NEWS: People Are Ready To Buy Halloween Now

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. First off, this message from Philip Heernandez, publisher of the Haunted Attraction Network. The annual Tricks, Treats and Trends report from MARS confirmed trends we've been tracking in the haunt industry.

0:50 The season is stretching, there is real demand for unique Halloween food, and discovery has moved to social While this was in the context of Halloween candy, these are takeaways that haunts can use. First season creep. We told you last week that Helloween starts in three weeks. MARS says consumers agree. Fifty seven percent of US adults now consider Helloween a full season, and thirty percent of gen Z already celebrates Summer Ween. If your Haunt isn't selling tickets or at the bare minimum, promoting your twenty twenty six season. You're behind. Guests are ready to buy Helloween in July. Sell it to them on food. The demand is real, but the key is unique. Seventy one percent of adults wants sensory or textual experiences, and seventy four percent of gen Z seek out seasonal flavors, colors, and shapes. The Haunt version of extreme flavor is not a hotter wing.

1:44 It's a themed named October only item. The kind of food that extends the story the way Scarehouse windsors one hundred and twenty five dollars dinner does. Fewer than ten percent of Haunts sell food at all, So the bar for standing out is on the floor. I'm sure you've heard about discovery on social, but stay with me because it all connects in a larger way. Fifty three percent of gen Z discovers Halloween on TikTok and forty nine percent on YouTube, but they buy in person. So social is demand generation, and it means having word of mouth style content from guests at your attraction. Now what do guests need to make that content and share it time we've written about why haunts are becoming scream parks. Guests need space to decompress between scares, and the connective tissue extends their stay and their perceived value. It also gives them the moment to pull out a phone, and the moment they capture is the moment that markets you. This week also saw operators investing in exactly that space, Scare houses returning to Pittsburgh after two seasons and going all in on the hangout space, movie nights, haunted happy hours, terror tailgates, and themed food with no haunted house at all, Scream again and put two and a half million dollars way largest capital project in park history into its midway covered pavilions, four food trucks, fire pits, and an bandoned beer garden. But don't forget the in between has to be entertaining. Empty hangout space is just a parking lot.

3:14 In sadder news, a July twentieth fire destroyed three of the five houses at Field of Horrors in Brunswick, New York. The buildings were uninsured and owner Dave Mollinio is rebuilding anyway, targeting September with steel walls this time It's the third building setback we've covered this month, and as we said in July, buildings and insurance remained two existential threats for independent haunts. Freakling Brothers is also dark for twenty twenty six for a much better reason. Co owner JT. Moliner is directing a horror film produced by jj Abram, and the full lineup returns in twenty twenty seven. Also this week, HHN Orleto completes its Scare Zone slate with a downtown Clowntown putting killer clowns and terrifiers art The Clown on One Street. Hollywood announced its first original house, Fortnitemare's lands on both coasts. Universal Studios Japan announced the first R eighteen attraction in its event's history. Delusion is returning to the Beckett Mansion, where it all started in twenty to eleven, and we price professional animatronics against retail's twenty five thousand dollars ballrog. Here's what you need to know this week in Halloween Horror Nite news, Evil dead Burn is coming to HHN twenty twenty six at Universal Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood. Universal has announced Evil dead Burn haunted houses of both of its United States Halloween Horror Night events this fall, tied to New Line Cinema's newly released sixth

4:46 film in the Evil Dead franchise. For Universal's release, The Nightmare grows more and more fierce as guest venture through the haunted House, encountering ferocious Dead heights around every turn before succumbing to the evil forces the mo Universal Studio Hollywood's own tagline for the house, The Book of the Dead has been reopened, and now an internal force consumes a family home encounter not just the root of evil, but the whole family tree. Follow the links in our show notes to read the full story. Fortnightmares is coming to HHN twenty twenty six at both Universal Orlando and Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights is opening a Fort Nightmares scare zone in both of its US events for twenty twenty six, Tied to Epic Game's annual in game Halloween event of the same name, Guests will encounter the battle Bus and familiar Fortnightmare's characters, plus HHN exclusive editions. Scott and Philip broke down with this licensing bet actually cost Universal on this week's green tagged Fortnite was the number one most played console game in the United States in twenty twenty five, with more than one hundred million monthly players and six hundred and fifty million lifetime registered players, and its in game events draw audiences that rival stadium concerts, But a scare zone has none of the Q control a house does, and the tween demographic Fortnite brings as the same one associated with teen takeovers. Dead Deader Deadist at HHN Hollywood's first original house. In twenty twenty six, Universal Studios Hollywood

6:17 announced Dead Dead or Deadist, the first original, non IP haunted house for HHN Hollywood twenty twenty six. The premise Ambrotox, a miracle drug that claims to restore the deceased feature without embombing, backfires inside the Deville family funeral home and raises a century worth of corpses. The Deville name is a deliberate callback to twenty twenty two's original house, Universal Horror Hotel and its infamous hotel in Presario Maximilian Deville. Downtown Clowntown puts killer clowns and art the clown on the same street. At HHN thirty five, Universal Orlando announced Downtown Clowntown, the fourth and final scare Zone for HHN thirty and it does something HHN almost never does. It puts two separately licensed horror ips in one zone, the Killer Clowns from Outer Space and Terrifiers Art. The clown take over the New York section of Universal Studios Florida together alongside unnamed other murderous clownsfolk. Neither franchise has a house.

7:20 In twenty twenty six, the clowns exist only on this street. The Clowns are back in Orlando after a seven year absence twenty eighteen zone in the twenty nineteen house, and Art moves to the street after his twenty twenty five Terrifier House. One House of the Year Orlando's Zone slate is now complete. Infernal Carnival of Nightmares in Illumination Boulevard, The Side Show of Decay in the Hollywood area, fort Nightmares, Freaky Fields in Central Park and Downtown Clowntown in the New York area, plus Street Experience Mals Die In Club Horror, and the Roaming Chainsaw Horde. Announced July twenty first, usj announces Zenz, its first R eighteen age restricted helloween horror nights attraction. Universal Studios Japan announced Zanzo or after image, the first R eighteen age restricted attraction in its Halloween Horror Nights fifteen year history. Guests seventeen and under are barred entirely, and everyone else must consent to a waiver before entering the premise, a facility that researches nightmares where guests are psychologically cornered through isolation and confinement in a space where hallucination and reality blur. Sanzo builds on usj's history of extreme experiments like Hotel Albert, the NDA required small group experience on the same Stage eighteen building, and the retired open air biohazard experience that sprayed guests with water.

8:47 The hard eighteen plus age gate is the genuine first for the event. A separate ticket from nineteen hundred yen about thirteen dollars goes on sale July twenty seventh at approximately nine pm JST. Official web site only capt inventory and a new Universal Express Pass three plus one from eleven thy eight hundred yen guarantees one Zanzo experience plus priority for three other attractions. It runs on Stage eighteen from September eleventh through November eighth, HHN thirty five Orlandos Frequent Fear passes are on sale, plus a new five House Rip tour. Universal Orlando has put its Halloween Hornites thirty five multi night frequent Fear passes on sale, and it has added a brand new five House Rip tour to the twenty twenty six lineup at a lower entry price than the standard rip product. The Dead Coconut Club returns to Universal City Walk for HHN thirty five with an alien invasion overlay. Universal Orlando has confirmed Dead Coconut Club Harvest the twenty twenty six Helloween Horronites overlay of Universal City Walks Red Coconut Club. The venue transforms into an alien invasion at a fictional Midwest town's thirty fifth annual Harvest Festival, a nod to hhn's thirty fifth anniversary and a tie in to the alien content elsewhere in the event Invasion, Alien Abduction, and the returning Killer Clowns from outer Space. Universal Orlando has confirmed two returning street

10:18 experiences for Halloween Horrnites thirty five this fall, Mels Die In Zombies tagline Shake Rattle and Rip and Club Horror tagline Party Like Your Life Depends on It. Both are in the mid level programming layer along the walkways between houses. In other theme park news universals Q two, guests who commerce spending more fewer coming. Universal theme Parks grew revenue two point seven percent to two point four billion dollars in Q two, but segment EBITA fell five point one percent, the segment's first decline since Epic Universe opened. Orlando. Attendants began softening in June in the state pressure into the third quarter, and management blames weaker consumer sentiment and higher travel costs. Lego Land adds Bricker Treat Street at both California and Florida for twenty twenty six. Lego Land is adding a new attraction called Bricker Treat Street at both Legoland California and Lego Land Florida for the twenty twenty six Halloween season, an interactive trick or Treat walk through featuring six life sized Lego Monster homes and a new Halloween light trail. Guests knock on the doors of six Lego Monster houses, each theme to a fan favorite Lego minifigure.

11:34 Lego Land has designed the experience so guests interact at every door, collect Lego bricks along the way, and help build a giant Halloween creation together At the end of the trail, it joins each resorts returning Brick or Treat lineup of trick or Treat stations, meet and greets, and shows, and it will also feature a new Halloween interactive light trail with tricks and visual effects layered throughout. Jack O'Lanterns Spectacular moooves to Kentucky Kingdom for its fourteenth year. Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky is the new home of Jack O Lantern Spectacular, the illuminated hand carved pumpkin trail that runs through its fourteenth year at the Louisville Amusement Park.

12:15 This fall, jack O Lantern Spectacular joins Pumpkins at Kentucky Kingdom, the park's family friendly fall festival, for a combined Wednesday through Sunday run October one through November first of twenty twenty six. Jack O Lantern Spectacular is produced in partnership with Passion for Pumpkins, Incorporated, a multimedia production company with twenty five years of experience bringing illuminated pumpkin galleries. The twenty twenty six display will feature more than five thousand hand carved pumpkins by local artists and sculptors along one illuminated trail. Pumpkins at Kentucky Kingdom is now in its fifth year and on the event night that offers more than thirty rides, themed foods and beverage options, and over a thousand illuminated par umpkins across the park, The Nightmare Before Christmas is getting carved into two million pounds of ice at Gaylord Rockies. The Nightmare Before Christmas headlines Gaylord's twenty twenty six ice lineup is one of their three new themes. The running of Gaylord's Rockies outside Denver from November twentieth, twenty twenty six through January third of twenty twenty seven. Jack's story gets told across more than ten walkthrough scenes and hand carved from roughly two million pounds of ice by three hundred artisans from Harbin, China on a forty day build clock kept at nine degrees. Scream Ageddon spends two and a half million on its midway and opens August twenty nine. Scream Ageddon opens its twelfth season on Saturday, August twenty ninth, one day after Halloween

13:45 horror Nights, and it's arriving with the largest capital project in the park history at two point five million dollar rebuild of the midway, renamed Bonzo's Bazaar. That August twenty ninth date is worth pausing on central floor or theme park events open first every year, and independent haunts typically follow. From mid September. Scream again and is opening ahead of every other independent haunt in the country on our twenty twenty six calendar, and ahead of four of five major Orlando Park events. Bonzo's Bazaar is a fifty thousand square foot rebuild a fully paved midway winding past permanent covered pavilions, four new food trucks, fire pits with s'mores, and an upgraded beer garden pouring local winding craft beer, plus newly paved parking lots and park roads. Reading the list theme is dwell time. Covered pavilions, fire pits, four food trucks, and an expanded bar are all built to keep people on property between houses rather than moving them through a QUEU to Q circuit. Scarehouse is back for twenty twenty six.

14:50 It is not building a haunted house. Scarehouse, one of the most nationally acclaimed haunted attractions in the country, is returning this October after two seasons dark and it is not building a haunted house. Scarehouse and the Plaza at north Shore announced Helloween Hangout, a month long takeover of the outdoor venue across from PNC Park and Pittsburgh, running October first through thirty first. It is a multi year partnership with Legacy Hospitality Partners. Year one has no mazes and no traditional haunted attractions of any kind. The programming is movie nights running from the Rocky Horror Picture Show to hocus Pocus to Halloween, Scarehouse, haunt Knights aimed at older audiences seeking more intense thrills, a community trick or treat, a charity pumpkin patch, Haunted happy hours, terror tailgate parties around home football games in the north Shore, and themed food and drink from Sugarbird. Creative director Scott Simmons told HN the emission of mazes is deliberate. Year one doesn't offer any traditional haunted attractions of mazes, but it will include plenty of thematic environments, original characters, and new experiences.

15:58 The hope is that we can grow and expand it too, something increasingly elaborate in future seasons. Delusion is going back to where it started. Delusions twenty twenty six show Den of the Mosquito will run at the Beckett Mansion in West Adams, Los Angeles. That is the building where John Braver staged the first Delusion in twenty eleven and the Neil Patrick Harris co production in twenty twenty twelve. Fifteen years and roughly ten shows later, the longest running IMMERSA theater series in the country is Going Home. The play is set in nineteen twenties New Orleans. Bloodless corpses, strange abductions, and a missing mayor prompt President Woodrow Wilson to form Anomaly, a secret organization tasked with investigating supernatural threats. Guest play Anomaly agents sent to a Bayou brothel run by the Nolo Mafia to recover an ancient relic. Delusion is billing it as the company's longest and most interactive play to date, with a full fifty minute runtime, more interactivity and split paths, extremely limited availability, and the return of the play year part VIP option. Field of Horrors lost three haunted houses in an electrical fire. The buildings were uninsured and the owner is rebuilding anyways. A July twentieth fire destroyed. Three of the five haunted houses at Field of Horrors in Brunswick, New York, just north of Troy. Insanity, Return of Mummy's Curse and The Condemned Manner all sat inside a single

17:29 interconnected building roughly one hundred and fifty feet long. Every July, and employee repairs wiring that mice have chewed through during the off season. That work is underway. On Monday, owner Dave Millinio said the employee flicked on a generator and believes the spark caught the burlap inside the building. Millenio also sprays roughly five thousand dollars of fire retardant across the facility every year. Just before opening day, it had not been applied yet. The buildings were gone in about an hour. Millineo told The Times Union that destroyed buildings were uninsured. He is rebuilding anyways, targeting to September opening, with clean up already underway in construction expected to start within two weeks. He plans to prioritize two of the three houses and wants to replace the old wooden walls with steel. Capital Combat Zone, the Paintball and Airsoft operation sharing the property, was unaffected. Freakling Brothers is taking the twenty twenty six Halloween season off. Here's why and what returns in twenty twenty seven. Freakling Brothers horror shows. The Las Vegas Haunt, running for more than thirty one years, will not open for the twenty twenty six Halloween season.

18:35 Co owner and creative director J. T. Moliner is stepping away to direct Skeletons, a horror thriller produced by JJ Abrams and starring Brie Larsen, and the family is pausing the entire operation rather than running it without him. Duke Molner has a supporting role in the film, and Ginny Molner contributes an original song. The full three Haunt lineup returns in twenty twenty seven. Gates of Hell, Nevada's only R rated Haunt, Coven of thirteen, and The Nest, the all new haunt replacing the classic Castle Vampire that was originally planned for twenty twenty six. The Halloween season is almost upon us, and the haunts around the country 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 park events around the world. Follow the links in our show notes and bookmark these important pages for reference and check back often for updates as new information is released. Our guides include when do Haunted Houses open in twenty twenty six, The Best and Scariest Haunted Houses in America, The Top Hants List, Halloween Horror Nights twenty twenty six, Dates, tickets and lineups for every park, Disney Halloween twenty twenty six, Every park worldwide. Freight Fest twenty twenty six, The Complete guide to Six Flags Halloween events at every park. Hello Screams twenty two twenty six.

20:01 A complete guide to the All Five. A complete guide to all five United Park locations. Orlando Halloween Events, Every park party in Haunt Halloween Time at Disneyland twenty twenty six. A complete guide. Haunted Houses in California twenty twenty six, twenty twenty six, Date, tickets and what's new. Halloween Horror Nites twenty twenty six, hours, costume policy and no before you go. Haunted Houses in Texas twenty twenty six, Dates, tickets and what's new. Halloween Horror Nites Tickets twenty twenty six Complete guide to all universal parks in retail news. How much do professional haunted animatronics cost less than retail's twenty five thousand dollars Balrog? Retails headline animatronic this year is Halloween Costumes dot COM's thirteen point seventy five foot Lord of the Rings Balrog for twenty four thoy, nine hundred and ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents. The most expensive piece in Distortions Unlimited Entire twenty twenty six collection is an eleven foot gorilla called Kong at eight eight hundred and ninety roughly a third of the price.

21:08 Distortions has been building props for professional haunted houses in Greeley, Colorado, for more than forty five years, and its cheapest twenty twenty six item Frank and Kat at two hundred and eighty nine undercuts Home Depots two hundred and ninety nine dollars ninety eight cents. Skelly Home Depots Viral Halloween buckets are back for twenty twenty six. Here's where to find them. Home Depots Viral two dollars and ninety eight cent. Halloween print buckets are back for twenty twenty six and the Bucket Hunt is one of the most searched Halloween retail stores of the week. The two gallon orange utility bucket comes wrapped in ghosts, jack o, lanterns, bats and spiders alongside the Home Depot logo, and it's an in store only. As of this writing, does not appear anywhere on home depot dot com. The Halloween bucket crazes spread to Petco, and there started at a dollar fifty. The bucket Hunt is a second front. Petco is selling hell Halloween printed buckets and two sizes, and unlike the one, everyone has been driving store to store for these ship The skeletons and ghost trick or treat pails are a dollar fifty at seven by nine inches, which undercuts home Depots to ninety eight by nearly half. The bigger one is a two gallon lidded utility bucket and pumpkin or Frankenstein at seven dollars, and Petco files it under fish supplies in aquarium maintenance, describing it is good for water changes to trick or treating. It is a water change bucket and a Halloween wrapper the same move Home Depot made with their paint bucket. There's a Universal Monster's Lego set coming.

22:35 Here's what's in it. Lego has approved the Universal Monster Set and it comes with six monster minifigures, Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, Pride to Frankenstein, Invisible Man, and The Phantom of the Opera. They live in a Gothic castle and the concept runs about two two hundred and fifty pieces. Monster High Scullector is going all in on horror, Michael Myers, Crampis, Uh Bog Boogie and the Universal Monsters. Mattel used San Diego Comic Con to reveal the biggest horror wave yet for Monster High Scullector. This premium collector doll line, the Universal Monsters Trio Frankenstein, Dracula and the Mummy forty four dollars each, dropped July twenty fourth on Walmart dot com, with stores and international following September first. Michael Myers from nineteen eighty one's Halloween two seventy dollars, Mattel Creations exclusive August eighth, Oogie Boogie from the Nightmare Before Christmas Fall twenty twenty six, and Crampas from the twenty fifteen legendary film seventy dollars available December third. Monster Cereals are back for twenty twenty six, and this year the box turns into a puppet. Count Chocula, Booberry and Frankenberry Hitchhells nationwide this month, marking the Trios fifty fifth anniversary, General Mills is running the Jim Henson muppet puppet designs again in an all new box art. The new part every box double says to build your own puppet, printed with cutout designs that turn the empty box into a monster puppet.

24:06 At Home just dropped one thousand plus Halloween pieces across five collections. At Home launched its biggest Halloween assortment ever, more than a thousand items across five collections available now online in an all two hundred and twenty eight stores in thirty nine states. The retailer claims the largest selection of Halloween decor under one roof of any brick and mortar retailer. The five lines are a Western Hollow, an old wild West ghost Town, Gothic graveyard, black and ruby, Redgothic elegance with gargoyles, crows and reapers, grim gardens, mossy, overgrown Bug covered organic textures, Spellbound Tarot and Celestial Party serveware, and Happy Haunting the classic orange and black item. Target's twenty twenty six Halloween collection is quietly live on Target dot Com. Target's twenty twenty six Halloween drop is live on Target dot Com, part of the broader summer Ween wave, with three inflatables in the small yard and entry size, landing high on the site's Halloween module hide in Eeke Boutiques Viral Lewis The Pumpkin Ghoule Family returns for twenty twenty six with two pieces in stock right now. The eight foot flagship Lewis and his twenty twenty four crew including Bruce the Skeleton, Pumpkin Rocker Billy, and Pumpkin Iron lu Seat are not yet listed for twenty twenty six, and the category page says more Halloween magic is on the way. Lemax Spookytown twenty twenty six all eight Michael's exclusives with prices. Le Max's Spookytown Village has eight Michael's

25:36 Exclusive pieces for twenty twenty six, all currently twenty percent off. The animated site in sounds tier leads with DJ Decay's Roller Rink Rave for one hundred and sixty seven ninety nine regular two oh nine ninety nine, Madame Astella's Seance Services for one seventy five ninety nine regular is two nineteen ninety nine, and the Misty Grave Mausoleum for one seventy five ninety nine regularly two nineteen ninety nine. The lighted buildings are a Cathedral of Eternal Doom for fifty nine ninety nine, the only porcelain piece the Coffin Parlor for seventy one ninety nine, macab mansioned for one eleven ninety nine, and the Shops of Horrid Hamlet one eleven ninety nine, which is just a facade. The Broom charging Station table accent is forty seven ninety nine is the entry point to this collection. Over the Wall Garden Chapter two figure set is up for pre order. Three versions are already gone. Mondo's Over the Garden Wall Chapter two figure set is available now and it brings the Potsfield Pumpkin people from hard Times at the Husker b into plastic.

26:42 The standard set is one hundred and twenty dollars in ships in August twenty twenty six. Before you go looking of the five over the garden Wall figure sets Mondo is put out. Three are already sold out, including the Glow in the Dark Entertainment Earth exclusive that got most of the attention. Lennox Hellueen Spice Village is real seventy five dollars and currently in stock. Lenox Viral Spice Village line now has a Halloween edition six hand painted porcelain spice jars styled as haunted Victoria homes with black cats, bats and ravens in the windows. This six piece set poppy seed, Sesame, Seeds, Star and Ease, mulling spice, cardamom, and fennel, runs seventy five dollars and is in stock at Lenox dot com as of July twenty fourth, tag new and not eligible for discounts. Lush drops its twenty twenty six Halloween collection early adds two new products. Lush Cosmetics has released its twenty twenty six Halloween collection earlier than ever this year for Summer Wien enthusiasts. The collection went live on the Lush app in July fourteenth, then hit stores in Lush dot com on July sixteenth. After producing more than three point two million Halloween products globally in twenty twenty five, Lush is bringing back its fan favorite bath bombs, bubble bars and soaps, alongside two new twenty twenty six shower products. The best Halloween pet costumes of twenty twenty six every retailer's lineup. Six retailers have their twenty twenty six pet Halloween costumes live, and they are not competing on the same thing. Spirit Halloween is

28:14 the only one stalking actual horror art the Clown from Terrifier, Michael Myers, Ghost based Chucky, Pennywise, Beetlejuice, Lydia Deets, and Sam from Trick or Treat. All that are flat twenty four ninety nine in size is pet small through Pet double XL. Spirit also carries buckled down licensed collars and leashes at twenty nine ninety nine, including Friday the Thirteenth, The Nightmare on Elm Street, and Jack Skellington, which are the pieces that survived November first. Working at Spirit Halloween in twenty twenty six, pay hiring age and how to apply. Spirit Helloween is hiring more than fifty two thousand seasonal workers across fifteen hundred stores in Canada and United States. The HHN New Guide covers the worker side of the season.

28:58 Sales associates start at sixteen. Store managers must be twenty one or over. Assistant manager postings list eighteen. Everyone gets a thirty percent employee discount and flexible scheduling, and Spirits postings carry dedicated premium pay programs for store setup, tear down, and end of season crews. Pay is set store by store rather than nationally. Recent twenty twenty six postings run around eleven eighty to twelve dollars an hour in lower minimum wage states with higher floors. Where minimum states are higher, applications go through work for Spirit dot Com and that's the number four, or by texting Reaper to eight five zero zero zero. California sixteen hundred and seventy eight openings, Florida with twelve hundred and two, and Texas at eleven hundred and thirty openings lead the job board. When to Spirit Halloween open in twenty twenty six. Spirit Halloween's twenty twenty six season starts off with the flagship grand opening and Saturday August first, twenty twenty six, at sixty seven to twenty five Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Township, New New Jersey. Outdoor festivities run at eight thirty am to noon, with the ribbon cutting at ten am and the store open until eight pm. New this year, a digital registration system lets fans reserve a spot in line to be among the first inside General. Spirit Halloween pop up stores open on a staggered schedule from mid to late August through early September. Spirit is opening fifteen hundred and seventy five stores across the US and Canada in twenty twenty six, a record for the retailer, and is

30:29 hiring fifty two thousand seasonal workers to run them. The online store locator populates twenty twenty six store day its starting July thirtieth in Convention News Haunters Against Hate. The event takes place August first and second. Get ready for the four Horsemen of the Gay Apocalypse as Haunters against Hate. The event returns for its fourth year on August first and second at its new location, the Radison Hotel in Kalamazoo, Michigan, hah. The event promotes the LGBTQIA plus Haunt horror communities in an exclusive, accepting environment featuring forty vendors workshops at drag shows celebrity guests, and an award ceremony. Exciting events throughout the weekend include a cosplay competition and the fourth annual makeup Competition, where competitors must create their own version of Aunt Gladys from the hit horror film Weapons. The twenty twenty six Hunters Against Hait Awards will be presented to Jason Olsen of Chicago Hunter of the Year, Karen Fields of sleep Away Camp Legacy Award, and the parents of Riley Hanson from Haunted Hills from Maryville, Indiana the Jesse McDonald Memorial Award. There will be a pre show Haunt tour of Nile's Screen Park in Niles, Michigan, on Friday, July thirty first, including dinner, lights on, tour of the attractions and QNA with the Nile Screen Park management team.

31:51 The Saturday Night Excursion August first will take guests to the Nightmare Realm in the Mattawan, Michigan for a zombie survival game. Tickets are still available online starting at thirty dollars fifteen dollars for single day tickets thirty five dollars per weekend tickets. Some haunts that are running scare actor editions include The Haunted Forest in Clarence, New York, August fifteenth and twenty second, The Hollow in Redlands, California, with ongoing auditions, The Mortuary Haunted House in New Orleans, Louisiana has got ongoing editions, Nightmare Wharf in Buffalo, New York auditions on August fifteenth and sixteenth, The sawmil Haunted House in Covington, Louisiana has ongoing editions, and the Thirteenth Hour Haunted Attraction in Indianapolis, Indiana also has ongoing auditions. Some upcoming events this July through September include Haunters Against Hate the event in Louisville, Kentucky, August first and second, Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, California, August seventh and ninth, and Creep at Real OC Expo in Santa Ana, California, September eleventh through thirteen.

33:03 And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Hernandez, with reporting by Daryl Plunky post production by David Swape. This Haunt News Update is a production of the Haunted Attraction Network, and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Hantattraction network dot Com. Support for this episode comes from Gantum lighting and controls. Until next time, Haunters stay scary. This is a Haunted Attraction Network production