Halloween Horror Nights 2022 (USH) - News & Info

[Rideguy70]

Anyone know what happened to Monsters last night to make it go down?

Also, anyone have any idea if Monday is sold out? Typically, Halloween is one of the slower nights, but I get the feeling it won't be this year, seeing as how most Thursdays have sold out

 

[Freak]

Anyone know what happened to Monsters last night to make it go down?

Also, anyone have any idea if Monday is sold out? Typically, Halloween is one of the slower nights, but I get the feeling it won't be this year, seeing as how most Thursdays have sold out

Apparently the last remaining nights are sold out!

 

[Jonathan]

Anyone know what happened to Monsters last night to make it go down?

Also, anyone have any idea if Monday is sold out? Typically, Halloween is one of the slower nights, but I get the feeling it won't be this year, seeing as how most Thursdays have sold out

Halloween night has a few tickets left if you want Unlimited Express, After 2pm or After 2pm with Express.

Gen Admin, Express and RIP are sold out.

 

[tacalert]

I figured that was the case but still a bummer.

Hopefully they’ll be prompted to add more nights next year.

Not revealing source, but think Tuesday through Sunday next year.

 

[Clive]

Not revealing source, but think Tuesday through Sunday next year.

Not a chance in hell they do Tuesday to Sunday. Wednesday to Sunday... yeah, maybe. They're going to have a really difficult time staffing the event, though. This year alone was a mess.

 

[tacalert]

Not a chance in hell they do Tuesday to Sunday. Wednesday to Sunday... yeah, maybe. They're going to have a really difficult time staffing the event, though. This year alone was a mess.

We will just have to see. Staffing is not an issue.

 

[salismetho]

We will just have to see. Staffing is not an issue.

Staffing this year was an issue though. Have you been through Monsters?

 

[chris.g]

We will just have to see. Staffing is not an issue.

This is insanely incorrect. I can tell you with confidence half of about all lower lot mazes had call outs tonight.

 

[Clive]

We will just have to see. Staffing is not an issue.

We will, but staffing has 100% been an issue. There have been nights with over one hundred holes. They cannot hire dependable people fast enough. Pandemic economy changed the calculus for a lot of people - and some newer haunts offer better pay and more freedom (several actors left mid season to go work Shaqtoberfest, for example).

It wouldn’t shock me if some exec randomly was like “we need to do Tuesday to Sunday!,” but the actual event ops will confirm that plan is not feasible. The event infrastructure buckles whenever there are 5-night weeks.

 

[salismetho]

Universal NEEDS to raise scareactor pay

 

[Freak]

We will, but staffing has 100% been an issue. There have been nights with over one hundred holes. They cannot hire dependable people fast enough. Pandemic economy changed the calculus for a lot of people - and some newer haunts offer better pay and more freedom (several actors left mid season to go work Shaqtoberfest, for example).

It wouldn’t shock me if some exec randomly was like “we need to do Tuesday to Sunday!,” but the actual event ops will confirm that plan is not feasible. The event infrastructure buckles whenever there are 5-night weeks.

I don’t how how feasible this is, but they should probably have co start auditions and hire a TON of scareactors to fill holes. The added Wednesday was pretty bad with empty holes.

Universal NEEDS to raise scareactor pay

Yeah it doesn’t like they raised the pay to match with inflation.

 

[tacalert]

This is insanely incorrect. I can tell you with confidence half of about all lower lot mazes had call outs tonight.

I could be wrong, but there are 3 mazes on lower lot. That would mean 1.5 mazes called out. And how many call outs were there? How do you know how many people are supposed to work?

 

[chris.g]

I could be wrong, but there are 3 mazes on lower lot. That would mean 1.5 mazes called out. And how many call outs were there? How do you know how many people are supposed to work?

Thank you for making me realize my mistake. Meant that mazes had about half of the casts callout last night.

 

[tacalert]

Thank you for making me realize my mistake. Meant that mazes had about half of the casts callout last night.

Just doing my job. :grin:

 

[AlexanderMBush]

Just doing my job. :grin:

Still paints a pretty damning picture.

 

[baconwhiskers]

Still paints a pretty damning picture.

Like that sounds even worse lol I never knew it got that bad!

 

[tacalert]

Still paints a pretty damning picture.

huh?

 

[Clive]

Just doing my job. :grin:

Cut it out. Chris owned up to his error. Might be worth owning up to yours. Ask any person involved with HHN management or ops - they will all tell you scare actor staffing was a significant issue.

 

[highdefrex]

huh?

I think @AlexanderMBush is saying that It's a damning picture because regardless of whether it was "1.5 mazes" or half of all the mazes that had callouts, even though the latter is a "worse" situation than the former, neither is a good look, so Chris' initial miswording mistake is irrelevant because said picture is more than clear either way that it's a huge problem.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

Yeah no--@highdefrex has the right of it. Honestly baffled that this got through; and I have to hope for next year, they can find ways to help keep scareactors present and onboard. Raise their pay, being something that should be a must.