eekkk...sounds kinda scary!!!
This will be interesting to watch how it plays out. Good thing we still have several months left for things to settle.
Thanks for keeping us posted HydroGuy and SherryE...
*Per DLR website SMGG is returning for the 2010 Halloween season!!!
*I too am wondering how they will schedule the TOTP this year. My mom definitely wants to go for Halloween this year, but I'm holding off booking until I know the dates of the parties. With school I only have a Thursday-Sunday window to travel.
I was kind of thinking that, but I don't want to get my hopes up! Nothing is really predictable this year, huh? I really, really, really would love to experience the TOTP for myself and seeing as travel in October is never actually possible for me so long as I'm in my current job. But I don't know if that's too much to ask for.
I hope this goes in the direction of "Halloween will be bigger than before" route. If I can't make it to the TOTP because it hasn't started yet, I would hate to be miss out on other entertainment things they could have had or maybe had previously. I don't ride SM so the GG thing isn't somthing I'm interested in, and I really want to see the HMH again. I would love to see a fireworks show that I haven't seen before. I really, really wish they had a Halloween parade (well, anything other than Celebrate because I refuse to watch that).
No matter what happens though, so long as I see Halloween decorations I will be satisfied. But I want to be more, you know?
Honestly though, WOC doesn't hold much appeal to me so I am not so much drawn to DCA. Especially since come October there will be no Aladdin musical anymore! I would hate to be forced out of DL because I wasn't attending the TOTP and my only option be head to the hotel or DCA where who knows how WOC will still be effecting everything there.
This is going to take more planning on my part than I had anticipated. But I love the challenge. Now if only informationw as opening up so we could start planning, that would be great. I have money burning a hole in my pocket!
Now that I have taken a few minutes to think about this TOTP news and looking back to my TOTP experience in 08, I thought it was fun and cute but not fun enough for me to go back when we visit this HalloweenTime. We were not planning on paying for that again, we thought the TOTP @ DCA felt "dead" (and not the good Halloween dead)
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So, maybe moving it to DL will be a good thing!!! It will be interesting to see which days and the $$ but I am now considering putting the TOTP back in my plans and excited about it
... So, back to the drawing board for me regarding my trip
... I hope DL starts putting out info soon...I am a planner and NEED TO KNOW!!
I was just doing a little bit of work for a client and also a couple of household tasks and letting my mind meditate on the Halloweentime possibilities and the impact of World of Color on the TOTP, etc....Just mulling it all over in different configurations...letting it sink in. And I read the whole Al Lutz article from beginning to end.
Some thoughts I had after reading the full article are:
-It sounds as if TDA and the powers that be at DLR were probably so eager to get this darn WoC show up and running that they didn't really think too far down the road - to some extent - as to how to handle certain crowd issues that may arise in both parks, how to juggle the WoC madness with the Halloweentime festivities, etc., and they are just kind of fixing problems that come up as they go along.
-I think that the fact that Aladdin is closing in 3 months is really bad timing in relation to WoC. Aladdin - or any show playing at the Hyperion - would have been a crowd eater, getting some of those people (who are not interested in WoC and who are packed into the Hollywood Backlot area) off of the streets. The whole Paradise Pier area will be closed at night, with the exception of TSMM. Let's face it - DCA is not all that big. There are not too many places to go, and one of the few is the Hollywood Backlot area - or back over to DL. Letting Aladdin run until the end of the year, at least, would have taken some of the bodies off the street while peopple are trying to figure out where to go to wait for their WoC showing.
-I think a lot of folks will actually end up
avoiding WoC for a long while because there is so much hype about it, there will be fear of horrible crowds and because, right now, the viewing area sounds like a pain. As much hype as there is about this show, I expect that there will be a lot of people (perhaps the folks with APs and/or locals who can go to DLR more often) who will be avoiding it like the plague for a long time. And, thus, the already-super-crowded
Disneyland will become even more packed and start reaching capacity more often during October.
-The idea of the TOTP in DCA was a good one in order to thin out the crowds in DL and lure people over to DCA to see more of what was there. Unless DCA will have some sort of Halloween stuff there that we don't know about yet, I think anyone interested in Halloweentime will be hanging out at DL and I don't know if the people waiting for WoC will really lighten the crowds inside DL at all. I tend to think not. I think people will say, "Halloween stuff is at Disneyland...World of Color is at California...let's stick with Disneyland and go back over to DCA when the buzz for WoC has died down."
-I think the idea of the TOTP inside DL is intriguing. This makes me wonder if they will finally do something Halloween-esque with the Castle (though I get the feeling that DLR doesn't even know for certain what the Halloweentime plans will be yet!!). I have been saying for a long time that they should 'spook up' the Castle a bit with eerie lighting and creepy plants hanging off of it, and maybe some villains lurking around (specifically, Maleficent) in front of the Castle for photo ops (like right where the PhotoPass people usually camp out). The Castle lends itself so well to the beautiful icicle lights and 'snow' of the holiday season. It could work almost as well if it were lit in 'scary colors' and decor for Halloweentime. It could be a perfect moody centerpiece for DL for the Halloweentime season, and it could easily be transformed.
-TOTP in DL means they have more territory to cover in a bigger park...this should probably mean more decorations all around DL. So far, Halloweentime hasn't been all-encompassing and as thorough and immersive as it could be. They seem to be slowly building it up over the years. But if they now have to hold the TOTP there, I would imagine there will be lots more Halloween 'stuff' all around the parks, and, hopefully, more treat stations!!!! Because of the overall 'fantasy' feel of DL on a whole, they could really get very creative and imaginative with what they do for Halloweentime...more so than they did at DCA.
. Have a great day!
