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I participated in the Journalism Day at Busch Gardens today! (PHOTOS TO COME SOON) We arrived at 8:15am and were taken to some area to the left of the Xcursions store. There were about 10-15 schools there and we can either write an article or make a documentary on Howl-O-Scream and/or Christmas Town for free tickets to those events. We were introduced by the entertainment director (the guy who did the previous scream cams a few years ago, and I forgot his name) but he went through all the information on Howl-O-Scream and Christmas Town. One thing I didn't know was there are 2 official scare zones for Howl-O-Scream, not 1. "Faded Memories"-located by Sesame Street and "The Family Plot"-themed around the commercial and "The Dark Side of the Gardens." Our schedule of the day was: 9:30-10:15 Vampire Casino: Condemned Lights on Tour 10:15-11:00 Christmas Town preparation, costuming, "snow" info, etc. 11:00-11:45 Scareactor auditions! 11:45-12:30 Making of Shop of Horrors (tshirts, theming,etc.) The lights on tour was great! We were led by that same guy who introduced/welcomed everyone and followed him in. There will be a small LED flashlight given. They are going to test out different ways to use it. For example, they might give a flashlight every 4 people. There will be some lighting though such as strobe lights here and there. Christmas Town is going to be really exciting this year! Just going into the preview area and learning about the preparation of this event makes me want to go here. They are already decorating the park (lights mainly) and will be during Howl-O-Screm howver they won't be lit during HOS. The entrance and sign of Alone got some yellow spray paint where it says "Can you make it through Alone?" Thought it really stood out and looks nice. All of the houses look ready to go! In Blood Asylum, it will be the first time ever HOS has had a "thunderstorm" occur throughout the whole house. Also, the roaming hordes...there are 18 groups of 260 people total roaming the park scaring you. The only place safe is the bathrooms! For scareactors, 900 are hired out of 1500 that audition and it takes a long process. One of the guys I talked to about Alone said that by the time I could become a scareactor, a new experience, not Alone but similar, would be here. He wouldn't say anything else. The beginning of Nevermore is supposedly different this year. Zombie Mortuary will keep the picture taken at one of the trap doors, etc. BTW, if you were wondering why Trickster had the BGT nametag "Jim," they did that as a prank to their park manager!!!

^^ We'll find out in 13 hours, 19 minutes, 5 seconds...and counting

Where will Typhoon Twister be located at White water?

Hollywood Studios I feel has been lacking. Their attendance has dropped into the last place for attendance at WDW. Also, it really only has 6 rides there: Rock N roller Coaster, Tower of Terror, Great Movie Ride, Star Tours 2, Toy Story Mania, and the Backlot Tram thing. I honestly think this park needs a big renovation like California Adventure has gotten. -I'm hoping that an Avengers ride will be put here. -The long rumored Monsters Inc Coaster/Ride? -Perhaps bring in Cars Land!!! What are your ideas for new attractions or plans for the park?

The Howl O Scream website is live with all the details and tickets! It seems they have the one scare zone...maybe they will have 13 zones from the past 13 years! http://howloscream.com/tampa/homepage.aspx

Howl-O-Scream 2012 TV Commercial:

I don't know if this was posted yet but the turn out of the station has catwalks. I kind of wished it had a turn out like Leviathan or Wild Eagle. Oh well. Still looks like a fantastic B&M!!!

Where are they putting the Cedar Point sign at the front gate? I think it would be cool if it is right over the gate in between the key holes under the twists!

The new icon has been revealed today as it is the 13th! The Trickster is the new icon for HOS this year! HOS FB Page:

According to their website...these are all the things new for this year!

I don't think this would happen but a Mack Megalite or Intamin I think would be a great addition to the park! ^It does make me think of a water ride or something with water.

http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g399/ShippudenMan/GK3.png Hairtime back row!!!!!!!

This looks amazing! Great addition and improvement! I wonder what the station would be like...A GIANT KEYHOLE! Excited for this!!!

According to Howl-o-Scream's FB Page: The Icon! (Can you find the key?) Fiends Show moves to Desert Grill...

Please stop. It's really not funny. At all. THANK YOU FINALLY! The whole name thing is just getting annoying!

OMG...IT WON'T BE VOLCANO ANYMORE! IT WILL BE SPACE THEMED!!!

My thoughts are that if they add a second coaster to the proposed WingRider, it will be a family/kiddie coaster since they removed Wildcat and Disaster Transport which were family/kiddie coasters.

^I had most posted on page 390.

What if it's something like Leviathan!!! That'd be awesome! Whatever they plan on there to expand, it will definitely be a big improvement since that ride wasted space and Cedar Fair kept it there since 2009. Oh well. Looking into their expansion plans!!!!!!!

Are there any rumors for a 2013 attraction?

Can we stop guessing or making fun of Cedar Fair's Flight-Deck-Hawk name? It's getting a little annoying reading page after page of what people are guessing the ride name will be. Honestly I could careless what the ride name is...I'm just excited that a huge B&M WingRider is coming!!!

According to HowlOScream's Twitter feed, Vampire Casino will have you use a flashlight!!!

According to Howl-O-Scream's FB Page...a new haunted house named Blood Asylum is on its way! Another one will be themed to a circus and will be in 3D!!! Also, they will bring back some old haunts in their new scarezone, Faded Memories. Looks like there might not be roaming hordes everywhere this year. Also on their FB Page, Nightshade, Nevermore, Alone, and Vampire Ultimate Gamble are coming back with a twist. There will only be two new houses this year also. Now we await the shows and the scarezones.

I honestly don't care about the roller coaster count as the quality that matters. A huge wingrider next year will be great! A ZacSpin or whatever else comes in the future for roller coasters will be great quality! Cedar Point does like to break records so will they try to capture the roller coaster capital of the world again???

King Cobra opened today! Did anyone go check it out?