HalloweenTime at DLR Superthread- 9/14-10/31; Mickey's Halloween Party starts 9/28!

[funatdisney]

Here are some friends for Creepy Dancing Guy or maybe we should call him Gus?


Kris

The cat reminds me of the lost kitten we adopted last October, Memphis. I posted a picture of him on the first thread. He is jet black, and he has orange eyes. He tolerates our one and half year old lab mix like an over indulgent mother. That dog can lick and chomp on that cat and Memphis just takes it. He knows that Luna will stop in a short while and then they can both fall asleep together. At first, I didn't like him, but he has grown on me and I am now quite fond of him. Not a cuddlier and everything is on his terms, but he follows me around everywhere and makes a point to look at me. So I had just start liking him.

I want some dates!!! I need to request time off of work and make plans! I'm afraid if I wait to long I won't be able to go!
EDIT: To be more specific I want party dates lol!

Me. too!

If we used that fairy creepy dancing guy might forget to dance and just become creepy guy LOL

Had a good laughed when I read this. Too funny.

 

[TheColtonsMom]

I could almost see that penguin looking up at Creepy Dancing Guy and thinking WHAT IS HE DOING? So I had to see it for myself....

I NEED TOTP dates to help me get out of this "spring is never coming" funk I am in...Come on Disney We Know You Know!

 

[TheColtonsMom]

double post

 

[Sherry E]

I could almost see that penguin looking up at Creepy Dancing Guy and thinking WHAT IS HE DOING? So I had to see it for myself....

I NEED TOTP dates to help me get out of this "spring is never coming" funk I am in...Come on Disney We Know You Know!

Yep. The penguin is trying to show Gus how it's done! They're having a dance-off!

 

[Goofy_Mom]

Hello everyone!! I'm in agreement about the machettey wielding zombies and leatherface chasing me around. Maybe one day I'll do one of the those hunted house, just to say I did it. But thats a really big maybe. I love October, so much to do around here. We have the Dell Oso Corn Mazes in Lathrop. In addition to the mazes, they have pony rides, a petting zoo, a zip line, 25' climbing towers, pumkin launchers, a kid area with two bouce houses. You can buy pumpkins on the cheap (we spent $16 and bought 3 somewhat large pumpkins and 5 mini pumpkins).

Near Santa Cruz is Roaring Camp. It's a steam train place. Close to Halloween they have a Sleepy Hollow themed train ride and earlier in the month they have a harvest party, all designed with families in mind - translation = not scary at all.

The first weekend in October is the pumpkin festival in Manteca, not as cool as it used to be, but still pretty fun.

My birthday on the 14th, this year I'll be on a plane that day headed to MCO.

Then theres all the fun of Disney Parks and thier Halloween/Fall spendor. So can't wait. In the mean time, I have easter, fouth of july, and summer to keep me busy with my little guys.

So far we're looking at going as a superhero family for the halloween party. DH will wear a superman shirt, DD will be wonderwoman, DS will be spiderman, and I will be supergirl.

 

[6Smiles]

I could almost see that penguin looking up at Creepy Dancing Guy and thinking WHAT IS HE DOING? So I had to see it for myself....

I NEED TOTP dates to help me get out of this "spring is never coming" funk I am in...Come on Disney We Know You Know!

Sherri - Did Rowan have her baby yet?

Yep. The penguin is trying to show Gus how it's done! They're having a dance-off!

Sherri and Sherry The penguin definitely wins the dance off. I found a couple of other dancing smilies that I will post.
Kris

 

[6Smiles]

A new bunny dance:








Gus's baby?

 

[TheColtonsMom]

Sherri - Did Rowan have her baby yet?



Sherri and Sherry The penguin definitely wins the dance off. I found a couple of other dancing smilies that I will post.
Kris

No baby yet we just took the dogs out to run in the pasture and spent some time with Rowan who is currently NOT having contractions again! I cannot believe we spent a month and countless time with the vet keeping her from going into labor early then the vet gives her the green light and she waits!

We are currently passing the time trying to guess what color this baby will be. Rowan is Bay and Daddy is Sorrel (for those that don't know dark brown and light reddish brown) both Mommy & Daddy have blacks only one generation back so I am really hoping for a black filly named Daisy!

New Disney names that have come up this week & are under consideration for a boy are Flynn Rider, Ferdinand (as in the bull) Gaston, Woody and Iago. Along with the others that have been in consideration for a while Triton, Samson, Naveen & DIS. Anyone with other ideas send them my way!

 

[Sherry E]

A new bunny dance:








Gus's baby?

Those are soooooo funny! Love the bunny wiggling its bottom and love the pandas, especially!!

That very well may be Gus' baby - it is creepy enough!

 

[TheColtonsMom]

A new bunny dance:








Gus's baby?

I'm with Sherry the pandas are adorable! please take that baby away...didn't he do commercials on TV in the 80s early 90s? I believe they permanantly scarred me. The belly dancer is def related to Gus in some way...some family resemblence there I think.

 

[funatdisney]

please take that baby away...didn't he do commercials on TV in the 80s early 90s? I believe they permanantly scarred me. The belly dancer is def related to Gus in some way...some family resemblence there I think.

I completely agree with you on the baby. Makes me shudder everytime I look at it.

That belly dancer is cute and would look great beside Gus.

 

[Sherry E]

This was on Page 3...and it hadn't been bumped or posted on in 3 days!




By the way...by my calculations, we now have just about 5-1/2 months until...the start of HalloweenTime!!! Those 5.5 months will fly by. I remember when we were at the 5 or 6 month point last year...and then, before you knew it, Halloween Time was here!


Gus, the Creepy Dancing Guy, will be dancing up a storm until September 16!

 

[TheColtonsMom]

Sherry when I saw you had posted I fully expected that either you had heard some dates or were going to pull an April Fools gag and prretend you did.

 

[Sherry E]

Sherry when I saw you had posted I fully expected that either you had heard some dates or were going to pull an April Fools gag and prretend you did.

Oh no! I wouldn't do that to you guys! We all wait for so long, so patiently, for information of some kind. I wouldn't be so cruel as to pretend we had some info! (Though that might have been funny!)

Actually I saw that someone had posted a bunch of questions on Liza's party thread about the party. I figured it was time to bump this thread!

 

[TheColtonsMom]

Just had to share some good news! (Some of you may see this post in more than one place I am excited!)

The local newspaper editor saw my Christmas TR and forwarded my name and a link to it to a group looking for someone to write a Montana travel blog and newspaper travel articles about traveling with your kids.

I have been waiting until it was official but "Traveling in Colton's World" is a go!

So those of you that want to follow along with our travels around Montana this summer can! I will post the link when it gets started. Basically the idea is they pay for us to travel one weekend a month all summer and I write the blog in exchange for the travel $. Any blog article that they want re-vamped as a newspaper article I will actually get paid for on top of it! Since I owe this opportunity to the DIS all the money I earn is going towards our Halloween trip

 

[funatdisney]

Awesome opportunity, TheColtonsMom! Sounds like a great deal and I am very happy that you got it.

 

[mom2rtk]

Hey everyone! I'm going to subscribe to the thread to stay on top of everything as we decide whether to head for WDW or DL this fall. I really would love to dress up for the party with my daughter without feeling like I was suffocating from the heat.

We did MNSSHP in 09 the last week of Sept into early October. They set records for heat that week, so it's made me really gun-shy for doing that again.

Last year we did MVMCP and they set records for cold while we were there.

So this year......... I'm hoping for "just right".

I'm really torn, because it can be brutally hot at WDW any time up through October, so it's a crap shoot. But honestly, if they offer free dining into October, that might seal the deal.

Do they offer decent deals at the DL hotels that time of year? I know we could stay at a good neighbor hotel, but that's just not as appealing. We typically stay at a value resort at WDW, but still love the feeling of always being immersed in Disney.

 

[Sherry E]

Hey everyone! I'm going to subscribe to the thread to stay on top of everything as we decide whether to head for WDW or DL this fall. I really would love to dress up for the party with my daughter without feeling like I was suffocating from the heat.

We did MNSSHP in 09 the last week of Sept into early October. They set records for heat that week, so it's made me really gun-shy for doing that again.

Last year we did MVMCP and they set records for cold while we were there.

So this year......... I'm hoping for "just right".

I'm really torn, because it can be brutally hot at WDW any time up through October, so it's a crap shoot. But honestly, if they offer free dining into October, that might seal the deal.

Do they offer decent deals at the DL hotels that time of year? I know we could stay at a good neighbor hotel, but that's just not as appealing. We typically stay at a value resort at WDW, but still love the feeling of always being immersed in Disney.

mom2rtk -

Hello and welcome! I'm so glad you joined us and subscribed.

I hope we get some good info soon. If ever you tune into this thread and don't see any discussion of late breaking news happening when it seems like there should be some news, be sure to check Page 1, Post 1 - currently I have a lot of info from last year and other relevant links to threads about things that happen every Halloween season or that are Halloween-related...but as soon as any new info comes in about this year, I will be adding that in to the first post! I realized last year (in the first Halloween superthread) that the current info was getting lost in the pages whenever someone was kind enough to post it, and we needed one spot to be able to find it so we could always access it easily.

We were all very excited - and shocked - when the actual dates for the Halloween season at DLR came in early this year. It was much, much earlier than expected and much earlier than the norm. Really, the DLR website usually doesn't put up the Halloween season dates until August, but they might trickle out a few months early. This year, they were up on the DLR website way in advance.

So now we are waiting on the exact dates of Mickey's Halloween Party. We assume it will begin on Friday, September 30, and will be held every Friday in October, and probably also on Tuesdays, as it was last year. It's possible that it might not begin until October 7th, but that seems rather late to me.

It is quite possible we could see some high temperatures in October (that has been known to happen)...but we probably would not have much in the way of humidity like you experienced in Florida. In fact, October heat tends to be quite dry - hence, the infamous wildfires. It could also be rainy (last year it rained on a few Halloween party nights, as I recall) or just plain windy! October is a very tricky month to predict in SoCal.

I'm not a heat lover myself, so I would be happy with some nice, comfortable 70-degree days, or even in the 60's - it makes me feel more like it's actually Fall that way. I don't want to feel like it's Summer in October!

As for hotel deals...I totally understand about preferring to stay onsite. Even though some of the Good Neighbor hotels offer great deals, it's just not the same. I want to actually be on Disney property for the entire length of my stay. I want the full immersion from the second I get out of the car to the second I get back in the car. I want to go to sleep and wake up on Disney property. I want to look for hidden Mickeys in the carpeting and wallpaper!! You just can't do that at a Good Neighbor!!

There have been decent DLR hotel deals (like, perhaps, as low as $149 or $159 per night for the PPH, and maybe $20 more than that for the DLH) in the past that have extended through Fall. Some of them even go as far as mid-December. Some of them have ended in October. Some of the deals have been through special PIN code offers, and some are available to the general public.

So it's not unheard of to see hotel deals for October. The only question is when and if there will be any again this year!

 

[mom2rtk]

mom2rtk -

Hello and welcome! I'm so glad you joined us and subscribed.

I hope we get some good info soon. If ever you tune into this thread and don't see any discussion of late breaking news happening when it seems like there should be some news, be sure to check Page 1, Post 1 - currently I have a lot of info from last year and other relevant links to threads about things that happen every Halloween season or that are Halloween-related...but as soon as any new info comes in about this year, I will be adding that in to the first post! I realized last year (in the first Halloween superthread) that the current info was getting lost in the pages whenever someone was kind enough to post it, and we needed one spot to be able to find it so we could always access it easily.

We were all very excited - and shocked - when the actual dates for the Halloween season at DLR came in early this year. It was much, much earlier than expected and much earlier than the norm. Really, the DLR website usually doesn't put up the Halloween season dates until August, but they might trickle out a few months early. This year, they were up on the DLR website way in advance.

So now we are waiting on the exact dates of Mickey's Halloween Party. We assume it will begin on Friday, September 30, and will be held every Friday in October, and probably also on Tuesdays, as it was last year. It's possible that it might not begin until October 7th, but that seems rather late to me.

It is quite possible we could see some high temperatures in October (that has been known to happen)...but we probably would not have much in the way of humidity like you experienced in Florida. In fact, October heat tends to be quite dry - hence, the infamous wildfires. It could also be rainy (last year it rained on a few Halloween party nights, as I recall) or just plain windy! October is a very tricky month to predict in SoCal.

I'm not a heat lover myself, so I would be happy with some nice, comfortable 70-degree days, or even in the 60's - it makes me feel more like it's actually Fall that way. I don't want to feel like it's Summer in October!

As for hotel deals...I totally understand about preferring to stay onsite. Even though some of the Good Neighbor hotels offer great deals, it's just not the same. I want to actually be on Disney property for the entire length of my stay. I want the full immersion from the second I get out of the car to the second I get back in the car. I want to go to sleep and wake up on Disney property. I want to look for hidden Mickeys in the carpeting and wallpaper!! You just can't do that at a Good Neighbor!!

There have been decent DLR hotel deals (like, perhaps, as low as $149 or $159 per night for the PPH, and maybe $20 more than that for the DLH) in the past that have extended through Fall. Some of them even go as far as mid-December. Some of them have ended in October. Some of the deals have been through special PIN code offers, and some are available to the general public.

So it's not unheard of to see hotel deals for October. The only question is when and if there will be any again this year!

Thanks Sherry!

I just don't seem to be any closer to deciding which direction to head. I do feel like early October will be our best bet. I'd just hold on and see, but would need to make ADR's soon for early October if we decide to go to WDW. I have a love/hate relationship with the 180 day advance thing they do! I suppose I'll just have to make a bunch of ADR's on the chance we go that way, then think on it some more.

HMH really looks cool, and it looks like they do a lot more decorating at DL than they do at WDW. The pumpkin carving looks amazing. And the photos of the fog on the ROA.........WOW! But the parade at WDW is more extensive, and I love seeing the Headless Horseman ride.

I really want to see out of the ordinary characters, but it looks like neither location is vastly better or worse when it comes to that. And I despise the way both locations swap the characters out so you never know who you will be there when you get to the front of the line.

Oh....... the choices we have to make in life!

I guess I'll just hang out here and see what info comes up. I appreciate that you run the thread so well, and I can be confident the info will show up here as soon as it's available.

 

[Sherry E]

Thanks Sherry!

I just don't seem to be any closer to deciding which direction to head. I do feel like early October will be our best bet. I'd just hold on and see, but would need to make ADR's soon for early October if we decide to go to WDW. I have a love/hate relationship with the 180 day advance thing they do! I suppose I'll just have to make a bunch of ADR's on the chance we go that way, then think on it some more.

HMH really looks cool, and it looks like they do a lot more decorating at DL than they do at WDW. The pumpkin carving looks amazing. And the photos of the fog on the ROA.........WOW! But the parade at WDW is more extensive, and I love seeing the Headless Horseman ride.

I really want to see out of the ordinary characters, but it looks like neither location is vastly better or worse when it comes to that. And I despise the way both locations swap the characters out so you never know who you will be there when you get to the front of the line.

Oh....... the choices we have to make in life!

I guess I'll just hang out here and see what info comes up. I appreciate that you run the thread so well, and I can be confident the info will show up here as soon as it's available.

mom2rtk - Thank you for the kind words about the thread! It took some effort by 4 of us - Belle Ella, iKristin, funatdisney and myself - to get some organization going in this new thread that was sorely lacking in the last Halloween thread (although that one was great), so I can only hope it pays off and makes the attempt to find certain bits of information about the season much easier for people!

Oh, it annoys me to no end that I never know exactly which characters will be at a given location during HalloweenTime. I stood there for 3 Villains in Fantasyland in 2009, and then one of them left while I was standing there! So we were left with only 2 Villains - and the PhotoPass person was gone too!

Meanwhile, at the Halloween party the lines for the characters can be soooo long. Yes, we waited for Jack Sparrow and we waited for Woody, but that was about all the waiting we could handle for the characters.

When the Villains used to be in DCA for the season, they would trot out Don Karnage, Frollo, Ratcliffe, and the Queen of Hearts for the main Villains daytime photo spot. Now that the Villains are set up in DL, it seems like they have settled on a good rotation of the Queen of Hearts, Captain Hook, Jafar and the Evil Queen from Snow White, with some extras showing up for the actual party at night!

The Boo to You parade is definitely one area where DLR is lacking in its Halloween celebration in comparison to WDW. While I have not been to WDW, it definitely seems like that parade is a highlight of the season.

Last year, DLR starting promoting the "cavalcade" that takes place during the Halloween party much more. It seemed like it was the same sort of mini-parade that had taken place in the previous years, but they gave it a name and drew more attention to it. Still, they were careful not to call it a "parade," so no one would think it was a parade in the typical grand scale style of DLR parades.

I think it's safe to say that if DLR ever decides to have a full-fledged Halloween parade like Boo to You, it will be a very, very popular event! It will be exciting to see what - if anything - they begin to add into the season as the changes in DCA are completed. They have removed Candy Corn Acres from DCA. They took away the candy corn CALIFORNIA letters. They stopped playing the 'Halloween-themed' songs in DCA (such as "Monster Mash" and that sort of thing). I want to see DCA get in on the Halloween celebration too! I am holding out hope for DCA that it will one day be included in the HalloweenTime festivities again!

Somewhere down the road I'm pretty sure we will see a World of Color Halloween version, and a possible Toy Story Midway Mania Halloween overlay...the question is...WHEN??

The Halloween Round-Up is a real gem of the season - and the funny thing is that I bet a lot of people don't know it's there because it's kind of tucked away. I think the Round-Up is the thing I am most excited to see - those pumpkins are amazing!