Halloween at DL

[Sherry E]

I always thought it was odd that they kept that display^^ up in other months outside of Halloween season, because it so clearly fits Halloween best!!

Cute picture, SueTGGR!!

 

[SueTGGR]

OK, now you have done it...I found my pictures of my son's candy stash after trick or treating @ DCA from 2008. That is full size towel from the DL hotel room. And you can see it is all yummy stuff & that doesn't include all the packs of carrots and apples, either.

A few others to enjoy

Let me know if you want more!

 

[Sherry E]

Those are great, SueTGGR! You've been holding out on us all this time!! One thing I really liked about the Halloween touches in DCA at night was that jack-o-lantern image projected into the mouse head on California Screamin.' I'm sorry to see that go.

 

[Sherry E]

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 - See, I would probably be happy with a cold house like that. I just bundle up in tons of layers if I get cold!! I like it!! (I'm sure I wouldn't like it if I didn't have anything to bundle up in, but when I can bundle up I'm happy!) But there is no comforting me when it's hot. I hate it. I'm Mr. Snow Miser, out on my frozen tundra!!!

I love all the Peanuts holiday specials, too!! I adore Snoopy and the gang. In fact, in keeping with the Halloween theme, one of my favorite specials is "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," where they all go trick or treating and Charlie says, "I got a rock." Love that!!

Anway, I bought a bunch of the Rankin-Bass shows years ago (probably late '80s or early '90s - on VHS, no less!!!), and then a couple of friends gave me additional ones to add to the "collection." This is not all of them, but the ones that I have are:

Easter

The Easter Bunny is Coming to Town
The First Easter Rabbit
Here Comes Peter Cottonail

Christmas

The Emperor's New Clothes
The First Christmas
Frosty the Snowman
Frosty Returns
Frosty's Winter Wonderland
Jack Frost
The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Little Drummer Boy
Little Drummer Boy, Book II
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Pinocchio's Christmas
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
The Stingiest Man in Town
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Year Without A Santa Claus

 

[iKristin]

IT'S GETTING CLOSER!!! I know we're all excited

 

[tdashgirl]

Cute Halloween Stuff at the Disney Store!

Nice photos SueTGGR. Memories!

 

[funatdisney]

I love all the Peanuts holiday specials, too!! I adore Snoopy and the gang. In fact, in keeping with the Halloween theme, one of my favorite specials is "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," where they all go trick or treating and Charlie says, "I got a rock." Love that!!

I always make my family chuckle when I say "I got a rock" after looking in my bag at the Halloween party. Of course, I can only say that at Mickey's Halloween Party, since I can comfortably trick or treat there.

 

[iKristin]

I hit up the Disney store today in Portland (Clackamas) and they had a lot of cute Halloween costumes plus some other Disney Halloween stuff like a big bowl for candy aaaaand some tshirts and sweaters

 

[amamax2]

I always make my family chuckle when I say "I got a rock" after looking in my bag at the Halloween party. Of course, I can only say that at Mickey's Halloween Party, since I can comfortably trick or treat there.

My son loves that movie, and one year went Trick or Treating dressed in a sheet
with holes in it. My Dh snuck a rock in his bag and the look on his face when he got home and dumped the bag was priceless - he really thought someone had given him a rock instead of candy.

 

[Sherry E]

If not for people like Charles Schulz, Walt Disney, Jim Henson and Rankin & Bass, my childhood would have been a lot different. Disney, Peanuts, the Muppets/Sesame Street and those silly clay puppet Rankin-Bass TV specials were integral to my youth!!

I also love the Peanuts Christmas special, with the wimpy, piddly, sad tree!!

 

[deejdigsdis]

Deejdigsdis - See, I would probably be happy with a cold house like that. I just bundle up in tons of layers if I get cold!! I like it!! (I'm sure I wouldn't like it if I didn't have anything to bundle up in, but when I can bundle up I'm happy!) But there is no comforting me when it's hot. I hate it. I'm Mr. Snow Miser, out on my frozen tundra!!!

I love all the Peanuts holiday specials, too!! I adore Snoopy and the gang. In fact, in keeping with the Halloween theme, one of my favorite specials is "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," where they all go trick or treating and Charlie says, "I got a rock." Love that!!

Anway, I bought a bunch of the Rankin-Bass shows years ago (probably late '80s or early '90s - on VHS, no less!!!), and then a couple of friends gave me additional ones to add to the "collection." This is not all of them, but the ones that I have are:

Easter

The Easter Bunny is Coming to Town
The First Easter Rabbit
Here Comes Peter Cottonail

Christmas

The Emperor's New Clothes
The First Christmas
Frosty the Snowman
Frosty Returns
Frosty's Winter Wonderland
Jack Frost
The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Little Drummer Boy
Little Drummer Boy, Book II
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Pinocchio's Christmas
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
The Stingiest Man in Town
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Year Without A Santa Claus

The thing about the house being soooo cold, is that we couldn't bundle up and make things any better. Being inside of sleeping bags with blankets stacked on top of us seemed to do nothing to keep us warm. Or at least me warm. We all wore our winter hats and gloves to bed and I still had hands and feet that ached from being so cold. Yes, we should have just gone to a hotel. But, we had just returned home from an 18 day trip and I wasn't anxious to spend any more $$$. If the kids had been miserable we would have gone to a hotel. They just slept through it all while I was up and down all night replacing blankets that they kicked off and putting their hats back on. Longest night ever. But after all was said and done...I still prefer the colder weather to the miserably hot weather.

Moving on to your collection of holiday shows... you helped solve a longtime mystery! I have always loved the original Frosty show, cried when he melted, etc. Then I enjoyed a show where Frosty had a wife named Crystal, but it was never aired as often as the original. I hadn't seen it in YEARS and I just couldn't remember anything more about it. When I got my DVD collection a few years ago I was excited when I saw something called "Frosty Returns" on it. I thought it must be that long lost show that I hadn't seen in years. Anyway, what a disappointment it was to find that it was an impostor Frosty (John Goodman). I didn't like that one. So when you mentioned Frosty's Winter Wonderland in your collection, I hoped it might be my long lost Frosty I've been looking for off and on. Headed to YouTube and there it was in 3 parts! Yay! It's Christmas in August for me! So thanks for solving that mystery for me. Oh, and your " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas" -- is that the one with the mice and the clock? Haven't seen that one in ages!

My son loves that movie, and one year went Trick or Treating dressed in a sheet
with holes in it. My Dh snuck a rock in his bag and the look on his face when he got home and dumped the bag was priceless - he really thought someone had given him a rock instead of candy.

What a great idea! I wish I would have thought to do that last year when my 10 year old wore a sheet with a bunch of holes cut in it. We quoted the show all night long, but that would have been fun to sneak a rock into the Halloween loot and watch his reaction!

 

[spacemermaid]

Last year during my holiday trip the parking lot booth attendants at Disneyland were giving away a little booklet that listed the dates & times that all the holiday movies that've been mentioned (and probably a few more, even ) would be on television. I hope they have something similar this year, because BFF & I had a great time watching some of them in our hotel room after our days in the Park. One night we brought back gingerbread Mickeys & hot chocolate and watched "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town"

 

[giggygirl]

Please post more DL Halloween pics! I really loved the ones posted by SueTGGR. Please share more if you have them!

thanks!!

 

[funatdisney]

My son loves that movie, and one year went Trick or Treating dressed in a sheet
with holes in it. My Dh snuck a rock in his bag and the look on his face when he got home and dumped the bag was priceless - he really thought someone had given him a rock instead of candy.

Thanks for the chuckle! Aren't kids great! Maybe I should try the same thing on my DDs.

 

[funatdisney]

One night we brought back gingerbread Mickeys & hot chocolate and watched "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town"

What a great way to cap off a day at DL. If you don't mind, I am going to steal your idea on our trip in December.

 

[Colour Me Disney!]

I have just spent the last four days reading this thread and checking out the super fantastic Disneyland Halloween themed photos and all the great info ((or lack thereof lol))! Wow...wow...wow..

You have given me so much info- I am planning to go for the first time ever in October 2011, from Australia. so plenty of time to check out what to do and what not to when it comes to Halloween at DL! I even find myself getting frustrated with the lack of information about 2010 DL Halloween events!
Also this means I have to wait even longer (for cool info and ideas) and temporarily live vicariously through everyone else's holidays ...lol..

Well, I am certainly going to keep checking on this thread as it is nearly time for most of you to be going so Have FUN!!!

 

[AmyPond]

I'm confused...what gingerbread men are you guys talking about?

Sherry, where is that donald campfire thing located?

 

[BELLEDOZER]

During Christmas time at DL they have gingerbread men with MM ears on them, although I've never seen them personally, I'm pretty sure that's what the other board members are talking about. I also would like to know where the Donald's campfire thing is located, as I would like to check it out when I head to the mouse in Oct. Have a great day everyone!

 

[AmyPond]

Fair enough, and of course nothing personal meant or implied here

The zombie gingerbread men from the past few years were great, I shall admit: rather wish they'd sell those in park bakeries with the other Halloween baked goods.

Now that we are in total agreement on! I would love for those scary zombie gingerbread men to be sold - they are quite creepy looking!! In fact, I was really, really hoping that one of these days they would sell small, scaled-down versions of the different gingerbread 'houses' (or coffins or Scary-Go-Rounds or whatever they may be) that they put in the ballroom each year. That would be an awesome collectible to have. It wouldn't even have to be made from real gingerbread. They could use whatever material they used to make their gingerbread line of Christmas sculptures and ornaments a few years ago.

Last year the HMH had the Scary-Go-Round. The year before was the coffin. I don't think we know yet what it will be this year (unless I missed something)? In any case, I bet if they put those on sale, people would snap them up like crazy - even if they aren't fans of HMH. And eventually DLR will probably get rid of HMH - maybe when HalloweenTime really gets to be an even bigger deal (after the DCA changes are complete) and they can get by without HMH. So while HMH is there it would be nice if they sold some of those zombie guys and made some miniature versions of the gingerbread centerpieces!!



The Happiest Haunts tour is happening in September after all? That's wonderful for those folks who are going in September!! It was beginning to look like that would only be an October thing as well!

I'm wondering about what the creepy gingerbread men are.

 

[VictoriaAndMatt]

Amy, they are talking about on HMH inside the dining room scene. They have special gingerbread centerpieces and such on the tables. You can also smell gingerbread. It's my favorite part of HMH.

On a side note, I think we are going to have trouble with my son this time. EVERYTHING seems to be scary to him right now. We've started trying to get all our Halloween decorations out (we go all out here... I mean like you have never seen before lol), and he's warming up to it a bit, but I don't know if he's going to want to go on HMH. He's seen NBC and the only thing he thinks is scary is the guy who made Sally, but when he watched a video of HMH he hid his face the whole time, randomly peaking out with a few yelps.