TheSecondCook
Now known as "TheFirstCook"
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- Jan 31, 2001
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..Well, I've been twice now, once on the employee preview and once last night (Sat the 5th). Like others who have expressed in other threads, I have mixed feelings. I knew I would as soon as I heard they were going to move the event to IOA.
1)Evilution was my favorite house. IT was fun, terrifying and cool; it was the most submersive experience based on a movie I have ever experienced. Scare house was two mostly because it was kind of a classic, standard haunted house. What it had goiung for it was the scale and detail involved. My third choice was Scary Tales 2. This was one of my areas of concerns, putting a haunted house in the popeye cue line. It was cramped, too much climbing and HOT. The detail was no where on par with last year's (my all-time favorite HHN house), nor were the scaractors. I couldn't really tell what fairy tale was being twisted in any particular area. MAximum Carnage missed out because it had potential, but failed to realize it. They honestly were high on the concept if they built an entire builidng for it. It didn't have any touch of marvel in it, in my opinion. Heck, I didn't even see Carnage! Fear Factor...well, just be glad other people are in the two hour lines and not you!
2) Bill and Ted's was good; I liked the montage of previous years' shows and the OSborne's. I'm really getting tired of Austin Powers and Eminem being in it, though. All I have to say is "Oh, I dropped my glasses!"
3)Sinbad...hehe...like others have said, this is an adult version of the show. Not for children, unless you want your kids subjected to nonstop vulgairity and sexual suggestions; because the two "commentators" are from will and grace, most of the comments were VERY umm...extreme...I thought that they would tone things down (because the shows at the employee previews are always a little more liberal than what they normally do for guests), but they didn't.
All in all, I was impressed by the production values of HHN. They went all out. Judging by the wall to wall people last night that made it hard to move or breathe, it will be a financial success. But some of my concerns were justified. One, there' not sao much open space at IOA as there is at the Studios, so being snuck up on by scaractors is next to impossible. 2) Because IOA is so heavily themed, future HHN's held there will be limited to those already established themes. I don't see them comign up with any other ideas beyond the marvel villains taking over MSHI, or the dinos running amok in JP. The studios acted as a blank canvas, you basically could do anything and it would work. I don't see that happening here. I doubt the freshness and uniqueness of holding HHN at IOA lasting beyond this year.
It was fun, though. Go and get scared, and hope next year it returns to the studios.
1)Evilution was my favorite house. IT was fun, terrifying and cool; it was the most submersive experience based on a movie I have ever experienced. Scare house was two mostly because it was kind of a classic, standard haunted house. What it had goiung for it was the scale and detail involved. My third choice was Scary Tales 2. This was one of my areas of concerns, putting a haunted house in the popeye cue line. It was cramped, too much climbing and HOT. The detail was no where on par with last year's (my all-time favorite HHN house), nor were the scaractors. I couldn't really tell what fairy tale was being twisted in any particular area. MAximum Carnage missed out because it had potential, but failed to realize it. They honestly were high on the concept if they built an entire builidng for it. It didn't have any touch of marvel in it, in my opinion. Heck, I didn't even see Carnage! Fear Factor...well, just be glad other people are in the two hour lines and not you!
2) Bill and Ted's was good; I liked the montage of previous years' shows and the OSborne's. I'm really getting tired of Austin Powers and Eminem being in it, though. All I have to say is "Oh, I dropped my glasses!"
3)Sinbad...hehe...like others have said, this is an adult version of the show. Not for children, unless you want your kids subjected to nonstop vulgairity and sexual suggestions; because the two "commentators" are from will and grace, most of the comments were VERY umm...extreme...I thought that they would tone things down (because the shows at the employee previews are always a little more liberal than what they normally do for guests), but they didn't.
All in all, I was impressed by the production values of HHN. They went all out. Judging by the wall to wall people last night that made it hard to move or breathe, it will be a financial success. But some of my concerns were justified. One, there' not sao much open space at IOA as there is at the Studios, so being snuck up on by scaractors is next to impossible. 2) Because IOA is so heavily themed, future HHN's held there will be limited to those already established themes. I don't see them comign up with any other ideas beyond the marvel villains taking over MSHI, or the dinos running amok in JP. The studios acted as a blank canvas, you basically could do anything and it would work. I don't see that happening here. I doubt the freshness and uniqueness of holding HHN at IOA lasting beyond this year.
It was fun, though. Go and get scared, and hope next year it returns to the studios.
