(Probably derailing the thread...)
Ah, thank you for the correction as my recollection was incorrect. I think the examples above are pretty representative of what I was thinking and I'm just always fascinated by the coastal and creative differences.
I recall walking through Hollywood's Ash vs. Evil Dead maze in 2017 (after attending Orlando's event) and noting the really awkward censoring of a slang term for a woman's genitals. While I don't have any issue with "censorship" (and I dislike that word given that I think haunts can and should change based on cultural values), sometimes the shock value is really the whole point, which is why Orlando often works better than Hollywood (the dog in The Depths, the baby in The Hive, and the aggressive Purge barkers being good examples). I recall that we were not allowed to take pictures of the first two things in that list during the daytime HHN Orlando tour and the guide explicitly made a joke about them, but Murdy even said he regrets the La Llorona scene with the drowned kids and he could never do it again. Arguably, I do go to Halloween events to see them push boundaries, but I'm probably asking too much from a mainstream event.
The band Ghost famously said that Hollywood was the only place they were able to hire a choir to do the backing vocals for their songs due to the Satanic themes, so it seems to be relatively consistent.
I do like the direction of the zone and the scenic really seems to have been taken up a notch, so I'm glad to see that's getting some attention.
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