How "hard" is it to get tickets for Oogie Boogie Bash for October 31st?

[Disneyland1084]

I'm thinking about attending my first Oogie Boogie Bash next year. I live in Nevada, and next year Nevada Day lands on Halloween, which means my DS won't have school. Say as soon as tickets go on sale, how fast does October 31st sell out? A previous post I did someone posted a screenshot of the sold out dates about 3 to 4 hours after tickets went on sale. If I'm on the website literally the second tickets go on sale, do you think I have a good chance of getting two tickets for Halloween Day?
ETA- I will have other dates set up if I can't get tickets for the 31st.

 

[brightlined]

Overall, it was easier this year than last, so if you're there at the start of the sale, you should do okay.

Broader thoughts:

Knowing it's a Friday, I'm wondering if they'll even do it next year on Halloween. They only did it Sunday-Thursday this year, and I know they're trying to avoid jamming the park on weekend days.

Normally, I'd say it'd be pretty easy. A lot of locals would rather celebrate locally on Halloween itself - that night tends to be gently less popular than, say, Fall Break weekend.

But Halloween on a Friday? I think that would be more popular - and challenging. Not impossible, but I think it'd be more likely to sell out quickly - if they do it - since it'd be a rare weekend date.

 

[twodogs]

The process the last several years has been that you join a virtual waiting room about 15 minutes before the on sale starts. Then at a set time, all of the people (devices) in the virtual waiting room get randomized to a place in the virtual queue. You wait in the queue until it is your turn, and then you can buy tickets (up to 8, I think) for whatever dates are still available. Some dates can and do sell out prior to everyone getting through the queue, as being online right when the queue opens is not related to your place in the initially randomized queue. If you join the queue after the initial randomization, you are behind all of those people in the line. I logged in on about 8 different devices this year to get my OBB tickets since we only had a single date we could go based on DD’s school schedule (since we have to fly in), and that was on the weekend of Indigenous People’s day (always one of the very first dates to sell out). Some had waits of “greater than 1 hour” and others were less than that. I recommend using several devices simultaneously to improve your chances that one of them gets a shorter wait time.

 

[LAS2AMS]

Early dates tend to sell out the fastest, because they’re roughly half the price of later dates. If you want Halloween, you shouldn’t have issues getting it (assuming you purchase your tickets the day they become available).

I wasn’t able to immediately purchase my tickets this year, but did so about 6 hours after they became available. Almost all of August and early September was sold out, but everything else was available.

 

[Disneyland1084]

Overall, it was easier this year than last, so if you're there at the start of the sale, you should do okay.

Broader thoughts:

Knowing it's a Friday, I'm wondering if they'll even do it next year on Halloween. They only did it Sunday-Thursday this

Overall, it was easier this year than last, so if you're there at the start of the sale, you should do okay.

Broader thoughts:

Knowing it's a Friday, I'm wondering if they'll even do it next year on Halloween.

Do you know what DL has done in the past when Halloween landed on a Friday? It would be pretty lame of them not to do it on Halloween Day just because it's a Friday. Lol!

 

[brightlined]

Do you know what DL has done in the past when Halloween landed on a Friday? It would be pretty lame of them not to do it on Halloween Day just because it's a Friday. Lol!

The problem is that Halloween last fell on Friday/Saturday during the covid closure, and anything before that was a different world. (Years ago, they held them on Fridays, Saturdays, and/or Sundays throughout the season.) Attendance is so high now compared to then, they really don't need an event like OBB to lure people to the park on weekends.

People understandably complain that they don't offer OBB on Fridays and Saturdays in general, since it's easier for kids to go if it's not a school night. (That's partly why the Sunday of Fall Break is maybe the most popular OBB date - a lot of kids don't have school the next day.) They clearly could have OBB on weekend days, but they don't.

My suspicion is that's intentional - given how busy the parks are today, I think OBB would disrupt what are now some of the most popular days for general park attendance of the year. Nobody really wants to pay expensive day-ticket admission for a park that closes at 6pm, especially on a Friday or Saturday.

 

[twodogs]

Here is a screen shot I took on the initial day of OBB sales this year. You can see by the time stamp that it is just after noon California time (sale started at 9am California time; I am in Dallas, so it shows the CST in the upper left corner). These are the dates that were already sold out and those in limited supply at that time, about 3.5 hours into the general public on sale. Halloween and several other dates in October were sold out by then:

 

[tarheelalum]

We went last Halloween night and it was not as difficult as we thought it would be to get. It seems the earliest days of the bash are the hardest to get tickets. But one thing to note, there is not as much halloween merchandise left in late October compared to September.