NEWS: Haunted Attraction Association's New Strategic Plan; ScareCON; Canadian Costumes

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

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as always for the news roundup, I'm

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passing it off to Darryl. The
Haunted Attraction Association has unveiled their twenty twenty

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four through twenty twenty seven strategic plan. Over the last three years, the

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AHAA has achieved great success, with
new partnerships rising forty percent, due in

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major part to their strategic planning and
commitment to support the entire haunt industry.

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Now, the association aims to continue
that success through targeted approaches, increased education,

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ongoing resource sharing, and member development
through an updated strategic plan. Highlights

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of the new plan include the addition
of a home charity haunt membership tier,

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new secondary memberships to allow haunts to
add managers and team leaders, a code

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of ethics to be unveiled in twenty
twenty five, a new vendor Advisory Board,

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a diversication on the Top Haunts program
to include a tiered level of awards

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and increased educational opportunities from beginning to
form a nationwide actor training program for a

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consistent curriculum nationwide. The HAA website
will be updated to include a jobs board,

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expanded attraction finder, and a vendor
finder to help members stay better connected.

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To learn more and see a detailed
account of the most recent HAA member

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survey results, watch the haa's full
presentation by following the links in our show

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notes. The Haunted Attraction Association is
also now accepting vendored donations for their annual

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laws, ive and online auctions.
At two hundred and fifty dollars, donation

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or more will renew a vendors HAA
membership. Higher donation will received enhanced perks

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with tiers at three point fifty six
hundred and one thousand dollars. Enhanced ROI

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offerings include video promotion, eblast inclusion, social media recognition, and more.

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Donations are tax deductible and help the
HAA raise funds for operating expenses, marketing

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for members, ensuring members have access
to twenty four to seven, crisis management

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in the fall, and more,
all while promoting your products in business to

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a room full of potential buyers.
Submit your donation information via the haa's official

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auction submission form. F Tling's new
Dance Macab attraction will feature a first of

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its kind spinning ride system Intiman's Dynamic
motion stage. The tilting dipping turntable will

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feature six other turntables atop it,
each with three six rider rows to allow

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one hundred and eight guests to experience
the attraction each ride. This attraction replaces

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the former Haunted House. The new
attraction is inspired by Camille Saint Sains eighteen

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seventy four orchestra work Dance Maccob,
bringing to life the piece in a thrilling

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new way. Dance Maccob is set
to open this fall. For more behind

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the scenes insight, check out Efterling's
official YouTube, the Making of Dance Macob

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playlist. Building the House, the
former Dead City Haunted House in Murray,

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Utah, caught fire and collapsed this
past Wednesday. Firefighters initially responded to a

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smoke investigation due to the amount of
smoke and fire spread. A total of

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six engines and four ladder trucks were
called in. This is a defensive fire.

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Murray City Fire Department Assistant Fire Chief
Stephen Olsen told ABC four dot com

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that means we're not able to send
people in due to the heavy fire conditions

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and limited access. Within an hour
of the firefighter's arrival, the roof of

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the structure collapsed. No injuries are
reported, but heavy damage to the structure

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and contents is expected. The building
house hosed Dead City until its closure in

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twenty twenty two. It was currently
being used as a warehouse. This year's

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scare Con will take place Wednesday,
June fifth at Psychopath in Newcastle, England.

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Scare Con is dedicated to the ever
growing scare attraction industry, provide a

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space for attendees to come together and
learn and discuss ideas, discover new innovations,

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and purchase props for their attractions and
shows. In the evening, scare

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Con presents the annual Scare Ball,
which features the live Scare Award ceremony.

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This year's venue takes the event to
the Northeast region of England. Delegates love

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the fact that we can move the
event around to different venues, which means

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the scare attraction population can see different
events that they may not have been able

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to visit before, says Michael Bolton
of Scare Con. We are excited to

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therefore bring the event to Psychopath which
won last year's Scare Awards for the best

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Screen park in the UK. This
venue will give delegates the opportunity to visit

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a number of Psychopaths Scare experiences with
live actors exploring expanded range of vendors,

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attend talks and seminars, and of
course attend this Scare Awards with a mystery

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specialty act for the evening. Tickets
are on sale now at an early bird

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discount price of seventy five pounds per
person. The Ashland Public Library has teamed

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up with Jeff Dpaoli, host of
That Halloween podcast, for a series of

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Haunted Happenings live streams. This free
series of live streams will feature guests from

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the haunt and horror communities where they
will share behind the scenes stories. The

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next event will take place on Thursday, February fifteenth at six thirty pm EST.

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This month's edition will feature Nicki Trakia, set builder and scare actor from

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Haunted Overlord in Lee, New Hampshire, free registration is now available for this

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and future live streams. The Canadian
Border Services Agency CBSA have targeted the Costume

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Shop in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to pay over one hundred thousand dollars

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on import duties after a change it
made to the classification of themed costumes.

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Store owner Ryan Shohl has been importing
his costumes under Chapter ninety five point h

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five of the Canadian Customs Tariff,
which classifies the goods as festiveware and comes

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with zero import duties. In late
twenty twenty two, however, he was

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notified by the CBSA that isn't costumes
were no longer classified as festive wear,

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and instead classified his fancy dress,
which comes with an eighteen percent duty fee

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plus applicable taxes. Furthermore, he
was retroactively being charged for these fees dating

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back to twenty twenty one. We
all import under ninety five point oh five,

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and the government itself, in its
final report said to me, yes,

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you had no reason to believe he
did anything wrong, Schoel said in

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the Calgary News. But it's wrong. They say it's not a costume.

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I mean, come on, Mario
Luigi or ghost Face they're all costumes.

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Schol who has more than twenty five
hundred costumes in stock, must now refile

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previous inventory, even if those goods
are no longer imported, and he can't

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appeal the CBSA's decision until payment is
made. CTV News contacted other big box

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retailers to inquire if they are paying
extra import duties, but received no responses.

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They contacted other small businesses in Calgary, but no interviews were granted for

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fear of retaliation from the CBSA.
Shoel has contacted lawyers, brokers and consultants

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to defend himself and intends to continue
to fight the ruling in court. Steve

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McCarthy, owner of New Republic,
a screen printing clothing company, has decided

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to permanently close the business, but
loyal customers and fans of his work don't

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despair. He has taken a position
at Monster Inc. Tees. All current

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orders from New republicle ship as soon
as possible, be delivered by the request

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of due dates. All current quote
requests will be responded to from the Monster

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Inc. Teas team. McCarthy addressed
a change in a Facebook post, dating

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my customers will not notice a difference
in print quality with the move, as

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I will still be the printer.
The only real difference should be a point

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of contact in the business name.
As well as all new product offerings and

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new Evil Dead movie is on its
way. It has been announced that Sebastian

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Vanicek has been hired by Ghost House
Pictures to direct a spinoff of last year's

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Evil Dead Rise. Further details,
including the film's plot and anticipated release date,

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are not yet announced. Banchik made
his directorial debut with twenty twenty three's

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Infested. Infested will be available for
streaming on shutters starting April twenty sixth.

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Some events coming up in February through
April include trans World Helloween and Attraction Show

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March seventh through tenth in Saint Louis, Missouri, Ferexpo April twelfth through twenty

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fourth at Owensboro, Kentucky, The
Spooky Swap Meet April twenty sixth through twenty

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eighth in Los Angeles, California,
And the East Coast Haunters Convention April twenty

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seventh and twenty eighth in Oaks,
Pennsylvania. And that's all for the news

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this Week. Today's episode was produced
by me Philip Bernandez, with reporting by

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Daryl Plunky, post production by David
Swope. This HANT News Update is a

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