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So far, they're right on schedule with the changes and updates. For now we'll all have to wait. Remember, patience is a virtue ;-) lol
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.
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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
Just as a quick update, more than likely at least the basic two hour UTH Tour should be back. As for any additional UTH Tour offerings, well the jury is still out on that but the attempt is being made to try and get the powers that be to expand the offerings so hopefully one of these day's I'll have some more news.
The RIP Tours will of course be back again as usual as well.
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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.
Don't know why I clicked on this thread as I usually avoid speculation and spoilers... I'm guessing it was my blue print sense tingling! I have all the prints from HHN 18 and seeing the print for Clever here makes me ask... Does anyone have the prints from HHN 19? PLEASE! If you have a copy or know of where I can get one them PLEASE let me know. I'm a drafter by trade (when I'm employed) and just really enjoy looking through the prints. It also helps me remember the houses that I really enjoyed.
Thanks...
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Thanks again for the tips guys! Just curious, what do they serve at Finnegin's? I think I saw some picture of one of their entrees (It looked like something fried.) on a MiceAge photo update; it looked pretty good.
Also I think I'm just going to buy the standard stay and scream ticket. I don't really plan on going on any of the tours or any of that stuff; I prefer to go at things at my own pace.
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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
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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.
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FFP is the best way to go, also its more than likely they will make some off-peak nights available to FFP holders, as this happens often.
you can buy single night tickets now, FFP will be availible soon.
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About wanting more times for rides I'll just buy a Stay and Scream pass to ride the rides by day then go for just the mazes at HHN. I probably won't see Bill and Ted since we have that back at Hollywood and it's pretty much the same show... just different acting/costumes. If I have any "down time" after going through all of the mazes I probably will see it or take a spin on Mummy or MIB.
Just curious... is ET or JAWS open during HHN? Whenever I have the chance to ride ET I always take it since the one where I live has been scrapped.
Btw thanks for the helpful tips guys! 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.
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How/why/who would they have a contract (with) to use a prop every year? Not saying your wrong, just doesn't make sense.
as well as if they were going to use one every year wouldn't they just buy one?
How/why/who would they have a contract (with) to use a prop every year? Not saying your wrong, just doesn't make sense.
as well as if they were going to use one every year wouldn't they just buy one?
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I love you stephhhh
Yeah im definitely hanging out with you Stephhhh. And YES I'll finally be able to meet Ryan
After 3? years.Ill definitely stop by Bob Marley's though but I also want to do the AP party. Meh I hate making decisions.
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?
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Yeap, Derek...me too! I can't imagine missing the 20th year of HHN after going the past 19, but you know how the money situation is when your not working, we've had to make some very tough financial decisions over the past few months and if I'm not working by then (God forbid) we'll have to bow out this year too.
I like your idea about having an "Unemployed HHN" get together...we need to find a portable smoke machine and have strong drinks...LOL
Here's hoping that both of us are gainfully employed soon and missing our favorite event won't even be a remote possibility...
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
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Nice.
So FFP remains the same price as last year, while GA tickets go up.And to go back to the dates that some people have been debating for some reason, it looks like those hold true as well.
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.
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Sorry, but I wouldn't accept that idea. HOS and HHN have the same core target audience and I would say that's teen through young adult. Most nights at HHN more closely resemble a tween sleep over than they do a frat party.
A thought on the scene names that may have already been expressed and I missed it. It's possible, somewhat even likely, that the identifers we have now are only code names for the actual scene names just like the code names for the houses last year. Perhaps these are no more descriptive than that.
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
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Like I'm not trying to lessen what everyone is saying but HHN also focuses on us young teens and if the event was all mythology and stuff we wouldn't be very excited to go. Like if I told my friends hey this year is gonna be about Hades and Zeus etc they would laugh and say no way are we going. Don't get me wrong I like what everyone is speculating on but don't forget about all of the high schoolers and college kids that go.`Goes back to lurking...
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
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ohh, interesting pictures, im so curious!!! a forest? well the wolfman had some trees, and this is a tent house...and also the thank from spawning..interesting...
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.
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I liked the hallway. At least the two times I went.
1. A scareactor opened one of the doors and scared the crap out of me.
2. A scareactor ran down the empty hallway at me. It was especially scary since the flashing lights only showed him every other second.
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.
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I agree, we've all just been conversing how it would be possible to do a DE scarezone and gain the same effect that the house had; in the end the concept is much more suited to a house environment overall.
It'd be nice to see a sequel to the DE house itself in another year or two, that was one of those many well done houses over the years that didn't get the props it truly deserved in my book.
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.
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Last Year Express Rain anywere from 35 dollars on slow nights to 50 for the non peak Sundays (JOKE) Hell Nights ran about the same with weekends running from 55 to 70 dollars. If you go I always recommend the stay and scream. Also last year they emptied the park so everyone could see the cast of the crappy Movie " The Vampire assistant"
Opening Nights are getting Busier back in the time of HHN 14-15 crowds were light the last 2-3 years the crowds are getting bigger and bigger. Some Houses had waits of over 90 minutes on opening Night. Also If you are planning on going on the Off Peak Night that they Lie about which is Sunday, By an Express pass, Sundays are insane.
don't forget there is no HHN on sunday opening weekend.
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I, like many of you, miss the Festival of the Dead Parade. I would love to see it return but with the crowds getting larger each year it seems unlikely that it would come back. Besides, Universal has been a penny pinching spree hasn't it? How much would fuel cost to run the parade 3 times each night now as compared to the last time it ran (exactly how many years ago has it been?). Kim, how many times each night did they run the Mardi Gras parade? Just wonder what could be done to have a chance to see one again...
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.
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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.
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I missed the tour for 16 & 17 by my choice, but I couldn't afford it last year. Sadly, it looks like I won't be able to this year either. But if I had the $$$ and they offered it, I'd definitely sign up to take it.
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
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The real question is who would want to take a tour of an undressed set anyway? it just doesn't make sense...
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.
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How about Rocky Horror Picture Show the house, or street:)
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Just a reminder that no matter what kind of get togethers we plan, EVERYONE is welcome!!!
Whether you drink an adult beverage or prefer to remain alcohol free...it doesn't matter, we're all getting together to meet up, share our love for HHN and this wonderful site!
Looking forward to eventually saying "hi" to everyone in this year in some way, shape or form!
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
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I liked the whole movie concept last year, you know the movie and it is cool having to live the movie, which is what US is suppose to do right, immerse you into the movies.
So if they just brought back movie houses of the past, I would be fine with that, one of my favorite houses was a movie house. Dead silence
Sweet 16 had 3 movie houses. People under the stairs; under construction, all night die in: take 2, and psycho path. 3 of the 7 house were movie.
So maybe for 20 we will have 4 movie houses from the past. That will take care of one past icon for one of the houses can be the directors. If that rumor is correct. I would love to see Dead silence done again. A house for the year of HHN 15 with the terror queen in it would be cool and that would take care of the story teller Icon house, and there were trees heavily intertwined into HHN 15. All-night die in could come back and satisfy ether the director or the Usher.
It’s nice to speculate, but I wish they would start the teaser site at least, or the draws would be cool. It’s only 3 months 28 days till the event starts. Maybe next week we will start seeing something.
I predict we will not see our first HHN 20 stuff for Orlando till HP opens or a week or 2 before, as recourses are pointed at HP that will free up when it gets closer to HP open. Just a theory.
Btw thanks for the helpful tips guys! 
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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