Official 2018 HHN-28 Thread

[schumigirl]

That is truly dreadful.

What on earth is wrong with people!!

 

[shh]

Not sure if it's true, but I read some postings on other forums and social media that Universal tried banning alcohol completely in the California HHN one year and it didn't help at all - the problems actually got worse, as many people purposely binge drank before entering the parks and used other substances instead.

It always worries me that these low lifes are going to ruin the event for everyone by forcing UO to add more and more restrictions in place that dumb down the event or change it for the worse in some way.

And the other extreme - all the parents of young children who are complaining in greater numbers to guest services, corporate and on social media that it was too scary for their little snowflakes, despite the blatant warnings everywhere that it may be too intense for young kids and to please consider that before bringing them.

Geez...this is why we can't have nice things

 

[macraven]

I agree that stuff that happened to you was awful
To the other poster, thanks for the site links it was exactly as you said in the reports

I hope peeps will email universal and share with them what you experienced

I missed it all
Did houses early with the ep
No long lines for what I went to and when line waits increased, went to Finnegans before it was too crowded there

I did not stay for the entire event but went back to my room early and relaxed

If I would have stayed I’m sure my experience would have been a totally different story and more like the posters

Thanks to all for sharing !

 

[schumigirl]

Not sure if it's true, but I read some postings on other forums and social media that Universal tried banning alcohol completely in the California HHN one year and it didn't help at all - the problems actually got worse, as many people purposely binge drank before entering the parks and used other substances instead.

It always worries me that these low lifes are going to ruin the event for everyone by forcing UO to add more and more restrictions in place that dumb down the event or change it for the worse in some way.

And the other extreme - all the parents of young children who are complaining in greater numbers to guest services, corporate and on social media that it was too scary for their little snowflakes, despite the blatant warnings everywhere that it may be too intense for young kids and to please consider that before bringing them.

Geez...this is why we can't have nice things

We commented this was the worst year we have seen for children too.......

Quite a lot of strollers, and we even saw a baby of no more than 8 weeks old being held in parents arms one evening.......even the SA looked shocked..........

Little ones in lines, and one little girl on her dads shoulders who was barely two.....he was refusing to take her off his shoulders as they tried to enter a house.......he was told in no uncertain terms to remove her or he’d be asked to leave........

A family in front of us in Scary Tales tried to hold everyone up very vocally in line so their little cherub of around 4 could see things better.......unbelievable.......the guys in front of us soon told them, and a TM had to intervene.......

Yes, this is why we can’t have nice things!

I do wish they would enforce an age limit........whatever it is and stick to it........it’s awful seeing little toddlers scared and crying..........and yes, many say their kids love it.......but many don’t..........

 

[shh]

To me the solution is so obvious - you have two parks. Schedule a 1x/week "not so scary" style party for the little ones in IOA - that fun, colorful cartoony park is perfect for a lighter, more kid geared Halloween. Disney is raking in HUGE bucks with their "not so scary" parties. That would offer pleasing choices for everyone and a revenue boost for UO in the process.

 

[schumigirl]

To me the solution is so obvious - you have two parks. Schedule a 1x/week "not so scary" style party for the little ones in IOA - that fun, colorful cartoony park is perfect for a lighter, more kid geared Halloween. Disney is raking in HUGE bucks with their "not so scary" parties. That would offer pleasing choices for everyone and a revenue boost for UO in the process.

You would still get parents who don’t want to go and do the “not so scary” event and still take kids to the adult event.......

For me and many TM friends who we chatted to about this, they need to enforce an age limit.....but of course, they would lose revenue from the children who attend and from parents who may then not go because their toddlers can’t go!

But they may need to look at this as it was shocking....... young tweens aren’t the problem really, it was the amount of toddlers and babies that appalled us. I would make it at least 10 and over only.

 

[TinkerbellTris]

Not sure if it's true, but I read some postings on other forums and social media that Universal tried banning alcohol completely in the California HHN one year and it didn't help at all - the problems actually got worse, as many people purposely binge drank before entering the parks and used other substances instead.

It always worries me that these low lifes are going to ruin the event for everyone by forcing UO to add more and more restrictions in place that dumb down the event or change it for the worse in some way.

And the other extreme - all the parents of young children who are complaining in greater numbers to guest services, corporate and on social media that it was too scary for their little snowflakes, despite the blatant warnings everywhere that it may be too intense for young kids and to please consider that before bringing them.

Geez...this is why we can't have nice things

Yes!!!!! This is true. This is very true. We are in Cali, and have been attending HHN in Hollywood since my son was 13 years old in 2012. Here’s what happened
2012-2014 we hap VIP tickets which included a dinner and beer or wine, sodas, waters. I think there was one fast food place that sold beer in the simpsons area. That’s it. What we had noticed was a lot of drunk people that were absolutely stupid, falling all over each other, yelling profanities at scare actors, and those of us in vip lines for mazes. I saw lots of people being taken out by security. We did not see any kids that weren’t teenagers. In 2015-2016 they dropped the vip tickets, and no more alcohol. There were still issues, but not like what we’d seen before. 2017 I cannot remember if there was VIP passes, we didn’t buy them if there was, but I remember seeing a no alcohol sold during HHN signs in the park. There were plenty of rowdy people in the park I saw being escorted out, and a lot of little kids. No strollers.....but kids under 10.
Honestly, my son could have handled HHN at probably 5 years old, we are huge horror film enthusiasts and we introduced him at age 3 to chucky and Jason. He loved them. But I wasn’t about to bring my kid to HHN. Why? Because it says 13 and up on the signs! So we stuck to mickeys not so scary Halloween party in Cali, and a few times in Orlando and it was fantastic for him. But once he hit 13 it was on at HHN! Lol that said, this is our first year doing HHN in Orlando but our 7th year at HHN as a whole. We will be there oct 19 and 21, express passes night 1, rip tour night 2. Looking forward to this.

 

[Robo56]

On a happier note some more HHN Pics

 

[Robo56]

 

[glencoe]

So sorry to hear about the misbehavings of many. We got back Monday night from a weekend enjoying orlando and on Sunday (Oct. 7) HHN with express pass for my two sons (19 and 22) and my daughter (15) and me (old). We had a blast. I did not notice excessive drunkeness and it seemed lots of staff in the houses wearing all black and just hanging out in certain parts to make sure all moved along and no trouble.

However...we became trouble!! In the Happy Death Day house which had the college dorm room decor, with clothing hanging down inbetween rooms...well as we were scared silly by "baby face" and pushed to the next room my daughter got stuck...her hair got caught in one of the buttons on the sleeves of the clothes hanging down. Everything stopped, staff was there in a millisecond to help, babyface just stood there with nowhere to go...a comical moment. However I apologize to anyone who was behind us and got stuck waiting!!! We finally had to rip her hair off the button, she was fine and baby face applauded us as scary as he could! Which was the most hysterical thing...we will remember that forever!!

We had alot of fun, our first time going. Since we were there only the one night, we got the express pass and it was worth every penny. We did every house, scare zones, rides and were done and exhausted by 12:45am. I saw no strollers or really young children, hopefully more people use better judgement. Of course everyone knows their own kids, I was quiet surprised my 22 year old big hockey player turned out to be a chicken!!!

 

[briemer99]

Hearing that this weekend is awful crowds at both HHN and the parks. We will be there from Tuesday to Friday and doing HHN wednesday and thursday without express. Hoping it is at the least manageable...

 

[macraven]

Glencoe.....ouch for your daughter!

 

[justcin711]

Just got back from tonight's HHN (Sunday). We did the stay and scream and crowds weren't bad until after 8. Saw lots of small children that really shouldn't be there, even toddlers in the scare zones! I also saw two guys kicked out of a house for line jumping at Slaughter Sinema. The line was long so they started handing out numbered tickets and someone must have said something because when we reached the front they compared their ticket numbers to the people behind them and made them leave the line. Didn't see any obnoxious drunk people but we left at 11. My biggest complaint was people running away from chainsaws in the scarezones with no regard for other people in their path. Overall we had a great time!

 

[briemer99]

Just got back from tonight's HHN (Sunday). We did the stay and scream and crowds weren't bad until after 8. Saw lots of small children that really shouldn't be there, even toddlers in the scare zones! I also saw two guys kicked out of a house for line jumping at Slaughter Sinema. The line was long so they started handing out numbered tickets and someone must have said something because when we reached the front they compared their ticket numbers to the people behind them and made them leave the line. Didn't see any obnoxious drunk people but we left at 11. My biggest complaint was people running away from chainsaws in the scarezones with no regard for other people in their path. Overall we had a great time!

Did you have express? How many houses did you get to?

 

[tony67]

We commented this was the worst year we have seen for children too.......

Quite a lot of strollers, and we even saw a baby of no more than 8 weeks old being held in parents arms one evening.......even the SA looked shocked..........

Little ones in lines, and one little girl on her dads shoulders who was barely two.....he was refusing to take her off his shoulders as they tried to enter a house.......he was told in no uncertain terms to remove her or he’d be asked to leave........

A family in front of us in Scary Tales tried to hold everyone up very vocally in line so their little cherub of around 4 could see things better.......unbelievable.......the guys in front of us soon told them, and a TM had to intervene.......

Yes, this is why we can’t have nice things!

I do wish they would enforce an age limit........whatever it is and stick to it........it’s awful seeing little toddlers scared and crying..........and yes, many say their kids love it.......but many don’t..........

Yeah -it was pretty ridiculous this year - I actually saw a guy coming out of a house with an infant - I'd guess six months old - everyone in line just looked at each and said WT% at about the same time

 

[fanoforlando]

So we went to HHN on saturday , we got there around 3:30 and our party decided to just wait to be first in line.

We were the first people to the right entrance of the main gate , our wait wasn't too bad but the crowds began getting full around 4:30 and by 5:30 the sea of people reached back all the way the Universal globe.

We ran to Stranger Things as soon as the gates open and only had a 20 min. wait to get in, my wife got hurt on one of the rails that the foot of the rail was raised up and she didn't see it and slammed her foot on it, despite a 25 minute set back ( we had to get one of the park EMT's to come look at her foot ) because she was complaining of not being able to walk very well , but after walking it off we made our way to Poltergeist ( only had a 20 minute wait ) but i would say that was a conservative number because it felt like we went right in.


We then did Scary Tales ( again the wait time was only 20 minutes ) which was pretty cool , then we got to Slaughter Cinema ( and again the wait time only stated 30 minutes ) but it seemed like we got in faster than that , unless we were so distracted by our conversations , after that we checked wait times for the rest of the houses and most said 45-60 minutes and by that time we were tires and we checked out Fast & Furious ride, which by 9:30 it only had a 15 minute wait, after that we ate at Mel's D I E IN and by 10:30 we were beat from the night.


The Chucky scare zone was pretty cool since Chucky on the stage wasw interacting with the crowd and was hilarious !


Overall this year was pretty cool , our last HHN event was in 2014 so we we're kind of reluctant to go this year since we have been going since 2011, and it seemed as though this year might have been boring ( we don't watch Stranger Things since we don't have Netflix ) , so making a HHN event around that we were thinking it might be meh.


Despite that we surprisingly enjoyed the night, i also loved how they were blasting old 80's metal music over by the Poltergeist house .

Overall i would give the night a 9/10 very well put together despite my wife hurting her foot on the railing leg, by the time we got out of F & F she was also complaining of her foot pain so we decided to call it a night

 

[schumigirl]

Yeah -it was pretty ridiculous this year - I actually saw a guy coming out of a house with an infant - I'd guess six months old - everyone in line just looked at each and said WT% at about the same time

It was the same for us.......whenever we saw something like that, everyone around was slightly shocked and showed it.......

Not nice to see!

We’ve always seen lots of kids and toddlers, but yes, this year seems to have been much worse.

 

[fanoforlando]

Yeah i was surprised to see strollers walking , i can't remember if i had seen them before.

I wonder if these people didn't know about Mickeys not so scary halloween party?

Made a small video , i hope the music doesn't get deleted , thats the song i remember when going into Poltergeist

 

[purple hippo]

Is anyone he relocated in Canada that is at or going to HHN? When we were there I had intended on going to the Universal Store in the park to get a couple of the HHN tokens as souvenirs. We didn't make it to the store and therefore left with no tokens. DH just found out about them on line and now regrets that we didn't make it to the Universal Store while we were there. I was thinking it would be a nice surprise or even stocking stuffer for him. Anyways, I was wondering if anyone would be willing to buy a couple of the them and mail them to me and I could pay them back. I would be willing to pay them first in good faith plus postage as it isnt much money.

 

[Texan]

I will try to make this short; thank you everyone for your tips and especially for Finnegan's S&S (what a mess). Our first HHN was HHN 27; really looking forward to the whole family together again this year, especially with ST. We started at IOA really late, due to a 4 hour delay in our connecting flight then a 1 hour delay for our luggage. Checked into Cabana Bay around 1:30 a.m. Got to IOA around 11; ride waits were okay with express pass; maybe 20 min at Spiderman, Hulk and about 30 at King Kong. We ate a late lunch at Mythos and felt rushed for time as I wanted to get to US and a S&S area early. We split up and 3 went to Forbidden Journey and 3 went on the train to US. There was already a line forming on the side street behind Finnegans at 4:00. They told us it was new this year and it headed left to ST or right to Poltergeist. After baking in the sun and the other 3 joined us with beers, we were released at 5:30. It was nuts. There was a swarm from behind us walking/running to ST. And yes, we saw many of the the metal legs in this line raised up where anyone could bash a foot in as a poster mentioned. We commented on it as we were going thru the maze. We had to wait about 20 min (didn't want to use EP yet) for ST, and that was about the average wait for the houses for a bit. The wait times quickly escalated. We used our EP's mainly as a time saver at the beginning knowing it was a possibility for ST and Potergeist later. (that did not happen, too tired and 2 hour waits there later, but 2 in our party stayed and said they got in within 30 min with EP.) And can I say wow, so much more crowded than last year and we went around the same timeframe. We did all of the houses (me and DIL voted no on Blumhouse) and enjoyed the scare zones. Chuckie area was a riot and the Vamp 85 was amazing. Loved the Killer Klowns. Wow. ST, Poltergeist and Deadly Exposure were our favorites. This is such a unique event, I hope Universal "listens" and continues to find ways to make it an enjoyable, safe ADULT event.