I've been getting a lot of feedback and I'll take some of the similar thoughts and post them here.
1. Wicked Growth is the house to beat this year. I can't count how many times I heard "it's the embodiment of Halloween."
2. Icons is about what you'd expect, which was fantastic. A surprise shout out to Slaughter Sinema and surprise amount of Bloody Mary.
3. Have low expectations for TCM. Very low.
4. LT is story HEAVY and very noir. Setup like Slaughter Sinema, but it's a repeat house to catch everything. Didn't know Boris was a novelist, so that's interesting...
5. Scarey apparently felt much bigger than the space allowed for.
6. Puppet Theater is fun, but they pretty much give everything away in the promo.
7. Seek and Destroy is apparently lower than people's already low expectations. They were looking for scareactor victims but none to be found.
8. Eddie is fun with nods everywhere
9. Terra was too crowded
10. People were bewildered by Crypt TV, although the consensus is that they nailed the looks of all of the creatures
11. 30 Years had icon references and voices but no icons themselves....
12. Apparently there were multiple standing ovations throughout the night for Nightmare Fuel. Everyone I talked to saw a different show and all loved it. "High energy," "Most fire I've ever seen," and "unique" were the commonly said phrases.
Major complaints:
"Universal needs to be better and require masks from guests in the houses, especially since there is screaming."
"Masks should be required at Nightmare Fuel" because they packed us in like sardines."
....oooof...yikes..