HalloweenTime at DLR Superthread #4

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So do tickets usually go on sale to AP holders a little earlier? Can they buy tickets for non AP holders? I'm going to be going with my dad who does not have a pass, so I'd want to buy them at the same time...
 
I just booked my flights oct 16-21. Now to determine where I'm going to stay, if I need a car, how many days, etc. I'm a WDW veteran, and went to DL 21 years ago:yay:. Everything is so excitingly different!!!
 
So do tickets usually go on sale to AP holders a little earlier? Can they buy tickets for non AP holders? I'm going to be going with my dad who does not have a pass, so I'd want to buy them at the same time...

Yes -- the advance purchase/discounted/non-discounted tickets for AP holders should go on sale a week or two before the tickets go on sale to the general public. Disney Visa card holders and Disney Vacation Club members may also purchase discounted tickets (certain dates excluded) and non-discounted tickets ahead of time. AP holders/DVC members/Disney Visa people may buy tickets for non-AP/DVC/DV people, but there is a limit. I believe the limit is that you can buy up to 6 or 8 tickets in total.

If you have time, check out the Mickey's Halloween Party Frequently Asked Questions -- http://www.disboards.com/threads/ha...ut-halloween-time-2015.3270919/#post-51326916. Some of the specific details are from 2014 (as we don't have the 2015 info yet), but it will give you a good idea of when the tickets went on sale, when each night of the Halloween party sold out, and pretty much anything else you'd want to know!
 


So do tickets usually go on sale to AP holders a little earlier? Can they buy tickets for non AP holders? I'm going to be going with my dad who does not have a pass, so I'd want to buy them at the same time...

@Sherry E Scouts honour I checked the first page before asking :)
Does DLR sell a party only Photopass like WDW does?

I don't think there is a party-exclusive PhotoPass set-up for MHP (yet) -- someone please correct me if I'm wrong -- but there are PhotoPass people at the party, of course, and you can add the MHP shots to your regular PhotoPass card/account that you use for the rest of the trip.
 
Not sure if anyone has mentioned MNSSHP dates here:
October 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 2015
November 1, 2015
 


Not sure if anyone has mentioned MNSSHP dates here:
October 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 2015
November 1, 2015

MNSSHP (not to be confused with Mickey's Halloween Party/MHP at Disneyland) also includes: September 15, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27



But the number of party dates and ticket prices for Mickey's Halloween Party at Disneyland will likely be a bit different than what happens at MNSSHP at WDW.

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your regular PhotoPass card/account that you use for the rest of the trip.

Darn, unless there is a WDW/DLR photopass this one afternoon is the whole trip, probably not worth spending the money on, shame it would be DD's 1st time on SM.
I am actually surprised, with the large local base I thought they would do better off the party only Photopass then WDW does.

MNSSHP (not to be confused with Mickey's Halloween Party/MHP at Disneyland) also includes: September 15, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27

But the number of party dates and ticket prices for Mickey's Halloween Party at Disneyland will likely be a bit different than what happens at MNSSHP at WDW.

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Yes, I was more looking at how WDW is dealing with the Saturday night Halloween Date this year, since I believe they normally have Friday/Sunday parties. Although I am having trouble finding previous years MNSSHP dates to see how well (or not) the line up to MHP dates (I know WDW tends to start earlier/have more).
Frankly I am now grasping at straws!!!!
 
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Darn, unless there is a WDW/DLR photopass this one afternoon is the whole trip, probably not worth spending the money on, shame it would be DD's 1st time on SM.
I am actually surprised, with the large local base I thought they would do better off the party only Photopass then WDW does.



Yes, I was more looking at how WDW is dealing with the Saturday night Halloween Date this year, since I believe they normally have Friday/Sunday parties. Although I am having trouble finding previous years MNSSHP dates to see how well (or not) the line up to MHP dates (I know WDW tends to start earlier/have more).
Frankly I am now grasping at straws!!!!

Good point. Hmmm... well, seeing as WDW has 4 parks and a multitude of hotels to explore, if they are not closing MK early on 10/30 (Friday), then I tend to think that DLR -- with only 2 parks and 3 hotels -- might not want to close DL early on a back-to-back Friday and Saturday either. But I would think that a Halloween night party would be inevitable, so maybe they, too, will go with 10/29 and 10/31, and just bypass 10/30?

The mystery should soon be solved!
 
Well, folks, it's now just about 3:15 p.m., West Coast time, and Erin at the Parks Blog just posted a 4th of July-themed Disneyland piece. I hadn't seen anything from her yet today, so I was holding out hope that we might get our Halloween Time news. But since she already did the piece about the 4th and it's getting late in the day... I think that we are now looking at a Halloween Time/Halloween Party announcement next week. :sad: And that will be an even later announcement than the one we had last year.

Sigh. :sad2:
 
Well, I was just looking at Disney Floral and Gifts web page looking for something fun for our Halloween trip this year and noticed that all the Halloween packages are order-able now, but not deliverable until 9-11 which matches what many people have been guessing as the start of the Halloween season at DLR. Just thought I would toss that out there in case someone else hasn't seen it.
 
Well, I was just looking at Disney Floral and Gifts web page looking for something fun for our Halloween trip this year and noticed that all the Halloween packages are order-able now, but not deliverable until 9-11 which matches what many people have been guessing as the start of the Halloween season at DLR. Just thought I would toss that out there in case someone else hasn't seen it.

I'm glad you tossed it out there -- very interesting, indeed! I think that's the most 'telling' info we have gotten so far, to be honest! In my mind, just based on how Halloween Time has gone the last several years, I still think that 9/11 is too soon and too close to Labor Day to officially begin -- not to mention the whole, terrible '9/11' association. But the season could begin on that date -- or shortly thereafter, like 9/12 or 9/15. Or, certain things could unofficially begin on that date and then officially begin a few days later. Whatever the case, that 9/11 date is most certainly a transitional period in which Halloween Time is gearing up to start -- then, or soon after.

... Although, I did notice that some of the Christmas/Holiday stuff is available for delivery on 10/30/15, and we know that the holiday season is not starting then, so now I'm confused! :lmao: :lmao:

WDW's Halloween stuff is available for delivery at the end of August!
 
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I dunno...

I'm starting to have a suspicion that it won't be announced until after Disneyland's anniversary. (7/17/15).
 
I dunno...

I'm starting to have a suspicion that it won't be announced until after Disneyland's anniversary. (7/17/15).

Shhhhh! Don't give them any ideas! :lmao: If they are planning on officially starting Halloween Time and Mickey's Halloween Party later than usual (like by a week or more), then I could envision a later announcement. Otherwise, the MHP tickets should be going on sale to AP holders, etc., within the next 2 weeks. So they had better not wait until after 7/17 -- there will be a mutiny on Disneyland at that point, as we all storm the offices of Team Disney Anaheim, demanding the info! :lmao:
 
I highly doubt that they will wait until after July 17th to tell us anything if the Halloween party is going to start in late September as usual, OR if more parties are being added to the line-up in mid-September. The tickets would have to go on sale to AP holders/Disney Visa folks/DVC members by right around 7/17 or 7/24, at the very latest, and the general public tickets would follow within a week or two after that. They'd have to give some advance notice before the tickets went on sale -- at least a full week, if not more.

The only scenarios in which I see that kind of extreme delay in an announcement happening would be if:

1. The Halloween Party is not beginning until October; or

2. There are more big announcements coming about events happening on July 17th or during the week of the 17th; or

3. The Halloween Party is not happening at all.


Otherwise, July 17th comes and goes every year. The bigger deal this year was/is the overall Diamond Celebration and the entertainment that goes with it. And that is already well underway at this point. Unless Disney has some extra gigantic plans for July 17th that they need to start hyping next week, I can't see how it would be beneficial to wait until after 7/17 to announce party dates -- especially if more dates have been added in somewhere.

But, as I mentioned a couple of days ago, the Parks Blog may not even find out the info until a day or two before they have to write a blog about it. Who knows when the Team Disney Anaheim folks tell them anything?

Whenever Erin posts the blog about Halloween Time and Mickey's Halloween Party, you can bet that there will be some sort of sentence in it that says something like, "Even though it's summer, Halloween is just around the corner," or any variation of that message. In other words, they always have to 'justify' why they are making a Halloween announcement in July!

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