Halloween Horror Nights '19 General Discussion

[ChaseTuff]

Hang on, why is Dracula there?

When you share advertising material...things slip through.

 

[snayberry]

Unless Dracula is going to make a cameo appearance at your guy's event.

 

[rageofthegods]

Unless Dracula is going to make a cameo appearance at your guy's event.

Being fair, ToXXXic Tunnel and the roaming hordes this year are supposed to have traditional Halloween masks, and I'm sure Dracula is in there somewhere.

 

[viking_wizard_eyes]

Fascinating to see Universal Monsters get more of a presence than Ghostbusters in the marketing. Would've thought they'd want to have a big IP like that featured in the ad.

I mean, I think it's kinda obvious—it's a tone thing. Ghostbusters is a big and popular IP, but it isn't scary, and that commercial was supposed to be scary. I'm gonna sound like a broken record leading up to the event, but Ghostbusters—as a known property—is a poor fit for HHN. Could the house end up being great? Sure, but right now it really looks like a fly in the ointment, so to speak.

 

[rageofthegods]

I mean, I think it's kinda obvious—it's a tone thing. Ghostbusters is a big and popular IP, but it isn't scary, and that commercial was supposed to be scary. I'm gonna sound like a broken record leading up to the event, but Ghostbusters—as a known property—is a poor fit for HHN. Could the house end up being great? Sure, but right now it really looks like a fly in the ointment, so to speak.

People at Orlando are reporting a short TV-Spot trailer with Slimer in it. Probably it had to do with advertising rights, especially considering Legacy was talking about a Trailer Concept with "4 IPs"

EDIT: They mentioned that Ghostbusters wasn't on the House shirt either. Columbia probably just didn't want Ghostbusters sharing space.

 

[Brian G.]

I'm gonna sound like a broken record leading up to the event, but Ghostbusters—as a known property—is a poor fit for HHN.

And I will disagree til the cows come home.

 

[k_peek_2000]

I mean, I think it's kinda obvious—it's a tone thing. Ghostbusters is a big and popular IP, but it isn't scary, and that commercial was supposed to be scary. I'm gonna sound like a broken record leading up to the event, but Ghostbusters—as a known property—is a poor fit for HHN. Could the house end up being great? Sure, but right now it really looks like a fly in the ointment, so to speak.

There have been far, far worse picks in recent years than Ghostbusters.

 

[snayberry]

I mean, I think it's kinda obvious—it's a tone thing. Ghostbusters is a big and popular IP, but it isn't scary, and that commercial was supposed to be scary. I'm gonna sound like a broken record leading up to the event, but Ghostbusters—as a known property—is a poor fit for HHN. Could the house end up being great? Sure, but right now it really looks like a fly in the ointment, so to speak.

 

[Freak]

I mean, I think it's kinda obvious—it's a tone thing. Ghostbusters is a big and popular IP, but it isn't scary, and that commercial was supposed to be scary. I'm gonna sound like a broken record leading up to the event, but Ghostbusters—as a known property—is a poor fit for HHN.

 

[rageofthegods]

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Now there's something that needs to show up in an HHN maze.

 

[viking_wizard_eyes]

People at Orlando are reporting a short TV-Spot trailer with Slimer in it. Probably it had to do with advertising rights, especially considering Legacy was talking about a Trailer Concept with "4 IPs"

EDIT: They mentioned that Ghostbusters wasn't on the House shirt either. Columbia probably just didn't want Ghostbusters sharing space.

I mean, this is definitely the more logical explanation but I stand by my point lol

 

[Jaden]

This year's commercial:

No ghostbusters? *sigh* wish there was a way to see the original version someone said in Orlando.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

People at Orlando are reporting a short TV-Spot trailer with Slimer in it. Probably it had to do with advertising rights, especially considering Legacy was talking about a Trailer Concept with "4 IPs"

When you go to the source of the tweet, you'll see the short bit of Ghostbusters with the Slimer.

 

[snayberry]

When you go to the source of the tweet, you'll see the short bit of Ghostbusters with the Slimer.

I'm content with just seeing that as the commercial.

 

[hhnlover]

When you go to the source of the tweet, you'll see the short bit of Ghostbusters with the Slimer.

God that animation was...weird.

 

[snayberry]

God that animation was horrendous.

I didn't think it looked that bad.

 

[TheGamerOfKnowledge]

God that animation was...weird.

It looked like it did in the movie. I liked it.

 

[hhnlover]

It looked like it did in the movie. I liked it.

Eh, fair enough.

 

[Jaden]

Much better. Wish it was part of the commercial, but I guess its better than no GB.

 

[viking_wizard_eyes]

EDIT: They mentioned that Ghostbusters wasn't on the House shirt either. Columbia probably just didn't want Ghostbusters sharing space.

One last thing: this bit doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me when I remember that they’re in the process of rebooting the brand. Could be that Columbia specifically requested that their brand not be associated with more violent or macabre IPs, which is another issue of tone/fit. Just a guess though. K I’m done bye.