Watch, John's punishment will be we don't get any announcements until late-August/early-September, in the style of an entire announcement event, kinda like what Knott's has been doing for the past few years. My main concern at first with the leaked lineup wasn't what IPs were gonna be pulled out, due to being still rumored, but rather that we were gonna be a bit off. Like last year when the first lineup leaked had Jigsaw, some of the Blumhouse properties, and Evil Dead 2, only to be later found out it was the entire Saw franchise, just 3 Blumhouse movies (including HDD which no one thought was gonna be in it), and Ash vs Evil Dead. All in all, I too don't think Murdy would risk switching out the IPs, given that not only is this year's is a very solid one, but given the no terror tram, and possibility of no show, as well as how underwhelming last year's event was (consensus of horror fans, die-hard HHN fans, and a lot of GA), it would help HHN get out of that rut for sure.