July 22, 2026

NEWS: Halloween is less than 3 weeks away

NEWS: Halloween is less than 3 weeks away
NEWS: Halloween is less than 3 weeks away
Haunted Attraction Network
NEWS: Halloween is less than 3 weeks away

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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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. Here's a word from Philip Heernandez, publisher of the Haunted Attraction Network. Halloween is less than three weeks away. Okay, now that you're done panicking, let me explain. August through October used to be the shoulder season in theme parks, the slow time after summer, when families were settling into school.

0:56 The theme park industry spent years training guests. That's September or in October, we're worth a visit. By developing Halloween programming, it worked so well that Halloween is now the anchor of the entertainment calendar. The first ticket at Halloween event of this year is August seventh. How does that relate to Haunts Consort entertainment and what happens in theme parks, particularly when it comes to training guests. Trickles down to our industry. Our date tracker counts eighteen large haunts opening on September eleventh and twelfth, and it no longer ends on Halloween, as haunts now run to November fourteenth. That means haunts will still be selling tickets a full week after Disney World's Christmas parties have opened. The world's largest operators now build their year around Halloween. A season this big needs tracking, so we've compiled our full slate of twenty twenty six guides opening dates Halloween Horrorits at every park worldwide, Disney Halloween freight Fest, Hallow Scream Orlando, California, and we update them continuously as announcements roll in. With a season this large, we'll spending hold up well. Most haunts don't have ticket pages up yet, but we have new data weekly. The latest bank earnings showed that card spending grew nine to twelve percent in the four biggest banks.

2:17 And while nearly forty percent of lower income households have no summer travel plans, they didn't stop buying entertainment. They stopped buying travel. The fight they skipped becomes a drive to a regional attraction, which makes that forty percent a demand pool, not a loss and drive. Two haunts are positioned to catch it, and retail is another signal. Although more people decorate for Halloween than a ten haunts, strong retail demand is a good sign, especially when it comes to decorating. Retailers are getting bigger than ever Halloween Costumes dot Com just released its largest animatronics catalog in company history, over seventy five new pieces and the licensed ip's dominating search five nights at Freddy's Focus Pocus the night every before Christmas are pulling fandoms into the Halloween isle who might have never shopped it before. The headline piece is a twenty five thousand dollars Lord of the Rings balrog who buys a twenty five thousand dollars animatronic from a costume retailer. A semipro hant, the home haunt that draws thousands.

3:20 The small operator shopping outside the trade channel. Consumer retail has noticed that the line between decorating and operatings keeps blurring, and now it's building product for the people in between. Now here's the challenge. A larger market means more competition. You now must stand out in a season everyone wants a piece of. Also, this week, Universal discontinued its Fear with Express Pass products for HHN thirty five Stranger Things gets hhn's first single franchise, Lagoon Show. HHN Singapore and Japan revealed their lineups. Six Flags announced blair Witch Mazes at two parks, and the Scream Cast reu nights at Midsummer Scream for the film's thirtieth anniversary. Here's what you need to know this week the Haunt Guides. Halloween season is almost upon US, and haunts around the country are announcing their dates, new editions, special events, and more. To help you manage the myriad of updates, the Haunted Attraction Network has compiled comprehensive guides to the top haunts in the US and top theme parks events around the world.

4:26 Book Mark these important pages by following the links in our show notes, and check back often for updates as new information is released. First guide When do Haunted Houses open in twenty twenty six is a guide to confirming twenty twenty six opening dates, sorted by opening week. Next is the best and scariest Haunted houses in America the Top Haunts list. Each year the Haunted Attraction Association bestows member haunts that meet a ten point standard covering safety, professionalism, and industry leadership with the title of Top Haunt. A twenty twenty five list the mo most recent published recognized sixty seven attractions. Our Top Haunts guides reflects the current published list and will be refreshed when the twenty twenty six list is announced. Halloween Horror Nights twenty twenty six dates, tickets, and lineups for every park. Universal runs Halloween Horror Nights at five parks worldwide, and twenty twenty six is a landmark year. Orlando celebrates the event's thirty fifth anniversary with its longest run ever, opening August twenty eighth, the earliest start date in its history. This guide covers every Universal park running Halloween Horror Nits in twenty twenty six, sorted by opening date, with the link to their full guide for each. Next is the Disneyland Halloween twenty twenty six, every park worldwide. Disney runs Halloween on six resorts across three continents, and no two do it alike. This hob attracts every Disney Halloween celebration for twenty twenty six, with dates is announced and a full guide for each covered

5:58 resort updated as the remains parks make their announcements. Next is freight Fast twenty twenty six, a complete guide to six Flags Halloween event at every park six Flags Entertainment Corporations. Freight Fast returns for its thirty fourth year and twenty twenty six across the company's park portfolio. Halloween Scream twenty twenty six the complete guide to all five United Parks locations Alloscream United Parks and resorts. Hard ticketed Helloween brand returns to all five of its US locations for the twenty twenty sixth season. On September eleventh. Orlando Helloween Events every park party in Haunt. No city on Earth packs more Helloween into one season than Orlando. Four theme park events run overlapping calendars from early August through November, and the area Zone haa certified top Haunt operates a short drive west. This guide lists every major Orlando Helloween event for twenty twenty six, with dates and a link to our full guide for each, and it updates as parks make new announcements. Halloween Time at Disneyland twenty twenty six.

7:02 The complete guide Halloween Time at Disneyland Resort runs August twenty first through October thirty first. Here is what is new, what is returning, what got cut, and how the season fits together across both parks, Oogie Boogie Bash and the hotels. Haunted Houses in California twenty twenty six dates, tickets, and what's new. California's Halloween season stands out for its variety. Every major theme park runs a Halloween event. Professional haunts operate from San Diego to Sacramento, and the state's home haunt scene is the largest in the country. This god covers the multi day ticket at Halloween events operating in commercial spaces across California in twenty twenty six. Single day events and home haunts are not listed. Every event links to our full guide, where you will find current price lineups and updates. How to become a scare actor, Haunted House jobs, and additions. Haunts around the country are beginning to cast for their upcoming Halloween seasons. Do you have what it takes to become a scare actor? Over the years, Haunted Attraction Network has interviewed hundreds of Haunt owners, casting directors, and general managers, and hiring comes up constantly. We hear at the Haunted Attraction Network have created a guy that compiles what they have told us about how to get hired, what happens in the room, and what makes an actor stand out. Follow the links in our show notes to read the full guide. Halloween Horror Nights thirty five opens a portal to its own past with the side Show of Decay. For its thirty fifth anniversary, Halloween Horror Nights from Orlando, Florida is digging through its own past. Universal

8:36 Orlando has announced Side Show of Decay, a scare zone set in a carnival junkyard where characters from previous years claw their way back through a portal. Sideshow of Decay is the second scare zone revealed for the event, following Infernal Carnival of Nightmares announced the day before Stranger Things Returned to Hawkins to become jhn's first single franchise lagoon show. Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, Florida will premiere its first ever single franchise lagoon show with Stranger Things Returned to Hawkins staged on the Universal Studios Florida Lagoon. The show is a tenth anniversary tribute to the Netflix series that spans all five seasons of Stranger Things for Netflix's Tutem, which serves as Universal's licensing partner in the Stranger Things IP. The show uses water screens to project memorable scenes from throughout the series, projection mapping on Universal Studios Florida buildings to recreate Hawkins locations, dynamic lighting and audio pulled directly from the series original score. Halloween Horror Nights Singapore reveals four haunted houses and two scare zones.

9:44 Universal Studios Singapore and Sentosa Island, Singapore has revealed the lineup for Halloween Horror Nights fourteen, running eighteen select nights September twenty fifth through November first. The fourteenth year of the event includes four haunted houses, to immersive scare zones and new roving scare experience that Universal says will strike guests anywhere in the park. This year's house lineup mixes original Singapore inspired concepts with two internationally themed builds. Singapore's Most Haunted on Air returns the Singapore's Most Haunted series for a third consecutive year, this time set inside an abandoned broadcast studio where re enactments of Singapore's darkest legends played on an endless loop. Krangouni The Cursed Collection reimagines a Singapore cultural icon, the Karranguni or itinerant rag and bone collector, as a vessel for the misfortunes contained in the unwanted items he has collected over the years. Made in Hell Zindling Robotics is set in a Chinese bioengineering and robotics facility where human life force is being harvested for artificial immortality. Chatterbox Charlie's Vaudeville Horrors promotes last year's fan favorite scare zone character to his own house ventriloquist chat Box Charlie, whose mind has merged with his dummy Junior, is turned his victims into gruesome versions of themselves. New this year, Universal is deploying roving scare actors called the Fatima Rockers, inspired by the Korenguni House premise and the Pontianac,

11:17 a Southeast Asian folkloric female vampire. They will prowl the park and strike without warning outside of the scare zones. And houses. Universal Studios Japan celebrates fifteen years of HHN Halloween Horrorites at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, Japan, returns for its fifteenth anniversary from September tenth through November eighth, running inside the Wider Universal Extreme Autumn Discover U Umbrella event that opens September tenth. The twenty twenty six lineup adds a new Resident Evil Requiem, The Dive Maze in partnership with Capcom, a fifteenth anniversary retrospective stage show Halloween Horrornit Academy, fifteen years of Scream refreshed ride overlays for Hollywood Dream and After Dark Jaws overlays with Universal Studios Japan, also marking its own twenty fifth anniversary this season. The twenty twenty six season's headline edition is Resident Evil Requiem The Dive, a Capcom tied indoor horror mayze inside Stage eighteen recreating the abandoned Renwood Hotel and the Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Sanatorium, featured in Capcom's newest Resident Evil game.

12:29 It opens September eleventh and continues through December twenty seventh. Twenty twenty six well passed hhn's November eighth close and is framed as a joint celebration of the Resident Evil series thirtieth anniversary and Usjay's twenty fifth anniversary. Universal Orlando discontinues Fear with Express Pass products for Halloween Horror Nights thirty five. Universal Orlando in Orlando, Florida has discontinued all of its Fear with Express pass products for the Halloween hoor Nights thirty five, ending the multi year practice of packaging Universal Express Access with the events multi night Fear passes. The change affects guests who would previously have added Express access to the Rush of Fear, Frequent Fear, Frequent Fear Plus, or Ultimate Frequent Fear passes. The event will still offer its full multi night pass lineup, none of them will include a bundled Universal Express option. In twenty twenty six, in theme park News, Lego Land Shanghai hits two million.

13:30 What China's fastest park launch means. Lego Land Shanghai passed two million guests in its first year, the fastest any Lego Land resort has reached that mark, and in this week's episode of Green Tagged, Philip and Scott break down the numbers behind the milestone, an eighty percent family guest base, two hundred and thirty thousand minifigures sold, and a guest pool expanding well beyond the Yang Sea River Delta Blair, which no signal mazes announced for Dorney Park and six Flags Great America. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation has announced new Blair, which no signal haunted mazes, coming to Dorney Park's Halloween Haunt in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and six Flags Great America's Freight Fest in Gurney, Illinois. The two mazes tile licensed horror ip to Halloween events at two six Flags Entertainment Corporation parks, one from the former Cedar Fair side of the twenty twenty four merger and one from the former six Flag Side.

14:29 Lima joins the Oogi Boogie Bash villain lineup. Isma, the villain from Disney's two thousand animated film The Emperor's New Groove, is joining the villain lineup or Oogi Boogie Bash at Disney California Adventure in Anaheim, California for the twenty twenty six Halloween season. This will be Isma's first face character appearance at a Disney park in the United States. The character has appeared previously in a character meet and greet form Disneyland Paris and in a stage show or parade context, but Disneyland Resort has never hosted her as a walk around character Before Halloween at Tokyo disney twenty twenty six, Oriental Land Company has announced the twenty twenty six Disney Halloween season at Tokyo Disney Resort, running September sixteenth through thirty first at both Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea.

15:17 The Coco inspired Lazos de Familia event at the Tokyo DisneySea runs slightly longer September sixteenth through November two. New highlights for twenty twenty six included an expanded Lazos de Familia, now extended into a wider area of Lost River Delta, and including an illuminated marigold covered bridge as a new nighttime effect Coco's Miguel with Greek guests appearing with two different looks, his Land of the Living look in the mornings and His Land of the Dead look in the afternoons. Tokyo Disneyland is adding new photo spots of the park entrance and in Tunetown. Disney's Tokyo Disney c is adding new pumpkin decorations at the entrance and a mural of Mickey and Minnie elsewhere. These fall Helloween event highlights have been announced along with the news that Tokyo Disney Resort will raise its maximum one day admission to twelve thoy four hundred yen, which is about seventy six dollars at the current exchange rates, beginning in October twenty twenty six.

16:14 This is the first increase to its top ticket price since October twenty twenty three. The higher ceiling applies only to the highest demand days on the resort's variable pricing calendar October eleventh and seventeenth. October eleventh and seventeenth. Across October, most dates are still held at ten thousand, nine hundred ten and the cheapest fall to nine thousand, nine hundred gen. Live Oak Canyon debuts its first haunted maize. After forty five years running Southern California's largest pumpkin patch, Live Oak Canyon in Redlands, California, is opening its first ever haunted Maize Fridays through Sundays, October second through thirty first, the Hollow.

16:55 The Hollow is a corn maze path threaded through tented rooms with live scare, a hybrid of the farm's existing corn maze footprint and a full cast walk through haunt. Live Oat Canyon has framed the concept as the land itself waking up. Each October. Something has been here longer than the farm. Each October, something stirs beneath the canyon floor land you know. Transform the paths shift, heart Stoppers adds new shows than VIP Lounge Sacramento's heart Stopper. Haunts in Rancho Cadorvo, California opens for its eighteenth season on October second and runs thirteen select nights through November first.

17:36 The headline edition for twenty twenty six is the Frightfully Fancy Club, a VIP private lounge that includes a personal escort to the front of every haunt. Capped at twenty guests per time slot. The event's four haunted attractions, House McCutcheon, Misery, Mine, blight Woods, and dead Lands are all getting new scenes and upgrades for twenty twenty six. Also new for twenty twenty six is Red, a stage show that plays at the top of every hour in the property's ghost Town area. Art Stoppers describes it as the connective story that ties all four haunts together and sets up the narrative for guests before they enter. Additional twenty twenty six changes include new carnival games, a redesigned lobby, and an expanded ghost Town program that continues to feature live bands, fire dancers, roaming characters, and food and drink. Terror Vault announces the twenty twenty sixth theme, Slashed Ride to Hellville. Terror Vault in San Francisco, California, returns to the San Francisco Mint in twenty twenty six with a new production titled Slash Returned to Hellville. This event marks a return to the Hellville storyline that Terror Vault had previously explored and continue the venue's annual run of fully produced immersive theatrical horror experiences staged inside the historic eighteen seventy four venue. Terror Vault is produced under the Into the Dark banner and a three way creative partnership. Joshua Granell, better known as San Francisco drag Icon. Peaches Christ is co founder, writer and lead performer. David Flower Productions, run by David Flower,

19:09 produces immersive theater and horror experiences and handles set in production design. Non Plus Ultra operates the San Francisco Mint as an event venue and manages its logistics and operations. Each production employs more than one hundred local performers and technicians. Exact dates, ticket prices, and additional programming details for twenty twenty six have not been announced. The Haunted Car Wash is back for its sixth season this October, expanding to four southern California regions Anaheim, Lakewood, Inland, Empire, and San Diego. These drive through Haunted attractions are staged inside functioning commercial car washes. Guests remain inside their own vehicles for the duration of the experience. As the car moves through the wash tunnel, scar actors appeer around the vehicle and haunt style special effects, lighting, in audio play, and coordination with the wash. When the car exits, it has been washed its passengers thoroughly spook. New midnight masquerade scene comes to Field of Screams. Field of Screams in Mountville, Pennsylvania, will open for its thirty fourth season on Friday, September eleventh.

20:16 The headline edition this year is a new midnight masquerade scene inside the Den of Darkness, one of the property's four haunted attractions. The event runs select nights through November seventh, with an Extreme Blackout event on Saturday, November thirteenth, and a Zombie Fun run on Sunday, November fourteenth. Tickets are on sale now at the event's official website. Black Casket Productions announces Cannibal Creek theme for twenty twenty six. Black Casket Productions in Ukaipa, California, the Inland Empire haunted attraction known for changing its theme every year, was announced in twenty twenty six. Fall concept Cannibal Creek in a backwood settlement, A welcoming family draws visitors in for something much darker.

20:59 Loved one have ventured into Cannibal Creek searching for missing family members, only to disappear themselves, leaving behind nothing but questions, rumors, and the echoes of those who never made it out. Enter if you dare, but remember the woods always keep their secrets. Scream thirtieth Anniversary Reunion comes to Midsummer's Scream. Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, California and Paramount Scares have announced a weekend long celebration marking the thirtieth anniversary of Wes Craven's Scream at the twenty twenty six convention, bringing much of the original Scream cast, Ghost based voice actor Roger L. Jackson, and composer Mark Beltrami to the Long Beach Convention Center from August seventh through ninth. The partnership is Paramount Scare's largest presence to date at the Southern California Haunt and Horror Convention. The thirtieth Anniversary programming centers on audio. The thirtieth Anniversary programming centers on autograph, selfie and professional photo op sessions across the weekend with much of the original cast, much of the original Scream cast Matthew Lillard as Snumacher, Skeet Elrich as Billy Loomis, David Rquette as Dewey Riley, Jamie Kennedy as Randy meek Leewadell stunt actor, and Joseph Whipp as Sheriff Burke. A limited number of attendees can also book a private meet and greet with Roger L. Jackson, the voice of Ghostface, and record a custom voicemail or audio greeting. Legendary Haunt Tour for twenty twenty six. Trans World's legendary Haunt Tour, taking

22:31 place on November five through seventh, has announced its twenty twenty six Haunt lineup. This year's tour will take guest who Woods of Terror in Greensboro, North Carolina, Cursey Valley, Spooky Woods in Archdale, North Carolina, Lake, Hickory Haunts, and Hickory, North Carolina. Tickets are not on sale yet. Halloween Costumes dot Com debuts its biggest animatronics lineup ever with more than seventy five new pieces. Halloween Costumes dot Com has launched its most ambitious animatronics lineup ever, leading the class of twenty twenty six twenty four nine hundred ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents. Lord of the Rings Balrog, a twelve foot Ghostbuster's Staypuffed, marshmallow Man, a twenty five foot inflatable leather face, and two of the Internet's most requested video game villains, Cat Nap and Huggy Wuggy from Poppy Playtime. Freddie Fasbear Animatronic comes to Spirit Halloween after years of Freddy Fasbear haunting screens theme parks in every Halloween aisle, Spirit Halloween is finally bringing him home. The retailer's first ever life sized Freddy Fasbear animatronic from Five Nights at Freddy's is real, priced at four hundred and ninety nine ninety nine and set to arrive when Spirit's flagship store opens August first in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, with additional stores following. Freddie raises both arms and lifts a microphone up to his face. His eyes light up and trackside to side his torsos, and he plays five

24:01 Nights at Freddy's game audio, including a light up iPulse time to the Torriodor March music box theme. The fans instantly recognized from the game, while Spirit teased and animatrotting in the July fifteenth social media post. A product page has yet to appear in the store's website. Anthropology's twenty twenty six collection is live. Anthrough apologies, twenty twenty six Halloween collection is fully live, and it has already grown to four hundred and thirty nine items. Prices run from a twelve dollars bistro tile nut bowl to a four hundred and ninety eight dollars giant rattan Viye Spider, with most tabletop pieces landing between eighteen and sixty eight dollars.

24:43 Two returning programs anchor the drop the Mystic Halloween Icon juice glass line sixteen dollars each and blown with raised icon designs. Adds four new motives this year, Deviled Eggs, vampire fangs, black cats, and alien heads. The glassware program includes flutes, stamless martini glasses, mugs, and wine glasses. Anthropology's fan favorite Bistrotile collection underwent a spooky update for the product page with midnight hues Nighttime Creatures in twenty four Carrot Cold accents and twenty four Carrot Gold accents. Home Depot Launches the twenty twenty six Halloween Collection. Home Depot launched its twenty twenty six Halloween Collection online and on its app on July sixteenth, with an in store rollout starting later in August. The collection headlines with an updated twelve foot giant sized Skelley for two hundred and ninety nine dollars, featuring app controlled voice modulation and LCD life eyes, along with two new giants, an eleven foot mummy and an eight foot perilous plant monster that expand the roster of large scale animatronics available for under three hundred dollars in store. Interactive editions include a conversational Parrot, an app controlled Lethal Lily update, and a new five and a half Evil Pixie. We are constantly inspired by the inventive spirit of the Halloween enthusiastic communities and their year round passion motivates us to push the boundaries and innovation for our collection each year, said Aubrey Horowitz, decative holiday merchant

26:14 at the Home Depot. This year is no different from our realistically detailed collections to dynamic interactive technology like the upgraded Skellies real time app controlled voice modulation. We are giving our customers the tools to create their most captivating displays yet, all at an incredible value. Costco's twenty twenty six Halloween collection has begun to hit shelves at warehouses across the country. The show is to offer as a warehouse exclusive three point six foot Mickey Pumpkin with Infinity mirrors for two nineteen ninety nine Around it, a returning sixty two inch giant groundbreaking skeleton with LCD moving eyes, a full slate of Disney Nightmare Before Christmas license decor spinning Disney character lanterns and giant animatronics stretching from a ten foot Jack Skellington to a seven foot gargoyle. Costco's Halloween decor is available at warehouses and on costco dot COM's Halloween Decorations page. Lego debuts Midnight Valley Halloween Village sub theme. The Lego Group has debuted a new adult targeted seasonal building line called the Midnight Valley Collection, starting with a fourteen hundred and twenty piece haunted house called Mayor Manor Manor a set number one point one three eight three, priced to one hundred and nineteen ninety nine and ships from September first, twenty twenty six. Lego's product copy details a full two story interior with a suit of armor, fireplace, grandfather clock with hands frozen at Midnight, table and chairs, framed artwork in a bookshelf. That build measures over nine and a half inches or twenty seven

27:45 centimeters tall, eleven and a half inches or thirty centimeters wide, and five inches or thirteen centimeters deep. Cat and rat figures accompany the three minifigures. You can pre order Mayor Manor today on Lego's official website. Lowe's rolls out its twenty twenty six Haunted Living Halloween lineup. Low's is rolling out its twenty twenty six Halloween assortment, with waves continuing to arrive on store shelves throughout the summer ahead of the fall selling window. Haunted Living is Lowe's exclusive Halloween Too a house brand, and twenty twenty six starts the retailer's push into consumer grade animatronics and the sub three hundred dollars giant category. In twenty twenty six, Low's is leaning hard into the pumpkin motive across its lineup, with its twelve foot Pumpkin King for three ninety nine anchoring the yard giants, a seven foot talking Pumpkin Scarecrow for two ninety nine adding motion and audio at the mid tier, and the three foot pop up Pumpkin Henchman for ninety nine to ninety eight. As an add on that Lowe's positions as a coordinated companion to the larger figures. The Disney Haunted Mansion collection continues to be Low's differentiator on the licensed ip side of the retail Halloween market, giving Halloween mansion fans a full themed set that pairs, blow molds, tombstones, and outdoor decre with the Haunted Living Animatronic Assortment reminder.

29:01 A call for board members. The Haunted Attraction Association is still accepting candidates for an opportunity to serve on the Board of Directors. Board members play an important role in supporting the association's mission to promote, protect, and educate the haunt industry while helping guide the direction of the organization. To be considered owner operators of Haunted Attractions must have been an attraction or have an established industry business for five or more years, be willing to volunteer for forty five hours annually, be a current or new HAA member, and have fundraised over two thousand dollars for operating expenses. Non owner operators must be a member of the Association and good standing, demonstrate a minimum of seven years of documented history of industry experience, and meet all other director eligibility standards applicable to board service, including vetting and approval of member qualification committees. Some haunts that are doing scare actor editions this year, the Haunted Forest in Clarence, New York, August fifteenth and twenty second, The Hollo in Redlands, California, ongoing auditions, The Mortuary Haunted House in New Orleans, Louisiana, ongoing edition, Nightmare Wharf in Buffalo, New York August fifteenth and sixteenth, The Sawmil Haunted House in Covington, Louisiana, ongoing auditions, and the Thirteenth Hour Haunted Attraction in Indianapolis, Indiana as ongoing auditions.

30:28 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 Haunt 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 production.