So, I don’t see Fiends returning for 2023, nor a show out there at all, rather a return of Slaughter Houses location, meaning we get 2 new houses (dead waters location too)
Event Busch Gardens Tampa Howl-O-Scream 2023
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Anyone know which houses/shows will be sexually explicit? Bringing my female to BGT and I know she won't appreciate anything provocative. From my understanding its Fiends, Cirque Xscream and Forgotten Uprising???
Ummm... How are you defining sexually explicit?
Not that I'm familiar with this park's HoS, but unless I'm mistaken everything is pg-13 at most - no nudity or vulgarity. The closest they get is a few campy/cheesy innuendos as part of characters bantering with each other, plus the Fiends nurses outfits which honestly show far less than you'd see over at the water parks anyways.
Not that I'm familiar with this park's HoS, but unless I'm mistaken everything is pg-13 at most - no nudity or vulgarity. The closest they get is a few campy/cheesy innuendos as part of characters bantering with each other, plus the Fiends nurses outfits which honestly show far less than you'd see over at the water parks anyways.
"Sexually explicit" is not just determined by how much skin is shown. I would consider both Fiends at the Busch parks and the Sirens at SWO to be overly sexual and honestly quite vulgar. I have watched nurses humping everything that didn't move and the sirens look like strippers in cages. (Yes, I realize Fiends is gone; I was just citing it as an example.)
Essentially, the appropriateness of the content is is entirely subjective and it is probably very hard for people to judge how a stranger might react to any number of experiences at HOS.
To address the specific question, given how much the Tampa event changes from year to year, it is probably not a great idea to attempt to assess based on past events what will be inappropriate in 2023.
Essentially, the appropriateness of the content is is entirely subjective and it is probably very hard for people to judge how a stranger might react to any number of experiences at HOS.
To address the specific question, given how much the Tampa event changes from year to year, it is probably not a great idea to attempt to assess based on past events what will be inappropriate in 2023.
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I apologize for what can be misconstrued as me questioning someone's tolerance for sexually suggestive content.
I think part of my confusion is relative to the term sexually explicit itself, moreso the explicit part of it.
Using the definition provided by Cornell Law School:
The term “sexually explicit material” means an audio recording, a film or video recording, or a periodical with visual depictions, produced in any medium, the dominant theme of which depicts or describes nudity, including sexual or excretory activities or organs, in a lascivious way:
Do any of the HoS shows (or, for that matter, any park show) come close to fitting this definition? If so, what element(s) meet that criteria?
This isn't a perfect definition as it doesn't cover live performances, but I believe the source is more authoritative than something akin to Wikipedia.
Otherwise, for anything considered sexual but not outright explicit per the definition, would they then be better classified as sexually suggestive, which is basically a sliding scale as determined by each individual instead of having any true broad definition?
In a far more practical sense, using Fiends as the example and presuming there aren't any appreciable differences in how it's performed between BGW and BGT (as I alluded to, I hadn't seen this show in Tampa but presume it to be basically the same), I would rate this one as having a few cheesy sexually suggestive bits and costumes but, according to the definition, nothing explicit unless you somehow counted the shirtless male character at the end. No clue about the other shows though.
@Zachary and I went to HOS at BGT on Friday (15 September). I thought I would share a few impressions (this is NOT a full review or trip report).
The new house, D.H. Baggum’s Circus of Fear, was great and had a lot of new, sophisticated scares. In fact, some of the mechanics we saw on our HHN Unmasking the Horror Tour were implemented, as well. We both also very much enjoyed The Residence: Home for the Holidays and The Forgotten: Uprising. If anyone is interested, here is our ranking of the houses from that night:
We were very concerned, however, when we arrived to this separately-ticketed event and discovered that almost all of the shops and restaurants were closed. There were some bars and a few dedicated HOS stores, but we couldn’t have gotten much real food or normal merchandise, if we had wanted to. Throughout the night it became apparent that there probably weren’t enough guests to justify the expense of staffing much more than the smattering of kiosks, anyway. For context, Friday was a warm, dry night, and only one house out of five had any line at all, and its wasn’t longer than a 15 minute wait. I should acknowledge that we got to the event early and some people were still arriving, as we departed.
Overall, we really enjoyed Howl-O-Scream at BGT and, in fact, think is it much stronger than either Orlando or Williamsburg. If you are considering pairing a Florida HOS with HHN this year, we strongly recommend making the trek to Tampa.
The new house, D.H. Baggum’s Circus of Fear, was great and had a lot of new, sophisticated scares. In fact, some of the mechanics we saw on our HHN Unmasking the Horror Tour were implemented, as well. We both also very much enjoyed The Residence: Home for the Holidays and The Forgotten: Uprising. If anyone is interested, here is our ranking of the houses from that night:
- D.H. Baggum’s Circus of Fear
- The Residence: Home for the Holidays
- The Forgotten: Uprising
- Witch of the Woods
- Stranglewood Estate
We were very concerned, however, when we arrived to this separately-ticketed event and discovered that almost all of the shops and restaurants were closed. There were some bars and a few dedicated HOS stores, but we couldn’t have gotten much real food or normal merchandise, if we had wanted to. Throughout the night it became apparent that there probably weren’t enough guests to justify the expense of staffing much more than the smattering of kiosks, anyway. For context, Friday was a warm, dry night, and only one house out of five had any line at all, and its wasn’t longer than a 15 minute wait. I should acknowledge that we got to the event early and some people were still arriving, as we departed.
Overall, we really enjoyed Howl-O-Scream at BGT and, in fact, think is it much stronger than either Orlando or Williamsburg. If you are considering pairing a Florida HOS with HHN this year, we strongly recommend making the trek to Tampa.