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This week brings an extra episode to get us up to date with Halloween Horror Nights spec season! We're checking in on our predictions from last year and... they weren't perfect that's for sure. Also, the latest possible houses based on the new spec map from Horror Night Nightmares (Gaga, anyone?). Plus spills galore from Traitors to Coaster Madness to The Pitt to Tyler's continued Epic Universe woes.
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Transcript
Introduction and Theme
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey everyone, welcome back to Thrills, Chills, and Spills, where we spill the tea on all things theme parks, special events, and especially spooky season, and especially this episode. We are back with another hopefully short-ish episode focusing on chills and HHN speculation today. I am Kelly.
00:00:30
Speaker
I'm Joey. I'm Tyler. And I'm Rafa. All right. This is my favorite kind of episode. We're talking about HHN in March.
Coaster Madness Controversy
00:00:40
Speaker
um But first, what do we have for spills today? Joey, do you want to go first?
00:00:45
Speaker
Sure. Mine is anger over the results ah from Coaster Madness. So for, I guess, people that are unaware, Coaster365, primarily on Instagram now, he's been doing it for several years, does a March Madness with roller coasters.
00:01:02
Speaker
This year, the bracket was randomly seeded, which is problematic because has put some coasters up against each other that are like would be top seeds normally. um And in this i first... I prefer it this way.
00:01:16
Speaker
I mean, it is it does make it more interesting. um For sure. Like there's going to be some things that maybe get cut earlier than they normally would have. um But so far we've had four results and two of them have upset me because X2 won over Tyga, which is ridiculous, frankly. Yeah. And then Maverick won over Air Force One, which is also like a what is going on in this world. The Cedar Point fanboys are out in full force. Yes, but truly. The first one, you know, obviously there's some U.S. bias. My recollection from the historical like the competition and the voting habits is that Twitter kind of was the more U.S.-spotent centric place for the poll and then Instagram seemed to be a little bit more worldly but so far that's not necessarily holding true ah because Taiga did not win and it's I don't know for me like X2 just don't do it for me so um I mean I could I see why Maverick won Cedar Point you know the fanboys um but it's kind of hard to argue and from my perspective that RA Force 1 isn't better like okay yeah Yeah, that was a tough choice for
Roller Coaster Anecdotes
00:02:36
Speaker
me. I love both, but I like the way he's doing it this year. You have to switch it up a little bit.
00:02:42
Speaker
It's just it's a similar format each year. You have to switch it up to make it to keep it interesting to everybody. And I'm excited for this season to see how it rolls. Yeah, but do we think anyone other than Velocicoaster is going to win again? That's the real question.
00:02:57
Speaker
I chose Velocicoaster, I think, as my winner. I'm pretty sure did. majority of Buzzbars chose Velocicoaster, so... I love an underdog, though. I hope it's not Velocicoaster.
00:03:08
Speaker
ah who knows make randomization of everything is it it's going to make it interesting yeah yeah what if i have such a hard time i have such a hard time filling out the bracket every year because what i would personally choose versus what i think everyone else is going to choose which is how we like play the game it is not the same so correct yeah yeah it makes me crazy you're out here like weighing florida biases and cedar point biases like all this stuff yeah Cool. ah Tyler, speaking of excellent roller coasters, what's your spell?
00:03:43
Speaker
Yeah, so Stardust is down again right now. And if you've been listening to us for a while, you know my terrible luck with that roller coaster. Well, anyways, I'm going to Universal next week.
00:03:58
Speaker
I have to laugh about it so I don't cry, really. but um That's insane. Yeah, going to Universal next week. Bought my Epic tip Ticket maybe like three weeks ago. And we're going on Friday. We're supposed to be going on Friday. And currently, I don't think it's changed, but...
00:04:16
Speaker
Stardust is scheduled to reopen on Saturday. um i think we'll see if that even happens, but currently I'd be missing it by a day. So if you're keeping score at home, that means this is my fourth Epic visit and it would be my third one with Stardust closed.
00:04:34
Speaker
one One for four, be b That is and crazy. And who was the good luck charm on the one? Yeah, the one time I went with Kelly. Okay. So as long as Kelly comes to Epic Stumble, we'll be fine. That's what was going to say. yeah Kelly doesn't know about Epic Stumble yet, but I'll try.
00:04:56
Speaker
My friend who I'm going with, I've gone with him the three times. He has missed Stardust three times. So we're going to kind of watch it closely and maybe if we think it might open, we'll change our date to Sunday because we are still going to be there um if they'll let us. But I don't know. I feel like if Stardust isn't going to be open, I'm not even sure I want to go.
00:05:21
Speaker
Like, is that bad? But I mean, it's not just the fact that it's closed, but it's also the impact that it has on the rest of the park because yeah it's such a people eater and not having that open and all of those people in that line. It's just clogging everything else up right now, I think.
00:05:35
Speaker
Well, and the accumulation of visits that you've both had missing it. It's like if this was your fourth visit and you've ridden it every other time, that would be different. Exactly. Yeah, true.
00:05:46
Speaker
Yeah, so we might just see if we're unsure about it opening or it doesn't open. We might just try to push the tickets to the fall or something. They've been flexible in the past, so I don't foresee that being an issue, but we'll see. Yeah.
00:06:01
Speaker
That's crazy.
'Traders' TV Show Discussion
00:06:02
Speaker
yeah Rafa, it's traders talk time. Okay. Okay, so I don't know if I want to spoil anything. I know that...
00:06:12
Speaker
Ashley had mentioned that she was going to watch. Who knows if any other listeners are going to start watching? I don't know. Do we want to spoil it? I mean, if you're a real Traders fan, you've seen the finale. It's been out for.
00:06:23
Speaker
Yeah, it's been out. ah Yeah, I mean, OK, well, my my spill isn't really about the results. I mean, I feel like the ending was what it should have been. Yeah. But I think my biggest issue um is is kind of the casting. um i feel like, like I would love if they would just cast everybody as a potential traitor. Like obviously everybody could be a traitor. Like, you know, there's a chance that anybody could be in it and be a traitor. But like, I feel like once they're in there, they kind of lose themselves in that faithful mentality. And the reason why I say that is because like, for instance, like this season we had Eric, right?
00:07:06
Speaker
Who was recruited later on. I hate that he was just so – he was such a faithful. And I feel like there were so many opportunities where he could have just easily gotten Rob out and just taken the win as a traitor.
00:07:21
Speaker
and And I feel like that's just because like we – like they cast people that are just such traitors or just the complete opposite of a traitor. Like they're just 110% faithful.
00:07:32
Speaker
And yeah I don't know, I feel like I would I would have loved to have seen like some crazy shit go down or like they're just backstabbing one another. like I think about it, like the numbers, you know, you could be recruited later on and then be like, you know, think of ways to get that other trader out. And then you just take the money, even though you didn't do much of the work.
00:07:54
Speaker
I don't know. I just feel like. So you want the House of Villains cast? i You know, I haven't watched that, but maybe I should. But I guess so. Yeah. Like, give me some. Give me a whole cast of villains. Like, I just feel like for a show like Traders, you should be trying to get that money.
00:08:11
Speaker
You should be, like, going a little harder on that. Yeah. I mean, I definitely think some of the people are on it, especially, like, Dorinda. They're just, like, there to be there for as many episodes as they can. And they're not. They don't really care about it. You know?
00:08:23
Speaker
like they're there for the vibes. They're just, like like excited to be there. and It's just like, no. Yeah, I'm curious if this like civilian season coming up is going to be a little more cutthroat because the people that are playing will like probably want the money a little more and also kind of understand how the gameplay works. So yeah.
00:08:41
Speaker
I did love the ending. What was that? Yeah, that I was gonna say like, if you get far in Traders, I feel like the opportunities are flowing for you. Like Dylan Efron last season, he got on Dancing with the Stars. He's now doing a ton more in entertainment than he ever was before. And now I've seen in the past three days, and maybe this is just revealing to my Instagram like algorithm, but I'm seeing Rob Rash's face all over my freaking Instagram selling all kinds of stuff. He's like doing a protein bar like commercial or something. Yes, it's insane.
00:09:16
Speaker
It's crazy. This very true. Yeah. It's a good opportunity if you even if you make it. I mean, obviously he made it all the way, but to make it far.
00:09:26
Speaker
I mean, it was great timing for Johnny and Tara because it was like airing during the Olympics, too. And that was good publicity for them. So. Yeah, I love traders. I wish it was twice annually.
00:09:41
Speaker
The ones you know, wait a whole year now. Yeah, that's. going to leave Alan that castle all year. Stay here. make stranger see yeah or like they should do once a year celebrities and once a year regular people. Yeah. When you mentioned that I had the same thought. Yeah.
00:09:58
Speaker
Yeah. I feel like they don't want to like bore anybody though. I think that's the problem. Like I know like I watch, i don't know if you guys watch, I watch the challenge a lot on MTV. and It did like 20 years ago. Yeah. so No, Shay and I have stuck to it. but like they started like making it into something where they had like multiple seasons a year. And I guess that ratings just weren't there because of how much was going on. Like you would have like the flagship season on MTV and then you would have like... ah like a Paramount Plus version with all stars. And then you have like a world championship one. And I guess the numbers just weren't adding up and just was a little too much at that point. So yeah, it's kind of like, I mean, as much as I would like more traders, like I think this is what makes it exciting.
00:10:44
Speaker
Like when it finally comes back. Yeah, makes
Appreciation for 'The Pit'
00:10:47
Speaker
sense. And while we're on the topic of TV, i in the last couple of years, have not really gotten into, i don't watch a ton of TV, which has recently very drastically changed with the weather being so terrible. I feel like I have watched TV.
00:11:04
Speaker
probably 10 movies in the last month, which is insane for me. Like I don't do that. And I've also gotten into maybe the first non-reality like show that I've loved in a really long time. And it's The Pit. I know I'm late to the party here, but I tend to shy away from medical dramas because they enrage me with how inaccurate they are.
00:11:29
Speaker
um So, you know, besides like Grey's Anatomy, which I watched, you know, before I was in medicine and didn't really care about that kind of stuff, I enjoyed. But i i tend not to like medical dramas, but this is so good. I'm only like part of the way through the first season. The second season just came out. um It is based in an emergency room in Pittsburgh. and The attending physician who's kind of like the boss is...
00:11:58
Speaker
um the same guy who was in like yeah er r for years noah wiley is the actor so he kind of he produces and directs on this show and it is just so well done it follows this this group of er if you're if you're not you know aware of what the show is i'm sure most people know by now but um It's an ER team. So it has the physicians, it has the residents, the medical students, the charge nurse, the other nurses and the support staff.
00:12:30
Speaker
There's like social work involved and it follows them through a single shift in the yeah ER as one season. um So every episode is like an hour of a shift basically. And it's So medically accurate, like it, it actually gives me chills. I don't work in the emergency room anymore, obviously, but I did a lot in training and it is so like nostalgic.
00:12:56
Speaker
Um, like you had mentioned offline, Joey, the only thing that's not accurate is like the number, number of insane cases happening in the course of a day or a season. Like I would say it's more accurate probably to like what happens in a week, maybe, um rather than a day. It's just like, you know, so many crazy things happening, but i feel like it is really paying homage to like the medical community and such, such a brilliant way. Like it's almost, it almost like makes you feel seen watching it. Cause it's like,
00:13:37
Speaker
The medical piece of it is so well done, but also like the emotions and like the thought process and everything that comes along with doing this job is just portrayed so well by people who are not in medicine. It's like unreal to me. yeah.
00:13:54
Speaker
Yeah. So if you haven't seen The Pit, I think you could like it if you're not in medicine. I think people definitely do like it that aren't in medicine. But of all of the medical dramas that exist, this is definitely like touted as as the most enjoyed by the medical community, I think. um And I see why. And I'm really glad I started it. It's giving me all the feels.
00:14:17
Speaker
So. Yeah, I'm not into medical dramas at all, but this I've been hooked to ever since it started last year. i think the only thing I, I mean, just from a show aspect, not, not the, like, you know how accurate it is, but the one thing I don't like is just that I feel like this is such a binge show, like, because it's an hour of the shift. Like that's how we did last season. Like we caught it on like after the whole season had been released already. But then now watching this season, I'm like, damn it. Like, I hate having to wait to see what happens in the next hour of this shift.
00:14:50
Speaker
But um it's it's such a good show. And I love... Obviously, you have some actors that you might be familiar with. But what I do like is that it's not a very stacked cast as far as, like, A-list celebrity. And, like, I feel like that makes it...
00:15:05
Speaker
look even more real, I guess, because I'm not familiar with most people. I'm oh my God, these are like real like professionals here. But yeah, it very much is an ensemble cast. Like obviously there's, you know, Dr. Robbie is the main character, but like everybody else, you know, really contributes in their own way.
00:15:23
Speaker
i think the only thing that that gets me, like I said, like there are certain scenarios that are playing out that feel like they should take days. Like, for example, and sorry to spoil the teenage drug overdose in the first season who is declared brain dead.
00:15:42
Speaker
and then they're having discussions around organ harvesting and his parents are there. It feels like those discussions are taking forever. Like that shouldn't be done over the course of, three hours, you know, which is like technically what the show is portraying it as like those kinds of tests take time. Like you can't, you can't, somebody can't come in and then you like some of those tests require, require a certain duration of time to be able to do them. So there are just certain little things where I'm like, ah, that probably wouldn't actually go that way. But to 95% of the viewers, nobody's going to like know that stuff. so Yeah. i don't know what's going on. Yeah. It's just so cool. And I feel like I obviously i don't like talk about my job much. I don't see really adults anymore. So seeing a lot of these cases and like remembering what I used to know, I'm like, oh, my God, I did like I knew so much at one point in my career, you know, like before you you.
00:16:42
Speaker
get into what you're doing. It's like, you have to know everything. And it's like, I can still make diagnoses on these old crusty adults. Look at me go. so yeah, it's, it's pretty cool.
00:16:54
Speaker
Love the show. You should watch it. If you should try it, you should give it a try. The first episode is very good. If you haven't seen it yet. Yeah, as like a... um I heard it being compared to The Bear initially, which I do enjoy The Bear. um However, that is a very tense show.
00:17:12
Speaker
And it was being compared for that aspect of being this very fast-paced, highly tense, anxious thing. And I do not find it to be nearly as like intense in that aspect. it's It is very go, go, go, but it's not...
00:17:28
Speaker
I don't know. It doesn't give me as much to anxiety as the bear does. So I can i would would give people anxiety though. Yeah. I can see that. No, that does make sense. um But I would say that like overall, it's a little bit more lighthearted in some ways. Like, you know, there's very serious stuff that happens, but also there's some like silliness kind of thrown in and yeah. Like season baby giant doll.
00:17:51
Speaker
the yeah I love her. Yeah. She's great. Yeah. um If you're you're not into gore, they do show, they do show some stuff.
00:18:05
Speaker
So yeah. Fair warning. um Cool. Oh, the one other thing I wanted to say about the pit is what's interesting. And I don't even think I recognize this, but I learned it later in an interview is they don't have any like musical score at all.
00:18:20
Speaker
Like, yeah, no straight documentary style and all of the sound is yeah background noise and conversations and medical stuff. Like there's no there's no music, but you you don't even realize because you feel the emotion and how they are having their comfort it's it's wild to me. And it makes it like even more tense because like you have like like it. They're just it's just through the acting like whatever's going on, like you just feel it like it's so loud, but there's no music going on. It's it's really cool. An SAT word just bopped in my head. It's called diegetic.
00:18:52
Speaker
Diegetic is like when the sound is only coming from things that are in the scene and there's no score. would have. I Googled it to make sure I'm right. But yes, diegetic sound means that it's it's only within context of the story. So that's very interesting. I hadn't even thought about that. But that that's maybe part of it, too, is like they don't do any.
00:19:14
Speaker
like underscoring to make it more dramatic. It just is what it is. And that's part of what makes it feel real too is because there isn't that like layer of you know like emotional... It just is. There ain't no violins playing in real life. Exactly.
00:19:31
Speaker
No how to save a life by the fray playing in the background. Oh, God. Yeah, exactly. Classic greys. Oy, oy, oy.
HHN Speculation Review
00:19:42
Speaker
All right.
00:19:43
Speaker
Cool. That was a long session of spills, but hopefully interesting for everyone. um Before we get into HHN rumors and predictions and speculation for this year, i wanted to, and I thought it would be fun to review our speculation from this time last year. So I went through and pulled our our own spec maps from, i think, February or March of last season. And I went through and assigned points. And we can we can um change points if if, you know, when we go through it doesn't make sense. But I just want the record to show that I won the speculation season last year. Yeah, I'd like say something on that.
00:20:24
Speaker
Okay, you can. When we get there. It's very interesting that the person that came up with the point system and also scored them is the person that won. Just saying. Okay, that's why. Yeah, we're we hear this this is up for debate. We can go through it, but I think most people would agree. So we're going start here with Rafa because his came up first. So so he guessed Scary Tales.
00:20:49
Speaker
No points. Didn't happen. Zero. Nothing. Fallout. One point. One full point for Fallout. One full point for Terrifier. um and then we have, he guessed Vamp Roaring Twenties. And I gave.25 twice because it was used in a scare zone. Vamp was a scare zone, sort of.
00:21:11
Speaker
in Yeah, there were vampires. And the other, um the Roaring Twenties was used in another scare zone. So I gave a.25 for that. Are we following? Okay.
00:21:23
Speaker
It was used in the event. Can you also say what it actually was? What the house actually was? Yeah, like what it actually turned out to. I mean, obviously I know the houses, but I don't remember which one was.
00:21:36
Speaker
Yeah, but I don't know that the locations were very accurate at this point. So just as a, I guess we'll go through just as a reminder. If you go around the the circle here, we had Artista, Spanish Haunting. We had Wyatt Six.
00:21:55
Speaker
We had Terrifier. Terrifier. No, it was um ah Five Nights. Five Nights, then then Grave of Flesh, then Jason Universe, and then back at the newer tents, it was Fallout and Galkin, and then in the older original tents, it was Dolls and Hatchet and Chains. Okay.
00:22:19
Speaker
um So this isn't necessarily based on it is it correct location that we guessed? It's like, was it at HHN in some capacity is how I scored it. Oh, okay. I gotcha.
00:22:31
Speaker
So... Seeds of Extinction was another guest for Rafa. I didn't give any points for that. Then we had a split guest for Five Nights and Megan, which I gave a half a point for because that was half of that was right. And then rest were... The Megan Popcorn Bucket, though.
00:22:50
Speaker
What's that? I said the Megan Popcorn Bucket, though. I don't think so, Rafa. And then the rest were all um zero point guesses. My Bloody Valentine, Stranger Things, Till Death Do Us Part, and Lady Gaga. Interestingly, though, probably houses for this year or maybe houses for this year. So I ended up with three points for Rafa, adding up the Fallout Terrifier, Five Nights, and then the Vamp and the 20s Scare Zone points.
00:23:21
Speaker
Fair. Fair? Okay. think so. Tyler's next. We have zero points for Legend of Sleepy Hollow. One point each for Fallout and Terrifier. I think we all guessed that at this point, so it must have been all but confirmed. um I gave a quarter of a point for Death Eaters, which is being generous because they're always there.
00:23:43
Speaker
But there's no house for Death Eaters. I agree. That's generous. Very generous. They're always there. Christmas in Hell, no points. I gave a half a point for, you also guessed ah Megan and Five Nights Half House, so I gave a half a point for that. Nothing for Poltergeist, although that was a rumor.
00:24:00
Speaker
Nothing for Devil's Spawn. Nothing for Lady Gaga. And I gave you a half a point for Cannibalistic Morgue because of Grave of Flesh. I don't even remember what Devil's Spawn is. Overly generous.
00:24:13
Speaker
Overly generous. It was a guess that you had for an original, I think. Oh. Okay. Okay. What about Christmas in hell? There's a Christmas scene in Terrifier.
00:24:25
Speaker
Nah.
00:24:27
Speaker
It's and one or the other. It's not the Terrifier point. Okay, fine. Yeah. So 3.25 is where we end up if we count all of those points for Tyler.
00:24:39
Speaker
Debates. Tyler's not happy. I gave you points for things that you probably shouldn't have got points for. No, you're right. All right, we're going to myself next. Wrath of the Wicked, I was really hoping. That's a zero pointer.
00:24:52
Speaker
One point each for Fallout and Terrifier. I put a Vampire original, which I gave myself 0.25, just like I did for Rafa for there being Vampire Scare Zone. Devil's Legend, that was a guess for an original, zero points.
00:25:07
Speaker
I also had a Blumhouse Megan slash Five Nights, so I gave a half for that. Nothing for Dead Man's Cove, which I was hoping was a Dead Man's Pier spinoff or sequel. Nothing for Stranger Things, nothing for Carnival. But I did guess Firefly Funhouse Wyatt 6, so I gave myself a full point for that, which equals 3.75 points in the Arguments? Tyler? No. No.
00:25:30
Speaker
arguments tyler no no' And then Joey, we have Headless Horseman. That's interesting because you said Sleepy Hollow, Tyler. I wonder what we were talking about with that.
00:25:45
Speaker
Zero don't remember. i don't either. i think there was maybe like folklore. i don't know. One point each for Fallout and Terrifier. Zero points for Mayan zombies, Evil Eyes, Megan 2.0. I don't get the.25 for zombies in a scare zone.
00:26:05
Speaker
Ooh, yeah. He might get something for that. What zombies? In the 20s? and mels die In Die-In. so okay. yeah i agree.
00:26:16
Speaker
i agree. Mel's Die-In. We'll give it a.25. Heck yeah. Okay. um Stranger Things Nothing. And then you guessed Funeral Home Killer, which I gave a half a point for Grave of Flesh.
00:26:32
Speaker
Yeah, I wasn't even sure what you gave that point for, but I mean, kind of. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. I might even give that point 75. I mean, you literally are like going through the graveyard. I feel like that's pretty close to a funeral. That's different than a funeral home, though. Yeah.
00:26:51
Speaker
I don't even know what evil eyes is. I put that on here. What does that mean? I think there was a made iol picture. you made it up Yeah. So that equals 2.75. Woohoo. Lowest score.
00:27:05
Speaker
I'm out there. I'm coming up with the original ideas. that True. True. And for whatever reason, like I would have got the same half point everybody else did, but I decided that we shouldn't have five nights in my, cause I put Megan, but I just put Megan slash five nights.
00:27:22
Speaker
True. True. I was right because it would have been better to have Megan over five nights last year. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe so.
00:27:32
Speaker
ah Well, anyways, um that was fun, but it just does goes to show you this is out of a possible 10 points. So ah our February and March speculation is not very accurate and we'll see how it goes this year, but it may continue to not be very accurate.
New HHN Speculation and Rumors
00:27:49
Speaker
um But let's talk about it. So since our last discussion around speculation, a new map was has come out um by Horror Night Nightmares. He does all of the speculation maps. This came out on February 13th for Friday the 13th. So the first map was on Christmas. It was kind of Christmas themed. And this mask is more like slasher themed.
00:28:13
Speaker
There's like a Jason mask in the background. um There have been some substantial changes and some that have stayed pretty much the same. So I figured we could just go around. I'm going to pull up my spreadsheet because of course I have a spreadsheet.
00:28:29
Speaker
um Okay. So starting with soundstage 22, which was last year's Artista location. um The code name for this location is balloon. and the The graphic has not changed since the last spec map. So this is still a Jack in the Box type toy versus like an elf like character. It's really hard. And when you blow it up, it just gets kind of grainy. So it's hard to see what it's what it's actually showing, but it has stayed the same.
00:29:03
Speaker
And we talked last time about this potentially being our Jack house and maybe Jack versus Oddfellow is a lot in the rumor mill. um The only thing that kind of throws that off, and we talked about this last time, too, is it is present on the Hollywood map as well. And Jack hasn't really been a Hollywood thing.
00:29:24
Speaker
What do you guys think about this? I don't know. I mean, it definitely has to be an IP. I mean, unless they're going to bring Jack over to Hollywood finally, which I'm surprised they haven't done so yet. But I mean, now that they have it and they have Jack in Vegas, maybe they want to bring it over to Hollywood as well.
00:29:41
Speaker
Yeah. There's not anything with it having to do with a jack in the box is there. I don't i mean not but i know. i mean could I mean, well, it, the you know, Pennywise the clown. I mean, it could, i mean, it could be, I mean, this could just be the most like the most vague symbol.
00:29:59
Speaker
um Yeah. I mean, I was seeing some people say, welcome to dairy. um The new, the new it show. I have not seen that. Have any of you guys seen that? haven't either. And we talked about Rafa. Yeah, I watched it. It's a pretty good show. I mean, I wasn't like crazy about it, but it's a good show. And I can see it being a really good house. So I would, you know, I'd be surprised if actually pulled that. Yeah. I speculated it more when there was that carton of eggnog on the last map. I was like, eggnog is dairy. That must be welcome to dairy, but that's no longer present. So I don't know. The one thing I did notice is the coloring they used for the like other character in this image is different in the Hollywood versus the Orlando map.
00:30:43
Speaker
So in the Orlando, he's like got like lime green hair and like is wearing red. But in the Hollywood map, I think I don't have that one pulled up, but I think it's like blue and red. Like it's different colors.
00:30:58
Speaker
So I don't know if, or blue and orange or something. I don't know if that has anything to do with anything, but it's interesting that they chose two different colors. Maybe it's Jack versus somebody else in Hollywood. Maybe they have an icon that they've used that they're going to use to introduce Jack. I don't know. Yeah.
00:31:17
Speaker
have no idea. yeah I mean, it could be that. i don't know. i I don't know. I do feel like Welcome to Dairy... I feel like if they didn't do it chapter one and chapter two, I don't really see them doing the show. But I mean, they've done The Last of Us, which I know was the video game version, but it was still an HBO Max show. So I don't know. Maybe they can pull it. I don't i don't know. I'm not sure about that.
00:31:42
Speaker
Yeah, it's interesting. And I think like looking back last year at the progression of the maps, the symbols that remained on the map from the very beginning and then were present on the subsequent maps were like Terrifier, the bag was there on like every version and also like whatever they used for Fallout. And those were the ones that we guessed early. So I feel like the ones that kind of stick around end up being pretty legitimate. So it'll be interesting to see what it turns out to be.
00:32:11
Speaker
Yeah. All right, moving on to soundstage twenty three a Last year, that's where Wyatt Six was. um This year, the code name for that house is Car.
00:32:22
Speaker
And on the previous spec map, this is where the upside down clock was that has since moved locations. And now in that location, we have a burning book. And...
00:32:34
Speaker
There's a lot of rumor mill going on about this being Evil Dead Burn, which is a movie from the Evil Dead franchise coming out this summer.
00:32:46
Speaker
Joey, do you know about Evil Dead? Because you had, were you going to talk with Meg about that now? I haven't watched it. Yeah, I haven't watched. Have you seen it? I did the Evil Dead musical as a musical. Yes, it's ridiculous. That sounds hilarious. interesting But I mean, this the marketing imaging for this looks like, yeah, I could see it. i Yeah, it seems. Is this one in Hollywood?
00:33:12
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Okay, yeah, i could see I could see that happening. I mean, they have done Evil Dead before. i think they've done it like twice already. um So I wouldn't be surprised. Educate us on Evil Dead. I read Wikipedia, but that's all I know. I got to add it to my homework list.
00:33:28
Speaker
Yeah, no, i've I've seen there was one that came out, I think like a year or two ago. i saw that one. And I think I saw the one that came out a while ago as well. But not like the old school, like, I think it's like eighty s or 90s.
00:33:43
Speaker
ninety s I don't know. Like the OG one. right
00:33:47
Speaker
Interesting. Yeah. I'm not opposed to it. It's just that a franchise that I know very much about. So I will report back after I watch it. I don't love the idea of it being based on a movie that is not even out yet, though.
00:34:04
Speaker
Yeah, unless they just yeah like a like a greatest hits and this is just a spec map thing. But I mean, it might be by the time they announce it. It opens in July. Yeah, I know it'll be out by the time then, but I don't know. I feel like that's a bit of a risky move. I mean, you have no idea how yeah he's going to do. And by then it's you can't change anything in July.
00:34:25
Speaker
And think people could argue they did that with Exorcist Believer like that year, a couple years ago, like that movie wasn't even out by the time the house was open, which was wild. But with the name of Exorcist, I feel like that's a little safer than something like this. I mean, people do like and know Evil Dead, but I don't think that's on the same level of of fandom as like the Exorcist.
00:34:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Series. I don't know. I mean, the last one, the last Evil Dead did pretty well, I think. um So maybe that'll bring some people in. But yeah, no, I'm also not a fan of, you know, them doing that. with Like with the movie that like we have no idea like how it's going to be perceived by everybody. Yeah.
00:35:05
Speaker
It's interesting. it this This kind of came out of like nowhere. Like I feel like there was no talk about this whatsoever. And then this symbol appeared and it's like, oh, they're doing Evil Dead. Yeah. It's like, that's interesting.
00:35:17
Speaker
um I guess the car, maybe there's something with like gasoline and burning. And I don't know if that's like how it fits in or something. Yeah. To tie in the code name. I don't know.
00:35:31
Speaker
Yeah. i don't Definitely something from the the new movie. I would assume. i don't I don't know if I love that rumor. You're right. It did seem to just come out of nowhere. And that's that seems like That's of Poltergeist was last year. Remember, like it just appeared out of nowhere on a map and everybody's like, oh, it's Poltergeist. And then we watch Poltergeist. Yeah, I don't think I'm going jump on that rumor train just yet.
00:35:57
Speaker
Yeah. OK, cool. If you are a fan, if you're a listener and you're a fan of Evil Dead, educate me. um Moving on to Soundstage 23B. This is where Five Nights was and it's heinous three hour line.
00:36:14
Speaker
ah The code name is bus at this location. The first spec map had the pin cushion, which is is also still on the map, but in a different location. Now this is where the upside down clock is. This is also on the Hollywood map.
00:36:31
Speaker
And I feel like you cannot tell me that this is supposed to mean anything other than Stranger Things. Yeah, I feel like this is the one symbol that we're going to see in every single spec map. I mean, everybody expects it to happen. One thing that was a little concerning is Legacy, who we've talked about before as like some another insider, was saying that Stranger Things 5 was not coming to the event this year all over the place. But Legacy and Horror Night Nightmares like work together from what I've heard. So it's still remaining on the... map is interesting i also think i saw on reddit somewhere that legacy was like never mind i was wrong it is coming so there's been some debate ah but there's no way like the proper send off for the series and everything and you know it's it's it's almost too obvious like yeah right yeah and jamming it in the same sound soundstage that has potential for a very long wait Yeah, that would make the most sense.
00:37:30
Speaker
I'd be very surprised if we didn't see it in some form. I mean, I don't know if it's going to be just season five. They might do a a best of hits or something just because a lot of people dislike season five. But I would be very surprised if we didn't have something Stranger Things.
00:37:45
Speaker
Yeah, that would be unusual, I feel, especially having all of the other seasons represented. All right. And that and the only tie I could think of with that location being a bus is like there was a lot of the school featured in this past season.
00:38:01
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. And there was um l like training, jumping the buses and stuff. Yeah, that is true. Yeah.
00:38:13
Speaker
Who knows? It could end up in a different spot again next time. Yeah. Yeah. Um, soundstage 24 this is where it was not used last year. It's where insidious was in 33.
00:38:26
Speaker
and the code name at this location is chariot. And on the first map, there was a present meaning it wasn't, there was nothing there yet. No, no speculation. And now this is where the pin cushion has moved. This is also on the Hollywood map. There's a six houses or one, two, three. Yeah. Six shared between Orlando and Hollywood, which I feel like is more than usual.
00:38:48
Speaker
um which if they're doing a five, five split of IPs and originals, that means they would have to share an original and maybe that's where the Jack thing comes in. I think, yeah, that that's must be what the Jack in the box thing is doing with the different colors too. Yeah. yeah Yeah. or there's more IPs than originals this year, which seems wild for an anniversary year. I don't know that they would do that, but I hope not. I hope we get like a five, five. Yeah. I like the, I like the equal split.
00:39:17
Speaker
Yeah. But anyways, now there's this pin cushion. Do we think it's anything other than Hellraiser? no No. I need to watch Hellraiser, I guess.
00:39:28
Speaker
I really should. I feel like that's all but confirmed. That's like this year's Terrifier. It's been a rumor since the end of last year's event, and it's staying on the map. So... Yeah. Yeah, I agree. All right. Soundstage 24B, which is where Grave of Flesh was. The codename is, oh, back to codenames. I don't know how Chariot gets into Hellraiser. I tried. I really tried to pull my research and I couldn't figure that one out. So who knows?
00:39:55
Speaker
um But the Soundstage 24B codename is Train. This was where the eggnog was last time. That is now gone. And there is a pawprint in its place. It's only present on the Orlando map.
00:40:07
Speaker
So this is probably an original of some type. Any thoughts that you guys have? I think this might be... It's possible. um I feel like we might get a cat lady house.
00:40:20
Speaker
I could see that. Yeah, I could see don't think it's a cat. Is it a cat print? don't how many pets they It looks like a dog. I was thinking a dog too, but I'm just thinking pet. I don't know. I went to pet and I was like, what's an original concept that would probably make for a good house? I was like, maybe because of how popular cat lady was last year,
00:40:42
Speaker
Um, maybe they'll just move that over, you know, into its own house. When they've done scare zones to houses in the past, have they been back to back years like that? Or is there usually a year in between?
00:40:53
Speaker
um like I'm trying to think like, um, uh, the candy one was a scare zone first. Yeah. I remember.
00:41:04
Speaker
I feel like there might be, you know, I don't remember. i think there, maybe they, they, they have done it that quickly. Yeah. but I'm not sure. i mean, it's possible they would do it that quickly just because it is the anniversary year, but i don't know. Yeah. And it was definitely tied to the wolf that we had before.
00:41:23
Speaker
That's what I was thinking. That was in the previous one at the Fast and Furious location. it was like a that scowling wolf that you said was like the mascot of a of a school. like This paw print looks like a university or high school like mascot paw print. Yeah, it kind of does. yeah But I don't know if that's just because they're pulling like artwork off Google.
00:41:45
Speaker
Yeah, and using it. i saw I did see some rumors about, which I don't think either of these are true because I don't think it would be another IP. I saw some Scooby-Doo rumors. I also saw saw some like, is this supposed to be Naughty Dog and there's that we're getting another Last of Us house? It's like, ugh.
00:42:02
Speaker
Kill me. It's going to be Naughty Dog. If there are six, though, that are shared from park to park, that's got to be the IP one. no way. So there's no way this an IP. It could be a jungle one or I don't know. There's so many different directions you can go with animals. Jungle of Doom, I loved that scare zone so much, especially if Oddfellows back at the event. I loved that scare zone. I was maybe my favorite all time. I think they do animal...
00:42:27
Speaker
scares very well. So either way, if there's some sort of tie to animals, like I think it'll be good. That'd be fun. Yeah. All right. Moving on to our favorite house next to a curb, um fast and furious location. That curb literally gives me nightmares. Last year, Jason was there. The code name is helicopter. This is where we had that scowling wolf before. And now we have a picture of intestines with blood dripping from them rafa what you know about mr blood and guts not enough just the name yeah i don't remember it much but i think it it was more of it was like more of the like comedic house like it was definitely not like it was the campiest for sure but i don't know didn't think it was like
00:43:20
Speaker
Or a scare zone? Or what was that? It was He was in a house. so this is coming from h hn Wiki. This is Larry Kurtzberg, better known as h r Blood and Guts, was the main character of the HHN 21 haunted house. H.R. Blood and Guts presents Holidays of Horror. um he was supposed to be this actor and Broadway performer from the nineteen thirty s who was in a musical comedy. And then he retired to the life of a taxidermist after his career ended. And in the 70s, he got desperate for more fame. So he turned to a talent agency at Cary, Ohio to get a role in theater, television and radio media once more.
00:44:01
Speaker
um Basically, he took this offer for a for a comedy show or a midnight horror show. It was like a variety show that he was the host of. And basically as time went on, he became more and more like this character and, um, it turned more horror than comedy, I guess. And, um...
00:44:24
Speaker
The episodes became too disturbing, so he was um he was cut from like the show airing. It had to be canceled, and then he became like vengeful and full of rage, and he kidnapped the TV crew members and tortured them and all this kind of stuff, which it sounds like something I've seen before, even though I haven't.
00:44:45
Speaker
Yeah. don't know. What was that, What? Well, I mean, and in like a, I guess it's not really an anniversary year, but I mean, it could make sense like to do the throwback.
00:44:56
Speaker
Yeah, bring back a character. I mean, he was apparently a well-loved character. Kelly, what's all we got to go on because what's the white part in the symbol? I can't really tell.
00:45:08
Speaker
I don't know. At first, when I like saw that, I was like, is that a shark tooth? Yeah, I'm like fully zoomed in and I just, I can't tell what that is I can't tell what the symbol is in the middle. So I just ignored it because I thought, I
Original HHN Themes and Listener Questions
00:45:22
Speaker
don't know. Blood and chum.
00:45:24
Speaker
Yeah. But I doubt they would give that a whole house. But yeah, I don't know. i mean, I think it'd be fun if they, yeah, I feel like, it It'd be interesting if they went like with the whole Cary, Ohio thing, because that used to be like a big thing. I don't know if you guys knew about that. like The backstory to a lot of the original houses, like they would that was always like their one common location. it was Cary, Ohio. Yeah. um and I feel like we haven't heard much of that in recent years. Isn't that where Slaughter Cinema is? Teak's place in Cary, Ohio, too. Is it?
00:45:58
Speaker
I think so. Yeah, I think it is. Oh, shit. Okay. No, I'm wrong then. But yeah, I mean, that'd be pretty cool then if that were the case. I don't know. But HR Blood and Guts, like it's been, said it was what, 2020? It was 2021. So this was 14 years ago. Yeah, that was time ago.
00:46:18
Speaker
Yeah, it's interesting. It gives me Mr. so um What was this? Like the sweet revenge. Like um it gives me that kind of a vibe in that location because that's where that house was.
00:46:31
Speaker
i don't know. Like a little bit like lawyer i just it's like a little bit more like campy, like you said. Yeah. yeah camp I don't know. I don't really know the story other than what I just read, but yeah.
00:46:43
Speaker
It definitely seems to be bloody guts in the picture. I don't know. And it's only it's said not in the Hollywood map.
00:46:55
Speaker
So yeah, points to an original. I feel like I like originals in that location more than I like IPs generally. So I mean, I feel like Jason was like the strongest house they've had there in a very long time.
00:47:07
Speaker
It was good. Yeah, I feel like I don't know, like I i have not like it's been rare for me to enjoy the houses that are there. i liked major suites a lot, but the others have not been as good.
00:47:21
Speaker
um ah he oh yeah terrible moving on to the back tents so tent three this is where fallout was the code name is hearse spelled h-e-r-s-e um this used to be the lock which used to be shared on both maps people were saying resident evil but now that is completely off the map and now we have dancing skeletons and one of them has long blonde hair.
00:47:53
Speaker
Guys, is it happening? I feel like it's too obvious. like I don't know. the The symbols are normally not that straightforward. I honestly feel like They're just teasing us. There's no way. That would be way too obvious. I think once they are confident about symbols, this like the, the terrifier sack was obvious and that stayed there the whole time. Yeah. yeah And the stranger things clock, how much more obvious could that be? Yeah. And like, I was looking on, um, ah somebody on Tik TOK was talking about how, I guess somebody made a comment on Twitter about,
00:48:33
Speaker
The rumor of that being Lady Gaga and the creative director. I think they added the the creative director of the Hollywood event. And he didn't say yes, but he didn't say no either. it is present on both maps. It is on both maps. so Right. And when they do me when they do a music house, is that considered an IP? Yes.
00:48:55
Speaker
I would say yes. Yeah. Okay. I was just like, I don't know how to, how, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I think so. I would consider it that. I mean, even though like, it's pretty like original because we don't know like what we're getting out of it. Like it's not like a specific movie or show. It's still like heavily influenced by. There's a licensing deal being made. Exactly. Yeah.
00:49:19
Speaker
Exactly. I think, first of all, I would pass away if this was true. Second of all, I'm a huge Lady Gaga fan. There's so much you could do with her whole everything. I mean, I think her most recent album, Mayhem, like lends most to horror out of anything. But if you look back at all of her work, there are definitely elements like throughout. So they could take this a billion ways. I know... Yeah. I think they though, I think it's gonna be mayhem. I think it's gonna be the mayhem ball, like the opera set design, the skeletons and stuff like so much of that is... I don't see what else they would do. Like, there could be other parts of her, you know, like album catalog represented through it, but I imagine that would be kind of like the the setup of it is like that facade and that context.
00:50:14
Speaker
And blast me some Lady Gaga tunes in that way then that cattle pan, man. I will. It was fun with the weekend. It would be a blast with Lady Gaga. Like, come yeah That would be vibe. I hope it's true. I hope it's true.
00:50:30
Speaker
i don't know what hearse could mean, but it being spelled this way does spell her. yeah i don't know. but I mean, it could just be because of the skeletons. I mean, yeah. And like, I saw that there, like, she has like a a part of her show, right? Where she's like, is it like with a skeleton? is it? I don't know. Like, is she like on like sand or something or dirt?
00:50:56
Speaker
You guys are the Gaga fans. I've just seen I haven't watched the show because I don't want to know in the hope that I still got out. Was it Coachella that she did it or i don't know if she's doing it on the actual concert, but I remember there was like a clip that I saw. Yes, there are some skeletons.
00:51:12
Speaker
Multiple skeletons in the set design. yeah Okay. I haven't watched it either because I'm about to in two days. Oh, I'm so jealous. It hurts me. i don't want to know everything. But yeah, i do know that minimally that there are skeletons as part of the design. Yeah.
00:51:31
Speaker
I think also, though, they they had to spell Hearst that way on purpose. What it means, I don't know. Yeah. ah Interesting. Yeah. Tent four where Galkin was the code name for this house is tractor.
00:51:47
Speaker
And the symbol is the same from the last spec map. It's also present in Hollywood and it's the lighter with the cigarettes. I think this still has to be sinners. There's no way it's anything else. And tractor makes sense. It's kind of that vibe. Yeah.
00:52:01
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That'd be great. Yeah. So what they should do back by the tents is every other song can be lady Gaga and sinner soundtrack. Yes.
00:52:14
Speaker
Yes. The vibes don't mesh, but i love them both. Well, they're both so good, so who cares? yeah Okay, over at tent one where Hatchet and Chains was last year, the codename is Shuttle.
00:52:28
Speaker
Last spec map, this one didn't have anything, but now we have makeup and scissors and a biohazard symbol on the makeup. This is not on the Hollywood map, so this is probably an original, which I like when they put the originals in the tents. I feel like i just they always do well over there.
00:52:46
Speaker
These two tents in particular seem to always be originals. Mm-hmm. That's exciting. I mean, i this has obviously been like a ah trend. Um, why am I the the name of the movie? I'm complete. Oh, the substance. ultimately so like this body Body horror. Yeah, exactly. It's kind of been a trend recently. Yeah. Um, and then I just saw death becomes her on Broadway recently. so like I'm thinking of that too. Um, yeah wasn't there another body horror movie recently as well?
00:53:15
Speaker
Um, um, together. Yes, that was it. Yeah, that one came out recently. So I could see them like latching onto that without a specific IP. And this could be some kind of fun way to do that.
00:53:30
Speaker
There's also that, um I mean, it seems like a complete knockoff of the substance, but the FX show, um, It's a Ryan Murphy show. I don't know the name of it. Oh, I know what you're talking about. sure Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's definitely a a whole trend. And then they put the biohazard thing on it. It's probably like the BuzzCon tie-in to the HHN lore.
00:53:53
Speaker
Like BuzzCon's running this factory, right? Is that what we think that is? Is that why that's there? Yeah, it that that's definitely the same biohazard symbol they've used for like BuzzCon's type stuff in the past.
00:54:05
Speaker
And I think it was on the map for the Roar in 20s, like BuzzCon, the Scare Zone last year too. So I don't know, BuzzCon seems to be a thing that they try to put everywhere recently. I wouldn't if it has something to do with it. Like the makeup is actually like poison and then we get all kinds of body horror from it. I like that idea.
00:54:26
Speaker
I do like that idea. oh that's fun Okay. Total tangent, but did you say Ashton Kutcher's in that show? Yes. Did you guys see this might be aging me, but do you remember the butterfly effect?
00:54:39
Speaker
Yeah, I remember the butterfly effect. Okay. I don't remember if I liked it or not because it's been a long time. But yeah, I mean, like I was a young teenager when that came out. So you were a child. yeah I had I had a brief Ashton Kutcher obsession. So I watched like all of his stuff then.
00:55:00
Speaker
Anyways, um tent two is where dolls was. um And this code name is a wagon. Oh, shuttle. I don't know how that makes sense with that makeup, but who cares? Maybe it's the wrong location because it shuttle makes more sense with this.
00:55:16
Speaker
image and so wagon i don't know wagon is the code name the spec map last time had skeleton rocker hands which maybe was the lady gaga thing then and now it's just taking more form and moving but now we have an alien with a cowboy hat on and it is not present in hollywood so that seems more shuttle-esque if we're going sci-fi alien maybe those are flip-flopped or something but yeah like alien versus cowboy kind kind of stuff Yeah, I would be surprised if they lean Western again, especially when they had Hatchet and Chains like in that area. yeah Yeah, that's what's throwing me about it.
00:55:56
Speaker
Yeah. But I'm all Alien. I'm all for sci-fi. Yeah, yeah. I wonder if there's some kind of twist to that you know that makes it not Western. i don't know.
00:56:08
Speaker
Yeah. Huh. But we don't think it's going to be in IP because it's not on both coasts, right? Yeah, no, I don't think so. i mean, every once in while there are IPs that are one coast only, right?
00:56:21
Speaker
Yeah. Interesting. Okay. Totally. Yeah, I think Hollywood had Poltergeist last year. oh Yeah. So what else is interesting on this map is instead of the presence for the unknowns, he has like like a slasher knife.
00:56:37
Speaker
um So he has a show still located where Nightmare Fuel was, a show at the lagoon. And then he's got some of the rides, you know,
00:56:52
Speaker
note it like a little a little circle over where ah some of the ride locations are and then he has the scare zones it looks like there's still four so similar to last year but and it's really hard because they're small but it looks like there's a chainsaw where the chainsaw clowns were last year yeah that's definitely a chainsaw There's a DJ headset where Club Horror was, and then there's something at Mel's. So I wonder if they're kind of doing the same type of non-scare zone. What did they call them? Street experiences.
00:57:24
Speaker
Yeah. It definitely seems like that's coming back. Yeah. I liked it that way. I liked the setup. i'm kit But yeah, the the logo at Mel's does not look... I don't know. It's not roller skates. It's not a zombie. I can't tell what it is, but... I can't either. I'm I'm curious if that means that the theme there is going to change a little bit.
00:57:43
Speaker
Oh, wait. Is it a skate? Is it a roller skate? Oh, it is a roller skate. Yeah. yeah That's how blurry it is that it was hard to tell, but yeah, now that you say that. Yeah. Interesting. Okay. so maybe they're just going to bring all that stuff back.
00:57:55
Speaker
Yeah. I don't hate it. It would be nice that it if it was a little different, but... Yeah. Yeah. I feel like they should switch Mel's up at least. I feel like that didn't hit as well as the other ones did.
00:58:07
Speaker
Yeah. And it honestly, like that part of the event might be still in early creative stages because the houses I feel are more workload heavy. Like I'm wondering if that's just kind of there because they don't know anything about else about it yet.
00:58:21
Speaker
And it's just kind of new a placeholder. Like they're doing something at Mel's again. Exactly. Right. I'm excited to learn more about Nightmare Fuel, though. I want to hear rumors about what is Nightmare Fuel. happy yeah Yeah, well, the Nightmare Fuel location.
00:58:38
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited for that. I always enjoy. It's a nice, like, two-thirds of the night has been standing. Now I'm going to sit and watch this show. I just don't like it. um I feel like the the problem I had with Mel's, aside from it being a little lackluster, was it really butts up against that Hollywood scare zone. Like, it basically was, like, right into the vamps. I'm like, this is abrupt.
00:59:02
Speaker
Like, they need to something about that. Yeah. All right. So that's our newest spec map. We do have a couple of questions related to it. Brayden asked us, which of the initial HHN rumors sounds most interesting interesting to everyone?
00:59:19
Speaker
So interesting and hype are different for me. So like, I'm very hype at the potential of Lady Gaga and Sinners.
00:59:30
Speaker
I'm also very fearful about Sinners because I feel like it could be extremely hard to pull that off. Yeah. Mm hmm. And I would really hate for it to be a dud, one of those IPs that like fall out where it's like, not as great as it could be, you know? Yeah. um But as far as like interesting,
00:59:53
Speaker
I think there's body horror. Yeah, i agree. Yeah, I think that's the most interesting. But also, like, the animal paw print is kind of such a wide range of possibilities. I'm very interested in like, what that is.
01:00:05
Speaker
Yeah. It could be something pretty run-of-the-mill, but it also could be something, like, completely different than we've seen in the last few years. Who knows? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. i'm excited about the potential of some of these originals. I feel like there's good jump scare ability in animals and body horror type stuff. So it's like an alien sci-fi. That would be a good mix. I i went back and looked in the last, like, i don't know, five or so years of HHN. Like, what what do they always have to have? Like, what is the makeup of their houses? And it's it's either forty sixty or 50-50 as far as IP original split. Yeah.
01:00:43
Speaker
And they always seem to have a when it comes to originals, a like folklore-ish type house, a campy house, a um like an HHN lore type house. Like there's there's some formulaic aspect to the decisions that they make, I think.
01:01:02
Speaker
um It seems like an IP is there's usually like a classic horror like or a slasher. There's like a newer one that brings in like the younger generation, it feels like. So it's interesting looking at this map, like how how these rumors would fall into that kind of a formula.
01:01:20
Speaker
Like it doesn't seem like there's anything very folklore like we had Blood Moon and we've had Galkin and we've had. yeah. like those types of houses, which we don't have. I could see the animal that thing potentially going in that direction. Yeah.
01:01:36
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um Honestly, even alien cowboys kind of confusing, but there could be like a folklore twist to ah an alien story potentially. yeah That's true. That's true. I'm not sure how, but because it definitely seems like it's not really blood and guts. That's the lore. Yeah.
01:01:53
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Maybe it's like alien UFO sightings, which Tyler can tell us more about next episode. Yes. Yeah. I think blood and guts, if that's actually happening, is definitely like the camp.
01:02:07
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Yeah, 100%. hundred percent And that's a good location for that, I think. I think for that kind of theme, I think it makes sense to put it in Fast and Furious. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm excited overall. I feel like the potential of, of some of these things, like um I love stranger things. I love Lady Gaga. I love sinners. All of these potential originals seem like they could be interesting. I definitely need to watch Hellraiser and evil dead if those are legit. Cause I know nothing about that.
01:02:34
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Yeah. Same. Okay. Ashley asked, um, And shout out, Ashley, thank you so much for coming on last episode. When the houses are announced this year, if you could move them to a spooky city in the U.S., where and why? And then she specifically mentioned Savannah and New Orleans as good spooky cities.
01:02:54
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Put the alien maze in a cornfield in Iowa. Ooh. Ooh. Okay. ah That would actually be kind of creepy, especially if it was very isolated.
01:03:07
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Yeah. Yeah. I feel like it's hard to move an IP somewhere. Cause like, it just be like where the IP is, but like originals, I think this concept is more interesting.
01:03:19
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I would say put whatever the animal print is in just like some random town in West Virginia, like Appalachia.
01:03:30
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Yeah. It's funny the places we're thinking of now. What else do we have? Um, the makeup you put that in la right but not a very scary city but well i mean it is in some ways but yeah but it seems fitting to that what else don't know yeah because the blood one that we don't really have much on that like on what that theme might be Yeah.
Excitement for Upcoming HHN
01:03:59
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Yeah. Hard to decide where to put that. i mean, obviously you could put stranger things in Indiana. Yeah. It'd be kind of fun if like the, i don't know, like if the the facade of the Gaga one, you can kind of imagine being in like this city scape somewhere. And then you like enter into this other world.
01:04:21
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i don't know why I'm imagining that, but. Yeah, that is cool. Exciting stuff. Yeah. I'm excited for this year. Especially if Sinners is coming. that's That's what I'm very excited about.
01:04:31
Speaker
I love Sinners. When was our first announcement last year? It was late, right? Yeah, everything was very late. Yeah. Yeah. What was the first think it was in June, wasn't it?
01:04:43
Speaker
Wasn't it Fallout? it that late? I think Fallout was the first. Maybe we'll get an earlier announcement this year. I hope so. I remember like all of the originals came out when we were in the UK. Yeah.
01:04:56
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, and that was the end of June. i'll go one too h And we kind of got the Five Nights thing accidentally. Yeah, and we like knew Terrifier was coming. We were just like waiting yeah for them to say it Right, right. yeah yeah they was released They released the announcement on June fifth that makes sense because i watched it like the second week of june yeah that's crazy but they've done like at least like announcements like in march and stuff like that was gonna say sometimes we get them in march so i don't know maybe we'll get like in a surprise announcement soon yeah what do we speculate is going to be announced first they usually do an ip right yeah yeah you gotta build the hype
01:05:44
Speaker
um Stranger Things. I think Stranger Things. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think we're going to hear anything about it. Yeah. Like, well, yeah, it could be Hellraiser first as well, but I don't know. I feel like. That's been around like the rumor mill for a while.
01:06:01
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Yeah. And like, I feel like Evil Dead, like that's going to, that's going to be announced after the movie is released. I think. That's going to be a later announcement. I think if that's true. That'll be a June or July one. Maybe Sinners because of the Oscars coming up.
01:06:14
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Could be. Could be, yeah. It's like after after award season, it's like Sinners is coming to HHN. That would be. That would be a very smart time to announce it. Because I feel like that it'll start to die off, like all the buzz about Sinners after that, you know? Yeah.
01:06:30
Speaker
Yeah. That might be it. I liked how they did the announcements last year with the TV, though, for the IPs, like the static TV. Mm-hmm. And you were able to see the flower too.
01:06:42
Speaker
Yeah. Like they always had that. So I'm wondering if they're going to incorporate in these announcements, like the car, like the car, like each of them, you know, have right now as a code name. Yeah, that be super cool. Remember that they had that like static that was on for like just four minutes straight before they did any announcements. It was just the static. Oh my gosh, I forgot about that. And we were like slowing it down to like see if there were messages and there was like something written in it.
01:07:06
Speaker
ah I totally forgot about that. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. ah Spec season is so fun. I feel like we're really in it now. Yeah.
01:07:18
Speaker
and What else? Anything else? No. We need another spec map. It's been... When was it? It was it hasn't been that long. It's only been like... Three weeks. Oh, sure. It was only like two weeks ago. Yeah.
01:07:30
Speaker
Yeah, I looked last year to see like, when did we get them and we didn't get this. We got the Christmas one and then the next one wasn't until like March. So he did give us one sooner than last year. i mean, we do have another Friday the 13th coming up. So who knows? We sure do.
01:07:47
Speaker
who knows? That'd be nice. Well, anyways, that's it for your ah Friday the 13th is when I was supposed to go to Epic. That makes sense.
01:07:59
Speaker
I am so sorry. I'm not going. Yeah. Yeah. i am so sorry to just because i'm not going yeah yeah All right. Well, as always, give us a follow on your podcast platform um and find us on social media. Our Instagram is at thrillschillsandspills. And on X, we are T underscore C underscore S pod.
01:08:26
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um We hope you enjoyed this chills only episode. And we will be back next week with a normal episode. Thank you for listening. And as always, stay spooky.
01:08:37
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Bye. Bye. Bye. That's tea, actually.