Halloween Horror Nights 35 (UOR) - Speculation & Rumors

[Legacy]

From Reddit by way of Facebook, the boilerplate responses from Universal seem to have coalesced into this:

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The language is very deliberate, treating "Scream Early" and "Stay & Scream" as separate entities. (AP early entry always was classified as a form of "S&S," with an AP being a "day ticket.") These feels more like it was drafted by Legal than a typical tweet. As bad as it seems from a logistics standpoint, this language strongly implies another level of upcharge.

Adds a new wrinkle -- are the Scream Early and S&S houses the same? Last year S&S could in theory line up at any house, even if it wouldn't open for a while. Will the SE houses be off-limits to 5? Also I doubt they offer Express from 2 - 5, although I can't imagine needing it.

As always, until we see it on a website it's subject to change, but at least keeping that option open.

So if true, their attempt at getting extra revenue has officially overcomplicated things.

The GP was already getting confused with the S&S vs HHN vs Day Admission and what was needed for each. I know because I've been stuck behind people arguing with staff over what ticket(s) they thought they were buying.

"So this just lets me get in a line early?"

"Yes. But not that house."

"Why?"

"That's a Scream Early house. It's line doesn't open until 5:00."

"Oh. So I can see that house now?"

"No. You only have Stay and Scream."

*Man walks away angry and confused. Yells at wife*

I actually think the solution is surprisingly simple:

All non-Scream Early queues start allowing people to line up at 5 instead of 4. From Universal’s perspective, that’s how you “force” guests showing up for S&S to do something other than sit for two hours. If you walk in at 4, you can find something to do for that first hour. At 5, the Scream Early houses shut down and all queues open for S&S.

Doing this, Scream Early is explicitly separate from Stay and Scream. The one hour overlap in time is more of an “administrative” overlap rather than an operational overlap.

And before anyone says keeping the S&S queues closed until 5 is removing a “perk,” the perk is being in the park early so you can queue before General Admission. Keeping the queue closed until 5 doesn’t actually eliminate that perk at all.

 

[HHN Maddux]

 

[rageofthegods]

 

[RedRightDan]

The socials (including Vegas) seem to be warming up a bit too.

 

[StaticShock]

Anticipating like…

 

[Pixarfan96]

Me everytime you bring up having KKFOS appear again as a house at HHN Orlando. Or in any capacity.

I Know, I have a problem! Help Me! Lol