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Wet or Dry? HHN Hype Lists!
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We're learning about WWE! Delving a bit into the Wyatt Sicks history, plus HHN updates on Stay & Scream, construction, food booths and more. Spilling some more sass on Six Flags and some quick reports on Cedar Point, Kennywood, and Morey's Piers vists. And finally - we debut our pre-season HHN hype lists! Share your hype list with us on Instagram @thrillschillsandspills!
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Introduction and Theme
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We're going to play a little game we call Spill the Tea. Welcome back to Thrills, Chills, and Spills, where we spill the tea on all themes, theme parks, special events, and especially spooky season.
Halloween Horror Nights Updates
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This week, we have the latest HHN updates. ah We're also going to debut our HHN hype lists for the event. um We have some great ah questions from our listeners and some trip recaps per usual. But first, as always, we start out with our spills.
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um And mine this time is about... Oh, I'm Joey.
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Yes, yes. I'm Kelly. I'm a Tyler. And I'm Rafa. Because everybody forgot. We totally have a million new listeners. You can fix that in post.
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No, I'm not going to fix this. Leave it. So anyway, ah ah first we start with our
Cedar Fair Pricing Changes Discussion
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spills. So ah mine is just that Cedar Fair Parks just recently announced that their haunted attractions, ah their mazes in the parks this year are no longer going to be free.
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They used to be included with admission and now they are moving to the Six Flags model. ah which has always been an upcharge to access the mazes at the event. So you can get to scare zones and the shows and the decorations and the rides and such with your regular admission. But the mazes specifically are an upcharge.
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Looks like the pricing is kind of dependent on the day. I saw like off peak is like $10. Peak is like 30. thirty I think it depends on the park as well. um I saw a lot of like frustration about this, which is understandable, especially for locals who are familiar with a certain way that things are operating.
Impact on Haunted Attractions Quality
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However, um i kind of feel like, sure, why not? At this point, um the houses tend to get swamped, especially when it's free um at the Cedar Fair parks. And maybe this will help them inject a little bit more money into those mazes because the I don't know, but we'll see because the Six Flags mazes have historically been not so great and they're up charges already.
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So I don't know. I'm kind of of two minds about it. I'm not wholly on the side of like, that's ridiculous that they should. They're doing that, especially given the price scheme that we're seeing on their season passes.
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Like if you can get to every single park in the chain with parking for $55, then charging an extra 10 to 30 for mazes doesn't seem insane to me.
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That's all. Yeah, as somebody who's used to like, I mean, I my closest event for like haunt season is obviously Horror Nights, which is three and a half hours away, but still it's my closest.
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um I don't know, maybe because of I'm used to having to pay for an event, you know, i'm I'm expecting the upcharge. I kind of don't see it as a big deal. Then again, I'm not a local, and you know, to some of these Six Flags parks. And I, you know, I wouldn't know. But i don't know, for me, it's like, like you said, maybe they'll put more money into the event, into the houses and the quality of them.
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So it could be a good thing. But I don't know, overall, as like a haunt, like, a separate event. I feel like that would kind of make sense to have an upcharge, especially considering how cheap those passes were, yeah you know, for next year. So I don't know for me, I don't see it as a big deal. Then again, I'm used to, I'm used to the, the upcharge when it comes to fonts.
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It does seem already that they are spending more money on IP. Yeah. in particular, because there are more IP mazes this season that I'm seeing across the chain, like saw is coming back and they have the um conjuring, right conjuring is like this yeah special upcharge experience
Pros and Cons of Upcharging for Mazes
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that they're doing. So there's it seems like there's a little bit more investment going on, but remains to be seen really.
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I had a lot of IPs when I went to Great Adventure last year and it was so trash. Like it was so trash. Like if they're going to keep the same quality, like Dorney's haunt is really well done. If they're going to keep that same quality of haunt at Dorney, which it looks like they are, because I think a lot of the houses were named in their press release.
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then i think it's appropriate to charge for it because the quality matches it. It's the same thing as HHM. Like the quality of that experience deserves a higher admission price. I think where it gets tricky for some of the smaller Cedar Fair or Six Flags parks is If you are a season pass holder and you're used to being able to do those events as part of you you you know the season pass that you paid for for this year, i think it's just a little bit shady to now have to pay extra.
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like Obviously, you could just choose to not do the mazes, maybe do them one or two nights, but that kind of like detracts from the whole point of going at this time of the year. So I just feel like for season pass holders, it's not...
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an ideal situation at some of the parks, unless the quality is like reflected in the price, which I think at my home park, Dorney, I think it probably will be, but I don't know
Regional Differences in Haunted Attractions
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about other places. I think this year we're still going to see those regional differences in investment between the different parks, mostly because I mean, the planning for this event has already happened. Like they're, they're going to be what they're going to be.
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I think next year is when we might see a little more cedar verification, if you will, at some of the parks. I'm sure there'll still be like yeah different levels of budget, but you would hope, especially like moving forward with like new mazes that they start to use like the, the better creative vendors, obviously that like did the Dorney stuff.
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My biggest issue is just the bait and switch where they're selling season passes, telling people that haunt is included Bunch of people renewed for next year, and now suddenly the mazes aren't included. That's extremely shady to me.
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I mean, I don't mind paying $10, $20 to get into some houses if the quality is there. But also, I haven't looked into all the parks, but I know Kings Dominion, they have the exact same houses as last year.
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And I doubt anything's going to change in them. They definitely... messed up the rollout because they should have just kept the six flags parks isn't up charge this year. And then at the beginning of next year, been like, Hey, this is changing for this season. FYI. Yeah. Like you can, have you are granted entry with your pass, but yeah, I don't know. The whole thing is.
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I feel like this is just the case with like every single thing that gets announced for the chain. It's like, oh, surprise, you paid for all these things that you're not going to get now. And like, we don't care. That's just kind of. Yeah.
Kelly's Apology and Bray Wyatt Discussion
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Tell the one about it. It's not the best look.
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Yeah. I think that's all we have to say on that. Kelly. Yeah. i have more of an apology than a spill. So um my apology is to all.
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The wwe WWE fans that I've been like trashing when I talk about, I guess I haven't been. I'm like, please tell us and educate us. I just like don't really know what's going on with WWE wwe and wasn't super excited for this house initially.
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But watched the Bray Wyatt documentary that exists and you all should and everyone listening that doesn't know what's going on with the Wyatt Six or Bray Wyatt should watch the documentary. It is so well done and I am a sucker for a story. So now after watching it,
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I have such a better understanding on how this can be a house. And I think it's going to be an excellent house. And I figured for you guys and for our non WWE w e fan listeners, I could give a really, really brief um description of what I think this house is going to be based on the documentary.
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So um Bray Wyatt, his actual name is Wyndham Rotunda. He grew up in a family of wrestlers.
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um His dad and his grandfather and I think an uncle were professional wrestlers. He was an athlete his whole life. um was trying to make it into the NFL, wasn't able to, and then kind of was picked up um by WWE. He started under a different, um like, and sorry, w WWE fans, if I'm getting this wrong, this is from memory from over a week ago. So I'm doing my best here. But he was initially, the name chosen for him was Husky Harris, I think.
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see now like the details are going, but anyways, he was kind of like thrown into this position that he didn't really love to play a character that like he wasn't super comfortable with because it was basically poking fun at his size and his weight.
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Um, but he always had this really creative mind and loved horror and came up with these like really cool original ideas for stories. And he kept pitching these different stories and eventually,
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he became this character that he made up um known as Bray Wyatt, where he and the Wyatt, the quote unquote Wyatt family, which was composed of him and two other professional wrestlers, not actually related to
Bray Wyatt's Influence and Character Development
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him.
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They were the Wyatt family. He was the leader of this like deep South Bayou, um like cult where he would kind of come out with this lantern and say, we're here and blow out the lantern. And that was like their entrance. And, um, they became really popular in like the late to 20 teens, I want to say. um,
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um just like a piece with the lantern, like because that was their entrance, people started like the wrestling fans in the arena started taking out their phones and using them as flashlights. So like he would look out and you would just see everybody's flashlights in the dark.
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And that's where the name fireflies came from. Cause he called his fans like the fireflies from, from all the lights and not like crowd. um But anyways, he wrestled under that name for a little while. and then,
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When um COVID hit, there was like ah a bunch of wrestlers that were fired um and he was one of them. And he spent the time like thinking of a new way to kind of come back and a new character. and I think I'm getting this timeline right, but he came back with this little like show called the Firefly Funhouse, which would air as like a pre-show to like the WWE wwe of the week or whatever.
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And he would come out and his appearance was like completely different from what he was as Bray, like that Bayou cult leader. He was now wearing like a sweater and he was like well-groomed and um kind of looked like Mr. Rogers-esque.
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Like that was the vibe of the little show. It was kind of like a a fake children's show. But basically he would do this little Firefly Funhouse show and he had these little puppet characters in there, um like a pig and a rabbit. and um this doll and um those characters would later become the same characters that the that are in the Wyatt Six, but um you didn't know that at the time, but he was he would do this little show and then as the show went on, it became clear it was to reveal like this new personality that he had called the Fiend.
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So he was like supposed to be Bray Wyatt and the Fiend like was his split personality. and if you've ever seen like that really creepy like smiling mask face that's on some of the HHN merch that was the fiend so he wrestled under that character for a while and that became like insanely popular and then he had come up with the idea to introduce these Wyatt Six characters which were the characters from the Firefly Funhouse but they were like horrific versions of them so like Ramblin' Rabbit, Husk is the Pig um something like a
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buzzard. I don't remember them all. And then like Abigail, the witch, and they were just, they are all parts of like his journey into wrestling that he like created into horror characters. um But unfortunately he in 2023 passed away and from like complications. He had some sort of what sounds like to me, cardiomyopathy from COVID. um He had like long COVID and developed heart problems and unfortunately passed away.
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before they were able really to like debut the Wyatt Six. his real life brother, who was also a wrestler, um he wrestled under the name Bo Dallas, became the leader of the Wyatt Six.
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he His name is Uncle Howdy in the Wyatt Six. And um now they wrestle, they come out, they enter like as a group. So it's him and his four puppet characters and there's no true sixth member because it's supposed to represent like his spirit. So that's why there's five of them.
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So that's just kind of like a brief overview of where came from, who they are. We know that Firefly Funhouse is going to be in the house. We know that there's like a lantern room or entrance or something.
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and we know that um Bray and the Fiend are going to be represented in the house as well. So all those characters we should see. And also when we talk about the food booths later, it looks like there's a Firefly Funhouse, like the The blue room with like the window, that's basically what that little pre-show looked like. If you watch it, there's videos on YouTube of it. But that's a little five minute, hopefully five minute rundown. And everyone should watch the documentary if you're going to HHM because I have such like a different appreciation now that I can connect it to the story.
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And I think it'll be cool. That was really impressive from memory.
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it's yeah's i think It's getting worse as time goes on because I watched it like the beginning of last week. so But there are also like some podcasts that are covering that are bringing like WWE w fans, like HHN podcasts that are bringing fans on the to describe it. So I'm sure our friends might be able to fill in the gaps a little bit better, but that's what I got from documentary.
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Our friends that you were trashing. Sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I think it's going to be great now. wasn't trashing. I just didn't know what we were talking about. That's all.
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Yeah. i didn't know we were trashing them. we were just saying clueless. wasn't trashing them. I was just trashing the idea. I think like that. Not giving it enough credit, I guess.
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Yeah. It's just like WWE is like a horror night's house. And you know that's okay. Like not every year, every theme is like my cup of tea. um But I'm glad that i learned a little bit more about it because i think I'm really going to like it now.
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Amazing.
Kennywood Trip Highlights
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So some of y'all have been busy. i have not been to any parks because I went to my niece's first birthday party instead. So that happened for me.
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But some of y'all were out at the parks. So Tyler, fill us in. Yes, I was in ah Pittsburgh this past weekend, did a day at Kennywood. um it was a Saturday, so was pretty busy.
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Although I feel like those lines, they look really busy, but they're not quite as bad as they look. We got on everything except for Skyrocket.
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um It was kind of up and down all day. And then by the end of the day, we just really didn't want to wait in another, you know, potentially 45 minute to an hour line. Yes, a steel curtain. That that is a ride.
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It was open, at least. That's the best thing I can say about it. Was it your first time? No, i had ridden it before. um it's just It's so forgettable. It might as well have been the first time I rode it.
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but yeah It was my first time. I was also there, and I didn't like it.
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but i didn't like I thought you were just like neutral towards it. Yeah, I'm neutral towards it. I just like I'm i'm not like an inversion person for like no purpose. And I feel like when rides like that are just trying to like shove as many inversions into their layout as possible without like much else happening. It's just like not going to be my kind of ride, which it wasn't.
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And it wasn't like not smooth, but it wasn't like. I don't know how to explain it. It just like felt clunky. It has very strange vibration frequency. It's unusual. it's like clunky. Right. It feels like the trains are too heavy.
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And the layout is like, it's just not dynamic enough force-wise. You're just kind of like going through inversions and then there's like one sort of airtime hill. Yeah, it was a little float.
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um otherwise exterminator i needed that cred got on that that was surprisingly fun i it's really good um definitely rope drop it that line gets yeah crazy um jack rabbit still crazy as always on that double down phantom's revenge still in my top 25 we got two rides on it the first one was good second one was really good um was absolutely flying Yeah, that's about all I have to say about Kennywood. It's a fun amusement park. It's never going to blow you away, I feel like, but it's definitely worth a visit every couple of years if you're on the way to Cedar Point.
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I think it has a charm to it. It's nice. Yeah, it does. you may have other thoughts, Kelly? A couple of good flats. We rode a spooky ride that, what was it called?
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Ghost, I don't know. Ghostly Manor or something like that. Yeah, getting I don't know. But we got there and it said that it was going closed all day and I was very bummed. I didn't know what it was. We went in the like pre-show room and I started to get a little panicky that it was Madhouse because it felt like it was going to be.
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didn't know what it was. I was thinking about a conversation about how everything is a Madhouse. Yeah. yeah but all ri So I started to get like sweaty and immediately went on Wikipedia to look at what it was.
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I was like, I'm not doing it if it's Madhouse. But... It was a shooter and it was fine. yeah i thought It was really good. It's a good shooter. It was better than boob Blasters or something like that. Yeah.
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Like it doesn't have the two dimensional sets that it was actually like, you know. Right. Yeah. Actual props. I got the two friends I needed that was it.
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That's all I cared about really. And I was with my non-Thusie friends, so it's good to hear another perspective on somebody who likes roller coasters but isn't as into them as we are.
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but arc Was it their first time there? Yeah, it was his first time there. He liked it. um He said nothing really blew him away, including Phantom's Revenge. you know He's got, like I don't know, maybe 100 creds or something.
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i said I think he said he wouldn't even put it in his top 25, which was surprising to me.
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He did ask us in queue for something, the definition of a cred. So I think he is borderline Thuzi. Yeah. We were just like, uh.
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He's interested in that. He was trying to argue for a log flume being a cred. Oh, geez. Yeah. When Shay started getting into it, I kept telling her.
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ah She kept asking, like, can I count this water ride? I'm like, no, you can't count that. She's like, can I count this? I'm like, no, you can't. She's like, then what can I count? i'm like, a coaster. Like, that's it. Coasters only.
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Okay, the best part of my entire day. Are you ready? Paige's cream. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That place is really good. didn't get to do that before. yeah because I didn't go last year because I was ill. so Yeah, that place is great.
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So good. So, so good. Really good. I got like a, also get a small. If you go there, you don't need any than small. Yeah. True. Small is plenty. I'm so glad you ordered first. Cause I was like really feeling a medium and then I saw yours and I was like, oh no. Yeah. The Sunday I got was insane. I was like, what?
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Yeah. It was so good.
Cedar Point New Attractions
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Yeah. So then off to Cedar point. Yeah. I went to Cedar point Kelly. Yeah. Went the other way back home, unfortunately. She is a normal human being that works normal hours.
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But anyways, I kept going Cedar Point. um Got there Sunday night and did like five hours, then had all day Monday, and then went in for early entry on Tuesday.
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So it was very busy on Monday, actually. Monday, I feel like, was busier than Sunday somehow. Not sure what the deal is with that, but got on Sirens for the first time, which Sirens Curse is awesome.
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I love the onboard audio. I love the smoothness. Nuva Koma is incredible, especially at night, the lighting package and then the little tunnel where it has the fog and then the green tint to it.
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Super cool vibes. Something that I'd love to see Six Flags Parks do more. Just a little bit of effort with theming goes so far in a coaster for me.
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And then I did get on Top Thrill 2. The first time I waited over two hours through three breakdowns. And that the first thing we did. i was like, oh my God, my bad luck is continuing. How could Zamperla do this?
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But finally got on it and it was fine. I don't know. Maybe I just love the original so much, but it just it really didn't do a ton for me.
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Back spike is fun. It's not super forceful. feel like the angle you go up is so gradual. It really doesn't give you much. Obviously, you have you know the weightless feeling at the top, but when you're coming down at 80 miles an hour, 120 doesn't even feel that much faster. don't know.
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I miss the original.
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uh magnum is still extremely mid um steel vengeance was actually hitting really good steel vengeance was as good as it's ever been for me and i was a steel vengeance hater the last couple times i've been so i don't know what they did differently to it but it was great and people have been getting like such inconsistent reviews lately on that yeah yeah it's really people get the best ride ever and other people are like oh the trim hit and it was the worst yeah he did i
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They did have a special event going on, Boardwalk Nights. I really didn't get to see it when it was actually operating. It was like 7 to 10. We were trying to get night rides both nights.
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um But it looked like they had a little circus act and they had some specialty food over there. um Some sort of fireworks. We saw fireworks going off from Siren's Curse, unless that was just a random person on the beach. But it was both nights, so I feel like it was something with the event.
00:23:37
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But it seemed cool. Unfortunately, didn't get to check it out much. So, yeah, I think Cedar Point's still best amusement park in the world. It's not going to hold up to theme parks, in my opinion. But when it comes to amusement parks, you really just can't beat it.
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No matter what some people in buzz bars say.
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how are How are the operations? Because that's been their criticism. So... All right, so when people say operations, I'm always wondering, do they mean specific ride ops going slow, or do they mean not running the proper amount of trains, not having things open?
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It's like that on the whole, my opinion. Everything combined is what you consider. um they were Everybody was pretty fast as far as the individual ride ops.
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Raptor never opened. Siren's Curse was late um on Tuesday morning. Hop Thrill 2 was up and down, but that's kind of always. Maverick, up and down, always. But I don't know.
00:24:43
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ah wouldn't say it's any better or worse than it ever has been. I mean, Cedar Point's always been... When you're at the cutting edge of rides, you know you're going to have more downtime on things.
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And I feel like nothing has changed in that regard. Cool. Kelly?
Maury's Pier Family Visit
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I went to Maury's recently, not for Coasting by the Ocean. That's coming up probably this weekend when people are listening.
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um We went to Wildwood for a little family vacation weekend. um And it was the kids first time there that they were really big enough to ride things at the pier, which was super fun. I think both of them had the visa spinner as their like only cred at Maurice. Cause the last time we were there was like three years ago. And of course my giant children were big enough at the age of one in three to ride a visa spinner.
00:25:40
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Um, but we wrote everything else that they could ride Um, Which for Benny was the runaway tram, the mouse and the other little like, I don't know if it's a miler or whatever.
00:25:58
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It is one of those things. And he loved everything. he especially loved the little runaway tram ride. His arms were up. He was so cute. And then he, we all did flume, which Ben has been like anti log flume for a little while.
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So I was afraid he wasn't going to do it, but we got him to do it because we will let him watch it. And he said he thought he was going to be fine. And he loved it so much that we went back and did it the second day. um And then in addition to that, Amelia rode Great White, which she loved. She wanted to, she rode it like three times. um She was tall enough for the boomerang, but she did not want to do it. I said, this one's actually not that bad. She's like, it looks terrible. I'm not doing it. So she already knows.
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um And what else? I think that's it. I think that's it for Maurice. Maurice is always fun. Like I just love a boardwalk vibe. So it's expensive. That's really my only criticism. We did like a very giant ticket book. The tickets never expire. So we still have some left, but it's a nice two and a half hour drive away. I'm sure we'll be back.
00:27:11
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Does that feel better about airtime? I don't know. he still says like, I don't like airtime, but like he actually acts like he likes it when it's happening. So I think he's just confused.
00:27:22
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He's unsure about it. He's like, I don't know if I like this, but I kind of like it. Yeah. Yeah. At least he likes log flumes. Does like log flumes. And he didn't puke out the log flume. He did not puke out. And you know what else we did? Actually, I just thought of this. We did like the first time the kids have done like a swinging pirate ship because they have like variable height requirements. Well, they were allowed on and we sat all the way in the back.
00:27:45
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like where you get the highest swing and I was concerned for myself honestly because it's been years since I did that I did like a kid version of it once and I thought I was gonna die like I was so nauseous but this was fine I really liked it and talk about airtime you get like such like floaty airtime on those and the kids like really liked it we did it twice so he he must like airtime he just doesn't know
00:28:08
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kind of fun to like actually like with the kids I feel like you have such an incentive to actually get on some flat rides and then like realize that oh like these are actually kind of good yeah yeah especially when like they're limited in what they can ride still with their heights um I think Amelia's like 50 ish inches and Benny's like 47 so he's really close to being able to ride the but but can't quite yet and it's probably for for the best to be honest but but
Universal Ride Rumors
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yeah it's really fun like seeing their reaction to like rides that I don't typically ride anymore ah huh yeah sometimes we get so cred focused that like we just ignore fun rides that are there yeah
00:28:52
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Cool. yeah um So our last trip report is kind of a segue because um Rafa has been to Universal and has been checking out all of the construction that's been going on for HHN.
00:29:06
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Yes, um which was, I mean, it was exciting, but it kind of sucked how everything started to show up after i was there. Like literally just a couple days later, we saw ah so much more added. Like I didn't see any of the food stands there.
00:29:20
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um But whatever, when I got there, well, first first off, I noticed the construction, well, the dirt for um Rip Ride Rocket. ah That was there, um which now, i mean, i don't know if you guys have been hearing, um it's it seems like the rumor kind of going away from ah ghostbusters looks like they're going back to the fast and furious route which i don't i don't think that'll be the case i don't know i've been seeing the same thing yeah like i i don't i can't imagine them having two fast and furious attractions like i understand like we do have two minion attractions but they're two totally different experiences
00:30:01
Speaker
Yeah, but I could see like one of the lowest. I mean, it's not just like the Foozie community that complains about the Fast the Furious ride. It's generally like, you know, has the lowest queues, like is yeah one of the least regarded rides by the public in general. So I wouldn't be surprised if they like chose to just sort of relocate an IP. Yeah.
00:30:23
Speaker
And then that kind of opens up the Fast and the Furious building for all kinds of IP potential opportunities. Like they could use the same ride system with different IP or they could do a different kind of dark ride there. Who knows?
00:30:36
Speaker
Yeah, I was watching the um the Alicia Stella. That's her name, right? Alicia Stella. um I was watching her video about the, you know, the construction and the updates and I guess that the rumors that are going around is that um it might be back to the future. Like the the replacement, if there is a replacement for the you know the the Fast and Furious ride that we still have there.
00:30:59
Speaker
um That seems to be the rumor going around for that replacement. um And then Supercharged would be for the Hollywood or Bright Rocket location. So that seems to be the rumor. I don't know. It's still super early on, but...
00:31:14
Speaker
it's It's still exciting. I mean, i'm kind of bummed if it's not Ghostbusters. I feel like that would have been really fun. um But I'll take it if we're going to get rid of the other...
00:31:25
Speaker
past and furious ride for something better you know that's a lot of wasted potential there considering how much space that ride you know occupies yeah but um yeah so i did see that construction going on um and going into the park i did see that a lot of the entrances to the scare zones have like these little arches that
HHN Scare Zones and Entry Process
00:31:49
Speaker
they're starting to build up. i am sure they're more built now, but I started seeing, you know, I saw that some of the, the arches were starting to be set up in front of each one.
00:31:58
Speaker
And what I got really excited about was how I feel like the normally in horror nights, you see that big like entry where you see Halloween horror nights with the red lights.
00:32:10
Speaker
And after that, you kind of walk a bit to start seeing some actors or see some theming going on. um This year, it looks like it's from that point on, like from that sign onward from there. So it looks like they're expanding um when it comes to that ah rid that first scare zone.
00:32:29
Speaker
um So that's pretty exciting. um Of course, there was a lot going on in the Cat Lady Scare Zone, which I i think we're all very excited about that one.
00:32:41
Speaker
um It's very traditional Halloween. And um what else did I notice? For Mel's die-in, I did notice that they were starting to like empty out a lot of the area up front.
00:32:55
Speaker
So like a lot of the cars that they have parked up front, it it doesn't seem like there were as many cars parked up front anymore. I don't know if they're going to do something, you know, in front of the restaurant.
00:33:06
Speaker
um But what else did I notice? There were some stages set up for the Masquerade scare zone over in the Hollywood section, which I didn't see much of it. It was just sets that were set up like mini stages throughout that that street.
00:33:25
Speaker
And that was about it for when I was there as far as like HHN updates and like construction, because I noticed that the week later there were props set up for the mutations scare zone, which there was nothing there while we were there.
00:33:43
Speaker
um So there was that and what else was added? And a lot of the food stands were added the week after. So I noticed that, but it was a very quick, Visit to Universal. We were only there for like three hours. It was a very quick trip before driving back home to Miami.
00:33:59
Speaker
um But yeah, but it's moving. There's a lot going on there, um especially once like after I left, there was a lot being added to the park. Yeah, I mean, it's only, but are we at now?
00:34:12
Speaker
Like two weeks away, essentially. Yeah, little over two weeks. So they don't have a lot of time left. But you definitely see that like in the urgency of of things that are happening. And obviously, they stage a lot of stuff and make it happen outside of the park. And they just kind of bring it in, which we saw happen with mutations. Like they had it staged out by the new tents in the back. And then they brought them in.
00:34:32
Speaker
Um, yeah, it's getting closer to complete for sure. And it was like exciting to finally see some stuff going into the mutations one. Cause it's just been nothing so far. Yeah. Yeah. With that area, like I wasn't really expecting to see too much, uh, because it's such a wide like area. So I wasn't expecting to see much until we got closer, but there is a whole lot going on in the cat lady zone.
00:34:54
Speaker
Um, and over in masquerade, a lot of the stages that are there, you know, so a lot, a lot of things are moving.
00:35:03
Speaker
Very exciting. Yeah. We're close. We're just a few weeks. Our next big update is um a rumored change that was finally confirmed by Universal. So the stay in Scream experience from the past is no more. um And they're not even really calling it that anymore.
00:35:23
Speaker
um So you used to be able to enter the park early if you had a Scream early ticket or you just had general admission to the park for that day. um used to be able to access the stay in Scream zones, which were specifically like cordoned off areas of the park.
00:35:38
Speaker
with your a ticket, you could access those areas early. And then the specific houses that were adjacent to those state and scream areas, you could access earlier than the six 30 open um for the event, but you were kind of like stuck in that zone. Once you went in one of the zones, you that's it. You couldn't leave it. It's like you were there until um like the six 30 official event start.
00:36:01
Speaker
So this year it's being changed where they were going to have three different check-in stations throughout the park. And at 3 p.m., you'll be able to start getting wristbands. um And that wristband allows you to move anywhere in the park that you would like. There's no specific area you have to stay in.
00:36:21
Speaker
um Presumably security is just going to be asking you to like flash your your wristband as they're clearing the park um of the regular day guests. And then starting at 4 p.m., it says you can enter select haunted house queues with a wristband.
00:36:38
Speaker
Um, traditionally I think it's five 15 Kelly is the earliest that a maze would open. Yeah. That's what it's been in the past couple of years. so Like around. Yeah. So I think the queue experience is not going to be terribly different except we might not have to queue like out in the streets. It sounds like at four, they'll just open the actual queue of the house and then you'll like actually be able to go back, um, back out where the queues are.
00:37:03
Speaker
yeah. But yeah, so I'm curious, like, what do you think this is going to impact our experience that much? I don't know that it will just because it's likely that the mazes that they or the houses that they're going to open like earlier at 515 and 530 are still going to be in the same area, like the same New York area that we traditionally do stay and scream at.
00:37:23
Speaker
um I'm just interested to see how they handle the crowds because, these HHN guests, they're not going to wait around until four to get into a line. They're going to start their own queue as soon as they get their wristband at three Oh one, there might even be a queue to get the wristband at two o'clock so you can get your wristband and then be first to this makeshift queue. So I can see if universal is not prepared for it, like three 30, a big line, ah basically a pre line clogging up the main pathways of the park. So,
00:37:59
Speaker
I don't know. i hope they have a plan in place for that and they're anticipating that. ah yeah I'm definitely concerned about that. And I, there's only so much you can do with crowd management. Like once a certain number of yeah people start doing something, it's really hard to get them to stop.
00:38:14
Speaker
Like they can discourage people from pre-queuing, but I don't know how effective they'll be at that. I'm really, really curious. And then I kind of hope that they are effective because I don't, I don't want to stand for two hours, you know, like pre-queuing for something.
00:38:31
Speaker
Yeah, I do. um I feel like they should, I mean, I don't know. I feel like wouldn't it be like a better process if they were to give out those wristbands like throughout the whole day?
00:38:42
Speaker
Like if there were like just one spot that you were able to pick up and claim those wristbands, like if because you're going to have a lot of stay in screen people there. So you might as well just give it to them earlier on. Let them put on their wristband. They'll have it on the whole day.
00:38:54
Speaker
um And that's about it. Like as opposed to having everybody hoard up at, you know, whatever time it starts. I don't know. I just feel like maybe it will. you know, calm it down a little bit.
00:39:07
Speaker
Yeah. That's how Hollywood did it. You enter the park with your regular day ticket and then there's a little booth to the side all day long. You can get your HHN wristband as well.
00:39:19
Speaker
Yeah. That's just like their way of piloting that kind of process. I think I'm really curious. I think no matter where you say, people can be, there are going to be crazy people like me that get in line as
HHN Entry Process Guest Experience
00:39:35
Speaker
early as possible. I don't want to, I want to like be able to walk around and enjoy it and then get in the line, you know, a half hour before we're allowed to get into the house and it not, not be, you know, so far back that it wrecks day and scream. Cause obviously the point is to try to get through three or four houses before like the masses of people come in.
00:39:54
Speaker
it's like, how do you balance being able to enjoy the atmosphere and the event without being in a line as, you know, as long as possible. And you just don't know how it's going to go when it's a new process.
00:40:06
Speaker
So it's like, I don't know, you know, you tell people that you can get your wristband at three, there's going to be a line for that. You tell people they can queue up at four, there's going to line for that. Even if they try to avoid it which I'm sure they'll try because they are pretty good. They have a lot of people out usually kind of like directing traffic.
00:40:26
Speaker
at that time. So hopefully they have a plan for it. I don't think that they're going to just be like, you can get in line at four and then it's a free for all. Hopefully there's a little bit of thought behind why they're doing it this way. So we'll see. wonder if we'll see them like spread out the earlier opening houses. Cause it seems to me like they were always in that one corner.
00:40:47
Speaker
And, but now because it's just a free for all, like the park is open wherever, I wonder if they'll try to like do one over here and like one in the back and one over there. So that way it like spreads the crowd. would hope that since they're having multiple locations to get your wristband, that that's what they're going to do. But I mean, they have had multiple locations for stay and scream before. and like,
00:41:07
Speaker
The most populated one is the one I'm always in because it just makes sense with what houses open earliest to do that one over the past couple of years. i I'm just a little nervous because typically I go to HHN in October and I've never gone this early, as early as we're going. So i'm like, I hope there's enough data for us to decide like what is best to do. you know But it's only going to be that initial weekend and who knows how it's going to go. yeah.
00:41:31
Speaker
Yeah. We'll be able to see what what happens, but I hope it's clear which houses are opening early. i hope it's clear how the 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. stuff works.
00:41:41
Speaker
Like, it'll be fun regardless, and we'll figure it out. I just like to have my plan in place. It makes me feel better to have a plan. So hopefully i can make one quickly.
00:41:56
Speaker
I'm sure you'll come up with something. Mm-hmm. I think there'll be enough data, enough days. At the very least, we should know the time the the house is open. Yes, and I hope so. And by Friday, when we're all together, we'll have a good feel.
00:42:12
Speaker
I'll have a good feel by then. Yes.
00:42:17
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like as a daytime guest or just as like a regular guest, this is a great process because you don't have to worry about being in a huge crowd. um But from a security standpoint, i I don't see this being the smoothest process, but as a guest, I love it because, you know, you don't you're not restrict this restricted to just being in that one specific area.
00:42:41
Speaker
you know, no matter which stay in scream area you were waiting before, you know, you're always like in there with a bunch of people. So got a little more freedom. I'm just excited to not have to sit on the pavement and a cattle pen with whatever snack and ghoul juice I get.
00:42:54
Speaker
Like, well, nobody ever forced you to do that. I know that's true. Who's to say you're not going to be doing that outside of a few. 100% will. 100% I will.
00:43:08
Speaker
My preferred stand screen was always Simpsons. And I would just sit at the bar, have a pretzel and a drink. And I was chilling. But this is the difference between you and I. Yes. rosen fine I hang out a fit again the whole time.
00:43:22
Speaker
um stressed out even thinking about that as an option. Who knows? Maybe they'll put one of the early closes back there. Who knows? Yeah.
00:43:35
Speaker
But I do see it logistically for the park ah probably being easier because setting up those zones with all the stanchions everywhere and like the crowd control that they had to do for it was kind of messy. It wasn't super clean like.
00:43:48
Speaker
how do they have to do it and then like i remember when we were like pre-queuing they had to cordon off and like not let the public walk in a certain section and then like let guests through like a fake crosswalk and then it was it was weird so i'm sure that they're seeing some benefit there in terms of just less staff needed to make all of that happen yeah i remember last year you guys were like um Like the, we're about to talk about this, but the food booths that are out there, traditionally the ones that were in the stay-in scream zones were available for food and drink.
00:44:22
Speaker
So I'm curious, like, are you going to have to show a wristband to be like, i I'm getting HHN food or is it just going to be like anybody can get it? They might not have that food available until the event like officially opens.
00:44:35
Speaker
And that would be unfortunate. That would be very unfortunate. but feel I have to have school juice immediately. Yeah. It does say grab a bite, like instead of being in a designated area, but I don't know if that's going to be the ah specialty stands. I would assume so, but we'll see. Yeah, I don't know. you'll probably just have to show your wristband, I think.
00:44:55
Speaker
Yeah, something like that. yeah Or they're just going to be open because they'll sell stuff. Or they might just have those areas closed off. like this Like where the stands are, they tend to have like specific areas. They could just have it closed off and have somebody checking wristbands.
00:45:07
Speaker
Could be that too, like a little food court. Yeah. yeah yeah Well, speaking of those food booths, um we've seen some setup on those now. So Kelly or Rafa, do you want to break down what we've seen out there?
00:45:20
Speaker
Sure, I can do it. um We have seen um the Firefly Funhouse booth, um which will be for the Wyatt Six. At first, it was just like that blue little like building and then they added the the title over top of it, the Fire 5 Fun House, and then has all the little characters on it.
00:45:41
Speaker
We have a gray booth with Vault 33 on the side of it, which is clearly for Fallout. We have a Clown Cafe for Terrifier. We also have like a clown face with like an open mouth.
00:45:56
Speaker
So it's unclear if that's also for Terrifier, but it is right next to the Clown Cafe one. So I'm assuming it's maybe both of them are for Terrifier. Um, there's like a wooden cabin type one that is, I'm thinking for Jason because it's kind of like camp esque.
00:46:11
Speaker
And then we have like a castle looking thing with stained glass, which I'm thinking is maybe for LRT stuff. Um, unclear. and don't know. Um, I think that's, I did say that that was kind of the thing that ties it all together. So I could see them doing a food booth. Yeah. or just like a general.
00:46:26
Speaker
Yeah. Just a general. Yeah. I think that's all the ones that we've seen so far.
HHN Scare Zones New Features
00:46:30
Speaker
Obviously I'm sure there will be others. added. Yeah, we are still waiting for the official drop of the food and drink.
00:46:38
Speaker
Yeah. I'm sure it'll happen tomorrow after we record this. It'll be ready for the next episode. Yeah. Any other HHN updates?
00:46:50
Speaker
um There is an article that came out. I'm just going to skim it and there's some good updates about like some of the stuff. Laura Souls, I guess, did the interview for SFX
00:47:04
Speaker
A lot has changed this year. You're going to feel it in the scare zones all around the park. It's more immersive. Our houses have upped their game and technology. You're going to feel Halloween everywhere you go.
00:47:15
Speaker
talking about the street experiences. Zombie car hops at a diner too will be on roller skates. So I guess that's referring to two of the scare actors will be on roller skates.
00:47:27
Speaker
A whole two. um enhanced fog, scenic and lighting effects, roaming chainsaw hordes, characters where people may not expect them, and a party zone called Club Horror with a DJ and dancers in full makeup, trying to ramp up the scare zones. In addition to five original houses, they talk about the IPs.
00:47:46
Speaker
The Friday the 13th house is one of the most intense Jason houses we've ever had. created by the team of Insidious from last year, Relentless Gauntlet of Jason's, the walk through his iconic mask.
00:47:59
Speaker
Spoilers, I guess. Five Nights at Freddy's. We're working with Jim Henson Creature Shop on all of our puppets. You're going to go into the pizzeria and see Freddy, Chica, and Bonnie all on the stage, which is super cool. These are all quotes.
00:48:11
Speaker
And fans are also going to be eat at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria for Real with plans to transform an established restaurant for the duration of the event. Fallout promises to contain similar touch points. You're going into the vaults, but we're entering at the moment the raiders are attacking during the wedding, right in the middle of the attack.
00:48:29
Speaker
If guests think they're staying underground, the house is set to surprise them. We're following Lucy's story. Exit into the wasteland. It's big scale. You'll see buses stacked. Philly, Gulper, T60, Radroaches, going to SuperDuperMart, going everywhere.
00:48:44
Speaker
Apparently there's a teaser for the second season in the house, in the Fallout house, because that's coming out in like December, I think. um Terrifier is the result of a great collaboration with creator and owner Damien Leone.
00:48:58
Speaker
Closest they've ever worked with a franchise creator ever. It's grotesque, bloodiest house we've ever done. They recommend wearing a poncho. And the final scene, which they call Art Symphony of Gore, you can choose the wet or dry path.
00:49:10
Speaker
Both are horrific, but if you go down that wet path, the wet path, you will get wet. And it's not typical HHN wet. You will walk out of there soaked, it says. Apparently, they said you will see that kill mimicking the famous upside down hacksaw moment from the first film.
00:49:24
Speaker
You'll see him as what we call lady art. You'll go into the bathroom. There are all kinds of smells. Oh, no. Not lady art. The bib. Yeah. It's pretty gory. Goriest house we've ever done.
00:49:37
Speaker
and the stink permeates the whole soundstage. Art the clown will be stalking you everywhere you go into the park. He could appear in queues, stores, restaurants, or down dark alleys that no one wants to go down.
00:49:49
Speaker
oh Okay. Interesting. That looks like it's about it. Some extra details. I'm glad that they acknowledged everybody's negative feedback about last year's scare zones yeah and trying to make something out of the streets. Fine. like you don't want to make more you know You don't want to add more scare zones. That's cool. But at least add some experiences. And they're they're they're trying to do that, especially if they're going to have art the Clown walking around in random areas. And if you have the club horror area, you have people you know have areas for people to go and hang out.
00:50:21
Speaker
Same with the Mel's Die-In. So I'm excited about that. Yeah. This just triggered a memory for me because they were saying about like unexpected places and stuff. I remember seeing something somewhere that the, the Mel's characters would actually be roving, like not in one place necessarily.
00:50:40
Speaker
Am I crazy? Anybody else see that? don't know. No. likes Okay. Maybe I am. i mean, you might be right. I, I, I don't think so. I mean, know I saw some kind of like roving around the restaurant basically. Yeah.
00:50:52
Speaker
Yeah, no, and maybe it wasn't about Mel's, but I swear I saw something about this year's event having some like roaming group of scare actors that are just going to be moving about the park. And maybe that was about the, um, the terrifier thing with art.
00:51:06
Speaker
Well, Kelly did just mention the, the chainsaw. They are going to have the chainsaw people roaming. Oh, maybe that's what it is. Cause usually they're at the front. Yeah. Spread them out a little. spread them out a little Maybe they'll move them around. Yeah, that could be fun. Yeah, that would be good. I'm excited.
00:51:21
Speaker
We're getting close. Me too. We're so close. So close. And speaking of, it's time for our hype lists. Yeah, we were planning to do this in our last episode before HHN begins in a couple of weeks, but um we changed it up. We're going to do it today because we didn't have some of the other episodes.
00:51:40
Speaker
info like food and beverage wise that we were going to talk about today. So stay tuned for that next time. Hopefully i would assume we will have that for our next episode to discuss, but it's hypeless time. And also if you um haven't seen, we do have a template for you guys to fill out for your own hype lists. And if you do that, we will reshare it on our social media.
00:52:04
Speaker
Yes. We will repost that for this episode. So if you want to share it and we should post all of ours as well. we shall um and should fill it out tomorrow. um Yeah. So let's start with the shows.
00:52:17
Speaker
um Kelly, you want to go first? Sure. So, um I guess for maybe this one, we should just do both of ours, like say what our one and two is, because it's obviously clear if you say what your two is. But my number two is the Lagoon show Haunt-a-Phoonic, and my number one is Nightmare Fuel.
00:52:38
Speaker
Rafa? Same exact. Tyler? Yep, same. You're the only one that disagrees, I think, Julie. I could have guessed that, though. I could have guessed that. You are into, like, sound and lighting, so...
00:52:50
Speaker
i Yeah, I do like that. Like lighting design, video design. But also the biggest thing for me is it's different. I've never seen it before. um And that's exciting to me. So even though like Nightmare Fuel is probably a better show, I'm like more hype for the Lagoon show because it's new. That's fair.
00:53:07
Speaker
That's the only reason. I mean, I will say when I first saw the Lagoon show, when they had it, whenever the last time was that they had it um for Horror Nights, I loved it. Like I was blown away by it. i was like, okay, that's pretty cool. But I guess, I guess since I kind of know what to expect now that I've seen it before, i mean, hopefully it's different.
00:53:23
Speaker
You know, it completely changes my my opinion on that. But, but yeah, no, I feel like overall, like since it's your first time, it is a lot more exciting. Yeah. And I just like the like spooky lighting, the vibes of that whole thing, I think will be cool. But we shall see.
00:53:39
Speaker
And I'm excited if they're using like music from the IPs and stuff. I think that'll be really fun. I started every year I make a Spotify playlist for HHN for myself to listen to leading up to it. And I did that. I started that the other day. So I think that'll be fun. But for me, like I am disappointed that Nightmare Fuel is a similar theme to last year. but I feel like I'm just, I'm just a dancing girly. Like I just, if there's dance in a show, like I'm just, I like it.
00:54:08
Speaker
That's all I care about. It'll definitely be more of a show. Yeah. Yeah. yeah All right. The next one is street experiences.
00:54:18
Speaker
Once again, there's only two and all of us agreed on this. Apparently what did, what did you put Tyler? Yeah, so I'm definitely more excited for Mel's than Club Horror.
00:54:30
Speaker
We all agree with that. I think that'll be an interesting experience, having them kind of roaming around the restaurant. And i'm hopefully I'm wrong, but I'm just envisioning Club Horror as sort of just a like a dance party in the street, which is fine, but it's just, it doesn't really get me excited for it.
00:54:50
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like this is just their take on like, some of the bars that you see at hollow scream over at sea world and, bush gardens, like they don't really have anything like that at HHN. So I think this is just going to be their take on that. So it's, there's only so much that they can do with that. just going to music. and And if it's any more than I will be pleasantly surprised.
00:55:10
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The characters could be really good. Who knows? um I was curious, just looking around social media, at different people's hype lists. And there are people who put the opposite of us. So we are not ah yeah if you're not necessarily in the majority.
00:55:24
Speaker
And like, yeah I don't know. I just, I picture it as being like, and I don't know. I i feel like it'll be hard for it to get me to stay in that area, which I think is the point of a street experience. Like, yeah, it might be fun to walk through and hear like some different music and like get a different vibe. But I don't think like, unless I've done everything else at the event that I'm gonna like hang out with the DJ, unless I have like a lot of ghoul juice.
00:55:51
Speaker
I was gonna say if you have three or four ghoul juices and your song comes on, then maybe. If Kelly says that she doesn't want to leave Club Horror yet, it's because she's had a lot to drink. She's having a real good summer. So we're not going to any other houses. We're staying there. Like my birthday, apparently I danced, but I don't recall it
00:56:16
Speaker
All right. Next up is Scare Zones. um I'm going to start with Rafa this time. What was your order? um so do we want to go i have should we go around for this one since there's more than two like everybody says they're four i think we just do each of our lists and then okay so each list yeah okay so i have at number four i have mutations three ah masquerade two origins of horror and one cat lady mm-hmm tyler
00:56:50
Speaker
So fourth, I went origins, three masquerade, two mutations, and one cat lady. I have masquerade fourth, origins third, mutations second, and cat lady first.
00:57:05
Speaker
And Kelly? I'm still twinning with Tyler so far. have origins fourth, masquerade third, mutations second, and cat lady first. Yes. That'll change. Don't worry. So I will say the reason why I have origins as high as number two is because of how, like what I was saying earlier, it's so drawn out and it looks like they're really using all of that space.
00:57:27
Speaker
So I think once I saw it in person, it it changed my view on it. Like at first I was like, I don't care about this. yeah Now I'm kind of like, you you know what? Like this might be a good one. Like they may be making like ah an actual like grand entrance to the event.
00:57:39
Speaker
Yeah. I get the only other person that didn't put it last. And that's kind of why I almost put it second actually, because I was excited for the potential maybe. Yeah. I get that perspective, especially since you've seen it, because think, yeah,
00:57:54
Speaker
for me, it's just like, I'm used to what it's been the past couple of years. And I know it's going to be more than that. Like we can see that there's more going on. It takes up more of the street and I think it will actually tie the event together. Like it seems like it's kind of bringing the theme of like the Gothic stained glass gargoyle, that whole thing is going to be everywhere, the vines. So I think it'll be like yeah good for the event in general. And I think it'll be a better scare zone than we're used to in that area. I just feel like I like the themes of the other ones a little bit better.
00:58:24
Speaker
Right. yeah Yeah. Yeah. That was my logic as well. The last few years, it's sort of just been, it sets the tone for HHN as far as spookiness, but it hasn't really tied much in. It's sort of just, it almost seems a little random if you aren't paying close attention to it. So I'm hoping this is a little bit more detailed and Rafa, you said it's going to be a little bit more spread out.
00:58:46
Speaker
So I am excited for it. I just, I don't know. I believe it when I see it, I guess. Right. And then most of us had masquerade like three or four kind of lower. What ah what do we think on that? Is it just, I don't think it's gonna be bad. I just am like maybe because of the sets that have been coming out and the way that the stages are sort of isolated looking. I'm not sure that it's going to be as immersive as the others. I don't know. Yeah, for me, it just doesn't. And ah it's a completely different theme. It's it's vampires and masks, you know, in masks dancing him around and you don't know who's a vampire. I just feel like it's not that,
00:59:21
Speaker
unlike um demon queens it's like they were in real fancy outfits up on stages i'm like oh it's like kind of the same vibe like i don't know it just doesn't the other two that i have one and two just seem like such more like unique thought out new themes that i haven't really seen in a while or new takes on similar themes and i like I really like what I've been seeing in the mutations. like I love the 20s era and I feel like they're really making it look like that.
00:59:52
Speaker
um The whole like toxic waste thing is like zombie-type apocalyptic stuff is not my favorite, but I do like... all of the theming that I've seen so far. And like, you can't beat classic Halloween with the cat lady. And I love for me, what excites me the most is they have those like little wooden walkways that are like paths within the scare zone that just seem like to be over and ah beyond like above and beyond what they've done in scare zones. I'm just excited to see what all of that is.
01:00:25
Speaker
Yeah, when you walk down that that scare zone, at the very end, you see that there's like a house there. So I'm excited to see what they have going on in front of that house. Because normally, like you you walk through that area and then you're done.
01:00:37
Speaker
By the time you reach the end of that pathway, like you're you're done. But now like you have like a whole setup there and we're going to get something that we would normally get over in the um the New York area.
01:00:47
Speaker
Because they always have like the stage set up over there. Like they had the Renaissance Fair. last year where they had a cold stage thing going on. It's nice that they're going to have that in an area that they didn't normally do that before.
01:01:01
Speaker
Yeah, that's my number one just based on the construction and the theme. There's a lot going on. So much Halloween. So much like knickknacks just spread around which I think will be really cool. Hopefully the lighting is really really cool too.
01:01:14
Speaker
I love that area usually. Yeah. And Rafa's just not feeling the 20s, I guess, because he put mutations last and the rest of us have it as two. So I did because i I think it's just the zombie vibe.
01:01:26
Speaker
It turns me off. I'm just like, what are we going to do with that? And I feel like we've seen zombies done in that area of the park so many times and it seems so scattered. Like to the point where sometimes it doesn't feel like there's even enough actors in that area just because of how big it is.
01:01:41
Speaker
So I feel like considering that it's a theme that I don't really care about so much. And then, you know, it's a location that i I'm not the biggest fan of. I think that's what kind of messed it up for me. But I'm still excited. and I'm sure it'll still be pretty energetic.
01:01:54
Speaker
have a feeling you might be right about it. I just don't want you to be right. Because I was actually less like got hyped about it a little bit as the props started coming out too because I wasn't. I don't know, like the the vibes of the cars and the the set pieces that have come out so far. i was like, okay, like maybe this is a little more layered than just the zombie thing.
01:02:13
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, the sets look great though. i mean, some of the props that they're bringing out look pretty cool. So, I mean. Yeah, and hopefully it's just like more robust. Like I love i liked, um what was it called? Torture Fair there last year. But I felt like it was like you had the people roaming around with the torture devices and then there were like a couple of platform stages.
01:02:32
Speaker
I feel like this has more intricate like set pieces are I don't know. i just feel like there's a little bit more going on. So hopefully that takes up some of that space since it's so open. Yeah. and And now we have that area kind of closed off because you have the construction walls up for Rip Ride Rocket. So who knows if, you know, they'll utilize that area.
01:02:53
Speaker
Cool. Yeah. I guess now we're doing the houses. How do we want to do this? I think we go by each number. Yeah, I think so. There's too many. Yeah.
01:03:05
Speaker
right well, I'll start this one. So my number 10 is Hatchet and Chains. So my number 10 Five Nights at Freddy's.
01:03:16
Speaker
My number 10 is Hatchet and Chains. My number 10 is Dolls.
01:03:23
Speaker
Interesting. We're not going to discuss until the end, right? We'll save our commentary until the end because I'm going to have a lot of thoughts. Number nine, Five Nights at Freddy's.
01:03:34
Speaker
And my number nine is Hatchet and Chains. Flip-flopped from you. Mine is Fallout. Mine is Five Nights at Freddy's. Number eight, ah Dolls.
01:03:47
Speaker
Mine is Grave of Flesh. Wyatt Sixth. Galkin? Is that how you say it? Sounds right to me. but Okay.
01:03:59
Speaker
We're getting there. Number seven. ah Jason Universe. My number seven is Fallout. El Artista.
01:04:11
Speaker
Wyatt Six. Number six. Grave of Flesh. Galkin.
01:04:19
Speaker
Five Nights. Terrifier. Oh, okay. We'll talk about this Okay. Number five, Wyatt Six.
01:04:33
Speaker
Jason Universe for me. Dolls. Hatchet and Chains. All right. Now we're in the top four territory, so exciting. ah Galkin for me, number four.
01:04:45
Speaker
My number four is Dolls. Mine's Grave of Flesh. Mine is Fallout. Number three. Mine is Fallout.
01:04:56
Speaker
Mine is El Artista. Jason Universe. Jason Universe. Same page. First time so far. ah My number two is El Artista.
01:05:09
Speaker
My number two is Now Wyatt Six. Shocker. My number two is Galkin. Mine is Grave of Flesh. And number one, Terrifier.
01:05:24
Speaker
Terrifier. Terrifier. El Artista. How did you do at least one different one? That's good. I appreciate it. I have so many thoughts. How do we even do this?
01:05:35
Speaker
Rafa first. Address the elephants in the room, Rafa. Tell us. Okay. So I feel, okay. El Artista, I feel like, um I don't know. It seems like such an interesting character that we have not seen in the event before.
01:05:50
Speaker
um And I'm a sucker for the originals, um even though my hype list has more IPs towards, you know, the top of the list. But I don't know. I just feel like this one and then seeing the stained glass props, um you know, in the scare zone, in the origins of horror area, which I'm sure is that's the soundstage that Artisa is supposed to be in. Right. The one right by minions.
01:06:14
Speaker
Yes. Okay, so yeah, so I don't know, like, seeing how that is, like, I'm just getting a really cool vibe when it comes to that. um So I don't know, I'm just, I'm excited for that one. And then, okay, I know that the the Shocker was Terrifier being at number six for me.
01:06:28
Speaker
um I feel, okay, I'm excited, but I think what's turning me off is all of the hype about the... the the wet and dry paths and then like the goriest house. Like when I hear all of these things, like I don't know how much to believe, like especially seeing how great Insidious was last year and it lived up to the hype. I'm just afraid that it's not going to live up to that same hype this year.
01:06:52
Speaker
So you're you're trying to temper your own expectations. Purposefully underhyping. I guess That's good. Very fair. Yeah. And then, okay. And then as for the other ones, like Grave of Flesh, I think when we were talking about it in the last episode, we were talking about how like it, we thought about the idea of like how you go into your grave, like something like that. And that was something that I was kind of like, you know what? Like we haven't seen anything like that before. Like that's a pretty cool like entry, you know, or facade when it comes to a haunted house. And I just have no idea where they would go with it after that. So I think,
01:07:26
Speaker
the mystery of that theming like has me very intrigued. And then what else?
01:07:34
Speaker
And I feel like everything else, I feel like everything is, I can move everything around right now. Like, cause I just, I can't make up my mind with a lot of these, but for sure. i think that five nights at Freddy's and dolls are my least anticipated.
01:07:49
Speaker
I think five nights at Freddy's, Which, by the way, I mean, take this with a grain of salt. um One of the workers that I was talking to over at Universal, they were saying that apparently rumor is that Five Nights is like one of the biggest houses that they've ever made. i don't know how true that is.
01:08:07
Speaker
You know, like I said, take it with a grain of salt. But that's interesting, um considering that I don't think there's much to that story to have the biggest house, you know, for the year.
01:08:18
Speaker
but That's interesting to know, but I don't know. The IP just doesn't do much for me. I don't know anything about it. I watched the movie. I wasn't interested. So I'm not really that excited. And then dolls, we've seen dolls before, like the haunted doll theme. And I don't know. It just seems a little bit repetitive.
01:08:34
Speaker
Yeah. which Oh, by the way, we didn't talk about it. So Five Nights at Freddy's, I think what the new what that experience that they were talking about is the arcade. Because did you guys hear about the tribute store?
01:08:47
Speaker
for this year for HHN and that it's not not going to be in the usual location. It's actually going to be in Sahara Outfitters. Is that what it's called? Yeah. Yeah. for the mummy.
01:08:58
Speaker
And they have the, the, that door that leads from the gift shop over to the arcade completely closed off. um Which I think is interesting because I mean, five nights at Freddy's is like a very, it's an arcade, you know, story basically or a setting.
01:09:13
Speaker
So I'm interested to see like what they're going to do with that area, especially with five nights at Freddy's being a theme this year. Hmm. Interesting. Yeah, I forgot to mention that earlier. But yeah, so that's that's why my my rankings are so far off compared to you guys.
01:09:30
Speaker
No, I don't think yours are so far off I think all of ours are pretty unique. like there were there aren't i think our end of season lists might be a little bit closer than our hype lists are.
01:09:41
Speaker
like yeah I don't know. I feel like there are some similarities, but they're all pretty different overall. Yeah. Yeah, like, Terrifier in the top is is, you know, pretty agreed on Hatchet and Chains being low it's kind of agreed on, it looks like. Yeah, I... Okay, when that was, like, rumored on the early spec maps, I was kind of excited because I just, like, really liked the whole idea of a Western theme.
01:10:10
Speaker
But the more we've learned about it, where it's, like, they're fighting these, like, red-hot lava demons, I'm like, I don't know if I, like, really... am into that whole like thing. I think it it can be really well done and maybe it'll be a sleeper and it'll be like a great, like when they took Yeti from the first Slaughter Cinema, like that house was so good. Like, I'm sure, I'm sure it will be well done. It's just like, don't know. It's not really like speaking to me as like,
01:10:38
Speaker
a thing that I am really like interested in or like, which my first night outfit is like literally themed to, to like catching in chains. But now I'm like, not that excited for the house. I know. More the Western side of it.
01:10:52
Speaker
I mean, cause that's the thing. Yeah. Yeah. yeah That's the reason it got lowered for me is that originally I was excited about the Western side and hearing more about it as it's like, well, now they're leaning into like this demon thing. Yeah. Like supernatural stuff. I don't want it to be one of those houses where it's like you go in expecting one thing and then it's not, it's like demon-y and scarier than it's supposed to be. Cause that's why like Yeti was so fun for me because it's, it's a exactly what you expect. Like it's, it's not a traditional Halloween environment, but it's still really fun. Yeah.
01:11:23
Speaker
I think it'll be interesting to see whether this house leans campy, like in slaughter cinema, everything was campy or if this doesn't as much, I don't know. I think it needs to be campy for it to be good for me.
01:11:36
Speaker
So we'll see. But yeah, I think all of us, all right. Uh, Rafi, you had it at number five, but the rest of us had that one pretty low passion and chains. What else? I feel like all of us had five nights in this, in the bottom half.
01:11:50
Speaker
That was a common theme. And I, for me, it's just like, I didn't love the movie. I think the vibes of like the Chuck E. Cheese-esque thing will be kind of cool to see, but it's just not going to be a house that like, I love. Like, I just know that. Yeah.
01:12:05
Speaker
Yeah.
01:12:08
Speaker
I think it's going to be a great one for those that are actually like into the video games. Yeah. Yeah. I think, let's see, I had dolls ranked a lot higher than the rest of you. I think for me, it's just like, I just picture everything being like us feeling small. And I really like that idea of it feeling like toy story, like where the toys.
01:12:31
Speaker
And then think for you guys, why the WWE will go up if you watch the documentary. Cause like I used to have it on my old, like my headless change every day, but like it was at like eight or nine for me
WWE Entrance and Jason Universe Discussion
01:12:43
Speaker
before. Like I just wasn't interested.
01:12:45
Speaker
I will say, be so thinking back to like before I even read about it, it probably would have been like number 10 or number nine all the way at the bottom. But having at least like gone to the Wikipedia page and like read about the backstory and then watched um like some video of um like their entrance to WWE w e with like the five of them and the lantern and the fog and all of that stuff. I was like, oh, I kind of get this now.
01:13:12
Speaker
So it like it actually went up like four or five for me just by doing that. So, yeah, the doc is probably a good idea. Yeah. Wyatt six and fallout are both subject to change for me because I still haven't done my homework on those.
01:13:27
Speaker
Yeah, Fallout's kind of all over the place with everybody. Yeah, I really loved the show when I watched it. I think, like, right after I watched it, I probably would have ranked it higher, but it's just kind of the same thing with coasters you haven't ridden for a while. It's like, it just starts to, like, trickle down.
01:13:39
Speaker
Like, I just looked when we were at Kennywood, and I have Phantom's Revenge at 45, which is kind of wild. I'm like... On my count. I think it's like the same feeling with Fallout. It's like I was really hype on it right after I watched it because I was like, oh, I could picture all these scenes. But now it's kind of just like in the mix, in the middle for me.
01:13:58
Speaker
I'm surprised that Tyler and Rafa had Jason Universe as high as they did. Is that just because of the IP or like potential scares? I think it's the IP. Cause I don't, I think it's more just me being very intrigued by the fact that we're getting many different Jason's where we're very used to getting like the camp, like Jason, like we like, I've never thought, i never thought that they would bring like the other versions of Jason into a haunted house. and I can't, I didn't see it being a thing.
01:14:29
Speaker
So I think that kind of like got my attention and, and this one, I will say that i the, like the info that we're getting is kind of hyping it up for me with this one. um Especially hearing that there's going to be like a lot of scares and all that in that house. it's going to a lot more intense than we expect. um So yeah, I don't know. I
Jason Movies and Haunted House Preferences
01:14:48
Speaker
think it's just that.
01:14:50
Speaker
um I think just because I, I'm very, very curious to see how they go about doing a Jason house in an intense way, as much as they're saying that it's going to be.
01:15:02
Speaker
Yeah, that's what it was for me. Just getting the additional info just brought it up a couple pegs. um I think they can do a lot with it. I do still need to watch maybe a couple more of those movies since there's like, what, nine of them or something? 12. There's 12.
01:15:19
Speaker
twelve This is why I just watched the Fear and Beer homework. So good. So good, right? perfect Perfect. I have to watch that yeah's a refresher. yeah I don't think I have time to watch other movies.
01:15:31
Speaker
Yeah. And there's so many of them. I feel like I want to watch another movie that Jason's actually in, but like, I just don't know which one to do. Like, I just want to watch like, you know, Now you look at the Rotten Tomatoes. yeah Yeah. The 2008, I think, or 2009 remake. That one's pretty good. I liked it. People hate on but I liked that But it's not just his mom.
01:15:51
Speaker
No, no. This one's Jason. Not the space one. That's what I hear. Don't watch the the space one. Yeah, that one's ridiculous. But watch the remake. The remake is is fun. I really enjoy it. I'm into that idea. Oh, and it seems from the video not the takes Manhattan one either. Yeah, yeah that one's pretty cut out.
01:16:12
Speaker
Jason takes Manhattan and he's not even in Manhattan. He's like on a freaking boat outside the city. ah I put it right in the middle and like the the movie did nothing for me. I just think like it's a classic that I just don't get yet. And really what elevated it for me is that the insidious people made it. Like that's really the only thing.
01:16:35
Speaker
That's fair. That's fair. noticed that. um Oh, I just lost it. Let me find it. Oh, El Artista. Like all of us had it in top three except Tyler. And I think that's just the is it the theme?
01:16:50
Speaker
Not as interesting. It's the theme. I actually had it last until I heard that it's the same um like designer as Blood Moon, which I absolutely loved.
01:17:01
Speaker
So I did bring it up, but i just I did not like Monstrous very much at all last year. And that's just the vibes it's giving me. So I'm hoping I'm pleasantly surprised by it, but the theme just it doesn't do much for
Haunted House Themes and Predictions
01:17:15
Speaker
me.
01:17:15
Speaker
Okay, this was really funny. A month ago when I was visiting Tyler, we made like our first version of the hype list and did this, like went 10 through one. And I was like so sure that we were going have similar lists. And he goes 10 LRT stun. It was my number one. I was like, what the hell?
01:17:32
Speaker
I honestly thought that was going to be all of our number ones going into this. I was like, you are wrong. You have to change it right now.
01:17:41
Speaker
It's close. It's number two for me, but yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very exciting, but we'll see. Cool. Trying to pick out anything else that's like different. I mean, like a lot of them we just put all over the place, like Grave of the Flesh is kind of all over the place. Yeah, that one went down for me because of I like as soon as I thought of the vibe of being like cla like claustrophobic and like.
01:18:05
Speaker
I don't know. I'm sure stuff won't touch us because the HHN doesn't do that stuff, but I just picture the inflatable walls and I can't do I can't do it. You don't want to be buried alive. no I don't like it at all. yeah like It could go any way. I really hope that it goes in the way of like the cat lady yes type vibe, but who knows?
01:18:24
Speaker
Kelly, I heard they actually have a ah secret madhouse. Imagine. You're halfway through the maze and then it's just a madhouse. I feel like I'm out. This is literally from my worst nightmare.
01:18:40
Speaker
hello So do we think that there is taking this into consideration what we've spoken about. do you guys have like a sleeper hit pick? Sleeper hit.
01:18:52
Speaker
I hope it's Galkin. I had the same thought. Yeah. That's why I have it as my number two. I think it will be in sleeper. Tiger has it at two. Yeah. I think Wyatt's six is going to be the sleeper hit.
01:19:05
Speaker
Ooh, I hope so. I'll be really excited. i Would we call that a sleeper, though? What was that? Is that a sleeper just for us? Because I feel like... on well big I agree with... I feel like people that don't know what's going on at all, like even if people don't watch the documentary or do research on what this is, i feel like it's kind of seeing it as an original house. And I think the characters are so good that it will be good. Like I think people will be impressed by it regardless.
01:19:32
Speaker
Yeah. um It's going to feel like an original house for a lot of us. Yeah, exactly. yeah I think my sleeper is five nights, honestly. I know we all put it fairly low and the theming is whatever. But, you know, the they said it's going to be the most complicated animatronic figure that we've ever done for HHN. Like, I'm very excited for that.
01:19:55
Speaker
I don't know if I'm excited enough to bring it up into my top half, but I think that could definitely be a sleeper for us. Yeah. And also, I mean, the general public is going to rank it a lot higher than we Oh, 100%. Yeah, they're going to love that. They're going to eat that up.
01:20:11
Speaker
Most of them will be going in for. There's going to be a whole lot of, like, excited 14-year-olds going in. And honestly, if that's a house that opens early, I feel like that's a good move to maybe get that one done early because I feel like that's going be one that holds, like, a really freaking long line like Insidious did all the entire events.
01:20:31
Speaker
And I feel like for me, that's one where I can walk into it with it still being daylight outside and it not really bother the experience for me. Whereas like some of them, like I don't like that vibe. Like I don't like going into a real scary house that i want to be scared in when it's light outside.
01:20:47
Speaker
You know? Like I'm, yeah. I do see that the, I mean, I i feel like the crowd... is gonna be i feel like it's gonna be more like there's gonna be more people over at terrifier i feel like tick tock is gonna blow up the whole wet and dry path and that's gonna get all of the teams running that way true i feel like it's still like a lot of people though are kind of like if on terrifier with the gore so i don't know yeah i don't know it's very 50 50 on that i feel like it's gonna be basically those two eating eating up most of the crowd
01:21:23
Speaker
So not to maybe Rafa close your ears on this cause you're trying not to overhype it, but and obviously this is what somebody would say who's on the inside, but i have somebody who, I know somebody who is cast in that obviously you can't talk about who they are, but, um, let me read some of the things they've said.
Expectations for Terrifier and Future IPs
01:21:42
Speaker
i know. Uh, my scare is going to be pretty iconic. The house is going to be gross. ah Just be prepared because I think this is going to be scarier than Insidious. We got scared just walking through it.
01:21:55
Speaker
Hell yeah. I'm still so excited for it though. I'm very excited, but I still keep it where I have it. I'm excited. about um Fun, fun, fun.
01:22:09
Speaker
All right. Well, there's our hype lists. We want to know yours. Yes, please find us on Instagram at thrills, chills and spills or on Twitter at T underscore C underscore.
01:22:21
Speaker
aspo We'll say that again later. And then we'll post ours so that way you can, if you would like to, while you're listening, you can reference those. as we're going through but yeah so that's all we have um for the hype list and hhn we're moving on to questions so from brayden what would be your top ip to see at hhn in the future i'm really not thinking about the future very much right now i'm just thinking about this season yeah
01:22:55
Speaker
It's also, you kind of have to think outside of the box for good IPs sometimes. Because Fallout is not horror necessarily, but I think it will make a good house. But we'll see. Yeah. Yeah. nice nice Definitely out of outside the box.
01:23:09
Speaker
I would love to see. Yeah, that is very. i think I would love to see, and I know this was rumored, i would love to see more musician-themed houses. Like, I love The Weeknd House. And when Lady Gaga was rumored, I was, like, so on board with that. So I would love to see something like that.
01:23:25
Speaker
I'll be very here for that. Also, I've talked about this before, I think on this podcast, but my very first favorite horror movie was The Ring. And I know it's not like a property that they probably have like access to or rights to, but I would love like a throwback like that.
01:23:40
Speaker
That'd be cool. Yeah, that'd be awesome. Yeah. i'm I mean, I'm a big movie guy. So I don't know I've seen you guys probably haven't seen Barbarian yet. Have you guys watched that? It's a very, very weird horror movie. And I don't want to say what it's about because it'll completely spoil the movie. Like the, if you watch the trailer, it's like the trailer is like maybe 10% of what the story is about. Like you, you have no idea you're getting yourself into, but it's, there's a lot of like, I don't know. It's just, it's hard to explain, but it's a very like creepy movie. I think it would make for a great house.
01:24:14
Speaker
um Also, I feel like a lot of like body horror movies are coming into the mainstream again. a Substance. The Substance. That would be pretty interesting.
01:24:25
Speaker
um Also, there's a new one called Together. I don't know if you guys have heard about it and with one of the Franco brothers. That one's pretty interesting. Another body horror kind of movie.
01:24:36
Speaker
So don't know. Something like that would be pretty fun to to see at HHN. Is that it? Is that all we got? Thanks, Brayden. Yeah. yeah other funnel I don't know why I had this thought. I was because of the fallout thing. I was trying to think of TV shows. I feel like movies are easy to go to. Yeah. um This this probably would not work, but I really like the TV show severance.
01:24:57
Speaker
And there are it's not horror per se, but there are creepy aspects to it that I think could kind of weirdly work. I don't know. Severance people, if you're out there, leave a comment about that somewhere.
01:25:08
Speaker
I need to try that that show again because I've watched a few episodes and I don't know if I just was not in the headspace to watch it. and takes a little bit to like hook you and then you're like, okay, now I'm in.
01:25:20
Speaker
i have to give it another shot because I hear a lot of good things about it. There's just like weird stuff. like You haven't gotten to the goats yet. and It's stuff like that that would kind of make it funny.
Practical Advice for HHN Attendees
01:25:31
Speaker
Anyway, okay, from... from Keith. Should I go to Halloween Horror Nights? Yes, yes, you should go. How is this even a question? Is August too early?
01:25:42
Speaker
to go? No. It's never too early. It's never too early too late. If it's open, you should go. They should extend to July, actually. Yes. Yes. I'm assuming this is a question for Kelly. Why did I just get a message about a flu shot?
01:25:56
Speaker
already gosh If somebody has flu shots already, that's wild. We don't usually get ours till September. It's because CBS wants your money. key I do recommend that you get a flu shot at some point during the flu season. The flu season, i would say, i mean, lately it's been a little bit later. Like we've been seeing a lot more flu go from like late fall to early spring.
01:26:23
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But I would say get your flu shot by October to be safe. I don't know. What do I know? What do I know? I'm just trying to get it done in advance, maybe. Okay.
01:26:35
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ah From Carl, referencing our earlier discussion, ah what's scarier, an actual haunt or paying an upcharge for a haunt?
01:26:45
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Jeez. I mean, an actual haunt if it's good. Yeah. Yeah. Upcharge for some haunts I've been to. Yeah. I mean, HHN is by default an upcharge, so.
01:26:56
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And worth it. Right. And it's the premier event. ah Okay, Tim. This is a good one. i like this. yeah As a first time h hn attendee this upcoming October, what are some things I need to know before going?
01:27:13
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I'm so ready for this. Be ready to walk is the main thing. Literally, that's what I was going to say first is you need to be comfortable. I always wear like boots and hate myself, but I'm going to continue to do it. um I would just make sure that you're wearing comfortable clothes and shoes.
01:27:33
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We're used to walking around theme parks for hours a day, but like there's a different level of pain that comes with HHN because you're doing a lot of like quick walking and then standing for a while and not moving very quickly through the queues. I feel like I always hurt more after HHM than I do like typical park days. So be prepared for that.
01:27:50
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And then also remember you're going to be combining it You're most likely going to combine it with a daytime park visit, yeah which is adding an additional eight hours to your walking, you know, for the day, your steps for the day. Ryan Velasco then and I'm chill.
01:28:10
Speaker
That's to be move this year for that weekend, I think. But what I was going to say otherwise is I think like have expectations of like what you want to accomplish. If you're going to HHN, which I'm assuming...
01:28:24
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just answering this for Tim is going to be one day only. You kind of have to decide like, is your priority to finish every single house in that night? Or do you not care about that? Is your priority to like see both shows, do a couple houses and like drink beer? Then like, that's what, and and I'm happy to help. Like and by that point, I feel like I'll have a pretty good idea of what can be accomplished. I'm happy to help, you know, guide anybody in any direction. I usually make a schedule.
01:28:52
Speaker
Um, when I go later in the season for stuff like that, if you want to accomplish as much as you can and get everything out of the night, you possibly can. Like, I think we can accomplish that and I can probably help with that and you could follow me, but it's up to what you, like some people don't care about all that and just want to like go for the vibe. So I think just like be educated on what there is there and what is most important for you to do, especially if you're only going for one night.
01:29:17
Speaker
And my recommendation is don't try to do everything your very first night. If you've never been to Halloween Horror Nights before, don't waste your time i trying to get in every single house. Do five or six houses, check out the food, check out one of the shows, and just enjoy the atmosphere. See what it's all about.
01:29:37
Speaker
I feel like you're wasting your time a little bit trying to do every single house when you've never even been to the event before. You're going to miss a lot of good detail there. Yeah, there's a lot going on that you don't want to miss out on. um Last year, for instance, I remember remember you guys were getting through all the houses, um but we were there with um with Ryan M and he didn't care. He did not care.
01:29:58
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he was just like, I'm just here for the vibes. I really don't care. Let's just do a couple of houses. And we only did like five houses, but we got to check out some, ah you know, we did have some drinks. um I remember getting something from one of the food stands.
01:30:11
Speaker
We got to check out the show. So it really depends on like what you want. out of it you know, i mean, because if you're trying to get through every house, you're going to have a very busy night. But if you want the full experience of hhn I feel like you have to be willing to cut some houses, um, from the night just so that you can like yeah check out the shows and yeah check out, you know, whatever's on your list.
01:30:34
Speaker
The things on your list at the bottom. That's like, I don't, I don't care. Yeah. you' with this yeah yeah Maybe like pick five of the 10 houses that are most important to you. And obviously there'll be a lot of opinions by that point in the season when, when you're going, Tim, that people can kind of help depending on how much spoiling you want.
01:30:52
Speaker
Um, like pick those houses or if there's certain IPs that you like
House Quality and Weather Expectations
01:30:56
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better than others. I know he watches a lot of movies too. So maybe the IPs will, will have higher weight for him, but yeah, just kind of like know what there is and make a priority list for yourself.
01:31:07
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come And don't don't let like the opinions and the reviews, like move that around for you. Like I've gone early in the season and I've gone at the end of the season. And sometimes some of the houses that sucked in the beginning actually ended up being some of the best houses later in the season.
01:31:22
Speaker
Yeah. For instance, like i remember the, was it the, what was the name of the house? It was the darkest deal. is that what it was called? Yeah. Yeah. I went that year. I didn't go at the end of the season and early in the season, I did not enjoy that house that much and everybody loved it.
01:31:38
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you know, everybody that went later in the season. So if there's anything that catches your eye, just based off of the description or whatever, you know, you're basing your, you know, your judgment on definitely just go with that.
01:31:48
Speaker
Just do what you want to do. Totally. And that's true for us. Even last year, like I feel like the general majority did not like monsters, eternal bloodlines and did not like museum. And we liked those like when we went. So yeah, those were great.
01:32:03
Speaker
Yeah. You really never know. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and also somebody said, be prepared for a cold. That is not true in my experience. It's the opposite. Like you think about fall and fall vibes. silly It's not, it's Orlando. It's so sweaty. You want to wear less clothes than you think you even need.
01:32:23
Speaker
You might just catch a cold, but you're not going to feel cold weather. You're going to, you're going to catch a cold from all of the people that you're around, but that's right. Right. Yeah. And you don't want to have something heavy on when you're going soaked with blood and terrifier. Truth.
01:32:38
Speaker
Cool. All right. um So Zach, we already, well, actually this is kind of a different question. What is your anticipated scariest house? That may not be your number one on your hype list.
01:32:51
Speaker
um He said he just watched terrifier and the fun house chase scene is going to destroy me in the house. That will be there. So be prepared. Yeah. I don't know. I hope Terrifier has really good scares. I think that the point of that house is to like show off the gore. So I don't know if for me personally, it's going to be as scary. Like I need jump scares to be scared. Like that's just the type of scare that works for me. Like I and pretty like gore.
01:33:19
Speaker
I don't know what I'm trying to say. Like, I've seen a lot of gore in my life, so it doesn't like do a lot for me. Like, it's like, oh, that's cool, but like, it doesn't scare me. So for that house to be as scary as everyone's saying, there's gonna have to be some good jump scares. I think Jason has the potential to be really scary for me because of jump scares.
01:33:40
Speaker
And i think maybe a sleeper scary one might be Grave of Flesh just because of the monsters on the artwork. I'm like, oh, that could be like pretty scary. Yeah. Yeah. those are I can also picture that being very dark.
01:33:51
Speaker
Yeah. I have a really hard time with my eyes adjusting to light. Like it takes a really long time for me to be able to see in the dark at all. Like, I feel like when I go into the first couple of houses, I'm just like, I can't see, I can't see anything.
Lehigh Valley Scream Park and WWE House
01:34:06
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So we're just going have Kelly close her eyes early in the queue and we'll just guide her.
01:34:14
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Yeah. I have the same, like same three that I was thinking of. I think Jason could have potential to be the scariest one. Terrifier does as well. And yeah. Yeah. All right.
01:34:26
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From Ethan. This is not about HHN, which is kind of fun. um Which attraction are you most excited for at the Lehigh Valley Scream Park during Wobble in the Woods?
01:34:37
Speaker
um I'll answer this because I got on their website. um I'm most excited for the um Hollow of Horror Hayride because I have not done an actual haunted hayride in a long time. And that sounds fun.
01:34:52
Speaker
That does look like Haunted Hayride. It's really, really good. it was, okay. So last year I went, obviously. And I don't know how much they change everything every year. But um that's like, they they have an order of the the four attractions that you do. And the Hayride is first.
01:35:09
Speaker
Like they put you through, like you don't choose the order. You go, you do the Hayride first. And then there's like a haunted, like house slash corn maze out where the haunted hayride takes you. And then you come back and you do the two other houses. One is like, from what I recall, like a witchy kind of old house. And then the other one's like a biohazard experiment type house.
01:35:34
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um They're all fun. i like if they're the exact same as last year, I can rank them up, but I'm going to like not spoil all the stuff. So there is body minute manipulation in the one house though. That really got me.
01:35:48
Speaker
Like you have to like crouch and there's like, there's what they like have like, they have like padding on the walls and like stuff where you have to like move a certain way to get through.
01:35:59
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Tyler's like, what? I thought you were talking about. Yeah.
01:36:08
Speaker
It's like obstacles, it's like an obstacle course. You have to duck or crawl or something. Inflatable walls. That's where I experienced it the first time. I'm just those exist. Perfect.
01:36:19
Speaker
Yeah. It's really fun. I'm excited. Check out um wobble in the woods. More details to come, but we will be going to Lehigh Valley Screen Park. Yeah. ah All right. And our last question is from our number one fan, Scott Don.
01:36:34
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ah What details revealed in this Hollywood Reporter article are you most excited about? ah Basically, the background of this is it um is an interview with.
01:36:46
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and need to get their names correctly. Yeah. Aiello, right? Mike Aiello. And ah John Murdy. And each of them have Orlando and Hollywood, respectively. They're in charge of the the events.
01:37:00
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um And they went through and talked about the IP houses and kind of what ah some of the specifics of that. A lot of it we've actually already mentioned. Tyler was talking about the animatronic in ah Five Nights at Freddy's. They talked about that.
01:37:14
Speaker
And working with Jim Henson for that, which is kind of cool. um But the one that stood out to me was um the WWE w e information.
01:37:25
Speaker
They specifically talked about kind of replicating the entrance that they do into the ring with the fog and like the lantern and stuff. And I was like, now having watched a video of that, I'm kind of hyped for that.
01:37:37
Speaker
I was like, that sounds cool. Yeah. I also like when this house was announced, which was like late in the game, um Mike Aiello went on like a whole Twitter thread about like how much w WWE means to him and like the, how like much they've put into this house. And I feel like it's going it's going to be good just because they care about it so much.
01:38:00
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Also, this article did confirm that it will not be real blood. um yeah And I quote, our drip lines that we have in this house are typically or in our houses are about 10 to 20%. They're opening those up to 100%. They're over your head and there's a water blast coming at you and it's all doused in red light.
01:38:23
Speaker
So it will not be blood blood. It will be red lighting effects. Yeah. But yes, they are continuing to hype up the volume of water, which I'm
Wrap-up and Social Media Encouragement
01:38:30
Speaker
like... That's annoying me because i don't want to be walking around wet the entire time, but I feel like I have to do the wet side.
01:38:37
Speaker
and but no, we have to do that. I feel like it's getting overhyped. It's not going to be that bad. They're not going to effectively dump a bucket of water on somebody. It's a safety issue to have the floor soaking walk off like we just rode Popeye's. No. It's going to be...
01:38:54
Speaker
It's going to be like walking through like a yard sprinkler or something. Okay. Probably. But I also feel like this will be one of the ones that opens earlier and it'll be sunny so you can dry off.
01:39:05
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Yeah.
01:39:08
Speaker
Any other final thoughts? that's that We got a question from Seapred. We're going to kind of hold on to that one. Please stand by. Yeah. About the food. um We're hoping for more information for our next episode on food. So we we shall see.
01:39:21
Speaker
Hopefully soon. Yeah. I think when we have another, actually our next episode will be right before, won't it? Yeah. The week that we're recording will be right before it opens.
01:39:32
Speaker
So thats we'll hopefully get that out before like opening night on that Friday. So if you're traveling for opening weekend, you can listen to us on the way. And be prepared for all of the food and beverage, hopefully.
01:39:45
Speaker
There you go. Yeah. All right. That's all we've got this week. um Follow us on Instagram. i already plugged it. Thrills, Chills and Spills. Twitter is T underscore C underscore S pod.
01:39:57
Speaker
We're going to put all of our hype lists up there. Please put yours up there as well. And we'll see you next time. Thanks for listening. Stay spooky. Bye. That's T actually.
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