Lee and I visited Disneyland Friday and Saturday for the start of Halloween Time. I still have several hundred photos to go through, and Lee is still working on video, but wanted to at least get a few things posted.
The fun starts at the Main Entrance, where a very large pumpkin patch containing some familiar-looking faces "grows" above the turnstiles.
The Main Street Pumpkin Festival is back, with all of the pumpkins and other decorations.
And the Dia de Los Muertos display has returned to Zocalo Plaza.
The Halloweentown gang has once again taken over the Haunted Mansion, transforming it into Haunted Mansion Holiday. This year's gingerbread creation in the ballroom is a carousel featuring Zero and several skeletal reindeer.
Over in Disney's California Adventure, Goofy has again been hard at work growing all kinds of delicious candy corn varieties, as Candy Corn Acres returns to Sunshine Plaza.
Candy corn even hangs on the Golden Gate Bridge!
There were a couple of new things this year, including a new holiday overlay to Space Mountain, called Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy.
We'll have more to say about this later, but here's a teaser. We first rode it during the day, but when we went back at night we got an extra surprise - a light and sound and special effects show on the roof of the building. I'm not sure I want to know what's in there trying to get out! :-)
Saving the best for last - for the first time Disneyland gets its own Halloween-themed fireworks show: Halloween Screams - A Villainous Surprise in the Skies. This was amazing. Lee produced this video (two minutes cut out to keep it under youtube's 10-minute limit) that will give you an idea of what it looked like. (Yes, he still needs to get a wide-angle lens for the video camera. :-) ) I loved the music, loved the flying Zero, loved the effects, loved the fireworks. It blew me away, and I can't wait to see it again!
I have to say that Halloween Time is back - and better than ever!
Posted by Laura Gilbreath on September 27, 2009 7:00 AM | 
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We are going Halloween weekend & your update of it has me even more excited then before! Thanx!
Posted by toomiguci | September 27, 2009 1:20 PM
Posted on September 27, 2009 13:20
I leave for DL on Oct. 1. My jaw dropped as I watched some of this. I can't wait to see it live.
Posted by Bob Hentschel | September 27, 2009 4:03 PM
Posted on September 27, 2009 16:03
We will be there for the first time in 21 days and I am so looking forward to seeing Dl dressed up for Halloween.
Although I must say the fireworks are the same as the ones from MK's MNSSHP, but they are still AMAZING!!! and the Moon was soooo cool!
Posted by Glendon | September 28, 2009 1:02 PM
Posted on September 28, 2009 13:02
Wow - what fun! Loved the videos! Many, many thanks to all of you wonderful people who take so much of your time to report on, photograph, and video the goings-on at the parks so that those of us who can't be there can enjoy them vicariously.
Posted by Lorie | September 28, 2009 4:29 PM
Posted on September 28, 2009 16:29
A group of us girls are going Oct 21 - 23rd. I'm sooooooooooo excited to see the villains in all their evil glory.
Posted by Janice | September 28, 2009 10:36 PM
Posted on September 28, 2009 22:36
Do you need to go on one of the party nights to see all the thing you listed?
Laura replies: No, the Halloween Time festivities are available to all park visitors during this time of year. There are some additional activities available during the Trick or Treat parties at DCA, but everything in this blog is available to any day guest.
Posted by mike | October 6, 2009 1:53 PM
Posted on October 6, 2009 13:53