Halloween at DL

[Sherry E]

I'll leave this thread open until it reaches its page limit, which is rapidly approaching. Meanwhile, I've started Part 2 of the Halloween super thread and so that is open for business and will be the main Halloween thread when this one ends.

It's funny to think that the dining thread is way, way, way ahead of this thread in terms of views, but it is still far from reaching its page limit. I guess a lot of folks simply look at the food porn, but we have more people actually posting and interacting on this thread.

VictoriaAndMatt - thank you so much for the amazing photos, both here and in Part 2!! They are truly just the burst of color we needed!! In fact, everything in your photos looked so festive and vibrant (the food especially!!) and alive. It was the perfect way to kick off the new Superthread!!

I agree - the decorations (ha!) in DCA are just sad.

 

[mom4princesses]

It seems like just yesterday we were all screaming or dancing for more Halloween info. Now we have the mini site, pictures and a new thread. Thanks for all the great info and with all the help in planning my Family Vacation. Only 19 more days for us.

 

[funatdisney]

Some pics of crowds from last Sunday:

It wasn't too bad for an opening weekend for Halloween Time.

 

[spacemermaid]

Thanks everyone for posting all the great pictures!

 

[Sherry E]

We've gone well over the 100,000 views mark!!!

I remember when we were at only 2,000 views!! Woo hoo!!

See, when I look at those crowd photos from Funatdisney (Liza), to me the crowds look quite bad in one or two of them and then not as bad in the other pictures! I think certain areas get more congested and so the crowds seem really bad, whereas they may be spread out in other areas of the park and not seem as bad. Also, Sunday may not have been as busy as the days VictoriaAndMatt were there. I imagine that Saturday was quite busy all day, as was late Friday.

 

[All American]

funatdisney

I love your crowd pictures. It's like being able to people watch in a frozen moment in time. Who looks bored? Who looks tired? Who is having the best time? The list goes on and on. Thanks for posting these and your other pictures as well.

 

[funatdisney]

You are welcome, All American. I just love to people watch especially at DL. I was surprised how some the pics came out. I took them while on the Disneyland Railroad and was moving!

Sherry E: I was there on a Sunday morning, which is usually very quiet, The crowds don't get bad until about 12 noon or so. We left the park at 2:30 or so. The pics were taken at about that same time.

 

[mmmears]

Great crowd photos, only I was hoping to find DL empty! Well, except for me, of course!

 

[Sherry E]

Great crowd photos, only I was hoping to find DL empty! Well, except for me, of course!

I can tell you one thing - the crowds in Funatdisney's photos above are a far cry from the opening day/weekend that I was there in September 2007. That was the day it was pouring rain off and on, and that kept many people away. That was the least crowded Halloween trip I have had so far. When it's sunny, the people come out!!

 

[Sydneymum]

Can someone out there refresh my memory (sorry can't find the thread with these details)......I have tickets for MHP on Fri 1st October (YIPPEE)....what time are we allowed into the park? I know the party starts at 7pm but early entry was what time???? We are thinking of going to DCA in the morning and going to MHP that afternoon/evening for the party. Does anyone know yet if the crowds will be lower for the MHP party nights???Cant seem to find any info on numbers..............7 sleeps to go before we fly out from SYdney!!!!!!

 

[mvf-m11c]

can someone out there refresh my memory (sorry can't find the thread with these details)......i have tickets for mhp on fri 1st october (yippee)....what time are we allowed into the park? I know the party starts at 7pm but early entry was what time???? We are thinking of going to dca in the morning and going to mhp that afternoon/evening for the party. Does anyone know yet if the crowds will be lower for the mhp party nights???cant seem to find any info on numbers..............7 sleeps to go before we fly out from sydney!!!!!!

These are the times that you can enter DL with your MHP ticket. From what we have read so far, DL will give every MHP ticket holder a wristband for those who are attending MHP.

On Tuesdays DL lets guests with a MHP ticket to enter at 3pm and it starts at 6pm to 11pm

On Fridays & Halloween day DL lets guests with a MHP ticket to enter at 4pm and it starts at 7pm to 12am

I will also be attending MHP on Oct 1st and it is during Gay day week. We don't know how crowded the park will be until we have the first MHP at DL.

 

[funatdisney]

I can tell you one thing - the crowds in Funatdisney's photos above are a far cry from the opening day/weekend that I was there in September 2007. That was the day it was pouring rain off and on, and that kept many people away. That was the least crowded Halloween trip I have had so far. When it's sunny, the people come out!!

The crowds at DL on Sunday were light IMHO. I expected to be far more crowded than what I experienced on Sunday, being that this was the Halloween Time opening weekend. Now I must say that we were there in the morning to early afternoon on a Sunday. Sundays have always been light until 11am. My DH talked to a CM (while waiting for me to take pictures) and the CM was happy that the park was busy again. I guess it had been pretty slow in the weeks leading up to Halloween Time. Of course, that could have been from the WOC drawing lots of guests into DCA.

 

[JH87]

OH MY GOSH all those treats look beyond amazing!!! i must get the pumpkin spice muffin and the treat inside the mickey pumpkin mug!

between those treats and the Duffy the Disney bear i'm going to go absolutely broke!!!!

I was thinking the same thing! Those two look sooo super yummy!!!

 

[Sherry E]

Just thought I'd give this a bump - even though the Halloween Superthread, Part 2 is alive and kicking, there are still many fabulous photos and much info that people can enjoy in this thread. And we still have about 20 more pages to go before it reaches its limit.

 

[SueTGGR]

Just thought I'd give this a bump - even though the Halloween Superthread, Part 2 is alive and kicking

Does this mean everyone is now posting on part 2?

 

[VictoriaAndMatt]

The crowds on Sunday were the worst for us. We all felt they were worse than Friday and Saturday. The weekday crowds were very light. DCA was practically a ghost town the whole time we were there. The only time we saw crowds there was around the WOC shows and even then it wasn't bad. TOT was literally a walk on ride when DH and DD rode it.

 

[AmyPond]

Does this mean everyone is now posting on part 2?

Have you stopped over there yet? It's moving fast already.

 

[tdashgirl]

Have you stopped over there yet? It's moving fast already.

It's over there. Good times

 

[funatdisney]

I wanted to post some pictures here, too. I guess it would be ok to post here what I have already posted on the Superthread.

and some I haven't yet

 

[Sherry E]

Does this mean everyone is now posting on part 2?

Well, yes and no!! We're here, we're there, we're everywhere!! This thread has about 20 pages to go before it reaches its limit, so I started the new thread (Part 2) so we could all make the transition over there. But this one still has a wee bit of mileage left, and there are still many amazing photos here to be seen, which have already been posted!!



The new thread is taking off like a rocket!! In fact, here's a rough statistic for you all - the number of views for Part 2 have, in 48 hours, already exceeded the number of views we had over the course of just a few months on this thread (Part 1)!!!! For the longest time, this thread was only at 2000 views. But Part 2 has already passed that number in 2 days!!

Blame it all on the Boogie!! (Or maybe not...he was not that much help!!)