Roundup: Texas Haunters Convention Happens This Weekend

0:07 Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip on the h A N 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. The Haunted Attraction Association has launched a survey for their next three year strategic plan. Three years ago, the AHAA drastically changed the rules of their operations for the better. Based on industry feedback, member of satisfaction has risen to nearly ninety two percent, and they have welcomed to increase of over forty two percent of new members from home and charity haunts to high volume attractions. They are now looking to the future once again with this anonymous twenty twenty four through twenty twenty seven HAA industry wide survey. The survey will only take between ten and twenty minutes, but it is vital in helping the AHAA better evaluate where they have been and where you would like to see them go in the future. The survey is open to the entire industry HAA members and non members, owners, staff, vendors, media, scare actors, etc. Survey results will be reported in aggregate to HAA membership and the broader industry in twenty twenty four. The survey can be completed by following the links in our show notes. The deadline to submit your response is Thursday, July twentieth. The Texas Hunters Convention takes place this upcoming weekend, July

1:38 fifteenth and sixteenth at the Mesquite Convention Center in Mesquite, Texas. The event will feature over fifty thousand square feet of family friendly vendors, events, demonstrations, and classes targeting Helloween and cosplay enthusiasts. The fund begins the night before the convention with a Haunt tour of both Dark Hour Haunted House and thrill Vania Haunted House Park. Weekend programming highlights include on Sliding one oh one, The Ins and Outs Home, Haunt Videography Part one and two, Marketing Year Attraction, and a Chamber of Haunters Annual Board Meeting, The Annual Costume Ball will take place Saturday night, featuring a live DJ, costume contest, prizes, giveaway, cash, bars, and more. Tickets are still available online with weekend schauffloor passes starting at twenty five dollars per adult and ten per child.

2:24 Halloween Horror Knights is returning to Universal Studios Japan September eight through November fifth of twenty twenty three. Be surrounded in terror with more zombies than ever before in Street Zombies, Scare Zones. Haunted houses include Chucky's Carnival of Chaos, The Universal Monsters, Legends of Fear, and the Interactive Biohazard The Extreme Plus join a wild and bizarre dance party in Zombie to Dance featuring music by pop star Ato. Thrills continue with Sadako's Curse Dark Horror Ride, which takes over Space Fantasy The Ride on September twenty fourth through January twenty eighth of twenty twenty four. Halloween Horror Nights is included in general usj park admission and occurs every day September eighth through November fifth. Halloween Horror Nights Express Passes are on sale now starting at seventy eight hundred to ten eight hundred yen. The rip Tour will also be available for fans who want to skip the lines and enjoy a dedicated tour guide, zombie greeting, special viewing area for zombie to dance, and limited edition gift. Join the Festival of Fears in Fort Walton Beach, Florida for their first ever Summer Scream event on July fourteenth and fifteenth and twenty first and twenty second experience Crypted Hollow, a new attraction that will only be open for the summer season. This is the first haunt they are opening in their new location, which features an all new expanded midway, multiple mini attractions, a new horror gift shop, a bar, food trucks, and upgraded amenities throughout general admission. Tickets are on sale now for twenty dollars. The Horror

3:57 Project of from Denver, Colorado, is making its chilling debut at jad's Mile High Smoke Lounge on Friday, October thirteenth. The event will have the unique option to enhance them movie watching experience by offering cannabis for purchase. Attendees can elevate their senses and immerse themselves in a terrifying world of horror flicks like never before. Aside from the spine tingling movie screening, the Horror Project is an array of vendors lined up from terrifying collectibles to spooky art. Fans will have the opportunity to take home a piece of the Horror Magic. Tickets will go on sale soon follow the event's official Instagram account for more information. Pumpkin Hollow and Piggot Arkansas used smart technology to plant the Corn Maze for their thirty first annual event. The event collaborated with local equipment distributors in the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture in a new precision AGG approach to construct their maze.

4:49 This new planting process saved a week's worth of labor and reduced waste. In previous year, corn was planted and then when it reached about a foot tall, the team would go out into the field, measure out and mark the design, and then cut the design of the corn with a mower. In the new precision AGG approach, the pathways of the corn field that are usually cut out were never planted in the first place. The smart technology turned the tractor planter on and off in accordance with a digital design of the Maze. To learn more about Pumpkin Hollows twenty twenty three event, visit their official website. Turn on the Dark Entertainment LLC in Casper, Wyoming, utilized a Wyoming program for entrepreneurs to launch a crowdfunding campaign for the twenty twenty three event.

5:30 In a recent interview with K two Radio owner Nicholas Johnson describes how he wanted to start a business that specialized in Halloween attractions, but he was always told that Wyoming wasn't big enough to support such a venture. In twenty twenty one, Johnson entered the Visit Casper Business Challenge, which offered seed money for tourism related businesses in the Casper area. Although he did not win, his business placed in the top five entrances. He continued to search for funding opportunities, finally discovering Advanced Casper and the Local Crowd Center for Wyoming, which offered a platform. With the crowdfunding campaign. With less than a week to go in the campaign, turn on the Dark Entertainment LLC has raised nearly four thousand dollars towards their Haunt funding goal. Johnson plans to open Casper, Wyoming's first Haunt in October twentieth, twenty twenty three. Follow the crowdfunding campaign and all of the Turn on the Dark Entertainment LLC's event on their official Facebook page. A few upcoming events this July through September include the Texas Haunters Convention July fifteenth and sixteenth in Mesquite, Texas. Or Rween Cohn, Idaho. July twenty first through twenty third in Boise, Idaho. Midsummer Scream July twenty eighth through thirtieth in Long Beach, California. Ghosts of Summer July twenty ninth through thirtieth in Portland, Oregon. Creep at Real oc Xpo September sixteenth through seventeenth in Santa Ana, California. West Michigan Halloween Expo September twenty third and twenty fourth in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ready for your additioner casting call, well check out the following arks. Mortist in killin Alabama, Blood Prison in Mansfield, Ohio,

7:03 Crawford School of Terror in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Creatures of the Night at Zoo Tampa, Tampa, Florida. Crooked Descendant in Herkim in New York. Dark Knights at Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Darkness in Saint Louis, Missouri, Darkside, Haunted Estates in Middlesex, North Carolina, The Dent Schoolhouse in Cincinnati, Ohio, Demon Acres in Hannibal, New York. A Louis Asylum in Westland, Michigan. Arabis Haunted Attraction in Pontiac, Michigan. Extreme Fear Scare Grounds in Kinston, North Carolina. Field of Screams Kentucky, Brandenburg, Kentucky, Fright Nights West Virginia, Daniel's West Virginia, Interland Haunted Attraction Ashley, Michigan, Nightmare Cleveland and Cleveland, Ohio, Scream Dreams in Thomasville, North Carolina, Scream Hollow in Smithsville, Texas, Southern Screams in North Charleston, South Carolina. Terror Vault in San Francisco, California, un Dead in the Water Tampa, Florida, and Woods of Terror in Greensboro, North Carolina. Follow the links in your show notes or reply to your newsletter email to let us know about your haunted attraction. Looking to visit a haunted attraction this summer. Blood Prison in Mansfield, Ohio, and Cinema Horrors.

8:13 Haunted House in Kelso, Washington, along with Festival of Fears in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, are open various dates through July. And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Hernandez, with reporting by Darryl Plunky post production by David s Folk. This Haunt News Update is a production of the Haunted Attraction Network and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Haunted Traction Network dot com. Support for this episode comes from Ghantum Mighty End Controls. Until next time, Haunters, Stay scary. This is a Haunted Attraction