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Stranger Things
Attraction type Haunted House
Event Halloween Horror Nights 28
Park Universal Studios Florida
Area Production Central
Year 2018
Housed in Soundstage 22
Based on Stranger Things Season 1 (2016)

Followed By

Stranger Things (2019)

Stranger Things was one of the ten haunted houses that were featured during Halloween Horror Nights 28. It was located in Soundstage 22.

History and Location[]

On April 3rd, 2018, Universal announced that a haunted house based on season 1 of the Stranger Things TV show would be coming to their Halloween Horror Nights event that year. The codename for this house was "Fireball", a reference to Dungeons and Dragons.

The house would be located in Soundstage 22, one of the smaller soundstage facilities designed to be used as filming locations for movies and television shows. The house would be very popular, and would go on to win the House of the Year award in 2018. The following year, the house would get a sequel based on seasons 2 and 3 of the show. It would also be called Stranger Things.

Description[]

Halloween Horror Nights™ takes you deep inside the haunting world of Netflix’s STRANGER THINGS. The Demogorgon is hunting in our world now.

The Demogorgon is hunting in our world now. Halloween Horror Nights takes you deep inside the haunting world of STRANGER THINGS. From a secret government lab where vile human experiments have opened the gates of chaos, to the terrifying emptiness of the Void. From the darkest corners of Hawkins, Indiana, where homes and walls offer no protection, to the monster-filled reality of the Upside Down. As you try to escape these nightmares, in footsteps of the show’s heroes, you are certain of only one thing—The Demogorgon is moving closer.

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The entrance to the queue for this house was right outside the Universal Music Plaza. The line would usually (on peak nights) be over 100 minutes long. The queue for this house went through the Universal Music Plaza. The guests then started walking towards Soundstage 22 and entered the soundstage from the left side.

Walkthrough[]

When the guests entered the soundstage, they were greeted with the inside of the Hawkins National Laboratory as it appears in the opening scene of the show. A Demogorgon would pop out on the right, and in front of the guests was a scientist that was hung on the ceiling. Pressing the blue elevator button would make him wiggle. A small dark room with a Demogorgon came after that. The guests would then enter a room where the logo for Stranger Things formed on a screen. After that, they would enter the fenced area outside of the laboratory which led to Mirkwood, where another Demogorgon would pop out. Dustin (talking to Mike via walkie-talkie) was outside of the Byers shed. The guests would then enter the shed, where Will could be seen with a shotgun and another Demogorgon popped out.

The guests would then walk to the outside of the Byers house, where Mike (sometimes replaced with Lucas Sinclair) would appear from behind some sheets. After that they entered the house, where Christmas lights would flicker and letters could be seen written on the walls. Joyce could also be seen destroying the walls of the house with an axe and on the wall next to her an outline of a Demogorgon can be seen trying to come through the wall. The guests walked past the kitchen, where Steve (Sometimes replaced with Nancy with a gun) would pop out with his nail bat. Then the guests would walk through one of the hallways of the house, where a Demogorgon would jump out of a door on your left and another will come out from behind a painting that drops down on your right. The guests would continue down the hallway until they reached Will's room, where they would then enter the Upside Down.

The guests would then go through a cave leading to a forest where Nancy would jump out along with another Demogorgon. After that, they entered the upside-down version of the Hawkins National Laboratory where Sheriff Hopper and a few other people in hazmat suits would shoot at them. The guests then entered an upside-down library (with the corpse of Barb and the still alive body of Will stuck in the wall) where Joyce and Hopper would pop out in hazmat suits. They would then enter the Hawkins Middle School, where a Demogorgon could be seen behind a wall. Two Hawkins Agents jump out with their eyes bleeding, caused by Eleven who could be seen inside of a classroom killing the Demogorgon. After that is a dark corridor with two Demogorgons popping out. At the very end of the house, Eleven and one final Demogorgon would pop out.

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Trivia[]

  • This haunted house won House of the Year in 2018.
  • The house was opened during normal park hours on November 6, 2018 (also known as Stranger Things Day, as this was the date in 1983 on which Will Byers disappeared in the first season of the show). At the time it had been the only time an Orlando Halloween Horror Nights house has been open for operation outside of a Horror Night event. Queue times during the day went as high as 75 minutes.
  • Netflix had partnered with the A&D team and gave them access to video content, audio content, and blueprints to the Byers home and recreated many of the key scenes as well.
  • According to Patrick Braillard as a little easter egg, every piece of decor are pre-1984 in the entire house.
  • Netflix gave A&D the blessing to further the story of season 1 by letting them include The Demogorgon lurking about and hunting at every turn while following the the boys throughout their journey in Hawkins.
  • According to Mike Aiello has said at the time that gaining this ip was a white whale since the show had been generating a lot of popularity with fans.
  • Patrick Brillard has said that when creating the house with the team was that wanted to have the goal in mind of making guests feel like being on the show and parallel to the kids' journey of how they went about understanding what the Demogorgon was and being chased and captured by the Demogorgon.
  • The creative team identify The Demogorgon for this house as the big bad.
  • In the Byers Kitchen, guests can see Eggo Waffles on a plate, one of Eleven's favorite foods.
  • In the Mirkwood scene, there is an audio trigger that is relayed later on in the house that tells the same story but because characters are in difference of space have been recorded as if further away from each other, you get a sense of travel of the characters.
  • One of the biggest challenges in creating the Demogorgon for the house was that in the show itself, the creature is very CGI, so they needed to find a way of working with different molds and costumes that would be "scareactor friendly" while also being true to what it looks like on the show as well.
  • The universal creative team used a 3D Printer in creating the teeth for The Demogorgon's head
  • Some of the Demogorgons were played by scareactors in full costume while some others used puppets.
  • The elevator button was the guest activated trigger in this house causes the hanging body in the elevator to shake.
  • In the Mirkwood scene, a motor is used to cause Will's bike wheel to move as if he had freshly fallen off his bike as he did in the show.
  • Will's backpack can be seen in the Mirkwood scene with his name written on his notebook.
  • The Mirkwood Forest features some fake trees and some real trees, the fake trees are the bark trees that can be seen and the little trees small branch are given flame retardant for safety reasons due to the lights in the soundstages to prevent any fires.
  • The Mirkwood scene features mirrors to reflect as if the forest was a bigger than expected.
  • The Demogorgon has a triple scare similar to the Wicked Witch of The West in the Scary Tales Deadly Ever After haunted house that year.
  • Whenever a ceiling is being built in a house it is a very expensive decision made by the team. In the Byer's Shed, a ceiling is built and a fire suppression must be routed inside that is attached to a water system outside in case of emergency fires.
  • All of the tools and set ups in the Byer's shed scene are exactly as they had been seen on set and in set photos of the scene in the show.
  • A Demogorgon action figure was used to create the shadow of the 10 ft tall look of it behind the curtain in the Sheet lining transition scene.
  • Netflix were very strict on the casting of the characters and who was representing the face characters to represent the brand was represented very well. Some characters were represented two of each characters and some were only one of each during certain circumstances, some cast changes would have different characters.
  • A VHS of ET: The Extra Terrestrial can be seen in the The Byers living room.
  • A VHS of John Carpenter's The Thing can be seen in The Byers living room.
  • A VHS of John Landis' An American Werewolf In London can be see in The Byers living room.
  • A glass and bottle of wine can be seen in the kitchen scene that Joyce Byers can be seen drinking in the show.
  • Originally in the treatment of the house from A&D, the lights were supposed to light in sequence in the hallway scene to represent the Demogorgon following guests but the lights would strobe off during the run which meant that the effect didn't go well as planned.
  • In Will Byers room, the board game Dragon Quest and the rulebook of the game can be seen by Will's speaker.
  • A hogwarts express train can be seen oddly in Will Byers room.
  • An ET plush can be seen in Will Byers room.
  • In The Mirkwood forest in the beginning was like a natural look for a forest where the Upside Down version of the forest is more full of blues and purple and more of a extraterrestrial type setting while the original room had black with mirrors, the Upside Down version of the room has blue with mirrors.
  • In the Mirkwood Upside Down Forest, snow machines were used to have give the illusion of ash falling down as it does in the show's representation.
  • The hazmat suits that the Joyce Byers and Hopper characters are wearing in The Demogorgon's Lair scene are made by the same company that show uses in the same scene.
  • The look of condensation in the hazmat suit of Joyce and Hopper's helmets were actually painted on giving the look that they've been in there for quite sometime.
  • Some of the names of many past employees of the event can be seen on some of the books, a green book that reads Gromoll which is a reference to Kim Gromoll whose one of the A&D team members for many uses in the past Halloween Horror Nights events and help pioneer a lot of the effects that Universal still uses for the event even having a scare named after him known as the Grimoll scare which was used that year in Carnival Graveyard: Rust in Pieces haunted house.
  • The original name for the last room was called Snowglobe because inside the room its like a snowglobe, many of the fans in the room were blowing confetti on the floor, all of the fishing lines with debris floating around giving the illusion that Eleven is tearing the room apart as she is trying to rid of the Demogorgon.

Resources[]

Halloween Horror Nights 28
Haunted Houses: Stranger Things  • Dead Exposure: Patient Zero  • Trick 'r Treat  • Slaughter Sinema • Carnival Graveyard: Rust in Pieces  • Seeds of Extinction  • Poltergeist  • Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers  • The Horrors of Blumhouse  • Scary Tales: Deadly Ever After
Scarezones: The Harvest • Revenge of Chucky • Killer Klowns From Outer Space • Vamp '85: New Year's Eve • Twisted Tradition
Unofficial Scarezones: Roaming Mechanics • Chainsaw Carnies
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