NEWS: Universal Studios Japan to Host all-night Halloween Party

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. Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida announced two new scare zones for this year's Halloween Horror Nights, named Duality of Fear and Demon Queens. As soon as you enter the gates of Halloween Horror Knights, choose a path through Duality of Fear, follow Sinister, a manifestation of visceral horror, or follow Surreal, the incarnation of unearthly terror. Further inside hhn get caught in the otherworldly healthscape of Demon Queens with four merciless queens loyal to surreal rule, surrounded by hordes of fanatical followers. Halloween Horrorites takes place on select Knights from August thirtieth to November three. Tickets are on sale now.

1:21 Universal Studios Halloween Horrnites and Universal City California announced a new scare zone called Skull Lords. All Hail the Royal Court of the Undead, where Gothic kings and Queen's reign, But beware cross into their spectral kingdom at your own peril. All who challenge their rule meet a dead end. Halloween Horrnites Hollywood runs select knights September fifth through November three. Tickets are now on sale at the events official website. Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, teased two villainous additions to this year's Oogie Boogie Bash at Disney Halloween Party. A teaser video released last week featured a Greek vase with flames and a Fedora hat behind a control panel in a white lab coat, causing fans to speculate that this year's trade trails will feature haities from Hercules and doctor Heinz Dufenschmertz from the Disney Channel's popular animated series Phineas and Ferb. While the official reveal is on its way, the two new characters are set to join an impressive list of villains, including Agatha. Harkness, The Headless Horseman, The Sanderson Sisters, Captain Hook, Ursula, ja'far Mother, Gothel, and Moore.

2:31 The Oogi Boogie Bash runs select evenings August twenty fifth through October thirty first. Tickets are currently sold out. Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, Japan will host its first ever all night Halloween Party on Friday, October eighteenth, from ten pm to five am. Guests will be able to enjoy the screams and excitement of Halloween horror nights all night long. Brave hordes of street zombies, ride popular attractions, dance along to the Zombie Dance, and go oh wild with Hamikuma in a dark show. The event will feature special show held at Waterworld filled with lively Helloween numbers. All night. Participants will also receive an event exclusive Hammi Kuma badge.

3:12 Tickets are on sale now starting at twelve thousand yen, which is approximately eighty three dollars. US Castle Dark and Riverside, California will return with new mazes, scare zones, and more Fridays through Sundays September twentieth through October twenty seventh. This year's event will feature three traditional mazes named Funhouse of the Demented, Seance and Labyrinth, plus two scare zones, and the event's first ever VR Mays Sinister in an immersive five D experience that will be available for an additional fee. New shows include Sliders of the Kingdom, Tea Time with Lady Lou and Countess Alura. Special food, beverage and retail items will also be available during the event. Tickets are now on sale starting at thirty four ninety nine at Queen Mary's. Dark Harbor in Long Beach, California revealed details on returning characters, new mazes, and secret bars in their Midsummer screen panel last month. Returning select night September twentieth through November two after a five year hiatus, Dark Harbor will once again welcome Scary Mary, Graceful Gail, the Ringmaster, and the Captain as signature characters, along with a surgeon, a twisted and sadistic doctor featured in the new maze Infirmary.

4:23 The event's popular speakeasies will be returning for twenty twenty four, but a new system for obtaining entry tokens to the four bars. They will be passed out during the event's nightly pre show and available for purchase via a new character named Lady Mabel. Currently announced mazes include the aforementioned Infirmary, Scary Mary's Maze, Lullaby at All, new chapter in Samuel Le Savage's story, Breakout, and Feast, a prequel to the original maze with the same name. Learn more and sign up for ticket sale announcements at the event's official website. In addition to the return of the popular Queen Mary's Dark Harbor, the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California has quite a few spooky surprises for this year's Halloween season. Firstly, starting Friday September thirteenth, Brave guests will once again be able to spend the night in the ship's most haunted cabin, Stateroom B three forty. Also announced as a Spooctacular, bizarre and movie night on Friday, September thirteenth, Shop till you Drop from a curated selection of local spooky vendors offering unique an eerie item, enjoy live music that will set the perfect eerie atmosphere, and settle for a double feature of The Nightmare Before Christmas followed by Labyrinth. Tickets are on sale now starting at ten dollars for general admission and two hundred and fifty for the ultimate movie package, including four tickets, seats on a spacious couch, QM blanket, snacks, champagne or SODA's, and a spectacular surprise. Adding to the festival fall lineup, The Queen Mary will present a spooky Speakeasy experience at September nineteenth and twenty six. This special

5:55 engagement will feature haunting stories of the Queen Mary's most famous apt opparitions, each paired with a specialty beverage inspired by the specific spirit. Tickets are on sale now for fifty five per person, including four drinks. Finally, rounding out the announcements is an all new paranormal shipwalk entitled Forgotten Stories. This tour promises to delve into the lesser known hauntings and parallel phenomena aboard the Queen Mary. More details about this tour will be released soon via the ship's official website. Follow the links in our show notes to get yours. Beeer Farm and Keys to Fear Productions are joining forces to create the Inland Empire's newest multi attraction screen park, Beer farm Ie in Chino, California. This brand new event will host five separate Haunted attractions sped over two hundred acres.

6:42 The Sundown Manor Barnaby Rust's Circus Carnage, the Haunted hay Ride, The Zombie Survival Experience Flight, and the Zombie Survival Experience Fight a Zombie Paintball Experience. The event runs Fridays and Saturday, September twenty seventh through November two, from seven to ten pm Nightlykeas It's are on sale now, starting at nineteen ninety nine for a single attraction and forty nine ninety nine for entry to all. Five Front of the line passes start at fifty nine ninety nine. They also offer an rip VIP package for one twenty four to ninety nine, which includes unlimited front of line admission to all attractions, t shirt, rere beverage, behind the scenes tour with one of the designers, and the opportunity to receive full professional makeup and costumes to become one of the monsters for the evening. It's way more fun to be a predator than it is to be praised, says co creator Matt Ganne.

7:33 The Los Angeles Haunted hay Ride in Los Angeles California, were returned for its sixteenth season September twentieth through November two. In addition to the tuitular hay Ride experience, this year's Evan will feature two returning mazes, hel Billy Helloween and Trick Or Treat, as well as a new Ma's Monet Manor replacing the former Midnight Mortuary. Money Manor is presented in partnership with musician, author, actor, and fashion icon jenelleman Ody. The maze will blend eerie elegance with futuristic frights and more. Another new edition for twenty twenty four will be the event's first ever theatrical experience, Madame Aurora's Seance Theater. This Seance Gone Wrong will feature theatrical elements with a cutting edge audio, lighting, fact and more to create an Immersia fourty scary experience. Single day tickets have not yet gone on sale, but season passes are currently available. Starting at seventy nine ninety nine, unravel a new story with delusion the Red Castle in Los Angeles, California, taking place at a new location, The Stimson House, a three story, thirty room mansion in the University Park area of Los Angeles.

8:39 This year's experience will tie back to the storyline from twenty twelves, the Blood Right Crossover. Characters and story elements will be present in the new tale, as audience members will once again come face to face with the banished psychologist doctor Lowell. Will you help him to bring back his dead wife? Sign up for pre sale notifications and announcements at the event's official website. Screams Halloween Theme Park and Waxahatchie, Texas is now hiring for the twenty twenty four Halloween season. Available positions include scare actors, food and beverage pubs, front gate games, grounds crew, makeup and costuming, sanitation and safety services. Actor and makeup training will take place September thirteenth through twenty eighth. Orientation and manager training in dress rehearsal takes place September twenty eighth, and the event runs Fridays and Saturdays October fourth through November two.

9:27 Interested individuals can fill out the online form to apply. As of August first, Spirit Halloween has begun opening its fifteen hundred plus stores across the US and Canada. Festivities begin with the grand opening celebration at the Rental Chains flagship store at egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. Now throughout August, the chains will open stores across the country. Locate the nearest store near you at Spirit Halloween's official website. Pale Night Productions has announced Perma Blood will now be available at Spirit Halloween. Hunters can now purchase four rounds bottles for nine nine nine and select physical stores and online via Spirit Halloween's website. The chain is also selling a custom Perma Blood Green variant, similar to Pale Night Productions Perma Grime uv Green. Some upcoming events this August through October include creep It Real Nostalgic September fourteenth and fifteenth in Santa Ana, California, creep i e Con in Ontario, California from September twentieth through twenty second, and Son of Monster Palooza October eleventh through thirteenth in Burbank, California. Also going on in some South cal Halloween Haunt events including Oogie Boogie's Bash at Disney California Adventure August twenty fifth through thirty First Halloween hohrn Nights at Universal Studios September fifth through November three, Peer farm Ie and Chino September twenty seventh through November two. Fright Fest Extreme in Magic Mountain, Valencia, September seventh through November three. Not Scary Farm at Knotsbery Farm, Buena Park, September nineteenth through November second. Los Angeles Haunted

11:00 Hey Ride at Los Angeles September twentieth through November second. The Queen Mary's Dark Harbor in Long Beach September twentieth through November second, Hello Scream at SeaWorld, San Diego September twenty seventh through November second, Reign of Terror in Thousand Oaks September twenty seventh through November second. And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Bernandez, with reporting by Darryl Plunky. Post production by David Swope. This hant News Update is a production of the Haunted Attraction Network and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Haunted Attraction Network dot com. Support for this episode comes from Gantum Lighty and controls until next time, Haunters Stay Scary.

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