Welcome to For Your Amusement, a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park attractions to determine if they are world class.

I'm Ryan Bergara. I'm Byron Marin. And for this episode's featured attraction, we take a peek behind the curtain of Halloween Horror Nights in Universal Studios Orlando, Universal Studios Hollywood, as well as Universal Studios, Singapore, and Japan.

And joining us to discuss this iconic event is not only a theme park creator, but also someone who is a current scare actor and has been for the past 13 years.

Please welcome Dylan Dixon from Theme Park Obsession on YouTube. Thank you for joining us once again. Hello. Welcome back. If you didn't know, he covered Veloccoaster with us on this podcast back in the day. So thank you for coming back into the Tiki Room. Yeah, thanks for having me again. And joining us on the new YouTube channel. Yeah, this is cool. And as always, please like and subscribe if you're watching the video version over on youtube.com slash at f y a pod or if you're listening to the audio version subscribe and rate the podcast five stars and consider supporting us on our fourth wall which is basically a more creator friendly version of patreon you can join our fourth wall and become a second gator as we're calling it no way what do we call on that now byr a park hopper a park hopper that's right you can join us our fourth wall and become a park as we're calling it because you know you're like hopping over to our other park i wanted to call you all f y a holes just saying but we uh we could be in the comments we backtracked uh uh we could do that by heading over to FYAPod.com to join our fourth

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shows in addition to this one. But without further ado, let's jump into Halloween horror nights.

Dylan, I had no idea that you were a scare actor, the entirety of the run for this park. I had no idea. Yeah. And, well, I mean, a lot of people in general don't know that I have done this. Like, I'm doing it currently. And then in the past, they're like, oh my God, like you, you've worked Halloween and Horanites before? I'm like, yeah, for a long time. Yeah. So it's cool. Yeah, I've done it. I had to take a little bit of a break when I started the channel.

I just wanted to make sure that was doing its thing.

And then now that it kind of just is, you know, it's self-sufficient. It runs itself. Then I came back in 2022 and I've been doing it. Yeah. Well, don't worry. Universal Studios Hollywood's version of Horror Nice.

They took a couple breaks as well.

Yeah, yeah.

So it's, but it's fun.

I'm there almost every single. Universal Studios Hollywood's version of Hora and Ice. They took a couple breaks as well.

Yeah, yeah.

So it's, but it's fun. Yeah, I'm there almost every single day. There's some days I have to take off, you know, because of the channel and I got to get stuff done. But, yeah, for the most, for the majority of it, I'm there. Man, I, uh, I've always wanted to be a scare actor. I went to school down by Knott's Berry Farm, and it always had just kind of, it had been an idea that maybe I could go down there and do, you know, school and then go to, like, do Nots for Halloween Horn, or not Halloween Hornards, but for the hunt.

It just never worked out.

But I had worked, like, local hunts. Like, I worked my high school hunt. I used to set up mazes in my front yard for trick-or-treating. And, like, you know, there would be, like, a line and stuff like that. And we would do sliding between, like, our little PVC pipe maze. That's awesome. So I have long been obsessed with this. He also used to scare his dorm mates.

He would wait like in a closet for like 45 minutes or something just to get the satisfaction.

For the thrill of the scare, dude.

For the love of the scare.

Oh, that's great.

And actually, Not Scary Farm was nice enough.

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