Busch Gardens Williamsburg Howl-O-Scream 2026

[horsesboy]

Rumor has it the park has aquired an IP house that will debut this year.

 

[Zachary]

Just hope it's an IP with standards...

 

[harry580]

Just hope it's an IP with standards...

wait, empty building in ireland, acquired ip house, I know what we getting:

 

[Mushroom]

My sources are telling me the park has a brilliant plan to get the IP house at a great price, too.

The plan? Don’t pay the studio their licensing fee, and when they get pissed, invite them to sue.

joke

 

[mtorange]

Just hope it's an IP with standards...

Better not be Luigi’s Mansion, that’s all I’ll say…

 

[Haunted River]

wait, empty building in ireland, acquired ip house, I know what we getting:
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That would be the scariest house ever

 

[AmyUD06]

Just hope it's an IP with standards...

...and a good legal team.

 

[Thomas]

It’s Blackfish.

 

[harry580]

peta house of horrors

 

[TheCoasterNerd]

Knowing United parks it’d be Sesame Street Forest of Fear or some bullshit just to have a farewell little fuck you to the IP

 

[MrBradferd]

Do we think we just lose a maze this year due to the sim building construction or will we get a new one somewhere?

 

[harry580]

Do we think we just lose a maze this year due to the sim building construction or will we get a new one somewhere?

theres room for one, I think they would build a new building for one)

 

[jscll]

theres room for one, I think they would build a new building for one)

Concidering the debacle from building the event building, I put the chances of a new building being built and completed in time for this fall at zero.

 

[MrBradferd]

Theyd be better off taking half that building and make another maze with it. Shorten that dogshit wolf one they got now and stuff it with more theming in a smaller space

 

[Irishlad]

I think the most obvious choice would be to back to the royal place theater but then again with the ice equipment etc for the Christmastown show, I’m not sure. I’m not sure if it’s doable but somehow use the Blackforest picnic areas but it could get too crowded back there now. Another parking lot maze perhaps? Or Forest of fun?

 

[RKRCC]

I don't think this event will lose a maze for 2026. 2019 was the last time the park had 6 mazes. Covid shut down 2020 and they had a Halloween Harvest event. Since 2021 they have had 5 mazes. That seems like a pretty good number for the park. I think they will stay with 5 mazes. Whether that is reusing the Royal Palace Theater, the old Witch of the Woods / Lumberhack location, or somewhere else is to be seen.

 

[rideopsarecool]

I've heard rumors that either this year or last year could've been Killarney Diner's last because of the possibility of a new attraction in the simulator building.

 

[Coasternerd]

I've heard rumors that either this year or last year could've been Killarney Diner's last because of the possibility of a new attraction in the simulator building.

Considering they’re actively ripping out the simulator building as we speak, I think that more or less confirms it.

 

[Le Moose]

I've heard rumors that either this year or last year could've been Killarney Diner's last because of the possibility of a new attraction in the simulator building.

Iirc photos exist of the house in a dumpster, so I think it’s safe to assume it no longer exists.

 

[horsesboy]

Do we think we just lose a maze this year due to the sim building construction or will we get a new one somewhere?

No a new maze location has already been picked out. Sadly the park will feel extremely lops sided for Howl-O-Scream with nothing on one side of the park.