**Disney After Hours - Magic Kingdom** FAQ & Discussion Thread

[Cloe Colton]

Dates & Times
Disney Villains After Hours will take place on the following nights this summer:

• Thursday, June 6, 2019
• Thursday, June 13, 2019
• Thursday, June 20, 2019
• Thursday, June 27, 2019
• Monday, July 1, 2019
• Thursday, July 11, 2019
• Thursday, July 18, 2019
• Thursday, July 25, 2019
• Thursday, August 1, 2019
• Thursday, August 8, 2019

The mayhem runs from 10 PM to 1 AM—but you can check in as early as 7:00 PM to get a jump on the fun!

Bummer was hoping they would run on the weekends! Will be there 6/15-6/17

 

[Brett Wyman]

The idea of this Villian event in theory sounds very cool. But is it worth the money? As WDW vets who visits in June since 2007 we do love the late evenings. I would love a little more offerings for the price. It would of been awesome if they just added a Villian stage show during the EMH evenings for the summer. But they found a way to gain an extra buck. So it is Halloween on Thursday nights, basically.

Sounds to be me a like a quick money grab to roll out some of the attractions that will be rolled out a few weeks later for MNSSHP. But if you were looking to do a AH anyway, this is certainly a nice "free" feature.

 

[jsbowl16]

Unless I am missing something I dont see the draw here. Higher crowds and a villains show for an additional cost over the normal DAH? If there were M&G opportunities, I would be there in a heartbeat. I wish they would start up the Villains party at HS again instead of doing this.

 

[SaintsManiac]

Villains in June and July? Halloween

Well I was joking..sort of. This is basically MNSSHP lite.

 

[Iowamomof4]

I know I've been lamenting this change, but I do want to say I am grateful to Disney for releasing this not long after their last DAH update. Was that just last week? lol

Anyway, I know when the dates were first released for the summer and MK didn't have anything in June there were some pretty disappointed folks on here. I'm so happy you now know WHY there were no dates in June and you can book for your trip now if you want. I'm also glad they mostly kept to Thursdays, so if people had been making plans based on the current schedule, they should be able to slide these events into their plans without moving things around (I know there are a couple of exceptions there). So for that I say, "Well done, Disney!"

 

[Cinderumbrella]

Unless I am missing something I dont see the draw here. Higher crowds and a villains show for an additional cost over the normal DAH? If there were M&G opportunities, I would be there in a heartbeat. I wish they would start up the Villains party at HS again instead of doing this.

We don’t know if it will be higher crowds since they are still marketing it as a DAH.

But yes, it’s more expensive since they added a couple MNSSHP-y things

 

[focusondisney]

There have been many comments in the last few years from posters that wanted event merchandise, rare characters or shows added to the event. Disney has done that with this themed event. Guess they can’t make people happy no matter what they do.

Personally the only thing that will upset me is if they start overselling tickets.

 

[Randomsoulshine]

Ugggh I really want to do this. Technically, we could do 6/6 if we add on a few nights

I’m the opposite. I think that first night will be slammed with vloggers and such. We were goI got to MK that day.

My next trip is the first week of June. I’m willing to give it a try on 6/6. Should be interesting.

that’s when we will be there. I’m thinking a sell out and all the vloggers will be there as well. We have a regular day ticket and I think this is going to slam the park from 6-10 so we are switching our MK days now. Bummed.

 

[Dallas_Lady]

I am so tempted to do this during our trip, but $600 for our family is hard to swallow. Who remembers waaaaay back in the day when E-ticket nights were like $15 per person?

 

[Davkind76]

If they cap it at the same levels as they have been, then no, it won't increase crowd levels over that of a "sold out" event.

obviously I am talking about increasing the cap

 

[Haley R]

There have been many comments in the last few years from posters that wanted event merchandise, rare characters or shows added to the event. Disney has done that with this themed event. Guess they can’t make people happy no matter what they do.

Personally the only thing that will upset me is if they start overselling tickets.

Put me in the camp of happy people with this addition but that’s probably because we’ve done the mk dah 3 times. I personally love the added merch more than anything. It makes it a true event. I’m still hoping they add some new snacks instead of just piggy backing off of what they used for mnsshp last year

 

[winnieofpooh]

This sounds really cool, but now I'm panicking about our trip 8/15-8/23. What's the likelihood they switch back to "normal" DAH after August 8? To me it seems like these will be the only summer DAH offerings and that really bums me out. Hopefully they prove me wrong, but I'm not hopeful.

 

[GADisneyDad14]

Ok, just had a chance to catch up.

Happy to have new dates. Not personally sold on the format, but I guess time will tell.

I’m one who enjoys the pure/raw/unfiltered MK part of DAH...the lights, the background music, the little sounds - stuff that’s harder to capture/experience in the daytime crowds. Have a multi-generational trip this summer and was looking forward to DAH as we’ve known it for some late night/out of sun time. Several in our party haven’t been to Disney in decades.

But, we’ll adapt. Very curious to see what this ends up being like.

 

[Cinderumbrella]

I just really wish our only choice wasn’t opening night. Why??????

 

[SaintsManiac]

Ok, just had a chance to catch up.

Happy to have new dates. Not personally sold on the format, but I guess time will tell.

I’m one who enjoys the pure/raw/unfiltered MK part of DAH...the lights, the background music, the little sounds - stuff that’s harder to capture/experience in the daytime crowds. Have a multi-generational trip this summer and was looking forward to DAH as we’ve known it for some late night/out of sun time. Several in our party haven’t been to Disney in decades.

But, we’ll adapt. Very curious to see what this ends up being like.

I would like to do either and I guess I will be out of luck. This would have given us a little bit of MNSSHP that we are never able to do, either.

Oh well. Glad I booked EMM

 

[Randomsoulshine]

Ok, just had a chance to catch up.

Happy to have new dates. Not personally sold on the format, but I guess time will tell.

I’m one who enjoys the pure/raw/unfiltered MK part of DAH...the lights, the background music, the little sounds - stuff that’s harder to capture/experience in the daytime crowds. Have a multi-generational trip this summer and was looking forward to DAH as we’ve known it for some late night/out of sun time. Several in our party haven’t been to Disney in decades.

But, we’ll adapt. Very curious to see what this ends up being like.

Had I not just bought tickets because my FP day is tomorrow I would probably do the event. But I can’t afford the extra cost and that’s cool. But the MK evening I had planned was for the first Thursday of the new villain event. I know they will start coming into the park around 6. With teens we are not rope dropping but getting to park @3 and staying until close. So I’m very concerned the regular day guests mixed with villain after hours guest will make MK very crowded from about 7-10. Which is our prime touring time. In your opinion would I be better off to switch MK evening to Friday. That Friday has EMH morning for MK but we wouldn’t arrive until 3ish.

 

[cakebaker]

Too late for me, but my daughter will be going in July and definitely wants this one. I’m just glad they’re have after hours in the summer for her!

 

[123SA]

I'm so excited about this. We're tentatively planning Aug 1 and Aug 8.

Now I need Aug dates for DHS and AK so I can finalize plans. Not sure which one of these to choose.

 

[Cinderumbrella]

Had I not just bought tickets because my FP day is tomorrow I would probably do the event. But I can’t afford the extra cost and that’s cool. But the MK evening I had planned was for the first Thursday of the new villain event. I know they will start coming into the park around 6. With teens we are not rope dropping but getting to park @3 and staying until close. So I’m very concerned the regular day guests mixed with villain after hours guest will make MK very crowded from about 7-10. Which is our prime touring time. In your opinion would I be better off to switch MK evening to Friday. That Friday has EMH morning for MK but we wouldn’t arrive until 3ish.

I personally would switch. We are considering attending this party and I’m prepared for a sell out, simply because of all the Disney media/vloggers/bloggers etc

 

[Randomsoulshine]

I personally would switch. We are considering attending this party and I’m prepared for a sell out, simply because of all the Disney media/vloggers/bloggers etc

That was my thought exactly! I’m a sucker for anything villain but can’t afford the add on. Probably would have done it in place of a park ticket if I had known. New event and I agree all the vloggers media etc will be out and the villain draw will pull many locals as well. Maybe I’ll get lucky and they will extend Friday night park hours. They gave us a later closing last year two weeks out. Thanks for your input!