schumigirl
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The Simpsons is not any of our favourite shows, to be honest we never really watched it, still don`t, we maybe caught the odd clip, especially if they weirdly predicted something many years ago only for it to actually happen, but that`s the only time we ever watched it. Of course we knew the storyline and characters so Springfield makes sense, but if it disappeared tomorrow, I certainly wouldn`t miss this area.
Same with the Bumblebee Taco Truck......Tom tried something from it several years back, maybe when it first appeared and it wasn`t good, of course I think we were just unlucky the meat was more fat than anything else, but again, that style of food is not for us generally. However, it is very popular and folks seem to like it.
Duff Beer bar is always nice to sit and have a chill out, they sell cocktails too and they`re not too bad, although I`d suggest getting a double measure, it needs it
My two went on The Simpson`s ride and as many of you who have been reading forever will know this is not a ride I will ever go back on. It knocked me senseless and unbelievably dizzy many years ago, I came off green and that was the end of the day for us. Tom and Kyle had no idea as they merrily walked out and thought I was behind them, when they noticed I wasn`t behind them they came back and saw the TM looking after me. Yes, it was that bad.
But, they like it and it doesn`t affect them at all so I have a wander round the store which is very cute and then sit on one of the benches and watch the world go past.
A man came and sat beside me and chatted for a time, his family had all gone on the Simpsons ride too, he found out the day before couldn`t handle it at all, his experience was similar to mine and like me he could do all rollercoasters but not this one, so he was happy to wait while they enjoyed it. He was about 10 years younger than me and they were from South Florida but had never been to Orlando before which surprised me, but theme parks had never interested them up till their kids were slightly older.
I was hoping they wouldn`t be long as we wanted to see the Bourne show which would time nicely for the Horror Make up Show afterwards, but they were taking forever, eventually they appeared and they had been held up by the Express Pass line being held up to let up more of the regular line through. This wasn`t the first time this had happened and it`s not a popular thing to do, the man`s wife and family appeared and said the same thing, they were really annoyed as they had purchased the EP`s for their 3 days, that is a lot of annoyed with the cost of them!!
But, we headed off down to Bourne now and it was still fairly quiet in this area.
We had timed it nicely as everyone else, more or less had already gone in so the line area was almost empty which is good for pictures!
We really hoped Kyle would enjoy this one as he had never seen it before, and he did, he liked it and said he`d happily do it again.
It is a good show and where I used to have a snooze during the T2 show (yes, really) I didn`t snooze through this one. It`s a mix of live action and screens, but not screens that are awful, it is really well done and entertaining, one not to miss.
Of course you exit to a gift store......and they had already started to put out the HHN merchandise for this year, I did like the see you in the fog merch and it was selling already, people were snapping them up even this early. As a fellow HHN fan I understood they were keen to get something. We won`t be going this year though, first time in many years excluding Covid of course, but I think a break will do us good as we didn`t enjoy it as much as we should have last year, it was just too crowded to the point where it was scary busy.
Our next stop was the Horror Make up Show and it had been many years since Kyle had done this as I`m not sure we did it on any of our recent Christmas visits with him. But, he was keen to see it again as it is a very good show.
The theatre is filled with memorabilia from a lot of the old movies that we love so much, classic monster movies, images from the family show The Munsters and some modern scary movies too, it is wonderful to just wander and look at the images.
I love these old classic pictures behind the scenes from these movies, somehow makes Frankensteins monster and Dracula not so scary when they`re sharing a pot of tea!!!
Pictures are from a Google search.
I loved the display to include anything by Lon Chaney, aka man of a thousand faces. He was terrifying in most movies including Phantom of the Opera, Hunchback of Notre Dam and I believe only made one talking movie in his career. I would have loved to have seen him in the 1927 Tod Browning movie, London after Midnight, aka The Hypnotist but there are no surviving copies of this movie. The only copy had been stored in MGM`s movie vault but fire destroyed everything in that vault in 1967. It was supposed to be a genuinely terrifying movie.
Carl Laemmle Jr. wanted Lon Chaney to play Dracula in the 1931 movie and not Bela Lugosi, but he died before the movie was made. Rumours are they got Bela Lugosi for a much reduced price than Chaney would have incurred.
They have so many items to look at and some of them amaze me every time I see them, when I think some of these movies were made in the 1930`s. They don`t lose their appeal if you are a horror fan.
Seeing Kyle sitting in this chair reminded us of the older lady who used to work here years ago, she used to wander round with a rubber arm and hand hidden in her outfit and would very silently creep up behind folks and gently touch them with the hand....it was hilarious and she caught so many people, me included!! She must have retired many years ago.
Tom gave me an extra hug as we went in, it hadn`t gone unnoticed that the last time we were here was the day we spent time with Lindsey in the park and I had the vision of her bouncing in full of excitement and happiness as she joined us for some park fun. Sometimes you don`t need to speak, he knew it was on my mind as we went in, she loved all things horror so this was a special show for her, it was hard to think of her as she was so happy and full of excitement for the show and told us so many things we didn`t know, including the shorter lady of the show, Summer was actually Mike Aiello`s wife....he is Mr HHN. We never knew who she was and she has worked for Universal in various positions for over 20 years.
I didn`t cry although I felt like it as we were in a huge group of people and I didn`t want to bring the mood down, especially for Kyle who would enjoy the show.
It sounds awful to say, but I was disappointed it was this guy who was one half of the show today, he is perfectly fine, but it meant Summer wasn`t the other half of the double act, she just adds so much to the show but it was still very good.
They do stick to the same format, same script and same finale and have done since the beginning and it is clever. They choose a member of the audience, and have them as part of the show, show some tricks and some movie clips, make some jokes including the old classic about not having to be nice to kids as it`s not Disney, that one always gets a cheer.....but they have added some new jokes to include the Kardashians and some other pertinent comments.
It is worth seeing and completely suitable for kids...there`s nothing scary about it whatsoever.
More to come.....
Same with the Bumblebee Taco Truck......Tom tried something from it several years back, maybe when it first appeared and it wasn`t good, of course I think we were just unlucky the meat was more fat than anything else, but again, that style of food is not for us generally. However, it is very popular and folks seem to like it.
Duff Beer bar is always nice to sit and have a chill out, they sell cocktails too and they`re not too bad, although I`d suggest getting a double measure, it needs it
My two went on The Simpson`s ride and as many of you who have been reading forever will know this is not a ride I will ever go back on. It knocked me senseless and unbelievably dizzy many years ago, I came off green and that was the end of the day for us. Tom and Kyle had no idea as they merrily walked out and thought I was behind them, when they noticed I wasn`t behind them they came back and saw the TM looking after me. Yes, it was that bad.
But, they like it and it doesn`t affect them at all so I have a wander round the store which is very cute and then sit on one of the benches and watch the world go past.
A man came and sat beside me and chatted for a time, his family had all gone on the Simpsons ride too, he found out the day before couldn`t handle it at all, his experience was similar to mine and like me he could do all rollercoasters but not this one, so he was happy to wait while they enjoyed it. He was about 10 years younger than me and they were from South Florida but had never been to Orlando before which surprised me, but theme parks had never interested them up till their kids were slightly older.
I was hoping they wouldn`t be long as we wanted to see the Bourne show which would time nicely for the Horror Make up Show afterwards, but they were taking forever, eventually they appeared and they had been held up by the Express Pass line being held up to let up more of the regular line through. This wasn`t the first time this had happened and it`s not a popular thing to do, the man`s wife and family appeared and said the same thing, they were really annoyed as they had purchased the EP`s for their 3 days, that is a lot of annoyed with the cost of them!!
But, we headed off down to Bourne now and it was still fairly quiet in this area.
We had timed it nicely as everyone else, more or less had already gone in so the line area was almost empty which is good for pictures!
We really hoped Kyle would enjoy this one as he had never seen it before, and he did, he liked it and said he`d happily do it again.
It is a good show and where I used to have a snooze during the T2 show (yes, really) I didn`t snooze through this one. It`s a mix of live action and screens, but not screens that are awful, it is really well done and entertaining, one not to miss.
Of course you exit to a gift store......and they had already started to put out the HHN merchandise for this year, I did like the see you in the fog merch and it was selling already, people were snapping them up even this early. As a fellow HHN fan I understood they were keen to get something. We won`t be going this year though, first time in many years excluding Covid of course, but I think a break will do us good as we didn`t enjoy it as much as we should have last year, it was just too crowded to the point where it was scary busy.
Our next stop was the Horror Make up Show and it had been many years since Kyle had done this as I`m not sure we did it on any of our recent Christmas visits with him. But, he was keen to see it again as it is a very good show.
The theatre is filled with memorabilia from a lot of the old movies that we love so much, classic monster movies, images from the family show The Munsters and some modern scary movies too, it is wonderful to just wander and look at the images.
I love these old classic pictures behind the scenes from these movies, somehow makes Frankensteins monster and Dracula not so scary when they`re sharing a pot of tea!!!
Pictures are from a Google search.
I loved the display to include anything by Lon Chaney, aka man of a thousand faces. He was terrifying in most movies including Phantom of the Opera, Hunchback of Notre Dam and I believe only made one talking movie in his career. I would have loved to have seen him in the 1927 Tod Browning movie, London after Midnight, aka The Hypnotist but there are no surviving copies of this movie. The only copy had been stored in MGM`s movie vault but fire destroyed everything in that vault in 1967. It was supposed to be a genuinely terrifying movie.
Carl Laemmle Jr. wanted Lon Chaney to play Dracula in the 1931 movie and not Bela Lugosi, but he died before the movie was made. Rumours are they got Bela Lugosi for a much reduced price than Chaney would have incurred.
They have so many items to look at and some of them amaze me every time I see them, when I think some of these movies were made in the 1930`s. They don`t lose their appeal if you are a horror fan.
Seeing Kyle sitting in this chair reminded us of the older lady who used to work here years ago, she used to wander round with a rubber arm and hand hidden in her outfit and would very silently creep up behind folks and gently touch them with the hand....it was hilarious and she caught so many people, me included!! She must have retired many years ago.
Tom gave me an extra hug as we went in, it hadn`t gone unnoticed that the last time we were here was the day we spent time with Lindsey in the park and I had the vision of her bouncing in full of excitement and happiness as she joined us for some park fun. Sometimes you don`t need to speak, he knew it was on my mind as we went in, she loved all things horror so this was a special show for her, it was hard to think of her as she was so happy and full of excitement for the show and told us so many things we didn`t know, including the shorter lady of the show, Summer was actually Mike Aiello`s wife....he is Mr HHN. We never knew who she was and she has worked for Universal in various positions for over 20 years.
I didn`t cry although I felt like it as we were in a huge group of people and I didn`t want to bring the mood down, especially for Kyle who would enjoy the show.
It sounds awful to say, but I was disappointed it was this guy who was one half of the show today, he is perfectly fine, but it meant Summer wasn`t the other half of the double act, she just adds so much to the show but it was still very good.
They do stick to the same format, same script and same finale and have done since the beginning and it is clever. They choose a member of the audience, and have them as part of the show, show some tricks and some movie clips, make some jokes including the old classic about not having to be nice to kids as it`s not Disney, that one always gets a cheer.....but they have added some new jokes to include the Kardashians and some other pertinent comments.
It is worth seeing and completely suitable for kids...there`s nothing scary about it whatsoever.
More to come.....
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- one and done for us & definitely a never again. Fortunately there are so many others we love at UO to enjoy 
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. You’d love the heat. Worse than any of our previous trips.
