nursemelis374 Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 I attended this event on Saturday the 22nd and I must say, I was pretty impressed. I had been to MNSSHP for the first time and absolutely loved it, so I went into this event with low expectations knowing that it was California and DCA. The event was from 7:30 to 10:30 and the tickets were 15 bucks each. The first thing was that it took us forever to get to the DLR, traffic was horrible and then getting into the parking structure was even worse. It normally takes us 45 minutes to get from my door to the esplanade, and on Saturday it took nearly and hour and a half! The good thing was that we were able to walk right in at 7:35, whereas I had heard that people had line dup early and ended up in line forever. As I am at work and this needs to be short, here are the highlights: - They only sold 5,000 tickets for this event, so although it seemed crowded by DCA standards, it really wasn’t. No ride wait was longer than 5-10 minutes. - There were about 10-15 trick or treat stations. They were themed pretty well to look like doors. The ones at MK are themed much better though. They did this stupid thing where you had to get your map stickered to get candy and this process really slowed up the line. Overall, they weren’t too bad though. The candy was good quality also, like at the MK event and they gave out a lot. - They piped in music throughout the park, which added to the atmosphere. This included Bare Naked Ladies version of Grim Grinning Ghosts, Nightmare Before Christmas, etc. It was pretty cool. - They had 3 dance places set up with characters. There were a lot of people at these and they looked like fun. - Make sure you eat before you come. There were few food places open and they were crowded with slow ops. - There were a lot of characters around, many wearing costumes. The lines to see some of them were pretty long though. They had little stations set up to see them. One complaint was that these closed earlier than the event. We saw many of them closed at 10. - They had these live people as scarecrows in the farm area. They were really cool and it was fun to see them interact with the guests! - The decorations were better than I had expected, though not spectacular. They had the light projections, pumpkins, these fan things, etc. -It was really fun to see all the different costumes, as many people were dressed up! Overall, this was a great event and I think it will be well received. I really hope that after this they consider doing something on a larger scale in DL next year. Maybe they could add a parade and better-themed candy stations. I had heard that the reason they stopped doing this years ago was because they couldn’t compete with the other local Halloween events. I think though that they really could tap into this market now, especially given that many kids no longer trick or treat and the other events are for adults. We had a great time and would do it again in a heartbeat! One of the cool scarecrows that was talking to people. Me and the little scarecrow. My friend's son, Brock, was a little fireman. On the tram. From left to right, it is Shelley (gypsy), Anne (Sally), and myself as Cinderella, of which my friends made fun of me for being all night. Tons of people came up to my friend Anne and many wanted pictures of her. Kim considered being a dominatrix cross-dresser. We went looking for costumes. Contrary to popular belief, this is not what I wear to work!
jarmor Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 WOW they let yall dress up! Thats pretty cool! Looks like you had fun and did alot of kids come up to you for autographs?
robbalvey Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 Wow! Great TR! Any more pics? Did they have Chip N Dale as the characters you could dance with (that would score points for Elissa!) And was the good quality candy "real" candy or the "Disney" candy? More info & photos please!!! --Robb "Glad to hear this event is off to a good start." Alvey
nursemelis374 Posted October 24, 2005 Author Posted October 24, 2005 It was GOOD candy, Twix, Nestle, 3 Muskateers, Snickers, M&Ms, etc. I would say it was the same as at MNSSHP. I don't have any more pictures. My camera got stuck under a sleeping baby in a stroller. There are tons online though. I am looking at Eric's pictures from Orlando and I am so bummed that I am not there!!! I am glad I got a little fix from this event though!
robbalvey Posted October 25, 2005 Posted October 25, 2005 ^ That's ok. Good to hear that the event was well done. I trust your opinions being that you've been to both of them and you always have really good "non-biased" things to say about both parks. --Robb "It's hard to get that kind of honesty out of people these days!" Alvey
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