Halloween Trends 2025: What Guests Really Want (and What That Means for Your Attraction)

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Okay from our studios. This week, I'm back home in

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Los Angeles and Scott is in Tampa. This is Green

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Tag Theme Park and thirty. I'm Philip. He is Scott

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Swinson of Scott Swinson creat Development. On Green Tag, we

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look at the top theme park news each week and

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discuss why it matters to business professionals. And this week

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Halloween and more specifically, what a shocker. Well, I don't know,

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there was a cool, there was a cool this is

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a cool this is kind of a cool survey, and

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some cool survey results that we think are important and

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impactful to those of you who do Halloween events or

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are considering doing Halloween events. Yeah, so we're going to

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look at today on Todays show, We're going to look

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at some research in the Halloween space and then also

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combine that with some of my first hand experiences in

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Scott's experiences and kind of talk about a little bit

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of the evolution of Halloween events and where that could

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be going. Uh, and then potentially some six Flags news

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in at the very end or in our after show.

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So let's start off here.

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So I always emailed data from the Halloween Costumes dot Com,

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who does an annual survey. And just to give the specifics,

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it's a thousand people, a thousand adults in America that

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they did survey for this data. So it's not a

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huge sample size, but it is to I mean, that's

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the borderline for statistically significant is a thousand people. And

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that's a little bit larger I think than a lot

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of survey data that we see that isn't specialized in Halloween.

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Now keep in mind, right, this is coming from Halloween

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Costumes dot Com and it's primarily dealing with costumes and

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decor and those type of trends. So this is not

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immediately related to Ye, it's the consumer market. It's the

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consumer market, not the attractions market.

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That's right.

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But as we have said so many times, especially when

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it comes to Halloween and Christmas, consumer drives our market

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because people see the decorations and the stores and the

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retail I mean, the retail side of the of the

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events is much larger than the actual event side because

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everyone has access to retail et cetera, et cetera. So

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I pulled out some data I thought was the most interesting.

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First of all, is that only nineteen percent are having

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or looking at scary vibes. So basically the question was like,

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what is your vibe for Halloween this year? And the

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majority said that, you know, like funny and cozy, right,

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and then only nineteen percent said scary, So like that's

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that's the first signal, and the second is the raise

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rising in costumes, So thirty percent of the respondents are

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planning to wear two or more costumes this seasons and

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they attributed that actually to events or celebrations, which goes

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right into the next most interesting part, which is that

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seventy percent combined say that organized events are the same

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or increasing, but if you look in the data, forty

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percent of that are once they're saying there's more events,

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including haunted houses in their area that they are going

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to specifically going to, so you do see like a

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rise in that and there's more of them and people

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are interested in going to them, at least the forty

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percent of those people surveyed, which.

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I think is a big chunk.

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And then when it comes to planning, still most people

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shop in early October, right, however, a growing chunk that

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twenty five percent are after Labor Day and seventeen as

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early as August, which if you combine those together, right,

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that's like over forty percent that are doing it sometime

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between Labor Day and August, which is again that's again

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that's the creep that we've been talking about, the same

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that we're seeing here. When it comes to searching, I

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thought it was interesting that already in this year, AI

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tools make up eight percent of searches for people, and

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of course the main one is still online search, but

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AI tools are coming up in that. And then finally

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the thing that jumped out to me, so this was

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interesting because the press release talked about how people were

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spending more on Halloween and blah blah blah. But when

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I actually looked at the survey results and it broke

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it down, I would say it's different because when it

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comes to asking how many how much people are spending

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and keep in mind this is phrase is how much

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they're spending overall in Halloween, not just on decorations and costumes,

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so it's an overall number, and it said fifty one

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percent are doing the same roughly the same. Twenty two

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percent are spending more, which you would think is good,

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but twenty seven percent are spending less. So there's more

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people spending less than there are people spending more, and

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then you have a basic.

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You can't take but you can't take these numbers out

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of context. What was the what were these numbers last year?

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How is it? Is it trending up? Is it trending down?

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So the survey is saying that it is trending up,

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but only slightly, you know. But then you have this

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idea of like, well if if you still have a

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chunk that are looking at spending less. You know, basically

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the survey is arguing that if you go back and look, basically,

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it's both are happening.

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Is that's going on.

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More people are paying less than more people are paying more.

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But they're going with the more people are paying more

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angle like that's what they're saying, Well, which it's true.

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Yeah, And I guess my point is if last year,

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if last year's survey results said only fifteen percent we're

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spending more, and this year twenty two percent are spending more,

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that means it's trending up. Yeah, you know, that means

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that we're we're people are spending more. So I think

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there's a lot of there's a lot of interesting things

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to dissect in this survey, and once again let's just

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talk where we recognize we're talking about a microcosm here,

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we recognize we're talking about a sample size of one thousand.

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We recognize we are not talking about attractions specifically, but

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this is attractions adjacent. So let's go back to only

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nineteen percent are doing scary themes.

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This so to me, this is fascinating but not surprising.

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I think that the reason scary themes are trending down

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is I think there are a couple of reasons. I

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think Number one, more and more people are looking to

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do family costumes and or family themes, especially if you're

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doing family parties or you know, parties with your kids,

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and it's it's much harder to for many people, for

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the vast majority of people to take their toddler and

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cover them in blood. You know, it's they just it's

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just not considered a whole lot of fun or classy

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or you know, it's it's it's becoming more and more difficult.

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I also think that people are looking for escape, and

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I think they're looking for escape from things that are terrifying,

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you know. I think there's enough going on in the

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world right now that is terrifying that they're they're shying

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away from it, interestingly enough, and this is anecdotal, it's

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just based on my memory, which I don't know whether

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i'd go there or not. But post nine to eleven,

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we trended away from trended away from scary and gore.

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So it kind of makes sense. It kind of makes

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sense that people, you know, are looking for things that

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are a little bit more, a little bit more fun.

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They're playing into the fantasy of Halloween, not necessarily the

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blood cuts and gore.

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I was thinking, similar to what you're saying about people

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thinking about the fancy of it, and I was thinking,

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what resonated to me about that is the attractions that

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are encouraging costumes, And we just talked about we did

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the episode on Premium Scream Night and Premium Scream Night

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this year allowed costumes, which Universal has never done in Florida.

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I'm not gonna say they've never done it. To my

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knowledge that it has, they have not done allowed guestswear costumes.

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I don't know. Maybe they did it a long time ago.

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But that's different, right from Japan, which allows people to

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come in costumes. They do have costume guidelines, but they

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do allow it. And in Japan, what is it? It's

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all cute.

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I mean, it's the whole kawaii, you know, speaking there.

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And the costumes that I saw at Horror Nights for

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the Premium Screen night this year were not scary. They

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were like people dressed as stuff from five Nights at

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Freddy's to take photos with the photo ops. It was

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just you know, allusions to other characters or other things.

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they like and then putting that character in.

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The world of of Horror Nites to take photos.

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So it because it was interesting because because you do

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see that expansion, right, Mickey's not so scary Halloween party,

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We're about wearing costumes Okipligi bash. Everyone's wearing costumes. I mean,

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they're these This is becoming more of like a piece

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of the event Halloween event thing, which is to show

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up in costume, which then I think then directly ties

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to this research if you look at it in that right.

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Right well, And I also think it's important to recognize

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that there are more and more parks who are trying

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to to find their way if they've done the gross

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and terrifying, and then they're they're trying to edge their

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way into this this market. They're they're having a challenge

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because they're not quite sure how to do it. The

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moment you the moment you put a few drops of

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cute into an otherwise terrifying event, you counteract the terror.

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So Bush Gardens, Tampa, for example, is doing both a

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daytime trigger treat event and a nighttime yeah, blood, guts

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and gore event. Although even in some of the reviews,

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most of the reviews that I've read of both Horrorites

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and hallow Scream here in Florida is they say that

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Horrorites is the longest cues are for the haunts, and

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Hollow Scream the longest cues are for the rides. Uh.

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They basically said, people are going it appears as though,

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and again anecdotal, anecdotal, But I've read two different two

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or three different reviews, two for sure that said Hollow

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like I'm all in the nineties. That was one of

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the quotes, and Horror Nights is where you go for

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the hardcore horror people. However, in the same reviews they

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say that the haunts themselves are actually scarier at hallow

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scream than they are at.

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Horrorites because they're they're not congolining exactly exactly.

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So so it's it's an interesting it's an interesting push pull.

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And I've been doing a lot of I've been doing

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a lot of digging into this because this year and

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I have an expo in November, I'm doing an edge

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session called Giggles, Gasps, and Gore, and it's basically the

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three levels or three basic levels of Halloween Halloween activations

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in attractions, and it talks about you know, I've been

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exploring what are the advantages and disadvantages of all three

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of those levels, and you know, based on this data,

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they're the giggles part is trending up at least when

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it comes to people buying costumes and decor for their homes.

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They're they're more fun, they're out have you know, they're

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out to make people laugh as opposed to make people

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scream and cry.

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And I think that they're both also can be present.

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I mean in Hollywood, they brought over a Hami Kuma

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from Universal Studios Japan came over to Universal Studios Hollywood,

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and that's again like a horror. It's like a zombie

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Teddy Bear, right, And I think both can exist also

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in the same events, which is also new because previously

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you didn't you know, basically this year there are some

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of those elements combined with the horror at even events

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like Halloween hort Nits where there are those like funny,

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you know, silly moments that are combined together.

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Well, but funny fun I mean Bill and Ted you

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know was funny, but it was also very gory.

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It was also you get funny, very and funny cute, yeah,

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which is combining in these segments.

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funny cute, you end up watering down whatever other horror

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you've got going. If you bring in an element from

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another country that's been really popular, I think that's I

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think that's obviously fine, and that's going to be a

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workable solution. But if you try to, especially in your marketing,

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if you try to muddy the waters too much, you

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don't know who you're attracting. Yeah, and you don't want

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to attract you don't want to attract the twenty five

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year old who wants to go and get hammered and

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gets the crap scared out of him with mom and

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dad taking the kids to go trick or treating. That

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is that is a recipe for disaster.

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Well, speaking to that exact point, it's interesting that everyone

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is acknowledging that there are overall, you know, more events

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to go to, which means there's more competition. And it

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reminds me what when we last year we talked about

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Christmas and we I think we.

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It's like it's like everyone like it's like literally, it's

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like the meme would be like everybody now with lights.

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You know, Wendy's now with lights, you know, our freedom

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or this thing you normally go to, but like now

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we've added Christmas lights. I think it's more people are

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starting to do Halloween, and so you're the incompetition is increasing,

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which makes.

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It more important to not muddy your market.

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But this research also underscores what we've been talking about,

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which is that the market for non scary Halloween is

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actually larger than the market for scary Halloween right.

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Right, and it's and it's and it is continuing to grow.

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So that's why, like I said with with Bush, garden

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Stampa doing both. They're kind of trying to capture the

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best of both worlds, and it's I think training an

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audience for the future, you know, for the for the

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darker side in the future. I will say that, you know,

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and again anecdotally in my experience, the big money makers

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are the ones that are more toarifying because they target

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adults more and the adults spend more. However, that is

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shifting a little bit as well because the family friendly ones,

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the fun family friendly ones get mom and dad to

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buy the extra ice cream, to buy the extra cute whatever,

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the you know, the ears and the tail that the

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kids want. And so it's I guess, I guess. My

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point is there's room for all of this in this industry,

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and it's all becoming. It's all becoming, it's all becoming

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very profitable. Moving on to the next one, which is

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they plan to wear two or more costumes you know

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this season. To me, that just dives into what we've

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been talking about for months in various different topics, and

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that is the desire for people to do stuff. They

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want to be immersive, they want to be a part

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of versus going to go see so.

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event overall more attractive also because then again it it's

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an easy way to add a forma of interactivity that

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you're saying, but it again, it gives us something to

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do because again they can do, like be bring a

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costume to then participate in the event in some way

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or take pictures or or or whatever. But I do

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think you see that trend over all though, I mean,

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because we were talking over the summer, we talked about

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comic Con and that whole thing. I mean, it's no

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different than cosplay. I mean, honestly, like, I do think

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it's pretty similar. The idea of costplaying at a convention

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and putting a costume on for a Halloween event.

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I think they're they're pretty now.

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The one thing, the one thing though that if you

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are going to if you are thinking about allowing this,

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just to make sure that your security just trained differently,

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because one of the challenges back in you know, back

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back in the day, back in the hell screen days,

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we did not let guests come in costume, and that

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was because they would try to become a little too involved.

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They would start scaring other guests, and there is a

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huge huge legal liability there if a guest scares another

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guest that we as a park had no control over

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and they and the other guests gets injured. So you

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got to just kind of retrain and rethink how your

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security is working. Make sure that those costumes do not

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have anything that can either intentionally or unintentionally become a weapon.

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But again, if more and more people are going cute,

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then then that's the I have a I have a

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brand news client which happens to be a zoo. It's

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a very family friendly event. And one of the things

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that I've seen in in their in their their media

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and b roll shoots, as well as heard from the

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staff is they are shocked as to how many families

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dress up together. Yep, I think that is a bigger

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and bigger trend. Now I have really odd and quirky friends,

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So I have I have one family who is one

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of the the youngest Sun or the Sun wanted to

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be one of the the the plague doctors wanted to

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be one of the So Mom is going as a

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witch being burned at the Steak and Dad is going

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as an inquisitor in the Red Road. So again it's

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sort of it's still dark, but it's still kind of

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tongue in cheek dark because being the costume of being

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burned to the steak, for example, is she has on

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the steak and then has the fire is her hoopskirt

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which has lights in it that light up. I suggested

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a mini fogger because I think that would be really cool,

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but well, well.

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Yeah, I think you know, group costumes are a huge thing.

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And it reminds me to again back to what we

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talked about with the cosplay, which is that there's so

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that is its own form of entertainment right where you're

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seeing more and more conventions lean more and more into

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that because they don't have to do anything right, They

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just they just are like, we're going to have a

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cosplay showcase, and what is that? They were like one

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staff member to put them all on, you know, I

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mean it's the guests are bringing the entertainment and a.

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Photo op with a photo op with the logo of the.

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Event yep, and then it's a bunch of entertainment and

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it adds just to the mood of it. And I

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think that if you're following down what we talked about

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last week, which is universal becoming more of a festival

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or bringing more of that thing. Again, what are other

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big things? Other big things are conventions And if you

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want to tap into more of that vibe, I could

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see this.

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And that, you know, moving moving through this this study here,

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seventy percent say that they that they're they are organizing

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events that are either the same or increasing. That also

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kind of leans into that we want to be more

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a part of it. So they're creating their own events,

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They're creating their own parties, they're creating their own gatherings,

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their own get togethers. But and and you know, the

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shopping does not surprise me at all. I will tell you,

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if you are in the thirteen percent that start the

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week before Halloween, you're going to get what you get.

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I don't go in there with with a popular ip

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in your brain, because you won't walk out with it

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in your shopping bag.

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Just so yeah, that's it.

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Yeah, there's that.

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And then search also does not surprise me. I think

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that's also very similar to what we see for search

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for events.

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Also.

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I mean it's always funny because in most of the

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world I deal with, it's the you know, YouTube, it's

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a social media sphere, which is which if you add

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them together, is still less that you know in this

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then the I know this is about costumes, which is

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a different thing, but it's very similar in nature, and

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that people are still searching, like things to do in

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my town or areas or whatever, and so sir, you

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know that. I think we sometimes forget how important just

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the regular old marketing is, as in your buying advertising,

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you know, to advertise to people who are looking for

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things to do right in your sector. And yeah, and

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the spending less, so that thing, you know, twenty seven

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percent spending less, I think that's that's a significant chunk.

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That's you know, over a quarter is going to be

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spending less. And we talked about that also. I think

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we are I think the answer is we don't know yet,

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Like no one knows how Halloween spending is going to

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shake out, you know, are people going to choose less

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events or less decor or like where is the spending

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being cut if it is, and are they still going

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to do like the traditional like the event that they

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always do. I mean we talked about this with horonites, right,

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like eleven dollars cheese sticks is crazy and the hornite

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is so expensive, but premium scream Nights sold out, So like,

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how do those people? I don't even I still know

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how people paid for that? And will that can who

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have no idea? The only thing that came out this week? Yeah,

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I can mention the.

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Just real quick though, with on the on the spending,

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the thing that we also have to take into consideration

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is the twenty seven percent that are spending less and

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the twenty two percent that are spending more? Does that

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not flat line? Do those not cancel out? Yeah?

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That's right, it almost flat lines?

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So that was that would be another argument, which is

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that if anything, it's flatline and slightly down, like two

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or three percent down.

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But is that I can see how people would interpret

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this as, oh my gosh, they're spending less and making

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some knee jerk responses and knee jerk reactions. And in fact,

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we were talking just before the show about a couple

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of different attractions that have already started to make these

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kinds of alterations. Philip, you've got the data on that,

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don't you. I think?

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Yeah?

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And then the question though, is are they making those

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based off of data, predictive data, or are they doing

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it based like how are they making so? So the

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thing we were going to mention and this ties to

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Six Flags, which we will be talking about by the

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next show. But so here locally, I'm in Los Angeles market.

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We have the two six Flags properties, which is Magic

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Mountain and then not Berry Farm, so because now after

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the merger, they're will in the same market. So essentially,

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what happened this last week, which was not reported on

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by many people in the largest here but US just

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locally found out about it, is that Magic Mountain has

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cut all their Thursday days from their calendar and they

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have been rearranging it to get rebook people or to

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get refunds or you know, they've been trying to rearrange

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tickets for that. And then meanwhile down at not Scary Farm,

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they have removed all the Wednesdays from their calendars and

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Thursdays are still available for now on Scary Farm, but

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Scary Farmer is a much larger event also, so I

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would expect that would be fine, but I noticed it

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and then I verified it with a few other people

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and people you know.

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It's here locally.

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It's a big thing because even me, I was trying

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to change dates for an event with Notts and it

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has been.

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Sidebar on that.

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It has been the most terrible experience I've almost ever

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had trying to change dates at at knots. It's it's ridiculous.

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There's no one to call. You have to email their

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support line to change the date, and they they take

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on average four days to reply. Uh. And then they're like, oh, no,

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this information, we need this. I mean, it's crazy, Like

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it's I don't like, that's just a whole separate conversation

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about they should just be using AI at this point

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if it's going to be this bad, or they need

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to have a better This is crazy.

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They have a better system, And this is why six

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is the only one.

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It suggests to me that you're not the only one

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trying to change dates too.

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So there's that that's true.

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But then also this is why six Flags is going

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down the shitter, right, they need.

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But here's the but here's here's the other side of

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that too. Is is it? And I don't know the

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answer to this. Is it because they're they're concerned that

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the Halloween spend is going to be less? Is it

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because for the first time since the merger, really they've

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got to uh, they've got two parks they're in competition

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with one another, So in order to ease some of that,

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they don't need to have the extra nights. But I

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will say that, you know, cutting nights there's a there's

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there's pluses and minuses to to reducing the run of

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a show. Because Halloween events are usually very labor heavy,

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there is there is some savings in reducing nights. However,

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that means that you have to admortize your capital. That

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means you have to spend less capital because you don't

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have the the earning power if you have fewer if

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you're open fewer nights, So you have to make sure

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that your your capital spend gets adjusted accordingly. Now, obviously

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if they're making the change at the last minute, they're

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not thinking about that, but it will come into play

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next year, you know, if they continue to do it.

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So because you know, we there there is there is

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a certain logic to we're spending this money to install

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this stuff, we might as well have as many nights

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as possible to to potentially earn the money back. But

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since Halloween events are labor heavy, you know, when you

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don't have an opening, when you don't have a night

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that you're open, then your labor costs go down. The

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other thing that I think is going to be interesting,

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and we won't see this until next year, the or

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future years, is when it comes to staffing. If you've

484
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promised people a certain number of nights and a certain

485
00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:21.119
amount of income during the season and you reduce that

486
00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:24.880
by one night a week, are they going to come

487
00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:29.400
back to work for you again next year? So and

488
00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:31.960
I've worked in situations where it has impacted it, and

489
00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:33.799
I've worked in situations where it hasn't been a darn thing.

490
00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:37.839
So just just something to kind of think about be

491
00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:42.000
aware of, because if you keep if you keep making

492
00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:46.119
changes last minute, those people that you rely on to

493
00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:50.119
make your event special may turn their attention elsewhere.

494
00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:51.640
Well. It is.

495
00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:55.960
I think all those points of valid especially about them

496
00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:58.720
competing in the same market and how that maybe changed

497
00:25:58.759 --> 00:26:02.039
the dynamics, which I think it's probably the strongest argument.

498
00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:05.480
Like you said, it's the most logical yea.

499
00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:07.839
And like you said, there's we're not gonna know. We're

500
00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:10.759
just not gonna know until ayappa. Right when people start

501
00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:13.319
discussing or you talk about how you're whatever, we're not

502
00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:13.720
gonna know.

503
00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:15.039
I will say.

504
00:26:16.599 --> 00:26:19.799
That ugi BIGI bash you know, and they expanded their

505
00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:21.960
nights this year, right and most of them have sold

506
00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:25.839
out still and that Halloween Horn Nights is still running

507
00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:30.799
every night except Monday and Tuesday in both markets and

508
00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:33.680
they have not reduced yet. And then obviously Premium sold out.

509
00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:38.359
So that is an interesting where you're again seeing this bifurcationing,

510
00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:44.200
bifurcating thing happening where you're getting And then we previously

511
00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:46.640
remember we talked about the other properties that have cut51200:26:46.759 --> 00:26:48.920



Christmas or cut Halloween and the other.51300:26:48.759 --> 00:26:49.559



Six Flags properties.51400:26:49.599 --> 00:26:52.839



So it does I could see your argument about the51500:26:53.400 --> 00:26:56.119



double market thing. I could also see it with what51600:26:56.160 --> 00:26:59.519



they said back then, which is that there they need51700:26:59.519 --> 00:27:02.039



to trim operating times right now.51800:27:02.160 --> 00:27:04.279



And well and when you and when when you go51900:27:04.359 --> 00:27:11.960



into a a challenging market, the high end does not52000:27:12.079 --> 00:27:18.720



see it. I mean, you know, during during during COVID,52100:27:18.759 --> 00:27:25.519



for example, auto sales went down for certain for certain52200:27:25.559 --> 00:27:28.960



brands went down significantly. Jaguar was not touched. They did52300:27:28.960 --> 00:27:32.920



not lose any market share. They kept the same. So52400:27:34.480 --> 00:27:38.200



it's interesting. Pains why it explains why the Disney product52500:27:38.240 --> 00:27:42.960



and the Universal product are still doing bang up business.52600:27:42.960 --> 00:27:46.920



They're still selling out, they're still keeping all their nights. Now,52700:27:47.119 --> 00:27:50.079



if this trend continues, it may impact them, but it's52800:27:50.079 --> 00:27:51.079



certainly not done it yet.52900:27:51.599 --> 00:27:51.799



Yep.53000:27:53.319 --> 00:27:58.680



Uh, let's see. So really quick, we're almost at a time.53100:27:58.720 --> 00:28:03.359



But just I did vis it a few places this53200:28:03.440 --> 00:28:04.920



weekend before I came back into town.53300:28:05.799 --> 00:28:06.519



It is really quick.53400:28:06.559 --> 00:28:10.240



The Dark Knights opened at Hershey Park and I went53500:28:10.279 --> 00:28:11.319



there for the opening night.53600:28:11.440 --> 00:28:13.799



And that event, again, that continues.53700:28:13.440 --> 00:28:16.039



To encapsulate a lot of what we're talking about that53800:28:16.079 --> 00:28:19.640



we've been talking about. It's such an enormous value for guests,53900:28:19.640 --> 00:28:22.599



which is always the first thing I think about, because54000:28:23.559 --> 00:28:26.079



they have this year, they have five hundred houses, four54100:28:26.119 --> 00:28:29.200



scare zones, they have a stage show, they have trick54200:28:29.240 --> 00:28:33.079



or treating, and then they have the slider showcase from54300:28:33.160 --> 00:28:36.480



Decayed Brigade. All of that is included in a day ticket.54400:28:37.000 --> 00:28:40.920



And so it's again it's back to that old model54500:28:41.400 --> 00:28:44.319



of just enormous amounts of value.54600:28:44.359 --> 00:28:46.079



I mean, like it's five hundred houses.54700:28:45.880 --> 00:28:49.759



And again to underscore they are good plus you have54800:28:49.759 --> 00:28:50.720



to taken them consideration.54900:28:50.880 --> 00:28:51.720



Plus the park.55000:28:52.319 --> 00:28:54.759



Yeah, well exactly, so they have fifty rides, you know,55100:28:55.000 --> 00:28:56.960



and that are open. The food and beverage, I mean,55200:28:57.000 --> 00:29:00.480



the whole it's it's like the Halloween event is. It's55300:29:00.519 --> 00:29:05.079



just it's just additive, Like it's entirely additive, just on55400:29:06.359 --> 00:29:09.200



top of your season passes. There's no extra not like55500:29:09.440 --> 00:29:11.720



again like six Flags charging extra for hot houses, Like55600:29:11.759 --> 00:29:14.799



there's no up charge for any of this. And also55700:29:15.119 --> 00:29:18.960



the houses are better. I mean again going they might55800:29:19.039 --> 00:29:21.119



not be better than Nots, but I would say they're close.55900:29:21.480 --> 00:29:25.720



They're very close to and I actually would argue that56000:29:25.759 --> 00:29:28.039



the new Haunted house they built this series is better56100:29:28.079 --> 00:29:31.880



than Nots Mace's. The quality is incredible. For the new56200:29:31.920 --> 00:29:34.200



Haunted House that they have this year, which is all56300:29:34.279 --> 00:29:36.920



kill and Field garage and it's all themes for old56400:29:37.680 --> 00:29:40.799



gas station HARKing back to Hershey's Pass because some of56500:29:40.839 --> 00:29:43.160



the owners had gas stations, they owned some gas stations.56600:29:43.200 --> 00:29:44.920



It's a very historic gas station.56700:29:45.039 --> 00:29:47.160



And there's just what's going on in this garage and56800:29:47.519 --> 00:29:51.920



there's really you know, neat scenes in there, just really56900:29:51.960 --> 00:29:56.319



fun moments in that and it's still scary again it's scary,57000:29:56.319 --> 00:29:57.880



but then they still have the cue. It's all these57100:29:57.880 --> 00:30:00.200



things combined. You have the cute and stuff. If you57200:30:00.240 --> 00:30:02.799



can wear costumes to the event, it's included added value57300:30:02.799 --> 00:30:04.799



for people are spending more or less. If they want57400:30:04.839 --> 00:30:06.759



to spend more, they can just buy dining. They have57500:30:06.839 --> 00:30:09.960



upgraded dining this year, dining passes. I mean, it's literally57600:30:10.400 --> 00:30:12.839



a full microcosm of everything we've.57700:30:12.680 --> 00:30:13.240



Been talking about.57800:30:13.680 --> 00:30:16.720



Yep, and it's working, so that's a good thing. Speaking57900:30:16.799 --> 00:30:18.720



of working, we've been working for the last half hour58000:30:18.759 --> 00:30:21.079



and it's time for us to move on. So guys,58100:30:21.079 --> 00:30:23.400



thank you all so much. And for those of you58200:30:23.440 --> 00:30:27.440



who are fans and supporters of Unhinged, we're going to58300:30:27.480 --> 00:30:29.519



go record that and see what comes out of our58400:30:29.559 --> 00:30:31.640



mouths there. But for the rest of you, thank you58500:30:31.720 --> 00:30:33.359



so much, and hopefully we'll see you next week on58600:30:33.400 --> 00:30:35.279



behalf of Philip and myself. This is Green Tag Theme58700:30:35.319 --> 00:30:37.799



Park and thirty and we will see you next week.