‘Walking Dead’ haunted maze to be year-round attraction

LOS ANGELES — Universal Studios Hollywood plans to turn the “Walking Dead” haunted maze, which has proved wildly popular during the theme park’s last four Halloween Horror Nights, into a year-round attraction.

Set to debut this summer, the “Walking Dead” walk-through attraction will be housed in a permanent building on the upper lot near the main entrance that will be open to visitors 365 days a year.

Universal said the new “no-holds-barred experience” promises to be significantly more intense than recent Horror Nights iterations of the maze, with more detailed set designs, props, costumes, makeup and animatronic figures.

The Emmy Award-winning AMC zombie apocalypse TV show on which the attraction is based remains a ratings juggernaut. .

The new “Walking Dead” attraction will likely be built on the former location of Universal’s House of Monsters, a year-round haunted maze that was torn down in November.

Universal has not set an opening date for the new “Walking Dead” attraction beyond “summer.”