Hi all,
Im a bit of a neewbie here but i have a few questions, i've trawled through all of the previous halloween posts but cant find what i'm looking for or the info is a couple of years out of date (or i've been too distracted by all of the amazing photos on here that i may have missed it
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My 11yo cousin and i are making the trek to the states from Australia in late Oct and he really wants to go trick or treating, but being from Aust. we have never done this before and i'm not too keen on walking around random streets when i'm not 100% sure what the etiquette is. So i had the (maybe crazy) idea of doing the MHP on halloween night. I know i read that it gets sold out but don't they have a smaller capacity during the parties? Does anyone know what the maximum is? This is my 4th trip to DL but the 11yo 1st so i don't really mind if we don't make it on all the rides but we would like to do the ones that a 11yo will find most interesting
Also do they still issue fastpasses during the party?
What i was aming to do is by a single park ticket for the day before halloween that we will use for CA then we will buy a ticket to MHP for halloween day and spend it in DL starting from 3pm (or whatever time they say we are allowed to enter this year). So that we have the morning free to relax and prepare for the long night. Is this crazy???
Also does any one know if World of Colour still runs at this time? I know the have the halloween theme fireworks but is that just in DL?
Thanks for any help you can give and sorry if these questions have been answered but i missed it.
Hi, there and welcome,
wanderinaussie!
Eeee-va gave you some great information. I will throw in some additional thoughts.
Don't worry about asking questions that may or may not have already been asked/answered. It happens all the time on discussion boards like these, on all sorts of subjects. We try to put as much info out there as possible, but people will inevitably miss things or simply not have time to read everything so it's expected that a lot of the same questions will come up. This specific thread was started just last year when we hit the page limit on the previous Halloween Superthread, and the information for Mickey's Halloween Party (in the dedicated MHP post on Page 1) is from last year's party. When we get official information about this year's party I will replace it.
Yes, the Halloween Screams fireworks are only at
Disneyland and there are no special Halloween nighttime shows of any kind at DCA (at least, there have not been any thus far). As Eeee-va explained, there was not much in the way of Halloween-ish decor or highlights in California Adventure last year (although, in the past, DCA has had some fun things like "Candy Corn Acres," which appears to be gone forever).
What I heard last year - and this is not confirmed and not official - was that Disney/Team Disney Anaheim wanted to keep Cars Land and Buena Vista Street "as is" for as long as possible to let people fully get to experience those two new areas in their original states (since they both only opened up in June 2012, and Halloween Time starts in September), and then unveil the big Christmas holiday decorations packages (which were absolutely wonderful!).
But, supposedly, this year we may begin to see a bit more of Halloween popping up in DCA in the Fall. I don't know if this just means decorations only, or if it means some sort of special Halloween 'event' or overlay (like the long-rumored Toy Story Midway Mania overlay, for which Mr. Potato Head apparently recorded Halloween and Christmas dialogue years ago).
Disney never treats Halloween with as much love - and pageantry - as it does the holiday season, but I know they
could figure out something fun and creative to do with Cars Land for Halloween if they wanted to! And they
could use a vintage Halloween theme on Buena Vista Street!
The parties sell out - last year they seemed to sell out faster and/or more of the nights sold out than we expected - and I don't think we are entirely certain of how many tickets are sold, though there has been speculation. I think that, last year, more tickets were sold than in previous years - that's my guess - and all of the parties still sold out (all 11 nights). I
think the very last party to sell out was one of the Tuesday parties, towards the end of October.
So the parties may or may not seem really crowded to you (everyone has a different perception of what "crowded" is to them, and different expectations), but they won't seem empty either. There
will be a lot of people at the parties and many of them will be congregated in certain congested areas, especially if Disney limits access to the Villains in the daytime again, as they did last year, and makes them more available at the parties! Some folks said that the character meet & greet lines last year were too long.
Anyway, again, welcome aboard and stay tuned as we discuss any breaking Halloween Time-related news as it trickles out through the course of the coming months!
, you will have a great time planning. We did the second weekend (late Sept) party 2012. We had a great time, its just me and my DS and he did not want to dress up
, i dress up as a Baseball player. Its the only place i know that you can dress up and not be at a club.
If I recall correctly, I think that the party dates showed up on the website a little bit later in 2012 than they had in the previous couple of years.
I don't know of any other Halloween offerings at DCA, but who knows? Maybe next year will be different.
