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shiekra38 said:
They're tired nostalgia fodder that exist to push some merch and make a token appearance at the "anniversary" years every five years...
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Agreed, while I do like the Icons, for me I don't need an Icon to enjoy the event. They're pretty much vehicles for marketing, and in all honestly the use of the Icons last year felt a tad wasted. HHN Icons: Captured was one of the weaker houses last year, and with the exception of the upgrade that the Storyteller got, the only other notable thing about that house was the Throne gimmick.

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I'd love to see more ST as a house, I feel there's unfinished business with the property and the event. But I do think it's coming back.
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Agreed, and unlike US it's not in a do-or-die "Strike while the Iron is Hot" situation, they can wait until next year to do a house thanks to Season 5. And it also opens the opportunity to do a Mega house to really finish off strong.
 
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As someone who's been going for almost 20 years, I feel like Icons should MOSTLY be saved for anniversary years (aka 5's and 0's).

Absence makes the heart go fonder and all that.

Have every 5 years be icons-centric and then maybe every x2 and x7 have a hint of Icons to pull in new attendees.

My favorite shows have all been ones with Jack and/or Chance. So I love them, but need to spread them out.

Maybe every 5 years is Icons driven, then a couple years in-between had a Jack show or whatever. Maybe introduce some sub-iconic characters like Twinton Quarantino (get it in a post-Covid world?) as some some VHS store employee who takes over a town making them watch all the movies he likes or something.
 
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Neo said:
As someone who's been going for almost 20 years, I feel like Icons should MOSTLY be saved for anniversary years (aka 5's and 0's).

Absence makes the heart go fonder and all that.

Have every 5 years be icons-centric and then maybe every x2 and x7 have a hint of Icons to pull in new attendees.

My favorite shows have all been ones with Jack and/or Chance. So I love them, but need to spread them out.

Maybe every 5 years is Icons driven, then a couple years in-between had a Jack show or whatever. Maybe introduce some sub-iconic characters like Twinton Quarantino (get it in a post-Covid world?) as some some VHS store employee who takes over a town making them watch all the movies he likes or something.
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I'm done with the icons unless they intend to actually make them scary again and do new things with them. Right now, they're almost exclusively glorified photo ops, faces for regurgitated merchandise, and fodder for fan art, cosplay, and other forms of engagement that go beyond the intended scope of the event. It's Freddy Krueger in the later Nightmare sequels territory. (A lot of this doesn't feel like A&D's fault. They appear to only be able to acknowledge icons in these creatively limited scenarios.)

I was really hoping we'd see more of a frightening resurrection in the Icons house last year, but it quickly became a distinctly un-scary fan service attraction. I'm tired of seeing the same scene for each character. Storyteller's siren thing was something, even if it came out of nowhere, but too much of the house just felt like playing the hits.
 
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Clive said:
I'm done with the icons unless they intend to actually make them scary again and do new things with them. Right now, they're almost exclusively glorified photo ops, faces for regurgitated merchandise, and fodder for fan art, cosplay, and other forms of engagement that go beyond the intended scope of the event. It's Freddy Krueger in the later Nightmare sequels territory. (A lot of this doesn't feel like A&D's fault. They appear to only be able to acknowledge icons in these creatively limited scenarios.)

I was really hoping we'd see more of a frightening resurrection in the Icons house last year, but it quickly became a distinctly un-scary fan service attraction. I'm tired of seeing the same scene for each character. Storyteller's siren thing was something, even if it came out of nowhere, but too much of the house just felt like playing the hits.
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20 years ago our flip phones barely took pictures. Today's culture states, "pictures or it didn't happen". You need to adapt and get used to that or your going to fail.

It's something Uni appears to have been doing (with clearly photoOp stages) or they have to take on a full no phone approach...which isn't going to work. As someone with a health issue that uses their phone to monitor it, that's NEVER going to happen.

So you have to adapt, accept and embrace the inevitable, or go the way of the dodo.

If you want to say Icons are purely photo Ops you only need to look as far as CryptTV last year to see it's ANY characters. Either you adopt and embrace it, or you risk people leaving your event for other ones more compassionate for their needs.

As someone closer to 50 than any other milestone before that, that's not something I love...but I understand I'm the crazy old man yelling at clouds about how it used to be back in my day.
 
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So announcement tomorrow for Orlando (east coast)?
 
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Blysthon said:
So announcement tomorrow for Orlando (east coast)?
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No one knows for sure, best not to make any assumptions.
 
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Tobias said:
Agreed, while I do like the Icons, for me I don't need an Icon to enjoy the event. They're pretty much vehicles for marketing, and in all honestly the use of the Icons last year felt a tad wasted.
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I agree with you, but I would more say they *were* vehicles for marketing at the time.

In the Icons era, Universal was still an add-on to a Disney vacation, and HHN (although big) was really still very regional

That's not to say that people from around the country didn't know about it, but, it was certainly not global

Post-Icon era the event really started to set a course for where it would head today

In the current major IP-era they are really just nods to a previous time when the event was smaller

And again...The icons are just amalgamations of different horror IPs lumped together into an "original character" that the park didn't have to license

Tobias said:
HHN Icons: Captured was one of the weaker houses last year, and with the exception of the upgrade that the Storyteller got, the only other notable thing about that house was the Throne gimmick.
Agreed, and unlike US it's not in a do-or-die "Strike while the Iron is Hot" situation, they can wait until next year to do a house thanks to Season 5. And it also opens the opportunity to do a Mega house to really finish off strong.
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I loved the Storyteller change
 
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I will defend the Icons Bar overlay in the Cabana lobby, it was a good 'welcoming party' to HHN.

What experiences / overlays could be at Cabana this year?

(there was a Stranger Things experience in the same space as Jack last year).
 
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shiekra38 said:
I agree with you, but I would more say they *were* vehicles for marketing at the time.

In the Icons era, Universal was still an add-on to a Disney vacation, and HHN (although big) was really still very regional

That's not to say that people from around the country didn't know about it, but, it was certainly not global

Post-Icon era the event really started to set a course for where it would head today

In the current major IP-era they are really just nods to a previous time when the event was smaller

And again...The icons are just amalgamations of different horror IPs lumped together into an "original character" that the park didn't have to license


I loved the Storyteller change
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Fair rebuttal - and, not to diminish my original point, it's not like the icons outside of Jack were used for marketing HHN30. I guess my point is if we're going to trot out the icons every few years, can we at least make an effort to make them scary? Compare the early 2000s-era commercials versus the stuff we're seeing now. Look at Screamhouse and its sequels versus Icons. Sure, there's been a slow sanding of some of the event's sharper edges in general (that's inevitable with the explosion of popularity and attendance), but there's a problem if something like Icons feels about as frightening as Beetlejuice.
 
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Blysthon said:
So announcement tomorrow for Orlando (east coast)?
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Well it looks like Hollywood is definitely getting an announcement today, so maybe
 
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Well it looks like Hollywood is definitely getting an announcement today, so maybe
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Based on Murdy's previous tweet I would guess this is the Weeknd.
 
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moistowlette1989 said:
Based on Murdy's previous tweet I would guess this is the Weeknd.
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If it is I’m fine with it.
 
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Ahmanet said:
I will defend the Icons Bar overlay in the Cabana lobby, it was a good 'welcoming party' to HHN.

What experiences / overlays could be at Cabana this year?

(there was a Stranger Things experience in the same space as Jack last year).
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I'm also interested in this as well. A Weeknd Photo Op? Or something to do with the "secret IP"

As someone who missed last year and was very upset about it - I've only been going since 2016. I would have been INCREDIBLY confused by basically everything at the event.
 
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Figured posting here given this should be for Orlando as-well~
 
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East and west I’m assuming?
 
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Today is the day it seems.
 
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moistowlette1989 said:
Based on Murdy's previous tweet I would guess this is the Weeknd.
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A witch-centered house was rumored for Orlando by that Twitter leak, this almost too on-the-nose for that. Not sure it would be a dual-coast house tho, so you're probably right.
 
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A witch-centered house was rumored for Orlando by that Twitter leak, this almost too on-the-nose for that. Not sure it would be a dual-coast house tho, so you're probably right.
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I think "something wicked this way comes.." was the same thing murdy tweeted before the Legends' Collide announcement as well. I could be wrong though.
 
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I think "something wicked this way comes.." was the same thing murdy tweeted before the Legends' Collide announcement as well. I could be wrong though.
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It's the same tweet. He tweets that out just before an announcement.
 
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Murdy tweets the same thing before every announcement. He’s done it for years.
 
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