Surprised to see a complete lack of discussion here. This is the best entrance zone I've seen from HHN, across nine years of attendance.
It uses the classic HHN arch and sign, while also incorporating it into actual sets with the huge gates and gargoyles. It's got numerous set pieces and stages for gargoyle and haunted statue scareactors to pose and scare from. The stiltwalker crows are both imposing and huge, while also being kinda silly and fun, providing a ton of movement and personality for interactions and scares. The chainsaws have incredible Silent Hill-esque costumes that look exactly like what Surreal's team should've looked like last year; while also being mixed in with actual scareactors with similarly great looks. You can even sometimes run into The Artist, rambling quietly to himself and stumbling around the front of the zone, it's really cool!
And that's just the section in front of the Studios Store. Once you get to Minionland, it feels like the classic IP entrance zones from years ago, but done really tastefully. The Silent Hill-esque monsters roam around stone monuments and stained glass windows. The IP booths are represented with "stone" fiberglass statues of each property, with some great care put into each one.
The WWE symbol itself is a really iconic emblem and wild to see at HHN, and the lantern illuminating the statue serves as a solid way to specify the Wyatt connection, and is also just a really sweet tribute to Bray. It's simply surreal seeing Jason back at the event, and that Freddy Fazbear and Art the Clown made it here at all! Let alone seeing them all next to each other! This years' incredibly iconic and eclectic IP lineup is showcased in such a cool way here, and I really love it.
The soundtrack perfectly ties everything together, being just spooky and foreboding enough, but also not too bombastic or loud. Staring into the event from beyond the front gates of the zone really captures that Halloween energy. The perfect intro for this event.
Great sets, incorporating the old and new of HHN events across both props and layout; wonderful costumes with great scares from an even mix of different scareactor groups (stilts, saws, etc.); represents all of the IP houses, while also connecting to the best house at the event, El Artista, and thus the rest of the event with The Artist being the unifying concept for HHN34. It's just great. I legitimately can't think of a way to make this zone any better than it already is.
I will always find a way to bash 33. Comparing this zone to last year's entrance zone is legitimate insanity. Last year had barely themed chainsaws and legitimately two (2) cloths (one red and one blue, for Sinister (red) and Surreal (blue).) draped over the truss that held up the kinda-Icons as they improv'd for awhile. No sets, no music, two unique costumes for about 5 chainsaw actors. It just ... wasn't even a zone haha.