, it was more of a curiosity on how things would play out. With the amount of people there were last night it was often difficult to separate actual crowd from scareactor and, a lot of places were too dark to really see anyone. I did love the amount of fog though. There were a few places I had trouble seeing in front of me which was fun for me. The "one way road" throughout the park is a bit annoying, as I couldn't quickly cut through areas like I'm used to, but that's to be expected too with all the construction.
Overall, at the end of the day it was what it was. A dress rehearsal. I don't know for sure if they were actually running at half-staff throughout the park, but it appeared to me they were. If that was the case, I'm excited for the next two days to see how things improve. And of course, with shops/restaurants/rides open it will help a lot with crowd control. For me personally, the event has a lot of potential to be fantastic but honestly it comes down to the actors for me. If I were to give any hopes for the next few days it's that I see more scareactors!
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I finally broke away from them at 12:50, and beelined to Catacombs while cutting through Esqueleto and 20 years. Well, nothing interesting happened in Esqueleto for the first time...ever. But 20 years got me grinning again. I get to the end and the pumpkin man approaches me, and starts making gestures. I figure that he wants to pet the stuffed flamingo be brought with me, but he shakes his head, and points at my shirt, then points behind me. Lo and behold, a HNN member is sitting on the bench (Hi Amber!). We chatted for all of 15 seconds (lol) and I tried to get the wolfman to eat my stuffed flamingo.
Haha he was trying to tell you that V was dead & to look at my shirt. He brought me a few people last night. Haha. He took another HNN member's drink & ran over to me and handed it to me. So funny. He definitely made my night too.
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Np, I was trying to point at your shirt but I forgot I had the dagger in my hand.
Haha, the dagger made it awesome! =]
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that was me hehe
Ah, I had a feeling it was! Haha. You got me really good.
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What is it? It reminds me of Bjorks Human Behavior.
The song I was looking for & found is a song by NIN off one of the Ghost albums. It's track 8 on the first album.
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I had so many personal moments last night that I hope I can remember them all. I had an amazing time last night & the personal scares make it so much fun for me. I had my HNN shirt on & was holding pink sunglasses. Okay, here we go.
Hallow'd Past -
First shout out goes to my friend Chris who was playing the clown right after the vortex. You recognized me & gave me a personal shout out! Yay.
All the zombies - Thanks got getting right up in my ear & saying various things to me such as, "Nightmare" you creeped me out.
To the body collector on the left - Thank you for pointing your knife at me.
20 Years of Fear SZ -
To the Orc (I think you're an Orc) that followed me halfway down the street & continuously shook your can, thank you. You scared me & creeped me out all at the same time. I thought you were going to follow me all the way out!
Wolfman (Idk if it was your army of teh robots) but you got right in my face. =]
To the girl from Asylum in Wonderland that scared me & then bragged that she scared me, haha you're awesome. Thank you.
Legendary Truth-
To the guy in the floor that kept in step with my friend Rachel & I as we walked across, thanks. You creeped me out & made my day. Now I know my boss was lying when he said you're a hologram.
Hades-
I had the privilege of going through this house last & alone, which was totally awesome. The minotaur got me the worst, as did my friend DK the Cyclops. Stop switching booholes DK!
Orfanage-
Shalisa & her cast partner trapped me in her room & then Shalisa said my name really creepy. Haha thanks for that.
My favorite pirate! Good to know you can even scare me by yelling, "FOR AMERICA!" at me. I adore you so much.
Zombiegedden-
I found the table! & got scared in the process. & the bag room is scary. That's all.
Saws & Steam-
Oh god, I don't know if I can remember everything.
From Clint telling me nice shirt & then coming back to scare me & waving his finger at me.
To Bryan almost slicing my face off.
To another chainsaw saying "You think your a nightmare!" & then chasing me out & then later doing it again & surrounding me with another chainsaw. It's me btw. =]
To MrBungle creeping up next to me & saying "Don't worry I'll be in your dreams tonight"
Haha. & all the other chainsaws in between. Before this year I have never gotten scared on streets & now I know what it's like. Thanks for making me also realize that when a chainsaw revs up behind you, it's terrifying. I enjoyed all the personal attention as well as watching you scare the crap out of people.
To all the scareactors I forgot that scared me last night, thank you. =] You made my day.
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The Orfanage. Know clue what cast but I finally got a scare! Which is a huge deal for the Orfanage. The african-american in the pirate costume (IDK if you'll read this) but huge thanks for actually getting me.
Haha yay! That's my roommate. I'll let him know when he gets home. =]
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Thank you!! I think I found it, I'm not sure but, Ghosts is the name of the Cd, but I checked the songs and I think is this one if I remember correctly,
It really is an Amazing scarezone and the actors are really amazing as well, the music just makes it a whole lot awesome!
I remember Friday night was raining and I walked by the scarezone when this song was playing and with the fog, It literally felt like a movie to me, Just amazing, LoL I can't believe they put Nin there, that is just perfect
OMFG YOU COMPLETELY MADE MY FUCKING DAY. I love this song so hard. XD
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This is a really random question, but I hope someone knows.
Does anyone know what song they play in Saws & Steam? I'm in love with it.
Nvm. I found it. XD
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Orfanage: Black Pirate Guy, Cast A. Your costume is a little cheesy (no mask to hide your non-child age) but you still managed to scare the sh*t out of me on both of my runs on Saturday. Great job.
Haha, this is my roommate, I will let him know. He's supposed to have an eye patch but they lost it after rehearsals. Hopefully they will give him something before the end though! (He scares the crap out of me every time too!)
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Ohmyjesus, I thought I was the only one having issues with the insane amount of shit hanging in front of you in Hades. It was too much. I kept getting tangled in shit & it ruined the experience for me & just annoyed the crap out of me. No bueno.
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Whatever you do DON'T go in this house in the daytime. All of the houses are dark and the soundstages will leave you blind, but a lot of the rooms have props that are very easy to bump into. I whacked my hip on I think a piece of wood in the very first room.
Funny, I did the same exact thing. My friend was holding on to my arm and ran me into it. I have poor eyesight to begin with so this didn't help my case. I have a nice bruise on my hip now.
Also, don't go in Zombiegedden in the day time. You see everything & it takes away from the atmosphere. I went through again in the dark and it was much more intense and you can see the effects better.
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To the scareactor in Saws N Steam last night around 11ish that told me my HNN shirt was nice, thanks. You made my day. =]
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Orfanage: 1
Catacombs: 0
Havok: 0
ZombieGedden: 0
Hallow'd Past: 1
Psychoscareapy: 1
Hades: 1
Legendary Truth: 2
Bill & Ted: 0
Brian Brushwood: 0
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With Employee Preview being last night and the event fully kicking off tomorrow, I figured now would be a good time to start up this thread. It was one of my favorite threads from last year and helped me identify who was scaring the crap out of me.
Feel free to show the scareactors who got you some love so they can do it again.
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Oh Andrew, you randomly make my day all the time.
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My nose won't stop fucking running and it's driving me absolutely insane. I thought I was over being sick, wtf.
I'm sitting in this class that I've skipped the past two weeks and guess what? Next week is the last week of class. Fuck.
Tomorrow is employee preview night..yay...
I'm really really really really not in a great mood at all. In fact I feel like everything is absolutely fucked right now.
Can someone tell me how exactly they would feel if they moved across the country for someone they have loved since they were 15 only to find out that for the past 3 years they have been in love with someone else and you're just second best? Just the person they're with to pass the time? & that all the times you broke up with the idea of working things out, they ran to said other person for comfort? Can someone tell me how they'd feel knowing that this person and that girl practically act like they're dating when they're at work?
How about I feel like I want to die. I feel unwanted and unloved and somehow I'm always fucking coming up short.
Fuck my life would be an understatement at the moment.
I am an awesome fucking person. I have sacrificed more than anyone I know would sacrifice for "love' & what did I get? Yep.
Sorry, this isn't a place for my personal life. Actually, apparently no place is a place for my personal life because every time I've tried to reach out to people who call themselves my friends, I get rejected by them too. It's nice texting people when you're standing on the side of the road shaking & ready to stab everything in a 10 mile radius and getting no reply. Really hammers that whole unwanted & unloved feeling home.
I'd like to give a big fuck you to life and everything it has brought upon me the past few months. Apparently the powers that be are really fucking testing me. I'm defeated and upset and lonely & miserable & I'd just like someone to fucking be there for me and tell me that it's okay.
Apparently I REALLY needed this off my chest because this turned from randomness to me actually saying somewhat how I feel. But no one really knows how I feel. Why? Because no one asks.
I'm through with the days of putting myself out there & making myself accessible and trying to get to know people who really couldn't give a damn about me. I'm through reaching out to people who are too busy to have time for me but expect me to be there the moment shit hits the fan. I'm too nice to be stepped all over by people.
Also, if this bitch next to me keeps eyeing me for typing on my laptop I'm gonna have something to say about it.
I'm aware I've come off as an angry bitch that hates everyone & everything, but I assure you, that's hardly the case.
Your mom says hey, btw.
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meaning for the 30'th year it'll be eXXXperiance, and that'll just bring in the wrong crowds...
You know, I really don't think they're going to do that.
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This would be awesome if I could get pass this crazy guy who like to listen to music.
Just keep spinning the crank on the record player & keep it in green as long as possible until you beat it. It took me a few tries.
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For the Sacrifice one I could not figure it out, but some how I got luck pressing the space bar a few time in a row and it worked. I Know before the game starts and you have to enter your age, it says enable mic, so maybe it would be easier to do that and try and sing along rather then hit the space or mouse button.
OH. Sacrifice is the Orfanage room? Yeah, I sang along with it. I don't know how to do it without a mic.
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I'm trying to beat Sacrifice, so if ya know how to beat it...it'd be great help
haha.I don't remember the details of that one. What are you having to do for that one?
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I'm on that as well.. Really confused.
Refresh my memory as to what that task entailed & I might be able to help.
that was me hehe
HHN 22 Discussion
in Halloween Horror Nights 22
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Pretty certain it will stay this way because of the ongoing construction in the park.