Meet & greets are a preferred factor to do through the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together. This character information for MNSSHP covers the place to seek out every spot, common wait occasions, priorities & technique, and when to do high-demand M&Gs. Technique is vital, as a result of character M&Gs might be very time-consuming, with lengthy traces losing hours of the occasion. (Up to date August 6, 2024.)
The very first thing it’s worthwhile to know is that it’s vital to plan forward. That’s at all times the case with Walt Disney World, however it’s significantly vital for characters at Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together. For those who merely arrive at 7 pm when the occasion formally begins, seize a celebration map, and head to a meet & greet, you’re going to be at a definite drawback.
It’s because Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together really begins earlier than 7 pm, a number of characters meet previous to then, most traces kind earlier than then, and the celebration map doesn’t even checklist which characters seem the place. That’s the unhealthy information…for the typical attendee of Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together. That’s excellent news for everybody who reads this, as you’ll have a number of hours headstart, throughout which the primary factor to do is meet characters at MNSSHP…
Earlier than we get began, there’s extra “unhealthy” information. You can’t probably meet each single character at Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together in a single night time. You’re going to should make troublesome choices when it comes meet & greets, since you merely can’t do all of them. There are air quotes round unhealthy above as a result of it is a considerably good downside to have–partly attributable to there being so many characters.
But it surely’s additionally partly attributable to lengthy traces at a number of of the uncommon characters, which makes the time dedication too lengthy to fulfill all of them. So it’s considerably of a combined bag. In any case, we advocate skipping any characters that you would meet throughout a traditional day in Magic Kingdom, or at one of many different Walt Disney World theme parks. Talking of which, for every thing it’s worthwhile to learn about this occasion–past characters–see our Final Information to the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together!
August 6, 2024 Replace: Walt Disney World has shared a primary have a look at the brand new characters and costumes that’ll be showing at Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together when it kicks off later this week.
Mickey & Minnie are debuting all-new costumes this yr, that includes a neon spider net design. Whereas these costumes have been redesigned and look fairly good, they observe a well-recognized system and don’t actually reinvent the wheel. As such, we wouldn’t anticipate notably longer traces after the primary couple of events.
Extra importantly, the areas for Mickey & Minnie don’t change. This caught us without warning, as we anticipated Mickey and Minnie Mouse to lastly meet collectively once more. They won’t. Mickey will greet visitors at City Sq. Theater and Minnie continues to look in Storybook Circus.
The even greater addition to the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together is that visitors can even have the ability to meet Bruno alongside Mirabel within the Fantasy Backyard. That is the primary time each Encanto characters might be doing a meet & greet collectively at Walt Disney World.
Oogie Boogie Bash has had Bruno for the previous couple of years, and he’s a surprisingly good face character for meet & greets. We’re not the most important followers of Encanto, however actually have loved assembly him on the occasion–he’s a enjoyable character with a sly character who’s nice for amusing interactions.
Since Encanto stays widespread and that is actually a new-for-2024 addition to MNSSHP, we’re anticipating this to be one of many highest demand meet & greets with common wait occasions round 60 minutes. As a result of logistical difficulties, we don’t anticipate this being one of many meet & greets that begins earlier than Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together formally begins. Nonetheless, these are simply educated guesses at this level–and may very well be unsuitable. We’ll replace accordingly as soon as events begin and extra is understood about optimum methods, and so forth.
Talking of technique, let’s discuss you thru the night time. You need to be sure to’re in Magic Kingdom together with your costume as near 4 p.m. as doable. That’s the earliest you’re allowed to enter Magic Kingdom for the pre-party “mix-in” together with your occasion ticket, and the road to enter the park often types round 3 p.m. (We advocate arriving no later than 3:30 p.m.)
For those who’re already in Magic Kingdom previous to this, we extremely advocate going to one of many wristband stations within the park moderately than exiting and re-entering. Not solely will the road be shorter, however this gives you a definite benefit when you’re planning on doing the preferred meet & greet on the very entrance of the park on Principal Avenue.
Talking of which, right here’s a listing of all of the character areas because the Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together map supplied by Disney doesn’t checklist them…
Principal Avenue USA
- Sally & Jack Skellington – City Sq. Theater (Tinker Bell Line)
- Mickey Mouse – City Sq. Theater
Fantasyland
- Ariel and Prince Eric – Prince Eric’s Village Market
- Belle – Close to Enchanted Tales with Belle
- Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore – The Thotful Spot close to the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Alice & Mad Hatter – Mad Tea Get together
- Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum – Mad Tea Get together
- Queen of Hearts – Mad Tea Get together
- Drizella and Anastasia – Fantasyland (Roaming)
- Mirabel & Bruno – Fairytale Backyard (NEW)
Storybook Circus
- Seven Dwarfs – Pete’s Foolish Sideshow
- Witch Minnie, Princess Daisy & Pumpkin Donald – Dumbo
- Pirate Goofy – Barnstormer
Adventureland
- Abu and Aladdin – Agrabah
- Genie and Jasmine – Agrabah
- Jafar – Close to Magic Carpets of Aladdin
- Captain Jack Sparrow – Close to Pirates of the Caribbean
- Max Goof as Powerline – Throughout from Pirates of the Caribbean (Pop-Up Dance Get together)
Frontierland
- Nation Bears – Walkway Close to Nation Bear Jamboree (Roaming)
Tomorrowland
- Elvis Sew – Sew’s Nice Escape (Close to Entrance to Tomorrowland)
- Timon – Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe (Dance Get together)
- Vamprinia – Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe (Dance Get together)
- Doc McStuffins – Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe (Dance Get together)
- Fancy Nancy – Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe (Dance Get together)
- Max Goof as Powerline – Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe (Pop-Up Dance Get together)
Longest Strains for Characters
- Jack Skellington and Sally – 90 Minutes to three Hours
- Seven Dwarfs – 90 Minutes to 2 Hours
- Elvis Sew – 45 t0 90 Minutes
- Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore – 45 to 60 Minutes
- Mirabel & Bruno – 45 to 90 Minutes (Predicted)
- Witch Minnie, Princess Daisy & Pumpkin Donald – 45 to 60 Minutes
- Mickey Mouse – 10 to 60 Minutes
We can’t stress sufficient the diploma to which the above are estimates. Even those with large ranges. For instance, we’ve waited lower than 10 minutes for Jack Skellington and Sally, in addition to the Seven Dwarfs on Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together nights prior to now. That’s an excessive instance, as these have been dates that have been impacted by extremely wet nights and/or hurricane scares…however that’s turning into an more and more frequent phenomenon, so don’t rely it out.
On different events, we’ve waited much less time than the ranges above due to extraordinary timing. Both we jumped in line at simply the best time originally of the night time, or on the finish of the night time. But it surely’s not all excellent news. We’ve additionally averted traces that have been really longer than 2-3 hours on the excessive finish, with staffing shortages, significantly scorching climate, or colossal crowds skewing the wait occasions for widespread meet & greets above the aforementioned averages.
Characters That Meet Early
- Jack Skellington and Sally – Roughly 4:30 p.m.
- Seven Dwarfs – Roughly 6:20 p.m.
- Elvis Sew – Roughly 6:30 p.m.
- Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore – Roughly 6:30 p.m.
Once more, these are approximations. Since they’re unofficial and unpublished, they’re additionally topic to alter. Really, it’s not simply these characters who’re topic to alter. Each different character is meant to return out at 7 p.m., however that doesn’t at all times occur.
Considered one of our go-to meet & greets is Witch Minnie, Princess Daisy & Pumpkin Donald, and there have been occasions once they’ve come out at 6:45 p.m, and different events once they haven’t proven up till nearly 7:15 p.m.
Clearly, we don’t attend each single Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together. That may shortly get ridiculously costly! Nonetheless, we’ve been doing this yearly since 2007, and attended over a dozen events in 2019 alone. From that, we’ve discovered a ton…however there’s nonetheless a number of inconsistency and variability.
Simply one thing of which you need to be conscious as you propose the characters you need to meet–and every thing else you’ll do throughout MNSSHP. You might be able to accomplish far much less–or way more–than is listed in our 1-Evening Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together Plan! With that in thoughts, right here’s our optimum strategy to characters through the occasion…
What’s This? What’s This? There’s Folks In every single place! – Jack Skellington and Sally meet in City Sq. Theater beginning round 4:30 p.m., which is why it’s extremely advantageous to get your celebration wristband early and “beat” the celebration mix-in visitors arriving by way of the entrance entrance. For those who might be within the foyer of City Sq. Theater proper when the road opens at 4:00 p.m., you may be out of right here by 5:30 p.m. or earlier.
For those who don’t get into Magic Kingdom till 4:15 p.m. and line up then, it’s doable you received’t be out of line till round 7 p.m. when you get unfortunate. Critically, quarter-hour might be that a lot of a distinction.
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho It’s Off to Storybook Circus We Go – For those who’re too sluggish for Jack Skellington and Sally, you’re actually actually quick and are out of there early, otherwise you merely don’t care about Nightmare Earlier than Christmas characters, the Seven Dwarfs are a superb various first choose.
These characters meet in Pete’s Foolish Sideshow, which is within the deepest nook of Magic Kingdom. Because of that–and the meet & greet not beginning fairly as early–the road sometimes doesn’t kind as quick. (If it’s a scorching day, the road can be slower to kind as a result of the wait begins outdoor within the solar.) You’ll be able to arrive right here round 5 p.m. and nonetheless be high quality–probably even 5:30 p.m.
The one factor you completely don’t need to do is line up for Jack Skellington and Sally or the Seven Dwarfs between 6 pm and seven pm. That’s when the traces might be at their longest, and also you’ll find yourself ready in line for a number of hours of celebration time.
Pooh’s Posse – For those who begin with the Storybook Circus characters, it’s simple to then bounce over to the Pooh line by the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in Fantasyland. That is additionally some of the widespread meet & greets at Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together.
All 4 meet collectively, they usually solely take one photograph per visitor. It felt much less like a meet & greet and extra like a “photograph meeting line.” On the plus facet, the wait wasn’t practically so long as it has been prior to now.
Donald & Daisy and Minnie – Additionally again in Storybook Circus, you’ll discover Donald & Daisy, and Minnie Mouse carrying particular Halloween costumes for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together within the Dumbo queue. That is one other good possibility after you end up with the Seven Dwarfs.
You may also discover Pirate Goofy again right here by the Barnstormer. As Goofy meets by himself, he tends to have a considerably shorter wait than the opposite characters in the midst of Storybook Circus.
Observe that that is sometimes an both/or scenario. You can’t sometimes meet Pooh’s Posse *and* Donald & Daisy, Minnie, and Pirate Goofy. Select one of many two units of the 4, and both save the opposite for the tip of the night time, or skip them totally.
Skip the Strains! – For those who observe the above technique, it’s in all probability going to be someday between 7:30 p.m. and eight p.m. once you’re lastly completed. That is the purpose within the celebration when the character meet & greet traces are longest. So, except you’re a hardcore hunter of characters, it’s time to do one thing else. (Or you’ll be able to stick to characters, however you danger burnout.)
One possibility is to as an alternative hit up the dance events and areas of Frontierland and Fantasyland which have free-roaming characters to “skip” the traces and nonetheless get your character repair. For those who do see free-roaming characters, go work together with them! They sometimes don’t get very lengthy waits regardless of once you go and they’re, and might be tons of enjoyable.
As for dance events, there’s Max Goof’s Powerline “Stand Out” Pop-Up Get together that occurs in Tomorrowland and Adventureland, the Disney Junior Jam in Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe in Tomorrowland, and the Zom-Beatz Bash on the Rockettower Plaza Stage in Tomorrowland.
Put up-Fireworks – We don’t advocate anybody skip Mickey’s Boo-to-You Halloween Parade or Disney’s Not-So-Spooky Spectacular Fireworks. For those who watch each, that’s going to occupy you from round 8:45 p.m. (assuming you don’t wait till the final minute for a parade spot) till 10:45 p.m. After that, you’ll be able to resume character searching.
One good possibility right here is making a beeline to City Sq. Theater after the fireworks. For those who watch from the tip of Principal Avenue close to the Practice Station and are quick, you’ll be able to probably catch the road for Jack Skellington and Sally when it’s shortest. That is additionally a superb time for Mickey Mouse when you’ve already knocked out many of the extra widespread characters.
Now can be a superb time for the Aladdin characters and Captain Jack Sparrow in Adventureland or the royalty in Fantasyland.
Final Name for Uncommon Characters – Not like sights, you can not line up for characters till 11:59 pm. Most traces for uncommon characters get lower round 11 p.m., however it actually varies primarily based on crowds and demand (Disney’s objective is to have the final visitors out of line as near midnight as doable–however that usually runs over).
Accordingly, you actually need to be in line for any of the ‘longest traces’ checklist by 11 p.m. There have been occasions once we’ve had luck leaping into line as late as 11:15 p.m.; on different events, we have been denied shortly earlier than 11. We’re followers of doing Elvis Sew as our “final name” character, and in our anecdotal expertise, his line tends to die down later within the night. Winnie the Pooh and his posse typically have shorter traces–in all probability as a result of these characters skew youthful.
Earlier than Midnight, Meet Mickey – After 11 pm is one of the best time to go to Mickey Mouse. For those who decide to observe the second parade from Principal Avenue, you’ll be able to often race right here, beat the gang, and nonetheless arrive earlier than his line is lower. No matter once you do that, don’t do it as a part of the ‘wave’ of visitors exiting after the parades or fireworks–that’s when the road is longest. You both must beat these exodus crowds, or keep away from them totally.
Remaining Countdown – The final efficiency of Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular begins at midnight, which supplies you a “bonus” 20 minutes on the finish of the occasion. It is a good technique to lengthen Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together, however even this last displaying is crowded. Clearly, this isn’t a personality meet & greet–only a piece of recommendation we’re including since you’ll in all probability be completed with characters by midnight and there’s a superb likelihood you didn’t see this earlier when you have been aggressive with the character searching. Get pleasure from this satisfying finish to your night!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Have you ever attended Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Get together? Which character meet & greets are your high priorities? Did you meet Jack Skellington & Sally or the Seven Dwarfs…or have been these traces too lengthy for you? What about Elvis Sew, Pooh’s Posse, or different uncommon characters with extra average traces? Do you disagree with something in our 1-night MNSSHP character searching plan? Any questions? Listening to your suggestions–even once you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!
