Pumpkin Pandemonium Rundown -- from The Impulsive Buy:
1. Pumpkin Bread (not sure of brand)
2. Quaker Real Medleys Caramel Apple Oatmeal
3. Brach's S'mores Caramels, Candy Corn Gummies, Apple Caramel Royals and other tooth decaying treats
The CMs are pretty consistent at handing out three pieces of candy at a time. I was talking with a CM who said she had just finished going through the MHP training and they're told to hand out three per time. The bags had an ad for Sleeping Beauty on side and Big Hero Six on the other side. They're pretty much the same size as last year (about 9” tall, by 7” wide, by 3” deep).
I also just noticed that the Wednesday, October 8th party is showing as sold out! I'll update the tracking post to reflect that both 10/14 and 10/8 are now sold out.
I just had to laugh about 10/8 selling out. I always say that my timing is the absolute worst in these areas. I can literally go to the DLR website and comb every possible area, looking for bits of new info or vague clues about the holidays or Halloween Time and come up with nothing. And then, within 15 minutes, someone will post and say, "Hey, such-and-such is on the DLR website!"
I was literally on the DLR website, checking the MHP calendar to see if any new dates had sold out since Friday (which is when 10/14 showed up as sold out), about 60 minutes ago. There was nothing new showing at all. No 10/8 sellouts. So, that should have been a clear sign to me that something would be popping up within minutes, which it did!
When I saw your post about the 10/8 sellout, I thought, "Of course it's showing as sold out NOW."
Anyway, thank you for all of the details and info about the MHP,
figment_jii! I know that I and everyone else in this thread really appreciate it. There are many people who are anxiously awaiting news of all early MHPs so they know what to expect when their own MHP rolls around.
I had no idea that there was special MHP training! And I had no idea that they are instructed to give out 3 pieces of candy! I wonder if that is a new rule for the CMs, as they were handing out more than 3 pieces in the past.
It makes sense, though, because I suspect a lot of the candy goes to waste, and the more they can do to limit the amount of waste, the better (plus, they spend less money on buying candy if they limit what they give out). People will take the pieces they don't want -- especially if they get an abundance of it -- and set them aside on a table, or on top of a trashcan, or drop them on the ground. Then it becomes trash. The CMs can't take randomly placed candy and put it back in their stash to give out on future nights, as they have no idea what may have been done to that candy since it was taken from the treat stations (it could have been tampered with). Once it leaves their eyesight and treat stations it's trash if it ends up put out anywhere else.
People will still discard the pieces they don't want, of course, but at least if there is a limit to how much candy they get there should be less overall waste (and less money wasted in the process).
So Duffy was taken out of the Cavalcade too? Wow! I knew that Duffy had been kicked out of his photo spot in DCA, but I didn't know that all traces of him were being removed.
I'll add a link to your scanned map in the MHP FAQ post a bit later (not that anyone is checking that post, but it will help to have it there for next year!).
