No need to play devil's advocate, apparently I missed an entire conversation in the Hollywood thread about how Halloween, both Kills and III, may be ditched entirely from the event. If that's the case, I'm moving back to the idea of SotL showing up in Orlando at the very least (regardless of whether I think it's a good idea or not).
As for insiders lying, I genuinely doubt (and hope) that isn't the case. I think tricky and vague clues, or even directly withholding information is totally fair game, nobody's required to reveal anything and someone in the know wants to keep a house a surprise, that's totally fair. And of course plans change, what may be true one minute may not be the next. But speculation does require some amount of trust, and if insiders are just straight up lying about what will or won't be at the event, then why bother with a spec thread? It would just be people upset about being misled, people who got excited for a property only to see it was never going to show up getting mad, insiders getting yelled at by a bunch of board members for something in the grand scheme of things doesn't matter. It's a lot of agita for something that should be fun.