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If you want to actually compare to Boo-ville: No characters were officially out in Boo-ville (though the Grinch would randomly pop up in 2003) and the rides were closed. Boo-ville existed because they couldn’t do nothing with Suess Landing. So they threw creepy music in it and, literally, turned everything off “because the Whos were scared and didn’t want anyone to know they were there.”Because realistically, I still don't see Nintendo characters dressing up for Halloween especially for daytime operations. If Disney reserves most of their Halloween stuff/costumes for their own nighttime Halloween events, I doubt Universal would put out the same for SNW characters for normal/daytime operations before Halloween night. I just don't see that Universal would do something like that in real life.
As for whether SNW could be open as a scarezone or not for HHN, my reasoning was since Booville, a non-scariest place for HHN 2002 yet classified as a scarezone, could open, then SNW can do the same as well. I guess that Booville in 2002 was very different than the current SNW, but again, it's not that far fetched. SNW doesn't have to be scary, but it makes much more fun if it has Halloween overlays and Nintendo ghoul-like characters roaming around the area. Nintendo also makes music that are creepy and doesn't really shy away from it at all. Play some scary Nintendo music especially if most of the attendees are mature people along the way similar to The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror opening/ending credits at the Upper Lot. Again earlier I said, I'm not saying it should be that scary, but it would be a nice to have some Halloween overlays and some scary music rather than being generic.
What you’re proposing is a seasonal overlay of a IP meant to draw in families that only occurs during an “PG 13 and up” event. They’re two completely different audiences.
Any seasonal overlay of Halloween is going to occur during daytime operations. Universal wants the 8 year olds to see Franken-Mario too.