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^Click on the Universal Club TPR store link in the Club TPR forum and you will find a HHN Event Admission section and a Front of Line section on the right hand side, for example I got $20 off my front of line pass for Friday night and $10 off my Saturday night Front of Line. The event admissions discounts are quite good as well: $25 off: 9/24 $21 off: 9/25, 10/1 $16 off: 10/2, 10/8, 10/17, 10/21, 10/24, 10/28 $11 off: 10/9, 10/15, 10/31 $6 off: 10/16, 10/22, 10/29 No discounts for the last 2 Saturdays.

This one will be a blast, I think because it is not movie based it will make it much harder to anticipate the scares. I'm looking forward to the 3 hour Behind the Screams tour. Has there been any news whether Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit will be open at HHN? If it is I won't bother going to Universal in the day because I've done everything else before.

This is an absolutely amazing event and I will be in LA that day but I'm flying to Orlando that day as well, damn I'm bummed out. Oh well, I'm going to KSF on the Thursday before so hopefully it won't be too crowded. I hope this will become an annual event so I can plan for it in the future.

Tickets, finally, are now on sale, got mine. If you are a Club TPR member there are some good discounts for HHN @ USH.

They said new traps for SAW, so I take that as they'll do murders from SAW films that they didn't do in the previous maze. Given there's been 6 films with a seventh coming, there should be plenty of set pieces that weren't covered last year. I don't know for sure because I've only seen the first film.

It's already on the website, there is a 3 hour tour for $75 and a 2 hour tour for $50: http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/orlando/rip_tours.html UNMASKING THE HORROR TOURS Get an inside look at this year's Halloween Horror Nights® as your guide takes you behind the screams, showing you the inner workings of several of this year's main attractions. Along the way, we will share the ghoulish secrets and history of Halloween Horror Nights® and how it has become one of the most anticipated Halloween events in the world. Unmasking the Horror Tour: $50+tax per person Departs at 11am and 2pm daily Two hours in length Basic overview of this year's Halloween Horror Nights® "Lights on" tour of three haunted houses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unmasking the Horror: Twenty Years of FEAR Tour: $75+tax per person Sept. 29, Oct. 6 & 13 (Tours depart at 10am & 2pm) Oct. 20 & 27 (Tours depart at 1pm only) Three hours in length Departs promptly at 1 PM Full overview of this year's Halloween Horror Nights®. A more in-depth "lights on" tour of three haunted houses A Q & A session with one of our Halloween Horror Nights® creators

Alton Towers Thorpe Park London Dungeon (no coasters but rides) Gardaland (Italy) Mirabilandia (iTaly) Movieland Studios (Italy) Europa Park Wurzberg Fair (Olympia Looping) Phantasialand Efteling Walibi World (Holland) To come Universal Studios Hollywood (for HHN) Knott's Berry Farm (for Haunt) Universal Studios Orlando (HHN & Park) IOA Sea World Orlando Busch Tampa (HOS and park)

I was hoping Behind The Screams tours would be on this year, sent my email to make a reservation.

We can still speculate about what the second show will be, Lesbian Vampires maybe, probably not just hoping. I wish they'd start selling tickets, they seem really behind this year.

Intersting topic, this will require some cross referencing with coaster counter list: 1988 Centrifuge, Supernova & Titan - Work Expo Park Brisbane 1988 Eureka Mountain Mine Ride - Dreamworld 1992 Flashback - SFMM 1994 Batman The Ride - SFMM 2001 Deja Vu - SFMM 2001 California Screaming & Mulholland Madness - Cali Adv 2001 Cyclone - Dreamworld 2003 Top Thrill Dragster - CP 2003 Scream - SFMM 2004 Silver Bullet - KBF 2004 Stormrunner - Hershey 2004 Revenge of the Mummy - USF 2005 Pandemonium - SFNE 2006 Tatsu - SFMM 2006 El Toro - GAdv 2007 Sierra Sidewinder - KBF 2007 Surfrider - Wet and Wild Aust 2007 Firehawk - KI 2007 Maverick - CP 2008 Behemoth - CW 2008 Orange County Choppers - Darien Lake 2008 Possessed - Dorney 2008 Fahrenheit - Hershey 2008 Dominator - KD 2008 Dark Knight - GAdv 2008 Ravine Flyer II - Waldameer 2009 Rabalder - Liseberg 2009 Carolina Cobra - Carowinds 2009 Tornado - Bakken 2009 Viktor Vandorm - Bon Bon Land 2009 Insane - Gronalund 2009 Fluch Von Novgorod - Hansa 2009 Tranan - Skara Sommarland 2010 13 - Alton Towers 2010 Joris En De Draak - Efteling "Home Park" 1985 Beastie & Bush Beast - Wonderland Sydney 1995 Big Dipper & wild Mouse - Luna Park Sydney

What? No Big Bad Wolf night ERT, oh yeah, I forgot - sorry. At least you got the Pigeon Forge kiddie credits that were both closed last year. Seriously, Busch Europe never ceases to amaze me at how beautiful it is, and soon I'll be checking out it's Tampa sister for the first time to compare the two. How was Apollo's Chariot running, it seemed very sluggish and trimmed too much on the 2008 East Coast tour?

You have no idea how wrong you are... Jurassic Jungle Boat Ride is one of the coolest home-built rides out there, and the quality for such is pretty incredible. Plus, no photos or video can do justice for the scariest, funniest, most bizarre dark ride I've ever been on. The ending alone was worth every cent. Adam, we're you with us when we did Jurassic Boat Ride last year? I took a video of the whole ride. Ah the memories, the terrifying taxi trip to Gatlinburg with the serial killer driver who has been abducted by aliens and sees ghosts. Then the Haunted Attraction marathon in Gatlinburg. Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge are so cheesy but so much fun, I loved checking out all that stuff last. It's a shame it was too late at night for the alpine slide when we were there.

So a much less jovial Freddy will be in session. Which raises the question whether the rest of the New Line unholy trinity will be making an appearance - perhaps Jason from the remake and old Leatherface. Amazingly we're getting SAW and Freddy mazes down in Australia at Movie World for Halloween, quite a surprise.

Murdy has announced on Twitter that there will be A Nightmare On Elm Street maze, 3 down 2 to go. The HHN website hasn't been updated yet.

I'm already going to HOS, so I'll do Alone for sure, and I'll do it alone - bring it on. It's going to be huge night - Fright Feast, Mega Tour and Alone.

^Those North Korean coasters are just cover for the missile silos. Edit: I checked out North Korea on rcdb, they have a Zamperla Volare in construction, no doubt to extract confessions from dissidents and wayward credit whores. Big Dipper at Luna Park Sydney, I was barely tall enough to ride but I got to ride before it derailed and closed. I went to Luna Park again while it was still closed and the night I visited it burned down down along with the Ghost Train and no - I didn't do it.

Hopefully, this all a smokescreen for the 1000 foot giant elastic band launched Intamin wing walker. If it really is a Star Flyer or whatever, totally not excited.

I wouldn't go near any English speaking country with a name like that. In other news, after Will Hung's hugely successful "Hang With Hung" tour of Six Flags Parks. Six Flags officials have contacted Dong about a tour with Hung.

^I was the same with HHN in Hollywood last year (my first Halloween event), as soon as I got back I was following everything that was about this year's event. This year I'm doing HHN on both coasts and I can't wait. They keep it so secret, a maze announcement seems so far away.

I saw Slash (with Myles Kennedy as vocalist) at the Hordern Pavillion, Sydney, 8/16/10. I wasn't sure what to expect but it turned out to be a sensational gig. Myles was impressive as a frontman and vocalist and Slash played like he was loving every minute, they apparently went 15 minutes over their alotted 2 hours (regulations mean they have to finish by a certain time). Slash looks like he has gotten healthy, gone were the bottle of Jack Daniel's and the ciggie hanging out of his mouth, also he looks like he's been getting in shape. The set was pretty good, 5 Gunners covers - Night Train, Rocket Queen, Sweet Child, Civil War & Paradise City. 4 Velvet Revolver covers, 1 Slash's Snakepit and 1 Alter Bridge cover. The rest were from his new solo album which is killer. Slash's 20 or so minute guitar interlude was jaw dropping. Got the CD of the gig, that one will be getting some airtime.

Cedar Point stages a fun run every morning in 2 divisions. Division 1 - the Early Entry Classic, is a leisurely balls to the wall sprint to Maverick. An hour later, Divison 2 runs, which is broken up into several different length runs depending on fitness and intelligence levels: Raptor, Millie, Dragster, and Maverick; and ends with confusion ("why is there already a line") for the winner. And they play the National Anthem too.

I see on Twitter that Knott's was asking what new ride or attraction would you like at Knott's - I suggested something like Goliath at Walibi World - a great ride and not too big. Just me dreaming, if Knott's got Balder and Expedition GeForce clones, no other park would be seeing much of me. Also good to see that Knott's has set up their website so that us ghastly foreigners can now purchase tickets online using paypal. Last year, I had to go through ticketmaster for Haunt tickets (a rip off) because you couldn't buy tickets on the Knott's site unless you had a US or Canadian address.

I never play, for starters I'm not interested, I don't have time, and I assume the games are rigged anyway. Also the thought of carrying a fluffy bunny the size of three human beings around a park does not appeal to me, nor do the people who are into carrying huge fluffy bunnies around parks all day. I re-watched Rollercoaster again not long ago, I loved how George Segal won a ring toss game and his prize was a carton of cigarettes. Last time I was at King's Dominion in 2008, I didn't check whether those kind of prizes were still on offer. The psycho in the movie made George Segal marathon Rebel Yell, that's really mean.

Orphan Rocker at Scenic World, Katoomba - if you've got that credit - you're either lying, the owner of Scenic World, or a sandbag (legend has it that they tested the ride with sandbags in the train and they got thrown out).

New maze announced: Vampyre: Castle of the Undead. Love the huge amount of information they put on the actual HHN Hollywood website (not!): http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/hollywood/index.html?ref=