Halloween Horror Nights 16 Closing Night

[tacoking]

Takes 1 and 2 can be seen in this topic.

 

I figured I would start a new topic since I have a few photos. More will be posted on my website soon.

 

 

 

Take 3:

 

Well tonight was my last time facing death at Halloween Horror Nights 16. It was my third visit, and definatly the best of the three. Gates opened at 6pm, and I pretty much walked right in. Lines hovered anywhere from 10 - 40 minutes all night, but most of the time I saw they were 20 minutes. Probably the least busiest night of the month. I managed to get through six houses, and could have easily gotten through the seventh, but I left a little early and took a lot of trips around the park snapping up photos. Let me start by talking about the camera. It was my first time using this beast, and I had pretty much NO idea how to operate going into the event. There was like 35 different settings, and none took just a flash then the picture. Eventually I got a setting that was good enough, so I managed to snag a few good shots. No really good zombie hooker pics, unfortunately. Also snagged some videos that turned out to be pretty cool, you really can capture the atmosphere of the event with these. With this night I also managed to meet my Mummy ride quota, even though I missed going to the park for four months earlier in the year.

 

Anywho, after getting through most of the park snapping up photos I decided to walk in to Dungeon of Terror, since I didn't go through it in my second visit to the event. Did the halloween bug get these guys or something? All the scareactors where amazing, plus there was tons of them. Sometimes you would catch 4 or 5 in a single room, many of them would travel in the line with you scaring random people. They were really into it. It was fantastic; I love to see them getting into their job. After going through it again, I realized my original score of 8 was too high. The sets weren't anything spectacular and it was just sort of a "meh" house. I figure my first visit should have ranked around a 7, and this trip through was a definate 8 thanks to the great scareactors in the house.

 

After that I was practically running to RUN. My first go through left me kind of disappointed with the house. Like with Dungeon, the scareactors were awesome. There still wasn't that many of them...could have used a few more, but the ones in place did a great job. The key feature in this house that wasn't working when I first went through it...the electric chair. This is the main thing that made Hellgate Prison *so* amazing a couple years back (one of their best houses ever), so that immediatly bumped the house up a point in the ratings. It's so realistic; it's wonderful. Original score was a 6.75, new score is 7.75.

 

From here on out I can't remember what I did in order, but who cares. I managed to get 6 rides on the Mummy...6 fantastic rides. I still have as much fun as I first started riding it 217 rides ago. That was the only ride I did during the night, although I peaked at the times for the others and from what I could tell they were walk ons most of the night. The Mummy seemed to top out at 35, but thank god for the single riders line.

 

As for the other houses...I've reported about Screamhouse the last two trips, and nothing changed this time around. Ok, so the line for Screamhouse uses part of the line that they have for Twister. People were going the wrong way and getting lost, so I bumped in front of like 25 people because they were morons and going the wrong way, and once I passed them I showed them the correct way to the house. This was kind of funny, the people most of thought no one wanted to go through the house. People must have getting lost for at least 10 minutes, since there was NO one in front of me. The scareactors were probably shocked some one was coming though, I caught a couple just sitting around waiting and talking in the first room and in the next two Caretakers were talking to each other. I thought that was pretty funny. Anyways, it was the same house as it was the last two trips.

 

Another house I went through was All Night Die In. Again, same house as it was in my last visit and nothing interesting happened. I think I waited a whole 10 minutes to get into it. I also did Psycho Path since I missed it on my last visit. From what I can remember, it was the same as it was a month ago. After going through it again however, I realize my original score of eight was too high, so I knocked it down to 7.5. Nice detail, but nothing really special.

 

I also went through Psycho Scarepy. This was the only house to see an upgrade by me this night. And yes, I saw Jack. Finally. On my first visit I thought I missed Jack, but it turns out he was the creepy guy that was cowering in the corner ripping his hair out at the end. So I saw him but wasn't aware of it, so that wasn't cool. It was a whole different case this time. You see him when you first walk in, he's all normal jumping around and laughing. I managed to hit every scareactor in the house, the bathroom is still wonderful, and at the end he was in his jacket jumping around again and yelling. Fantastic. I was able to see Jack. Original score was 8.5, new score has it at a 9.

 

Only house I didn't hit was People Under The Stairs, but I don't imagine they fixed it much since my last visit. They had already improved it much before then. So, with that my night came to an end. An absolutly amazing way to end the most well rounded Halloween Horror Nights ever. Only 8 months until the rumors come in.

 

Photos and videos to come over the next couple days. I'll post a few teaser ones in here later.

 

 

 

Nightly review:

 

1. All Night Die In - 9/10

1. Psyhco Scarepy - 9/10

3. Screamhouse - 8.25/10

4. Dungeon of Terror - 8/10

5. RUN - 7.75/10

6. Psycho Path - 7.5/10

 

Yearly review:

 

1. All Night Die In - 9/10

2. Psyhco Scarepy - 9/10

3. Screamhouse - 8.25/10

4. People Under the Stairs - 8/10

5. Dungeon of Terror - 8/10

6. RUN - 7.75/10

7. Psycho Path - 7.5/10

[thefitness]

Nice Review!

I agree with you on DOT the second time I went through all the scareactors were great,but the sets just weren't scary.The ballroom scene was awesome though.

Anyway great review...I can't wait to see what they come up with next year!

[Chase]

Nice pics, I got Pics and Video, which I will be putting into my Review.

[tacoking]

Just a quick update on the photos, all of them have been uploaded and added to Airtime Central. Head on over to the site to check them out.

 

Keep watching over the next week or so, I recorded five videos but recorded them at the wrong resolution so the file size is huge. Once I compress them I will add them to the site. They are good, I think, because they really capture the atmosphere of the event.

 

11 months to go until I get to do it all again!

 

Halloween Horror Nights 16 Gallery

[Ryan King]

Damnit!

 

When We were there stupid robosaurus crap was carrying the car and dropped it on the electrical stuff...

 

It was an extremely huge let down! But I had A LOT of fun at that event! Im hoping to do it again next year!

 

Glad to see you had fun!

 

-Ryan