Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration returns to Magic Kingdom in August 2024. Right here’s a sneak peak on the leisure lineup and particulars for the arduous ticket occasion, plus our commentary in regards to the recognition of MNSSHP after each single night time offered out for the final two consecutive years.
This announcement in regards to the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration’s got here as a part of the Disney Parks “Midway to Halloween” depraved celebration that options “shriek peeks,” recipes for dreadfully scrumptious dishes from the parks, not-so-spooky ideas, and different random stuff. Above all else, although, Midway to Halloween is now when bulletins are made in regards to the begin of the spook season at Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and aboard Disney Cruise Line.
To that finish, we now have confirmed particulars & dates for the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration, held on choose nights in Magic Kingdom from August 9 via October 31, 2024. Listed below are the official particulars with dates, and extra–adopted by our commentary about crowds, leisure, and so forth…
Tickets for Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Celebration could also be bought on-line or by calling 407-939-4240. Occasion tickets go on sale for visitors of choose Walt Disney World Resort accommodations, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Accommodations, and Shades of Inexperienced beginning Might 8, 2024. Tickets can be obtainable to all visitors beginning Might 15, 2024.
The dates for the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration are:
- August 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, 27, 30
- September 2, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 29
- October 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 29, 31
The 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration will vary in value from $119 to $199 per ticket, plus tax. Costs fluctuate by date, and are nearly at all times costlier on weekends and because the occasion will get deeper into Halloween season (on common, September is costlier than August and October is costlier than September).
Annual Passholders and Disney Trip Membership Members can save $10 per ticket to Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Celebration—legitimate just for occasion nights in August and September. Solid Members may also save on choose nights. Extra particulars will be discovered on Solid Life Internet or My Disney In the present day.
Final 12 months, Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration was held on 38 choose nights August 11 via November, setting the file for many dates ever. So this 12 months begins two nights earlier, however ends one night time earlier. For these preserving rating at dwelling, August 9 is the earliest the occasion has ever began.
All through the night through the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration, you’ll be able to:
- Set your sights on the Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular! Watch 3 sinister sisters bewitch and bedazzle the residents of Magic Kingdom park.
- Witness Disney’s Not-So-Spooky Spectacular—a wickedly wild fireworks show that includes a few of your favourite Disney Characters and hosted by Jack Skellington from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas.
- Boogie down on the Disney Junior Jam at Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café—that includes some favourite mates from Disney Junior reveals. It’s good for younger partygoers!
- See beloved Disney Characters throughout Mickey’s Boo-to-You Halloween Parade.
- Accumulate a bag filled with sweet as you roam the trick-or-treat trails looking for a few of your favourite sweets.
- Revel within the terribly enchanting ambiance of Magic Kingdom park throughout this limited-capacity occasion.
As at all times, the 2024 Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Celebration will happen from 7:00 pm till midnight. Ticket holders can be admitted to Magic Kingdom as early as 4:00 pm on the legitimate date of their ticket–giving them much more time to take pleasure in park favorites earlier than the occasion begins! These date-specific occasion tickets don’t require a further day theme park ticket or theme park reservation.
The entire above choices add one thing to MNSSHP, however in our view, there’s a ‘holy trinity’ of Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration leisure. The primary is Mickey’s Boo to You Parade, which is offered twice through the occasion. (The second displaying is at all times much less crowded since youngsters can’t keep up that late, however to not the diploma it as soon as was.)
Talking of which, the 2024 Mickey’s Boo-To-You Halloween Parade will happen at an earlier time – good for these visitors attending with little ones who need to benefit from the spooky enjoyable earlier than it’s bedtime.
Mickey’s Boo to You Parade is kicked off by a dance crew to hype up the group, adopted by the Headless Horseman driving down the parade route. Following that, favourite Disney villains stride down Essential Avenue alongside Disney heroes, the enduring Haunted Mansion graveyard diggers and different favourite characters.
Final 12 months’s Boo to You Parade featured a variety of adjustments, essentially the most notable (and publicized) of which was the addition of Minnie Mouse as Winifred Sanderson, Daisy Duck as Sarah Sanderson, and Clarabelle Cow as Mary Sanderson. However that wasn’t all–there have been additionally main adjustments to the Halloween Hoedown unit (new scarecrow dancers and extra) and an expanded Villainous Finale, amongst different issues.
All in all, these had been good incremental upgrades that had been all enhancements and gave the Boo to You Parade a pleasant shot within the arm. I’d like to see this develop into the annual strategy, with new costumes and maybe a recent unit or refreshed float yearly.
Jack-o-lanterns aren’t the one ‘Jack’ at Walt Disney World this Halloween!
The Pumpkin King, a.okay.a. Jack Skellington, will as soon as once more host the must-see nighttime spectacular, “Disney’s Not-So-Spooky Spectacular.” That includes projections, particular results and lighting paired with fireworks, music and iconic Disney characters, you gained’t need to miss this.
As at all times, we extremely advocate watching from as near Cinderella Citadel (close to Companions is nice) as attainable. Not solely will you be immersed within the perimeter bursts of the fireworks, however you’ll have an up-close view of Jack Skellington, the unequivocal spotlight of the present.
The Sanderson Sisters, stars of the enduring “Hocus Pocus” movies, will unite for an journey and name on their comrades to summon the last word “Hocus Pocus” Celebration Potion through the “Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular” stage present at Cinderella Citadel.
Just like the film itself, Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular has a cult following amongst WDW diehards. (Though is it actually a cult following if just about everybody who loves MNSSHP additionally loves this present?!)
In Frontierland, you’ll be able to encounter the ghostly group generally known as the Cadaver Dans, a Dapper Dans-style quartet can have you howling in laughter to a bone-rattling bevy of tunes.
Walt Disney World has revealed a few new additions for the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration. The announcement signifies that you simply’ll have the ability to “strike a pose” with Mickey and Minnie of their new costumes through the occasion, which suggests the dynamic duo are going to be assembly collectively in City Sq. Theater in new appears to be like through the occasion.
That is nice and, frankly, overdue. Disneyland has been doing new character costumes each Halloween and Christmas for Mickey & Pals in City Sq. throughout regular operations the final a number of years. This has been an enormous hit with visitors and, particularly, repeat guests like followers and locals. We make a degree of getting photographs with the entire characters of their new appears to be like every season.
Not solely does this add one thing new for returning visitors, but it surely additionally ought to make the Mouse meet & greet way more standard. I can’t depend the variety of instances we’ve waited 5 minutes or much less for Mickey at MNSSHP or MVMCP. In the meantime, Jack Skellington has a triple-digit (actually!) wait time.
Oh, and it definitely helps that these new costumes for Minnie and Mickey are completely to die for. Deathly beauty that remind me of a cross between the Phantom Manor (at Disneyland Paris) costumes and the costumes the mice wore for Halloween in Mickey’s Toontown Truthful means again within the day (these had been primarily orange and purple). Enormous kudos on these outfits. Now do Goofy, Donald and Daisy, and Pluto subsequent!
The brand new meet & greets don’t finish there! In the course of the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration, visitors will even have the ability to meet Bruno alongside Mirabel within the Fantasy Backyard.
This ought to be one other standard one, and is a unbelievable transfer that follows within the footsteps of Disneyland. 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 largest followers of Encanto, however actually have loved assembly him on the occasion–he’s a enjoyable character with a sly persona who’s nice for amusing interactions.
Final however hopefully not lastly, there would be the new DescenDANCE Celebration impressed by the upcoming Disney+ film, “Descendants: The Rise of Purple.” I do know completely nothing in regards to the Descendants, so I’ve nothing to say about this. I don’t even know who the demo is for these items, actually. I assumed tweens, however Sarah informed me that her mates love the Descendants, and I believe they’re largely mothers our age. However who is aware of–perhaps Sarah made new mates.
Whereas this can be a good begin when it comes to new-for-2024 additions, my hope is that Walt Disney World has extra up its sleeve. It has been some time since Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration had a serious refresh, and it’d be good to see that occur once more–particularly now that Walt Disney World has new leisure management.
There are a few impediments to that, although, and the primary is that Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration has offered out each single occasion for the final 2 years. Should you depend Boo Bash, the final 3 years. After a gradual begin, the second half of the 2019 season additionally offered very well, too. So there’s not a lot of an incentive for Disney to make adjustments. Company are responding effectively to what’s already there.
The second cause is considerably of an outgrowth of the primary: don’t repair what isn’t damaged. The rationale visitors reply effectively to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration is as a result of it’s actually good. Loads of Walt Disney World-centric followers rave about Oogie Boogie Bash, however I believe that’s very a lot a “grass is greener” factor–and that MNSSHP continues to be the superior occasion. Boo to You is an all-time nice Disney parade and Hocus Pocus Spelltacular is a contemporary traditional. Each may obtain refreshes, however replacements can be silly.
What I’d like to see is a modernized HalloWishes with the Jack Skellington determine and projections. Longtime followers would go loopy for that, and it’s not like anybody would mourn the lack of Disney’s Not-So-Spooky Spectacular. Though the fireworks present is newer and has its moments, it’s nothing particular. Only a few individuals would mourn its loss–particularly if it had been changed by a superior fireworks present.
I’d additionally like to see the Immersive Deal with Trails a la Oogie Boogie Bash. These are really subsequent degree, and are the spotlight of the Halloween occasion at Disneyland. Nevertheless, it wouldn’t shock me if operational variations or casting difficulties between the coasts would make these a non-starter.
Failing that, I’d identical to to see extra new character meet & greets yearly. That is one other factor Oogie Boogie Bash does effectively, and I believe it might work at Walt Disney World. We’ve been doing MNSSHP for over 15 years, and lots of the meet & greets are the identical right this moment as after we began.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, however I believe the character element has not solely gotten stale, however too constant and predictable. I do know Walt Disney World followers crave that, however I believe they’d additionally respect some surprises and a ‘you by no means know what you’re gonna get’ high quality. (As long as what you get is cool.) In any case, new costumes for Mickey & Minnie is an effective begin, as is including Bruno.
Talking of issues Walt Disney World hasn’t formally introduced, right here’s the checklist of sights that had been open throughout final 12 months’s Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration:
Adventureland
- Jungle Cruise
- The Magic Carpets of Aladdin
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Swiss Household Treehouse
Frontierland
- Large Thunder Mountain Railroad
Liberty Sq.
Fantasyland
- Prince Charming Regal Carrousel
- “It’s a small world”
- Peter Pan’s Flight
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Mad Tea Celebration
- Beneath the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Prepare
Storybook Circus
- Dumbo the Flying Elephant
- The Barnstormer
Tomorrowland
- Astro Orbiter
- Buzz Lightyear’s House Ranger Spin
- Monsters Inc. Snigger Ground
- House Mountain
- Tomorrowland Speedway
- Tomorrowland Transit Authority Folks Mover
- TRON Lightcycle / Run
Final 12 months, TRON Lightcycle Run used a digital queue throughout Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Celebration.
There are a couple of unknowns in relation to rides and the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration, the primary being whether or not TRON Lightcycle Run will use the digital queue once more. We hope not. The brand new trip scent has worn off–if individuals need to trip on repeat through the occasion, allow them to.
Second, the standing of Tiana’s Bayou Journey. It’s secure to say the trip can be open by then (knock on wooden), however unclear whether or not it’ll have a digital queue or standby. Lastly, attraction overlays for the occasion. We assume these will even occur with the standard suspects–House Mountain, Monsters Snigger Ground, and extra.
Now let’s rapidly flip to a sizzling subject: crowds. Certainly one of our ignored tales from final 12 months was Is Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Celebration Much less Crowded?! (Whereas the headline is MVMCP, the subject pertains to each events.) Truthfully, I’m shocked…and somewhat upset…that this wasn’t a much bigger deal. That article appeared to specific the consensus view, particularly with annual attendees who do Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Celebration yearly–or a number of instances per 12 months. We heard from readers and mates who had comparable experiences.
Nonetheless, the subject didn’t get practically as a lot traction as Is Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration Too Crowded? from a couple of years again. Simply have a look at the remark disparity between the 2 posts! I suppose this can be a variation of “if it bleeds, it leads.” Even Disney followers choose adverse information for some bizarre cause.
After all, that is no assure that Walt Disney World will persist with the decrease attendance cap for the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration. They may decide that, on stability, visitor satisfaction is increased if the occasions don’t promote out as simply. (Clearly, visitor satisfaction is increased amongst attendees with a decrease cap, however that doesn’t account for visitors who get shut out.)
We hope that’s not the case, although. Final 12 months actually felt just like the goldilocks zone for crowds–not too gentle or too heavy. (Besides in entrance of Cinderella Citadel between the parade and fireworks, however there’s no fixing for that. It’s just too small of an space and too many individuals need to be there.)
Which brings us to the subsequent widespread query or concern amongst readers: when will tickets to the 2024 MNSSHP promote out?
We’ve lined this in quite a lot of posts main as much as Midway to Halloween, so we’re not going to fixate on it right here. The underside line is that you do not want to fret about 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration tickets promoting out…but. Should you’re studying this when the announcement is first being made throughout Midway to Halloween, you don’t have anything to fret about.
Even with the final couple of years setting the file for offered out dates, no dates have offered out earlier than late June. That’s when Halloween night time offered out. From there, normally cheaper dates and the primary night time promote out someday in July, with extra dates promoting out in early August. As soon as content material from the primary night time of the occasion floods social media, there’s normally a “run” on tickets for subsequent occasions–and a number of other extra events promote out round then.
In different phrases, the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration is sort of definitely not going to promote out inside days of tickets happening sale. That applies to each the presale window and most people window. So that you don’t have to make an on-site reservation simply to have entry to the presale or stress out. That is nothing like Oogie Boogie Bash. Now that occasion will promote out quick–and it’ll be an enormous headache to purchase tickets. However fortunately, Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration is a unique story.
In the end, we’re excited that Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration is again once more for 2024. Like so many Walt Disney World followers, attending MNSSHP is a fall custom for us, and we can not wait to take Child Bricker for the primary time. (Oh no, I suppose this implies we’ve got to put on matching household costumes…in August. Right here’s hoping for higher climate than final 12 months!)
Even when nothing else adjustments past what Walt Disney World simply introduced, Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration is a ton of enjoyable and we extremely advocate it. There’s a cause we’ve attended yearly–and would accomplish that even when we weren’t bloggers. (Heck, we went over a dozen instances in 2019 alone, and there was no “bloggability” cause for that!)
It’s only a very well completed occasion, and a good way to get within the spook season spirit. Positive, Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration is dear and it throws a monkey wrench into attendance dynamics a number of nights per week from August via October. Nevertheless, it’s additionally a blast–and the spotlight of the autumn season at Walt Disney World. Should you’re visiting this time of 12 months and are searching for a enjoyable add-on or splurge, that is it!
Should you’re on the fence about attending this 12 months’s occasion however are questioning whether or not it’s well worth the cash, what each bit of leisure is like, or anything, try our 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration Information.
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