New HHN wait time data from Thrill-Data (2019 - 2022)

[SeventyOne]

Data is beautiful...

A Look Back at Past Halloween Horror Nights Events

The 32nd edition of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando is soon upon us. This year's offering for HHN 32 includes: Stranger Things 4 The Last of Us The Exorcist: Believer Chucky: Ultimate Kill Count Universal Monsters: Unmasked Dr. Oddfellow’s Twisted Origi… Dueling Dragons: Choose Thy F...

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A few random observations:

• While it used to be the case, this is a nail in the coffin of the "Halloween night is slow" argument. In 2022 (it's the only Monday) busier than the aggregate of any other day.
• Counter to conventional wisdom. Sunday edged out Saturday as busiest day of the week, with Friday actually coming in as the slowest of scheduled days--and that's with opening night crowds skewing the data a bit,
• Online super-fans are not entirely representative. Halloween and Blumhouse, which received mixed reviews on here, were #1 and #2 easily. Fan-favorite Winter's Wake was only 4th--and Legends Collide behind that. Even in 2019, the much maligned Ghostbusters and Us outperformed any original. When Michael Myers back next year, we'll know why.

 

[JungleSkip]

• Online super-fans are not entirely representative. Halloween and Blumhouse, which received mixed reviews on here, were #1 and #2 easily. Fan-favorite Winter's Wake was only 4th--and Legends Collide behind that. Even in 2019, the much maligned Ghostbusters and Us outperformed any original. When Michael Myers back next year, we'll know why.

I mean...would anyone be surprised that the most popular houses are the ones based on the movies?

 

[kingcooger]

Data is beautiful...

A Look Back at Past Halloween Horror Nights Events

The 32nd edition of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando is soon upon us. This year's offering for HHN 32 includes: Stranger Things 4 The Last of Us The Exorcist: Believer Chucky: Ultimate Kill Count Universal Monsters: Unmasked Dr. Oddfellow’s Twisted Origi… Dueling Dragons: Choose Thy F...

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A few random observations:

• While it used to be the case, this is a nail in the coffin of the "Halloween night is slow" argument. In 2022 (it's the only Monday) busier than the aggregate of any other day.
• Counter to conventional wisdom. Sunday edged out Saturday as busiest day of the week, with Friday actually coming in as the slowest of scheduled days--and that's with opening night crowds skewing the data a bit,
• Online super-fans are not entirely representative. Halloween and Blumhouse, which received mixed reviews on here, were #1 and #2 easily. Fan-favorite Winter's Wake was only 4th--and Legends Collide behind that. Even in 2019, the much maligned Ghostbusters and Us outperformed any original. When Michael Myers back next year, we'll know why.

Having gone a swath of both days over the last 10 years or so, Sunday started to “feel” busier sometime around 2015-2017 and became one of my least favorite days to attend. Now we tend to use it to hit up a few houses early, then take in the scare zones and shows.

 

[Galactus]

I'm surprised to see both Icons and Wicked Growth ahead of TCM in 2021. I'd have assumed that Wicked Growth, despite being a fantastic house would have been lower than TCM for the same reason that DMP was below Blumhouse last year. I'm really surprised but heartened about Icons though. I love the lore of HHN and that maybe supports the hypothesis that the average event goer does too, at least a little.

 

[HHN Maddux]

Still shocking to me that Weeknd never really had too insane wait times, meanwhile Halloween...

 

[UniversalRBLX]

Data is beautiful...

A Look Back at Past Halloween Horror Nights Events

The 32nd edition of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando is soon upon us. This year's offering for HHN 32 includes: Stranger Things 4 The Last of Us The Exorcist: Believer Chucky: Ultimate Kill Count Universal Monsters: Unmasked Dr. Oddfellow’s Twisted Origi… Dueling Dragons: Choose Thy F...

talk.thrill-data.com

A few random observations:

• While it used to be the case, this is a nail in the coffin of the "Halloween night is slow" argument. In 2022 (it's the only Monday) busier than the aggregate of any other day.
• Counter to conventional wisdom. Sunday edged out Saturday as busiest day of the week, with Friday actually coming in as the slowest of scheduled days--and that's with opening night crowds skewing the data a bit,
• Online super-fans are not entirely representative. Halloween and Blumhouse, which received mixed reviews on here, were #1 and #2 easily. Fan-favorite Winter's Wake was only 4th--and Legends Collide behind that. Even in 2019, the much maligned Ghostbusters and Us outperformed any original. When Michael Myers back next year, we'll know why.

Yup - people looked at me crazy last year when I said Fridays/Saturdays weren't the worst day to visit HHN.

Also, data doesn't take into account that on Wednesdays/Thursdays they had issues with staffing so the quality of the houses & zones were subpar. So yeah.. Fri/Sat are ideal for HHN lol

How the turn tables...

 

[Jerroddragon]

Does this site also do HHN date for Hollywood as well? I see they have Disneyland data as well which was interesting to look at

 

[Tbad556]

Does this site also do HHN date for Hollywood as well? I see they have Disneyland data as well which was interesting to look at

Yup.

Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood Wait Times 2019 | Thrill Data

View live and historical wait times for Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood for 2019 on Thrill Data

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Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood Wait Times 2021 | Thrill Data

View live and historical wait times for Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood for 2021 on Thrill Data

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Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood Wait Times 2022 | Thrill Data

View live and historical wait times for Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood for 2022 on Thrill Data

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[Jerroddragon]

Yup.

Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood Wait Times 2019 | Thrill Data

View live and historical wait times for Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood for 2019 on Thrill Data

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Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood Wait Times 2021 | Thrill Data

View live and historical wait times for Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood for 2021 on Thrill Data

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Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood Wait Times 2022 | Thrill Data

View live and historical wait times for Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood for 2022 on Thrill Data

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Thank you, love this kinda data

 

[Clive]

Great find, thank you!

Very interesting to see which IPs "pop" more than others.

 

[GA-MBIT]

Hah! I remember the 17th of October, 2019. Graveyard Games definitely did not have a 200 minute wait time for 15 minutes!

But I know the exact flub, the Universal app goofed and said this for a good few minutes. A lot of us had a good laugh about Graveyard finally taking it's rightful place above Stranger Things haha. Still, fun data and cool to see listed out like that!

 

[MrRoamer]

Really good stuff here, thanks for sharing!

And yeah I've been saying for a hot minute now that Friday's are the slowest of the weekend.

Logically Lower FFP's have Sunday's and people think they get the best bang for their buck on a Saturday when they aren't racing over from work and the ticket is a little cheaper. Anecdotally, it almost always seems to be the case that my normie friends tend to buy a Saturday ticket if they don't talk to me first (even afterwards)