| Halloween Horror Nights Orlando attraction | |
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| Universal Classic Monster Mania | |
| Attraction type | Haunted House |
| Event | Halloween Horror Nights X |
| Park | Universal Studios Florida |
| Area | San Francisco |
| Year | 2000 |
| Housed in | Earthquake Queue |
| Based on | Original/Universal Monsters |
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Preceded By |
Universal's Creature Features in 3-D (1999) |
| Followed By | Horror in Wax (2004) |
Universal Classic Monster Mania was one of the five haunted houses that was featured during Halloween Horror Nights X. It was located in the Earthquake Queue along with Dark Torment.
History and Location[]
For the past five years, Universal had haunted houses based on the Universal Classic Monsters at their Halloween Horror Nights events in Orlando. For the new millennium, Universal decided to try something different for Halloween Horror Nights X. They decided to "buff up" the Classic Monsters, making them even more horrifying in a house called Universal Classic Monster Mania.
This house would be one of two located in the large extended queue for the Earthquake attraction, the other being Dark Torment.
The Universal Classic Monster house idea would not be used for three years until Horror in Wax in 2004. However, this house would once again be different from the previous incarnations, as it was set in a wax museum based on the Universal Classic Monsters that had burned down, causing the monsters to melt.
Description[]
Experience "reel" terror as classic movie monsters are transformed into hideously gruesome and grotesque abominations.
Story[]
According to this, the house took place on a movie set where a horror film was shot many years ago. However, the movie was never released due to the footage mysteriously disappearing.
Concept[]
According to: https://twitter.com/RonIsAJerk/status/1664073911154221056/photo/3
The following is from Universal Art and Design's presentation manuscript of HHNX- Not Afraid Of The Dark? You Don't Know Jack!
The Universal Classic Monsters are back, with an attitude, Universal stopped production of this monster movie in 1950. The footage was presumed lost and the sets stored in a dark warehouse. Now, 50 years later, You are invited to view the lost scenes for the first time. Become part of the reel live terror as you star in the greatest sequel never made. Journey through stark black and white sets as some of feardom's greatest screen terrors appear just as we remember them. The environment is devoid of any color, recreating the look and feel of a Classic Universal Horror Film. Classic versions of the Frankenstein Monster & Count Dracula swat at you, hissing and barring their fangs. We move through what seems to be a tunnel of lightening recreating the classic lab scene from Frankenstein. The lightning blinds us as we hear the morphing sounds of the Monsters, their seventy year grunts becoming more powerful and supernatural. Suddenly the world turns to color, and you realize, you're not in Kansas anymore. Saturated colors and blinding strobe effects create a newer more extreme world as German Expressionism meets Modern Interpretation creating newer, more grotesque, more deformed scarifying Monsters. Extreme Versions of Frankenstein's Monster, Count Dracula, the Wolf-man, the Bride of Frankenstein and the Creature from the Black Lagoon all join forces to stop you from escaping this new work in progress. Watch Out! The final reel is a real killer.
Experience[]
Queue and Facade[]
The map seemingly shows the entrance of this house being to the left of the entrance for Beetlejuice's Graveyard Revue. The queue would most likely go to a backstage area behind the Earthquake building, where the line would loop around multiple times before entering the Earthquake building from the back. The facade was made to look like a movie soundstage (Soundstage 13) with a stone gargoyle next to it.
Haunted House[]
Some reports seem to imply that many of the scenes in this house were black and white.
There was a Dracula room that took place in his castle. Dracula would come out with large sharp fangs and a bat head. Another room featured a giant Frankenstein's Monster strapped to a table in Frankenstein's Laboratory. Another scene featured a giant graveyard with a hand coming out of a grave. There was also a crypt with many coffins and a hand reaching out of one of them. The Creature From the Black Lagoon also appeared in a woody, swampy type area. The Wolfman also appeared as a giant, ripped wolf in this house. According to this, there was also a scene with floating mummy heads.
Scareactors[]
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| Halloween Horror Nights X |
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| Characters: Jack the Clown (Event Icon) • Dr. Oddfellow |
| Haunted Houses: Anxiety in 3-D • Total Chaos • The Fearhouse • Universal Classic Monster Mania • Dark Torment |
| Scarezones: Apocalypse Island • Clown Attack • The Gauntlet • Midway of Dr. Morose |
| Shows: Festival of the Dead Parade • Jacked Up • Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure |
| Haunted Attractions: Bloody Waters • Nightmare Creatures II |