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

[DizNee Luver]

It's official.....we're going at Halloween Time!!!!! We finally confirmed our dates.......we'll be in the parks Oct 2 to Oct 7!! I really hope the 7th isn't the first TOTP.......yikes!!!!!!!!!!!! If it is, we'll deal with it.....but here's hoping Sept 30th is the start of the party season!!

 

[maryjeane]

I sincerely hope they don't start the parties on Sept. 30. That will be the last day of our trip (our only day to see fireworks) but we would not be attending the Halloween party. I hope we find out soon so we can change our dates if necessary.

 

[funatdisney]

Okay, I wanted you all to know that, behind the scenes, I have been secretly trying to find out information on party dates (and on the holiday season dates). I decided to do this when I saw all the people - many of whom are out of towners - who need to know this information so they can plan their trips accordingly.

Although the party dates are pretty easy to guess, there is some mystery surrounding the Halloween party because we have no clue if it will begin on 9/30 or on 10/7, and we don't know if they will keep the party on Tuesdays and Fridays or maybe switch to different nights.

So I went to a couple of 'inside' people in the Disney camp - and these are people who most likely know the information way in advance - not to Guest Relations/Services/Communications (or whatever they are called). I honestly think the Guest people are the last to know anything in terms of dates so I wouldn't ask them. Most Cast Members you get on the phone don't know anything.

Keep in mind, I didn't want to know top secret information. I don't want them to tell me about any details of events or anything new that mght be happening for the Halloween party or during the Christmas holiday season. But since the dates of these things are pretty easy to guess anyway, based on previous patterns....I don't think it's a big deal to ask for confirmation (or denial) of the dates we can already guess, as that's not really all that much of 'secret.'

So, are you all on the edge of your seats now? Want to know the big scoop I was told? Here is the exact quote:



"At this time, we do not have details to share on Halloween and holiday events at Disneyland Resort."





You will notice that this doesn't say they don't KNOW the dates of the party or the holiday season. It just says they don't have "details to share," which probably means they know the dates, but won't reveal them.

I was also instructed to keep an eye on the Disney Parks Blog, as the dates will supposedly be announced there as soon as they are available.

I then replied and basically said, "Unfortunately, the Disney Parks Blog does not always give out information in time for any out-of-towners to plan anything..." Last year, the Blog did not even do a holiday-related post until right before the holiday season began. I found out the holiday season dates from an e-mail I received in July, not from the Parks Blog. And the Disneyland website is often the last place to post dates at all.

The bottom line is that people from out of state or who don't live in SoCal need to plan trips around these dates and events like the party, and there is not one single place that we know FOR SURE will post the dates months in advance each year - we have to keep checking around with random Disney sources to find out anything because there is not one place that we can count on which will put the dates up consistently, in the same place, in the same month, each year, months in advance so that people can plan.


I assume we will learn the Halloween party dates - or the confirmation of what we already suspect them to be - very soon, but we really don't know if they will trickle out FIRST via the Parks Blog or some other official Disney site. I wish we could rely on getting the information from one place at the same time every year!

Sherry, thanks for giving us the good old college try. Very clever they are, aren't they?

My gut tells me that the information will be released by Disney Parks Blog. I know it is most likely wrong, but I'm telling ya - my gut tells me otherwise. I have been on Twitter quite a bit lately, searching for information on Halloween Time and other interesting announcements. I have found most of my info this way. I think Disney is relying on social media more and more. They are becoming very savvy with it. They have made the WDW Halloween Party dates announcements via the Disney Parks Blog. And at about the time they would post it on their website (in April - about 6 months from the Halloween parties) I know you will disagree with me, but I don't know.... my gut is tellin' me otherwise. Hopefully we will learn if my gut has failed me or not soon enough, and we can finally know those darn dates of the Parties.

 

[TheColtonsMom]

So excited! We leave for DLR (staying at GCH) on Sunday for 10 days, then are going back 10/30 - 11/8! I just bought our tix today. Our second year at Mickey's Halloween Party! Can't wait!

Your costumes were too cute!

Have no idea what we will be doing for costumes, maybe just having our girls get the princess makeovers that day for it... Just considering the packing of the suitcases

We are shipping our costumes to our hotel if we fly...check with your hotel a lot of them will let you do that. It is actually cheaper than baggage overages. However due to the length of our stay and the wedding in Arizona just after we may just drive down this time.

Okay, I wanted you all to know that, behind the scenes, I have been secretly trying to find out information on party dates (and on the holiday season dates). I decided to do this when I saw all the people - many of whom are out of towners - who need to know this information so they can plan their trips accordingly.

Although the party dates are pretty easy to guess, there is some mystery surrounding the Halloween party because we have no clue if it will begin on 9/30 or on 10/7, and we don't know if they will keep the party on Tuesdays and Fridays or maybe switch to different nights.

So I went to a couple of 'inside' people in the Disney camp - and these are people who most likely know the information way in advance - not to Guest Relations/Services/Communications (or whatever they are called). I honestly think the Guest people are the last to know anything in terms of dates so I wouldn't ask them. Most Cast Members you get on the phone don't know anything.

Keep in mind, I didn't want to know top secret information. I don't want them to tell me about any details of events or anything new that mght be happening for the Halloween party or during the Christmas holiday season. But since the dates of these things are pretty easy to guess anyway, based on previous patterns....I don't think it's a big deal to ask for confirmation (or denial) of the dates we can already guess, as that's not really all that much of 'secret.'

So, are you all on the edge of your seats now? Want to know the big scoop I was told? Here is the exact quote:



"At this time, we do not have details to share on Halloween and holiday events at Disneyland Resort."





You will notice that this doesn't say they don't KNOW the dates of the party or the holiday season. It just says they don't have "details to share," which probably means they know the dates, but won't reveal them.

I was also instructed to keep an eye on the Disney Parks Blog, as the dates will supposedly be announced there as soon as they are available.

I then replied and basically said, "Unfortunately, the Disney Parks Blog does not always give out information in time for any out-of-towners to plan anything..." Last year, the Blog did not even do a holiday-related post until right before the holiday season began. I found out the holiday season dates from an e-mail I received in July, not from the Parks Blog. And the Disneyland website is often the last place to post dates at all.

The bottom line is that people from out of state or who don't live in SoCal need to plan trips around these dates and events like the party, and there is not one single place that we know FOR SURE will post the dates months in advance each year - we have to keep checking around with random Disney sources to find out anything because there is not one place that we can count on which will put the dates up consistently, in the same place, in the same month, each year, months in advance so that people can plan.


I assume we will learn the Halloween party dates - or the confirmation of what we already suspect them to be - very soon, but we really don't know if they will trickle out FIRST via the Parks Blog or some other official Disney site. I wish we could rely on getting the information from one place at the same time every year!

Maybe it is time for a phone blitz....Everybody who lives out of town hit every customer service number you can find and tell them we can't plan without the dates. I worked inbound customer service for years and years and they do track that stuff even if they cannot really help you in any way...Is it actually possible disney really doesn't know how many of us are coming from out of town....You Locals could call and tell them the same...GIVE US OUR DATES!!!!! It might not even change anything for this year but maybe if they start seeing a trend we will start getting our stuff earlier like they do at WDW.

Thanks for giving it the old college try Sherry!

 

[Sherry E]

I sincerely hope they don't start the parties on Sept. 30. That will be the last day of our trip (our only day to see fireworks) but we would not be attending the Halloween party. I hope we find out soon so we can change our dates if necessary.

maryjeane - First of all, welcome! When you say you hope they don't start the parties on September 30, do you mean you want them to begin earlier than that? I think we are all fairly positive that the party will not begin any earlier than September 30 unless Disney just decided to extend the parties through the entire Halloween season (they may as well do that - not sure why they don't). In fact, usually the party starts in October, but it is usually the first Friday of the month which falls very early in October. This time the first Friday will be October 7th - and that seems kind of on the late side. September 30th seems like the logical start date.

Sherry, thanks for giving us the good old college try. Very clever they are, aren't they?

My gut tells me that the information will be released by Disney Parks Blog. I know it is most likely wrong, but I'm telling ya - my gut tells me otherwise. I have been on Twitter quite a bit lately, searching for information on Halloween Time and other interesting announcements. I have found most of my info this way. I think Disney is relying on social media more and more. They are becoming very savvy with it. They have made the WDW Halloween Party dates announcements via the Disney Parks Blog. And at about the time they would post it on their website (in April - about 6 months from the Halloween parties) I know you will disagree with me, but I don't know.... my gut is tellin' me otherwise. Hopefully we will learn if my gut has failed me or not soon enough, and we can finally know those darn dates of the Parties.

Liza - They are clever, aren't they? Clever in dodging questions!

I'm not sure what you think I will disagree with you on? You lost me! I'm just looking at how we have gotten the information delivered to us, historically. DLR only, not WDW.

Yes, Disney is relying on social media more (actually, they are relying on the Internet in a variety of ways) - I'm on a million Disney Facebook pages - but they don't always put out blogs on the Parks Blog about one topic at the same time every year. That is my point - it's not consistent. It depends on whether they have a story to do about something at any given time.

If we were to rely upon the Parks Blog for Christmas season dates and information to plan last year, we would have been out of luck, as the Parks Blog did not cover the Christmas season until right before it began. How did we find out the dates for that season? Through the DNews e-mail that Disney Destinations sent out in July. The Parks Blog was not involved in it.

How did we find out the HalloweenTime season dates this year? From the Disneyland Resort website (thanks to jernysgirl), which shockingly put them up way, way in advance of when they normally do - but we all know they don't usually do that! The Parks Blog was not involved in us finding out Halloween season dates this year.

Disneyland News was the place that put out the actual 2010 press releases for the Halloween season (in late August or early September, I think) and the Christmas season (in November) last year, and D23 was the place where we first learned the details for HalloweenTime (from a press release that most likely came from Disneyland News) in July 2009.

I think the Parks Blog will blog about something when they have a specific story to do about that subject, and through that method, they may mention dates. Last year, Heather Hust Rivera did the blog about Mickey's party moving across the Esplanade in May, so that was the big story they were doing, but she did not mention season start and end dates in her story...only through the course of her follow-up comments did she reply to someone who asked when the season began and revealed the start date as being 9/17.

If there is another story that the Blogs team is doing this year on the Party - and I have said this all along - like if something new is being added into the party or there is some different aspect of it that they have to report (it could be the most minor thing, or it could be something like, "We're adding in more dates!!!"), then yes! Of course the party dates will appear in the Parks Blog. That was never in question. I agree with that. And there very well may be a story the Parks Blog is working on about the party this year - maybe there is something new/different they are adding to it that they want to report on. But if they don't have an actual story to do on the party yet, the party dates could appear somewhere else besides the Blog first. And if they don't have a specific blog to do about the holiday season, then we will find out the dates for that through some other Disney media source.

There is no set, consistent time or place every year when we know with certainty where we will find out information for DLR, because the information keeps trickling out in different ways, through so many different Disney outlets, at different times.

By the way, Heather Hust Rivera is no longer working with Disneyland Resort, so she won't be doing any Disneyland-specific Blogs. I think she is still with Disney and probably still doing other blogs, but someone else will be tackling the DLR blogs and Disneyland News pieces.

Maybe it is time for a phone blitz....Everybody who lives out of town hit every customer service number you can find and tell them we can't plan without the dates. I worked inbound customer service for years and years and they do track that stuff even if they cannot really help you in any way...Is it actually possible disney really doesn't know how many of us are coming from out of town....You Locals could call and tell them the same...GIVE US OUR DATES!!!!! It might not even change anything for this year but maybe if they start seeing a trend we will start getting our stuff earlier like they do at WDW.

Thanks for giving it the old college try Sherry!

Sherri - I think you may be on to something! DLR may not realize exactly how many out-of-towners want to plan in advance! They view DLR as a different situation than WDW - and in many ways it is very, very different. But at the same time, if they are going to build up DLR as being a bigger vacation destination and not just a place for locals, which is how I think they have previously treated DLR, then they have to start doing things to attract more out-of-state and out-of-country people, and that includes putting out important dates and information at a consistent time every year, in a consistent place, well in advance.

 

[Sherry E]

I forgot to mention that one of our DIS'ers, Kirsten/Goofy_Mom, kindly pointed out that some of the photos links in this thread are broken and the photos are no longer showing. Barefootmomma (Laura) and mommaU4 (Beth) are two of the ones whose photos are not showing in some cases. I'm not sure if it's an issue of there being a glitch on the photo hosting site, or if the photos have been moved and, thus, the links broken.

If Jessica removes these listings from the Table of Contents, not only will our Halloween Superthread be missing some great pictures, but if the photos are replaced or if they reappear at some point they will not be mentioned on the ToC.

When you all have a moment, if you can, try to check your listings under each category on the Table of Contents (post #2, page 1) and be sure that your photos are still showing. If you cannot remember which photos you posted in some categories, then I guess Jessica can either remove the listings from the ToC or if you replace them with something else, she can move the listing to a different category.

 

[DizNee Luver]

Hi Sherry!!!! How goes the computer stuff???? Did you see we finally got our travel dates.......think you really should come for a day trip during the first week of October!!! Think that would be awesome!! You know you want to!!!!

 

[BELLEDOZER]

Sherry, feel free to post any of my pics from my SOLO trip to the main page. I've got a pile of them that I'm slowly uploading to my webshots account, and feel that I owe this thread the pics for all the great info I received from it last year when I was planning my vacation. I tend to take alot of vertical pics, and am still in the process of figuring things out when it comes to rotating pics, and am still on a learning curve when it comes to posting things to a thread, as prior to late last week I had never done it before. Have a great day!

Trish

 

[BELLEDOZER]

Yahoo!!! I finally figured out how to rotate pics on Webshots!

 

[BELLEDOZER]

Another pumpkin from the Big Thunder Mountain Roundup....

 

[Belle Ella]

I forgot to mention that one of our DIS'ers, Kirsten/Goofy_Mom, kindly pointed out that some of the photos links in this thread are broken and the photos are no longer showing. Barefootmomma (Laura) and mommaU4 (Beth) are two of the ones whose photos are not showing in some cases. I'm not sure if it's an issue of there being a glitch on the photo hosting site, or if the photos have been moved and, thus, the links broken.

If Jessica removes these listings from the Table of Contents, not only will our Halloween Superthread be missing some great pictures, but if the photos are replaced or if they reappear at some point they will not be mentioned on the ToC.

When you all have a moment, if you can, try to check your listings under each category on the Table of Contents (post #2, page 1) and be sure that your photos are still showing. If you cannot remember which photos you posted in some categories, then I guess Jessica can either remove the listings from the ToC or if you replace them with something else, she can move the listing to a different category.

I wont remove them for now. Photobucket has issues as we all know. I hope it's just an issue where they are just not available right now but I know I tend to move things around my Photobucket account a lot which breaks links all the time (a problem I've been having with a few of the signatures I've been making - oops). But if I need to, I will, but I'll probably wait until I hear from the poster depending on what it is. I haven't had time to update in a while as it stands (in case that wasn't obvious ) so maybe when I do I'll contact people as I go if there's an issue with their photos. At that point it'd be easier through PM's as I might miss it otherwise.

 

[Sherry E]

Hi Sherry!!!! How goes the computer stuff???? Did you see we finally got our travel dates.......think you really should come for a day trip during the first week of October!!! Think that would be awesome!! You know you want to!!!!

Hi, Laurie! The PC stuff is still a nightmare. It's groaning and making noise. I haven't been able to work on the PC becase it's too unstable. Today it took me 4 tries before I could get into my e-mail because the stupid system just didn't want to load the page. It took me 2 tries to get on the DIS today. Everything starts acting up - including the Internet - when the operating system and hard drive are failing or messed up.

I sure did see that you finally got your Halloween dates! I was planning to comment on it the next time I moseyed over into the Trip Reports section. I'm so glad you finally got them nailed down, and as you and I talked about before, I think it is working out for the best that you are doing the Halloween trip first and seeing how the twins handle that and respond to it, then eventually working your way into a big Christmas extravaganza!

I wasn't expecting to have to deal with this computer crisis at this time of the year (I thought it would maybe pop up later in the year), so this is going to affect my ability to start planning and throwing money at things!! I have a Catalina trip I am going to make on my birthday. I need to make my PPH reservation for the holiday season so I can take advantage of that discount.... AND I have to somehow sandwich in a Halloween trip (even just for a day, though I'd prefer longer) before my AP expires!

The good news is that my plan all along has been to try to hit the Halloween party either on the first night of the party or the second night it happens (assuming it starts on 9/30)!! So if I can swing it, I would definitely be there sometime in that first week of October. I know it will be crowded in early October - I've been there at that time before - but I will deal with it because I know what to expect.

Sherry, feel free to post any of my pics from my SOLO trip to the main page. I've got a pile of them that I'm slowly uploading to my webshots account, and feel that I owe this thread the pics for all the great info I received from it last year when I was planning my vacation. I tend to take alot of vertical pics, and am still in the process of figuring things out when it comes to rotating pics, and am still on a learning curve when it comes to posting things to a thread, as prior to late last week I had never done it before. Have a great day!

Trish

Trish - I have loved the photos you posted so far, and wow, we had to wait a long time for them, didn't we? You had a 9-day marathon at DLR for the Halloween season - you probably have more photos than anyone!

Oh, those vertical pictures! I know what you mean about the rotation issues. I use Photobucket, and the weirdest thing is when I load a photo in its vertical form and it looks fine on Photobucket at first...and then, eventually, it somehow rotates so that it's on its side! It is so odd. It has a mind of its own. I go back into my PC and make sure the photo is rotated properly there and then sometimes I have to reload it to Photobucket until it finally settles in the right position.

I still have photos I was going to post on this thread at the point my PC crashed, so I am a bit gun-shy about dealing with Photobucket again until I get a new PC or until it's safe to use this one again.

Jessica/Belle Ella has to get caught up on adding the more recent photo posts (by you and others) to the Table of Contents! She has been on the DIS, but she is neglecting us in the li'l ol' Halloween Superthread!

(It's okay, Jessica - we understand that you don't love us Halloween folk anymore...sniff...sniff....sniff....)

 

[Belle Ella]

Jessica/Belle Ella has to get caught up on adding the more recent photo posts (by you and others) to the Table of Contents! She has been on the DIS, but she is neglecting us in the li'l ol' Halloween Superthread!

(It's okay, Jessica - we understand that you don't love us Halloween folk anymore...sniff...sniff....sniff....)

I just don't love ya'll anymore.



Between everything that's been going on and my sadness over not being able to swing a Halloween trip this year I have neglected this thread a little bit. It's almost to a point where I'm bummed I went at all last year because now I want to go back (well, there are a few other things I'd like to do over anyway) and the fact I can't is just depressing.

Mostly it's just actually having the time to sit down and edit a thread. I don't have a lot of time to sit at the DIS at once without doing a million other things around my house at the same time and when I do the DIS is running slower than ever and I couldn't even if I wanted to. I'll see what I can do today but I've got a school thing that I honestly should be working on at the moment. Oops.

 

[DizNee Luver]

Hi, Laurie! The PC stuff is still a nightmare. It's groaning and making noise. I haven't been able to work on the PC becase it's too unstable. Today it took me 4 tries before I could get into my e-mail because the stupid system just didn't want to load the page. It took me 2 tries to get on the DIS today. Everything starts acting up - including the Internet - when the operating system and hard drive are failing or messed up.

I sure did see that you finally got your Halloween dates! I was planning to comment on it the next time I moseyed over into the Trip Reports section. I'm so glad you finally got them nailed down, and as you and I talked about before, I think it is working out for the best that you are doing the Halloween trip first and seeing how the twins handle that and respond to it, then eventually working your way into a big Christmas extravaganza!

I wasn't expecting to have to deal with this computer crisis at this time of the year (I thought it would maybe pop up later in the year), so this is going to affect my ability to start planning and throwing money at things!! I have a Catalina trip I am going to make on my birthday. I need to make my PPH reservation for the holiday season so I can take advantage of that discount.... AND I have to somehow sandwich in a Halloween trip (even just for a day, though I'd prefer longer) before my AP expires!

The good news is that my plan all along has been to try to hit the Halloween party either on the first night of the party or the second night it happens (assuming it starts on 9/30)!! So if I can swing it, I would definitely be there sometime in that first week of October. I know it will be crowded in early October - I've been there at that time before - but I will deal with it because I know what to expect.

Sorry to hear the computer is still as messed up as it is.....so frustrating!!! It's amazing how lost we are without one........when we were kids we didn't even know what a computer was......lol

I was kinda hoping it would be quieter between the Gay Days weekend & Columbus Day weekend.....but you said it would be busy......rats!!! Was looking forward to a few easy days at the parks with the kids.

That would be great if you could even do a day trip......I'm really hoping the parties start on the 30th.....so we could do the one on the 4th & the 7th but here we sit waiting on DL to announce the dates........not sure why they think they have to keep that info so hush hush.....it's not like it's a National Secret that could jeopardize the country.....sheesh!

Well as we move closer, hopefully we can set a Goofy's Kitchen brunch meeting!!!!

 

[Sherry E]

I just don't love ya'll anymore.



Between everything that's been going on and my sadness over not being able to swing a Halloween trip this year I have neglected this thread a little bit. It's almost to a point where I'm bummed I went at all last year because now I want to go back (well, there are a few other things I'd like to do over anyway) and the fact I can't is just depressing.

Mostly it's just actually having the time to sit down and edit a thread. I don't have a lot of time to sit at the DIS at once without doing a million other things around my house at the same time and when I do the DIS is running slower than ever and I couldn't even if I wanted to. I'll see what I can do today but I've got a school thing that I honestly should be working on at the moment. Oops.

Jessica -

I could be wrong, but I can imagine that, in a way, you almost could kind of want a total do-over of a HalloweenTime trip...an all-new memory of HalloweenTime in your mind, sort of starting it from scratch with a clean slate (without going into detail here). Is that accurate?

I can totally understand that bummed-out feeling when you come to the realization that a trip probably will not happen (Lord knows I've experienced that too) - especially since you had initially planned to do HalloweenTime this year, with the party and everything. You never know, though - maybe some miracle will happen between now and October and you will find yourself staring that giant Mickey pumpkin in the eye yet again!

I also understand the time that goes into the Table of Contents! Sometimes, even if you think there have not been all that many additions to put in it since you last updated it, you get in there and realize there is a lot to do! (And then dealing with the DIS on a slow-loading day does not help matters any!) I experienced that the other day when I finally sat down to update the Christmas ToC. I was thinking, "Gee...there's a lot of stuff here that I had neglected!" I had been jumping back and forth between working on the first 3 posts of that thread, adding a little here, a little there, but there was a lot to do on the ToC - much more than I had anticipated. I had to hunker down for a chunk o' time and get caught up. If I had been working, I probably would not have had the time to do that.

Of course, we could do these things half-heartedly and stick stuff randomly in the ToC just for the sake of sticking it in there, without links and not in the right categories, but we want to do it right and put everything in its proper place with quick links so it's all nice 'n' organized for the folks.

Sorry to hear the computer is still as messed up as it is.....so frustrating!!! It's amazing how lost we are without one........when we were kids we didn't even know what a computer was......lol

I was kinda hoping it would be quieter between the Gay Days weekend & Columbus Day weekend.....but you said it would be busy......rats!!! Was looking forward to a few easy days at the parks with the kids.

That would be great if you could even do a day trip......I'm really hoping the parties start on the 30th.....so we could do the one on the 4th & the 7th but here we sit waiting on DL to announce the dates........not sure why they think they have to keep that info so hush hush.....it's not like it's a National Secret that could jeopardize the country.....sheesh!

Well as we move closer, hopefully we can set a Goofy's Kitchen brunch meeting!!!!

Laurie -

Well, it is typically pretty busy in October up until Columbus Day passes and then it tapers off a bit, I think, until right before Halloween. It won't be New Year's Eve busy, I'm sure. Probably not even mid-Summer busy. But October is definitely not the same ol' off-peak season it used to be.

Of course, this year we have no clue how the crowd dynamic will change with all of this stuff happening at DLR. I think that the World of Color factor played a big role in the increased crowds last year, and I expect this year will be no different.

I know - it's silly that DLR keeps the dates for seasons and for the Halloween party hush hush when I am positive they know that information way, way in advance. They have probably known for months. I would imagine that each year, after the holiday season passes and everyone is back to work in the offices where they do the brainstorming and scheduling, they have a big ol' staff meeting and decide what all the season dates will be for the whole year.

I can see where they might not want to give out nuggets of information about actual events, such as if they decided to have a full-blown Halloween parade at DLR, or some brand new holiday overlay of a ride. That's fine - they can surprise us with that kind of stuff. But the actual dates are things that we can pretty much guess on anyway - we basically already know the dates, assuming DLR does not drastically change them. So all they would be doing is confirming or denying them at this point. It's not a big secret, really.

A Goofy's brunch would be lots of fun if I happen to be there when you are there - of course, I'm open to eating at other places (except an all-Princess meal, that is, and not really the Critter Breakfast either since I'm kind of over that one for now!)! I'd definitely do Minnie & Friends or Surf's Up too!

 

[TheColtonsMom]

I forgot to mention that one of our DIS'ers, Kirsten/Goofy_Mom, kindly pointed out that some of the photos links in this thread are broken and the photos are no longer showing. Barefootmomma (Laura) and mommaU4 (Beth) are two of the ones whose photos are not showing in some cases. I'm not sure if it's an issue of there being a glitch on the photo hosting site, or if the photos have been moved and, thus, the links broken.

If Jessica removes these listings from the Table of Contents, not only will our Halloween Superthread be missing some great pictures, but if the photos are replaced or if they reappear at some point they will not be mentioned on the ToC.

When you all have a moment, if you can, try to check your listings under each category on the Table of Contents (post #2, page 1) and be sure that your photos are still showing. If you cannot remember which photos you posted in some categories, then I guess Jessica can either remove the listings from the ToC or if you replace them with something else, she can move the listing to a different category.

I know Beth is out of town and some of her pics on her TR are the same way so she may have a problem she does not even know about yet. You may want to shoot her a PM so she gets it when she arrives home.

Yahoo!!! I finally figured out how to rotate pics on Webshots!

I love that one! I have never seen it and believe me I have been devouring TRs from Halloweens past lately. I am so looking forward to the BTR pumpkins as I am a crazy pumpkin carver myself but I've got nothing on these folks! The planning that must go into these creations has got to be crazy...I wish they would print out carving patterns for these! I did painstakingly carve the Black Pearl last year though.

 

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BUMP!!

 

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And a spooky one of the castle...have a great evening everyone!

Trish

 

[Sherry E]

Those pictures are great, Trish! You're definitely showing us some things that we haven't seen a lot of yet.

I think the real gem of the Halloween season is the Round-Up, because that is a constantly changing and evolving place. If you go to the Round-Up on the first day of the Halloween season and then again on the last day of the season, it won't be the same. It won't be the same Round-Up this year as it was last year. It won't even be exactly the same 2 or 3 weeks apart because many of the pumpkins are replaced throughout the season.

In fact, I think the Round-Up is a major highlight of both the Halloween and Christmas seasons at DLR, but the one difference in the Halloween version is that is constantly changing. The Christmas version - Santa's Reindeer Round-Up - is great and there are tons of little things to see (I spent a whole afternoon there on one of my DLR days in December) - but it doesn't have anything like the pumpkins which change throughout HalloweenTime.

 

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I really enjoyed the Roundup, and made it a habit to go there everyday that I was in the parks to see if there was anything new that they had carved. On my vacation I took over 1700+ pics, but have been so busy, and the last couple of months have been battling my Asthma and bronchitis (doc is sadistic, put me on some antibacterial drugs that are nasty!) I've had the Webshots account for about a month, but it's been a challenge finding the time to upload pics, as it seems to take a LONG time to upload any large amount of photos. It seems that I've gotten so far behind on things that I'm trying to get caught up. But I do try to upload at least 20 pics a day in the hope of eventually getting all the pics that I want uploaded. I'm glad that everyone is enjoying the pics, and have made it a priority to have the Halloween pics uploaded first so that I can post them to this thread. Have a great evening Sherry!
Trish