Now we have been begging for a Disney Afternoon or 90s Nostalgia Nite at Walt Disney World or Disneyland. That’s the theme we all know would “converse to” the notorious Childless Millennials–or Disney Adults of the parental or kid-free selection–with disposable earnings and sentimentality for his or her youth.
Properly, it looks as if Disney has heard us (kinda, sorta) loud however not-so-clear. The corporate has launched extra particulars about Disney Channel Nite, the all-new Disneyland After Darkish particular occasion in Spring 2024 celebrating iconic Disney Channel TV reveals and characters with particular leisure, themed snacks, merchandise, distinctive picture ops, and extra.
In case you’re unfamiliar with it, Disneyland After Darkish events are limited-time events that happen after common park hours and have distinctive themes, festivities, character meet & greets, particular nighttime leisure, entry to points of interest with lowered wait occasions, and extra. It’s the Disneyland equal of After Hours at Walt Disney World, albeit usually with extra on the thematic entrance. On this case, which means Disney Channel characters and such.
With every separately-ticketed Disneyland After Darkish get together, attendees get 4 hours of get together time after the parks near day company. Plus, there’s a 3-hour pre-party mix-in on the similar park because the occasion. That quantities to a complete of seven hours park time, minus nevertheless lengthy it takes to verify into the occasion.
Along with all of the Disney Channel themed enjoyable dropped at life only for the get together, admission additionally contains commemorative keepsakes resembling a memento credential and an occasion information map, plus limitless digital downloads of Disney PhotoPass photographs taken all through Disneyland After Darkish, which is a pleasant since loads about these occasions revolves round photographs and enjoyable.
Disney Channel Nite might be held March 5 and March 7, 2024; tickets at the moment are on sale and price $139 per visitor. In contrast to among the different Disneyland After Darkish occasions, it’s a small slate of dates for the inaugural (and maybe solely?) 12 months of Disney Channel Nite.
In any case, right here’s what Disney beforehand introduced for Disneyland After Darkish: Disney Channel Nite…
- Descendants Musical Journey on the Rivers of America
Come aboard the Crusing Ship Columbia for a musical journey with songs from all 3 Descendants motion pictures.
- DescenDance
On the River of America, be a part of the VK dancers from the Isle of the Misplaced as they exhibit their depraved strikes.
- Disney Channel Rocks
Occasion at this rock concert-style stage present that completely pumps up the amount to hit songs from fashionable Disney Channel programming.
- Excessive College Musical / Zombies Pep Rally
Prepare for this high-energy particular mash as much as cease and rejoice songs from Excessive College Musical and Zombies with you at designated spots alongside the parade route.
- Camp Rock Karaoke & Disney Channel Trivia Problem within the Golden Horseshoe Saloon
Take turns singing your favourite songs as solos, duos and teams! The karaoke get together will alternate with the Final Disney Channel Trivia Problem.
- Phineas and Ferb Dance Occasion at Tomorrowland Terrace
Be part of a energetic dance get together that includes terrific songs from the world of Phineas and Ferb and extra!
- Fond Farewell
Be sure you swing by City Sq. and wave goodnight.
Step into imaginative backdrops of a few of your favourite Disney Channel Unique Motion pictures and TV reveals, together with:
- Disney Channel Wand ID
- Occasion Step & Repeat
- Camp Rock
- The Cheetah Women
- Gargoyles
- Halloweentown
- Hannah Montana
- Lizzie McGuire
- The Proud Household
- The Suite Lifetime of Zack & Cody
- Teen Seaside Film
- That’s So Raven
- Wizards Of Waverly Place
- Zenon: Lady of the twenty first Century
Take pleasure in specifically themed meals and snacks all night lengthy. A couple of objects to anticipate are the mini banana burritos and tropical banana punch at Crimson Rose Taverne, plus chili cheese loaded nachos, and s’mores donut skewer from Café Daisy. Moreover, specialty eating packages can be found, too.
That is truly a reasonably robust slate of leisure and particular choices by Disneyland After Darkish requirements, and is very spectacular whenever you additionally contemplate that there are solely two dates of Disney Channel Nite.
I truthfully marvel how particular occasions with so few dates are even worthwhile for Disneyland. You would possibly scoff at that notion contemplating the $140 per particular person price ticket, however take into account that nothing Disney does is cheap or environment friendly. Even seemingly little issues like designing the maps, merchandise, or menus is a highly-collaborative effort, and labor isn’t low-cost! That’s to say nothing of the distinctive leisure throughout Disney Channel Nite, which (clearly) gained’t simply be thrown collectively the night-of. The next variety of dates–or bringing again the identical occasions from prior years–may help unfold out and defray prices. However I digress.
Now, with a couple of week till Disney Channel Nites begin, Disneyland has introduced the character lineup for this After Darkish occasion…
Character Experiences
Let childhood nostalgia turn out to be new recollections whenever you meet some iconic Disney Characters resembling:
- Kim Potential
- Baloo, King Louie and Don Karnage
- Lilo, Sew and Experiments
- Chip, Dale and Monterey Jack
- Darkwing Duck and Launchpad McQuack
- Goofy and Max
- Rapunzel and Flynn Rider
- Huey, Dewey, Louie and Scrooge McDuck
- Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse
Our earlier tackle Disney Channel Nite was that it wasn’t for us. Once we learn the listing of reveals, motion pictures, and characters and the unique slate of leisure, there was actually nothing that appealed to us. Whereas personally disenchanted, I couldn’t knock the idea. Not every thing must be squarely geared toward us or our nostalgia. There’s a technology of followers who love all issues circa-2000s Disney Channel, and I’m pleased for them that they’re getting an occasion proper up their alley.
We’re just too previous for Excessive College Musical or something later. We have been in school when a lot of that stuff aired, and our pursuits have been very a lot not the Disney Channel at the moment. We turned acquainted with a few of these reveals and flicks from visits to Walt Disney World and Disneyland as adults, but it surely was nonetheless clearly geared toward a youthful viewers. (I believe we watched the Excessive College Musical Pep Rally on the Disney-MGM Studios a grand complete of 1 time over the course of a number of visits.)
It’s arduous to understand the campiness of that stuff until you grew up with it, and we didn’t. So we’re too previous for that however too younger to have children into the Descendants and all of the 2010s or newer Disney Channel programming. So we wrote off the Disney Channel Nite as being geared toward youthful Disney Adults or older mother and father.
Then the character lineup got here out, that includes a whole lot of Disney Afternoon staples and seemingly aimed squarely at kids on the 90s. Stuff for us! Characters from TailSpin, Rescue Rangers, DuckTails, and Darkwing Duck–holy cow! Now these are characters for whom we have now tons of childhood nostalgia, and completely can not wait to introduce to our daughter. Usually, that character lineup alone would virtually be a “shut up and take our cash” state of affairs for us. And I’m positive it’ll find yourself being precisely that–catnip for a lot of of our fellow Millennial Disney Adults.
For us, there are two impediments to purchasing tickets. The primary is that we simply attended the free Moonlight Magic get together at Disney California Journey. There was appreciable overlap with that character lineup, so we have already got contemporary photographs with many Disney Afternoon mainstays. I’m unsure we might justify ~$300 on tickets a couple of month after doing largely the identical factor free of charge. Had we not performed Moonlight Magic, it’d be a very shut name and we’d be tempted to do it “for the weblog” (however actually for ourselves). Fortunately, it’s off the desk for us and we don’t should do psychological contortions to justify spending obscene quantities to fulfill a couple of childhood favourite characters.
The second obstacle is actually recognized above, which is that there’s completely nothing within the core leisure that appeals to us. It could be paying some huge cash for actually just some meet & greets. Whereas I can admire Disney’s want to cater to a number of demographics, this feels sort of like two totally different occasions in a single. Virtually like tickets weren’t promoting in addition to they hoped for the Disney Channel-centric stuff, in order that they expanded it to Disney Afternoon. The equal of Star Wars Nite not promoting properly, in order that they added Spider-Man and Zombie Captain America. A wise solution to probably promote extra tickets, however not fairly on the unique theme.
This might sound totally different, as all the stuff right here is Disney Channel. I’d argue that a minimum of there’s crossover enchantment between Star Wars and Marvel. On this case, is anybody sufficiently old to have watched Disney Afternoon going to have an interest within the Disney Channel stuff from the aughts? The reverse can be true–are the twentysomethings who grew up with Hannah Montana and Excessive College Musical going to care about Darkwing Duck or Don Carnage? In contrast to area operas, tremendous heroes, and animated motion pictures that may enchantment to everybody from children to grandparents, these items is all rather more age-constrained. (Sorry, however the Descendants is not any Inside Out, even when they did come out in the identical 12 months.)
In the long run, we nonetheless actually need a Disney Afternoon or 90s Nostalgia Nite that goes all-in on that theme. To every their very own, however for us, that’s not the identical as Disney Channel programming from the 2000s–there’s zero crossover enchantment. I simply hope that the occasion planners notice that and, if Disney Channel Nite isn’t fashionable, the corporate doesn’t draw the incorrect conclusions concerning the potential enchantment of a 90s or Disney Afternoon Nite.
So I assume that is partly my push for everybody else to purchase tickets to Disney Channel Nite to make it fashionable so the corporate is extra prone to check out comparable ideas. 😉 And likewise partly for the staff at Disneyland to appreciate that youngsters of the 90s and youngsters of the 2000s are very totally different demos regardless of “solely” a decade between us.
Millennials are additionally a decade deeper into careers, that means extra discretionary spending cash. Many have kids of their very own and would like to introduce these children to favourite characters from our youth. Briefly, we’re a profitable demographic who desires to say “shut up and take our cash” in response to an occasion like this…if it’s performed proper and doesn’t attempt to package deal children programming from 1995 with a fantasy-musical from 2015.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Are you excited for the lineup throughout Disneyland After Darkish: Disney Channel Nite in 2024? Was the Disney Afternoon-heavy character roster sufficient to get you off the fence, or would you like extra from the 90s to justify attending? Or conversely, if you happen to’re a baby of the 2000s, are you disenchanted about these characters? Excited or disenchanted concerning the leisure and different choices? Do you agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions? Listening to your suggestions–even whenever you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
