OH The Horror! Scary Clowns, Haunted Houses, Scare Zones, Monsters, Pumpkins, Crooked Cats, Creepy Bears, Shopping, Dining and more….My HHN 34 Trip

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Wednesday, September 17th continued


I continued my walk around the Koven.










We did not try any of the cocktails, but the club was busy and other folks seem to be enjoying them.

 

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Talk about a interesting Chandelier.











I thought this note on the The Witches Broom stand was a nice touch…LOL

 

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After we were done looking around the club it was time to head over to HHN.


We were able to get through the the gate pretty quickly and onto our adventure for the night.

The last couple of years my sister and I had ended our vacation with our last night of HHN.




The big Crow was out walking around.


We turned right and walked through the Masquerade Dance with Death Scare Zone










We saw a few Zombie Car Hops.

 

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Then it was onto The Cat Lady of Crooked Lane. I think this is without a doubt the best Scare Zone this year.







Whoever came up with the Cat climbing on the furniture through the backlit window was genius.




You can see the Old Lady taking one of the masked kiddos into her house.


They look at you through the window before they walk to the other room of the house.






The Old Lady then kills the Trick or Treater. All of this is theatrically played out through the window for the spectators to see.

 

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The Old Lady then brings out the intestines to give to all the other Cats.



Here is a Cat playing with yarn.


This is one of the most well thought out storied Scare Zones they have presented in years. Great job Universal HHN Creators.





More to come

 

[Robo56]

Good Morning everyone


Wednesday, September 17th continued


The show they presented in the Crooked Lady Scare Zone was awesome and those who stopped to enjoy it were treated to a wonderful mini show.

The past couple of years we had ended our last night of HHN and Vacation by going to Daigon Alley. So I guess this has become our last night of vacation tradition now.

The Death Eater show has really grown since its first inception of a little walk around in Hogsmeade that first year.

The Death Eaters do put on a nice show and walk around the entire area of Diagon Alley including Knockturn Alley.

There is a nice presentation when the Death Eaters come out on the stage at the beginning. This is a nice photo opportunity for you to get some quick photos of them.

There is no flash photography of the Death Eaters in Diagon Alley or the Scare Actors in the Scare Zones or the HHN Houses. Phone cameras now a days can counter photo quality so it is not a big issue.

As you have seen with some of my photos at dark there are various colored lights that set the mood in all the Scare Zones and that can mess with the clarity of your photos to some degree. I use my IPhone for all my photos.

I have seen some beautiful photos some folks have taken at HHN during the nighttime and it really speaks to the wonderful qualities of a good camera and a great camera person.

Taking photos during the daylight beginning hours of HHN does wonders for picture turnout in the Scare zones.

The most prominent Death Eaters are Slytherin House Alumni at Hogwarts with the exception of Peter Pettigrew who was a Gryffindor.

So in keeping with the Slytherin colors the lighting was green and the music ominous as the Death Eaters emerged.



It is so nice to see some lady Death Eaters in the mix of the group.















Another tradition we have started is that after walking around Diagon Alley we stop in the Fountain of Fair Fortune and my sister K gets a Frozen Butter Beer and I get a Fishy Green Ale.



We then took our drinks around the corner past the Knockturn Alley sign and have a seat on the bench across from the gate, That area behind the gate is accessed from a little Alley way. Not many people know how to get back there.

We sat and enjoyed our drinks in the cool of Knockturn Alley and enjoyed the Death Eaters walking intently with their wands at the ready to cast their deadly spells.

 

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After we were done with our drinks we walked through Knockturn Alley and there was a guy casting a spell with his wand in the stair area across from where the Skeleton spell site is.

I had never seen the Dementors before in this area and wondered if this was a new wand spell or if it had always been there.





Needless to say this way so cool.


Afterwards I needed to get a few photos of them Dragon on Gringotts. You can tell the sky was green/gray and I wondered if rain was in the works soon.









It was time to leave Diagon Alley. We made our way out into another busy night of HHN.

It is still a little surreal to see how much HHN has changed over the past few short years. The crowds which used to be low on Wednesday’s and Thursdays are not any longer.

As we made our way through the crowds out of the Amity area and then through New York. We then turned left and across from Gramercy Park we stopped at the FireFly Fun House.

I had taken this photo a few days earlier during a walk in the park during the day.


My sister wanted try the Rambling Rabbit Fried Carrot Cake. I had mixed feelings about trying this as I could not conceive how this could not be a greased soaked piece of carrot cake on a stick after frying,




The Cotton Candy was hard and inedible. Which was not a big deal to us. It was all about the Carrot Cake. I will admit I’am not a big carrot cake fan, but I was willing to try it.

We must have hit the booth at the best time if there is one. They were busy and we had to wait a few minutes. The Carrot Cake had just came out of the fryer.

We took the cake back to the sitting area by Minions Cafe with a couple of spoons. The outer battered layer was mildly crispy from being fried and was not greasy at all. There was a drizzle of the vanilla sauce on top. Just enough to not make it overly sweet.

The carrot cake inside was moist and delicious without a hint of grease. Boy was I surprised. If you have ever battered fried anything. You know you have to make sure every surface is battered with no air inlet holes to allow the hot oil to enter whatever you are frying.

This was fried perfectly and again it was delicious. I was so surprised.

It was a rich and decadent dessert and definitely something to share as are a majority of the food offerings at HHN.

 

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More to come

 

[disneyAndi14]

I have been enjoying your report and wow your pictures are amazing!
Thanks for sharing your experience!
We love Universal at Halloween season!