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I think you don't have to worry about the quality and quantity of zones and houses. There will definitely be enough and with the unofficial scare zones plus the zones this year are probably going to be as detailed and immersive as ever before. Yeah there is no story whatsoever and we don't have a tagline but we'd probably all be complaining if they made a story anyways. How the hell do you tie all these different IPs together in one long story? The answer is you can't, atleast successfully. I think you are looking at this year compared to the glory years and at that point you shouldn't. See it as what it is, an IP event with equally strong original content to go with it. I'm not expecting it to be the best year of all time but I'm definitely expecting a ton of surprises and fun. If you still want to have that mindset then different spokes for different folks I guess, have fun being grumpy lol
You contradict your earlier points which it makes it kind of hard to have a discussion with you. You say it'll be one of the best years, and then say it won't be... you mention that you can't cohesively link all the IPs, yet say this event will be better than 2007 or 2009, two events that did it quite well with just as diverse a selection of outside properties. No one would be complaining if we had a story. 2008 had nine (!) total zones, the six official ones and 3 "unofficial" ones -- here we're looking at 4, with (maybe?) two unofficials. It's a downgrade in quantity, no matter how you slice it. And I'm not even touching crowd control, scare quality, design quality, acting quality, etc...
I'm not going this year, as I've said - putting my money where my mouth is. I'm tired of paying more for less.