Halloween at DL

[Belle Ella]

 

[Sherry E]

I know last year the giant mickey pumpkin went up during the night before the official start of Halloweentime. One of my co-workers was there and she thought it was awesome that it wasn't there and then it was!

That's good. I like that they do it overnight like that. I prefer it. I think it adds so much more to the sort of 'magical transformation' aspect of DLR by putting the big ticket Halloween things up in the wee hours. Then it's more of a big reveal - a wonderful surprise to wake up to in the morning.

I don't really like the idea of the gradual build-up of the installation of decorations and other holiday touches before the holiday season, even though I understand why they have to do things that way. Christmas is so detailed and extensive - there is no way on earth they would be able to put up all the trees and everything else all over DLR overnight. But I wish it were logistically possible for all of the Christmas stuff to go up overnight - this year, in the wee hours between 11/11 and 11/12 - because it would be so fantastic to be at DLR one day where there are no traces of Christmas anywhere, and then all of a sudden it's a holiday wonderland the next morning!! It would just enhance that overall sense of fantasy.

But the Halloween stuff is not nearly as extensive as the Christmas decorations, so they can feasibly get all of it up in a shorter timespan.

This is one of the things I'm most looking forward to. I want to see what little hints of Halloween I can find before the 17th, and then the big official reveal on the big day. I'll be bringing my laptop so you guys can have photo updates during my trip.

I can't wait to see your 'before and after' shots!! That will be so interesting to try to spot hints of Halloween pre-9/17 and then see how much work they did overnight to get it all up on that Friday.

 

[Kayla's Mom]

This is my first post on the Halloween thread....We will be there Sept. 16th-22nd. I am not sure if I will be able to post pictures during our trip though, but will definitely post some and probably do a trip report when we return.

 

[Sherry E]

This is my first post on the Halloween thread....We will be there Sept. 16th-22nd. I am not sure if I will be able to post pictures during our trip though, but will definitely post some and probably do a trip report when we return.

Yes yes yes!! We definitely need photos here!! And you have some good holiday photos, so the Halloween ones will be great, I'm sure!! Is this going to be your first Halloween trip? I was thinking you had been there during that season before. It's quite different than Christmastime and there is not as much to see/do, but it's great fun.

This is the HalloweenTime Information Boogie (below) - we do this dance when we are hoping for information from DLR about the season. DLR is due to update the website and put up the Halloween mini-site any day now, but we've all been waiting a long time for details!!

 

[rowan1813]

I will be there the 17-18th and I will definitely post pics after I get back!!!

 

[Sherry E]

I will be there the 17-18th and I will definitely post pics after I get back!!!

Yay! I'm excited to see everything again. I keep hoping there will be extra decorations or extra something around some of the lands that DLR has previously left untouched as far as Halloween decor. There is a lot of area they do not cover at all during HalloweenTime. I would love to see some extra spooky touches here and there because the MHP will be taking place and it would be good to have more of a thorough transformation in all the lands.

But...even if it turns out to be the same old stuff that they always put up for Halloween, it wil still be nice to see brand spanking new photos of it here!! I miss the giant Mickey pumpkin head!! And I miss the little Mickey pumpkin heads stuck in the pumpkin muffins!!

 

[BELLEDOZER]

Quick...somebody post some Halloween food porn for Sherry so that she can get her Halloween food fix! I think that all of us are getting excited about Halloween time in DL, now that it's getting closer. I just wish that they would post the entertainment schedule for the first couple of weeks of Oct, so I can get a better idea of what shows I want to see, and the parades. Hopefully this will be up on their website by the end of the week hopefully. Have a great day everyone!

 

[iKristin]

Yeah even if it's all the same stuff it'll be nice to know it's almost time!!!

 

[Kayla's Mom]

Yes yes yes!! We definitely need photos here!! And you have some good holiday photos, so the Halloween ones will be great, I'm sure!! Is this going to be your first Halloween trip? I was thinking you had been there during that season before. It's quite different than Christmastime and there is not as much to see/do, but it's great fun.

We went at the end of September when I was pregnant with DD #2, which was 2006. I think I have some pics uploaded somewhere from that trip that I could add to this thread. Will check when I get some more time!

 

[Belle Ella]

Talk of Halloween food porn made me have to go back and look at the picks I took last September that I posted ages ago. Yummmmmmy!

 

[YellowMickeyPonchos]

Here you go Sherry! Food porn is at the bottom of the blog!

http://www.disunplugged.com/2009/10/29/happy-haunts-definitely-come-to-disneylands-halloween-time/

 

[Sherry E]

That was only a tiny bit of food porn, Nancy! It's just a tease! Thank for posting the link to your blog. Awesome pictures!! Actually, I don't really need the Halloween food porn so much - I just like seeing photos of the seasonal decorations in general - but I'm sure other people want to see a lot of food porn. I much prefer the Christmas food goodies!! (Woo hoo! Peppermint ice cream and peppermint cupcakes!!!)

Most importantly, since this is the Halloween at DL super thread...we need to see photos photos and more photos IN this thread!! When new people tune it to one of these long threads, it's largely the photos that grab their attention.

Right now, the Halloween thread is way ahead of our Christmas thread in the number of pages and views, BUT I think the Christmas thread may have more photos in it, or because there are fewer pages in the Christmas thread the pictures don't seem so spread out in the thread, maybe.

We need photos!!



By the way, the Disney Store online is now officially opening up the Halloween shop and selling Halloween goodies. So why, oh why, is Disneyland taking its sweet time in releasing more HalloweenTime details?

I want to know what the gingerbread 'house' is going to be in the Haunted Mansion Holiday this year. Will it be another Scary-go-Round like last year? Will it be another coffin, like in 2008? We would know if DLR would put up either a press release, an updated bullet point list or the mini-site!! Last year they said what the gingerbread item in HMH would be in their pre-HalloweenTime press.

 

[Sherry E]

Oh, drat...the temperature is going to be 98 degrees tomorrow! By the way, that's the temp for where I am in L.A., and also for Inland Orange County, which includes Anaheim.

98 degrees will feel even warmer than that in DLR. No WAY would you catch me at DLR on a day like that if I could ever help it. I get ill in weather like that. I don't go out to run errands or anything. I stay indoors. Now I am not happy with that high temp at all - - but that's what I expect August to be like.

August is apparently just now catching up to the fact that it's summer and it's usually blazing hot.

 

[funatdisney]

Here you go Sherry! Food porn is at the bottom of the blog!

http://www.disunplugged.com/2009/10/29/happy-haunts-definitely-come-to-disneylands-halloween-time/

Awesome Blog, Nancy! I really enjoy the pics and the great read! You really captured the feel and sights of Halloween Time. Now, I just can't wait for DLR to start Halloween Time this year.

 

[srauchbauer]

looks like I need to take a tram ride to get all the Halloween stuff. Never thought of that last year, what cute stuff outside Disney.

 

[AmyPond]

Oh, drat...the temperature is going to be 98 degrees tomorrow! By the way, that's the temp for where I am in L.A., and also for Inland Orange County, which includes Anaheim.

98 degrees will feel even warmer than that in DLR. No WAY would you catch me at DLR on a day like that if I could ever help it. I get ill in weather like that. I don't go out to run errands or anything. I stay indoors. Now I am not happy with that high temp at all - - but that's what I expect August to be like.

August is apparently just now catching up to the fact that it's summer and it's usually blazing hot.

I'll be pretty sad if it's that warm when we are there. I just can't enjoy Fall decorations as much if it doesn't even feel remotely like Fall. I knew that was a risk we'd have to take when making this trip. But our options were so limited so it was either go at the end of September or skip Halloween/Fall decorations all together.

We were in the park once when it was 108 degrees outside. I have no idea how we survived!

 

[I'm mikey]

Here you go Sherry! Food porn is at the bottom of the blog!

http://www.disunplugged.com/2009/10/29/happy-haunts-definitely-come-to-disneylands-halloween-time/

Fun read .thank you.

 

[liesel]

Hi everyone!

So I thought it would be a long time before a return visit to DLR, but now I am going to OC for a girl's weekend and it looks like my friend and I are going to do a day trip either sat oct 2 or sun oct 3. I'm so excited! This will be my first visit at DLR at Halloween time. I need to catch up on this thread. Its my first day trip since I moved away and I hope I can absorb enough in just one day. We are doing this on the cheap, getting someone to sign us in and using my disney dollars for parking and food. I am curious about the entertainment schedule as well, I haven't seen F! or WOC and hopefully at least one of them will be running. If anyone can recommend saturday vs sunday, that would be great. Has sunday been getting more crowded because of AP blockouts? I can't wait for this trip!

 

[Sherry E]

looks like I need to take a tram ride to get all the Halloween stuff. Never thought of that last year, what cute stuff outside Disney.

If I'm not mistaken, I don't think you have to take the tram to see those extra things. I think you can walk it...which might be better to do if the tram lines are super-long. I could be wrong on this but I am pretty sure I read someone's post once about walking the path from Mickey & Friends to the parks and seeing the Halloween stuff along the way.

I'll be pretty sad if it's that warm when we are there. I just can't enjoy Fall decorations as much if it doesn't even feel remotely like Fall. I knew that was a risk we'd have to take when making this trip. But our options were so limited so it was either go at the end of September or skip Halloween/Fall decorations all together.

We were in the park once when it was 108 degrees outside. I have no idea how we survived!

I have no idea how you survived in that heat either! Yikes!! There is only so much water one can guzzle and only so much sunscreen one can apply in a day before it starts becoming inconvenient!

I hope, for your sake, that the heat has died down by the time of your DLR trip. Hopefully this week will not be a trend for the next month or two.

Hi everyone!

So I thought it would be a long time before a return visit to DLR, but now I am going to OC for a girl's weekend and it looks like my friend and I are going to do a day trip either sat oct 2 or sun oct 3. I'm so excited! This will be my first visit at DLR at Halloween time. I need to catch up on this thread. Its my first day trip since I moved away and I hope I can absorb enough in just one day. We are doing this on the cheap, getting someone to sign us in and using my disney dollars for parking and food. I am curious about the entertainment schedule as well, I haven't seen F! or WOC and hopefully at least one of them will be running. If anyone can recommend saturday vs sunday, that would be great. Has sunday been getting more crowded because of AP blockouts? I can't wait for this trip!

Hey there, Lisa!! Wecome to the Halloween thread!! Yes, if you have time, try to scroll back through and look at all the fun photos!! I can't wait for you to go to DLR for HalloweenTime because I know you'll get some fabulous pictures (based on the fabulous photos you posted in the Christmas thread)!!

Hmmm....you bring up a good point about the Sat. vs. Sun. issue in regards to AP blockouts. If the SoCal APs are not blocked on Sundays in Fall, then yes, I would imagine those would be pretty crowded days. But it's hard to say exactly which factors contribute more to crowds on any given day because HalloweenTime has been getting much more popular anyway. In 2008, there were unexpectedly high crowds - the CM's were ill-prepared for it - and last year was no different. I think that the crowd levels will maintain, if not increase a bit. It's still probably less crowded than the holiday season overall, but there is no mistaking the fact that HalloweenTime draws in the people.

I'm thinking of doing a day trip as well - and the dates you mentioned are also days I am considering. I hope that whichever day I end up there, some other DIS-ers will be there too!!

 

[mvf-m11c]

I hope to take as much pictures and video recording during MHP. I will try to take as many pics of the Halloween decorations around the resort. Even though I am very excited with the Halloween decorations, I just still love the Christmas season by far. Maybe the Halloween season will change my mine, but I am looking forward of taking pics of the park during the Halloween season.

I read that you are interested in going down to DL during Oct 2 or 3 Sherry, and it would be nice to meet some other DISers. I still haven't even seen a LGMH yet for these past two years and it would be nice to see and meet a DISer at the park. I will be down there that weekend with my DA.