Also regarding selfies, if I was in charge I’d mess with the general public and make a zone , at the back of the park somewhere, literally called the “selfie zone.”
I’d put a bunch of left over costumes, some of the IPs, and other related scareactors in costumes who’s job is to just take selfies.
It would be signposted clearly, and anyone who takes a selfie in a scarezone would be told to go to the selfie zone by ops.
Seriously though, there’s no other option than to try hammer it into people’s brains, to change the culture.
Another random idea they should have nights in IOA where you’re allowed to dress up in costume, and it’s a massive Halloween party, where you can ride rides. No scare actors though maybe a few shows.
Thank you for saying this! I already commented on the over-hyped scare zones. I noticed it as well especially @ vamp. To the point where it felt as though you didn’t belong unless you were an employee or friend of a
scareactor. I also saw the exact same thing at the church on multiple occasions. I wasn’t going to bother mentioning it b/c we are in a time now where we like to pretend everything is perfect. Best year ever! Take selfie. Post to social media. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
I can’t help but think Universal is ok with this though. The bosses are out watching a lot. The average guest is perhaps ok with just seeing a scareactor dressed up, snapping a couple of pics and moving on. That’s the scarezone experience.
I will stick to my guns. The event was good (salvaged by a handful of amazing houses). Overal, a marked step backwards from previous years.
Perhaps the best way to try to increase scare potential is to but a couple of "Sexy" selfie scare actors (stilt walkers, etc.) mixed with more generic looking ones (the employees in Chucky?). Or just go all out, put a ton of scare actors in New York and Hollywood, and try and cater the other 3 zones to selfies?
Ehhh I really don’t mind scare zones catered to picture taking and selfies. I go to HHN to have fun and scare zones aren’t really ever scary due to being wipe open. Let me look and take pictures of great costumes.
well HHN Instragram account encourages people to take selfies and share them. they even promote the hashtag #HHN28
for you to use.
And sometimes they will pick the best selfie to promote the event, so any fan can have their selfie posted by HHN for everyone to see.
theres always posts like "share your scares #HHN28 " or "fan of the week #HHN28"
So universal kind of relies on people posting their selfies to promote the event on instagram and on fb.
Of course I Know they use billboards and they use tv commercials and radio ads, yes, all those are still used
but they still push heavily for their social media advertising with pictures of the event and with fans sharing their pics.
so as much as everyone hates selfies, and as much as people wish the scarezones were photo free, universal itself benefits and relies on them.....
They should allow costumes on Halloween only... just no masks I guess that could create a lot of problems for Universal so I understand why they would try to limit it, but it seems like it would be fun.
While I'm firmly with you and
@Brian G. -- I'd even crack down on "bounding" level costumes -- I didn't think there were
that many last night. Granted I didn't roll up until close to 10, but I'd swear there were more opening night.
So it’s definitely not an unpopular opinion to be anti costumes lol
I’m clearly biased but I’d much rather take the harmless people (& children) that I encountered in costumes on Halloween then the hordes that are there nightly that act up cause can’t they hold their booze, but that’s just me!
No costumes. I can’t believe this is even a discussion. There is literally no benefit to Universal. It’s a liability.
and the problem on Halloween is that they allow people with costumes to the bars and they have a costume contest,
so Universal ENCOURAGES people to go to city walk in costume. they WANT you to come in costume to their clubs and to participate.
but the problem is, if someone is in costume and at 9 PM they feel like checking out HHN, does uni turn them down? (maybe they should) but then uni gets in the dilema of turning dozens of people that are coming to City walk in costume.
Last night i saw a group of women dressed like minnie mouse that were coming from hanging at city walk according to what they were saying. there was a lady dressed in a full freddy kruger dress and she had the hat, around 9 0r 10 a bunch of people came from city walk to hang at HHN. so i dont know what Uni could do since they encourage you to come to city walk dressed up
This... do the job you’re paid to do. Stop hanging out, you’re at work.
Especially when, at any given time, you have less than 45 min of work to do before you are all in a break room together for 45 min.
The actors are doing this with Uni's full blessing, at least in Vamp 85, the coordinators see them, they are hanging out in the open.
didn't someone said on here that this was part of the show? that they were hanging out together because it was part of the zone's theme? or something? i swear i can remember someone saying that the actors getting together to talk like that was done on purpose.
but either way, everyone can see them getting together to talk in the zone. so i have to assume Uni is okay with it