I agree. Remember that, at one point, there were not supposed to be characters in Halloween garb out in the daytime (outside of MHP) -- that was stated in both a press release and, I think, in one of the responses under a Parks Blog. People from the Superthread had already been writing in to Disney about the thin, pitiful Halloween Time offerings this year, and now the new rumor (not officially confirmed as of yet) is that there will be characters in Halloween garb out in Town Square! Also, the goats will have their Halloween scarves and the non-Carnival section of the Ranch is being decorated (which I don't think it was supposed to be). So I suspect that the early email backlash may have had an impact. A CM on Facebook even suggested that everyone write in to Disney about the silly decision to not bring back the pumpkin carvers this year, so I hope that a lot of people took her advice!