I really wish that DLR could go all out with the Halloweentime decorations and spread them throughout the parks, like they do at Christmastime. I love what they do for Halloweentime, and they have definitely begun to make a bigger deal of it in the last few years than they ever used to, adding various pumpkins around certain areas of Main Street, Woody's Round-Up and the Partners Statue and in Candy Corn Acres, and of course, they have the giant Mickey Pumpkin and the giant Candy Corn (both of which are in my signature pictures below). But when you go to DLR during late November through early January, the parks and hotels and DTD are just saturated in the festive holiday feeling. It is everywhere - the food and drinks, the music, the colors, the lights....it's beautiful. You get in the mood and spirit for the holidays whether you want to or not! As magical as DLR is the rest of the year, it is 100 times more magical during the holidays because they go all out with the decorations and the 700 Christmas trees scattered all around the resort and the fake snow and the Winter Castle and the IASW Holiday, etc., etc. There is a touch of the holidays in every shop and in every restaurant and hotel, just all over. I feel like every inch of DLR is covered in holiday magic because it envelops me. I LOVE that DLR is doing more for Halloween these days, but I don't feel completely immersed in the Halloween feeling everywhere I go when I am there during Halloweentime. It is extremely festive, but it lacking the little bit of extra pixie dust that the holidays have. So that is one reason why the HMH is so important, in my opinion - as Fairycat said in another thread, it is not really the giant Mickey pumpkin that is attracting all the visitors to the park, but the HMH brings in a lot of people. It is just a little extra dose of magic to make things more.....Halloween-y!! So I think it has become vital to that whole season.
Now if only they would do a really fun Sleeping Beauty's Spooky Castle for Halloweentime, that would be so great! They could deck it out in creepy decor and eerie lighting and dangle all kinds of scary moss and vines from it. It would also glow throughout the park, just like the Winter Castle does during the holidays, but in a spooky type of way!! And they could have all the villains hanging around the Spooky Castle - which of course, would be surrounded by 'thick fog' at night - to pop out at you and pose for pictures in front of it. It would be so cool. I am sure there would be some folks who would hate it, but I think it would be very popular overall! Who doesn't love the idea of a haunted Castle?
