12ft Skeletons, Easterween, and Scream Break

0:07 Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip on the HN Show. We bring you the haunt news, information, and education you need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays, we bring you a roundup of news from haunts worldwide. Read more about these stories and so much more in our free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at the link in the show notes, and as always for the news roundup, I'm passing it off to Darryl. The widely popular twelve foot Skeleton is returning to Home Depot this fall. The Skeleton continues this year with a new knine companion and other friends for their twenty twenty four Halloween lineup. New editions include a Skeleton Dog, Frankenstein's Monster Plague, Doctor Poker Playing Skeleton Pirate, Wicked Tree and Skeleton and Headless horsemen riding atop a spooky skeletal horse. Details and all of these products and more will come to Home Depot's official website in the coming months. A Halfway to Halloween Festival is coming to Racho Yirupa Park in Riverside, California on May eleventh and twelve. The Spooky outdoor festival for Helloween enthusiasts.

1:19 Will feature live entertainment, mini haunts, celebrity photo ops and signings, food trucks, Halloween and horror vendors, diy Home Halloween to Core classes and more. Tickets are on zale now, starting at fifteen dollars for single day general admission twenty five dollars for weekend general admission. The Mini Haunt add on ticket is ten dollars, including unlimited visits to the mini Haunts. Follow the links in our show notes to get yours today. Hobbs Grove in Sanger, California is bringing back the soul List Circus for five select nights May tenth through nineteenth. The collection of Creepy Carne's Crew and clowns, along with the unsavory performers and freaks, invite you into their time warn vintage world of traveling and amusement on May tenth, eleventh, and seventeenth through nineteenth. In addition to one hont walkthrough, there will be a carnival style midway with food, a full bar, carnival games, music, freak shows, and more. The event is limited to attendees aged fourteen plus due to mature content Tickets go on sale on April thirteenth. Blumhouse and AMC Theaters unite to bring fans a five day halfway to Halloween film fest. From March twenty ninth through April second, AMC Theaters will release a select lineup of Blumhouse films in over forty cities around the US with one hundred participating theaters. The lineup includes Split on March twenty ninth, The Purge on March thirtieth, Ouiji, Origin of Evil on March

2:50 thirty first, Insiduous April first, the film's thirteenth anniversary, and The Invisible Man on April second. We wanted to celebrate local communities of horror fans throughout the country with a fun, affordable, and slightly evil night at the movies, said Jason Blum, Blumhouse co founder and CEO. We're grateful to our partners at AMC to help us bring this idea to life. Tickets for all screenings are on sale now for eight dollars plus tax. The National Confectioners Association released their annual State of Treating report, focusing on US candy sales in twenty twenty three. Last year's consumers spent over six point four billion dollars on chocolates, candy, and gum during the Halloween season. This is a five percent increase from twenty twenty two. The NCAA is predicting further increases in consumer spending for twenty twenty four. Some upcoming events from March through May of this year include Fear Expo from April twelve through fourteenth in Owensboro, Kentucky, The Spooky Swap Meet April twenty six through twenty eight in Los Angeles, California, East Coast Haunters Convention April twenty seventh and twenty eighth in Oaks, Pennsylvania. And Monster Palooza May thirty first through June second in Pasadena, California. Have you watched the latest Haunted Attraction Association presentation of the twenty twenty four OSCAR Awards.

4:16 If not, follow the links in our show notes to watch this illustrious annual event from trans World. And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Bernandez, with reporting by Darryl Plunky, post production by David Swope. This Haunt News Update is a production of the Haunted Attraction Network. And you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Hanta Attraction network dot com. Support for this episode comes from Gantum Lighting and controls. Until next time, Haunters stay scary. This is a Haunted Attraction Network production o