1) Yeti - Loved this, Did a lot more camping since I got a tesla. Snake toilette was my number 1 lol scare.
2) Darkest Deal - I liked this one from working in entertainment. The irony is even the best people who work in this house for comcast (many of them seasonally) have little to no chance to translate their work into any actually sustainable job within comcast and the people who manage these scare actors also likely would have had a better long term career by leaving before they got into their current positions. It tends to take people a few years before they realize all of their coworkers who left are more successful than them long term. Soul sucking indeed.
3) Dueling Dragons - Maybe it's nostalgia maybe it was a good run.
4) TLOU - I played the game and thought this was really great.
5) Bloodmoon - Especially for such a short wait it was a great house.
6) Exorcist - just hard to rank. the movie is not out and I am not a big fan of the other movies. But I liked it a lot even without the movie out.
7) Oddfellow - I think Oddfellow himself looked great.
8) Monsters - Long and got quality scares on this one.
9) Stranger Things - I understand the popularity but was not blown away. have to get in line early though.
10) Chucky - Weakest but,,, all time worst? Eh chucky tends to ride solo and people just hate the fast and furious area in general so I think this is somewhat over hated in a pretty strong year.
Again the rankings are tough this year because a lot of houses were pretty close depending on what you saw or liked outside of HHN. I think it was a strong year on average but I also think dead mans pier would beat everything this year still. I am going back to Knotts' Berry Farm in a few weeks and felt like at least a few years ago their houses were better overall although they were not new every year. Knotts is able to build large set pieces multiple years where universal has to tear down.
2) Darkest Deal - I liked this one from working in entertainment. The irony is even the best people who work in this house for comcast (many of them seasonally) have little to no chance to translate their work into any actually sustainable job within comcast and the people who manage these scare actors also likely would have had a better long term career by leaving before they got into their current positions. It tends to take people a few years before they realize all of their coworkers who left are more successful than them long term. Soul sucking indeed.
3) Dueling Dragons - Maybe it's nostalgia maybe it was a good run.
4) TLOU - I played the game and thought this was really great.
5) Bloodmoon - Especially for such a short wait it was a great house.
6) Exorcist - just hard to rank. the movie is not out and I am not a big fan of the other movies. But I liked it a lot even without the movie out.
7) Oddfellow - I think Oddfellow himself looked great.
8) Monsters - Long and got quality scares on this one.
9) Stranger Things - I understand the popularity but was not blown away. have to get in line early though.
10) Chucky - Weakest but,,, all time worst? Eh chucky tends to ride solo and people just hate the fast and furious area in general so I think this is somewhat over hated in a pretty strong year.
Again the rankings are tough this year because a lot of houses were pretty close depending on what you saw or liked outside of HHN. I think it was a strong year on average but I also think dead mans pier would beat everything this year still. I am going back to Knotts' Berry Farm in a few weeks and felt like at least a few years ago their houses were better overall although they were not new every year. Knotts is able to build large set pieces multiple years where universal has to tear down.