Here to comment on the scarezone discussion. I definitely agree with the overall consensus that scarezones have gone downhill for years. I'm sure some of it has to do with increasing crowd levels, but still, the scarezones in the last 7-9 years have been nothing like those that came before. Thinking back to some of the truly great zones (Grown Evil, The Path of the Wicked, Evil's Roots, Psychoscareapy, All NIte Die-In, Dead Man's Wharf, Vamp 55, Trick r Treat..), the more recent zones don't even come close. We used to take at least an hour per night to sit in our fave scarezone and watch the actors work. It was so enjoyable. We haven't done that since Vamp 85. It's rather disappointing. I hate what San Francisco has become (an unoffical Blumhouse commercial). So boring and predictable, not to mention a total chokehold due to the photo op nature of said commercial. Dump that one, or make it better again.
Also, it's such a drag that we haven't gotten a single announcement to run with. I was away on a trip the last five days, and I thought I'd have a lot to read today. There was all of two pages of comments.. we have pretty much speculated as much as we can without any info. Bummer.