Netflix House is adding a K-pop Demon Hunters experience, opening November 12 in Dallas and November 20 in Philadelphia. It's a linear, play-based experience where guests start backstage with HUNTR/X, help restore the Honmoon after a demon crashes the show, and meet Derpy Tiger as a giant puppet built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. In Dallas it replaces Stranger Things, and in Philadelphia it replaces One Piece. That means Netflix House is swapping experiences in under a year, while Horror Unleashed won't change a house until late next year. The asset-light model, the viewing data behind every IP choice, and that price point all work in Netflix's favor. The detail isn't at Univers's level, and guests increasingly don't seem to need it to be. Making the tiger a puppet also reads the room at a moment when audiences are tired of screens.
Meanwhile, Chimelong has deployed more than 300 humanoid robots from Agibot at its Spaceship park in China, covering live entertainment, guided tours, retail, hotel check-in, and table tennis with guests. Plenty of hospitality jobs go unfilled, and robots that give directions or move luggage could free staff for personal work. Whether operators use them that way or simply to cut jobs will decide how this lands. Adoption in the U.S. is unlikely anytime soon, since American sentiment toward AI runs the other way, while China's tighter AI rules have left its public more comfortable with robots.
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