Originally Posted By cstephens For anyone who's interested, I've posted a full review of our visit to Mickey's Halloween Treat on October 13, 2006, including complete information about the event, treat stations (and new treats available this year), character photo ops, park decor, available merchandise, attractions and dining locations and shops open during the event, and tips for those attending the event on later evenings. Extensive photos included, including event park map. Here's the link: <a href="http://www.colddeadfish.net/dlr/mht2006.html" target="_blank">http://www.colddeadfish.net/dl r/mht2006.html</a>. Thanks! /cs
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Thank you, thank you, thank you! I really appreciate your taking the time to write such a nice report AND a recap of details at the end Now I need to decide whether to buy the T shirt or sweatshirt and of course I'll buy one of the BEANIES!
Originally Posted By califtink Thanks so much for the thorough review! I loved seeing the pictures, and reading all about the event, since I have never been, and I wasn't quite sure what it was like. Great pictures and information - always a delight to read your reviews!
Originally Posted By DlandJB Excellent report and photos - thank you. We are going later in the month and it is great to have a look before hand. I'm so glad they have some merch this time!
Originally Posted By stagemomx3 Thanks for the great report! We will be there Halloween night and we are getting very excited about it!
Originally Posted By Scar Thanks! I can't wait! stagemomx3 - we will also be there Halloween Night!!!
Originally Posted By da_tick Does anyone know what time they let people in for the free parking w/ Halloween ticket? We were just wondering how early we could park and maybe walk thru Downtown Disney. Thanks
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Oh good, I'm the first to post this: cstephens, the two dogs you didn't recognize were Baby Tramp and Baby Copper. Anyway, what fun that must have been! Thanks for sharing all of that with us. I was originally planning to go to DL for Halloween, but my sister wouldn't have made it, which accounts for our trip during Labor Day.
Originally Posted By debtee Ohhh FBR you just beat me to it! LOL Thanks so much for the great pix and write up cstephens! It's sounds like you had a fab time and I'm so jealous I live so far away!
Originally Posted By DBitz2 Thanks for your detailed report on this year's event. Your report last year proved valuable in pre-planning and helped me to make the most of the evening that I went. As to the new audio effects heard outside the Tower of Terror (ie., phone ringing, other sounds), if you watch the skits performed in the evenings in front of the Tower, the sounds will make sense, as they tie into those stories.
Originally Posted By cstephens Is Copper from "Fox and the Hound"? I think someone on another board mentioned that film. DBitz2 - Thanks for the info about the sounds. I haven't had a chance to attend any of the storytellings yet. And credit where credit is due - all the pictures are done by the husband. He just makes my reports look a WHOLE lot better! /cs
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs ^^^^ Yes, cstephens. Copper is the Hound, while Tod is the Fox. And Amos Slade is the Villain. Well, the Bear is too, but Slade gets more screen time.
Originally Posted By da_tick We went last night, Oct 19th and had a blast! The kids were so excited to go in and when they let everyone in to the rope drop area it helped calm down the wiggly ones. Disney even had the Halloween band playing. Once the rope dropped, we knew where things were going to be staged (thanks to cstephens' great wordseye viewpoint!). We only went on two rides because the kids wanted to do the trick-or-treating, crafts, and pictures with Characters. We already have deluxe passes so they knew we could always go another day. The youngest in our group wasn't quite sure what was going on, but by the end was even trying to trick-or-treat Donald and Daisy when we took the group picture. The lighting in the crafts area could be a little brighter, maybe at least by the tables. We never heard any of the kids want to stop doing what the group was doing (this usually happens when we go theme parkin'), so kudos to Disney! Even the oldest kid (15) wanted his face painted!
Originally Posted By cstephens Thanks for the report, and glad you had a good time! Would you mind elaborating a bit on the crafts and face painting experience and what the kids actually did? We don't have kids and because the tables were wet and stuff, we didn't stay at the stations at all to see what was going on. Thanks! /cs
Originally Posted By da_tick Sure! In the crafts area the kids could color in a paper Mickey or a bat and they had the Family Fun magazine in baskets. The face painters weren't there until later when we swung back through. By that time the kids wanted something to eat and we ate at the Cocina food stand next to the Tortilla Factory. We didn't see any crafts laying around, the tables then had people eating and listening to the DJ. Still wish the crafts area could have had a little more lighting, maybe a couple of pumpkin lanterns?? Our daughter was glad they had the tshirts with their Halloween Treat logo. We never did find any cups or plasticware with the logo.
Originally Posted By tooele13 Thanks for the great review. I showed it to dh and he said we can start planning a trip for next Oct so that we can do Mickey's Halloween treat. Yeah!!!
Originally Posted By John_CM I have tickets for Halloween Treat, for tomorrow night, but I just realized that I have no info on where parking will be. Is it in Timon or Mickey & Friends? Does anyone know?
