Universal stripped the Jaws decor from its candy shop and packed it with Easter eggs from past Halloween Horror Nights
The Jaws decor is gone. Universal Studios Florida's San Francisco Candy Factory, whose shark theming belonged to the temporary Little Amity land, now stands in for a real Ohio town that Halloween Horror Nights has turned into a recurring setting.
The shop is now the Carey Candy Company, and WDW News Today, which photographed the finished conversion, documented references to more than a dozen past Halloween Horror Nights houses, scare zones and characters packed into one small retail space.
The centerpiece billboard, with the 1950s family's faces torn out. On the shelf above sit a Good Harvest orphanage sign, a Township of Carey sign and a Wyandot County manhole cover. Photo: WDW News Today
Why Carey, Ohio
Per WDW News Today, Carey, Ohio is where one of the Halloween Horror Nights creators grew up, and the event keeps going back to it for haunted houses and scare zones. This year it hosts the house H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular!
Signs in the front windows read "All items on loan from the Carey Historical Society." Save Carey banners hang on the columns outside, and a rusted retro Carey sign stands by the building entrance.
The billboard is a returning prop with a joke in it
The first thing past the door is the Carey billboard, reprised from Welcome to Scarey: Horror in the Heartland, the house from Halloween Horror Nights 30. The tagline has been swapped to "A nice place to live!", the faces of the 1950s family have been cut away, and per WDWNT one of the faded blood splatters is vaguely shaped like an "S" sitting in front of the word Carey, so the sign quietly reads Scarey.
One of the shop's period posters, a cartoon boy in an apron and bow tie presenting the town schoolhouse. Photo: WDW News Today
What the Easter egg hunt actually covers
The store's floor decals, posters and props reference, among others: fake posters for Pumpkin Guts, Barber Chop and Swamp Yeti, the invented films of Slaughter Sinema (Halloween Horror Nights 28), Hellgate Prison from Halloween Horror Nights XIV, Legendary Truth: The Collective, the WKNB Television Station, H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror from Halloween Horror Nights 21, the Pumpkin Lord, the Tribute Theater from the 2022 Tribute Store, Spirit Seekers crates, Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate, The Orfanage: Ashes to Ashes, the Good Harvest orphanage sign, The Spawning, a Wyandot County manhole cover, and Havoc: Dogs of War.
A decorative newspaper rack holds an issue of the Carey Today under the headline "Carey Redevelopment Official." Per WDWNT the story text nods to several past events, among them All Nite Die-In: Double Feature and Hive. In the fiction, the candy shop itself is part of the town's effort to fix its reputation. The cooler wears Meetz Meats Frozen Treatz decals, tying it to the Meetz Meats food booth that will serve during the event.
The candy is the point
Some of the prices WDWNT recorded in the shop:
- Icons Chocolate Bars, $25
- Chance Caramel Apple, $13
- Dr. Oddfellow Trifle Cake, $13
- Hellraiser Lament Configuration Chocolate Cube, $12
- Killer Klown Cotton Candy Rice Treat, $10
- Stranger Things Demogorgon Red Velvet Cupcake, $10
- Jack the Clown Sugar Cookie Sandwich, $8
- Ozzy Osbourne Bat Whoopie Pie, $7
- Sugar-Free Peppermints in a Dr. Oddfellow and Jack the Clown tin, $6
The $25 Icons set is five bars, each 1.75 ounces: White Chocolate Cookies and Creme with Jack the Clown art, Milk Chocolate with Rice Crisps with Chance, a plain Milk Chocolate bar carrying the Halloween Horror Nights 35 logo, Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt showing Eddie Schmidt and his chainsaw, and Milk Chocolate S'mores with Dr. Oddfellow.
The $25 Icons Chocolate Bars set, five 1.75 ounce bars. Photo: WDW News Today
The shelves also carry an Ozzy Osbourne milk chocolate bat bar with raspberry filling at $14, Sinners dark chocolate spiced maple bourbon truffles at $12, an Art the Clown seasonal gummy mix shaped like eyeballs and flowers at $12, Killer Klowns gummy pizza slices at $12, and a Stranger Things bar with blackberry flavored popping candy at $7.
A run of macarons and cakes is also on the menu without listed prices, including Killer Klowns Cotton Candy, Icons Eddie Salted Pecan, Hellraiser Cookies and Cream, Ozzy Osbourne Raspberry, two Sinners macarons, and an Evil Dead Burn chocolate cherry cheesecake decorated to resemble bloodied red roses topped with eyeballs. The Stranger Things Pie is a small pie topped with edible speech bubbles that say "I told you to eat your damn pie!!!", a callback to a scene in Stranger Things 5.
Elsewhere in the shop, a Halloween Horror Nights Icons reusable bag is $9.99, and a souvenir tumbler with all day refills is $28.99.
The shop sits in Universal Studios Florida's San Francisco area, attached to Richter's Burger Co. Halloween Horror Nights 35 opens August 28 and runs select nights through November 1, 2026.
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