Oysterhead00 Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 I posted this in the HHNVIP topic I had started as well, but figured I might as well put it here as well since it fits. And I'm not going to get into the war about it being a 21 and over only lounge (which I think is simply so the cocktail waitress didn't have to deal with IDs and stuff). Link to some pictures: http://s833.photobucket.com/albums/zz256/littledavej/HHNXX%20VIP/ OK, so the VIP lounge is open EVERY night, but the Thursday ones are the only one where there's a speaker talking about the weekly topic. We went Friday since Thursday was our first night there and wanted to get every house done. Also, the 8pm and 10pm times are for the speakers I assume, but you get a VIP wrist band and can come and go as you please from 8-11pm so you aren't slaved to those times on non-speaker days. My group of 7 went in around 10:30 Friday night and it was semi-crowded. Wandered around taking pictures (see above post) and had a couple drinks brought to us by the cocktail waitress. Nice service, but nothing special. While we're in there, all the past Icons were coming and going. I'd imagine the building is where they come and swap out for their shiftchanges, but that's just a guess. So around 10:45ish, everybody had cleared out by my group and 2 other people. And a guy came up to us to see how we liked the event and stuff. Now, I live in upstate NY so I only come down for a couple nights and don't follow everything, but when his name badge said TJ, I knew who he was. He hung out with my group and told us a ton of stories for at least an hour. Thursday's topic was the Extreme Houses and he gave us quite a discussion about them...some highlights: The one was to require a waiver that they were not responsible for any physical or mental injuries that may occur.Scaractors were allowed to touch you.You were given a safe phrase like "fluffy bunny feet" (or something about that funny) to be pulled out of the house.Each house at HHN has about 25 scaractors in it at a time, this house would have had the same.Approximately 6 people would go into the house at once. But I don't think you ever "teamed up"...I think you just all went into the church together.You'd be brought into a church and sat down at a pew, then a couple scaractors would come and place a robe on you with a big hood that would hang over your eyes so you couldn't see anything.You'd be "escorted" and laid down flat on a "table" in the pitch dark. Then you'd be told to open your eyes and you'd be in a coffin that they "folded up" around you.Depending on how much you freak out, they'd hit a switch right away or after a while and then the bottom of the casket would open and you'd fall on the ground and immediately be chased and "funneled" to where they wanted you to go.There'd be lots of running and come climbing...it would be a physical house. Not a passive walk through, but a very physically active participation house. There's a lot more, but that's a good idea of how it would go. Then after a while, it was just me and two friends left talking to him (the other 4 guys in our group kinda got bored I guess) and he asked us what our favorite house was (Hades, BY FAR) and said, "let's go do it...is that OK?" and we said our one friend hadn't done PsychoScarapy yet so he took us to that house, took us in the backway and showed us some stuff, had security stop the line and we went through the house by ourselves (all 7 of us, picked up our other 4 friends waiting outside). I think he was trying to get rid of us, and it worked, as that was the last we saw of him :-) Still, it was an amazing time for me and my one friend who are really into it...and one of the two "virgins" in our group who wanted to learn all he could. Best $10 we spent at the event and meeting TJ was cool, but the best part was we had no idea who he was so it wasn't like we were yelling his name and following him around so he sought us out and volunteered all this information and you can tell how much he LOVES his job and how much he wants everybody who comes to have a great experience. Unfortunately, 99.9% of those who attend won't have this experience, but it made a great event nearly PERFECT and figured I'd share some of the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuitaChris Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 Wow man that's insane. I'm actually pretty jealous lol. Sounds like a one of a kind experience. Thanks for the info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oysterhead00 Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 Oh, another thing TJ said.... When we asked if they ever planned on doing it at 2 parks again he basically said: Recently, it has made sense to have it condensed in a single park as much as possible and it fit better at Universal. In the future, if the environments in Islands of Adventure are advantageous to the "theme" of the event, they may very well go back there. And he's heard the rumors too, but there is NO PROBLEM with having HHN there due to the Dr Suess estate. That's just a false rumor. Forgot about that little tidbit until now...and it should be said I'd had my fair share of drinks before and during the talk so I have to talk to my 2 friends this weekend and see if they remember anything else that I forgot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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