We were there on 10/2. My son was so anxious to see villians. He was hoping to see Sora from Kingdom Hearts or Jack Skellington.
Everywhere we went on 10/2 characters were gone.
We saw zero villians, except in the parade.
We did see regular Baloo, The Incredibles, 2 Pooh characters in costume at that new playground and we got a glimpse of the Dwarfs as they were going inside for the night. There was a huge line at Minnie's house, but someone said she went in. It would be over an hour's wait to see her including her break time, but we were also told it could be much longer since Minnie was out for 20 minutes, back in for 10 minute break, etc.
Every time we got in a line we were told the characters were done and wouldn't be back. My son spent his own money to buy a gold autograph book just for
MNSSHP. He was so excited to see characters on this night, but we left so disappointed with only 2 stamped autographs from The Incredibles. I felt so bad for him. Heck, if we would have seen 1/3 of the characters listed as being there we would have been happy.
You'd think if WDW was charging so much for the party they'd take the time to put maybe a mask on their ordinary, out every day characters.
We didn't realize it would be that crowded. Peter Pan's Flight still had a 30 minute wait time when we were there.
Maybe we just had bad luck with timing. No Headless Horseman. Two cancelled Cinderellabration shows. A late first parade. Hardly any characters. Same old long lines for rides. Not sure I'd pay to go back to another MNNSHP.