Big Thunder Ranch has the Halloween Carnival that we've been talking about today -- which may or may not be back this year (though it is sounding like it won't be back at full capacity). The Halloween Carnival has characters in Halloween attire (such a Donald in a pumpkin outfit), the Scare-Dy-Crow shack (which has vintage Halloween décor and "Pumpkin People"), the Conjure a Villain tent (in which you can only conjure one villain at a time), awesome pumpkin carvers who make elaborate, detailed Disney character pumpkins, Pirates League, Halloween, crafts, treats, games, entertainment, a fortuneteller and lots of fall/Halloween décor. Over closer to the Scare-Dy Crow Shack is the petting zoo, with the cute goats in Halloween scarves. All of these things are in one location in Frontierland.
If the Carnival is not open this year, then I imagine that Disney will set up another spot for the villains in the daytime. They may put Pirates League somewhere else. It doesn't sound like they have a plan to bring the pumpkin carvers on board this year, and that is very unfortunate if it happens.
Here are some posts that may be of interest (from page 1 of the thread), though, again, we have no clue what will actually be back this year:
http://www.disboards.com/threads/ha...015-info-is-finally-in.3270919/#post-51326923
http://www.disboards.com/threads/ha...015-info-is-finally-in.3270919/#post-51326928
http://www.disboards.com/threads/ha...015-info-is-finally-in.3270919/#post-51326955
http://www.disboards.com/threads/ha...015-info-is-finally-in.3270919/#post-51326963
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www.disboards.com/threads/halloweentime-at-dlr-superthread-4-2015-info-is-finally-in.3270919/#post-51326968
Those should be a good start! There will also be some things happening in Downtown Disney, such as the Jazz Kitchen Haunted Gingerbread House Workshop, but it only takes place on 2 days in October (the dates are not out yet). And also last year at Jazz Kitchen they had an interactive murder mystery dinner/show, but only on one night. Tortilla Jo's will have a special menu for Dia le los Muertos right at the end of October/beginning of November. Catal will have a special fall menu. La Brea Bakery will serve some fall items as well.
Last year there was something called the Mahaloween Luau at Trader Sam's at the Disneyland Hotel. It was supposed to involve an imagineer or two talking about Disney things, and assorted food. People paid a lot of money (over $100, if I recall) and some said it was not worth it because they couldn't sit down, and the presentation by the Disney person wasn't what was expected. I seem to recall that Tom Bell of DIS Unplugged went to the Luau.
I agree. I keep thinking, okay, they can't remove the
whole Carnival, can they? They have to at least leave the little section with the log cabin/shack open, and the petting zoo. Santa Claus is supposed to be IN that cabin this year for the holidays, so that means it will be decorated for that season, though it may not be the Jingle Jangle Jamboree anymore.
But that little cabin area is more what used to be called the Halloween Round-Up (and the Reindeer Round-Up for the holidays), and it's on the fringe of the Carnival location. It was there before the whole "Halloween Carnival" came to be. So they might decorate the Round-Up area and the cabin. But if the pumpkin carvers have not been recruited to appear during Halloween Time, and the decorators have been told that they're not having anything there, to me it sounds like the actual Carnival in the Festival area of the Ranch is in jeopardy. So that means that some things might get moved to separate locations (villains, characters in costume), and some things might not return this year (like the carvers). I have no doubt that characters will be out somewhere in Disneyland, in Halloween attire -- it just might not be at that location!
There's got to be some surprise, somewhere... Maybe the surprise is the "sparkling" décor we can look forward to (sparkly pumpkins?
) -- but I doubt that anything in Frontierland is going to sparkle!
