Hyena's Haven

It seems like all the great epic blockbuster games that will hit it big upon release are coming out between February and April of next year.

You'd think all of these great titles would make better sales during the Holiday Season. I'm guessing that most of these titles weren't done in time for Holiday, and the developers knew it, so they pushed them later in delays to make them as perfect as can be.

Most of these titles were originally scheduled to come out around this time (middle of December), but have all been pushed forward;

Splinter Cell: Conviction
HEAVY RAIN (PS3)
Final Fantasy XIII
Mass Effect 2
Bioshock 2
Red Dead Redemption

So in consequence.. there's really nothing that special to purchase for Christmas.. lol. oh well.

So I was just picking up food from Mc'Ds in full moto gear. I'd say a three year old kid, maybe 4 years walked in from the play area with his dad, and he looks at me, talking to his dad, "He looks like a transformer" Haha, and his dad laughed and explained to him what the gear was used for.


A Transformer?? I've had power ranger alot.. but that was interesting, but cute :). Complimentive to me.

I notice alot of children who see me, in their car, or in an establishment are always interested to see someone in full gear.. haha. But I guess I would be too at that age, because it's so different to see.

Big thanks goes out to Simba and KP for letting me spend Thanksgiving with them this year.. Had an awesome time. Loved catching up with folks again!! Watching "Airplane", "Galaxy Quest", and the Mythbusters Marathon with a big group of folks was actually really entertaining.. lol. Loved it.

Now it's time for Thanksgiving after parties!!!

and damn Twinkie, I've never seen someone drink so much wine!

Thanksgiving is just around the corner... So.. HAPPY TURKEY DAY! in advance. I'm gonna be busy over the next couple days. I gotta hit work early tomorrow morning to start deliveries because of all the crazy people wanting their stuff the day before. And then during the day, people will be ordering like mad.. so.. I'll be one busy critter tomorrow. Should run smooth though, as I stayed behind after work today with my production manager to get everything all ready/organized FOR tomorrow, so it should run smoothly.

Then on THANKSGIVING day, I have to work till noon, which sucks.. but such is life. Then hopefully head out and celebrate Thanksgiving with some folks.

My body is aching right now, like Yellowstone park will be in 2012.

Yay, another Thanksgiving approaching with no family. But I'll find reconcile with a couple friends most likely and celebrate the day with movies and food. :)

This'll be my 6th year of not being around my family for the holidays. I guess I'm managing pretty well. :P

Love Love Love!! Spread the Love for the Holiday Season!!

Wow. Modern Warfare 2 has been the most fun I've had with a multiplayer game since GoldenEye 007 for N64 and the Perfect Dark series.. haha.

I'm not really a multiplayer fan either, but.. as soon as I hopped off Single Player for abit to 'give multiplayer a shot' with Yenaroo (some still know him as Kayin), I was hooked!!! I didn't get off of it till 3am in the morning!! It's been awhile since I've volunteered that much time toward a game when I knew I had to work the next day.

It was definately good times.. and all we played was "Spec Ops" where you and one other player can team up and go through makeshift Single Player type of campaign challenges together.

They are excellently varied, for example.. Remember the mission in the first game where you are in Chernobyl with "Capt. Price" and you pretty much snipe the whole way through?? Imagine living that level out except it's you and a buddy. Or imagine playing a level where you are the gunner in a chopper supplying cover fire for your buddy on the ground, or via AC130 plane, or racing snowmobiles together, etc etc.. the list goes on. If you can think of it.. Infinity Ward has probably put it in there.

Great Game.. go buy it. Best multiplayer experience for a LONG LONG time. The single player campaign just seems like icing on the cake in comparison.

Also, if you don't have a mic.. you'll definately need one if you and your buddy hope to play SNIPER together in perfect unison via Spec Ops. Taking out 2 to 6 guys is alot easier if there is strategy and simultaneous shots fired off together.

7 years later and I whipped Maleficent's ass in dragon form.. and she was EASY!! I must have really been lazy the first go around. Time to level up some more to get ready for the conclusion of the game... then it's off to the 2nd one. Eventually... Modern Warfare 2 will take up some of that time of course. ;P

One game I'm really looking forward to still is HEAVY RAIN for PS3. Not only is it about a serial killer, which I will LOVE, but it's created and designed the same way as the underrated Indigo Prophecy (Fahrenheit) that came out some odd years ago... great game too. I wish I had some one to go through it with, cuz it's a great story for two people to be making decisions for this one character to see how the story plays out. Loved it!! Hurry up 2010.

So, I played Kingdom Hearts way back in 2002 when it first released, got to Maleficent and just couldn't get past her dragon form. I'm guessing I just didn't level up enough before fighting her. SO.. I quit. Never touched the game again after that, never even seen the second game, except for videos, and playing it once at Gamestop when it first released (I was really impressed with what I did play).


So, now, after 7 years, I'm re-starting the game and gonna make sure I get through the first as well as the second game, (still gotta go out and buy the second one). But wow, I'm playing it, and it's amazing how much I enjoy this game over alot of the more 'modern' games that have released lately.

I just hope Final Fantasy XIII is decent as compared to some of the lacking titles that Square has been releasing lately. Squaresoft (Square ENIX) isn't as impressive as they were back in the 90s. It's a shame.

But not to mention as well, Kingdom Hearts is alot more enjoyable now that I have worked and been in the Disney parks with the characters themselves, as opposed to back when I played it the first time in my college days back at home.

Woo! Looking forward to Furloween, I need a break for sure. :D

Furloween anyone? :|! Give me the story!

Sorry guys.. for those of you who found me on facebook, I can't confirm you as a friend unless you first, e-mail me to let me know who you are. And also, I will not confirm friends that have their 'furry name' in their facebook title.

As alot of other folks have mentioned on their own livejournals about their facebook, I have alot of work friends and business managers on my facebook account from both Disney and Universal Studios. It's just too much of a risk. And just something I don't want to connect because of the type of work that I do, and want to keep doing in the future.

Hope you guys understand.

I think I just saw the hottest female(ish) hyena suit ever on FA. Lovely. :) That made my day.

Almost time for another grand evening of Halloween Horror Nights. My body still hurts! Thanks Universal Studios, I love you. :D It hurts.. but it's oh so much fun to scare people!

Venting time.


So the biggest problem I have is the fact that someone from Cast B in HHN injured my phone while I was out on set, yesterday. At first it wouldn't cut on at all. Now it's actually on and everything about it works, but doesn't receive service for calls and texts.. so I gotta bring it over to Nextel and have them work on it.

*My entire body is sore from HHN and working the day job, with no rest hardly inbetween.

*I have this GIANT bruise on my hip, near my bum.. I have no idea how it got there, but it hurts!!

*I'm finally starting to get over a sore throat I've had all weekend during HHN, fun..

So.. I have 4 days off from Halloween to let my body recup and to get over being slightly ill in the throat! I want to feel like 100 bucks when I go back on Thursday.

But right now, I really feel like shit.. emotionally more than physically for some reason. :/ I need hugs.


As far as HHN in general though, I've been having a great time while out on set. I LOVE the role, and I've been coming up with different tactics on scaring people. My favorite is to prop myself behind the sandbags and reach out to people like I'm injured, blood on my hands.. and then when they play into it and come over to me, I whip up my gun and shoot at'em. :D

Haha.. one guy, I was reaching out like I was injured for help.. and the guy made like he was gonna put his beer in my hand. :l Like I couldn't see that one coming.

Okay, this'll probably be my last post for HHN unless something crazy happens. :P

Last night was our preview (practice) night to scare the Universal employees and their one guest that they were allowed to bring in.

I will admit that I was alittle skeptical of our scarezone until I finally got to see what it was like with people walking through it. It was AMAZING! We only had about 70% of our effects working the entire night and it was still pretty f'in awesome.

As soon as our coordinator opened the door and we ran out I was in character right away, which is what I was most worried about during rehearsals, is how quickly I could grasp with the whole thing with guests around us, especially since our street is narrow.

About midway through my first set, a special effects guy came out and set up a CO2 Machine Gun near my side of the area that I work, beside a giant Artillery Cannon. So, my luck struck again and I was the one getting to fire this baby, and it was actually pretty loud. This just tossed me more into character as I could now hide behind the sandbags surrounding the artillery, hunker down, and pop out to fire on the guests that enter the street. Sounds so wrong, but feels so right!

With all the sounds, music, explosions, screaming, etc.. this all wraps it all up for an awesome experience. Kinda makes you feel like you are in a small little war scene from Private Ryan.. except instead of mostly enemy surrounding you.. it's civilians. :P

As for reactions.. they were great. When I knew a crowd of folks saw where I was already, but never saw the gun go off, I'd just sit there and kinda scan with my gun, like I'm scanning out in the distance for enemy, paying the people no mind as they start to walk by me. And then as they get close, I'd snap-turn at them and **bapbapbapbap!**. They usually freak out, "OMG!! That thing is real!!" haha.. or I'd hide down behind the sandbags and then just pop up to shoot.

I had a couple times where people took a crapload of pictures of me.. I gotta admit, seeing an undead zombie soldier firing a gun beside a cannon, behind a bunch of sandbags and surrounded by ammo boxes makes a GREAT picture.. but the unfortunate thing is.. people aren't spose to stand around doing that because it distracts us, and takes away from the scares. I posed in character with my gun aimed at one person's camera, and then EVERYONE tried to start a line to take pictures with me.. I was like, "OH hell no" and then laid back down behind my sandbags. They got all pissed and then eventually went away.

There's so many methods to scare there, I love it.. I don't even have to hold the gun the whole time either which is great if I just wannah go out and kinda run around my little zone I'm limited to on that end of the street.

But the gun in general is a great thing to have at the front of the street as it attracts people into the street.

I have no problem with them keeping it there for the duration of the entire event. ;)
But things change and they could take it away if something stupid happens, or they decide to change something or another for whatever reason.

But overall, this is gonna be a fun Horror Nights for my first one.

Tired from rehearsals.

We had to stand around in costume for a couple hours, and the only thing that sucks with latex as opposed to fur is that when you sweat, it sits on your face like a pool, and the latex gets all slippery and it's just fantastic!! *sarcasm* lol.. but it was uber fun.

We got to play around in our street for abit while our stage managers watched to see how we acted and what we could come up with to scare folks.

For our area, as detailed as it is.. it's also the most challenging. Because we not only have to scare people, but also at the same time we have to fight each other, which sounds easy.. but when you go out and do it.. proves to be difficult, because of certain situations that will, and could arise while guests are walking through. But all in all, it's something that we really can't test out right now because, we're missing one thing... the guests. So that's what our preview night is for.. so we can kinda get situated with ourselves and kinda gauge what we're actually going to be doing.

One of our stage managers kinda caught the fact that the fighting might need to be cut down alittle bit, and the 'scares' be turned up a notch.. so while we can fight with each other, it'll have to be for a short quick moment after we've popped out, and then return to hiding place. But for the most part, they have decided to have us keep hidden, or lurking in the shadows.. POP out for the scare, maybe linger for a couple seconds, and then return down again into the shadows, or hidden behind objects.. preparing to scare the next group... and so on and so on for the rest of the zombies down the line.

The reason they don't want us lingering too long out in the road or in the open is because unless we're distracting a guest, it can kinda cut down on a scare for another approaching group because they already see half of us standing out in the open doing whatever, and thus, they know where we'd be hiding if we tried lurking back down again too late.

So yeah.. it started out that they wanted us just fighting back and forth and assaulting the guests as well as they walked through, but things with HHN seem to change every 20 minutes.. so, they upgrade stuff and change our method to whatever suits the executives best. They are trying to make it best work for the guests Entertainment, the more scares the merrier!! So what they want, we do.

I guess we'll see how this all goes down on Tuesday. It'll be fun!! hot... and sweaty.. and lots of stinky men in one room. good times. The Cast that I am working with is FANTASTIC, we are all like best friends now. I am really glad I got stuck with the group I'm with. HOOAH!!!

Today is executive preview day.

So basically we all get dressed for our parts today while the execs, producers, and artist directors are gonna have a look over us and our locations and decide what to change keep get rid of, etc.

So basically a bunch of standing around in costume for hours lined up, not really doing anything unless told otherwise. :D I can't wait.

So today is just a rehearsal to make sure everything LOOKS correct and quality enough for what the execs want to give to the guests.

So, I'm gonna be an american soldier, complete with real M1 Garand, it's incapable of shooting of course, but to actually be able to run around with one is going to be amazing.

We have a flame thrower (real fire) in our area which is just gonna plain out rock!

I'm lucky, especially lucky. Not everyone got a gun, so I was fortunate to end up with a prop. Later we found out we were wearing masks. Not everyone got one, so again, lucky. The mask is super detailed (movie quality) latex, and surprisingly, it looks similar to Jason Voorhees' face, all melted and slightly skeletized. The mask fit on my head like it was made for it and my eyes line up perfectly. They'll apply makeup around my eyes to make them sunken and to camouflage. I'm totally psyched.

Our area is all improvisational performing, so we gotta come up with stuff as we go, as we'll be working on that on Sunday, and during preview night. It's gonna be a challenging street to work in, but it's gonna be great fun. The fact that Universal actually went out and got REAL WWII vehicles and set-props amazed me.

Call of Duty: Zombies, here we go!!

I also got to take a walk through Wolfman's house with other's rehearsing their roles and it was REALLY detailed, they are gonna have some awesome houses this year.

Yay off to rehearsals.. another one on the 20th, and then Employee Preview coming up on the Tuesday 22nd.

So we went to U-haul to help take some stuff back to my friend's place, turned out to be alot more than just a pool table. I ended up helping with a crapload of furniture n' stuff. Now I'm all stinky.

Most crazy thing happened when we brought the van back at the end. If any of you have been tp Epcot, you know the Mo'Rockin Band that plays there in the Morocco Pavilion. Well, the Lead Singer and leader of the band was in U-Haul boxing up an instrument, and I recognized him and started talkin' to him about the band.. They QUIT!! Disney started screwiing up how the band was to perform and they wanted to put belly dancers in it.. and he wasn't having any of it. So after 24 years.. he quit. Disney tried taking the name away from him, and he finally made them pay for the name because technically, he owned it. So Disney ended up paying him to keep the name of the Band there. But he said he's getting enough money in work outside of Disney, so all is well.. but damn.. it'll be a shame to never hear his voice and specific style there again. :/