12ft Skeletons, Easterween, and Scream Break

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Coming up your weekly roundup of news
from around the haunt industry. Welcome to

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the show. I'm Philip on the
HN Show. We bring you the haunt

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news, information, and education you
need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays,

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we bring you a roundup of news
from haunts worldwide. Read more about

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these stories and so much more in
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link in the show notes, and
as always for the news roundup, I'm

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passing it off to Darryl. The
widely popular twelve foot Skeleton is returning to

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Home Depot this fall. The Skeleton
continues this year with a new knine companion

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and other friends for their twenty twenty
four Halloween lineup. New editions include a

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Skeleton Dog, Frankenstein's Monster Plague,
Doctor Poker Playing Skeleton Pirate, Wicked Tree

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and Skeleton and Headless horsemen riding atop
a spooky skeletal horse. Details and all

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of these products and more will come
to Home Depot's official website in the coming

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months. A Halfway to Halloween Festival
is coming to Racho Yirupa Park in Riverside,

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California on May eleventh and twelve.
The Spooky outdoor festival for Helloween enthusiasts.

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Will feature live entertainment, mini haunts, celebrity photo ops and signings,

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food trucks, Halloween and horror vendors, diy Home Halloween to Core classes and

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more. Tickets are on zale now, starting at fifteen dollars for single day

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general admission twenty five dollars for weekend
general admission. The Mini Haunt add on

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ticket is ten dollars, including unlimited
visits to the mini Haunts. Follow the

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links in our show notes to get
yours today. Hobbs Grove in Sanger,

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California is bringing back the soul List
Circus for five select nights May tenth through

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nineteenth. The collection of Creepy Carne's
Crew and clowns, along with the unsavory

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performers and freaks, invite you into
their time warn vintage world of traveling and

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amusement on May tenth, eleventh,
and seventeenth through nineteenth. In addition to

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one hont walkthrough, there will be
a carnival style midway with food, a

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full bar, carnival games, music, freak shows, and more. The

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event is limited to attendees aged fourteen
plus due to mature content Tickets go on

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sale on April thirteenth. Blumhouse and
AMC Theaters unite to bring fans a five

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day halfway to Halloween film fest.
From March twenty ninth through April second,

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AMC Theaters will release a select lineup
of Blumhouse films in over forty cities around

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the US with one hundred participating theaters. The lineup includes Split on March twenty

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ninth, The Purge on March thirtieth, Ouiji, Origin of Evil on March

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thirty first, Insiduous April first,
the film's thirteenth anniversary, and The Invisible

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Man on April second. We wanted
to celebrate local communities of horror fans throughout

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the country with a fun, affordable, and slightly evil night at the movies,

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said Jason Blum, Blumhouse co founder
and CEO. We're grateful to our

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partners at AMC to help us bring
this idea to life. Tickets for all

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screenings are on sale now for eight
dollars plus tax. The National Confectioners Association

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released their annual State of Treating report, focusing on US candy sales in twenty

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twenty three. Last year's consumers spent
over six point four billion dollars on chocolates,

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candy, and gum during the Halloween
season. This is a five percent

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increase from twenty twenty two. The
NCAA is predicting further increases in consumer spending

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for twenty twenty four. Some upcoming
events from March through May of this year

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include Fear Expo from April twelve through
fourteenth in Owensboro, Kentucky, The Spooky

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Swap Meet April twenty six through twenty
eight in Los Angeles, California, East

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Coast Haunters Convention April twenty seventh and
twenty eighth in Oaks, Pennsylvania. And

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Monster Palooza May thirty first through June
second in Pasadena, California. Have you

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watched the latest Haunted Attraction Association presentation
of the twenty twenty four OSCAR Awards.

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If not, follow the links in
our show notes to watch this illustrious annual

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event from trans World. And that's
all for the news this week. Today's

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episode was produced by me Philip Bernandez, with reporting by Darryl Plunky, post

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production by David Swope. This Haunt
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