July 22, 2026

NEWS: Halloween is less than 3 weeks away

Show Notes
Transcript

The theme park industry spent years training guests that September and October were worth a visit, and it worked so well that Halloween is now the anchor of the entertainment calendar. In this week's newsletter, we break down what that means for haunts, who's still spending, and why consumer retail is now building product for the semi-pro haunter.
In this issue:
- Plan Your Season with HAN's 2026 Halloween Haunt & Event Guides
- HHN 35 Opens a Portal to Its Own Past With "Sideshow of Decay"
- "Stranger Things: Return to Hawkins" Becomes HHN's First Single-Franchise Lagoon Show
- Universal Orlando Discontinues Fear With Express Pass Products
- HHN in Singapore and Japan
- "Blair Witch: No Signal" Mazes Coming to Six Flags
- Halloween at Tokyo Disney 2026
- HalloweenCostumes Debuts Its Biggest Animatronics Lineup Ever
- Freddy Fazbear Animatronic Comes to Spirit Halloween
- Scream 30th Anniversary Reunion at Midsummer Scream
- Legendary Haunt Tour 2026 Lineup

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Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the

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haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip on the

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HN Show. We bring you the haunt news, information, and

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education you need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays, we

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bring you a roundup of news from haunts worldwide. Read

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more about these stories and so much more in our

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free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at the link in the show notes.

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And as always for the news roundup, I'm passing it

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off to Darryl.

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Here's a word from Philip Heernandez, publisher of the Haunted

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Attraction Network. Halloween is less than three weeks away. Okay,

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now that you're done panicking, let me explain. August through

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October used to be the shoulder season in theme parks,

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the slow time after summer, when families were settling into school.

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The theme park industry spent years training guests. That's September

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or in October, we're worth a visit. By developing Halloween programming,

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it worked so well that Halloween is now the anchor

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of the entertainment calendar. The first ticket at Halloween event

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of this year is August seventh. How does that relate

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to Haunts Consort entertainment and what happens in theme parks,

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particularly when it comes to training guests. Trickles down to

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our industry. Our date tracker counts eighteen large haunts opening

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on September eleventh and twelfth, and it no longer ends

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on Halloween, as haunts now run to November fourteenth. That

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means haunts will still be selling tickets a full week

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after Disney World's Christmas parties have opened. The world's largest

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operators now build their year around Halloween. A season this

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big needs tracking, so we've compiled our full slate of

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twenty twenty six guides opening dates Halloween Horrorits at every

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park worldwide, Disney Halloween freight Fest, Hallow Scream Orlando, California,

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and we update them continuously as announcements roll in. With

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a season this large, we'll spending hold up well. Most

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haunts don't have ticket pages up yet, but we have

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new data weekly. The latest bank earnings showed that card

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spending grew nine to twelve percent in the four biggest banks.

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And while nearly forty percent of lower income households have

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no summer travel plans, they didn't stop buying entertainment. They

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stopped buying travel. The fight they skipped becomes a drive

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to a regional attraction, which makes that forty percent a

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demand pool, not a loss and drive. Two haunts are

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positioned to catch it, and retail is another signal. Although

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more people decorate for Halloween than a ten haunts, strong

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retail demand is a good sign, especially when it comes

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to decorating. Retailers are getting bigger than ever Halloween Costumes

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dot Com just released its largest animatronics catalog in company history,

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over seventy five new pieces and the licensed ip's dominating

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search five nights at Freddy's Focus Pocus the night every

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before Christmas are pulling fandoms into the Halloween isle who

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might have never shopped it before. The headline piece is

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a twenty five thousand dollars Lord of the Rings balrog

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who buys a twenty five thousand dollars animatronic from a

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costume retailer. A semipro hant, the home haunt that draws thousands.

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The small operator shopping outside the trade channel. Consumer retail

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has noticed that the line between decorating and operatings keeps blurring,

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and now it's building product for the people in between.

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Now here's the challenge. A larger market means more competition.

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You now must stand out in a season everyone wants

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a piece of. Also, this week, Universal discontinued its Fear

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with Express Pass products for HHN thirty five Stranger Things

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gets hhn's first single franchise, Lagoon Show. HHN Singapore and

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Japan revealed their lineups. Six Flags announced blair Witch Mazes

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at two parks, and the Scream Cast reu nights at

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Midsummer Scream for the film's thirtieth anniversary. Here's what you

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need to know this week the Haunt Guides. Halloween season

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is almost upon US, and haunts around the country are

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announcing their dates, new editions, special events, and more. To

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help you manage the myriad of updates, the Haunted Attraction

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Network has compiled comprehensive guides to the top haunts in

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the US and top theme parks events around the world.

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Book Mark these important pages by following the links in

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our show notes, and check back often for updates as

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new information is released. First guide When do Haunted Houses

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open in twenty twenty six is a guide to confirming

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twenty twenty six opening dates, sorted by opening week. Next

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is the best and scariest Haunted houses in America the

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Top Haunts list. Each year the Haunted Attraction Association bestows

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member haunts that meet a ten point standard covering safety, professionalism,

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and industry leadership with the title of Top Haunt. A

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twenty twenty five list the mo most recent published recognized

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sixty seven attractions. Our Top Haunts guides reflects the current

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published list and will be refreshed when the twenty twenty

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six list is announced. Halloween Horror Nights twenty twenty six dates, tickets,

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and lineups for every park. Universal runs Halloween Horror Nights

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at five parks worldwide, and twenty twenty six is a

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landmark year. Orlando celebrates the event's thirty fifth anniversary with

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its longest run ever, opening August twenty eighth, the earliest

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start date in its history. This guide covers every Universal

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park running Halloween Horror Nits in twenty twenty six, sorted

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by opening date, with the link to their full guide

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for each. Next is the Disneyland Halloween twenty twenty six,

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every park worldwide. Disney runs Halloween on six resorts across

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three continents, and no two do it alike. This hob

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attracts every Disney Halloween celebration for twenty twenty six, with

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dates is announced and a full guide for each covered

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resort updated as the remains parks make their announcements. Next

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is freight Fast twenty twenty six, a complete guide to

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six Flags Halloween event at every park six Flags Entertainment Corporations.

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Freight Fast returns for its thirty fourth year and twenty

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twenty six across the company's park portfolio. Halloween Scream twenty

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twenty six the complete guide to all five United Parks

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locations Alloscream United Parks and resorts. Hard ticketed Helloween brand

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returns to all five of its US locations for the

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twenty twenty sixth season. On September eleventh. Orlando Helloween Events

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every park party in Haunt. No city on Earth packs

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more Helloween into one season than Orlando. Four theme park

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events run overlapping calendars from early August through November, and

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the area Zone haa certified top Haunt operates a short

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drive west. This guide lists every major Orlando Helloween event

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for twenty twenty six, with dates and a link to

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our full guide for each, and it updates as parks

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make new announcements. Halloween Time at Disneyland twenty twenty six.

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The complete guide Halloween Time at Disneyland Resort runs August

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twenty first through October thirty first. Here is what is new,

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what is returning, what got cut, and how the season

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fits together across both parks, Oogie Boogie Bash and the hotels.

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Haunted Houses in California twenty twenty six dates, tickets, and

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what's new. California's Halloween season stands out for its variety.

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Every major theme park runs a Halloween event. Professional haunts

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operate from San Diego to Sacramento, and the state's home

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haunt scene is the largest in the country. This god

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covers the multi day ticket at Halloween events operating in

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commercial spaces across California in twenty twenty six. Single day

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events and home haunts are not listed. Every event links

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to our full guide, where you will find current price

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lineups and updates. How to become a scare actor, Haunted

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House jobs, and additions. Haunts around the country are beginning

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to cast for their upcoming Halloween seasons. Do you have

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what it takes to become a scare actor? Over the years,

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Haunted Attraction Network has interviewed hundreds of Haunt owners, casting directors,

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and general managers, and hiring comes up constantly. We hear

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at the Haunted Attraction Network have created a guy that

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compiles what they have told us about how to get hired,

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what happens in the room, and what makes an actor

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stand out. Follow the links in our show notes to

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read the full guide. Halloween Horror Nights thirty five opens

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a portal to its own past with the side Show

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of Decay. For its thirty fifth anniversary, Halloween Horror Nights

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from Orlando, Florida is digging through its own past. Universal

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Orlando has announced Side Show of Decay, a scare zone

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set in a carnival junkyard where characters from previous years

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claw their way back through a portal. Sideshow of Decay

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is the second scare zone revealed for the event, following

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Infernal Carnival of Nightmares announced the day before Stranger Things

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Returned to Hawkins to become jhn's first single franchise lagoon show.

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Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, Florida will premiere

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its first ever single franchise lagoon show with Stranger Things

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Returned to Hawkins staged on the Universal Studios Florida Lagoon.

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The show is a tenth anniversary tribute to the Netflix

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series that spans all five seasons of Stranger Things for

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Netflix's Tutem, which serves as Universal's licensing partner in the

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Stranger Things IP. The show uses water screens to project

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memorable scenes from throughout the series, projection mapping on Universal

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Studios Florida buildings to recreate Hawkins locations, dynamic lighting and

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audio pulled directly from the series original score. Halloween Horror

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Nights Singapore reveals four haunted houses and two scare zones.

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Universal Studios Singapore and Sentosa Island, Singapore has revealed the

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lineup for Halloween Horror Nights fourteen, running eighteen select nights

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September twenty fifth through November first. The fourteenth year of

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the event includes four haunted houses, to immersive scare zones

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and new roving scare experience that Universal says will strike

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guests anywhere in the park. This year's house lineup mixes

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original Singapore inspired concepts with two internationally themed builds. Singapore's

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Most Haunted on Air returns the Singapore's Most Haunted series

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for a third consecutive year, this time set inside an

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abandoned broadcast studio where re enactments of Singapore's darkest legends

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played on an endless loop. Krangouni The Cursed Collection reimagines

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a Singapore cultural icon, the Karranguni or itinerant rag and

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bone collector, as a vessel for the misfortunes contained in

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the unwanted items he has collected over the years. Made

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in Hell Zindling Robotics is set in a Chinese bioengineering

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and robotics facility where human life force is being harvested

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for artificial immortality. Chatterbox Charlie's Vaudeville Horrors promotes last year's

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fan favorite scare zone character to his own house ventriloquist

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chat Box Charlie, whose mind has merged with his dummy Junior,

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is turned his victims into gruesome versions of themselves. New

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this year, Universal is deploying roving scare actors called the

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Fatima Rockers, inspired by the Korenguni House premise and the Pontianac,

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a Southeast Asian folkloric female vampire. They will prowl the

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park and strike without warning outside of the scare zones.

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And houses. Universal Studios Japan celebrates fifteen years of HHN

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Halloween Horrorites at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, Japan, returns

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for its fifteenth anniversary from September tenth through November eighth,

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running inside the Wider Universal Extreme Autumn Discover U Umbrella

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event that opens September tenth. The twenty twenty six lineup

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adds a new Resident Evil Requiem, The Dive Maze in

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partnership with Capcom, a fifteenth anniversary retrospective stage show Halloween

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Horrornit Academy, fifteen years of Scream refreshed ride overlays for

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Hollywood Dream and After Dark Jaws overlays with Universal Studios Japan,

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also marking its own twenty fifth anniversary this season. The

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twenty twenty six season's headline edition is Resident Evil Requiem

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The Dive, a Capcom tied indoor horror mayze inside Stage

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eighteen recreating the abandoned Renwood Hotel and the Rhodes Hill

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Chronic Care Sanatorium, featured in Capcom's newest Resident Evil game.

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Twenty twenty six well passed hhn's November eighth close and

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is framed as a joint celebration of the Resident Evil

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series thirtieth anniversary and Usjay's twenty fifth anniversary. Universal Orlando

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discontinues Fear with Express Pass products for Halloween Horror Nights

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thirty five. Universal Orlando in Orlando, Florida has discontinued all

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of its Fear with Express pass products for the Halloween

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hoor Nights thirty five, ending the multi year practice of

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packaging Universal Express Access with the events multi night Fear passes.

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The change affects guests who would previously have added Express

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access to the Rush of Fear, Frequent Fear, Frequent Fear Plus,

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or Ultimate Frequent Fear passes. The event will still offer

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its full multi night pass lineup, none of them will

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include a bundled Universal Express option. In twenty twenty six,

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in theme park News, Lego Land Shanghai hits two million.

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What China's fastest park launch means. Lego Land Shanghai passed

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two million guests in its first year, the fastest any

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Lego Land resort has reached that mark, and in this

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week's episode of Green Tagged, Philip and Scott break down

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the numbers behind the milestone, an eighty percent family guest base,

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two hundred and thirty thousand minifigures sold, and a guest

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pool expanding well beyond the Yang Sea River Delta Blair,

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which no signal mazes announced for Dorney Park and six

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Flags Great America. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation has announced new Blair,

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which no signal haunted mazes, coming to Dorney Park's Halloween

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Haunt in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and six Flags Great America's Freight

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Fest in Gurney, Illinois. The two mazes tile licensed horror

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one from the former Cedar Fair side of the twenty

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twenty four merger and one from the former six Flag Side.

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Lima joins the Oogi Boogie Bash villain lineup. Isma, the

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villain from Disney's two thousand animated film The Emperor's New Groove,

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is joining the villain lineup or Oogi Boogie Bash at

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Disney California Adventure in Anaheim, California for the twenty twenty

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six Halloween season. This will be Isma's first face character

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appearance at a Disney park in the United States. The

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character has appeared previously in a character meet and greet

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form Disneyland Paris and in a stage show or parade context,

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but Disneyland Resort has never hosted her as a walk

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around character Before Halloween at Tokyo disney twenty twenty six,

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Oriental Land Company has announced the twenty twenty six Disney

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Halloween season at Tokyo Disney Resort, running September sixteenth through

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thirty first at both Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea.

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The Coco inspired Lazos de Familia event at the Tokyo

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DisneySea runs slightly longer September sixteenth through November two. New

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highlights for twenty twenty six included an expanded Lazos de Familia,

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now extended into a wider area of Lost River Delta,

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and including an illuminated marigold covered bridge as a new

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nighttime effect Coco's Miguel with Greek guests appearing with two

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different looks, his Land of the Living look in the

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mornings and His Land of the Dead look in the afternoons.

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Tokyo Disneyland is adding new photo spots of the park

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entrance and in Tunetown. Disney's Tokyo Disney c is adding

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new pumpkin decorations at the entrance and a mural of

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Mickey and Minnie elsewhere. These fall Helloween event highlights have

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been announced along with the news that Tokyo Disney Resort

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will raise its maximum one day admission to twelve thoy

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four hundred yen, which is about seventy six dollars at

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the current exchange rates, beginning in October twenty twenty six.

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This is the first increase to its top ticket price

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since October twenty twenty three. The higher ceiling applies only

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to the highest demand days on the resort's variable pricing

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calendar October eleventh and seventeenth. October eleventh and seventeenth. Across October,

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most dates are still held at ten thousand, nine hundred

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ten and the cheapest fall to nine thousand, nine hundred gen.

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Live Oak Canyon debuts its first haunted maize. After forty

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five years running Southern California's largest pumpkin patch, Live Oak

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Canyon in Redlands, California, is opening its first ever haunted

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Maize Fridays through Sundays, October second through thirty first, the Hollow.

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The Hollow is a corn maze path threaded through tented

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rooms with live scare, a hybrid of the farm's existing

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corn maze footprint and a full cast walk through haunt.

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Live Oat Canyon has framed the concept as the land

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itself waking up. Each October. Something has been here longer

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than the farm. Each October, something stirs beneath the canyon

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floor land you know. Transform the paths shift, heart Stoppers

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adds new shows than VIP Lounge Sacramento's heart Stopper. Haunts

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in Rancho Cadorvo, California opens for its eighteenth season on

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October second and runs thirteen select nights through November first.

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The headline edition for twenty twenty six is the Frightfully

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Fancy Club, a VIP private lounge that includes a personal

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escort to the front of every haunt. Capped at twenty

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guests per time slot. The event's four haunted attractions, House McCutcheon, Misery, Mine,

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blight Woods, and dead Lands are all getting new scenes

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and upgrades for twenty twenty six. Also new for twenty

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twenty six is Red, a stage show that plays at

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the top of every hour in the property's ghost Town area.

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Art Stoppers describes it as the connective story that ties

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all four haunts together and sets up the narrative for

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guests before they enter. Additional twenty twenty six changes include

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new carnival games, a redesigned lobby, and an expanded ghost

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Town program that continues to feature live bands, fire dancers,

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roaming characters, and food and drink. Terror Vault announces the

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twenty twenty sixth theme, Slashed Ride to Hellville. Terror Vault

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in San Francisco, California, returns to the San Francisco Mint

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in twenty twenty six with a new production titled Slash

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Returned to Hellville. This event marks a return to the

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Hellville storyline that Terror Vault had previously explored and continue

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the venue's annual run of fully produced immersive theatrical horror

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experiences staged inside the historic eighteen seventy four venue. Terror

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Vault is produced under the Into the Dark banner and

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a three way creative partnership. Joshua Granell, better known as

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San Francisco drag Icon. Peaches Christ is co founder, writer

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and lead performer. David Flower Productions, run by David Flower,

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produces immersive theater and horror experiences and handles set in

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production design. Non Plus Ultra operates the San Francisco Mint

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as an event venue and manages its logistics and operations.

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Each production employs more than one hundred local performers and technicians.

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Exact dates, ticket prices, and additional programming details for twenty

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twenty six have not been announced. The Haunted Car Wash

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is back for its sixth season this October, expanding to

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four southern California regions Anaheim, Lakewood, Inland, Empire, and San Diego.

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These drive through Haunted attractions are staged inside functioning commercial

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car washes. Guests remain inside their own vehicles for the

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duration of the experience. As the car moves through the

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wash tunnel, scar actors appeer around the vehicle and haunt

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style special effects, lighting, in audio play, and coordination with

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the wash. When the car exits, it has been washed

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its passengers thoroughly spook. New midnight masquerade scene comes to

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Field of Screams. Field of Screams in Mountville, Pennsylvania, will

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open for its thirty fourth season on Friday, September eleventh.

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The headline edition this year is a new midnight masquerade

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scene inside the Den of Darkness, one of the property's

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four haunted attractions. The event runs select nights through November seventh,

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with an Extreme Blackout event on Saturday, November thirteenth, and

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a Zombie Fun run on Sunday, November fourteenth. Tickets are

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on sale now at the event's official website. Black Casket

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Productions announces Cannibal Creek theme for twenty twenty six. Black

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Casket Productions in Ukaipa, California, the Inland Empire haunted attraction

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known for changing its theme every year, was announced in

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twenty twenty six. Fall concept Cannibal Creek in a backwood settlement,

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A welcoming family draws visitors in for something much darker.

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Loved one have ventured into Cannibal Creek searching for missing

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family members, only to disappear themselves, leaving behind nothing but questions, rumors,

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and the echoes of those who never made it out.

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Enter if you dare, but remember the woods always keep

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their secrets. Scream thirtieth Anniversary Reunion comes to Midsummer's Scream.

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Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, California and Paramount Scares have

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announced a weekend long celebration marking the thirtieth anniversary of

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Wes Craven's Scream at the twenty twenty six convention, bringing

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much of the original Scream cast, Ghost based voice actor

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Roger L. Jackson, and composer Mark Beltrami to the Long

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Beach Convention Center from August seventh through ninth. The partnership

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is Paramount Scare's largest presence to date at the Southern

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California Haunt and Horror Convention. The thirtieth Anniversary programming centers

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on audio. The thirtieth Anniversary programming centers on autograph, selfie

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and professional photo op sessions across the weekend with much

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of the original cast, much of the original Scream cast

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Matthew Lillard as Snumacher, Skeet Elrich as Billy Loomis, David

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Rquette as Dewey Riley, Jamie Kennedy as Randy meek Leewadell

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stunt actor, and Joseph Whipp as Sheriff Burke. A limited

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number of attendees can also book a private meet and

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greet with Roger L. Jackson, the voice of Ghostface, and

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record a custom voicemail or audio greeting. Legendary Haunt Tour

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for twenty twenty six. Trans World's legendary Haunt Tour, taking

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place on November five through seventh, has announced its twenty

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twenty six Haunt lineup. This year's tour will take guest

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who Woods of Terror in Greensboro, North Carolina, Cursey Valley,

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Spooky Woods in Archdale, North Carolina, Lake, Hickory Haunts, and Hickory,

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North Carolina. Tickets are not on sale yet. Halloween Costumes

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dot Com debuts its biggest animatronics lineup ever with more

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than seventy five new pieces. Halloween Costumes dot Com has

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launched its most ambitious animatronics lineup ever, leading the class

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of twenty twenty six twenty four nine hundred ninety nine

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dollars and ninety nine cents. Lord of the Rings Balrog,

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a twelve foot Ghostbuster's Staypuffed, marshmallow Man, a twenty five

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foot inflatable leather face, and two of the Internet's most

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requested video game villains, Cat Nap and Huggy Wuggy from

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Poppy Playtime. Freddie Fasbear Animatronic comes to Spirit Halloween after

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years of Freddy Fasbear haunting screens theme parks in every

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Halloween aisle, Spirit Halloween is finally bringing him home. The

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retailer's first ever life sized Freddy Fasbear animatronic from Five

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Nights at Freddy's is real, priced at four hundred and

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ninety nine ninety nine and set to arrive when Spirit's

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flagship store opens August first in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey,

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with additional stores following. Freddie raises both arms and lifts

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a microphone up to his face. His eyes light up

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and trackside to side his torsos, and he plays five

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Nights at Freddy's game audio, including a light up iPulse

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time to the Torriodor March music box theme. The fans

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instantly recognized from the game, while Spirit teased and animatrotting

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in the July fifteenth social media post. A product page

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has yet to appear in the store's website. Anthropology's twenty

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twenty six collection is live. Anthrough apologies, twenty twenty six

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Halloween collection is fully live, and it has already grown

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to four hundred and thirty nine items. Prices run from

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a twelve dollars bistro tile nut bowl to a four

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hundred and ninety eight dollars giant rattan Viye Spider, with

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most tabletop pieces landing between eighteen and sixty eight dollars.

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Two returning programs anchor the drop the Mystic Halloween Icon

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juice glass line sixteen dollars each and blown with raised

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icon designs. Adds four new motives this year, Deviled Eggs,

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vampire fangs, black cats, and alien heads. The glassware program

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includes flutes, stamless martini glasses, mugs, and wine glasses. Anthropology's

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fan favorite Bistrotile collection underwent a spooky update for the

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product page with midnight hues Nighttime Creatures in twenty four

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Carrot Cold accents and twenty four Carrot Gold accents. Home

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Depot Launches the twenty twenty six Halloween Collection. Home Depot

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launched its twenty twenty six Halloween Collection online and on

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its app on July sixteenth, with an in store rollout

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starting later in August. The collection headlines with an updated

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twelve foot giant sized Skelley for two hundred and ninety

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