There will not be a scarezone in Springfield. That place gets so crowded and is way too compact to put a scarezone in. In 2015 on the after party nights there was a vampire dance group who would scare on their breaks, but then again the after party had super super low attendance. It gets all the flow of everyone going towards the lower/backlot, terror tram, show, and Springfield restaurants, basically everything not in the front of the park. I wish it would happen because that area feels so stale but I just think it would be a nightmare.
The gauntlet was a very good concept and I'd love to see it return with improvements. But even with the gauntlet we still had individual scarezones. We still had the entrance, the walk to the backlot, and the metro sets. The gauntlet made sense with the whole one scarezone theme but it could possibly work with individual themes again.