News: Haunt Convention Announcements

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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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from haunts worldwide. Read more about

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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
seminar lineup has been announced for trans World's

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Halloween and Attractions Show in Saint Louis, Missouri, taking place March seventh through

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tenth. These educational presentations and workshops
are hosted by top industry professionals and cover

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many facets of the industry, from
makeup to safety, to business and more.

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Highlights include the Haunted Attraction Association Presentations
AOS Safety Seminar on Thursday March seventh

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from nine thirty am to one thirty
pm and Covering Your Assets, Protecting your

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Show Emergency Action Plants and Safety Checks
on Thursday March seventh from four to fifteen

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pm to five fifteen pm. Check
back regularly on their website. For updates

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and additions. Tickets for seminars are
on sale now. Individual classes range from

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fifty five to seventy five dollars pre
sale and sixty five to seventy five on

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site, and seminar packages start at
two hundred and fifty for five seminars or

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five hundred and fifty dollars for a
seminar superpass. Trans World's Halloween and Attraction

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Show is also announced its Saturday Night
costume party theme. This year's party theme

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will be Dia de las Muertos Party
with the Dead. Join your fellow grave

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ghouls and rancid revenants for an evening
of undead entertainment as everyone looks forward to

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the upcoming season of Screams with eager
anticipation. Experience a live DJ, psych

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jam music from Basement of the Dead, dancing, cash bars, appetizers,

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and more. Tickets are on sale
now for forty five in advance sixty on

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site. Applications are now being accepted
to be a house host at this year's

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Spooky Swap Meet in Los Angeles,
California. House hosts will be assigned one

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of the Heritage Square Museum's historic manners
to decorate exterior only in the spirit of

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Halloween, where guests will trick or
treat throughout all three days of the event.

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Both haunters and businesses with the resources
to decorate a house are welcome to

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apply. If selected as a decorator, the haunter and business will be given

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a booth space adjacent to their assigned
house to sell any Halloween inventory they are

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ready to part with. Designs and
plans for each house will be approved by

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creative producer and professional haunt designer John
Cook. The Spooky Swap Meet will take

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place April twenty six through twenty eight. Learn more on their official website or

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by following the links at our show
notes. Creep it Real OC from Santa

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Ana, California, announce their twenty
twenty four event line up. Their flagship

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creepit reeal ocill return to the Heritage
Museum of Orange County on September fourteenth and

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fifteenth. Come back for creepit Real
Festive on November twenty second and twenty third

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for spooky Holiday fun. Vendor applications
will open in February and attendee tickets will

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go on sale in the spring.
Visit their official website in the coming months

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for more Information hont Con and Indie
Horror Show is coming to Daytona Beach,

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Florida for three days of frightful fun
and February ninth through eleventh of twenty twenty

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four. This annual convention features educational
seminars, networking opportunities, and trade show

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floor with the latest products and services
for haunted attractions. This year, hont

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Con has broadened its horizons to encompass
not only the haunted attraction industry, but

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also the indie film and immersive events
sectors. The event will host four private

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screenings of independent horror films, as
well as educational programming focused on the horror

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film industry. Other seminars and workshops
will focus on haunt and immersive entertainment topics

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including makeup, set design, scare
acting, social media, and more.

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For even more spooky fund the Ultimate
Haunt Tour will take place on Thursday,

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February eighth, taking guests to four
Florida haunts, Seagreen's Haunted Museum, Sir

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Henry's Haunted Trail, Mortem Manor,
Haunted Attraction, and crush Brow Park.

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Haunt Con tickets are on sale now
starting at thirty dollars for general admission.

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Sixty for general admission plus Indie Horror
Movie Pass, and one hundred and ninety

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five for VIP admission plus the Indie
Horror Movie Pass. New membership tiers are

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coming to the Haunted Attraction Association for
twenty twenty four. Haunters and industry members

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may sign up for one of six
membership tiers individual Home Haunt or Charity Haunt,

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Small Attraction, large attraction, vendor, or multi Attraction. A full

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breakdown of benefits can be found at
the haa's official website. The HAA Board

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of Directors recently approved revised by Laws. The new version has several changes,

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including the It now provides for the
HAA members to approve changes in the future,

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changing the membership tiers, and adds
a section of temporary suspension of a

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director in advance of a removal.
You can read the full version of the

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HAA Bylaws by following the links in
our show notes. A critically acclaimed Scissor

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Hands, a Musical tribute, has
four final performances January eleventh, twelfth,

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and fourteenth at the Bourbon Room in
Hollywood, California. Experience this joyful,

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hilarious and touching jukebox musical production as
Edward, Kim and Peig reimagine the beloved

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tale of Tim Burton's Edward Scissor Hands, featuring music from Taylor Swift, Lady

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Gaga, Madonna, Scissor Sisters,
Billie Eilish, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie,

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Florence and the Machine, and more. Scissor Hands and Musical Tribute is

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a unique full evening experience. Doors
open ninety minutes before showtime for guests to

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come and enjoy a curated dinner menu
in full bar and then experience the performance.

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Tickets are still available starting in fifty
five dollars for general admission and seventy

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five dollars for VIP admission. Please
note all tickets have a two drink and

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food minimum. Tickets for the January
eleventh performance will include an exclusive after party

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hosted by Lance Bass and DJ Ryan
Kenny. The Zombie Joe's Underground Theater Group

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in North Hollywood, California, is
kicking off their thirty second season January twentieth

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to twenty second with three nights of
brand new plays as part of their twenty

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first annual Fifty Hour Drive By Theater
Festival. Prepare for an hour of original

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works based off of unique prompt all
written, directed and performed in a speedy

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two days. Who needs sleep when
You've got plays to perform? Tickets are

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on sale now starting at twenty dollars
in advance and twenty five at the door.

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Field of Screams in Mountville, Pennsylvania
spread holiday cheer this season by giving

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away one hundred and fifty Christmas trees
to local families. The hunt first hell

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The Christmas Tree giveaway ten years ago. The last few years have been rough

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for a lot of people with COVID
and things like that, so we thought

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it was an appropriate time to kick
this back in gear and re establish it

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this year and just give back to
the community this year again. Co owner

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Field of Screams, Jim Shop said. The trees, raging in height from

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five to nine feet, were given
out on a first come, first served

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basis just before Christmas. The Haunted
Attraction Network's Philip Heernandez appeared in December as

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Haunterres Toolbox Masterclass. He discussed ways
to improve your Haunted attraction in twenty twenty

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four. Listen to the full podcast
on hant Topic Radio or sign up for

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a Handress Toolbox membership to access each
month's live session, past recordings, and

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more. Some upcoming events this January
through March include the Helloween and Party Expo

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January twenty third through twenty fifth in
Las Vegas, Nevada, hont Con February

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ninth through eleventh in Daytona Beach,
Florida, and trans World's Halloween and Attraction

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Show March seventh through tenth in Saint
Louis, Missouri. And that's all for

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the news this week. Today's episode
was produced by me Philip Hernandez, with

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reporting by Daryl Plunky, post production
by David Swope. This news update is

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a production of the Haunted Attraction Network
and you can sign up to our weekly

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controls. Until next time, Haunters
Stay Scary. This is a Haunted Attraction

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