Regarding the Halloween horror evenings of Universal, East beats the west

While the icon of Halloween horror nights Jack, the clown, takes up the universal horror unleashed in Las Vegas, he leaves Universal Studios Orlando in the hands of Creepy Slasher art the clown for a good time. And essentially, art resembles a master of the Scarmonies of this year during the 34th nights of horror, between having the most extreme house and wandering in its clown cafe. But unlike the version of the west coast of Hhn, which mainly has franchise effects of films / television, Creepy is not the only draw here, because the slate of IP houses of this year is perfectly balanced by the horror houses of original concept.

Io9 recently visited Universal Studios Orlando – Access titles have been provided for revision purposes –To see how this year’s HHN and Halloween offers accumulate. One of the main points to remember that we have found is that the Orlando park has so much to offer to Halloween in comparison, between a much stronger version of horror nights, universal monsters dominating to the epic universe and the introduction of a family adapted to the family Scooby-doo-The scary season on the theme at Volcano Bay. This really surpasses the western park of the coast in Hollywood, California, to make the most of the festivities based on the fall.

Galkin: northern monsters and other original houses

The best house in the event, as often happens with the east coast, is Galkin, an original imaginative story inspired by Nordic monsters and demons. From the start, you are transported from humid orlando and in a cold village invaded by horrible creatures. The design of the monsters is magnificent, and the fears are unexpected because you are pierced by the sets – distraction gives “scaractors”, the official term of universal for its fighting artists, time to attack you. The scale is just at the next level, as you spend mountain land to a village with a large and burning wicker man (not In fact Burning, but just simulated with smart lighting). It was the one I wanted to go through again and again.

We also have to give The artist One cry like the other heavy striker during this year’s event. After an artist in a creative retirement in a very haunted house led to madness, I had the impression that we were on vacation in the European countryside which went wrong through a magnificent manor with terrifying specters and demons. The killed in it were beautifully painful. Honorable mentions of the original house: Flesh And Hatchet & Chains: Demon Bounty Hunters (who had a bit amazing Lava monsters).

Creepy

Damien Leone Creepy is such a huge phenomenon with great expectations of fans, and the house of the East Coast has not disappointed. Inside Creepy Carnival Facade is a visit to the greatest kills in the design of art. It is bloodier and, by extension, weet more than its variant of the west coast (you will need a poncho). He also has more Sienna, the last daughter of the franchise, presented in his dream sequence look of Clown Cafe and his Badass Angel Warrior armor. The real pleasure is to know what all the arts inside they have fun they have fun while targeting their frightening victims. I have had several times, and I am generally a seasoned pro on this subject.

Just warning: the house is not for the low hearts. Gore is extreme and really captures the energy of Leone’s successful successful films. The only thing we hope is that art will come back next year and may be able to face the Killer klowns of space In a vs. that Universal did with other titans of terror.

In addition, there is a real COWN coffee cart with food and impressive drinks on the theme of films. It looks so well, and drinks are stronger than the version of the West Coast, which has opted for more instagrammable creations than really tasty refreshments (such as art delight, a drink with raw lemonade, vanilla and black lemonade more designed to look like art, rather than taste good). Make the CAFE clown being the photo shoot while the gourmet offers being solid were a better way to proceed. That, and if you are lucky, Santa Art The Clown could arise to wander to judge your choices in the snacks of the theme park with his Tours bag.

Five nights at Freddy

Orlando gets the fans here, and it’s obvious from the house to pop-up Five nights at Freddy restaurant. The houses are very similar between the two coasts, but Orlando wins where Hollywood missed a huge opportunity. The heart of Five nights at FreddyAnd what sells the concept to people who have not plunged into the Fandom but who grew up by going to Chuck E. Cheese, is the animatronic group on stage. Orlando FNAF House sets up the plot by showing all the animatronics doing their program in the universe from the jump, which does an excellent job to establish the rest of the story for those who have not seen the film Blumhouse or played the games of Scott Cawthon. As a fan of the film, I loved seeing the animatronic puppet Henson presented for the house (and the smells of pizza really brought me back). I am sure to dream that Chuck E. pursues me through his child Casino while growing up, so it was a nostalgic nightmare that has become reality.

Speaking of pizza, the Pizza Pop-up of Freddy Fazbear was executed much better on the East Coast than the West. I did not even bother to queue for a regular personal pizza in a slapped box with the Fazbear logo in Hollywood, because it was a clear decision for the virality of the social media. In Orlando, they actually organized a menu with foods inspired by the FNAF franchise. There was a pizza with spaghetti and meatballs, which seemed to be exaggerated, but after having had it while needing refueling, it ended up being exactly what I needed. There was even a nod to the character of the film Mike with his breakfast sand available, and even their cupcake was superior to Hollywood because he had a cannoli garnish inside. If a real Freddy Fazbear had taken over the Monsters Cafe instead of the Minions, I think that horror fans would have been less crazy.

Jason universe

Hollywood actually did a better job with his Jason universe house, having more memorable scene recreation from Friday 13 Franchise everywhere and better rhythm. Jason House of Orlando was heavy on the Jason to the point where he was comical and not as scary. I really produced one or two steps, so – BAM! There is Jason, here is Jason, Hi, Jason. The inclusion of Pamela Voorhees telling his side of the story and entering the mind of Jason through her mask was however protruding facts.

Show entertainment and Scoes

Haunt-O-Phonic gave more Bellagio water fountains with Halloween decor projections than a solid horror offering. It certainly resembles a reserved space show for what you hope to be a universal horror showcase with emblematic scenes and water on water. I felt like there was a little less effort with the aspects of the show in the streets of the coast is also; We miss the energy of the area for fear of vampires with small moments of show. One of the scarens was just a DJ and masked go-go dancers.

However, not all scareons were missed; We loved the dance of the masquerade with the attention of the death zone to details and costumes, and the disturbed nature of the chat lady on Crooked Lane. If you thought live action Cats The film was wild, it draws a page for some from the most horrible creature work to date.

Nights of volcanic bay

After working hours, access to the water park with a touch of Halloween is an inspired idea, but ended up having the impression that there was room for improvement. Here you are invited to enjoy the tropical time like the Scooby-doo Gang investigates the mystery of the Ghost clown, which looks like the concept of summer pants, but it is the extent of frightening offers. We wanted in a way more Halloween Hootenanny, like Spooky Scooby-doo Food and inspired drinks if the theme was going to stick to the cartoon of Hanna-Barbera. We loved that at the end of the event, guests could participate in unmasking the ghost clown.

What makes Volcano Bay Nights inclusion in fall offers is the possibility of having a space for a more family Halloween offer and it should certainly go. There are so many impressive gateway horror characters in the universal catalog that we would like to see the scobis in other areas of the frightening area, such as SpongeBob with friends in front of the chopping strike or Dutch Flying or 90s or 90s Casper amusing. Hell, put universal monsters on a Tiki trip!

The dark universe of the epic universe

One of the things I was hoping was a kind of seasonal offer in their universal monsters portal all year round. Yes, on his own, he is the essential pilgrimage of a horror fan at the Frankenstein manor, but there was really nothing new To make a draw for the Halloween season look like. If he had added a new meeting of monsters and a more playable scenario (apart from ordering the secret menu, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Potions) would have been better for synergy. Dark Universe is already great, but it looks like a huge that was missed for the season.

To fall

This house continues to be a massive disappointment, whatever the coast you are, because the two offers are almost too linear. There were real horror moments in the series that were left out To fallThe first houses, but I will give Orlando more pass than Hollywood. They understood the set of trading articles, which was fun and went beyond the Super Duper Mart. Both The coasts needed so many ghouls in the To fall houses because they had jasons in the Jason universe houses.

The crowd around art The interpreters of the clown

Okay, he is not entirely universal, but there have been serious limits problems with regard as a traveling character around the event. Many people wanted to try to get photos or videos of him closely, or were queuing to try to take photos with him – so the interpreter could not really, well, you know, performAnd several times we have seen art escorted until the crowds look at the contents of the dispersion capture.

Perhaps if there were more managers to try to discourage people from committing their time (we have seen only one manager attributed to art while we were there), it would help, but if you are witnessing themed park events like this, you should always be aware of both that you can have with character with the character. Trying to record performers for viral moments and disturbing other participants is not everything, and could mean that we get fewer nice opportunities like this during future events.

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