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Opening Weekend of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando

9/19/2017

 
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Our Halloween coverage continues today with opening weekend of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando.

The Frequent Fear Pass is a thing of beauty which means we should have a few updates from this amazing event this season. ​Check out Renée's opening weekend fun. 

Written by Renée Girard
Heading into Universal Orlando for the opening night of Halloween Horror Nights! 
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If you can do the Stay & Scream it's totally worth it!
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American Horror Story is our first house of the night. It features Asylum, Coven & Roanoke from the series. Loved it!
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Next up is Dead Waters. Very cool house with a voodoo theme. I just wish it was longer! 
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The Fallen wasn't one of the best houses, but maybe our timing was off and missed some scares.
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​I like the addition of the Tribute Store from last year, and how there are displays for some of the houses. #
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​The Purge scare zone is back once again, and it's always a crowd pleaser.
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​At Orlando HHN, where alcohol has always been served, it seemed like the options were more limited this year.
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Really loved the Trick R Treat scare zone! Definitely the most elaborate and fun of those we experienced
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Caught a performance of Bill & Ted tonight too, in their final HHN appearance. They will be missed. Be excellent to each other! 
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​And it wouldn't be HHN without Mel's Die-In. That's all for tonight in Orlando, but we'll be back for more soon!
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​Back at HHN Orlando tonight!
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​Some of the houses are already getting longish wait times. So worth it to get here early!
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Trying one of the signature drinks, Midnight Madness. Anyone know where to get the pumpkin, s'mores & candy corn drinks?
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Characters from all the houses gather in the Alters of Horror scare zone at the front of the park. 
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Students of Hogwarts support the Purge.
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Enjoyed visiting the vampires of The Hive. Creepy and cool house, really long too!
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​Walking through the Invasion scare zone, for terror that is out of this world. 
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​Blumhouse was one of the ones I was looking forward to the most. So much fun!Featuring scenes from Sinister, Insidious & The Purge.
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​Lower crowds at HHN tonight than last night. Loving having a Frequent Fear Pass again. Be back in a few days I'm sure! 
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Related Updates: 
  • Opening Night of Halloween Horror Nights 2017 at Universal Studios Hollywood
  • Preview: The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle 
  • ​Universal Studios Hollywood Update and Fun Nintendo Land Speculation 
  • Photo Tour of Universal Studios Florida
  • Photo Tour of Islands of Adventure ​​


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Opening Night of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood

9/18/2017

 
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Welcome to another year of Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood, where your favorite scary movies come to life. 
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Our opening night report is here, we have some great pictures of the mazes and scare zones and we definitely recommend the event this year despite a couple of repeat themes. Enjoy! 

Written by Gregg Condon
Pictures by Matthew Nelson and Gregg Condon

Welcome to Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood where we are kicking off another year of amazing Halloween events.
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This was EASILY the lowest temperature for the opening night of HHN Hollywood for as long as we can remember. And it was AMAZING!! 
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Before heading to the park we decided to head in early and grab some food and butterbeer. And since Wizarding World wasn't open for HHN, some Forbidden Journey. 
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After leaving our extra people in the park we headed out to check in for the media portion of the event. No red carpet for us this year, we had another reason for getting here early. 
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We wanted to check out this years Opening Scaremony with a whole bunch of new friends. 
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The opening moments of HHN 2017 ... we shared this during the event and a lot of people loved it. We hope you will too. 
But Matt had other ideas and they headed in a bit earlier to see how the early entry worked (and since so many of you have been asking about it) 
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Insidious 
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Some sunset pics from the backlot 
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As the sun began to fade it was time for the rest of us to head deep into HHN 
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The Shining 
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Would have loved to see an actual maze, but capacity would have been the scariest thing of all
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How you doin' ... 
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Here's Johnny!!! 
Heading into the backlot ... 
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Really fun scare zone as you headed to the three backlot mazes 
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Some sunset/nighttime pics for you to enjoy 
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This scene was really hard to capture in pictures, but we wanted to give this actress a shout out. She was AMAZING. If you know who she is please pass it on. Her hard work was appreciated. 
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Dead ... 
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The first of the backlot mazes was American Horror Story 
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This year they stuck with one season and I think it worked much better this way 
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Ash vs Evil Dead which was my favorite maze of the night. But I'm a HUGE fan of Evil Dead and the TV show ... so that may have had some influence. 
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Ashy Slashy ... Ashy Slashy ... Ashy Slashy ... 
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Ash's room 
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Saw
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Not really our thing, but a lot of you love Saw so we totally understand why it's come back 
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Let's head back upstairs 
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Time for the Titans of Terror Tram with our amazing host Chucky 
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They basically separated the three area's of the Terror Tram among the three Titans of Terror 
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Sawyer Meats ... get it? 
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Lots of different Freddy's running around 
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Catawampus? 
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We loved the theme of the Terror Tram but without using the back trail (which so many people complained about in years past) it just didn't seem long enough this year. 
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Headed into the Blumhouse maze 
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Started off with The Purge ... this part reminded us a lot of the Purge Gauntlet from last year, which we loved. 
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Headed inside the maze portion 
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The first part was dedicated to Groundhog ... we mean Happy Death Day. =) 
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And finally Sinister 
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Let's check out the Scare Zone on the upper lot 
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Despite not having fire this year we really enjoyed this scare zone. Wish it would extend throughout the entire upper lot though. It was a lot of fun. 
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Trick or Treat ... 
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Lots of Chainsaws 
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Our last maze of the night was Titans of Terror. We weren't really sure what to think of this one but we absolutely LOVED it. 
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You could tell they had a lot of fun with this one 
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Thanks again to Universal Studios Hollywood for having us out for another year of Halloween Horror Nights. We had an AMAZING time as always. 

​Check out my Maze rankings below (Gregg): 
  • Ash vs Evil Dead (I'm a HUGE fan of the franchise and show, so no surprise here) 
  • Titans of Terror (The true surprise of the night, don't dismiss it) 
  • Insidious (Despite a repeat theme the maze was truly terrifying, and we got lost too)
  • American Horror Story (Consistent theme throughout and some great scares)
  • Shining (First time we went through we loved it, seems to be one you have to catch good "timing" on)
  • Blumhouse (Despite not being terribly familiar with the franchises, a fun maze anyway)
  • Titans of Terror Tram (Simply not long enough to justify ride to backlot) 
  • Saw (it took us almost 20 minutes to get through this maze because it was one long line. 20 minutes of torture isn't scary to us)
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Check back tomorrow as we'll have our update from the first two nights of Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando. 

​Related Updates: 
  • Preview: The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle 
  • ​Universal Studios Hollywood Update and Fun Nintendo Land Speculation 
  • ​Experiencing HHN Hollywood in a Wheelchair
  • Photo Tour of Universal Studios Florida
  • Photo Tour of Islands of Adventure ​​


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