248. A Disney Fan's Guide to HHN Orlando

So for Disney listeners who may never have heard of it, what exactly is Halloween Horror Nights? And why is it such a big deal for theme park fans?

Halloween Horror Nights is Universal Studios' version of Haunted Houses, basically.

This year, it was their 35th one in Florida.

And this actually predates Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party because they just celebrated 31 years.

Oh, wow.

And Universal Studios, it started out, I think, with just maybe one haunted house.

They have all sorts of houses.

They contact different IPs and try to get different, I guess, IPs to do their haunted houses.

And they also have scare zones and all sorts of stuff, you know, themed food, all that.

I'm going to interject here.

We should just clarify an IP intellectual property.

So this is scary movies thinking about different themes and genres and series of movies.

So we'll

go over what the different ones for this year, they have, they have different ones every year.

Yeah.

I've realized that we throw the word IP around or the, the acronym IP around.

And it's not just us, like everybody kind of in our social media podcasty space, we'll just say IP and, and, We never define it.

Yes.

Intellectual property.

So in Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios in Hollywood, this is a separately ticketed event.

And there's, of course, different levels of passes and everything like that.

The one in Florida had 10 houses this year and multiple scare zones.

And we went to just about all of them.

We hit eight this year.

Whoa.

So for Disney listeners who may never have heard of it, what exactly is Halloween Horror Nights? And why is it such a big deal for theme park fans?

Halloween Horror Nights is Universal Studios' version of Haunted Houses, basically.

This year, it was their 35th one in Florida.

And this actually predates Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party because they just celebrated 31 years.

Oh, wow.

And Universal Studios, it started out, I think, with just maybe one haunted house.

They have all sorts of houses.

They contact different IPs and try to get different, I guess, IPs to do their haunted houses.

And they also have scare zones and all sorts of stuff, you know, themed food, all that.

I'm going to interject here.

We should just clarify an IP intellectual property.

So this is scary movies thinking about different themes and genres and series of movies.

So we'll

go over what the different ones for this year, they have, they have different ones every year.

Yeah.

I've realized that we throw the word IP around or the, the acronym IP around.

And it's not just us, like everybody kind of in our social media podcasty space, we'll just say IP and, and, We never define it.

Yes.

Intellectual property.

So in Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios in Hollywood, this is a separately ticketed event.

And there's, of course, different levels of passes and everything like that.

The one in Florida had 10 houses this year and multiple scare zones.

And we went to just about all of them.

We hit eight this year.

Whoa.