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Dueling Dragons: Choose Thy Fate (HHN 32)

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Twister would fit too, honestly.
 
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This is easily the house I’m most curious about and definitely most anticipated original. I hope they nail it.
 
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A Jaws house would be amazing tbh....
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A Jaws house would be amazing tbh....
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This!!!
 
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I don’t want this to be a The Fallen (remember that house?) situation; but we all have faith!
 
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I don’t want this to be a The Fallen (remember that house?) situation; but we all have faith!
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This was the first HHN house I went into so maybe that tempers my expectations some but I really enjoyed that house lol
 
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I hate to even bring this up ..... ( Screenz)
But I wouldn't be mad if they did this for some of the scenes of dragons, maybe before we see the actual puppets, earlier on.
In the dark in the house, it would be really cool
 
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I hate to even bring this up ..... ( Screenz)
But I wouldn't be mad if they did this for some of the scenes of dragons, maybe before we see the actual puppets, earlier on.
In the dark in the house, it would be really cool
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Horror Nights rarely uses screens in their houses. I'm pretty sure the last time it happened was Bride of Frankenstein Lives, at the beginning of the house. The creative team takes too much pride in their prop, set, and effect abilities to mainly rely on screens (at least I hope so.)
 
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Horror Nights rarely uses screens in their houses. I'm pretty sure the last time it happened was Bride of Frankenstein Lives, at the beginning of the house. The creative team takes too much pride in their prop, set, and effect abilities to mainly rely on screens (at least I hope so.)
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Yeah that's completely true. But I would be very sad if we only see the dragons once. Dragons that big, as big as they need to be,
It's like when they did klownzilla or the big monster in stranger things 3. A giant prop we see in one room. Only once
I think I would be ok if we saw the dragons flyingb
 
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I don't think it'll hurt to have screenz in the background to "expand" the facade.

Screens as a background effect is fine, screens as the actual focal point is bad.
 
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Definitely wasn’t any type of foreshadowing.
 
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There was also a lot of eater eggs hidden in that house
 
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There was also a lot of eater eggs hidden in that house
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Cause they were literally just pulling out whatever they had in storage for decor.
 
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Cause they were literally just pulling out whatever they had in storage for decor.
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Yeah they were and it was great! I’m saying that dosent mean the DD sign was a hint.
 
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Cause they were literally just pulling out whatever they had in storage for decor.
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It’s possible that house would’ve been better received had they simply advertised it as a junk yard.
 
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Horror Nights rarely uses screens in their houses. I'm pretty sure the last time it happened was Bride of Frankenstein Lives, at the beginning of the house. The creative team takes too much pride in their prop, set, and effect abilities to mainly rely on screens (at least I hope so.)
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Usually it is just a background set element, not used as any particular scare.

In 2019, ST had it at the end of the arcade screen showing a mannequin Will Byers staring out into the red storm with the mindflayer. Yeti had some windows that from the inside looked like snow falling outside, meanwhile on the outside it showed some yeti silhouettes wreaking havoc. Also HOTC had some in the midway point, showcasing random pictures as used in the film, I think to allude to the similar shifts in the film.
2021 in Hill House, there was the neat set piece of the stairwell that was old and decrepit and had a screen that would show the scene of Nell dancing, before shifting back to the live set piece of the room.
2022 in the Weeknd there were some screens used in the beginning to show the "In Your Eyes" girl with the axe, before she was revealed from her boo-hole, and the "After Hours" big room with imagery.
If they use screens in here, I could picture it showing an outside to add depth, but it would be awesome if it could be as elaborate as a dragon flying by prior to seeing a large head puppet.
Big expectations for this house as I grew up with the original Lost Continent, DD being one of my favorite coasters, along with the theming of the land. Hoping they can nail the dragon puppets as IMHO the chupacabras last year didn't do it for me. Favorite puppet of all time was the lion in Nightingales Blood Prey, it was unexpected and positioned perfectly as a distraction scare.
 
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Usually it is just a background set element, not used as any particular scare.

In 2019, ST had it at the end of the arcade screen showing a mannequin Will Byers staring out into the red storm with the mindflayer. Yeti had some windows that from the inside looked like snow falling outside, meanwhile on the outside it showed some yeti silhouettes wreaking havoc. Also HOTC had some in the midway point, showcasing random pictures as used in the film, I think to allude to the similar shifts in the film.
2021 in Hill House, there was the neat set piece of the stairwell that was old and decrepit and had a screen that would show the scene of Nell dancing, before shifting back to the live set piece of the room.
2022 in the Weeknd there were some screens used in the beginning to show the "In Your Eyes" girl with the axe, before she was revealed from her boo-hole, and the "After Hours" big room with imagery.
If they use screens in here, I could picture it showing an outside to add depth, but it would be awesome if it could be as elaborate as a dragon flying by prior to seeing a large head puppet.
Big expectations for this house as I grew up with the original Lost Continent, DD being one of my favorite coasters, along with the theming of the land. Hoping they can nail the dragon puppets as IMHO the chupacabras last year didn't do it for me. Favorite puppet of all time was the lion in Nightingales Blood Prey, it was unexpected and positioned perfectly as a distraction scare.
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I think the chupacabra puppets just missed because it wasn’t the alien looking dude we were expecting (It even was in the merch!) ; i don’t think this will happen in this house; Dragons are Dragons!

My favorite puppet is definitely the Poltergeist Ghost Skull; so menacing. Never got to see the Nightingales Lion but I saw him in Scary Tales!
 
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AmitySix said:
Usually it is just a background set element, not used as any particular scare.

In 2019, ST had it at the end of the arcade screen showing a mannequin Will Byers staring out into the red storm with the mindflayer. Yeti had some windows that from the inside looked like snow falling outside, meanwhile on the outside it showed some yeti silhouettes wreaking havoc. Also HOTC had some in the midway point, showcasing random pictures as used in the film, I think to allude to the similar shifts in the film.
2021 in Hill House, there was the neat set piece of the stairwell that was old and decrepit and had a screen that would show the scene of Nell dancing, before shifting back to the live set piece of the room.
2022 in the Weeknd there were some screens used in the beginning to show the "In Your Eyes" girl with the axe, before she was revealed from her boo-hole, and the "After Hours" big room with imagery.
If they use screens in here, I could picture it showing an outside to add depth, but it would be awesome if it could be as elaborate as a dragon flying by prior to seeing a large head puppet.
Big expectations for this house as I grew up with the original Lost Continent, DD being one of my favorite coasters, along with the theming of the land. Hoping they can nail the dragon puppets as IMHO the chupacabras last year didn't do it for me. Favorite puppet of all time was the lion in Nightingales Blood Prey, it was unexpected and positioned perfectly as a distraction scare.
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Screens can be used for setting mood imo.
To me the biggest risk of a puppet is if we are close to it. Lighting will be huge as well. To much light and we can see it's just a puppet head, not enough light and we complain we cant see the dragon.
 
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AmitySix said:
Usually it is just a background set element, not used as any particular scare.

In 2019, ST had it at the end of the arcade screen showing a mannequin Will Byers staring out into the red storm with the mindflayer. Yeti had some windows that from the inside looked like snow falling outside, meanwhile on the outside it showed some yeti silhouettes wreaking havoc. Also HOTC had some in the midway point, showcasing random pictures as used in the film, I think to allude to the similar shifts in the film.
2021 in Hill House, there was the neat set piece of the stairwell that was old and decrepit and had a screen that would show the scene of Nell dancing, before shifting back to the live set piece of the room.
2022 in the Weeknd there were some screens used in the beginning to show the "In Your Eyes" girl with the axe, before she was revealed from her boo-hole, and the "After Hours" big room with imagery.
If they use screens in here, I could picture it showing an outside to add depth, but it would be awesome if it could be as elaborate as a dragon flying by prior to seeing a large head puppet.
Big expectations for this house as I grew up with the original Lost Continent, DD being one of my favorite coasters, along with the theming of the land. Hoping they can nail the dragon puppets as IMHO the chupacabras last year didn't do it for me. Favorite puppet of all time was the lion in Nightingales Blood Prey, it was unexpected and positioned perfectly as a distraction scare.
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Wigglepebbles said:
I think the chupacabra puppets just missed because it wasn’t the alien looking dude we were expecting (It even was in the merch!) ; i don’t think this will happen in this house; Dragons are Dragons!

My favorite puppet is definitely the Poltergeist Ghost Skull; so menacing. Never got to see the Nightingales Lion but I saw him in Scary Tales!
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sparky said:
Screens can be used for setting mood imo.
To me the biggest risk of a puppet is if we are close to it. Lighting will be huge as well. To much light and we can see it's just a puppet head, not enough light and we complain we cant see the dragon.
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Sparky said it right.
I did not really want to bring up chupacabra but the lighting on chupacabra wasn't great, and some of those puppets didn't work great all the time. Chupacabra had pretty incredible sets and I liked it. But there were runs where I only saw chupacabra once. Chupacabra was nice but the creature was a little disappointing

I would technically rather have the dragon in screens flying and coming close to us. Try to breathe fire at you in some scenes. I would really love if they had the dragon flying by as you walked
 
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