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The biggest competitor for the event at the moment is Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens. The event has gone from running a mere three nights to, at its 2019 peak, running 42 select nights from September 6 to November 2. The event has only grown since then: in 2019 at its peak, for Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights 29, there were 10 houses, 5 scarezones, and two shows.
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'92 also saw the introduction of the Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure show, which continued on every year until 2017. Fright Nights was massively popular, with the house achieving wait times of over 2 hours, and the name was changed to Halloween Horror Nights in 1992. Universal would not revive their Halloween events until Orlando (to compete with the local "Terror On Church Street" haunt) introduced Fright Nights in 1991, an event that lasted for one weekend in October and included one house, The Dungeon of Terror, and a large number of shows, musical acts, and street performers.
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Halloween Horror Nights actually began in 1986 at Universal Hollywood after a grisly accident where a scareactor was run over by a tram, Hollywood canceled the event.