The Countdown To Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood - Big Construction Update & All NEW Merchandise
Countdown To Horror Nights Hollywood
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Monday
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August 26th 2024 standing here in the
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parking structure Universal Studios
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Hollywood in about 10 days is going to
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be the opening night of hhn Universe
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Studios
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Hollywood Horter nights and today they
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officially dropped all the merchandise
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so what I'm going to do maybe purchase a
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thing or two show a thing or two
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pertaining to that event also
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overlooking the valley so you got Warner
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Brothers over there Universal right here
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you can even see Bates
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Motel psycho house right down there and
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also give a couple updates on the hhn
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stuff I am excited about haunt season
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love horror nights love Scary Farm love
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quite a few things in SoCal during the
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Halloween season did Oogie Boogie bash
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last night wearing that appropriate
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t-shirt I'm inviting you to join me it's
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a Universal Studios Hollywood day shall
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you you see one of the glamour trams so
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they are kind of kneed deep in the 60th
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anniversary of the tram tour except I
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think that celebration has ended so I
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don't know if they're
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still he well maybe it's a little past
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the KNE deep stage but nonetheless you
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got the little community over there
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screen used props from nope that were
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out near Vasquez Rocks but they moved
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them here to Universal you can see
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the see bait's motel and all that down
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there I think at some point they're
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going to get rid of this blue wall here
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this was using The Truman Show and this
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little Waterway area right there yeah
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you can see Warner right over there now
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I parked over in the ET section lot
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there's this little walkway that goes
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over to this structure but I'm going to
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walk over here and see if I can get a
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peek off this roof well that's very
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interesting I remember a couple years
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ago you used to be able to walk up to
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the side of this wall and kind of peek
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down in some of the future mazes that
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they were building but it looks like
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that they have thwarted that attempt by
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anyone that wants to come up here and do
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that cuz now they have these little
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stanions in the wall there interesting
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they've expanded that up no spoilers I
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mean it definitely makes sense the wall
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used to be this size but now they've
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extended it
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up no go on that staying spoiler free
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until it's
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time how curious was George
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scale of 1 to 10 what was his curiosity
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scale a five I just say that because
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this is elevator number five
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probably where am I going here we go
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level
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one Universal Studios Hollywood also
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years ago actually I think until a
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couple years ago you used to be able to
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peek right through there and look down
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at a couple of The Mazes but again
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they've just decided to don't want
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anybody getting any any ideas by looking
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out there anymore makes sense all right
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started off by walking through CityWalk
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and I noticed there was a couple stores
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that were overlaid with the all the
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names of the new mazes and the houses
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and the scare zones that are coming up
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I'll check a little bit of that on I'll
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check a little bit of that on the way
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out but first I started to walk in went
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through security checkpoints looked at
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the big globe in front and the archway
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also notice they did remove all of the
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60th anniversary photographs promoting
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the tram tour so those are all gone so
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60th anniversary of the tra is kind of
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that that whole thing is gone by the
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wayside now it's it's hhn time it's hhn
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time now now I do need to get a coffee I
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kind of been on a pumpkin spice kick
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I'll check out the merchant here first
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and then I'll grab some coffee and I
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notice a lot of the props are already
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starting to rear their head as well so
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going to definitely check out some props
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while I'm here too now some of the
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merchandise came out a month or so ago
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so I have seen some of this Frozen
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Empire stuff but they did drop a lot of
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the stuff I would say a good percentage
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of everything was dropped today can't
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remember if that was here before or not
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but they did drop quite a bit earlier
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this morning I think this is one of the
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ones here if not you know pardon my
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ignorance but some of the stuff I have
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not seen so let's just say new to me if
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you will yeah truthfully I don't know
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this might be some of the older stuff so
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maybe they don't have the newer stuff in
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this particular store maybe they only
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have it on CityWalk it might just be
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over on look is a c can I thought it was
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like hair hair gel for about it oh my
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goodness he's standing right there next
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to his post oh wow
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ow what is your name no way and the line
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for the Starbucks on the upper section
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of the lot was really really long so I
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might try the lower lot try go down to
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the lower lot maybe that' be a little
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bit better but I'm also noticing so as
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I'm kind of walking around they have the
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the the area that adits the fires all
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set up the monsters the ghouls are out
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they even have one of the scare Zone
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which would be a chainsaw punks be a
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punk rock scare Zone they have some
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props from that as well and I've kind of
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stayed pretty relatively spoiler-free on
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what's happening around the park as far
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as the mazes the how what we call them
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houses scare zones some of the ghouls
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and monsters and creatures that are
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going to be here the theming the IPS
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I've seen some stuff leaked out but I've
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really kind of been off the grid with a
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lot of it so I do not know what is going
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in here I'm sure throughout the course
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of the day when I see the new
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merchandise and see the you know
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everything posted I will know what's
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going to be inside here I think last
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year was Evil Dead rise which was
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freaking awesome that was inside of
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there but I don't know what's going in
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here this year I have really kept up
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with it but now I'm jumping in with both
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feet and they still do have the glamour
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tram over here and they still have the
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glamour tram popcorn bucket which is
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promoted on there but it's kind of tough
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to see it because of the the glare look
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how dang cool this is has the monstros
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on the top m o n s r
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uos monstrosa this is going to be one of
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my favorite mazes it used to be in this
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spot they did holidays in Hell one year
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but the I think the year or two before
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that they did uh Universal monst Maze
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and they had another maze over here
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which is more like now it's all food and
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beverage stuff but it went through part
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of the maze that's when Frankenstein was
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holding like the little girl and then
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you walked over here they had the angry
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villagers I think that was my favorite
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maze that was in this spot but it looks
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as if they were doing a universal
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monster S type of maze I do not know
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where the Texas Chainsaw 50th
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anniversary is going to be I hopefully I
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can try to figure that out today as well
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oh wow there's some like uh some creepy
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dolls right up here like dangling from
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the tree be walk getting in here in what
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10 days from uh from opening night 10
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days from opening night is going to be
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happening here I'm sure there's a
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backstory there with the gentlemen on
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the front of the headstone as well
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there's even some there's even some
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wording on the engraved in there and the
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brick now a lot of this probably will
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not be able to see on opening night CU
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it's going to be just so hectic it's
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going to be a real beehive of activity
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and blocked by scare actors and a lot of
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people so it's kind of get the good a
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little behind the scenes beforehand yeah
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getting pretty pretty dang excited for
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this love Haun season love hhn and it's
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just around the corter it's pretty much
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let's just say it's pretty much here a
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little more than a week it'll be here
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take a look over here it says happy
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Halloween from Universal Studios and the
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new uh the new kosher that's going over
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here as well all right so a little hack
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I did not go to the Starbucks I went to
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the cafe uh the cafe beastro over here
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on fren Street as well and I got the
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coffee with no weight whatsoever now
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they didn't have the pumpkin spice latte
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or anything like that but that's totally
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fine
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just getting an immediate coffee instead
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of waiting for you know 25 minutes on
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the line I can handle not having the
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pumpkin swice the pumpkin spice pumped
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into there but they had the whole
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Luchador mask the the Luchador masked
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wrestling scare Zone all set up it looks
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like a good percentage of all the props
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are really really set up and ready to
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rock for hhn coming up like usually I
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don't remember them having this set up
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usually it's a couple days before but
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yeah they got it they got it fully set
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up right now and when you continue along
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French Street if you walk over to this
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little Overlook you can see some of the
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construction that is going on for the
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Fast and the Furious coaster right over
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there as well so you can get a peak is
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coming along very very quickly I believe
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it was slated open next year but I did
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hear a rumor that there's a possibility
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that might be delayed again I'm not an
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expert on a lot of this stuff but I am
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interested in seeing seeing the progress
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as it goes along and we'll definitely be
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going on this when it
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opens it's going totally vertical right
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now totally vertical look at this down
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here just neat to see the progress I've
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been coming here for many years first
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time I ever probably came here was
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2012 became a passholder in 2015 no
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actually I bought I think a passholder
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2014 even before I moved here maybe even
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before that and since then I've been a
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passholder every year so I've been a
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passholder here for over a decade I
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always will renew it
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you get the pass and every time I'm in
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town I love popping in and seeing what's
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happening I love horror nights so much
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it's hard for me to pick between horror
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Knights and not scary farm they're both
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two top tier SoCal Huns but they're to
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they're totally different in their own
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ways but I love both of them ah the Home
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Depot skeletons are over there they've
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just been repainted they will they will
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be used again got the hearse all set up
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out here look at the extended hearse
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right here with the paint job on the
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front right there little classic car
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alert to say the least very nice and
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there's the uh there's the skeletons
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behind it that is something going full
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vertical look at that thing full
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vertical with the balloons trying to
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disguise the construction update oh and
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there's a little uh hhn thing behind it
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too there too look at that yeah I don't
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know what this is but I but I like it
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says oh it's murder of crows look at
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that it's the murder of crows stuff yeah
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there's a there's a crow there there's a
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crow there got a cross got the balloons
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disguising it all pay no attention to
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the horrifying props oh if you look down
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there see it looks like there's a van
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crashed into the bottom of that one
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right down there so there's that's
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definitely a maze there next to where ET
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used to be now it's the The Mummy
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attraction there's definitely definitely
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a maze there which I don't even know why
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I'm stating that because there's always
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there's always a maze there and I
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believe there's also one here one over
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there and then probably in the big
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transformers building where stranger
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things was last year yeah they are
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hyping this up they got the clipboard
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out here with the hhn on it early and
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everything and we also o check to see if
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they have merchandise down here on the
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lower lot as well I also kind of wish
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they would bring back the Metro set Lots
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but I don't think I think after 2020 and
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21 when filming started happening back
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there a little bit more they just
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stopped doing sets back there I think
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there's just too many Productions but
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man I miss being able to go back on the
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Metro sets sad trombone but that has not
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been brought back yet I'm also
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disappointed that Warner Brothers never
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brought back their tour the Horror made
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here tour they only did it twice one
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year was good the first year was kind of
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eh and then they stepped it up for year
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two but hasn't been it only happened
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that one time and then never again also
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if I recall correctly last year the
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Spiel which I believe John mury used to
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do of the escalator talking to people
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given the rules was not here it was
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missing it was just music I think it was
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slash music or something but it used to
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be like it used to be the escalator but
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say Do not sit on the stairs of the
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escalator I'll chew your ass up oh I see
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a leather face something or other down
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here so maybe if leather F oh that's the
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freaking Sawyer barbecue place it look
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just like the this looks like the real
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spot from the movie which still exists
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near Austin on the outskirts of Austin
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Texas oh my gosh I am so freaking
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excited for the 50th anniversary of of
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Texas chainsaw look at this Sawyer
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barbecue it doesn't say Sawyer barbecue
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it just says Texas family but I know
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who's it is maybe that's the one that's
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going to be in the big one here around
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the side of Transformers spring Super
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Nintendo World you go through that
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little Corridor there and then walk down
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into the Sound Stage behind this is a
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TCF and then usually around here you go
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through that door you walk down to some
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lower ones and then you walk back that
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way to the one that's wedge behind the
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now mummy ride former ET attraction down
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that way and no hhn merch down here I
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don't know where the new hhn merch is
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possibly at CityWalk so when I head out
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I'll probably go over through CityWalk
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and I bet it's probably in the
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production Central of CityWalk I like
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that they have these cooling fans here
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too cuz it's a little for California
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it's not as hot as Florida obviously but
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for California it's been pretty warm
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this last week
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again going vertical all right more of
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the crow stuff you got like a little
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wishing well here full of crows a scare
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scare the Scarecrow is not working to
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scare the crows away but they have the
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little little barricades up and stuff
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let people know that this is not part of
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the regular Universal stuff this is the
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hhn stuff I get another little close
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uper or closer up Peak at the
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construction here of the Fast and the
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Furious coaster yeah very soon opening
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ceremonies will be happening right over
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here there's uh there's Dracula again
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walking right there just don't make eye
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contact don't make eye contact one of my
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favorite things about any Hall
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especially hhn are the chainsaw folks I
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guess this is going to be this area
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where they're going to chase everyone
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through here with the chainsaws so that
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makes sense why they have the chainsaw
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punks right in here all right back over
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here at CityWalk I'm going to check in
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here I think this probably is where the
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Birch is I found it very interesting as
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I was perusing around the first store
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it's the closest store before you go
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towards the globe and all that as you're
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exiting
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Universe Studios Hollywood so they did
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not have anything new that was dropped
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today or in the last couple days for hhn
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now they did have some of the
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stuff inside the park that was released
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a few weeks ago or a month ago but
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nothing that was dropped today or in the
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last couple days so in the first store
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when you're first going into CityWalk so
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it basically had it sectioned off into
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three different stores so you had the
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first store which had quite a few
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different items now nothing really that
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I could see had anything yet that's been
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released yet has anything that says
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Universal Studios Hollywood on it it
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just says Universal Studios Halloween
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Horror Nights however there was a couple
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exclusive things that had Tram Tour
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merchandise on for the teror tram so
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obviously that's here because Florida
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does not have the tram tour but nothing
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specifically says Hollywood yet they did
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have a sweatshirt that I really like the
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logo on of the teror tram but it was
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only in a sweatshirt and not a short
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sleeve then next a Hot Topic there was
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some other kind of more basic I want to
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say generic but just basically vague
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pumpkin esque type hhn merch was just
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dropped as well and that was over in
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another store so everything's not in one
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particular place and nothing that I
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could see that is new was in the park
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yet I'm sure in the next few days or
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leading up to the event it'll kind of be
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all morphed and together but didn't see
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anything that was that was anything that
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was in the in the park so you had the
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two stores you had the first one that I
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show when I walked up that had the the
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wrapping around the pillars then you had
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the one next to Hot Topic and the one
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that had the most exclusive new items
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was the production Central area which
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had quite a bit of stuff it had the
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slash vinyl SL has been providing the
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music for a lot of the monster maze
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Universal monster mazes in recent years
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so he finally put out an album a vinyl
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album so he had that and then had a lot
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of the scare zones like the murder SC a
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murder Crow scare Zone I didn't see any
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of the punk rock scare Zone stuff yet
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but yeah
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basically that was pretty much the
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consensus of the three so you pretty
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much have to hit you have to hit all
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three if you want to get the merchandise
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so basically really do not have to even
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have a ticket or go into the park to
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even get any other merchandise so if you
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just want to show up to CityWalk and
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purchase purchase the items before like
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let's say you only have an hhn ticket
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you don't have an annual pass you don't
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have to go in the park to get the
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merchandise but I thought it was very
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interesting they have it separated
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between three different stores and not
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just have it all in one store and as of
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right now as I was filming this nothing
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was in the park yet that was released in
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the last couple days so pretty
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interesting I'm back up on the parking
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structure now looking down at some tough
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to see it but over there where the Great
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Outdoors cabin is where the plane
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wreckage scene is you see the tram going
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by behind it they are building a little
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little facade and probably an interior
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as
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well and with that I believe that that
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is going to do it for today kind of
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short and sweet just wanted to see what
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was going on around there usually I will
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do the tram tour decided not to do the
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tram tour today going to try to get back
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to Orange County where I'm staying it's
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about 3:00 now when I start heading
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Southward before traffic gets too
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terribly bad if you leave after 3 it
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takes you a lot twice as long than if
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you left before 3 and it's right on the
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cust you know 2:45 3:00 still staying
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down by Disneyland right there in the
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harbor Corridor section I am in the next
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couple days is going to be staying back
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up here leading up to hhn so doing a lot
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of SoCal stuff but I appreciate you
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watching I'm pretty dang excited about
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haunt season again last night I went to
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Oogie Boogie bash so knocked that one
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off the list d23 has come and gone and
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now the next one up is hhn and two weeks
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after that the opening night of Scary
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Farm
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I appreciate you watching I'll see you
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in the next video the
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Vlog is over yeah I may not have missed
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the cut off time I think probably should
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have left a little bit earlier but you
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know what it's all part of the
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experience LA traffic