Originally Posted By Doom Buggy Driver My husband is giving me a 10 day trip to Disneyland to me for my 50th Birthday! During that time we will be attending Mickeys Halloween party. We have done this before and loved it when it was in California Adventure. We always dress in costume. My question is, this time I will be carrying a cane. So I have to come up with a costume that I can utilize my cane as part of my costume and would enjoy hearing your ideas. I am leaning toward a black widow or something similar. I wish to be scary or sinister. The kind of costume that makes you want to cross the street if you saw me coming. Not store bought. Any thoughts? Thank you in advance!
Originally Posted By Doom Buggy Driver My husband is giving me a 10 day trip to Disneyland to me for my 50th Birthday! During that time we will be attending Mickeys Halloween party. We have done this before and loved it when it was in California Adventure. We always dress in costume. My question is, this time I will be carrying a cane. So I have to come up with a costume that I can utilize my cane as part of my costume and would enjoy hearing your ideas. I am leaning toward a black widow or something similar. I wish to be scary or sinister. The kind of costume that makes you want to cross the street if you saw me coming. Not store bought. Any thoughts? Thank you in advance!
Originally Posted By Doom Buggy Driver My husband is giving me a 10 day trip to Disneyland to me for my 50th Birthday! During that time we will be attending Mickeys Halloween party. We have done this before and loved it when it was in California Adventure. We always dress in costume. My question is, this time I will be carrying a cane. So I have to come up with a costume that I can utilize my cane as part of my costume and would enjoy hearing your ideas. I am leaning toward a black widow or something similar. I wish to be scary or sinister. The kind of costume that makes you want to cross the street if you saw me coming. Not store bought. Any thoughts? Thank you in advance!
Originally Posted By Doom Buggy Driver Sorry about the triple posting. I did it from my iPad and it didn't register. My apologies
Originally Posted By Dalia3001 <a href="http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120507013025/disney/images/9/90/12556-Maleficent.gif" target="_blank">http://images3.wikia.nocookie....cent.gif</a> Maleficent has a cane like staff, and she is pretty scary and sinister. I hope you have an amazing trip!
Originally Posted By DlandDug Cinderella's wicked stepmother had that aristocratic cane she always carried...
Originally Posted By DlandDug <a href="http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/@0_mall/far-out/cabinet/dis14_wdcc/619-0010-1.jpg" target="_blank">http://thumbnail.image.rakuten...10-1.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By SuperDry I see that adults may wear costumes to this event, and be admitted up to 3 hours prior to the event. Because of this, the park does not do a "hard close" but rather regular day guests without an event ticket just get ushered out when the event starts. Hard close or not, special event or not, I thought the longstanding rule at DL was "No costumes for adult guests under any circumstances." This must have changed at some point in the past few years. Anyone here know the details?
Originally Posted By disneylandfan8 Yes. Adults may wear costumes only if they have bought tickets to the Halloween party. Adults are not allowed into the park in costume until 3pm. At that time wristbands are worn to indicate that person has a valid ticket to the party and can enter the park in their costume. I went to two parties last year and looking forward to one this year on Mon Oct 15!
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Yes. Adults may wear costumes only if they have bought tickets to the Halloween party. Adults are not allowed into the park in costume until 3pm. At that time wristbands are worn to indicate that person has a valid ticket to the party and can enter the park in their costume. >>> You didn't answer my question, but just restated what I already said. Let me try again. 10 years ago, there was a hard-and-fast rule that adult guests could never wear a costume into DL. This applied even to limited "Halloween" special events that occurred long after the park had closed for the day and where only the small number of event attendees were there and were admitted through back gates far away from the view of any regular guest. When did this rule change, and why? Was it just to accommodate Mickey's Halloween Party?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros As far as I know, it was changed when they started doing the Halloween parties in DCA in 2006. DL held Halloween parties in the mid-90's, but they were a different concept from my understanding. The current parties are modeles on the ones in WDW, which have allowed adults in coalstumes for many many years. In the last couple years they've started doing the soft closes at DL (they've been doing it much longer in WDW) which is where it starts to get muddy in my mind. But they've been letting the Bat's Day folks in for years, on 'regular' days, and anyone who thinks that those aren't costumes is only fooling themself.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>You didn't answer my question, but just restated what I already said.<< The question was "Anyone here know the details?" DLFan8 answered that question, quite well. The larger question, I suspect, is "why?" And obviously, it is to accommodate a ticketed event.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< The question was "Anyone here know the details?" DLFan8 answered that question, quite well. >> You're quoting me out of context. Go back and read my post. It's quite clear that I'm asking about the details of the change in policy, not about the current policy itself. But you already know that.
Originally Posted By cerise667 Yup, I was kind of appalled at the "Bats Day" thing... it took from the carefully designed Disney effect and I watched a few kids who looked disconcerted by some creepy costumes. Not that I'm opposed to Bats Day, just that hijacking the Disney experience from people who want Disneyland is wrong, especially when so pay so much and travel so far... Maybe Bats could meet at South Coast Plaza... to my it is part of the modern narcissism... even gay days, some of the t-shirts (saw some offensive ones) and the drag outfits... just disrespectful to others at the park, especially when the target group is... kids...
Originally Posted By Doom Buggy Driver Until these replies I had never heard of Bat's Day. I had to look it up. I knew about Gay Day at Disneyland but never heard of this... Does this always take place the first week in November? I ask because we are still going to be there and fore-warned is fore-armed, no offense intended.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I've been bats day before, and frankly it's not a big deal. Some of the "costumes" are kind of cool, and the people there for bats day are extremely benign.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I concur. The Bats Day guests I have dealt with in the past look a bit odd, but are really nice folks. Bear in mind, these are Disney fans. The highlight of Bats Day, for me. is experiencing the Haunted Mansion with its biggest fans. There is usually a set time for the biggest concentration of riders. Heading around the Seance Circle with every doom buggy full of Goths is a not-to-be-forgotten spectacle!
Originally Posted By familyguy I will be at the park November 5th through the 10th with my family. Does anyone know if we will be there for Bat's Day?
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub <a href="http://www.batsday.net" target="_blank">http://www.batsday.net</a> Holiday Black Market on Sunday at the Doubletree ,Nov4 Bats Day in the Park May 3-5th,2013
Originally Posted By familyguy I'm glad to hear that they are nice folks. In light of the fact that we have small children, do they seem to be respectful of children with their language in your experience? I know not everyone is the same, but we are supposed to have a park day on 11/5 and I'm trying to decide if I should change my schedule. I'm supposed to have an "off" day on 11/8. I can switch that around if need be. The people are fine and the clothing and look is one thing, but if we can't get in a line without having our children subjected to really bad language the entire time, it may be a good idea to swap the days. I am just a concerned parent that wants to protect the innocence of his children for as long as possible. Of course they will be exposed to language like that in their lives, but I want to cherish and preserve their innocence and purity as long as possible. Call me crazy or old fashioned...
