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19 minutes ago, Losantiville Mining Co. said:

The expanded Halloween Haunt hours make me hopeful that we'll see a better event this year, but all of the drops in park quality over the past few months make me doubt that. Maybe things like the Haunted Attractions Pass will thin out the amount of young children at the event. I'm sorry to say, but I don't think young children (especially those in strollers) should be allowed into the night time event. Haunt has suffered from being made more family-friendly, and it's about time for it to return to its gory goodness. 

Tricks and Treats should still exist and be a high-quality event, but there is a separation between the daytime and nighttime Halloween events for a reason. 

Those new operating days/hours could either mean that guests spread themselves out over more days (lessening the crowds overall), that the budget will be spread even thinner (upping the chances of a bad event), or that there are some good plans for this Haunt season that may entice guests to go more often. 

You know they will be watching the metrics closely.

If 4 days of Haunt weekends doesn't move the needle more than the historical numbers, it will go back to previous the following year.

We tried Thursdays once and it failed miserably, but weather played heavily into that and times are different this time.

I think it will move the needle enough to justify it, but who knows how much the needle needs to move in their eyes...

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Thursdays will be great. Cedar Point has been doing Thursdays for several years and they are very pleasant nights without a huge crowd.

this is going to spread the paying customers out over four days and allow the non-paying season pass holders to use their past more for this event  

We should enjoy these hours this year because they probably won’t return IMO Because of the way the company operates. It’s going to provide a much more pleasant experience for everyone by spreading the crowd out over four days, but we know that Six Flags is not about providing a pleasant experience there about cost cutting and cramming as much profit into one day as possible.   So this is not going to work for their current formula.

 

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Canada's Wonderland saw a massive spike in attendance after their 2026 passes went on sale. Whether or not Kings Island's passes are able to penetrate the market any more than they already do, I think we'd see the extra days remain. It also looks like the November 2nd Haunt date on the park calendar has been corrected to only mention Tricks and Treats. 

I hope the Haunted Attractions Pass works more like a tasting card rather than a Fast Lane. If it's one time through each attraction, it would be much better to let guests come back to use the rest of it. Rather than force them to buy a pass and stand in long lines only to not experience everything, make it a punch card system like I've seen Fright Lane have in the past. 

 

All of this being said, the overall Haunt experience at Kings Island will need to be much better for 2025 than it has been for the past five years for any of this to be worth it. I don't think they'll see many repeat HAP/HAEP customers if they keep the mazes at the quality level they're currently at.

Both Carowinds and Kings Dominion have released teasers for SCarowinds and Halloween Haunt, respectively, while Kings Island has only put out hiring flyers. The most we've seen for new mazes/attractions at Kings Island are photos from over a month ago and the new flyer. I have to wonder when they are expecting the right time to be to release the news about the new upcharge. 

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38 minutes ago, Losantiville Mining Co. said:

Canada's Wonderland saw a massive spike in attendance after their 2026 passes went on sale. Whether or not Kings Island's passes are able to penetrate the market any more than they already do, I think we'd see the extra days remain. It also looks like the November 2nd Haunt date on the park calendar has been corrected to only mention Tricks and Treats. 

I hope the Haunted Attractions Pass works more like a tasting card rather than a Fast Lane. If it's one time through each attraction, it would be much better to let guests come back to use the rest of it. Rather than force them to buy a pass and stand in long lines only to not experience everything, make it a punch card system like I've seen Fright Lane have in the past. 

 

All of this being said, the overall Haunt experience at Kings Island will need to be much better for 2025 than it has been for the past five years for any of this to be worth it. I don't think they'll see many repeat HAP/HAEP customers if they keep the mazes at the quality level they're currently at.

Both Carowinds and Kings Dominion have released teasers for SCarowinds and Halloween Haunt, respectively, while Kings Island has only put out hiring flyers. The most we've seen for new mazes/attractions at Kings Island are photos from over a month ago and the new flyer. I have to wonder when they are expecting the right time to be to release the news about the new upcharge. 

Inexperience behind the wheel with timing misses on several fronts. 

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21 hours ago, Timchat2 said:

I wonder if the shows (presumably Ghouls Gone Wild and NyteWalkers) will run on Thursday nights at Haunt. Cedar Point's HalloWeekends Thursdays generally don't have much live entertainment.

The first years of Cedar Point operating on Thursday night, they had full live entertainment. 
 

Of course, they cut it out to save costs.  

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3 hours ago, Losantiville Mining Co. said:

Canada's Wonderland saw a massive spike in attendance after their 2026 passes went on sale. Whether or not Kings Island's passes are able to penetrate the market any more than they already do, I think we'd see the extra days remain. It also looks like the November 2nd Haunt date on the park calendar has been corrected to only mention Tricks and Treats. 

I hope the Haunted Attractions Pass works more like a tasting card rather than a Fast Lane. If it's one time through each attraction, it would be much better to let guests come back to use the rest of it. Rather than force them to buy a pass and stand in long lines only to not experience everything, make it a punch card system like I've seen Fright Lane have in the past. 

 

All of this being said, the overall Haunt experience at Kings Island will need to be much better for 2025 than it has been for the past five years for any of this to be worth it. I don't think they'll see many repeat HAP/HAEP customers if they keep the mazes at the quality level they're currently at.

Both Carowinds and Kings Dominion have released teasers for SCarowinds and Halloween Haunt, respectively, while Kings Island has only put out hiring flyers. The most we've seen for new mazes/attractions at Kings Island are photos from over a month ago and the new flyer. I have to wonder when they are expecting the right time to be to release the news about the new upcharge. 

 

KI always sees a spike in attendance when new passes go on sale because they allow all the pass add-ons to work immediately, so everyone wants to use their shiny new pass.  The first couple of weekends that passes go on sale is a tough time to visit the park because the food and FL can get overwhelmed at times.

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New 2025 All Season Haunted Attraction Passes have been added to Discovery Kingdom and Magic Mountain's purchasing websites. The one at Magic Mountain is $69.00 (nice) for unlimited access to mazes at Magic Mountain's Fright Fest ONLY. The same is available at Discovery Kingdom for $65.00 for DK ONLY. Knott's is offering a new Knott's Scary Farm season pass add-on. It doesn't look like they will require a Haunted Attractions Pass, which would be good considering Scary Farm is already a ticketed event. No official word yet about the Haunted Attractions Pass from any other parks. 

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