Aug. 13, 2026

NEWS: Quality vs. Quantity: Universal and Six Flags Split Halloween

NEWS: Quality vs. Quantity: Universal and Six Flags Split Halloween
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Between Midsummer Scream and earnings week, this issue is dense. Disney, Six Flags, and United Parks dropped earnings, and the news is positive overall for our industry. Universal has a strong reputation, but Six Flags now operates the most haunted mazes in the world: 107, added to parks that already have infrastructure and passholders. HHN Hollywood is leaning into independent films where they have more leeway, with an original Slash score, the event's first-ever singing villain, and a twisted children's storybook Terror Tram scored by Ice Nine Kills.

In this issue:
- Q2 Theme Park Earnings and What They Tell Us About the Consumer
- Six Flags Plans 107 Haunted Houses for Halloween 2026
- Slash Scored HHN Hollywood's Killceañera House
- Art the Clown Takes Over the Terror Tram With "Every Day Is Artmas"
- HHN Hollywood Adds Hidden Character From Curry Barker's "Obsession"
- The LA Haunted Hayride Adds an '80s Rock Maze and Brings Back Elvira
- Queen Mary's Dark Harbor Will Murder One of Its 13 Icons Live
- Midsummer Scream Moves to Anaheim for 2027
- Spirit Halloween's Owner Is Buying Hot Topic
- A Real Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Opens at American Dream in 2027
- Diablo Mazes Land at Cedar Point and Kings Dominion
- Six Flags Magic Mountain's Fright Fest Adds Final Destination

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Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the

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

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

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

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bring you a roundup of news from haunts worldwide. Read

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more about these stories and so much more in our

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

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

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off to Darryl.

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This message is from Philip Pernandez, publisher of the Haunted

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Attraction Network. Between Midsummer's Scream and earnings week, this issue

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is dance a few observations to guide you through it.

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Disney six Flags in the United Parks dropped earnings this week,

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and the news is positive overall for our industry. After

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the softness described by Universal They's experiences segments at fiscal

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third quarter records for both revenue and operating income, six

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flags new leadership is successfully re orienting the company towards

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repeated visitation. Yes this quarter, its debt cost than its

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parks earned the upcoming Halloween season with four hundred and

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forty eight Halloween themed experiences and one hundred and seven

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mazes from coast to coast should supercharge that strategy. United

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Parks showed fewer guests but higher spending and management, pointing

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to the new Sony licensed haunted houses and early hellow

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screen ticket sales as opportunities for the next quarter break down.

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All three calls in this week's Green Tagged Insights and

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the Halloween bets On sees Universal has quality reputation, but

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six Flags now operates the most haunted mazes in the world.

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One hundred and seven added into parks that already have

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infrastructure and passholders. I wrote in July that operators with

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permanent locations, infrastructure, and scale play by a different set

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of rules, and one hundred and seven mazes is what

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those rules produce. In Orlando, Universal has original mascot in Hollywood,

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they're leaning into films, particularly independent films, where they have

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more leeway. Art the Clown returns of the whole narrative

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built around him. The terror Tram becomes every day in

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art miss framed as a twisted children's story book with

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original music by Ice nine Kills Kilsenera. The new Original

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House has got original score by Slash and the event's

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first ever singing villain, and they got obsession into the park.

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Fast Fans sent creative director John Murdy a video of

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director Curry Barker saying he loves the event, and a

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character encounter came together immediately. Two weeks ago, we wrote

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about the IP wars, and Hollywood is running a middle

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path license the indie film where you can still create

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then build original on top thirteenth floors, making format moves

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in both of its La Fi flagships. Festival Fright Nights

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at Winchester, Mystery House is evolving into an actual festival

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rather than a linear experience, the same shift we covered

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when Scared House rebuilt its season a round a hangout.

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The La Haunted hay Ride is running its most ambitious

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trail upgrade in years, adding a drive in scene choreographed

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by the Pussycat Dolls Bobby Newberry, and serving alcohol in

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midnight falls for the first time. Also this week, Midsummer's

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Scream is moving to Anaheim for twenty twenty seven and

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reviving season screamings in Long Beach. Spirit Halloween's owner is

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buying hot topic. The real Freddie Fasbear's Pizza opens an

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American Dream in twenty twenty seven, Diablo Maz's Land at

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Cedar Point in King's Dominion, Six Flags, Magic Mountain, Freight

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Fast Ads Final Destination, and Krispy Kreme's Fall Collection is

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back with Pumpkin, Spice and tow Here's what you need

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to know this week in Halloween Horror Night News Art,

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The Clown takes over h Jen Hollywood's Terror Tram Art.

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The Clown is taking over the Terror Tram at Universal Studios,

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Hollywood's Horror Nights at Universal City, California. The Terrifier Villain

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stars in the Christmas Gone Wrong overhaul of the attraction,

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which takes guests onto the Universal Studios backlot and drops

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them into a scare experience. When the demented Killer arrives

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to the historic Universal backlot with his blood soak bag

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of presents, he realizes it is too early for Christmas

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and hijacks the tram for his own holiday celebration. Guests

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will walk the backlot through seven zones Scary Art, Miss Arts,

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Christmas Tree Farm, The Twelve Slayings of Christmas Arts, Christmas Cafe,

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Hell for the Holidays, Santa Art is coming to Town

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and Arts Workshop, each a classic Christmas image twisted into

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arts world. The cast pull straight from the Terrifier films,

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with art joined by Vicky Hayes, The Little Pale Girl

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and Siena Shaw. Original music for the traction will be

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written by Ice nine Kills, known for their horror movie

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themed songs. The band will put their dark twist on

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classic Christmas tunes. You can listen to a preview of

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Joy to the World Reworked by following the links in

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our show notes. For dates, tickets, and the full lineup,

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see the Halloween Horror Knights Hollywood twenty twenty six guide.

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Slash scored HJN Hollywood's kil Sineira House and its villain

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sings an original song. At Universal's Midsummer Screen Panel, creative

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director John Murdy revealed kil Sineira Music by Slash, an

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original house that twists the traditional quincignia into a revenge

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horror story built around a character named Lola. Slash of

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Guns n' Roses composed the score, which builds to an

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original song called fifteen Candles that the house's villain, Lola performs.

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Murdy framed the house around the song's message, This house

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is for all the people who were ever bullied and

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wanted to take revenge, she said. The Spanish lyrics, he said,

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turn on the idea that the moment of suffering lasts

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a lifetime. The house is going up in the Parisian

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courtyard at Universal Studios Hollywood, rebuilt as the burned ruins

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of Lola's home with a purpose built balcony where Lola

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stands above guests as they walk underneath her to enter

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HJN Hollywood adds Nicky from Curry Barker's Obsession. Halloween Horrorites

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Hollywood in Universal City, California will hide a character somewhere

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in the park this year, and finding her is part

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of the point. At Universal's Halloween Horrorites panel at Midsummer's Cream,

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creative director John Murdy teased a character encounter based on Obsession,

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the horror film written and directed by Curry Barker. Its

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villain Nicky, is loose in the event without a fixed

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spot on the map. Murdy kept the specifics to himself.

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I'm not going to give you all of the details today,

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but what I can tell you is Nicky is out

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there somewhere, he said, describing a where's Waldough type mentality

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for guests trying to spot her across the park. He

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added that she might be looking for her next obsession.

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Amikuma is going chain wide this Halloween with a Vegas

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stage show in new merch Amikuma, the gut Spilling Bear,

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who started as a Universal Studios Japan scar Zone character

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in twenty twenty one, will appear at every Universal Studios

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theme park for Halloween Horror Nights this fall, plus Universal

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Horror Unleashed in Las Vegas, Nevada. While most of the

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appearances will be more meet and greet in nature, Universal

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Horror Unleashed will utilize the character in an all new

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live stage show running through September and October. Halloween Horror Nites.

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Merchandise twenty twenty six. Every item price and store date

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Universals Halloween Horrorites twenty twenty six Merchandise reaches stores over

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three weeks this month, and most of it lands in

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the park rather than online. Universal Studios Hollywood starts August thirteenth.

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Universal Orlandos Tribute Store opens August twenty sixth. Online stor

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is running ahead of both. The partial assortment available now.

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Six Flags plans one hundred and seven haunted houses for

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this year's Halloween. Six Flags told investors on Thursday that

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it will run four hundred and forty eight Halloween themed

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experiences in one hundred and seven haunted mazes across its

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park this fall. Eleven of the mazes new for twenty

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twenty six, with four new horror ips to be announced

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in about two weeks. CEO John Riley called it America's

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biggest Halloween party and said no one's doing anything in

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this kind of scope, in this kind of geographic range,

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with this many attractions. The count spans every Halloween brand

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under the company's umbrella, including freight Fest at the Legacy

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Six Flags Parks, Halloween Haunt at Dorney Park, King's Island,

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King's Dominion and Canada's Wonderland, Not Scary Farm, Hollow Weekends

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at Cedar Point, and Scare of Winds. Why does a

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park chain Bettett's fall On Haunts. The park already runs

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all day rides, the staff, the food, the service, the land,

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and the operating calendar are paid for, whether or not

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October has mazes in it. Freight Fest and its sibling

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events Layer Haunted Attraction Actions onto that running infrastructure at

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Dusk sell the mazes through a separate Haunted Attractions pass

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on top of admission passolders already hold, and Riley Total

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analysts the commercial team is improving upon a Halloween event

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upsell experience this year. Halloween is also the company's next

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test of pulling passolders across parks. It has been sending

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regional invitation to visit sister parks, and Riley said, we'll

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do the same for Halloween. What it means for Independence

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cuts two ways, and we are not sure which way

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it nets out. The case for a squeeze a season

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pass makes another Halloween night closer to free for the

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family that holds one and one hundred and seven mazes

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is a lot of capacity and a drive a lot

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of markets aimed at the same October weekends every Haunt needs. Alternatively,

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the case for a rising tide six flags will market

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Halloween at a scale no collection of Independence can match demand.

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Says data that the season is stretching and the appetite

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is real, and cross park pass travel could put more

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out of market visitors in Haunt regions before. Either way,

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the working question for an independent does value a single

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attraction at a single price point now competes with an event.

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A passholder family has effectively already paid for, so the

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season's work is building an experience worth the trip and

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saying clearly what makes it worth it. Diablo Haunted Mazes

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are coming to Cedar Point and King's Dominion. Six Flags

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is bringing Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo to Cedar Point in Sandusky,

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Ohio and King's Dominion in Doswell, Virginia this fall with

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the maze Diablo for the Internal Path Hell. The weekends

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at Cedar Point run September seventeenth through November first, on

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select dates. King's Dominion has not published its Halloween Haunt dates.

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Six Flags Magic Mountains twenty twenty six Flight Fast adds

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Final Destination and a Werewolf Maze. Six Flags Magic Mountain

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has revealed its full twenty twenty six Flight FST lineup,

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led by two new Haunted mazes, a Final Destination maze

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built around the film franchise, and Wolfe's Blood does by

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a creator from not Scary Farm. This year's lineup includes

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seven mazes, seven scare zones, and plenty of undead entertainment.

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Final Destination Death's Playground drops guests into the film series,

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where as the park puts it death itself is the antagonist.

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Guests are chased by death through the maze, and six

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Flags hinted at graphic effects wood shippers are just not

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fun to look at. The maze extends the park's ongoing

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partnership with Warner Brothers. Wolfe's Blood is original and comes

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from not Scary Farm designer Gus Krueger acting as a

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guest collaborator cross park pairing in the Southern California haunt scene.

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The story follows a remote town called daylight's En, secretly

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home to werewolves and an underground werewolf rock band Wolf's

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Blood playing its first show at the Grand Valdonian Theater.

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Per the park, guests move from the town's bus stop

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through ransacked stores and barrooms, and passed an abandoned cemetery

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to reach the concert. Krueger built in a record store

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called Rainbow Records and brought back bar Red's Revenge from

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an attraction that stood in a building before Truth or Dare,

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along with the overhead jumper effect. Fans new from that

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maze Q two theme park earnings and what they tell

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us about the consumer. Disney six Flags in the United

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Parks dropped earnings this week, and the news is overall

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positive for our industry after the softness described by Universal Disney,

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the record Disney's excellent Q three earnings gave hope to

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an attraction industry struggling with a challenging macro environment. More

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guests came, they spent more in the experience of segments.

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At fiscal third quarter records for both revenue and operating income,

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Domestic attendance grew three percent per capita, spending grew four percent,

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and CEO Josh Tomorrow said the parks are performing significantly

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better than our competition. Asked about its domestic promotions, Tomorrow

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described discounts designed to reach a specific guest and that

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could be a valued customer. Maybe we're going after a

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local resident, then pointing to four percent per cap growth

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as proof the company is certainly not discounting our way

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with volume growth reached down for volume, reach up for yield.

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United Parks The Squeeze United Parks Q two shows fewer

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guests coming but spending more, while costs rose faster than revenue,

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so profit dropped much harder than revenue did. Attendance fell

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two point nine percent to six point one million guests,

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revenue fell one point four percent, and net income fell

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twenty one percent. In park per capita spending rows five

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point one to a record thirty nine dollars and fifty

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one cents. Will Admission per capita fell one point eight percent.

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the gate itself got cheaper. The company kept buying backstock

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twelve point one percent of its shares in six months,

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and cash fell to nineteen million from ninety nine point

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eight million on December thirty first six flags the strategy

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and the balance sheet. Six flags new leadership is successfully

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re orienting the company towards repeated visiting. At this quarter,

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its debt cost more than the parks earned. The strategy

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of getting more pass holders to attend more often and

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spend more, and thereby increasing lifetime spent is working. Revenue

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the upcoming Helloween season with four hundred and forty eight

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themed experiences from coast to coast should supercharge that strategy.

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a loss due to its debt. Running the parks cost

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eighty eight point six million dollars of operating income, up

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from seventy four point five million. A year ago. Interest

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and the quarter landed at a twenty point one million

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dollar loss before taxes. The two hundred and three million

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headline losses mostly is mostly one hundred and fifty seven

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point four million dollar tax change and accounting catchup tied

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to the park sales not a bill. Six Flags paid

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four and a half million in cash taxes in the

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entire first half. Same park revenue, attendance and EBEDA all grew.

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Pass sales are up seven percent and the stock foul

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sixteen percent. Watch Philip and Scott discuss this on this

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week's episode of Green Tagged Ultimately, Theme parks are betting

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on Halloween. Earnings week showed how much of the industry's

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year now rides on the season. Not Scary Farm announced

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his retirement of two mazes in twenty twenty six and

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Scared Zone overhaul. Not Scary Farm from Buena Park, California,

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announced this past weekend at their Midsummer screen panel that

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twenty twenty six will be the final year for two

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popular mazes origins, Curs of Calico and The Chilling Chambers.

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You Know the attraction News a real Fetti Fosbar's Pizza

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is opening an American Dream in twenty twenty seven. Pardi

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Fosbar's Pizza, the restaurant at the center of the Five

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Nights at Freddy's Game, is being built for Real American

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Dream in East Rutherford, New Jersey, announced they will open

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the location in twenty twenty seven. Developed in collaboration with

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Scott Games, American Dream calls it the world's first permanent

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Tomersa restaurants experience and describes it as a functional reimagining

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of Freddy Fosbear's Pizza designed to immerse guests in the

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world of the iconic franchise. For the announcement, guests will

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be able to dine, play arcade games, experience animatronic stage

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shows featuring Freddy and the Fosbear Band, visit Foxy's Pirate Cove,

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and step behind the Curtain for immersive multiplayer survival horror experiences.

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The American Dream says additional details, including the official opening

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date and ticketing information, will be announced at a later date.

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No month, no pricing, and no size has been given.

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Queen Mary's Dark Harbor will murder one of its thirteen

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icons live this year Queen Mary's Dark Harbor is entering

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its thirteenth year with thirteen icons, and it plans to

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murder one of them live in front of guests this season,

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keeping the victim secret until you show up. The Long

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Beach Haunt also revealed a new World War two May's

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ship wreck built on the ship's real Gray Ghost Troop

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Transport history, and a new icon called the Commander. Its

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Feast maze is retiring, The Cannibal Chef gets locked up

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in breakouts, cell Block thirteen, and the returning mazes all

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get new chapters. Dark Harbor runs select nights September eighteenth

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through November one. La Haunted hay Rides ads an eighties

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rock maze and brings back Alvira. The Los Angeles Haunted

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hay Ride is adding a new maze that turned guests

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into a doom nineteen eighties rock band, bringing back Calvira,

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and serving alcohol in its haunted town of Midnight falls

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for the first time. Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group detailed the

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twenty twenty sixth season in its Midsummer screen panel, where producer

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Melissa Carbone called this year's hey Ride trail its most

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ambitious in years. The Los Angeles Haunted hay Ride runs

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select knights of September eighth through November first at Griffith Park.

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Festival Fright Nights at Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California,

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select nights September eighth, eighteen through November one. Festival Fright

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Nights brings the entire estate to life through four immersive

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zones featuring thirteen attractions and experiences, including haunted houses inside

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the historic mansion, erie entertainment, photo ops, seasonal food and

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drink offerings, and mysterious encounters hidden through the grounds. This

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year's Festival Fright Nights at Winchester Mystery House will feature

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a new open festival format, allowing guests to explore the

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experience at their own pace and create a personal life journey.

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Exciting new additions include the new attraction titled The House

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of Spirits, a new add on attraction, Hide and Seek

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the Lost Children, which takes guests into rarely seen areas

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of the mansion, a new cider mill experience, and a

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s'mores roasting station the Seance Society Speakeasy. A new cast

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of characters will appear, including Sarah Winchester's Royal Butler, his

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son Henry Harker, Nina Knightshade, who tends to the gardens

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and greenhouses, and the collector who put trolls the darkest

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corners dragging a heavy bag of unknown contents. Magic of

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the Jacko Lanterns at Palace Verdes Estates, California. Magic of

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the Jacko Lanterns will return to the South Post Botanic

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Gardens select nights September eighteenth through November one, New ver

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twenty twenty six. Pillars of Magic will Greek guests as

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they make their way to the signature path of the

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illuminated carved pumpkins. Delusion Den of the Mosquito in Los Angeles, California,

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returning to its original venue, the Beckett Mansion on select

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nights September seventeenth through November eighth. Delusion Den of Mosquito

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takes guests to nineteen twenties New Orleans. Set in a brothel,

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guest play agents of a secret organization on an impossible task,

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become part of a sadistic and supernatural tale of horror, mystery,

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monsters and monsters, and of course, vampire prostitutes. Build as

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Delusion's longest and most interactive play to date. The event

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will revert to its classic four m out of ten

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guests every ten minutes, fostering deeper emotional connections with characters

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and creating a more intimate experience. Nightmare Wharf now hiring

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for the twenty twenty six season. The Buffalo and Erie

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County Naval and Military Park and Nightmare Wharf, Buffalo, New

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York are seeking energetic, dependable individuals to join the team

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behind Buffalo's premieer immersive Halloween event. Open seasonal positions include

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scare actor, Q line performers, makeup artists, ticket takers, and

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event ambassadors. Taking place at the Buffalo Naval Park this fall,

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Nightmare Wharf will transform the historic waterfront campus into a

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large scale Halloween experiences featuring haunted attractions, themed environments, live entertainment,

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dramatic lighting, dense fog, and high impact scares. We are

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looking for performers, artists, and event staff and want to

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help us create an unforgettable experience from the ground up.

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Season Zortica, Director of Creative Event Operations and Reduction for

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Nightmare war Whether someone has years of performance experience or

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is stepping into a world for the first time, we

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want enthusiastic people who are ready to become part of

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something entirely new for Buffalo. To learn more or apply,

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visit the event's official website. The Halloween season is almost

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upon US, and haunts around the country are announcing their dates,

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new editions, social events, and more. To help you manage

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the myriad of updates, a Haunted Attraction Network has compiled

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comprehensive guides to the top hants in the US and

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top theme park events around the world. Book Marks these

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important pages for reference and check back often for updates

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for new as new information is released. New this week

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Cedar Point Hollow Weekends twenty twenty six dates, tickets, and

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what's been announced so far previously. Spirit Halloween Locations twenty

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twenty six guide every store or state by state nether

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World Haunted house dates, tickets, and what to know before

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you go. When do haunted houses open? In twenty twenty six.

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The best and scariest haunted houses in America at the

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Top Haunts List. Halloween Horrorites twenty twenty six, Dates, tickets

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and lineups for every park, Disney Halloween twenty twenty six,

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Every park worldwide. Fright Fest twenty twenty six, The Complete

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guide to six Flags Halloween Event at Every Part Hallo

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Scream twenty twenty six. The Complete guide to all five

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United Parks locations Orlando Halloween Events, Every Park party in

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Haunt Halloween Time at Disneyland twenty twenty six. The Complete Guide.

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

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what's new Halloween Horrorites twenty twenty six, Ours, costume policy

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and no before you Go. Haunted Houses in Texas, Dates,

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tickets and what's new Halloween Horrorites Tickets twenty twenty six.

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A complete guide to all Universal Parks. In retail news,

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Spirit Halloween's owner is buying Hot Topic, Box Lunch and

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Her Universe. Spencer Spirit Holdings, the company behind Spirit Helloween,

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has signed a definitive agreement to buy Hot Topic Ink

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and its three brands, Hot Topic, Box, Lunch and Her Universe.

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The deal was announced August sixth, and would put six

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retail brands in more than three thousand North America stores

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under one owner. Spencer Spirit already owns Spirit Halloween, Spencer's

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and Spirit Christmas. As per the announcement, the three Hot

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Topic brands will continue to operate independently. From the Spencer

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Spirit business and maintain their existing headquarters in California. Steve

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Rain stays on and as CEO of Hot Topic, Inc.

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A job he has held for over ten years, overseeing

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the three brands day to day operations alongside his executive team.

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He will report to Spencer Spirit CEO Steven Silverstein. How

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much is the Freddie Fasbear Animatronic four hundred ninety nine

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in stores up to thirty eight hundred dollars on eBay

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to Freddie fosber Aimatonic costs four ninety nine at Spirit

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Helloween and the Spirit Helloween is the only place to

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buy one. Spirit Halloween's four forty nine ninety nine Alien

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xenomarf Anamatronic is out of stock online. Spirit Halloween's six

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foot eight Alien xenomor f Anomatronic costs four forty nine

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and cannot be ordered from the website. Completed eBay sales

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over the first week of August show it moving it

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roughly twice spirits or forty nine ninety nine tractor supplies.

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Twenty twenty six Halloween Collection Ghost Cows, six foot skeleton roosters,

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animated deviled eggs, and other farm inspired items. Headline Tractor

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supplies twenty twenty six Halloween collection. This year's Halloween out

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Here collection is the company's largest collection and is hitting

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stores earlier than ever. The full Halloween catalog runs to

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more than seven hundred items, and the farm theme holds

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all the way down. Build the Bear twenty twenty six

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is Halloween collection. Build the Bear's twenty twenty six Halloween

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collection dubbed Spooky Stuff. Your Love Is Live and the

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Star is a jumping spider plush, a fuzzy brown spider

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with eight legs and four big black eyes. The plush

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starts at thirty six dollars for forty four dollars to

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the gift set with keep on Creeping On Spiderweb tea.

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The monster cereals are now blown glass ornaments boxes and

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all the monster cereals admitted to the Halloween Tree. Old

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World Christmas. The Spokane, Washington ornament maker hand Blowing Glass

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since nineteen seventy nine is selling Blueberry, count Chocula and

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Frankenberry as glass ornaments at twenty seven ninety nine each

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and each character comes two ways, a monster itself or

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its cereal box that makes six serial ornaments in all

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the character versions, Mascot mid Pose with the Cereal bowl

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in hand hand painted and glittered and per Old World Christmas.

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Each piece is hand blown into a hand carved mold

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and hand painted using techniques from the eighteen hundreds, MNSSHP

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twenty twenty six, all seventeen food items, and the party

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exclusive merch He's Not So Scary Halloween Party in Orlando,

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Florida has opened on Friday, August seventh, with eight of

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its thirty eight dates already sold out. The Official Foody

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Guide named seventeen new food and drink items across eleven

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Magic Kingdom locations, and the party exclusive merchandise line has

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been revealed. From sweet treats like Headless Horseman treats, pumpkin

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pie tarts topped with whipped cheesecake, spiced caramel, panacotta, candied pecans,

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and the marshmallow buttercream flames, the savory eats including dune

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Buggy dumplings, chicken dumplings with red mesa, gochu Jang sauce

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for acaki, and chili threads. This year's culinary options are

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diverse and delectable. Disneyland's twenty twenty six Halloween Food First look.

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Disney Parks has posted a first look video previewing the

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twenty twenty six Halloween food and drinks coming it to

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Disneyland Resorts in Nanaheim, California, and it reveals five items

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across Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure. On the sweet side,

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guests can look forward to match a Mickey shaped Waffles,

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Ube Cheesecake Turo and the brown butter Maple Cold Crew.

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Jang sauce and a drizzle of ghost pepper Ranch and

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the Bougoogee beef toasted with corn cheese soup. Halloween Time

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at Disney Resort runs August twenty first through October thirty

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first of twenty twenty six, Jock Lindjey's Hangar Bar Halloween

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overlay returns to Disney Springs with a new menu. Jock

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Lindsay's Hangar Bar, the Indiana Jones themed bar at Disney

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Springs in Lake Buenavista, Florida, brings its Halloween overlay back

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August eleventh through November ninth with a new food and

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drink menu. In the same nineteen forties Kitch de cord

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that dressed the bar. Last year, hat Box Ghost popcorn

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buckets lands on both coasts with a headless horseman for

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the party Haunted Mansions. Hatbox Ghost is becoming a popcorn

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bucket on both coasts at Disneyland Resort. The launch date

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is August thirteenth, three day fan club celebration with limited

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run novelties across the resort. At Disney World, the bucket,

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along with a new headless horseman bucket, will be exclusive

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to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween parties starting August seventh.

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As reported by the w d W Nude, Universal Studio

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Japan's first resident evil popcorn bucket is a backworn liquor.

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A popcorn bucket shaped as a liquor goes on sale

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at Universal Studios Japan in Wednesday, September ninth, and the

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official product photo shows it mounted on two shoulder straps

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and hanging down the wearer's back, brain exposed, and tongue

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trailing towards the floor. Starbucks brings back the Pumpkin Spice

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Latte August twenty fifth. Fall officially arrives at Starbucks around

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the country on Tuesday, August twenty fifth, with return of

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the Pumpkins Spice Latte. Alongside it come three new Pumpkin

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Spice beverages, returning Pekan drinks, two banana bread inspired lattes,

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and an entirely new drink called the Chider, described by

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Starbucks as a cozy twist on chai. For fall, delivering

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cider inspired flavors including cinnamon and sweet spice. Krispy Kreme's

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Fall twenty twenty six collection brings back Pumpkins Spice and

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adds three new treats. Chrispy Kreme's autumnal seasonal collection returns

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August eleventh. Pumpkins Spice return joined by three new flavors,

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a maple cheesecake donut, a Cafe Mocha donut, and an

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Apple crisp latte. The bisk Off Cookie Butter donut and

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Pumpkin Spice Latte are back too. The collection is available

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for a limited time at participating shops nationwide, in shop

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and for pickup and delivery through Krispy Kreme's app and website,

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and individually and by the dozen while supplies last. Gideon's

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Bakehouse goes all in on peanut butter for its August menu.

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Gideon's Bakehouse in Orlando, Florida, went all in on peanut

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butter for August. The new Peanut Butter Cold Brew Cookie

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X dollersion fifty cents is nearly half a pound and

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packed with chopped Reese's Cupsreese's pieces, and locally roasted Decaf

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espresso to cut the sweetness. There's a ninety eight dollars

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matching three layer cake, a returning Orange Moca cold Brew,

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and a weekend only Oreo cookie too. New Appril Cider

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donut holes lead Intimen's and Little Bytes Fall twenty twenty

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six lineup. Entimens and Little Bytes brought back their Fall

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and Halloween treats for twenty twenty six, and the lineup

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has one new item, Entimen's Apple Cider donut holes. The

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apple Cider donut holes common a thirteen ounce bag for

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a suggested retail of five sixty nine the pop Upple

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version of Benmen's Apple Cider donut. These are sized for

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a bag you pass around rather than a single donut.

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Enjoy these shareable treats and morning coffee during weekends, falloutings,

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or following a trip to the apple orchard. The donut

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holes are at most major grocery retailers nationwide from August

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through November. Or your ghosts have been spotted and they

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are not cookies. Or your ghosts have started turning up

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in the Halloween aisles, and the thing worth knowing before

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you go looking is that they are not ghost shaped oreos.

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They are molded dark chocolate ghosts filled with Oreo cream

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and cookie pieces sold in a bag of individually wrapped singles.

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In Convention News, Midsummer Scream moves to Anaheim for twenty

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twenty seven Midsommer Scream build as the world's largest halloween

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and horror convention is leaving its longtime Long Beach home.

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The event will move to the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California,

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for next year's events, taking place in August sixth through eight,

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twenty twenty seven. Organizers said the larger venue gives the

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event more room for its growing community of fans, haunters, vendors, artists,

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and celebrities. The convention is called the Long Beach Convention

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Center Home since its twenty sixteen debut, when it drew

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about eight thousand people in its first year. This past

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weekend's event drew over fifty thousand attendees across the event,

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with more than three hundred and fifty vendors on the floor.

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The Hall of Shadows, the convention's main area, span nearly

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two indoor acres with attractions from Lionsgates Studio, Universal Studios,

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Horror Unleashed, and Independent Creators. Season Screamings returns December fourth

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through fifth, twenty twenty seven, from the mines behind Midsummer's Scream.

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Season Screamings will return with Holiday Horror December fourth and fifth,

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twenty twenty seven at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California.

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The revived show will feature the Hall of Yuletide Spirits,

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spooky vendors, and other surprises. Unchers Against Hate The event

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returns Toly thirty first through August first of twenty twenty seven.

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Save the dates. Unentras Against Hate The event returns to

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the Radisson Kalama Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan, July thirty first

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through August first of twenty twenty seven. Halloween and Party

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Expo twenty twenty seven opens registration. The events are Stirring

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in the Big Easy. Registration is now open for the

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Halloween in Party Expo twenty twenty seven, taking place January

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eleventh through thirteenth at the earnest Na Memorial Convention Center

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in New Orleans, Louisiana. Helloween and Party Expo describes itself

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as the retailer's one stop shopping destination for all things

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Halloween in party, with the floor covering costumes, accessories, makeup, novelties,

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and party supplies. It is co organized by Clarion Events

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and the Halloween and Costume Association, a trade groove that

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also runs the Spooky Awards. The event has returned to

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New Orleans after the twenty twenty sixth edition ran the

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expo at World Market Center in Las Vegas. Hershey report

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Helloween now spans a thirty year and anticipation is the product.

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Hershey has released. Its unwrapping Helloween stated. The season report

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built on a Morning consult survey of threeenty twenty six

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US adults fielded July eighth through tenth, and its central

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claim puts a number on what this season has looked

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like from every direction. Helloween has evolved into a season

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spanning a third of the year rather than a single day.

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Reports of the consumer research in Herssey's own shipment data

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tell the same story, become a season, not a single night.

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Or she has a name for the economy we've been

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describing all year, treatonomics, a consumer trend in which people

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prioritize joyful, memorable experiences and generosity over simply chasing the

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lowest price. Guests are still spending on Halloween, but they're

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looking for memorable experiences to connect to, even if it

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costs a little more. Value matters reports. Tradition section carries

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the header traditions not nostalgia, and puts the mechanism plainly.

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The candy people grew up with is becoming the candy

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they passed down. That mechanism is the nostalgia trend, and

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it's the same generational memory engine behind Michael's building six

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nostalgia themed to car collections and the vintage to core

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wave we have covered all season. What her She's framing

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usually separates is the behavior from the feeling. Nostalgia is

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the sentiment, and the tradition is what happens when that

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sentiment gets scheduled, repeated and handed to your kids for

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an attraction or a retailer. Traditions book themselves every year.

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Nostalgia has to be resold buying the past. They're buying

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the thing they do every year, and your haunt can

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be that thing. In memorial, the haunt industry warns the

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loss of Randy Bates. Randy Bates, longtime owner of the

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Bates Motal and Haunted Hay Ride in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania,

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has passed away at age sixty eight following a battle

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with cancer. In an August eighth social media post, the

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Haunted Attraction Association detailed many of his additional contributions to

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the haunt industry. In nineteen ninety seven, he helped found

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the International Association of Haunted Attractions IAJA as a board member.

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In twenty twenty three, he helped found America Haunts, a

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group of the largest haunted attractions around the country. In

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two thousand and seven, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania began requiring

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haunted house owners to take a safety course pass an

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inspector's test. He was asked to help write and put

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together seminars to specific haunted attractions. In twenty ten, Randy

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was a member of the Haunted House Association AHJA and

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helped form the merger of the IAAJ and AJA JAY

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into what became the Haunted Attraction Association the HAA in

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twenty eleven. As an experienced hay ride operator, Randy and

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other Pennsylvania operators developed the hay Ride Safety Standards, which

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went into effect in twenty twenty. His peers has described

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as dedication and passion, as well as how quickly he

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offered to help anyone that asked for advice. Randy is

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survived by his wife, his six children, more than twenty grandchildren.

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We at the Haunted Attractions Network center condolences to his

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family and friends during this difficult time. Some upcoming events

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in August through October of twenty twenty six, September eleventh

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through thirteen three Pio Real OCXPO in Santa Ana, California.

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And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode

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was produced by me Philip Bernandez, with reporting by Darryl Plunky,

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post production by David Swope. This hant News Update is

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a production of the Haunted Attraction Network and you can

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