Thanks for posting this Ed! Do you think they've decided to cancel the tot? Maybe Scupper will be along to give some info...
Peach,
My thinking is it isn't so much cancelled as maybe it is moved to "unofficial" status.
Events on the Rec Calendar are official Disney events. Disney either provides a specific place (the dog park, pool deck, hitch/unhitch area for the parade) or staffing (cast member judging contests, leading events, or organizing/signup) for what I would call "official" events. And for some activities they charge a fee (crafts like button making or t-shirt dying).
For ToT, I think they used to require campers giving out candy to sign up to do so but I never understood why. (and in full disclosure I've never been to the Fort at Halloween). But it's really more "unofficial". It happens all over the Fort and not in one particular place. WDW doesn't provide any candy (nor charge a fee). No extra staffing to operate it is provided. (although in some past years, but not all, CM's were positioned in front of some loops to check resort id). So my thought is Disney won't officially "put on" ToT (not that they did in the past anyway) but they will allow us campers to ToT so to them, if it happens unofficially, it happens.
Personally I'd like to keep seeing it happen even unofficially and WDW do their best to manage the three Fort access points (the bus road from Wilderness Lodge, the boat dock, and the front entrance which includes bus lines from the parks and Disney Springs. Just for the Fort, just for that one day, enforce the "WDW guest" requirement to use the transport or enter. Folks got to have a magic band or access card as part of a current stay, a dinner reservation at TE or HDDR, or a park ticket that has been used that day to get past those three access points. Give the CM's magic band or card readers and the dinner reservation lists and the authority to turn people away. Orange County deputies should be staged there as well. Also bands/cards required for the pools. Just for that one day.
Disney can make Halloween a premier event at the Fort by keeping it primarily for its Fort paying guests (us cabin and camping folks) and secondarily for other WDW resort guests who paid to stay on property or were in the parks that day. Anything past that can be limited due to over-crowding concerns.
Bama Ed