HHN fan

we are lucky this year as our APs expire the middle of oct and we ar comming down before they expire. Lyn we can't car pool opening weekend as we are staying on property, and thursday 9/30 we are planning on all day in the parks and HHN, but if you guys what to ride with us on 10/1 we are planning on going that night for S&S to close so you guys can ride with us friday night or if you can do all day on thursday you guys can ride with us and hang out all day and night. hope you can make it opening night. see you in the shadows. Jim & Judy

I still think it's funny that USO still haven't updated the park hours for the daytime for ether park past august. this is the lastest I have ever sean this not being updated yet.

Thank you Shadowlurker for the good news. my e-mail should be on the e-mail list to notify people what the VIP tour offerings for HHN 20 as I spoke to someone earlier this year and was told my info would be put into the HHN 20 folder. I send you an e-mail shadowlurker. yaaa

have you went on a UTH tour before? I think every year they have let us look at the house plans sometime during the tour. and sweet 16 they had a lot of previous years houses plans to look at in the museum. if you like looking at those plans i recommend taking the tour.

freakazoid if you plan your trip so you go to USO/IOA the day you go to HHN you won't need a stay and scream ticket, it is only needed if you are not going to the parks before HHN, when you would need a stay and scream ticket. if I were you I would plan to go to see Harry Potter the day you plan on going to HHN and then if you have a ticket for HHN you just stay in the park when it closes in the stay & scream area and they will scan your HHN ticket. the stay and scream ticket is for someone who what's to come to the park the afternoon before going to HHN, and has a HHN ticket and whats to stay in the park to get a head start on the people who just buy a HHN ticket. also they usually have a deal in the park during HHN they offer a deal for people who only bought day tickets to get a deal on the night tickets. we have never just went one night before, so I don't remember the price point on that, but I'm sure someone here remembers about how much it was last year to buy the HHN ticket after you got in the park during the day. as the the food at Finnegan's it's an Irish bar with Irish/British food. their hot wings are good, and so is their Shepperd's pie. and it is a restaurant so you don't have to be be 21 to go in, they do check IDs when you order an adult beverage. hope you have fun Jim

here is a good one we have HHN, but the park daytime hours haven't been updated yet. probobly HP related, but still I think this is the first time the park hours web site was updated after we got the dates for HHN.

you can buy single night tickets now, FFP will be availible soon.

if you are going to the park during the day you don't have to buy a stay and scream pass that is for someone who didn't buy a ticket for the day or isn't an annual pass holder. so if you have ticket for HHN and you stay in the park in the stay and scream areas, they will only what to see your HHN pass. Finnegan's is the other S&S area and you can have something to eat and or drink before HHN starts, and if you do the open SS house or houses first you don't have to wait in the longer lines later. that has been my groups plan the last 3 years and it worked pretty well, if you buy express and do stay & scream you should be able to get all the houses done, and maybe bill & Ted. I don't know how many are in your group, but you might what to look at RIP tours, you are guaranteed to get all the houses and shows with a tour guide who takes you to the front of the line in all the houses and priority seating for the shows. FYI they are expensive. we go for a min of 8 days when we come to Orlando for HHN, so we just get the FFP, and do S&S each night, we usually most of the houses the first night, and do the shows on a differant night, and repeat the houses we like and skip the ones we dislike. Hope this helps. we are going opening week for 10 days this year starting opning night. enjoy we what to go to knotts once, but I fear now that cedar fair is involved it may never be what it was in it's hay day.

as well as if they were going to use one every year wouldn't they just buy one? as well as if they were going to use one every year wouldn't they just buy one?

The meet will be before any AP party right? I thought opening night they make everyone leave the park and reenter. I don't know as this is our this opening weekend, we usually come down late in the run, like hell week or halloween week. I thought the meet would be before any HHN things got started, and we would go from the meet as a group to opening scareamonies. Hush?

If you don't go who will coordinate to meet? I look forward to meets. It’s fun to put a face with a name and to see old friends. Let’s just plan that you will have a job. See you in 105 days Jim

lets hope someone proof reads this at USO it says every Wednesday, yet the dates don't reflect every Wednesday. I think they have it reversed, it says most Thursdays. it should say every Thursday, and most Wednesdays. got to love the web guys. bloody mary year I bought our tickets the night they went up on the web site and saved $5. they posted the employee price for 24 to 48 hours before it was fixed and I saved $5. the early bird gets the worm I guess.

so you are telling me that the person from creative that told me this was lying, sorry but I asked him the same question last year as he was on my UTH tour last year, and HHN has too much alcohol that their target would be young adults who can't drink it. USO makes to much money on alcohol that they will never cut it out, and the event I hope will continue to be created for the people who are old enough to drink said adult beverages. the tickets say PG-13. and lastly I think TJ knows the target audeince of his favorite event. so you can accept the idea or not but it is a fact that HHN's target audeince is collage age 21 - 30. they make too much $ on the alcohol not to target the audeince that will be drinking. they make around $4 million just on alcohol during HHNs. ThreeCircles how many years have you been going to HHN, and have you ever done the UTH tour? this year will be my 8th year in a row, and I have not missed a UTH tour, and the year they didn't do the tour I was there on the final night and was able to do the LT and had the Q&A with creative and that large group of fans. that said I think my information comes from a creditable source see you in 105 days Jim

sorry to break you bubble, but during our Q&A during secrets of the side show tour a few years back, we were told that HHN's target audience is college age and up, ie drinking age, HOS's target audience is teens and Disney's target audience is little kids. so HHN s is not designed with teens in mind. granted alot of teenagers go to HHNs, but it's target audience is 21 - 30. nothing personal, but I like that it is designed for adults, there are plently of kid things to do in Orlando it's nice to have an event designed with us adults in mind. Jim

and someone correct me here but I thought they used the tents for storage, and that is why we see this stuff every year and they have that Marshalling yard to store what can be stored outside so they can start on the tent houses, as well as start picking out what props they will be reuseing as they come out of storage and where they will be reused. they did this last year, the top piece from skool house sat out near one of the tents.

I went 5 nights that week and hit that house once each night, the hallway was dead each time. so that is why I ranked it so low.

a DE SZ would'n't decause DE use darkness as a scare thruogh out the house, can't do that outside very well, maybe were the pumkin grove was. there were 2 things that i didn't like in DE, first the whole darkness you couldn't see anything till it was right in front of you, same reason I didn't like Terror mines. second the dead spot right in the middle there was a long halway with nothing hapening, no scareactor, no props nothing. during the legendary truth thing on the last night I was talking with one of the creative guys during the Q&A mingle, and he said there was suppose to be a guy in the ceiling in that halway laying on a sheet of plastic, but the fire people said no the glass couldn't be there for fireman access in case of a fire. so the area stayed empty. they should have left the hole and built some kind of platform with a guy on it, add air holes in the hallway, or a light effect, something that is why i didn't like this house that year, it fell equal to BM house in the jaws que. as I have heard once in a movie "Opions are like A**holes, we all have them" and I think like BMs house, DE was trying to recreate the web site story, but you couldn't see so you missed it and the mojority of GP don't follow the web site like we all do.

don't forget there is no HHN on sunday opening weekend.

the Festival of the Dead Parade was done 2004 the last time, and that was the year HHN was in half of IOA and half of USO, except on peak nights they opened more of each park to accommidate the crowds. personly I don't think we will see the parade agian, but who knows maybe they will figure a way to do the parade in the future.

Welcome Barbaric Derek I feel your pain I have been out of work for almost a year and a half. we live in Indiana, and we scrapped and put money aside to go to HHN last year and we have already bought our airfare, hotel and reserved our rental car and condo. HHNs is worth the effort. we have been going since 2003 and plan on being ther every year by one way or another. no way were we missing HHN 20.

the tour was only $40 last year, thats less than a night of HHN. and it was worth every penny. it was also cool that someone from creative came on our tour and he did some Q&A, this wasn't done on all tours , but I heard that when a creative person had the time they would join a tour. I think they like hearing what people have to say about their work and what people would like to see in the future. Jim

I agree but last year I was asked by TJ what I thought about a tour after a night of HHN ie the tour would start around nidnight, on a night that the event happened. they might keep scareactors around and would let you go through once with the lights on and once while the scareactors were in the house and the effects on as well. I told him I thought it was a interesting idea for a tour. we would do one I think. last year SF Great america had a tour for ACE memebers during their frieght fest. they didn't have any actors, but we did get to go through with the lights on, and once through with the effects running. it was fun.

How about Rocky Horror Picture Show the house, or street:)

me too, I have booked our flight, car, condo, and a couple of nights at RPR, all I need now are tickets. I know we have a couple of months for that. so Judy and I will be there opening weekend no if ands or buts! look forward to meeting new people and talking with old freinds. 3 months 28 days till HHN 20. see you all then Jim & Judy