Since 22 was my first year & Penn & Teller were the sole reason I started going to Halloween Horror Nights in the first place, I fully support them coming back. Since I was a kid it was a dream to meet them & being able to do it at HHN would be the icing on the cake. I loved NLV & it was a major highlight of my otherwise bad first impression of HHN(the weather was a huge issue & it was on my birthday so it was 2 strikes right away) & i'd enjoy that being used as a scare zone idea or a horde.
That brings me to my ideas. I'd LOVE if they could come & do a show but I don't see how you give up 2 straight months of shows at the Rio with guaranteed money to work the event so it would have to be select nights & I could see it as an upcharge, perhaps in a soundstage theater set(like when Fallon tapes or Grinchmas, a set up like that) But the go-to is the P&T creating another house. Teller was really enamored with HHN & Penn seemed to be having a good time so I could see it working. The Urban Legends Are B.S. house that some of us have been talking about since the debut of the Urban Legends brand. An idea I had as well was put them in charge of Run, I could imagine Penn's voice narrating through the paths of a Run house even more like a sadistic game show than before(Uh Oh, looks like someone found Teller's booby traps)
This brings me to Drew's Magic Gone Wrong idea. i've envisioned this as a house or scare zone for a while now & I know it would completely work. Using the template of Icons: HHN & using various shock magicians on every mini stage doing the basic tricks when either A. Something goes horribly wrong or B. They are going wrong on purpose & they are just snuffing people out for fun using Magic as their cover-up. Either would work. I've always thought about an Icon, either a real wizard posing as a magician or yet another psycho who is using a stage magician as a cover-up. A lot like The Director but to another extreme.
That would bring up the P&T stage, you could have it at the end of the scare zone with them performing on select nights throughout the event(Perhaps like 10-15 & for opening night & closing night at least). The stage would be like The Carnage Returns stage where you can have the various opening acts leading to the main event. P&T on those nights & for the rest of the event, bring in somewhat known shock magicians like Penn & Teller or even perhaps a tie-in to Fool Us which starts its new season in June where they could feature magicians that have successfully fooled them on the show like using the Face Off brand.
I'm passionate about this as much as I am Scream & I believe they will return to HHN, not sure if it's this year but I don't want to get my hopes up just yet. When the Rio announces the dates for the rest of the year & September & October weekend dates are blocked out, that's when i'll start getting excited.
But until then....we wait.