Halloween at DL

[RegionsBeyond]

Region Beyond:

Those photos are fabulous! So many things I haven't seen..

Were some of those from inside Haunted Mansion?

Thanks so much for posting - I just cannot wait for our trip!

Thanks very much! And yes, a few of the photos are from inside Haunted Mansion Holiday. I much prefer the regular version myself, but alas...

 

[where's_my_prince]

I'd probably just go into the Disney Store and buy it. I think I will on my drive home from work before I leave if nobody gets it for me for my birthday (and I will tell everyone I want it)

I love how Disney brings out the kid in us.

seriously it does! when i bought the wand i was like i probably get annoyed with carrying it and put it in my backpack, nope that thing was glued to my hand like a little 4 year old!
just going to the disney store makes me wish i was little so i can fit into the costumes they have, they are so much more elaborate then when we were that age!

 

[Belle Ella]

Sherry!! I totally know what you're talking about. Yes, technically before my time, but not at the same time. I think ABC family still airs them every year and we own a few on VHS and I meant to get them on DVD last year. Maybe I will remember this year since I am sure we'll have them at the store again.

I think I may just start calling you Cold Miser (I think it was Snow Miser, right?) now. And I think the Tag Fairy needs to haunt this thread to boot. I would get along bery well with Heat Miser I would. Bring on the war of the weather!

 

[Sherry E]

Sherry!! I totally know what you're talking about. Yes, technically before my time, but not at the same time. I think ABC family still airs them every year and we own a few on VHS and I meant to get them on DVD last year. Maybe I will remember this year since I am sure we'll have them at the store again.

I think I may just start calling you Cold Miser (I think it was Snow Miser, right?) now. And I think the Tag Fairy needs to haunt this thread to boot. I would get along bery well with Heat Miser I would. Bring on the war of the weather!

You're right - I think he is Mr. Snow Miser (or I am). I knew "Cold' Miser didn't sound right, but it was something similar!!! I remember them singing, "I'm Mr. Heat Miser...He's Mr. Heat Miser..." and doing a little dance while zapping each other with weather!!

Yes - ABC Family does air a lot of those Rankin Bass shows during December (and late November, too)!! There's a whole bunch of them. They never did a Halloween show, though. They are so hokey-looking with the clay puppets and all - but I love them all! I don't know why, but I love them!! I guess, like Disney, those Rankin-Bass shows are classics and can withstand the test of time and the passing of generations!!

 

[JH87]

seriously it does! when i bought the wand i was like i probably get annoyed with carrying it and put it in my backpack, nope that thing was glued to my hand like a little 4 year old!
just going to the disney store makes me wish i was little so i can fit into the costumes they have, they are so much more elaborate then when we were that age!

a few years ago me and a friend, at the time we were 19 i believe, we went into the disney store and actually tried on the dresses! we couldnt help it! they were rather small, but the employee even offered to take our photo!
it was fun. ah the magic of disney

 

[RegionsBeyond]

Yes - ABC Family does air a lot of those Rankin Bass shows during December (and late November, too)!! There's a whole bunch of them. They never did a Halloween show, though. They are so hokey-looking with the clay puppets and all - but I love them all! I don't know why, but I love them!! I guess, like Disney, those Rankin-Bass shows are classics and can withstand the test of time and the passing of generations!!

It wasn't meant for TV, but Rankin-Bass did do a Halloween movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5fe7D14Jp8

 

[Sherry E]

It wasn't meant for TV, but Rankin-Bass did do a Halloween movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5fe7D14Jp8

Oooooh!!!! Oh wow! I never knew that. I need to see it!! Thanks for telling me. I thought it was odd that I never saw anything from them that was Halloween-related on TV as a kid, because it seems like they would have done something since they were so prolific in the Christmas and Easter realms. I even belong to a Rankin-Bass page on Facebook and I don't think I loooked at the page long enough to see if they listed all of their productions, including Halloween.

As I always say, you learn something new every day!

 

[Diznygrl]

I still have the "edible" Hitchhiking Ghosts from this, 2 years later, heh....

OMG, I want that Hitchhiking Ghost thing! I kept the edible Jack Skellington that came on top of my cheesecake from a few Christmases ago:

I brought it home and sprayed it with acrylic gloss to preserve it and I use it in my Halloween decor. I'd love to do the same thing with the edible HHG!

 

[JH87]

You guys are making me sooo excited for my first ever DLR Halloween trip!!!! All the photos of decor, and food.....
I have a feeling it's going to become a new tradition for me
I see an AP in my near future....


Just a question...
exactly how different is Haunted Mansion Holiday? I thought it was just a few things here and there but after seeing pics and hearing stories it seems like its totally different!
Can someone provide a brief description?

 

[deejdigsdis]

Jazz -

This may be before your time, but I'm a big fan of all those cheesy Rankin-Bass holiday specials that air every year ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Frosty the Snowman," "Little Drummer Boy," "Jack Frost," etc.). They even have Easter specials. There are a whole bunch of them. I loved all that stuff when I was growing up.

Anyway, the hot/cold thing reminded me of one Rankin-Bass holiday special in particular, called "A Year Without Santa Claus." In it, Mother Nature has two trouble-making sons - the Heat Miser and the Cold Miser (at least I think he's called Cold Miser). Heat Miser lives in a place that looks like an inferno, with flames burning here and there. Cold Miser lives in a frozen tundra of a place, with icicles everywhere. The two sons are constantly bickering and trying to inflict their own weather on the other one - like Heat Miser will make the temperatures soar in Cold Miser's town and Cold Miser will make things freeze in Heat Miser's town. It's really cute.

So I just envisioned you in the Heat Miser den, in the middle of flames, and me over in the Cold Miser frozen tundra with icicles hanging from my nose, and we are constantly zapping each other with weather!!!

I love a lot of the stuff at the Disney Store - I have to avoid looking at too much of it or I will end up buying stuff for 6-year-olds (even though I don't have any kids!).

OK Sherry, you totally got that song stuck in my head! I just had to go watch it. I was thinking I had that show on DVD, but I was wrong. My collection has Rudolph, Frosty, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, The Little Drummer Boy, ... and a few others that don't deserve to be in the same DVD set as these classics! Anyway, I had to watch it on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yon2YuXssvo

Love those old shows! My kids just don't get into them nearly as much as I do. They love the old Charlie Brown holiday shows (my 10 year old wore a sheet with a bunch of holes cut out of it last year for Halloween), but the Rankin-Bass stuff is a bit too old school for them, unfortunately.

And speaking of your preference of the cold... I was like you. I'd take the cold over the heat any day. But then last November when we returned home from our DL trip, we came home to a broken furnace. We got home around 11pm and decided to just tough it out through the night and call a repair guy in the morning. Ugh. Big mistake. It got down to below 40 degrees. INSIDE of our house! It was a miserable night, let me tell you. I really did feel like I had icicles hanging off my nose like Mr. Snow Miser. I remember thinking, "Never again will I complain about hot weather!" Our freezer in the kitchen stopped working as well. We thought it was odd that the heater and freezer both went out at the same time. We were told, though, that the freezer will kick off if the room where the freezer is gets too cold. Odd...wasn't sure what to think about that. But once the heater was fixed the next day, and the house warmed up, sure enough the freezer kicked on again.

OK...back to Halloween stuff. RegionsBeyond -- I love your pictures! More please!

 

[deejdigsdis]

You guys are making me sooo excited for my first ever DLR Halloween trip!!!! All the photos of decor, and food.....
I have a feeling it's going to become a new tradition for me
I see an AP in my near future....


Just a question...
exactly how different is Haunted Mansion Holiday? I thought it was just a few things here and there but after seeing pics and hearing stories it seems like its totally different!
Can someone provide a brief description?

I saw it for the first/only time last November. For me it was a totally different ride. My 3 favorite parts of the ride were missing: the floating candles in the hallway, the hitchhiking ghosts, and the lady at the end when you are exiting the ride that says, "Hurry baaaack! Hurry baaaack! Be sure to bring your DEATH certificate...if you decide to join us!" I'm sure someone who has more experience with HMH will be able to give more details.

 

[VictoriaAndMatt]

You guys are making me sooo excited for my first ever DLR Halloween trip!!!! All the photos of decor, and food.....
I have a feeling it's going to become a new tradition for me
I see an AP in my near future....


Just a question...
exactly how different is Haunted Mansion Holiday? I thought it was just a few things here and there but after seeing pics and hearing stories it seems like its totally different!
Can someone provide a brief description?

It's totally different. They really go all out with the Nightmare Before Christmas theme. It's all black lights with the bright painting throughout. The Nightmare Before Christmas music plays throughout the ride. They do a good job of capturing the movie for the overlay. My favorite part is smelling the gingerbread in the dining area.

 

[Sydneymum]

Oh all you guys are making us here in Australia so jealous.Halloween doesnt exist here. The stores have been trying to introduce Halloween stuff ,but it just isnt catching on. I arrive on October 1st and we have tickets for MHP. We are sooooooooooooo excited, it is coming up so quickly now. You are all so lucky being so close to Disneyland. We have to save up for years to be able to come over and enjoy what you have on your doorstep. Will it be hot???? I was hoping for some cool weather???

 

[Sydneymum]

.............oh by the way........is there anywhere that shows the entertainment schedule for Halloween for 1st October? e.g. when the fireworks are on , if there is a parade, any special shows??? Cant seem to find any info.

 

[Vala]

Disneyland website. If I am looking correctly the October 1 schedule is up:
http://disneyland.disney.go.com/calendar/daily/?day=20101001

There's no fireworks during the week, just the Halloween one for the party during those nights.

 

[Sydneymum]

Hey , thanks for the info....however it doesnt really show any information in regards to the actual Halloween schedule. I would really like to know when the fireworks are on and if any parades are scheduled???Anyone out there know what is going on?

 

[Vala]

You mean the schedule for the parties?

We've been discussing the little info we have all over the last 20 pages or so. We're miles away from any schedule. I don't think we got any schedule the last years either, the info only came out once people started returning from the first parties.

All we know is that there's going to be "characters parading" on Main Street, which seems to be the version of the character cavalcade they had in DCA.
Unless there is a major change that has not been announced yet, that's the closest thing to a parade we get.

The fireworks I'd personally expect to be on as the Magic fireworks the other day, maybe a bit later.

Also the last years didn't have any special shows. But again no one knows for sure yet because there's been that switch of parks and nothing was officially announced so far.

 

[Sherry E]

Love these things, especially the Vampire Mickey snowglobe and the Peek-a-Boo Mickey sculpture:

http://www.disneystore.com/hallowee...qNo|0||pNewFlag|1||pSortName|0||pLaunchDate|1

 

[DisneyStitch626]

Love these things, especially the Vampire Mickey snowglobe and the Peek-a-Boo Mickey sculpture:

http://www.disneystore.com/hallowee...qNo|0||pNewFlag|1||pSortName|0||pLaunchDate|1

Those things are really cute! I love the snow globe one especially.

 

[amamax2]

OMG, I want that Hitchhiking Ghost thing! I kept the edible Jack Skellington that came on top of my cheesecake from a few Christmases ago:

I brought it home and sprayed it with acrylic gloss to preserve it and I use it in my Halloween decor. I'd love to do the same thing with the edible HHG!

Ok, WHERE did these two desserts come from? They look sooooooo yummy!

Edit: other pix from Region Beyond didn't come through, but I want to know about both of them, lol.