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Stranger Things HHN 28-0
Stranger Things
Attraction type Haunted Maze
Event Halloween Horror Nights 2018
Park Universal Studios Hollywood
Area Lower Lot
Year 2018
Housed in Soundstage 29
Based on Stranger Things Season 1 (2016)
Followed By Stranger Things (2019)

Stranger Things (Hollywood 2018) was one of the eight haunted mazes that was featured during Halloween Horror Nights 2018 (Hollywood). It was located in Soundstage 29.

Description[]

Step inside the hair-raising world of Stranger Things and prepare to brave the Upside Down of this pop culture series phenomenon!

Journey to small town Hawkins, Indiana—a seemingly peaceful community with dark, unnerving secrets. When a young boy goes missing near a secluded government laboratory, his faithful friends begin a quest unfolding a series of increasingly bizarre and frightening events. With the threat of flesh-eating creatures in the shadows and the help of one very strange little girl, their world is about to be turned “Upside Down”!

Experience[]

Haunted Maze[]

Guests enter the maze and immediately enter the Woods to see Will Byers behind a fence with a Hawkins National Laboratory sign and then guests go through the woods to have a Demogorgon scare guests from behind a tree.

Guests then see the Byers House with newspaper in the windows and then see a projection of the Demogorgon behind sheets. Guests then enter the Byers House.

Inside the Byers House were the Christmas lights hanging from above. Guests then enter the living room to see the alphabet wall with the Christmas lights making out the Word Run before all of the lights start sputtering on and off. The Demogorgon then starts pushing his hand through the wall.

Guests then go down a hallway with more flashing lights and another wall with the Demogorgon pushing through a wall.

Guests then enter Will Byer's room to see Joyce Byers with an axe and all of the light bulbs going off to where the Demogorgon pops out through a curtain. Guests then exit the Byers house.

Guests then go outside to see a static figure of Dustin Henderson with a flashlight pointing towards the shed as a Demogorgon then pops out of the shed. Guests then go the Castle Byers to where a Demogorgon pops out of it.

Guests then enter the Upside Down to where there are a bunch of light particles and a Nancy Wheeler with a flashlight pointing it around and then a Demogorgon pops out at guests.

Guests then go through a black hallway and then into the outside of Hawkins National Laboratory to see a Hawkins Power and Light Van and then 2 Hazmat Men pop out at guests with flashlights.

Guests then enter the Laboratory where the lights are flashing where Jim Hopper pops out at guests with a gun. Guests then see the elevator with the legs wiggling and a Hazmat Man right by it with a flashlight pointing at it.

Guests then enter the main lab where Martin Brenner greets guests and a Hazmat Man pops out at guests with a flashlight. Guests then enter the portal in the Lab.

Guests enter a series of black walls leading to the Upside Down version of Castle Byers with a Will Byers with the tentacle in his mouth outside the Castle Byers. Then a Demogorgon pops out of Castle Byers.

Guests then enter the Hawkins Middle School to see a bunch of bodies in a hallway including Barb then guests see a static figure of the Demogorgon behind a wall with the logo of the school.

Guests then enter the classroom to see a bunch of projections at a static figure of Eleven pushing the Demogorgon towards the classroom wall. Guests then enter a series of black hallways with a Demogorgon black box boo hole scare before guests then exit the maze.

Scareactors[]

Quotes[]

Pictures[]

Videos[]

Soundtrack[]

Trivia[]

  • Murdy stated at Midsummer Scream that he wrote an outline for this maze featuring both season 1 and 2 of the show in one maze, but he decided there was enough content in each season to split them up [1].
  • Murdy went through 40,000 reference pictures for this maze [2].
  • They worked with SpectralMotion for the Demogorgon using their sculpt as the basis for their version. They previously worked with them on The Walking Dead: Dead Inside and Crimson Peak: Maze of Madness [3].
  • This house had a 5.1 surround sound [4].
  • Murdy wrote a 20 page list of audio cues that were needed for the house [5].
  • The first time Murdy saw a glimpse of the finished Eleven and the Demogorgon was a picture Magee Fx sent him from their shop. It took his breath away. It felt like he was looking at a shot from the show [6].
  • They got the chance to scare many of the cast members from the show at HHN. Such as Caleb (Lucas), Gaten (Dustin) and Sadie (Max) who went through the maze [7].
  • Part way through the event, the maze was opened to daytime guests during select hours for lights on behind the scenes tours with no effects or actors, along with monitors at the front of the house with behind the scenes footage and interviews [8].
  • As for the concept of the maze, they pretty much wanted to follow Will Byers’ journey from the moment he left the D&D game in the pilot episode for Season 1 [9].
  • The original Stranger Things maze utilized elements of the long-closed E.T. attraction, and allowed guests to entire a forest environment like we see in the show. [10].
  • The lightning being present in the opening scene was a reference to the night when the kids go looking for Will (visible in episode 1 around 40:33).
  • "But one of Murdy’s biggest challenges was how to incorporate the main characters – the children. “Obviously you have to be 18 to work Horror Nights, so it doesn’t really work to have 20-year-old Dustin in a wig,” Murdy explained. To get the presence of the kids into the show, the team came up with some creative solutions. During the first scene, guests will hear their voices through the walkie talkies used so frequently in the show" [11].
  • In the forest they wanted to tease the Demogorgon through sound design with his chattering and moving and the search party looking for Will [12].
  • " “Like the show, we want to tease the Demogorgon — we don’t want to just have you walk into the maze and, ah, there it is,” Murdy explains. ‘We want to kind of build up the suspense of seeing him" [13].
  • The Demogorgon moving behind the clothes line was played by Troy, who is a longtime scareactor/maze set designer [14].
  • All of the newspapers used in the living room of the Byers house were real vintage newspapers [15].
  • Art Director, Chris Williams, wanted real floor surfaces for the Byers house [16].
  • The Creative Team used real vintage furniture from the 70s to recreate the Byers home [17].
  • They did the scorched phone with tiny optic lights on the receiver synched with audio to when Will's voice is coming from the other side [18].
  • The stretch wall effect was reused from A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy's Nightmare.
  • The hallway with the lights has unreleased original music from the show from when Holly is following the Christmas lights in episode 3 at 27:44.
  • The Creative Team managed to find the exact wallpaper from the show for Will's room [19].
  • They wanted to at this point only show half of the Demogorgon in Will's room [20].
  • Will's room has all of the D&D drawings he did [21].
  • Will's room has a Jaws poster which is visible in Episode 2 at 48:13.
  • Murdy tweeted an easter egg involving Will's room that there is a trophy on the desk that has Will's name misspelled, something that actually happened to Murdy in real life and had to add it in the house [22].
  • Another mistake Murdy had mentioned featured in the house is that the boombox in Will's room has a cassette of the Carpenters when it should be a copy of The Clashes' Combat Rock ("Should I Stay or Should I Go") [23].
  • "The Upside Down was a process–we built it off-site in our warehouse, and had a day where we tried a bunch of stuff–we tried snow machines, like in malls for Christmas, but I walked in and started choking and I was like, “No this isn’t going to work.” We tried a fog machine, but you could see the projection cone of light–eventually, the effects team came up with wrapping fiber optic lights wrapped in cotton to give it an ethereal look."- John Murdy on which visuals took the longest to construct for the maze [24].
  • Additionally in the Upside Down there are projectors that float the floating orbs and the dimensional ones [25].
  • The Demogorgon egg could be spotted in the Upside Down which was a small thing to see in episode 8 at 17:15.
  • One of the Alien eggs seen in the previous AVP: Alien vs. Predator (Hollywood) mazes appeared in this house.
  • The Hawkins Power and Light van has been used for the Event multiple times prior [26].
  • Outside the Hawkins Lab, guests can hear the guys in the truck following the kids [27].
  • Outside the Hawkins Lab, guests can hear the lab noises from within. Such a buzzing alarm (which is in the first episode at 0:20).
  • Outside the Hawkins Lab, there is a Gate torn open that guests enter. The Gate being torn open is a reference to when Hopper breaks into Hawkins lab at the end of episode 4 and 7.
  • The Jim Hopper trigger line is reused from The Walking Dead Attraction.
  • Dr. Brenner has the most expensive wig in Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood History [28].
  • The lab set used a scenic technique we first perfected in AVP. It involves creating a shape with wire/screen material, shooting spray foam over it, shaping it and then painting it [29].
  • With guests entering the Upside Down they wanted guests to know that with the curtains as well so the curtains are distressed/Upside Down looking [30].
  • Barb was visible as a corpse in the Upside Down version of Castle Byers [31].
  • In the school hallway, guests can see all of the Agents with the blood in their eyes [32].
  • Originally they were going to do the classroom scene that looked like Eleven but they had MageeFX sculpt Eleven because they thought about actresses calling out [33].
  • In the classroom scene, the clock was frozen at 11:11 which is a reference to Eleven [34].
  • In the classroom scene, there was a Frankenstein VHS underneath the school TV [35].

References[]

  1. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  2. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1374492832791064582?t=pV1I6ech4n27vK37Evjk4Q&s=19
  3. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  4. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  5. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  6. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1374500767160135684?t=sOACMfR6zAmiz0qdLmnhGg&s=19
  7. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1374500798952927232?t=JZ_ZqIBTshAYOS-AswPL0Q&s=19
  8. https://www.ocregister.com/2018/10/23/universal-studios-hollywood-offers-a-daytime-lights-on-walk-through-of-its-stranger-things-maze/
  9. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1374492712309723145?t=nvf-zsr3X0PCU8X6C1DlTQ&s=19
  10. https://tvweb.com/stranger-things-maze-halloween-horror-nights-2019/
  11. https://attractionsmagazine.com/the-making-of-the-stranger-things-maze/
  12. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  13. https://ew.com/tv/2018/09/15/universal-studios-halloween-horror-nights-stranger-things-maze/
  14. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1374492727815991297?s=19
  15. https://ew.com/tv/2018/09/15/universal-studios-halloween-horror-nights-stranger-things-maze/
  16. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  17. https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/behind-the-scenes-stranger-things-maze-horror-nights
  18. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  19. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
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  21. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1374492782778224641?t=dNXRabi1F5hYRUqjTA5Dow&s=19
  22. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/1046192434202312705?t=kiURUqFWh-4BA4Pq7wJSRA&s=19
  23. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/1046193273658908673?t=Ef5OBHAQKV_A4kUqeu6lUA&s=19
  24. https://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/california/los-angeles/hollywood-and-the-studios/experiences/news/we-went-behind-the-scenes-at-halloween-horror-nights-new-stranger-things-maze-and-it-looks-incredible
  25. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  26. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1374492906040426498?t=NsCPL-9cXxVWjTLO4ovfiQ&s=19
  27. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  28. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  29. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1374500714223833093?t=x4JPk_T3e5FKQvdjBeT_nQ&s=19
  30. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  31. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  32. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  33. https://www.parksandcons.com/podcast/episode-329-behind-the-scenes-of-stranger-things-trick-r-treat-at-ush-halloween-horror-nights-hhn-2018
  34. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/1046187464887619584?t=JEncY_FAyGR8MSYCbEB48w&s=19
  35. https://twitter.com/FrankLeszczyns4/status/1374544964957343744?s=19
Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood 2018
Haunted Mazes: Stranger Things  • Trick 'r Treat  • The First Purge  • The Walking Dead Attraction  • Poltergeist  • Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers  • The Horrors of Blumhouse: Chapter Two • Universal Monsters: Music by Slash
Terror Tram: Hollywood Harry's: Dreadtime Storyz
Scarezones: Holidayz in Hell  • Trick 'r Treat • Monster Masquerade • Hell's Harvest • Toxxic Tunnel
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