Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Sooner the better - I have mine already - if you have an AP or DisneyVisa you can get them now.
Originally Posted By jibbly "Sooner the better - I have mine already - if you have an AP or DisneyVisa you can get them now." Thank you. We just got APs, so we've been planning our next couple visits. We've reserved a hotel for the weekend before Halloween. Never seen the parks decorated for Halloween and never done the trick-or-treat. Thanks for the tip, gottaludavillians.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Just go to the AP section of Disneyland.com and you can order them - you do have to register your AP first!
Originally Posted By Stitchon Sadly, our experience wasn't that good. The park was as crowded as it was normally, and it just wasn't enjoyable. However, we did get a few pounds of candy altogether. All in all, not worth the money IMO.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Stitchon - I don't know when you went - but I do know that during the party part the tickets are limited - I believe Darkbeer of someone said last year to 5000 people - the only time we ran into a line was waiting for characters - and after the first year we just took pix of them from afar between guests going up (never bothering anyone or butting in line) the only exception was we did wait for the villains. Rides were for the most part walk on. And on TOT we were the only ones in the ride (we had requested this and since it was slow it was granted) - So the picture we bought was on just us!
Originally Posted By Stitchon We went on a Friday last year, second friday of the month. Honestly, the entire time we were there the park was crowded, the Halloweentime promotion really draws them in.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Were you there for the day - or for the Halloween Party at Night?? I was there on 10/19 for the night party - it was not crowded at all - well except the character meet and greet.
Originally Posted By rockcow1 We were there last year the 3rd weekend in Oct. And I agree with gottaluv...the night of the party was very nice. No lines for rides. The animation building was empty. We did the karaoke singing part in the building over and over because no one was waiting. The only thing we found busy was NOS at night because of HMH and Fantasmic.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 rockcow1, we didn't enter the Animation building last year because the line for the candy was so long. Do you think we could have bypassed the line and hit the attraction parts? I wanted to show our daughter in law the zoetrope but we couldn't seem to get in. We also avoid the character pictures now, although we saw Hates and would loved to have had a picture with him The villans seemed to be in the rotunda of the Golden Dreams attraction, right? Nice to keep them a bit tucked back in case they scare some kiddies. Last year we did make the mistake of heading into Hollywood as did our son and daughter in law. We found it "mobbed." We met up and headed towards Grizzly and the candy lines were almost a walk up and we hit several Almost walked on the attractions and the games had a line of about 5 people. We made it back to Hollywood later in the evening and the candy lines still seemed to be immense. We hit TOT and Monsters with no problem. I guess my point is that it's just like anything else in DLR, if the line is too long, turn around and there is something else just as fun that doesn't have such a long line I just noticed a Clark Bar in my candy pile picture. I had never had one before. Pretty much a Baby Ruth
Originally Posted By rockcow1 << Do you think we could have bypassed the line and hit the attraction parts?> Yes, you can. We passed a few candy lines and then went back later. They were also giving candy away inside the animation building. << turn around and there is something else just as fun>> Yes! We also went Grizzly we no lines. If you don't have little kids, the later the better. We have teens, so we closed the place.
Originally Posted By mmaus1962 Thanks for all the input, everyone. I'm definitely going! Now I just have to come up with a costume.
Originally Posted By BrytensMom We were at Magic Kingdon last halloween and because so much of the decorations were a little spooky....my 4-year old was in tears! As for the actual "Party".....we shared with about 20 kids back at the hotel and still took home a backpack full of candy!
Originally Posted By mmaus1962 Oh, no! Poor baby. But that was nice of you to share the candy with the other kiddos!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Last year we went on the 19th I believe a group of all adults. We did not go into the Hollywood area until a bit later. I think generally being it's right at the entrance young families hit it first so it's a bit crowded. I have to say we had a BLAST. We rode rides but mostly had a great time trick-r-treating. We got gobs of candy, way more than any of us needed. They had entertainment in different areas of the park. My only criticism was the lack of places to eat. We ended up at the Pacific Wharf but it was pretty crowded. I never went with the expectation to do ride mania it was to enjoy the Halloween festivities. We had a lot of fun just people watching and looking at all the creative costumes.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan my family went last year and we are all adults now and we had a blast. we went at mainly got the candy and pictures with as many characters as we could it was a blast. I would recommend going but getting tickets as early as possible. its sells out really fast.
Originally Posted By liveforvacations I agree with everyone who says that this event is a lot of fun! It had great atmosphere and we loved seeing all the characters and all the creative costumes on the guests! We would definitely go again if we were there at Halloween time!
Originally Posted By dl1956 The event itself now is -what?- only three years old, and was pretty low key the first year. With its evident popularity and success, I look forward to new things being added this year and beyond. And because of all the wonderful and colorful photo ops, this time I plan on taking along my backpack to stash all the goodies so as to keep my hands free for my camera.
