Halloween Horror Nights 2025 (USH) - News & General Discussion

[Freak]

If anyone wants to say hi, I’ll be wearing black pants, and grey white and black flannel with the Bridge of Frankenstein HHN shirt underneath! Gonna crack open my ghost energy drink this afternoon to get ready to say my final farewells this afternoon!

Also the sooner we start speculation the better. There’s a LOT we all want to talk about.

 

[BriefCasey]

I considered going again earlier this month, but I think I got cold feet about potentially going alone this time (along a mixure of other plans this month), and by last night I discovered the final night was sold out. I'm honestly okay with it though. I get to use some of that would-be money on Kirby Air Riders this month, and my only regrets are that two scares weren't there when I went in the FNAF house (a security guard being killed by an unseen animatronic and a Freddy arm from the wall), and I didn't have time to fully explore the Dia De Los Muertos plaza. Also in Fallout, the raider who slashed a Vault Dweller's throat wasn't there, so it was just the vault dweller stumbling with a bleeding throat.

As someone with limits with the genre, I can only hope there's still stuff I can stomach in next year's, especially if FNAF returns in some form.

Speaking of which:

They spent a lot of dough on FNAF next year and it’s still very popular. I would expect that to be our repeat next year.

With all the talk on the pros and cons of a repeat, it's definitely difficult with how it's getting its sequel this year. I personally feel like a repeat (maybe with some new elements or two) could allow the other houses to get a bigger budget invested into them. Then again, I just want to get the full animatronic band on stage after Orlando seemingly got priority of that by virtue of being the progenitor of the event.

Word is FNAF stuff is not on sale

I just saw this today. Any word that it's the same in Hollywood? I get the feeling those HHN 2025 specific shirts (and masks) might be limited to HHN though. Wonder if they'll just get discounts later or if the HHN branding shirts won't budge.


For that matter, I definitely wanna stay posted on the discounts for Chainsaw Man and maybe Fallout in particular. Might grab a thing or two but I don't wanna wait until it's too late. Anyone know the history of how HHN discounts progress after HHN ends? Speaking of which, I think all FFN merch is now gone from Take 2 when I went for a regular park day on the 25th.

 

[Horror Lover]

Murdy as always pens his eulogy for the final night of the event...

 

[Jerroddragon]

Is the event open until 2AM?

I’ve heard in park TMs are telling people it closes at 2 AM but the website says 1 am

 

[Freak]

Is the event open until 2AM?

I’ve heard in park TMs are telling people it closes at 2 AM but the website says 1 am

Oh ooof I need to ask. I’ve read everywhere it’s 1.

Also I entered FNAF a little before 6 when it was posted at 3 hours. Almost at the front and it’s only 30 min at the most, at least when I entered. Wait time has been exaggerated.

EDIT: Sign posted it. It’s official. 2AM closing let’s gooooo!

 

[BriefCasey]

As I was doing more catchup, I wanted to throw my hat in the ring for this

What examples from this year don't sound that right? FNAF maybe but its always so crowded in there I can barley hear anything being said before I enter the house

These might be strange nitpicks, but in FNAF's case, I thought the Ghost Girl that haunts Chica in the kitchen using a recognizable girly stock scream was kind of immersion breaking. I know the movie used a stock children laugh sound when the ghost kids were messing with the audio systems in one scene, and that might have been the idea, but at least there it was more convincing when it came from a device. Not so much from the actual ghost girl, especially when the sound design of the ghost kid jumpscare in the movie was either very transformative or original to the movie. Everything else seemed more consistent with the movie's sound design, and maybe some of the vandals/guards sounds came from sound libraries also and I didn't notice.

Then again, Poltergeist also used a stock girly scream for one of those corpses in the coffins, but as a personal thing, I heavily associate it with one of the coaster/ride screams from Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 and I couldn't help but laugh.

I kinda get it if they have no choice but to use stuff from sound libraries, some uses just tend to be more poor than others.

 

[ladiesman217]

So who's catching the final Terror Tram tonight?

 

[Freak]

So who's catching the final Terror Tram tonight?

You’ll catch me and @Horror Lover there as well! Forgot to mention I’m wearing my Ghostbusters lanyard from 2019 as well!

 

[ladiesman217]

You’ll catch me and @Horror Lover there as well! Forgot to mention I’m wearing my Ghostbusters lanyard from 2019 as well!

I'll be there too. I'm actually wearing my GhostBusters 2019 shirt along with the 2024 GhostBusters jacket!

 

[highdefrex]

Did Early Access tonight: In line for FNAF at 4:45, then Scarecrow, Jason, and WWE, followed by Jurassic World. By 8pm, we pretty much called it a night, because Fallout and Monstruous were up to 50 minutes each and Terrifier was at two hours. Crowds were definitely getting thicker by that point, and holy crap, seeing the lanes of cars backed all the way down the freeway on our way out was insane.

I miss the old days when these final November days were practically ghost towns in comparison, but alas…

Other than a few minor grips — Fallout being too short, Purge needing some sort of change up, Chainsaw Man being a waste (for me personally) — this was an absolutely solid year. Much, much better than last year, IMO. I can’t believe it’s already come and gone (well, in a few hours of me writing this at least)!

Can’t wait to start speculating on what’s coming next year (*cough*Stranger Things 5*cough*) in a future thread! Hope everyone still at the event tonight is having a blast!

 

[Freak]

We really got screwed for the last tram. They were screaming at people to get on the tram and even got the cops to force people on the tram. We find out it’s the second to last tram. Somehow the bloggers get away with hiding by the side for the actual last tram. W. T. H.

 

[BriefCasey]

Saw that FNAF, Terrifier and WWE had 60-70 minute waits at 2AM, that's either an inflated wait or they've got a huge backlog to clear out before closing up shop for the final time this year. Definitely a far cry from when they'd die out by the night's end in September.

We really got screwed for the last tram. They were screaming at people to get on the tram and even got the cops to force people on the tram. We find out it’s the second to last tram. Somehow the bloggers get away with hiding by the side for the actual last tram. W. T. H.

Did anyone manage to capture that happening? That's really f'd up.

 

[Jerroddragon]

Thank you HHN for closing at 2am

This is my favorite year of HHN and fright fest

Just what a year, I really hope they can match the energy of this year next year some how

The cast was on fire tonight got to say good bye to the Senior and Señorita in the main plaza and also bye to Edgar Allen crow (hoping somehow the crowz come back )

Had great runs on Jason, WWE, Terriffer and two fun runs of scarecrow to end my even along with the purge and also shoot out to the slash stilt Waller and art the clowns around the park