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You forgot the WWI house in the soundstages. Also I feel this might be worth sharing: I wonder how many people at Auditions picked up on the fact the sheet with work conditions list "must be able to work in extream heat or cold."

That I'm sure comes from the fact that the name "Horizons extraction facility" is being painted on the house.

Hasn't been announced yet

I think a very edgy modern day or blade runner type take on fairy tales would be interesting.

A good riddle has one solid answer that once it has been stated answers all questions.

So in the spirit of SPECULATING I'm going to offer my two cents. I agree Lula. The names evoke a fairy tale sensibility. Also, I personally feel our three people in heaven clue points to a story teller. So I feel these roles may be fairy tale related and might be a new twisted take on fairy tales different from the Scary Tales franchise. Disaster Overflow Queue (B67) Woodteeth = Tooth Fairy Dwarf = This is an incorrect role title. The correct spelling is Dorf. This can mean many things. Dorf is a common word for midget but also means village in german. Considering the individuals cast for Dorf are above 6' tall I highly doubt it has to do with a short person (unless thats the point) so I think it might be Villager. Grass= Gnome Top Hat= Mad Hatter Love= Queen of Hearts Watch= This role is fake. Egg= Humpty Dumpy

While I agree with the DEATH comes to us all and it is our FATE I still have to ask why these three individuals. The clue could have just as easily been: In heaven, the three with whom I would talk? A young boy, A man who just heard he is terminally ill, and a man who sleeps eternally. Why these specific individuals?

Red and Green. Like a roulette table perhaps...

Over on rumors the posting of the role Dwarf is false. The actual role is dorf.

Taking a different perspective they are all storytellers. Eoin Colfer is obviously a writer. Peter Falk tells stories through his characters and is very fondly remembered as the Grandfather story teller in Princess Bride. Steve Jobs has recently been called by social media sites our greatest and most powerful storyteller. http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/social-media-marketing/power-of-storytelling/

For all those who keep thinking there will be an extreme house this year dont hold your breath. Also, we would know by now from auditions and permits if there was going to be 9 houses. HHN would need to see a substantial increase in budget before we will see a 9th house.

This prob means nothing but they all have ties to Disney. Disney just signed a three book deal with Eoin Colfer. Steve Jobs is on the Disney Board of Directors and Peter Falk was in the Disney film Corkey Romano and ABC aired the more recent episodes of Columbo.

Back in the day, before high tech video surveillance, Casinos built catwalks with mirrored glass that security personal could look down onto the casino floor from. From up there they could see the whole floor and monitor anyone who was possibly cheating. Which location is it that we think has a lot of covered ceilings or possible up scares according to the permits?

According to the contractors Tent 2 is the house to see this year.

This makes no sense to me. The photo shoots for this year's event print media, marketing, billboards etc etc where completed about a month ago already. Why would they be bringing in girls now to "sketch." Also i'm just gonna state this right now and you may take it however you please: Chance is not our icon. We may have a new character named Chance but she/it/he will not be connected to the Chance of the past that we saw last year or in '07. Legacy, you missed one. Here is the list as it appeared on the audition sheet: HW CP IFB LP Shrek NY Listed else where on the sheet was Lucy. IFB most likely mean International Food/Film Building.

I don't looking at WW1 pilots is going to far. So far Dr. Jimmy has been fairly on the dot and nobody has taken note.

Im sure they had to notice cause they have to enter all of that information into the system. They never commented on it but they scrutinized my audition papers because they called me back in to ask specifically if i wanted to play jason Vorhees.

Actually, last year they reworked the scarezone areas for a couple of reasons. The first was because the scarezones in kid zone and the area right in front of Animal Actors where cirque du freak was caused to much confusion for most guests. They would walk through the area get turned around and get lost or not able to find the entrance to the houses. This is the main reason Silver Screams always had a short wait. Guest would could find kid zone would see the two houses and say hey I know what chuckie is but not Silver Screams. Enter the chuckie house and be dumped back out by MIB. Then when they walked back through cirque they'd get turn around and unable to find their way back in to Kid Zone. Also, there has been several Chain Saw scarezones set up in front of Disaster over the past few years that the event moved back to Uni in 06.

Back in 07 I auditioned as a 17 year old. In fact, I didn't turn 18 until my first night of rehearsal.

So I was in attendance at the Event dealing with the Caretaker. It was a team member recognition event called the AOA's. Basically all the attraction team members get together and awards are given out such as best team lead, spirt of universal award etc etc etc. In addition to this team members representing each attraction also make videos and submit them and an award is given to the best made video. (A good example of this is a video from a few years ago made by JAWS that you can find on youtube called "How to tune a fish") This year for the awards they added best HHN house. Obviously the winner was already announced at the end of HHN but they still had two presenters come out to give out the award. Before they announced the winner however they told all the team members they where going to give "an exclusive first look" at this years event concept art. They asked all team members to put away and turn off all cameras and phones as they would not be allowed to take photos of the concept art. This was simply to just add credibility to the set up for what was a prank/joke. They then proceeded to show stick figure drawings of guests entering a haunted maze called "Haunted House" and then a stick figure of a guy with a chainsaw chasing other stick figures. All of this obviously being shown as a joke. However, unknown to the two presenters while they where flipping through the slideshow of "concept art" Bryce dressed as the Caretaker was sneaking up behind them. One of the presenters eventually noticed him and flipped out because he was a huge fan of the Caretaker and this had obviously been setup by someone as a surprise for him. Bryce proceeded to stand on stage and make random non in character comments obviously just enjoying the moment. So the Caretaker's presence means nothing more than he is a part of HHN and the presenter just happens to be a big fan of the event. No need to look any further into it than that. Man I shouldnt type when Im tired. Sorry for any errors or all around bad grammar

I'd love to see the original RUN house redone. It's the only maze i've read about that I've never experianced that I really want too. It's incarnation in 2006 was fun but not the RUN I wanted. However I would be okay waiting till next year to see it. One repeat house this year is enough.

I 100% agree with you Jimmy. Universal has a reputation of promoting their movies in the past few years.

Gotcha, when you said scare I assumed you meant scare zone.

Okay so in talking about this year's theme risk and chance are important. However Chance the Clown isn't from my general understanding. Also, I hate to be that person but, I was talking to my friend who was able to talk to one of the painters working in the JAWS house and the word Roulette came into play. Take that as you wish but a casino in the boardwalk section of the park seems to make sense but ive heard conflicting reports over the location of a casino house. Ive also heard possibly one in the SS but the time table for the house and our 1930's isnt matching up.