Hauntcon Announces Partnership with Halloween Retail Show - Houston
Hauntcon Tradeshow announced this week they are partnering with the Halloween Retail Show in Houston January 23-28, 2014 at the George Brown Convention Center. Hauntcon has traditionally been a show in late April now and focused on changing cities to tour new haunts. Now they at least seem to be co-locating with the Halloween Retail show which has no haunted house industry presense. Several years back the haunted house industry and the Halloween retail industry split and went their own way with the Haunt industry starting its own tradeshow in St. Louis through Transworld and the Halloween Retail industry starting their own show in Houston. Haunted Houses and Halloween Retail really have little to nothing in common and have no real reason to co-locate but Hauntcon will give it go.
We see many flaws with Hautcon's new plan to produce the show in January... for one most haunt vendors are not available to exhibit in January as they are in full production for new products. Most haunted house owners have proven they will not attend a show in the winter hence IAAPA has very little haunt owner presence. Additionally Hauntcon has been known for going to cities and producing haunt tours yet Houston has already been toured once and there are few if any well known haunted houses there. In our view Hauntcon picked the WRONG city and produce their show we suggested cities with a high concentration of haunted houses and population like New York, Boston, Philly, Atlanta, or even Baltimore which is nearby many haunt owners.
It will be interesting to see if Hauntcon can survive moving their show in the dead of winter when most vendors and buyers have little interest to travel. Additionally it will be interesting to see how the Halloween retail industry welcomes some haunted house presense considering they did not want to share a show with the haunt industry before.
To learn more about the move to Houston visit www.HauntCon.com
Remember the main haunted house industry show is in March 20-23, 2014 in St Louis Missouri ... walk through over 100,000 square foot of animations, props and special fx. To learn more about the Transworld Haunted House Show visit their website at http://www.haashow.com/
Stay tuned to Hauntworld All Halloween season for the latest in Haunted News.
|
|
Trending blog
Haunted House Rating - Double M Haunted Hayrides – Albany, New York By Hauntworld Magazine When you're trying to find the biggest, scariest, haunted hous
Haunted House Review and Rating of Chamber of Horrors NY– Hauppauge, New York By Nick Georgandis and Frank Ingargiola When you're trying to find the biggest, scaries
Once again the very dumb people over at the Halloween and Costume Association think they own Halloween. They need a reality check because not only do they not own Halloween, their failing associ
The Darkness haunted house located in downtown St Louis, opened its doors to the entire haunted house industry March of 2019. Each year the entire haunted house industry hold their annual tr
Haunted House Review Hellsgate Haunted House – Lockport, Illinois By Kris Zahrobsky, Haunted House Chicago | Photos By: Tiela Halpin, Zombie Army Productions When you're
Transworld 2019 was the biggest tradeshow the haunt industry has ever seen. Christmas attractions, Escape Rooms and more where all added to the mix creating a tradeshow floor that spanned nearly
Haunted House Review Realm of Terror Haunted House – Round Lake Beach, Illinois By Hauntworld Magazine www.realmofterror.com Illinois and Wisconsin are home
Chicago Illinois June 6-9, 2019 visit the 2nd biggest haunted hosue gathering in America. Prepare for haunted house tours, costume parties, and haunted house seminars. This year you
The 2019 Transworld Halloween, Haunted House, Escape Room, and Christmas Attraction show kicks OFF March 21-24, 2019 in St Louis Missouri. The tradeshow has morphed into the largest holid
Haunted House Magazine 'Hauntworld Magazine' issue 48 is now available and you can get your subscription at www.HauntedHouseMagazine.com Hauntworld Magazine issue 48 is one of the lar
Trending Articles
Double M Haunted Hayride - Albany New York Haunted House Rating read about about this scary haunted house a complete review by Hauntworld.com
Chamber of Horrors New York is rated and reviewed by Hauntworld read all the details about this amazing and scary haunted house.
Haunted House Rating for Realm of Terror Haunted House near Chicago Illinois by Hauntworld.com Realm of Terror is located between Chicago and Milwaukee.
Hellsgate Haunted House Review and Rating - Chicago Illinois Hauntworld goes to Hell to review one of the scariest haunted houses in America. Prepare to burn inside Hellsgate!
Haunted House Review for 13th Hour haunted house in Wharton New Jersey close to New York City. Rated and reviewed by Hauntworld.com
Hauntworld rates the top 13 best and scariest haunted houses in America. Hauntworld rates and reviews the scariest, best, longest, haunted houses and Halloween Attractions in America 2018.
Lake Hickory Haunted House is the biggest, scariest haunted house in the Charlotte North Carolina area. Hauntworld reviews one of the scariest haunted houses in North Carolina. Lake Hickory is a massive Screampark with multiple haunted attractions in one location learn all about it click here.
Escape From Blood Prison in Mansfield Ohio site of one of the single most famous Prisons in Hollywood History ( Ohio State Reformatory) famous of the film "The Shawshank Redemption". Now its one of the biggest scariest haunted houses in America. Read about Escape from Blood Prison!
Haunted House Review The Queen Mary's Dark Harbor is Los Angles California's biggest, scariest and most haunted real haunted house. Read the full review of this haunted attraction click here.
Woods of Terror from Greensboro North Carolina is the scariest haunted house in the area with a massive haunted woods and much more. Read the full story here!