"Official" 2019 Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party - A Frightfully Festive Celebration

[FoxC63]

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Thanks Blog Mickey

 

[FoxC63]

We would probably just grab something at CHH or Pecos.. we have FP for Epcot that morning and I will try to book one for MK after we use those.
We have 3 adults and one child
Just want to hit tea cups once
May use any free time to try more party snacks.

Just a quick note, currently Mickey & Minnie are meeting together at Town Square Theater as part of a Celebration. This will end on Sept 30th. We did this meet and it was wonderful. Not sure when we'll see them together again.

 

[Cluelyss]

Early Entry to the Park
When attending this event, Members and their guests can enter Magic Kingdom park as early as 2:00 PM!
Simply present your valid Disney Vacation Club Membership Card and your event ticket at the main entrance touch points to take advantage of this benefit. Valid for the Member and up to 7 guests with tickets to this event—a total of 8 people.

I went to the DVC member website and searched for "not so scary." The search result was for buying tickets but it had details.

I assume you must have a blue membership card (meaning you are entitled to all perks and benefits based on when you bought and the number of points you bought) but I do not know for sure. If you don't have a blue card, you will need to research this further.

https://disneyvacationclub.disney.g...s/ticket-tour/mickeys-not-so-scary-halloween/

Yes, the early entry is a blue card member perk only.

 

[Redfraggle19]

Going to tonight's party and based on my 5 year old having a harder time this trip trying to retool my plans. If we watch the 830 Hocus pocus show can we just stay in that same spot for the parade??

 

[Best Aunt]

We would probably just grab something at CHH or Pecos.. we have FP for Epcot that morning and I will try to book one for MK after we use those.
We have 3 adults and one child
Just want to hit tea cups once
May use any free time to try more party snacks.

Pecos Bill was pretty crowded during first MNSSHP. If you are just as happy at CHH and plan to eat before it closes at 8:00 you might want to choose that. (Pecos has special party-only stuff which may add to the crowd.)

The line for the wedding cake was pretty long. Starbucks can be slow going as well. Maybe think about other places that have party snacks if you don’t have your heart set on those.

 

[FoxC63]

Another reason to add Disney Springs to your plans...

I recently posted about Disney Springs PhotosPass Studio: Halloween Backdrops
well Sephora at Disney Springs is now offering Halloween Makeovers


We expect makeover over appointments at Sephora’s Disney Springs location to book up quickly so reserve your spot today. Reservations can be made by calling:
Call (407) 560-9159.

REPOST - Hopefully a cool fellow DISer will step up and find out!
I wonder if party goers can pre purchase the One Day MM Halloween Special at Town Square while visiting MK on a non party day and then activate it on the day of their party. If this is possible then guests who plan on taking a leisure day at Disney Springs could get these backdrops prior to the party.

Is there anyone who has a MK day willing to ask? That would really make this Special incredibly valuable and I have no doubt they will offer this during MVMCP too.

 

[FoxC63]

 

[sheila14]

Going to the party tonight using my party pass. I have my plans on who I want to meet. If anyone has questions, ask and let’s see if I can help.

 

[bitty246]

Our party is this Sunday!!! We fly out at zero dark thirty tomorrow am and I'm so ready!!! Anyone want to critique my very loose schedule?

Arrive at MK 3:30pm
Through Gates at 4:00pm
Go quickly through Bypass (no photos here)
SDMT FP 4:15pm
1-3 Fantasyland rides/ Meets in the 10-15 min wait range (Dumbo, Barnstormer, Little Mermaid, Sideshow)
Many Adventures of WTP FP arrive between 5:00 and 5:20 (4:20-5:20pm)
*Splash Mountain FP arrive between 5:50 and 6:00pm (5:25 -6:00pm)
POTC arrive around 6:30pm
Haunted Mansion arrive between 7:00- 7:15pm
Cadaver Dans 7:45pm
Grave Diggers Meet 8:15pm
Boo To You 9:15pm
Move to Hub/ Main St.
Not So Spooky Spectacular 10:15pm
Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular 10:45pm

*Not 100% committed to this FP. Could change depending on what the rest of the family wants to do. Plan to spend majority of party back in Frontier Land/ Liberty Square for Haunted Mansion, Dapper Dans, Grave Diggers Headless Horseman, see first parade then head to Hub/ Main Street (Casey's?) for fireworks and then Hocus Pocus Spelltacular? Will tag team food and t-o-t while waiting for parades and shows. After the 10:45 Spelltacular, will likely head out of park, but may hit Tomorrowland for Elvis Stitch and/or Space Mountain. or Magic shots. Will hopefully get Headless Horseman shot on way out.

 

[okw19]

Just a quick note, currently Mickey & Minnie are meeting together at Town Square Theater as part of a Celebration. This will end on Sept 30th. We did this meet and it was wonderful. Not sure when we'll see them together again.

Pecos Bill was pretty crowded during first MNSSHP. If you are just as happy at CHH and plan to eat before it closes at 8:00 you might want to choose that. (Pecos has special party-only stuff which may add to the crowd.)

The line for the wedding cake was pretty long. Starbucks can be slow going as well. Maybe think about other places that have party snacks if you don’t have your heart set on those.

Thank you both for your feedback! We will try to do Mickey and Minnie if time allows. I will plan to eat before 5:30 at CHH, and prioritize my snacks.

 

[Flamingomo]

Anyone have pictures with their M&G's? Would love to see them, especially Jack and Sally!

 

[Cluelyss]

Going to tonight's party and based on my 5 year old having a harder time this trip trying to retool my plans. If we watch the 830 Hocus pocus show can we just stay in that same spot for the parade??

Assuming you are watching in the hub, yes, just make sure you’re on the curb so you’ll be in position for the parade. Your show view will be off to the side a bit, but then you won’t have to move or worry about the space filling in between you and the curb.

 

[FoxC63]

Thank you both for your feedback! We will try to do Mickey and Minnie if time allows. I will plan to eat before 5:30 at CHH, and prioritize my snacks.

This from WDW website:


A closer look at the times..


This must be a mistake. I thought they were meeting together during the day up to 5:30pm, then Vampire Mickey starts meeting at 7pm at this location.
We meet them at 4:10 on our party night so I can't comment any further.

Anyone meet them together during party hours? 7-12pm?

 

[GADisneyDad14]

Apparently I'm a walking contradiction this year! Some may remember that I swore up and down that I was not going anywhere near WDW when SWGE opened....then I wound up with a trip for the exact weekend it opened! We had a great time, in spite of hurricane Dorian cutting our trip short and we moved our MNSSHP party to the Friday before Labor Day (which was our original party date).

After we got home we were immediately invited to go again with family who have a trip in October. I wrote on here that we most likely won't be doing MNSSHP again....but guess what? We are about 95% sure we ARE doing it again! LOL! However this time, our extended family will also be there; 9 adults and 7 children all of whom are doing the party. If DH and I join them we will be a pack of 11 adults and 7 children and I'm feeling the pressure of helping them plan and escort them around. Some of them have never done the party, and some have done the party but it's been years and everything is new. I'll be seeing some of them on Friday to talk things over. I'm sure DH and I will be off on our own a lot, and we will break into groups by family, but YIKES.... 18 of us trying to do things together?! At a crowded MNSSHP?!

The good news is that two of the adults have AP's and can get in early. Another is DVC and she can get in early and take some family, so hopefully they will do the character meets early and be ready for rides, TOT, parade and shows later.

Can someone remind me again of how many people a DVC member can take in at 2?

Honestly, I'm kind of excited about doing the party again. We also got reservations for Oga's but I'm not feeling excited for SWGE at all. Because our trip got cut short a few weeks ago we never made it to SWGE. Now that we're probably doing MNSSHP we're seriously considering not doing HS this time around either. Is that crazy? We're SW fans, but from what I'm hearing about SWGE it's a big shopping experience more than anything. I know we'll spend a ton in Oga's because the drinks are expensive even though you can get only two. It just doesn't seem worth it.....

1) YES - you want to do SWGE. I’m not a SW person at all and can barely spell Batuu - but I enjoyed it quite a bit. Take advantage of the crazy long EEMHs if possible or go at night. Beautiful.

2) I did a group of 12 this summer, 8 adults and 4 children, ages 2-70’s. All of my prior travels had been just my family of four or just me and the kids, so this was WAY out of my comfort zone. I was the unofficial “planner” of the group. On our MK day, any thoughts I had on “staying together” quickly vanished - it just isn’t possible. I eventually took the attitude of “y’all are all adults and can figure this out.... we’ll meet at XX for fireworks or to eat... but otherwise you’re on your own!” We ended up split up quite a bit. Didn’t make for great group/family together time, but did make for keeping me sane.

GOOD LUCK!

 

[jannalynn_11]

This thread contains so much good information we used!!! We attended the party this past Friday the 13th. We had a very specific plan of attack and it worked to perfection, we even were able to add some things in on the fly. We had 4 adults (1 in a wheelchair, last minute knee injury during our trip) & 2 kids (age 9 & 6). We purposefully stayed away from Main Street except right at 4:00 to avoid crowds & thought the crowds elsewhere were very light, loved it! Times below are approximate but pretty spot on since I tracked us using our PhotoPass time stamps. We did not make trick or treat stops a priority but we were pleasantly surprised at how many we did/could have done, & it made the kids happy so that was good. Here is what we did (long post alert):

-Got there super early (didn't do a park that day), around 3:00, since we were in front of the line, we were in the shade, which was VERY nice; we were first in line at the party turnstiles, let in at 3:45 & got bands
-Me & kids went through bypass & did photos & picked up treat bags; 1 adult went to Emporium & felt super VIP being let in special shopping area; other 2 adults went to Starbucks for coffee & Amuck cupcake (amazing & very rich; it did stain our mouths but went away quickly also); all posed for castle pics
-Big Thunder 4:30 (posted & actual about 15 min wait)
-Splash Mtn FP for 4-5 at 4:45; posted wait 40 min
-Peter pan meet (not planned but no line, we literally walked up & waited for 1 family & met him)
-7DMT FP for 5-6 at 5:15; posted wait 40 min
-Hit Friar's Nook (half of us) & Pinocchio's (other half); we all ate inside Pinocchio's, it was empty & they were in the process of closing at 6 to change to a treat station, which was cool to sit & watch while eating
-Dumbo & Barnstormer rides (walked on both)
-Big Top Souvenirs killing time waiting for 7:00
-Little Mermaid ride (walked on)
-Half lined up for Ariel/Eric meet about 6:45-7, they came out at 7 & met us at 7:25; other half of us went to middle of Fantasyland near carousel to wait & find Cruella, she came out at 7 from somewhere and we interacted with her about 7:05 (near Friar's Nook); did the magic mirror magic shot at 7:15
-Belle/Gaston were entertaining & lots of laughing when we walked by there
-Rode carousel (walk on) & Peter pan (15-20 min wait); treat stop in the middle of the line was a nice bonus
-Hit Tangled bathrooms, thought the lantern photopass photo was cool; actually saw a kid dressed as the lantern taking a photo with the lantern, which was awesome; very cool costume idea
-Haunted Mansion was amazing outside & in during the party; posted wait 40 min, we probably only waited about 30 min but it was exciting & fun and didn't feel that long due to this; ride photo 8:40
-Half of our group stopped at Aloha Isle about 9 (no line, likely due to parade starting at 9:15); other half did country bears treat stop 3 times in a row while waiting for the others to sit/rest/snack (just walked in & through & back around haha; the cast members were laughing at us & didn't care at all); Frontierland still had plenty of spots for parade viewing at 9, did get more crowded right at 9:10-9:15 but not awful
-Pirates at 9:30 (posted wait 20 minutes, we essentially walked on); live actors in line & ride were awesome and very spot on
-Walked through Adventureland & into hub, street was practically empty about 9:45; grabbed a street spot (very close to the curb on the Adventureland side) essentially even with the Partners statue; fireworks at 10:15; maybe we were a little too close, but still great; had an excellent view of Jack Skellington on stage as well as castle projections and it was so good; fireworks & music were a little lacking to me (as others have said)
-Stayed in that same spot but moved up about 10 feet and got the corner of the tape where the hub street meets parade route from Liberty Square; watched 10:45 Hocus Pocus from there (abbreviated show due to rain at the end of fireworks; was still a great show & honestly would have been happy if that was the whole show haha); had an amazing front row view of the parade that the kids are still talking about
-Me & the kids immediately went under the rope and followed the end of the parade; the kids felt like they were in the parade & it was a super cool experience; followed it around the hub & cut through to Tomorrowland bridge & got in line for Space Mtn about 11:50; ride photo 12:10
-Walked towards the exit to meet up with the rest of our group and made it almost to the end of Main St as the 12:00 Hocus Pocus was ending, so beat the crowds out of the park; the monorail line was already insane though; luckily we had valet parked at Contemporary so we walked over there and got out of dodge before any traffic

So 11 rides in the end, including all headliners, and very little (if any waiting), which was awesome!! 100% will do the party again; already looking forward to next year!!

 

[sheila14]

So not to spoil any party plans but if you really want to meet jack n sally I would say get in line very early. Right now there are about 7 families total waiting.

 

[GBBTomorrow]

I was able to get a reservation at Be Our Guest at 1:45 on a party day. I have an AP, but my friend will just have her party ticket, so we won't be able to get into the park until the 2:00 DVC time. What do you think? Do I need to cancel this reservation, or do you think they would still let us in once we're able to get into the park and back to Fantasyland?

 

[Cluelyss]

I was able to get a reservation at Be Our Guest at 1:45 on a party day. I have an AP, but my friend will just have her party ticket, so we won't be able to get into the park until the 2:00 DVC time. What do you think? Do I need to cancel this reservation, or do you think they would still let us in once we're able to get into the park and back to Fantasyland?

You generally have a 15 minute grace period on reservations, so I would say just hoof it there as soon as you get in. And keep checking for a slightly later time.... I bet you’ll find one the day or two before your trip!

 

[hereforthechurros]

Here for tonight’s party. MK crowds were super low when I arrived around 2:30 pm. Hope it stays that way!

Any word on if the snake eye treat is available yet? I walked by storybook treats but didn’t see any signage. It’s not listed on the map either so I’m thinking no.

It’s super hot, hoping it cools down once the sun sets. If anyone else is here tonight, have fun!

 

[sheila14]

Here for tonight’s party. MK crowds were super low when I arrived around 2:30 pm. Hope it stays that way!

Any word on if the snake eye treat is available yet? I walked by storybook treats but didn’t see any signage. It’s not listed on the map either so I’m thinking no.

It’s super hot, hoping it cools down once the sun sets. If anyone else is here tonight, have fun!

I agree that it is hot and so far crowds are not bad. Hopefully the heat will keep the foolish mortals away!!!!