Sherry, I was so excited to see you on here! Of course I haven't been around much on here lately but.... I fully intend to change that.
Michele --
Sometimes real life gets in the way of DIS time, doesn't it?
Can't wait to see how wonderful this thread becomes! The Christmas thread was invaluable for our trip last year. Thank you Sherry for keeping us up to date!
Autty40 -
I remember when you went to DLR in sort of early/mid-November last year! So you've got a second Halloween Time trip coming up this year?
Thank you for the kind words. I am hoping the new and improved Halloween Superthread will be more informative, more helpful, etc. Of course, it won't be on quite the scale of the Christmas Superthread because the Halloween Time season is not as big of an event as the holiday season is, despite the fact that it lasts a good 1.5 months. So there will be some categories and posts that I can leave off of the new page 1 (when I begin that thread), whereas the holiday season seems to be growing.
Sherry E
Your endeavor is GREATLY APPRECIATED!!
My (DGD-16) had such a fine time with me last year, I've asked her to join me again this year. We are waiting impatiently until tickets go on sale.
Thanks again.
Geemo
Geemo --
Ah yes, the dreaded wait for the MHP dates to first be announced, and then for the tickets to go on sale. It seems to be such an unnecessary wait, too, as I'm sure the Disneyland entertainment/planning geniuses have already mapped out all the details of the MHP and are just holding on to them.
Thank you very much for the kind words! I love Halloween Time and the holiday season, and I saw several years ago that it was necessary to have Superthreads devoted to each season as they grew more popular. The interesting thing is that, in the old days of the first Halloween Superthread that I started, certain things did not really seem necessary to include on page 1. It seemed like only certain bits of info were necessary to get it up and running and that the thread could kind of coast along after that.
However, over the last few years, as Halloween Time seems to be getting more and more popular as a general season (a lot of people who are DLR holiday vets are, perhaps, seeking out alternate times to visit DLR and Halloween Time may be a bit more of a novelty to them), more and more people are asking questions about it and looking into Halloween trips.
Now, people are looking for certain bits of info that they didn't care as much about in the old days. If the info is
not there on page 1, people complain. If it IS there on page 1, it will usually get ignored or overlooked!
It's sort of a no-win situation!
But I finally decided that it is better to have a lot of info there than to not have it, because there are lurkers out there who will need it and use it.
By the way, your thread from last year -- the one that was specifically about monitoring the MHP dates
as they sold out -- is going to be one of the links I include in the new Halloween Superthread, on page 1 (probably in the MHP section)!! I've had that thread link saved in a Word file since last year, specifically intended for the purposes of including it in the next Superthread! I think it is very interesting to kind of observe how quickly or slowly the dates were selling out, and how far along in the Halloween Time season they began selling out.
figment_jii's great comparison of
MNSSHP vs. MHP is a link I will also be including in the new thread -- I think a lot of our WDW vets heading to DLR's Halloween Time for the first time will find it very helpful!
Coming over from the holiday thread because we decided earlier this week to get the most out of our APs and do Halloweentime again! We'll be going down Oct 16-19, probably staying at PPH, but that hasn't been set in stone yet. Hoping the Halloween parties will still include Fridays - and we'll be celebrating DD2's 9th birthday which is that weekend! So excited!!!
Well, howdy,
Jamie!
Side note -- I thought of you the other day. I was at the Springtime Roundup in DLR, and I noticed the seasonal cotton candy -- which, for Spring/Easter, is sort of pastel-colored instead of straight pink. If it had a seasonal flavor, I wonder what it could be. Jelly bean, perhaps??
But, alas, instantly I remembered that you told me that the cotton candy at the Roundup is not flavored to its theme, so I was not fooled by the pretty colors!
I am certain that the MHP will still include Fridays, so I think you will be in luck. The main thing I wonder is how many party nights there will be this year? Last year there were 13. Prior to that there have been 11 nights and 10 nights.
If I am not mistaken, this year Halloween falls on a Friday (so there is an MHP night right there). I have been saying for a few years that at some point I want to do the MHP
on Halloween night. Friday is a good night to try it out. This might be the year that I do a Halloween night MHP. I have to do it while I am still young enough (cough cough) and mobile enough to enjoy it, and can get around the parks with ease! A few years from now, if I wait for the next Friday night Halloween, I might not be able to move!
Jamie, I'm excited for you that (it seems) you have got 3 DLR trips coming up -- correct? You've got your June trip (that's when the Roundup will probably have "patriotic-colored" cotton candy!), your November/pre-Thanksgiving trip and now October too!