Thread: Universal's Halloween Horror Nights 2009

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Got my first teaser about what this year's Universal's Halloween Horror Nights theme will be. Hubby is gonna love The Wolfman!

I take it that these are "haunt style" theme nights at the Universal studios theme park..right?

That's what I'm thinking. Last year they had one haunt house that was Freddy Kruger based. So, I hoping that this year it will be three of them. One for each movie.

They sound like they should be fantastic..
Any Forum members ever been?

Originally Posted by Baron Samedi

They sound like they should be fantastic..
Any Forum members ever been?

That would be a no.

Yeah been there about six times.Some of the houses are insane, and some are weak.The bad thing is the crowds and the money, lots of both. I'll be taking a break from HHN this year.

Ive been to a few in the past and all I can say is there were usually only like 6-9 different houses and I only got to 4 each time. The lines to get in each were horribly long, I waited hours to go in a few and maybe 45 min for the others. All of them and I mean all were such a quick walkthrough I dont know why the line was taking so long. I think I was in one for all of less than a minute? I left before the park closed I was so disgusted. This was my first time going to that, then I got talked into going again and I thought well its been a few years perhaps they improved the attractions and wait times. Nope, same deal as before. Total waste of money. The haunts themselves were laughable, one guy was wearing a cheap wherewolf costume and looed to be standing on a dryer so when he stomped it made a loud sound but it was so cheasy, not what you would expect from Universal you know? The park atmosphere was OK, but to be honest, the park is so large there was no way they could keep the atmosphere going everywhere, you ended up being in pockets of cool atmosphere to regular theme park stuff. If you want a fun time I highly recommend Busch Gardens halloween events. I have never been let down there, they have alot of haunted "houses" and themed walkthroughs (scare zones) and to top it all off you can ride many of their rides, Im looking at the wooden rollercoaster at night. Loads of fun. Plus its cheaper and they have decent group rates of 4 or more where its only $20 a person. One last thing is that they get volunteers to dress up in their own costumes and come out to scare people and work the haunts. Volunteers that BG brings in do a really good job getting into character and we always have alot of fun. Hope this helps anyone thinking about where to go for halloween events. :3

I'm kinda surprised...I would have thought if anybody was going to put on a good Halloween show it would have been Universal..

Any theme park you go to for a halloween event consists of long lines. They moved our local Jaycees haunt last year into silver springs and it was like a 2 hour plus wait for a pretty lame haunt.

Yes, I agree the lines are long. The first year we went ('04) we waited in these loooong lines but what made it pretty tolerable was the shot bars they had in the middle of the queue By the time we got to the haunt we were pretty lit up and happy

Later that night we learned about the 'Express Pass' they sell. We swore that if we were to go back we'd invest in that for sure. The next year we did and it was worth every penny! Made it much more enjoyable, head of the line at every haunt. But, that is why I think you had to wait an extra long time to get in.