Pumpkin
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I'm shanghaiing, I mean giving Auruspex my Employee Preview ticket. So he can take lots of pictures of me. lol Also I'm listed twice under October 8th.
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I definitely agree, good call monk
Definitely agreed, this would be wonderful!
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I checked out the rest of your pictures, Nick, and I'm getting more and more excited for Grown Evil. : ) Can't wait to see what kind of makeup we're going to be getting. It's been on my mind for weeks! lol
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I read through the thread, and I didn't see this mentioned yet. In the permits, elevated ceilings or some sort of alternative form of fire sprinklers were mentioned for multiple houses, yes? I think some members had speculated that it could be a hint for a lot of upswing scares this year. Anyone think that the majority of our female banshees might be pursuing us victims from above? If it's done how the wire bride in Dracula was (but with multiple actors), then it might be distracting enough to overpower the immediate setting of the house. Based off of the new clues on the website, I think we are going to be seeing mostly situational attacks. A lot of field hospital scenes in individual rooms/tents/wards/what ever you want to call them. These nurses are supposed to be slowly preying on their patients. I can't imagine too many scenes involving them going after soldiers in the field. I can't even really imagine a patient escaping their grasp either. The clues paint it as a pretty hopeless situation.
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Oh and parents...if your child requires a stroller...then um, keep them the hell home.
Hear-hear, Hush. lol Parents bringing their children is probably my biggest pet peeve as a scare-actor. It's seriously just cruel, and I wish it qualified them for a call from the state.
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OMG, I love you right now!
On topic, is it just me or is Lady Lucks hair the wrong color? In the commercials, billboards, website and ads she clearly has red hair. But in the house announcement video and now the Tyra Banks photos she has brown hair.
It seems like there is some hair color inconsistency, but I think that's just due to the fact that so few people actually have truly red hair. I think the marketing version of her is more fantastical and idealized, whereas what you're seeing for the real life incarnation is exactly what you'd expect: a real life actress whose hair looks natural. I've met a lot of strawberry blonds, strawberry brunets, and orange reds, but only like one true same crimson shade over her entire head redhead. I think if they dyed it to match it wouldn't be as authentic or believable, and lighting has a lot to do with it too. Hair color can play tricks in different kinds of light and at different angles.
Not to get too off topic, and this is not meant to start a brawl either, but look at last year; we had a Chance of every hair color throughout the park. The Chance in my house, Hallow'd Past, was a natural redhead with straight, shoulder length hair who braided her pigtails every night. The original Chance who was placed in the streets had long, frizzy, dark brunet hair. Her tap-out had straight, blond, shoulder length hair. It's something that tends to be a bit of a problem, mostly because the only real way to prevent the issue is to do wigs across the board, like with Bloody Mary.
I do hope that there are different wigs for this year though. The one in the Tyra photos... worries me. : \
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I see what you mean, but I personally like how old she is. The young and reckless age doesn't seem to fit into a "casino" theme. She kind of reminds of a gold digger at a casino. The age definitely adds to the creepiness to me. Not saying she's a model, but she looks pretty nice if she is supposed to be old. And in that picture, I can't believe she is wearing a wig.... jeez TYRA... lol jk
Yeah, a friend of mine brought that up too. I agree, she wouldn't seem as menacing if she was way younger or had that cigar girl/chorus girl feel, and that actress is very much an attractive lady. I wouldn't have guessed that they were going to try for a timeless approach. Plus the fact that she's not really human and all.
Separately, they could have adjust the front of the dress though. Because I'm not convinced that that's actually her stomach. I think the lack of darting just doesn't work with that princess cut halter top combo. Very pretty dress, but sometimes a style just doesn't go with an individual's body shape. Can't tell you how many times I've picked up a dress that looked great on the rack just to find out that it looks terrible on me. It needs more couture and control, a la ribbing. Alright, enough girl talk.
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Not to be mean... but Universal is definitely letting Lady Luck's age show quite a bit. First the tummy pouch, now the arm wing. Don't get me wrong, most of us gals are in for the same fate. Diet and exercise can only prevent so much for so long, which is why I'm a little bit surprised that they went with a more mature woman for what I'd have sensationalized as a youthful, reckless, and showy theme. And we can do better than that wig, Entertainment. : P Anyway, I do think it's a unique and valid approach, just not sure how effective it is for me on a personal level.
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The guy talking in that recording after you beat the second S&S game sounds like Bill Nighy. lol
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Sweeeeeet.
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neat... are you getting the choppy audio as well (like a machine or helicopter)? or is that just my work computer?
I had it muted when I actually signed in. Everything seems to be fine once I'm inside though.
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Thanks for pointing that out.
It's good to know something is going on back there...
Still no changes to the half tokens though. : ( I played a game, just to try it out, and won on the first try. Nothing happened other than I got more tokens.
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There's a light glowing out of the double doors in the Backroom section of the website, where you choose to step inside. First time I've noticed it since the midnight reveal.
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I absolutely <3 Gene Kelly. : ) I'm loving the detail that's going into this year. Hasn't felt this way since 2008.
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I think this trend of no icon house in the new era works since the icons are forces personified. They are in all the event in some small way. Fear was obvious but with luck choice and chance I think is more prevalent.
I know a lot of members have already voiced this, but I do agree that iconic scare zones are probably a new trend that'll stick around for a little while in our New Era of Darkness. I've yet to see it, but conceptually it's a nice hybrid between the unique style of 2004 and the overall marketing perks of the Expansions and Iconic Eras. The general public gets their photo opportunity, marketing and advertising get their gimmicks, the fan community and the veteran scare-actors get more original content and creativity per-attraction across the board because of the former. I'm willing to give this a try and keep my mind opened. Very willing.
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1.) Acid Assault -this just sounds like a really neat idea to me-
2.) Nightmaze
3.) Grown Evil -third on my list even though I'm in it-
4. Canyon of Dark Souls
5.) 7
6.) Your Luck Has Run Out
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1.) Nightingales: Blood Prey
2.) The In Between
3.) H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror
4.) The Forsaken
5.) Nevermore: The Madness of Poe
6.) Winter's Night: The Haunting of Hawthorn Cemetery
7.) The Thing
8.) Saws n Steam: Into the Machine
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That's just amazing, Nicole. Very well done with the scrap books and love the HNN name lanyard!
Thanks, Mark! : ) I'm actually a little self-conscious about them. Like, I fear that I might be one of the crazy cat ladies types in the HHN community, except instead of cats it's arts and crafts. lol I'll be walking around campus and see a HHN newspaper machine insert this time of year and think to myself, "What's the least obvious way that I can get my hands on that?" : P The answer is after dark, by the way.
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It's the deep purple card on FaceBook. Perhaps our supernatural force in or around the WWI field hospital?
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Pumpkin this is amazing wish i had a organised place to keep my stuff instead of it being dumped around my room xD
Thank you! : ) This stuff was in boxes for a while though. By the time I left my old apartment I really had no room left to work on them, so a lot of stuff I collected in 2009 and 2010 went without proper cataloging or sorting. Some of it you'd have sworn was garbage, so I'm happy that it all meshed so well together. lol Are the pictures of your collection still up?
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Nicely done...Care to trade any of your employee buttons and HHN pins for something I have that you might like...???...
Hey! I tried messaging you, but couldn't. I just got all of those pins and buttons through Kyle and Tommy, so it really depends on what item you had in mind. I don't have extras of anything, so I'd be creating more wholes to eventually fill. But if you were talking about the 2008 cloisonne or the 2009 staff pin, then I'm all ears. My preference is straight forward buying though. Let me know!
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I always like to use you got me good job followed by a thank you. What you guys do is truly appreciated by me. So even before the event I want to say Thank You to all of the scareactors out there.
Right back at'cha. : ) Sometimes it's hard to communicate, especially in the houses, but a lot of us appreciate you guys just as much as you appreciate us. Entertainment is an interesting industry because each of it's individual components must be of equally consistent and great quality. You can't get away with one part being of lesser value than the total sum. Even though this community is in the minority of people who come every year, scare-actors would be dealing with only the general public if it didn't exist. People would get so sick of the constant abuse they were taking that our numbers would drop like flies. And without enough actors, the experience no longer lives up to its reputation. Same goes for the content. We'd look awfully out of place without ambiance or setting, which gets funded partially by the quantity of general public attendance. It's all a delicate, symbiotic relationship.
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My 16 year old cat, One Paw. She's a little on the feisty side and has more disgustingly cute nicknames than I can keep track of. hah
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Below is my shadowbox of pins and patches that I've collected since I started working the event.
And here is a box of general release, limited edition, and staff pins/buttons that I've begun to collect via The Collective. I'm still missing two, hence why they are not in shadowboxes of their own yet. I'm just going to collect from the Expansions Era forward.
And here's my 2010 Publix glass graphic that was a pain in the butt to frame. Took multiple attempts and ideas to get it to look alright.
And, finally, here's my bat! And other HHN/HNN artsy-fartsy stuff that I've made. The cards are actually a pin that I made to wear to my audition this year, and the lanyard is just something I made to wear to VUDUCON and HNN Meetups.
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Nightingales: Blood Prey (PTSD Discussion ONLY)
in Haunted Houses
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I'm glad to see that this subject did get it's own thread. I hesitated to post my opinion before for the sole reason of compromising the integrity of its source material (we haven't seen the house yet). The following is obviously my own perspective; this isn't like the National Consensus, I'm not representing the entire single, female, early 20s, Caucasian, civilian demographic. I'm registered No Party Affiliation. I have no friends or close relatives who are active duty servicemen or servicewomen (none that I've been comfortable enough to talk about this sort of thing with, at least). I am a devil's advocate. So with that out of the way...
I think that a better system NEEDS to be developed in order to make EVERY guest's awareness of event content more lucid and thorough. As of right now, this concept is practically nonexistent.
Example: I just did some role playing. I pretended that I have a special need which currently dictates specific things that I should and should not do to maintain a healthy and active life style (insert heart disease, pregnancy, PTSD, schizophrenia, epilepsy, high blood pressure, dependency on a service animal, wheel chair, or other device for locomotion or navigation, etc.). I go on to Halloween Horror Night's website for information. On the home page, there is a warning at the bottom of the screen that only mentions that this event is not intended for children under the age of 13. I click on it to see if it will take me to more information. Nothing happens. 15 minutes later, I finally locate the Frequently Asked Questions section of the site, which you actually have to click on the word Tickets to get to. When I hover over Tickets, it is not included in the automatic drop down menu. If you're somehow intuitive enough click on Tickets, it is the very last menu point on the right hand side of the screen. I then read through each of the 15 questions listed. Not one of them mentions health concerns. Furthermore, Guest Services is not even mentioned anywhere on the page. No phone number, no contact information, nothing. I've now spent 20 minutes trying to answer a simple question: Should I risk buying an expensive ticket for something that could potentially cause harm to me in any way, shape, or form? What about the cost of travel? You can see where I'm going with this. This situation turns from a thrilling experience into a disappointing money sink in the blink of an eye. I personally don't feel it's fair that people have to wait until they're inside the park to find out just how many of the eight houses are going to accommodate their special need. I also don't think it's fair that I now have to do another Google search for Universal Orlando's Guest Service's phone number, which does come up on the first try thankfully. The website is completely absent of acts of inclusion. It does not foster a sense of security or concern for this element of diversity.
This is my suggestion to improve the situation. In order to avoid unnecessarily releasing private or disclosed information to the public, simply set up a chain reaction for those who need more information:
1. Put Guest Service's phone number on the event's website.
2. Compile a conscious protocol manual every year detailing information on each house, scare zone, and show regarding both physical characteristics and thematic content and how either could hinder an individual's well being. Now, obviously this needs to be quick, to the point, and logical. It doesn't have to be this cumbersome thing, but simply a quick reference to answer a person's question via phone call. Example: "Does xyz house have strobes?" If they have a very specific concern, such as, "I have an electric wheelchair that is larger than the standard size. What is your required Fire Code clearance? I'm concerned that my chair may not easily fit around some of the corners in your houses," then we move on to the next step.
3. Offer PRE-SCHEDULED tours of any concerning areas. Every event night, from 5:45-6:30, escort guests who have requested this service in advance, voluntarily provided applicable documentation or evidence if necessary, and have already purchased their ticket to inspect whatever area is concerning them. Let me be clear, I am not saying that you should let a person with epilepsy walk through a fully operational Dead Exposure alone. Nor am I saying that the Vietnam medic should go though a fully operational Nightingales by himself. These are obviously sensitive matters that require delicate handling. Let the medic walk through the house with the lights on, play the sounds separately while he listens backstage, etc. If Universal took the time to make me feel like my needs genuinely mattered, then I'm going to be far less disappointing that I can't go into a house; whereas, if I take the gamble, buy my ticket, then show up and discover that I can't do half the attractions, I'm going to be pretty pissed off in plain English.
No additional people would need to be hired in order to implement this system. I know this is the day and age of being required to go above and beyond your job description, but this is something that could be easily incorporated into people's intimidate responsibilities with HHN. The more people you get involved, the lighter the workload is for everyone. How hard would it be to say to someone, "By the way, you're already working with this specific subject, would you mind shooting me a quick bullet point email of things you suggest we look out for?"
Anyway, I have a great deal of respect for our serviceman and woman, and I'm all for diversity. It's not my place to make analogies or pass personal judgement on whether or not this PTSD discussion is a valid argument. All I know is that right now there's NO acts of inclusion pertaining to the guests who attend HHN, and I hope that something serious can be done about that in the near future before a situation does occur that everyone regrets. Preventative maintenance wins over damage control every time.