✨Updates! Big News For Universal Orlando ~ HHN House ~ Demolishing of an Attraction

Whoa buddy! We've got HHN haunted house announcements at studios and buildings being destroyed and demolished at Islands of Adventure. In to Universal Studios Orlando for the Halloween Horror Nights news. Well quite a large crowd of influencers have gathered at the Five and Dime now that Universal has announced Sinners is coming to Halloween Horror Nights this year. The highest grossing original horror film and the winner of I think four Oscars. Is this the first time Universal has ever had an Oscar winning haunted house? You know an IP based on an Oscar winning show or movie? Ah you guys tell me in the comment section below. I'm curious to find out. I have to google this maybe. I'm talking like a major award like best actor, best director, best picture. Not like for special effects or for makeup or costuming. So I've been doing this for almost 10 years now. The crowds in these things keep growing every year. We have like three or four security guards here for the merch drop. It's a Sinners t-shirt, a Sinners hat, and I bet they're gonna those can be found online. But I think here you're gonna have that acrylic stand for the carousel. And here is the Sinners HHN t-shirt for $30 online. And here is the Sinners hat for $30 online. Now the funny thing is this same t-shirt and hat that dropped here at the Five and Dime at Studios also dropped at the All Hallows Eve at Islands of Adventure a little bit before it dropped here at the Five and Dime. Plus instead of a large crowd like at the Five and Dime, there were like only 10 people waiting for the merch drop. Look at this line here. Look at it. You know crazy stuff. Anyways, if I don't show you the actual t-shirt here at the store, I'm sure I already put it up on the screen at some point in this conversation. I'm gonna give you one last shot of the craziness. You let me know in the comment section below what you think about the movie Sinners being a haunted house this year for Halloween Horror Nights. I enjoyed the movie good enough. And remember let me know has there ever been an Oscar winning movie as a haunted house? Also I'll do my own research on Google. Another thing I want to mention real fast before we head over to Islands of Adventure is that the Mega Movie Parade which is supposed to start again this Saturday may be delayed. Some rumblings from some of the performers in the parade. You know there's construction walls around the park and until those are removed they can't do the parade. So there is the potential that the return of the Mega Movie Parade could be delayed a bit. Keep watching. I will keep you abreast of all that information and let you know what's happening with that. In to Islands of Adventure for updates including an original day attraction building being demolished. The Tupac Unlimited Express Pass is $244 per person right now Thursday. Expect that to get into the $300 range this weekend for Memorial Day weekend. As far as the destruction and demolition happening at Islands of Adventure, I can get there quicker if I go through Seuss Landing. I also saw some cool stuff in City Walk that I really shouldn't end the video today without showing you. So watch all the way to the end for that cool stuff as well. Today just like the rest of the week a high temperature in the low 90s. This week is going to be like 91 to 93 degrees for the highs. There are a lot of school groups here today elementary school age, middle school age, high school age. They are all here today as I walk through Seuss Landing. Don't forget tomorrow Friday night a live stream at Epic Universe. The one year anniversary of Epic Universe opening to the public. Oh no the High in the Sky trolley sign isn't spinning today. And by the way it's just a five minute wait for that ride right now. The school age kids obviously looking for a bigger thrill at the moment. Right before you leave Seuss Landing to the right they've made this area into a chill out in the cool zone. So this spot is always pretty shaded right over here by honk honkers and a cooling fan is here. Into the land of death and destruction. Okay maybe not death but certainly destruction. The construction walls or deconstruction walls that are around Poseidon's Fury have expanded outward grown and I think I was right about this waterfall. I don't think we're ever going to see it working again. Okay this expanded deconstruction wall is making things difficult on me but I think I have an idea. Hold on a second give me a few minutes. But also as the ducks know another cool zone located here in this little owl cove of mythos. Wow they were really serious about this construction wall but I think I have a trick up my sleeve. Behind these construction walls and that tree right there blocking our view a bit you know we had that excavator over there I can hear it beeping kind of see it. But the old Sinbad stunt show building is being torn down. They are they're just ripping it apart. I'll try to get a better angle hold on. There's a good look at it an original day attraction being torn down. From a different angle a different part of the building being destroyed there. There you go. I can't believe it's actually happening. So I got some pretty good shots of the demolition from right here inside of the Lost Continent. I don't think I need to do the little trick I was going to do but I'm going to try it anyway hold on. Ah from the Hogwarts Express queue. Another angle of the demolition. Like I said I can't believe after all these years all this talk it is actually happening. They are actually going to transform the Lost Continent into something new. Hard to believe. Oh my a little deeper into the queue. A little different angle of the destruction. We got excavators destroying things right now as we speak. I present to you the eighth wonder of the world the backside of demolition. So now we know they're not going to reuse this space for a different type of show. All right I think this will be the last shot of this for today. It's happening. It's actually happening. So I would guess regarding Hogwarts Express for the entirety of the resort this has to count as two attractions right? It's different scenes from islands to studios than from studios to islands. So this is a two-in-one attraction. So if you have a two park express pass that's good for just one attraction each you could use the express one time here at this station and then again at studios to come back here. And now into Hogsmeade. I'm curious as to the wait time for Hagrid's. The park feels a little slow today. So maybe the wait time's not as bad for Hagrid's motorbike. Well never mind it's actually delayed at the moment. As we were walking into Hogsmeade a kid was behind me and I heard him ask his parents or tell to his parents. Hey what there's snow here? Well kid yes there is snow because you are no longer in Orlando. You're in the Highlands of Scotland. Well this is a rare sight for us. No one in line for either side of the Butterbeer cart. Well they are starting to warm up the ride without riders. So I guess what we have now as Speedy Gonzalez would say underlay underlay. Oh come on now I know some of you get that joke. You guys just don't know how tough it is to come up with these dad jokes on the spot. Well actually I've been a dad for a long time so it's pretty easy for me. But anyways if we zoom in on Hagrid's castle we can see that corner as far as the restoration renovation whatever you want to call it is completed now. Let's see here most of the facade is done at this point. Let's take a closer look though. It looks like the entrance really will be the last thing they do. But they have started on the detail work. If we look at the top triangle there you can see they started with that. And then also the brick wall out here. Check this out. It is getting its refurbishment done as well. FYI the wait time right now is just 10 minutes for this. Not as dramatic as usual but welcome to Jurassic Park. In the comment section someone asked me you know is the bridge from Hogsmeade to Jurassic Park still closed? Yes it is. They also had a follow-up question. When will it reopen? That I do not know. I do know however the VelociCoaster is a 35 minute wait right now. For the coasters I do prefer the back row. I feel like it whips you around a little more. I do like to whip my hair back and forth back and forth. I do. But for VelociCoaster I prefer the front row because of that view going over the top hat. Over here in Jurassic Park there is another cool zone right there. But you know what? Also a cool zone any store with air conditioning. Those cool zones that they have around the park kind of use a cooling mist. So there is some moisture involved and you know it just it's just murder with my hair. Oh look another cool zone right there. But Jurassic Outfitters last week had a lot of scrim around it. That scrim has been removed though if we zoom in on the roof there. There you go. We can see that is still being renovated. What the actual heck? The fan this fan they don't have running. This is always running. It's always a cool zone. What's a matter? The one on the other side is running though. Look at this Mosasaurus toy. It reminds me a little bit of the old Jaws toy from the 70s. I actually showed you that when we were in the Spielberg Blockbuster store. But very reminiscent of that isn't it? Everything old is new again. Looks like everything is okay in Jurassic Park. The Pteranodon flyers still not open to the public. They are testing it though. It's going around empty. Won't be too much longer before guests will be on it. All of the scaffolding that was around the rockwork, the waterfall of the Jurassic Park River Adventure has been removed. There is however some scaffolding right at the exit. I can see someone painting right now. All right a little fresh coat of paint for that. Let's pause in the shade here to check the Universal Express Now. These are like individual. Let's pause in the shade and check on the Universal Express Now. These are individual express options. Let's see right now they are offering to express Spider-Man. For $15 and then what else? You can express Doctor Doom for $10 and you can express the Hulk for $15. Let's see what that's getting you. So Spider-Man is a 35 minute wait. Doctor Doom is a 40 minute wait. What is the Hulk? The Hulk is a 30 minute wait. So now you see the pricing of the Express Now and then like, at least for this example, the time. And now that you have all of that information, you tell me in the comment section below, is it a good value for those prices considering those standby wait times? Don't forget I am gonna stop into CityWalk after this. Fans of a certain type of video that I do will really appreciate what is shown in that segment of this video. But now we mosey through Toon Lagoon, the water ride area of Islands of Adventure and with temperatures this week, the highs ranging from 91 to 93 all week. Yeah, it's a good week for water rides. Most definitely. Oh, we got one dropping. Ours is just hanging out at the top. It's paused at the top. Well, we're gonna have good timing here at Ripsaw Falls or Candy Corn Rapids if you prefer. I'm not gonna make you wait the whole time. I'll just, I'll just stop and restart. Well, that took a while. Not for you guys. Let's see, is it over here? It's still here. How long am I just gonna look at my Halloween Horror Nights t-shirt? Beware of monsters with Scooby and Shaggy. $30. I just, am I gonna wait too long? Probably. Would Nikki disagree with my method of waiting? Yes, she would. Would she have bought it by now? Yes, she would have. Popeye and olive oil over here in the shade. Popeye knows what they're doing with his store. Spinach only. Spinach shop. Oh yeah, look at that. Look at him. Look at him there. Well, good luck with your new venture here with the spinach shop. I can't wait for it to open. I know. He's gonna sell us out of spinach. I will. Of course, Blondie's not open. It's a weekday. It'll be open this weekend, Memorial Day weekend. That's for sure. A lot of the construction walls over here have been scaled back. And Wimpy's, according to the sign, is open. No Blondie's, but we do have Wimpy's open. And a smaller footprint for the construction walls. Once a lot of construction walls here too, they're all gone. Looks like some fresh foliage. The best quick service hamburger you're gonna get right there. Other than also, you know, the Comic Strip Cafe has the Double Wellington. You know what? I'm gonna check by the Comic Strip Cafe. See if they're still offering that now that Wimpy's is actually open today. Maybe they have the Double Wellington available all the time. I've got to get a good action shot over here. Pop us some Bluto's barges. Waterfall's going good, looking good. Oh, we've got a barge coming by now. Despite the dramatic reduction of construction walls over there, these water features here still are not working. Maybe it's not a related issue. Now to answer that question about the Double Wellington. Yes, it is still here. So the Wellington Double Stack cheeseburger here at the Comic Strip Cafe, whereas Wimpy's just has the single cheeseburger. Interesting that they don't offer the double over there at Wimpy's. You know, it's just like doing an extra patty on top of something. It's a higher price point and you would think people just, you know, checking out the menu might go, oh, a double, I'll take the double. Thereby, you know, Universal's making a little more money that way. Now into Marvel's Super Hero Island before we head into City Walk. I don't see any superheroes out at the moment. I do want to check on the wait time for Spider-Man and see if it's changed since we checked it on the app. And if it does change, there's a price change, right? Like, oh, it's a 40 minute wait. You're going to pay extra $5 for that express now. I don't know. We'll see. But, you know, that's where Captain America usually is, but not there. Now another cool zone over here. Right over there by the Vacation Information Center. This one's very bright and colorful with its lime green and yellow. Oh, we have some fencing over here. Are they repainting? They might be repainting where the spire is. At least the ground of the Meteor Impact. That's why this is a meteor struck this island and created Marvel's Super Hero Island. But we have the fencing here. They got to be repainting this, I would assume. Yeah, that looks pretty fresh. All right, and Spider-Man is... No, it's still the same wait time. So we won't be able to tell, at least for that ride, if they increase the pricing. There's a formula to it. You'd think there would be. I worked as a financial analyst for a while. I'm sure there's a model. There's an Excel spreadsheet that models the pricing and the wait times. Now there was one... They were selling Doctor Doom as well, weren't they? And it was like a 40-minute wait then, but it's down to 25. Oh, okay. Let's see now. Let's see if they even offer the Express now. No, Doctor Doom has been removed. So maybe they don't start trying to sell these until the wait time. The standby wait time is like 30 or 35. There is a formula to it. I don't know the formula yet, but I could figure it out if I truly wanted to. Let's go check on the wait time for the Hulk. Oh, shoot. I think I wanted to try some food here at Cafe Four. Hold on a second. Wait a second. The s'mores cookie for $6.29. TikTok famous. Instagram famous. Now I'm going to try it. But first, I cut it in half so you can see the inside. Wowzer! One of the best theme park cookies I've ever had. I'm going to describe it in one word. Here you go. It's decadent. But more about the menu there at the Cafe Four. It's of an Italian variety. Now I'm not really big on Italian food. Some things, yes. But the menu there, recently revamped. Everything looks amazing. I'm now, because I was standing in line waiting for my cookie, reading the menu board. A lot of things there look amazing. Meatball sliders. Parm and cheese chicken sliders. I'm now in the mood for Italian. I got my cookie there. But I think tonight I'm going to have to, when I get home, talk to my wife Nikki and maybe get Italian food tonight. Ah, the stuff there looks so good. Even some of the pizzas that, you know, normally I just get like a cheese or a pepperoni. They have one. I think it looks like some type of pesto chicken or something. Pesto chicken pizza. That looked tremendous. That looked amazing. I know my wife Nikki would love that. Even I, who's just like a basic slice of cheese, slice of pepperoni kind of guy. The guy in front of me had it. I'm like, oh my god, I want that now. But I think maybe I'm going to postpone my Italian food for later tonight. But the cookie. That's all I've had so far today. I had dessert. I had a cookie. But anyways, I digress. Yeah, check out the Cafe Four. Especially if you're in the mood for Italian. The menu just looking off the charts good. The adventure lives on with some CityWalk updates. Here at the Legacy Store. Tom Whalen Artist Signing. Saturday, May 23rd. There's two sessions. First session is from 10 a.m. to noon with the UOAP exclusive from 10 to 11. And then the second session for the signing is 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. At the Universal City Market Theater. We now have adverts and promotion for Disclosure Day, June 12th. I do like it when movies feel more like an event. Now, and this does seem like it has more of a blockbuster feel to it than what we've had recently. But this is what I really wanted to show you here in CityWalk. They have some new anime merchandise I haven't seen or shown you before. Check out the new bag here. Is this a lounge fly or not? I don't, I'm not seeing. It is. It is a lounge fly. K-pop Demon Hunters. Well, there's the front of it. And we'll rotate it around. The side. The back side is pretty plain, but you got some nice straps there. And then the other side. Right there with your lounge fly logo. And it has, it has these little charms and this on the side of it. That's kind of unique for a lounge fly. You don't see that too often. Well, that's pretty cool. Let's see. Can we find the pricing? Ooh, and even $100 for the lounge fly. One of the highest priced lounge flies I've seen at Universal. And then we have this, this squishy plush right here. A new to Universal K-pop Demon Hunters. $30 for it. Another Squishmallow for Demon Hunters. Uh, what's the pricing on this one? This one's also $30. Nice. Oh, a different plush down here. This one is $35. Look at that. That's pretty, that's a pretty large plush for $35. I'd say. Don't look into his eyes too long. What else do we have? These over here. Pricing please. Price check. Uh, I think it's $18. And then these down here should be the same price. $18 for, for those as well. And we will assume $18 for that one. Yes, 18 bucks. What else do we have? This is on Netflix. I don't watch that show. Anyways, $15 for the Mystery Pin. And then a larger box here. This is what? Oh, these are little charms for the bags. Charms for the bags. $25. Okay, so the other side. Like I've shown, I think I've shown all that stuff before. I haven't shown this. This is a lamp. Okay, Demon Slayer this time for $430 for the lamp. And then we have a mug. Check out the mug there. We don't have an actual example. We have the picture here on the box. See, it has the little, I guess, raven right there. We can rotate it around a little bit. It shows you a different angle of the mug. Did I give you the price? Yeah, all around. It shows you all around the mug. $25 for it. And then five pairs of crew socks for $27. There, can you get a look at what they all look like? The five pair right there. And I haven't shown this Demon Slayer. A pin for $9. What is this for $30? Almost looks like the Bigfoot that battled Steve Austin, the $6 million man, but it's not. So let me know in the comment section below what you think about Sinners coming to Halloween Horror Nights this year. And as always, don't miss the magic. Don't miss the fun. See you next time.