News Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party 2023

[brb1006]

The gazebo was a relic nearly as old as the mirrored castle float. That along with Clara Cluck's barn and and the HM staircase float are all leftovers from the long gone Easter Parade.



I think the Ursula figure is what's left of SpectroMagic.

I like most of the changes to Boo to You this year. I'm fine ditching Buzz and the Incredibles in rental cars with more villains.

I still miss the Hundred Acre Wood section from years ago and do prefer the older hoedown with the cowboys/girls and Clarabelle.

The small house float that Olaf's on (formerly used for Scrooge and Geppetto) and the float with Elsa and Kristoff are just as old as Clara Cluck's barn.

Both floats date back to the mid to late 1980s.

Also that Ursula figure appears to be a different variation of the one from the Frightfully Fun Parade at Disneyland.

 

[wdrive]

The event scores incredibly well with guest satisfaction. It sells out. There is zero reason to revamp the event. The only thing the event needs is rare or villain meet and greets, imo.

I’m well aware.

It just could be better

 

[brb1006]

They did record totally new lines for Goofy for this year's parade. It is very odd, though, that they didn't bother doing ANYTHING with Mickey and Minnie's float and instead just removed Minnie's lines...didn't even fill the space where they used to be. I get the feeling that was a VERY last minute decision.

They are clearly not interested in building any new floats (remember the rumor about the 50 float chassises? lol) but besides the awkwardness with Mickey talking alone on the lead float I think this is the best we could get with likely VERY minimal budget.

The loss of the relatively new Buzz/Incredibles section is sad but the Buzz float is decades and decades old and needed to be put out to pasture, and the Incredibles hovercrafts were sent to Paris. Their camaro from last year was embarrassing to say the least. New villains stuff was great but come on couldn't we get face Queen of Hearts???

At this point, The Queen of Hearts deserves to fully become a face characters after years of being mute (similar to the Mad Hatter). I remember being pleasantly surprised when first seeing this from the Club Villain event at DHS a few years back. A shame they only use the face character version of The Queen for special events (such as Villain Night years back and Pride Night at Disneyland very recently.)

 

[brb1006]

I wonder if Bruno could end up there too as soon as the Encanto M&G area is complete.

Where's Madame Mim?

 

[DisneyDebRob]

Anything moving down main street at night, with lights is a plus. Watching the parade from the first night of the party just reminds me of how badly they need an evening parade again. There is no reason at all not to have one.
I’ll take a few hundred people waving flashlights to background music at this point.

 

[wdwmagic]

There is a very neat new effect when the Hocus Pocus Party potion is completed - check out the fog bubbles coming out of the cauldron.

 

[Disstevefan1]

I posted several vlog videos that show it wasn't that crowded.

The crowd waiting to get in right at 4p happens for every party night. The space can't hold several thousand people (which, once in the park, spread out sparsely).

If you have an AP, get in before 3p to avoid that crush. If you don't have an AP, wait til 4:30p and that crowd will be gone.

Yes, I know this. Yes, in looking at the You tubers, actually it does appear they are limiting the party tickets to an actual number instead of overselling them like the old days.

 

[TTA94]

Anything moving down main street at night, with lights is a plus. Watching the parade from the first night of the party just reminds me of how badly they need an evening parade again. There is no reason at all not to have one.
I’ll take a few hundred people waving flashlights to background music at this point.

Yup. It’s sad Boo To You and Once Upon A Christmastime are the only parades that run in the evenings.

 

[Cliff]

Yes, I know this. Yes, in looking at the You tubers, actually it does appear they are limiting the party tickets to an actual number instead of overselling them like the old days.

DIsney knows that everybody is monitoring public attraction wait times and they are watching to see how many of these special events are sold out.

It is VERY much in Disney's best interest to display long wait times as much as possible and to "sell out" EVERY night of these special events.

Everybody is watching these things to try and guage how well Disney is doing....and Disney KNOWS this. ;-)

 

[TsWade2]

I'm so glad Horace Horsecollar is back in the parade with the Country Bears. That totally makes it up for discontinuing the Brer characters

 

[Ayla]

They did record totally new lines for Goofy for this year's parade. It is very odd, though, that they didn't bother doing ANYTHING with Mickey and Minnie's float and instead just removed Minnie's lines...didn't even fill the space where they used to be. I get the feeling that was a VERY last minute decision.

They are clearly not interested in building any new floats (remember the rumor about the 50 float chassises? lol) but besides the awkwardness with Mickey talking alone on the lead float I think this is the best we could get with likely VERY minimal budget.

The loss of the relatively new Buzz/Incredibles section is sad but the Buzz float is decades and decades old and needed to be put out to pasture, and the Incredibles hovercrafts were sent to Paris. Their camaro from last year was embarrassing to say the least. New villains stuff was great but come on couldn't we get face Queen of Hearts???

IMO, that Queen of Hearts in the parade was a man. Men move very differently than women.

 

[MisterPenguin]

There is a very neat new effect when the Hocus Pocus Party potion is completed - check out the fog bubbles coming out of the cauldron.



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[Squishy]

Here before it stops working

 

[Thumper 32]

Everything new in the updated Mickey's 'Boo-To-You' Halloween Parade at Walt Disney World​

Everything new in the updated Mickey's Boo-To-You Halloween Parade at Walt Disney World

Everything new in the updated Mickey's Boo-To-You Halloween Parade at Walt Disney World

www.wdwmagic.com

I think that Foulfellow and Gideon are new (or returning?) this year. And the hyenas are not there this year as well.

 

[DCBaker]

The next Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party date to sell out is September 4.

Current sold out dates -

Aug. 11, 15, 18, 22, 25, 29
Sept. 1, 4, 8, 12, 15, 17
Oct. 31

 

[JesseMoreira]

Hello, New to the forum. I had a question for anyone who may know. Does Disney sell last minute tickets on the day of? I will be landing tomorrow, and did not get tickets for the halloween party on August 15th amd hoping there is some how I can.

Thanks in advance!

 

[SaucyBoy]

Hello, New to the forum. I had a question for anyone who may know. Does Disney sell last minute tickets on the day of? I will be landing tomorrow, and did not get tickets for the halloween party on August 15th amd hoping there is some how I can.

Thanks in advance!

You might get lucky day of but typically, in my experience at least, when the parties are listed as sold out they generally don't offer last minute tickets.

 

[Ayla]

Hello, New to the forum. I had a question for anyone who may know. Does Disney sell last minute tickets on the day of? I will be landing tomorrow, and did not get tickets for the halloween party on August 15th amd hoping there is some how I can.

Thanks in advance!

The party tomorrow is sold out.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

Hello, New to the forum. I had a question for anyone who may know. Does Disney sell last minute tickets on the day of? I will be landing tomorrow, and did not get tickets for the halloween party on August 15th amd hoping there is some how I can.

Thanks in advance!

If the party is sold out, no. It appears the party for the 15th is sold out.

People will tell you to go to GR/Ticket Window and ask anyway, but it's very unlikely.

 

[Squishy]

Disney's Not-So-Spooky Spectacular fireworks 2023

The show used to have the mainstreet party floodlights & spotlights synced with the show, for some reason they also seem to have went away along with the BTY floodlights last year. The building spotlights were replaced by Enchantment projectors but the floodlights are still used during the event..

Here's what it looked like in 2019