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Now that we are halfway through July, it may be time to give the 2025 Halloween Haunt season its discussion thread. Seasonal events like Halloween Horror Nights, Howl-O-Scream, and Halloween Haunt all have parts of their websites published already. A number of the HHN houses have already been announced with Fallout, Five Nights at Freddy's, and Terrifier being notable standouts. Carowinds has also released a teaser for SCarowinds 25 Years of Fear, celebrating the event's 25th anniversary (delayed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic). I would love to see Kings Island put on a similar celebration since this will also be their 25 Years of Fear celebration, whether they advertise it or not.  Kings Island is rumored to receive at least one new haunt maze in the building formerly occupied by Club Blood and Blackout, built by the trusted Plague Productions team. Rumors speculate that it could be themed to a story from The Conjuring, while some park-goers hope for it to be themed to vampires, gothic horror, or even a pirate maze. 2024 saw the addition of the new "Hooked" scare zone between Viking Fury and Adventure Port, as well as a new unnamed themed area along the path between the Rivertown LaRosa's and Jukebox Diner. Additional rumors are circulating around the former Tomb Raider: The Ride / The Crypt building, formerly home to Madame Fatale's Cavern of Terror, as it has been cleared to begin construction on Kings Island's 2026 attraction or for a new 2025 Halloween Haunt maze.  Online sleuths recently discovered a new Haunted Attractions Pass and a Haunted Attractions Express Pass to be available at Kings Dominion. Playing around with the URL also reveals the same program coming to Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds, Cedar Point, Dorney Park, and Kings Island. The same website for Valleyfair still has dates listed as available for their Haunted Attractions Passes, with Friday and Sunday prices at $10/HAP and $55/HAEP. Saturday prices are currently set at $20/HAP and $60/HAEP. Prices at other Legacy Cedar Fair parks appear to range from $10-$40 for the standard pass and up to $70 for the Express pass. A similar program existed at Fright Fest throughout the Legacy Six Flags parks, where park visitors would need to purchase an additional pass to enter indoor walkthrough attractions during the event. These new tickets will hopefully bring some calm to the crowd levels and allow for Kings Island to begin receiving some well-needed upgrades to their Halloween Haunt event.  What do you think Halloween Haunt will look like in 2025? Will you be attending? Halloween Haunt at Kings Island will be held select nights from September 19th to November 1st, 2025. This event is intended for mature audiences and is not recommended for children under 13. Kings Island will maintain its no re-entry after 6:00 PM during Halloween Haunt for 2025. It's time to get excited! Event Website: https://www.visitkingsisland.com/events/haunt

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You can search by owner on this site: https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-information If I post a direct link to the trademark, it will expire after awhile. I think it will just be a new area of the park.  There is a new path going from the former Scrambler location to Fury 325 and a new restaurant in the plans.

It's likely KI will have it as well: 

FYE Coasters posted screenshots and a link from the Kings Dominion ticket purchasing page showing new ticket add-ons, including a Haunted Attractions Pass and a Haunted Attractions Express Pass. I'm not totally sure how this link was acquired, but the links are the same as the rest of the Kings Dominion ticket pages. Prices are different on each screenshot (which could have been for different nights), though the quantity links have since been removed and only the website remains. I believe the Haunted Attractions Express Pass may be a replacement for Fright Lane.  I'm super curious how this will pan out, and what it will look like overall. If I can get back to last year's Fright Fest website I'll try to make another post here with how their system was set up.  We've seen a ton of developments from a lot of major Six Flags parks haunted mazes, including work at Carowinds, Kings Island, and Magic Mountain. I would not be shocked if the whole system is getting an upgrade to be the first major ticket/naming/event consistency across all Six Flags parks. Link to the Kings Dominion ticket purchasing page where this was found: https://cf-kd.store.cffunkd.com/fastlanewizardstatic/HauntedAttractionsPass?_cid=1750345194.1744563098 Link to the Kings Island ticket purchasing page which shows the same: https://cf-ki.store.cffunki.com/fastlanewizardstatic/HauntedAttractionsPass?_cid=1750345194.1744563098 Link to the FYE Coasters Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16Zm1E26ir/?mibextid=wwXIfr Screenshots from said post: