I say at least another year or two without access to it (lower lot expansion depending)
I could honestly see it happening in that timeframe.
I mean you're right I guess it doesn't matter but idk lol. I've only started going to Hollywood's event since 2021 so I'm just really curious to experience a house in a location that they stopped post pandemic. Specifically the Metro Lot locations, since that whole area brought a lot of energy into the event with the really big scarezone and just made hhn more walkable. But that probably won't come back for awhile unfortunately.
I completely get that. Hollywood’s event seems to have had the most radical operations changes of any major theme park haunt event in the country (in terms of what is guest-accessible park space and where mazes and scarezones are located) so I understand the wish to experience it in its different stages.
I’ll say, tho, timing is everything for Metro. Sometimes it sits empty, except when an odd 1-2 day commercial pops in, but the last couple years with TED and Grand Crew (which I totally forgot used the whole area HHN used to occupy down there) have been using the space. Granted the cast trailers for TED (which was the only portion of the show actually using the former HHN occupied areas) could easily be moved if HHN locks in that location.
To be fair, Grand Crew was the main reason the studio didn’t allow the event back there. The last time Metro was used was 2019, Grand Crew started filming there in 2021, the first year the event didn’t use those locations.
One to two years, like Wesker said could sound reasonable. But, Grand Crew was also canceled recently, so that area could be as vacant (or maybe the right word is available) as it used to be pretty soon. Believe it or not, the studio liked having some rental money for the months HHN used the underutilized space. There wasn’t much off limits for filming during the daytime, when those areas were part of the event, so most commercials trying to shoot there could still work around those areas. The studio liked the revenue, even tho they are both owned by Comcast, coming in for a big stretch of time rather than getting, maybe, ten days of rentals on the space for some commercials in the same time frame. Since Grand Crew was an NBCU show and used the location as a main set, they were basically “owners” of that section of the lot, and with night shoots and all that plus the size of their trailer area where the wolfman maze was , and their basecamp (where FDTD was) made it off limits.
I am sorry for potentially derailing the spec thread into a “future of the Metro Sets” one. We can slowly get back to our usual spec discussion haha just wanted to throw my two cents in on that particular speculation