Vala & Liza - thanks for posting the awesome photos! We needed some color!
Well, this is certainly a much more organized thread than anything in the WDW forum. There are new
MNSSHP threads over there all the time, and maybe sometime later in the season someone MIGHT decide to call it an official thread, but this is a very impressive thread indeed!
So are the villains out during the day in DL just during Halloween season? There really aren't any villains routinely available at WDW, so that's nice to know about. Of course the Tremaines are out routinely, if you count them as villains. And they are TONS of fun.
The cavalcade does look nice, but after seeing the one at WDW, I'm wondering if I'll be disappointed. I'm wondering if they will ramp it up as time goes by. Of course, we won't know that until the season is under way and I will need to have my decision made long before then.
One difference I've seen is that there really isn't much Halloween going on at WDW outside of the party. MK is the only park with anything at all, and that's mostly the banners and a few decorations on Main Street.
One more question on room discounts. If they happen to do any for fall, how far in advance to they tend to announce that sort of thing? I really don't stay plugged into the DL side of things, so I'll need to make a point of watching.
Now that I've subscribed, I look forward to all the great updates I'm sure you guys will do here. Thanks again for all the hard work!
mom2rtk -
I think the WDW side of the DIS is so vast and huge and there are so many different forums and sub-forums that it would probably be very difficult to try and manage any kind of all-encompassing superthread on a given topic - at least that's what I envision! I think it's easier to handle a thread like that over on the DLR side, which is a much smaller and more intimate community.
We also have the Christmas Superthread here as well, of course, and I remember that one time last year I was browsing around on the WDW side of the board to try to locate an equivalent to our DLR at Christmas Time Superthread over there. I was positive they MUST have a similar thread on the WDW side of the board, and I was eager to find it as I anticipated great things from it!
Never having been to WDW myself but seeing all kinds of wonderful photos of the WDW holiday decor in the past, I was expecting that I would find a Christmas superthread of sorts over there that blew ours over here to smithereens! I expected to see all kinds of AK holiday stuff, all kinds of Osborne Family stuff, all kinds of photos of decor from the hotels, etc. I thought that this imaginary thread would put us to shame.
But I found nothing of the sort!!
I'm sure that the WDW section of the board probably has a million Christmas-related threads during the holiday season, but I didn't see anything similar to our Superthread that had everything - info, links, photos, etc. - consolidated in one thread where everyone could go when they wanted to learn something.
To me, it gets very confusing when there are many, many, many threads about one topic (such as what happened with World of Color last year). I don't know where to look for information because there are so many threads! When there is one main, master thread on a certain subject, I always know I can go back to that to look up whatever info I need. Of course, there will still be other threads that pop up on those topics too, but at least we will always know that there is one specific place to look for info.
I can only imagine how many Little Mermaid and Star Tours threads we will see popping up in 2 months!!
As for Villains...well, you probably will not see Frollo or Ratcliffe or Don Karnage out in the parks when it's not Halloween Time. However, the Queen of Hearts is out in DL quite a bit during all times of year. The Evil Queen also comes out here and there. Cruella De Vil comes out during non-Halloween times every now and then. Jafar used to be out a lot, but he is mainly saved for Halloween Time now. Captain Hook comes out during non-Halloween times too. The Tremaines seem to only appear at the Halloween party, and not in the parks during the daytime (at least, not that I've seen).
As for the cavalcade/parade - like Liza said, I can't help but think that eventually there will be an official, full-length Halloween parade. There's no telling when they would do this, but I can see it happening in the future.
Unless something changes this year, the only Halloween decorations you will see are in
Disneyland itself. There's nothing in the hotels. All of the Halloween stuff was taken out of DCA last year, There's nothing really in Downtown Disney. It's all centered in Disneyland.
In Disneyland, you can walk through several lands and not see any traces of Halloween for quite a while. There's the giant Mickey pumpkin at the start of Main Street. Along Main Street there are lots of pumpkins (many of them up above, sitting on balconies or on window ledges) and a few window displays. The hub has pumpkins around the Partners statue. The Halloween Round-Up has all the wonderful carved pumpkins. The Ray Bradbury Halloween tree and the Dia de los Muertos display are in Frontierland. Haunted Mansion Holiday is, of course, in New Orleans Square. Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy is in Tomorrowland. But that's about it. There is nothing really Halloween-ish in Fantasyland or Aventureland, or even in ToonTown. Of course, the Halloween party has extra effects, lights, image projections and the fog in Rivers of America and all that.
But I seem to recall someone who had been to WDW for Halloween Time saying that there were fewer decorations in the MK than we have in DL. So I guess we score some points in that area, even if we don't have a 'real' parade!
As for any possible Fall room discounts, I've seen some that came out as early as July. Others didn't seem to show up until September. When October was more off-peak, DLR tried to get those special offers out earlier, I think. When October began to get soooo popular, they began holding out longer to release the discounts, I noticed.
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!
Probably over Easter.
only 50 days until my first trip of the year and getting super excited!! Halloween time will be only 4 months after the trip coming up.
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