Hello HHN peeps. First night last night and I didn't do any houses cause I was streaming (boo) but walked around the entire park more than once.
Arrived at 5:30pm and was able to get in line in the courtyard past the ticket booths. The opened the gates around 6:10ish, it was incredibly hot. One thing I didn't see was their regular opening day "rush" of characters to the front of the gate, did I miss it or they just didn't do it?
Did a whole lap in the daytime, the back scare zones were not that fun at all imho, my favorites were (sorry forgot the names) the arcade one, the vikings one and Vanity.
It was the busiest I have ever seen a HHN opening night, the tribute store had no crowd control so people just kept going in and it was very hard to actually see anything, it was shoulder to shoulder in there. I'm sure it'll get better this week.
Walked into an empty Diagon Alley around 7pm, not kidding, there were only about 15 people in there, nice break from the crowds.
My son did Universal Monsters during preview and said it was fantastic, his favorite so far, he also did ST and Ghosbusters, so I'm excited to go this week and actually go into the houses