HalloweenTime at DLR Superthread #4
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Sherry E
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I came here tonight to ask a bunch of questions about Halloween time, only to find every single one answered on post #3!
2015 will be my second MHP/Halloween trip, but a first for my DH - he is really looking forward to dressing up, and he's not normally someone that would do that, so I am super excited.
The first time we went to MHP was in 2013... we were at the park for rope drop and planned to head back to our room at noon to rest up. But we were having too much fun and didn't actually go back until after 2pm, which didn't give us much chance for a rest before we had to get dressed and head back. It made for a long day/night, but ds was a real trooper, and we had so much fun! This time though we will definitely plan to head back earlier in the day. We're going for a week this time too, so we won't feel as much pressure to do everything on the same day as the party lol.
Thanks again for compiling all this information in one place!
westcoastminnie --
You're very welcome!
I'm so glad you joined us, and that you were able to get answers by looking at the MHP post on page 1. That is why I always tell people that they should do exactly what you did -- go to page 1 of the Superthread first because, chances are, they will find a lot of the info and answers that they need in the posts on that page. And if they don't know where to start or are not sure of which links and info might lead them to what they need, they should never hesitate to jump in here and ask us! Are you going to do MHP in October, or in late September (assuming the schedule is pretty much the same this year)?
DisneyloverinWA --
I agree with Corinna/dolphingirl47 that the tickets for 10/31 probably won't sell out immediately, but I would try to get them as soon as you can. As Corinna mentioned, Halloween is a date that has sold out ahead of a lot of other party nights in the past -- and I think that this year, because Halloween is on a Saturday, the appeal of a Halloween night party may be even greater than the Friday night party last year.
The MHP tickets went on sale in July last year (7/16 for AP holders, Disney Visa card holders and DVC members, and 7/30 for the general public) - http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/bl...31-with-14-nights-of-mickeys-halloween-party/
And just to give you an idea of how quickly the MHP nights (all but one of them) sold out last year, see this post - http://www.disboards.com/threads/ha...ut-halloween-time-2015.3270919/#post-51326911
All of the bold red notations reference when the MHP nights sold out in 2014. You will notice that last year's Friday night Halloween party sold out on September 11th -- or, at least, the Disneyland website was updated on 9/11 to show that 10/31 was sold out, but it may have sold out the previous night.
In previous years, I think that Halloween night parties have sold out much earlier than that.
mommy2mrb--
Welcome! I liked the party in DCA -- and that was back when DCA has actual Halloween decorations! Now, of course, that has changed. The DCA party seemed simpler -- just trick or treating, characters, dance stations and costumes -- but it was still a lot of fun.
muppetfreak--
Welcome!
To answer your question -- not really. There might be some sort of soundtrack playing in Frontierland that is theme-specific, but I haven't noticed it. The Dapper Dans will sing a few theme-specific tunes on Main Street. There could be some sort of Halloween-ish music at the Halloween Carnival. When DCA used to have Halloween décor, there was theme-appropriate music playing near the entrance -- things like "Monster Mash" and other songs I am forgetting.
During the holiday season, the parks really go all out -- and there is music everywhere, as you know. If you go to New Orleans Square you will hear jazz-inspired Christmas songs. In Critter Country or Frontierland you might hear twangy versions of familiar songs. On Main Street the vehicle drivers will sometimes honk out a holiday tune on their horns. Even Toontown has its own holiday soundtrack. Buena Vista Street, Cars Land and Hollywood Land each have their own holiday soundtracks. Downtown Disney gets into the action.
Sadly, unfortunately, Halloween Time is not quite as immersive and all-encompassing as that. It seems that the holiday season really covers a lot of details and nuances that are just ignored or not invested in for Halloween Time.
Kilala --
Whatever you come up with, I'm sure it will be great -- you put so much work into your costumes!
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westcoastminnie
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Sherry E, our dates are a Saturday to a Saturday, but our friends leave on the Friday,,which leaves a weekday party as long as they keep the same schedule as last year... Fingers crossed!
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Mommy2PrincessAbby
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I do seem to remember songs from Nightmare before Christmas and Heffalumps and Woozles played more often during Halloween time
PinkBudgie
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Joining in to say I'm bound and determined to go to DLR this fall! I've never been in the fall, and now that we have APs again I want to make it happen this time. At work we are working on the school calender for next year so I'm trying to see what days I can miss. On top of that, I'm not sure if I want to go to the party or not. If not, I probably want to avoid a party day since the park closes early. However, it does seem like fun. And I'm not sure I'll have time to think up a costume. Actually, two- one for DH also. Can't really do much at this point except get excited about it! 
(This is me planning a second trip before I've taken the first one!)
(This is me planning a second trip before I've taken the first one!)
smchristy
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I just wanted to say "hi" for now. I have a lot of research to do as it looks like my 7 year old daughter and I will be at Disney the end of September 2015 (24/25/26). We will be in town for a wedding and I have decided to turn our trip into a major surprise for her. I need to learn all there is to know about Halloween at the parks etc...thanks for having such a complete post/blog. My hope is to only tell her about the wedding and completely surprise her with the trip to Disney. She has never been to DL or WDW so this will blow her mind
jammyjam25
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Officially booked our trip for my best friend's 30th birthday celebration over the weekend! 
We'll be staying at the DLH September 28-October 3! She's never stayed on property before so I'm SO excited for her to have the experience!
Now just impatiently waiting for all the Halloween festivities to be announced....it'll be the first time there during the Halloween season for both of us.
We'll be staying at the DLH September 28-October 3! She's never stayed on property before so I'm SO excited for her to have the experience!Now just impatiently waiting for all the Halloween festivities to be announced....it'll be the first time there during the Halloween season for both of us.
Sherry E
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I'll be back a bit later today with replies to the recent posts and additional comments. I have to rush off and do a couple of things right now.
I just wanted to quickly say that -- this is not Halloween-related, but something to add more fuel to the fire of speculation and conversation -- in my Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread a helpful DIS'er (whose relatives usually perform in the yearly Christmas parade at DL for the ABC taping in early November) confirmed what we suspected. There is no Christmas parade happening at DL this year. That was pretty much already assumed when Steve Davison announced back in January that there would be "no holiday shows" this year, to keep the focus on the events of the 60th anniversary, but Mr. Davison never specifically named the parade, so it left a bit of gray area. MiceChat also posted that there would be no Christmas parade in one of their blogs. The only thing that left any doubt in our minds about it, and kept the speculation alive, was that AllEars posted in one of its blogs that the Christmas Fantasy Parade would be happening in the daytime this year, and it seemed like that could be feasible, as the parade is part of the holiday tour.
But, nope. No Christmas parade at DL. No holiday fireworks. No holiday World of Color in DCA. Most likely no Winter Castle Enchantment Lighting. It's going to be "all 60th, all the time" for the rest of the year.
...Which, again, leaves me wondering about the fate of Mickey's Halloween Party, where it will be held, what will be included in it, etc. Disney is not going to miss a chance to make all of that extra money on MHP tickets -- that much we know -- but if DLR is willing to put that big of a dent in the roster of season-specific activities usually available during the immensely popular holiday season, are they really going to devote at least 14 nights in Sept/Oct to shutting Disneyland down/kicking non-party guests out early for a Halloween Party, which will directly impact the schedule of the Paint the Night parade and the Disneyland Forever fireworks (on certain nights)??
The plot thickens!!! I want to know if MHP is going to be business as usual this year! I have to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just wanted to quickly say that -- this is not Halloween-related, but something to add more fuel to the fire of speculation and conversation -- in my Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread a helpful DIS'er (whose relatives usually perform in the yearly Christmas parade at DL for the ABC taping in early November) confirmed what we suspected. There is no Christmas parade happening at DL this year. That was pretty much already assumed when Steve Davison announced back in January that there would be "no holiday shows" this year, to keep the focus on the events of the 60th anniversary, but Mr. Davison never specifically named the parade, so it left a bit of gray area. MiceChat also posted that there would be no Christmas parade in one of their blogs. The only thing that left any doubt in our minds about it, and kept the speculation alive, was that AllEars posted in one of its blogs that the Christmas Fantasy Parade would be happening in the daytime this year, and it seemed like that could be feasible, as the parade is part of the holiday tour.
But, nope. No Christmas parade at DL. No holiday fireworks. No holiday World of Color in DCA. Most likely no Winter Castle Enchantment Lighting. It's going to be "all 60th, all the time" for the rest of the year.
...Which, again, leaves me wondering about the fate of Mickey's Halloween Party, where it will be held, what will be included in it, etc. Disney is not going to miss a chance to make all of that extra money on MHP tickets -- that much we know -- but if DLR is willing to put that big of a dent in the roster of season-specific activities usually available during the immensely popular holiday season, are they really going to devote at least 14 nights in Sept/Oct to shutting Disneyland down/kicking non-party guests out early for a Halloween Party, which will directly impact the schedule of the Paint the Night parade and the Disneyland Forever fireworks (on certain nights)??
The plot thickens!!! I want to know if MHP is going to be business as usual this year! I have to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tehvalerie
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Well that's interesting. We just booked our flight last night to come out on Sept. 28 thinking we could go to the (theoretical) party on Tuesday the 29th. But we purposefully avoided booking at Christmas because we want to see all the 60th stuff and were worried Christmas might trump it. I'd love to see DL decked out for Halloween but the 60th anniversary is definitely our reason for coming out from the east coast! (Related, for anyone in the area, we snagged RT flights on United from Charlotte to LAX for $160 each! Basically a steal.)
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That's a good point Sherry. I wonder if fall decorations will be less. I assume fall and winter overlays on rides would still take place though- I hope! I've never seen Ghost Galaxy or Jingle Cruise.
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Crap. We were planning on going a little before Christmas because hello, holiday decorations. Now I'm wondering if we should just wait until January because if there is going to be no holiday decorations and such, what's the point?I'll be back a bit later today with replies to the recent posts and additional comments. I have to rush off and do a couple of things right now.
I just wanted to quickly say that -- this is not Halloween-related, but something to add more fuel to the fire of speculation and conversation -- in my Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread a helpful DIS'er (whose relatives usually perform in the yearly Christmas parade at DL for the ABC taping in early November) confirmed what we suspected. There is no Christmas parade happening at DL this year. That was pretty much already assumed when Steve Davison announced back in January that there would be "no holiday shows" this year, to keep the focus on the events of the 60th anniversary, but Mr. Davison never specifically named the parade, so it left a bit of gray area. MiceChat also posted that there would be no Christmas parade in one of their blogs. The only thing that left any doubt in our minds about it, and kept the speculation alive, was that AllEars posted in one of its blogs that the Christmas Fantasy Parade would be happening in the daytime this year, and it seemed like that could be feasible, as the parade is part of the holiday tour.
But, nope. No Christmas parade at DL. No holiday fireworks. No holiday World of Color in DCA. Most likely no Winter Castle Enchantment Lighting. It's going to be "all 60th, all the time" for the rest of the year.
...Which, again, leaves me wondering about the fate of Mickey's Halloween Party, where it will be held, what will be included in it, etc. Disney is not going to miss a chance to make all of that extra money on MHP tickets -- that much we know -- but if DLR is willing to put that big of a dent in the roster of season-specific activities usually available during the immensely popular holiday season, are they really going to devote at least 14 nights in Sept/Oct to shutting Disneyland down/kicking non-party guests out early for a Halloween Party, which will directly impact the schedule of the Paint the Night parade and the Disneyland Forever fireworks (on certain nights)??
The plot thickens!!! I want to know if MHP is going to be business as usual this year! I have to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, that totally makes me hope that they will still have the Halloweentime stuff because I was wavering in between both.
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Mommy2PrincessAbby
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So, even though it means absolutely nothing, I was excited when I talked to the cm at Costco Disney reservations this morning (to make a payment) when she brought up that Halloween party tickets are usually announced and go on sale in July... And to keep a look out and call them when I want to buy my tickets
dolphingirl47
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This looks amazing.
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Well just made my hotel reservations for September 24-28th with the hopes of a Friday the 25th MHP! Fingers crossed.
Sherry E
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I'm just now about to go back over the posts I wanted to comment on or reply to, but I had to say that Pumpkin Pandemonium 2015 has already begun!!!!! 
I was tipped off by someone on the Hallmark Channel Countdown to Christmas page, who took a photo and posted it as "proof." It's May... and Hobby Lobby now has whole shelves devoted to Halloween/harvest/turkey things. I saw a decoration that said "Gobble gobble," right above an entire row of pumpkins.
Summer? What is this summer of which you speak? Is that a season?
Does it involve pumpkins and harvest wreaths?
In case you're new to this thread or were not around last year or the year prior, Pumpkin Pandemonium is the name I use for the gradual wave (and then, later, a tsunami!) of Halloween/Autumn/Harvest décor appearing on store shelves. It can also be referred to as Candy Corn Chaos or Caramel Apple Confusion -- or any variation of those titles!!! It starts in just one or two stores, with a few random items creeping in and set off to the side somewhere, and then the full displays start popping up as the weeks progress. Before you know it, every store is in the middle of a swarm of pumpkin spice, candy corn, caramel apple, apple spice, pumpkin pie and even some gingerbread products. Seemingly every brand out there has some sort of seasonal version of their most popular products, and every year they put out something new. M&M's and Oreos usually lead the charge of brand new seasonal flavors, but last year every product -- everything edible/consumable -- had a pumpkin spice alter ego.
Last year I was paying close attention to the first sightings of anything even remotely resembling Halloween/Fall/Harvest/Pumpkins, and all of the products that popped up after that. July seems to be the usual month when items begin sneaking into Costco, and then by August there is an onslaught in various stores. Once September rolls around, forget about it -- it's all Halloween, all the time, in the stores.
I am all for bypassing or shortening summer and heading straight into fall (just because I hate heat) -- if only the calendar would follow along and the weather would cooperate with that plan too! I just wonder if this early, early May appearance of Pumpkin Pandemonium is typical for craft stores, or if this is a new trend of some sort? Does anyone know if this is the usual pattern for craft stores? Will we see a full array of Christmas trees and dancing snowmen in July?
In any case, my feeling is that if Hobby Lobby can begin 'selling' Halloween/Harvest/Autumn to the public now, then Disneyland Resort should follow suit and start 'selling' their Halloween Time festivities now too! Instead, they assume that no one wants to know anything until a couple of months before hand, or less -- and that would be the case even in a non-Diamond Celebration year. That may have been the case 10 years ago, but not now. People start preparing early nowadays. Disneyland needs to jump into the Pumpkin Pandemonium too!
I was tipped off by someone on the Hallmark Channel Countdown to Christmas page, who took a photo and posted it as "proof." It's May... and Hobby Lobby now has whole shelves devoted to Halloween/harvest/turkey things. I saw a decoration that said "Gobble gobble," right above an entire row of pumpkins.Summer? What is this summer of which you speak? Is that a season?
Does it involve pumpkins and harvest wreaths?In case you're new to this thread or were not around last year or the year prior, Pumpkin Pandemonium is the name I use for the gradual wave (and then, later, a tsunami!) of Halloween/Autumn/Harvest décor appearing on store shelves. It can also be referred to as Candy Corn Chaos or Caramel Apple Confusion -- or any variation of those titles!!! It starts in just one or two stores, with a few random items creeping in and set off to the side somewhere, and then the full displays start popping up as the weeks progress. Before you know it, every store is in the middle of a swarm of pumpkin spice, candy corn, caramel apple, apple spice, pumpkin pie and even some gingerbread products. Seemingly every brand out there has some sort of seasonal version of their most popular products, and every year they put out something new. M&M's and Oreos usually lead the charge of brand new seasonal flavors, but last year every product -- everything edible/consumable -- had a pumpkin spice alter ego.
Last year I was paying close attention to the first sightings of anything even remotely resembling Halloween/Fall/Harvest/Pumpkins, and all of the products that popped up after that. July seems to be the usual month when items begin sneaking into Costco, and then by August there is an onslaught in various stores. Once September rolls around, forget about it -- it's all Halloween, all the time, in the stores.
I am all for bypassing or shortening summer and heading straight into fall (just because I hate heat) -- if only the calendar would follow along and the weather would cooperate with that plan too! I just wonder if this early, early May appearance of Pumpkin Pandemonium is typical for craft stores, or if this is a new trend of some sort? Does anyone know if this is the usual pattern for craft stores? Will we see a full array of Christmas trees and dancing snowmen in July?
In any case, my feeling is that if Hobby Lobby can begin 'selling' Halloween/Harvest/Autumn to the public now, then Disneyland Resort should follow suit and start 'selling' their Halloween Time festivities now too! Instead, they assume that no one wants to know anything until a couple of months before hand, or less -- and that would be the case even in a non-Diamond Celebration year. That may have been the case 10 years ago, but not now. People start preparing early nowadays. Disneyland needs to jump into the Pumpkin Pandemonium too!
PinkBudgie
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Well, the weather up here is Northern California certainly feels like fall or winter! It is supposed to be cloudy and 60's all week! I'm like Olaf and I love the summer and the heat. So let's not skip over that. I hate seeing trick or treat candy in Costco in the middle of summer! But I am looking forward to seeing fall at DLR this year. Trying to pick a good time to come. Maybe the last weekend in September?
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