what are bat days?

[spacemermaid]

Hi Guys,

This is Noah K the Founder/Executive Producer of Bats Day in the Fun Park.

Just to let you know the park isnt really any more crowed than a normal day at Disneyland so you do not need to worry to much. The most in attendance that has ever been on the Spooky Trip to Disneyland, this year Sunday May 8th, was about 5000 people. So I would not worry too much about the crowds.

The event used to be in the summer at the end of August, but then it started becoming too hot for a lot of us so before it moved to its new annual month of May, for the 10th event we had it in November for a special year. Now the event is May.

The 3 group photos opportunities will be:

Early Afternoon - Cinderella's Castle
Mid Afternoon - King Aurthur's Carousel, for the Baby Bats (children 13 & under) & their parents
Evening - Haunted Mansion for group shots in front of the Mansion.

The times have not been confirmed yet since we are still working out the details for them. The times will be posted on the Bats Day website about a month before the event.

The Bats Day in the Fun Park weekend is catered to the Dark Subculture. As someone else posted there are a lot of sub sub-genres within the Bats Day group. This can range from Goth, Deathrock, RivetHed, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Death Metal, Steampunk, Victorian, Halloween couture, but mainly a love for the Disney Parks.

Lastly, when the event first started 13 years ago, it was just a park meet to Disneyland. Now the event is the entire weekend with lots of other things to do than just the Disneyland trip on the last day.

Starting this Monday Jan 31, tickets will be going on sale to all of the events at the Bats Day website in the "Event Tickets" section.

The hotel events sold out last year and will most likely sell out again.

Here is the schedule for the weekend:

Friday May 6th, 2011
The Nightmare before Bats Day - Dinner Meet & Greet
only 70 tickets will be available

Saturday May 7th, 2011
The Bats Day Black Market (Free Admission)
The Bats Day Happy Haunts Swinging Wake: A Costumed Celebration
This is a party for all the ghosts and spirits. No mortals allowed. You must come dressed character from the Haunted Mansion Attraction or Movie
www(dot)happyhauntsswingingwake(dot)com

Sunday May 8th, 2011
Bats Day in the Fun Park: The Spooky Trip to Disneyland

We even have discount tickets to Disneyland that you can get through us in the "Event Ticket" section, that can be purchased now.


If you would like to see photos from the 2010 event, we have over 2000 photos from the entire weekend in the "Photos" section on the Bats Day website.

So I hope this may have answered some of your questions about the event.

Hope you come and check us out.

Noah K
www(dot)batsday(dot)net

Hi Noah

Thanks for explaining it way better than I could and

thanks for organizing Bats Day each year!

-Janelle

 

[pixiewings71]

Thanks Pixiewings.

I have actually been on here for a while. Manly just reading and not really post, but this time I figured I would come out of my spider hole and actually post something.

We are very excited with our new event for this year

The Bats Day Happy Haunts Swinging Wake: A Costumed Celebration

The reason for the this event this year is pretty simple. Normally we have another event on Saturday, The Bats Day Ghoulish Gala or Dark Park, but it seems that there have been some cranky spirits, ghosts, and ghouls that are upset that they have never been acknowledged in the last 13 years that the Bats Day event has been happening. They feel that they are apart of this Dark Subculture and it is about time that we show some respect.

So the spirits, ghosts and ghouls have decided to take over. They have told us that no mortals are allowed to attend the Bats Day Happy Haunts Swinging Wake so I think the best way mortals can get around this is by dressing up as your favorite spirit. A safe way is to dress up as your favorite character from the Haunted Mansion Attraction of Movie. There are other ideas on the website.

There are more details on the official Bats Day Happy Haunts Swinging Wake site
www(dot)happyhauntsswingingwake(dot)com



Thanks again
Noah K

Oh man....now I really wanna go. Halloween 2009 DD14 dressed up as Constance, she got a ton of compliments on her costume, it was so much to come up with it!!

 

[azdisneylover]

I wonder how many bat moms will be there. This is Mother's Day Weekend! Mother's Day is May 8th!

 

[zanzibar138]

I'd love to go on Bat Days, just to see all the gorgeous outfits! I have a friend who is goth - the Victorian type. I *LOVE* some of her outfits, lots of black but also lace and very elegant corsetry and mini top hats - it really is quite romantic. Makes me wish I was goth too! She's a lovely girl, and has recently become a mum (love seeing what she buys for 'babybat') She is very jealous of our upcoming trip to Disneyland as she absolutely loves Disney too.