There are two large fall exhausting price ticket occasions at Walt Disney Global and Disneyland: Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration at Magic Kingdom in Florida and Oogie Boogie Bash at California Journey. This publish compares and contrasts the 2 to look which is healthier for characters, parades, leisure, crowds, and extra. (Up to date Would possibly 17, 2025.)
At the one hand, this can be a “only for amusing” comparability for the reason that two Halloween events are on reverse coasts, so it’s now not truly a choice between the 2 for many Disney planners. However, we spot extra spirit jerseys on flights between the 2 Orange Counties, and diehard Disney fanatics are visiting each coasts with higher frequency. With that during thoughts, we’re penning this that will help you decide whether or not you will have to seek advice from Walt Disney Global or Disneyland for the Halloween season.
Whilst the comparability turns out herbal and logical sufficient from a making plans viewpoint, this used to be if truth be told impressed by means of our many Florida-based pals and acquaintances who’ve made the travel to California, executed Oogie Boogie Bash for the primary time, and completely liked it. We’ve heard quite a lot of rave evaluations about Oogie Boogie Bash from Walt Disney Global-centric fanatics…however can’t assist considering that the ones are rather faulty.
Don’t get us mistaken, we completely love Oogie Boogie Bash. It’s an unbelievable match that we’ve executed each unmarried yr since it all started–and a number of other sooner than that once the exhausting price ticket choice used to be Mickey’s Halloween Birthday celebration at Disneyland. And we’ll do it once more in 2025, too!
On the other hand, I believe there’s completely a ‘freshness bias’ from a Florida fan viewpoint. For lots of, the ultimate main certain exchange to Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration used to be the addition of Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular. That used to be a decade in the past. Earlier than that and because then, now not a lot had modified at MNSSHP in a very long time. Now not even the nature meet & greets range a lot from yr to yr.
There’s a positive line between nostalgia and stagnation, and in case you’re an annual attendee of MNSSHP, it arguably feels a little drained. That’s almost certainly doubly true in case you had the Birthday celebration Go in 2019 and feature disproportionately attended the unbearably sizzling August events since, as is the case with many superfans. (Raises hand!) Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween is feeling a little drained. For those who’re a Disneylander who has been attending Oogie Boogie Bash since that social gathering began, it’s a beautiful equivalent tale, with (principally) handiest two new Villains on the deal with trails each and every of the previous few years.
However that’s the viewpoint of a blogger, vlogger, or diehard fan who lives in the neighborhood to one of the vital coasts. It’s now not consultant of the typical attendee and even the extra informal fan who visits on occasion. Whilst everybody clearly has biases, that’s our tried perspective when making this try at an purpose comparability between Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration and Oogie Boogie Bash…
Parade: Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration – Nowhere is it extra obvious that ‘fatigue’ exists amongst Florida fanatics than of their evaluation of the parades on the respective Halloween events. There may be really no contest right here, as Mickey’s Boo to You Parade completely trounces Frightfully A laugh Parade.
Boo to You has extra gadgets, floats, and performers. It has extra iconic moments and track. Despite the fact that it’s considerably longer, it’s an overly tight parade that by no means overstays its welcome or appears like filler. (Glares at ‘A Christmas Delusion’ Parade.) It’s the more potent parade in nearly each imaginable manner, and in truth, I don’t even see how that is up for debate.
About the one “weak spot” of Mickey’s Boo to You Parade is that 90% of it existed a decade or two in the past. So for some Walt Disney Global fanatics, it feels drained and late for a substitute. To that, I say don’t repair what isn’t damaged. What number of Walt Disney Global fanatics consider the substitute for HalloWishes is a real improve? In brief, watch out what you want for.
With that mentioned, I don’t consider Frightfully A laugh Parade has any actual weaknesses. It’s very sturdy, with menacing moments and floor stage performers. It simply must be longer. This began out as an alternative for Mickey’s Dress Birthday celebration Cavalcade, and my assumption used to be all the time that it’d make bigger through the years, with new gadgets added in next years. That hasn’t took place, but it surely will have to. “Borrow” a drift or two from ‘A Christmas Delusion,’ it doesn’t want all of them!
Middle of the night Spectaculars: Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration – Magic Kingdom’s exhausting price ticket match is the winner by means of default right here. Disney’s Now not-So-Spooky Impressive is the fireworks display offered all through MNSSHP and whilst it’s arguably not so good as HalloWishes in tactics, it has a really spectacular Jack Skellington puppet that hosts the display. It additionally has explosions over Cinderella Citadel, which is lovely rad.
It additionally exists, which is greater than can also be mentioned for a middle of the night impressive at Oogie Boogie Bash. For its first yr, Global of Colour – Villainous used to be the middle of the night impressive at OOB. It has now not been noticed or spoken of once more since. Whether or not that is because of anemic visitor delight rankings or the logistics of operating Global of Colour and a parade in the similar house on a good turnaround time is someone’s wager. Even if Global of Colour – Villainous used to be arguably underwhelming, I doubt even its most harsh critics would contend it used to be addition-by-subtraction dangerous. Regardless, this is a straightforward win for Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration.
Characters: Oogie Boogie Bash – Now we flip to the simple win for Oogie Boogie Bash. The meet & greets be offering all kinds of uncommon & vintage characters from animated motion pictures, plus Pixar Friends and Wonder Tremendous Heroes.
There’s a large collection of choices, and not know who you’re going to search out in Carthay Circle. Additionally, the days are moderately manageable with the foremost exception of the Sanderson Sisters, who incessantly have an hour-plus wait. Everybody else, even Bruno from Encanto and the Kingdom Hearts characters, is in most cases now not too dangerous.
Possibly that is my very own bias creeping in, however the personality meet & greets at MNSSHP feels nearly like a chore at this level. Arrive early for Jack Skellington so perhaps you’ll “handiest” wait in a ~90 minute line. Be tremendous strategic about different best characters, or else waste some other hour-plus. Etcetera, etcetera. Truthfully, even supposing my viewpoint here’s jaded or coloured by means of burn out–and it really well could be–Oogie Boogie Bash wins right here even in an purpose landslide. It’s more straightforward, higher, and a lot more pleasing for personality fanatics.
Trick or Deal with Trails: Oogie Boogie Bash – That is arguably an extension of the purpose about characters, because the trick or treating at Oogie Boogie Bash is the Villains Deal with Trails. Those are ostensibly a method to accumulate sweet and, project completed on that entrance, as we amassed a stockpile to provide out to trick or treaters on Halloween.
Their actual spotlight is the villains who seem on the finish of the paths and supply leisure and have interaction with visitors. As famous above, the most important new addition to Oogie Boogie Bash each and every yr has a tendency to be the creation of 2 new villains, which might be generally uncommon characters or surprising surprises. In reality, that is the spotlight of Oogie Boogie Bash as an entire, and is the number 1 reason Florida fanatics rave about Oogie Boogie Bash.
They’re completely proper about this. See Pass judgement on Doom kill a cool animated film survive degree or Ernesto de los angeles Cruz kill it making a song “Take note Me,” and you are going to straight away transform an OOB aficionado. Phrases don’t do the Villains Deal with Trails justice, and it’s unattainable to put across how amusing those are to Walt Disney Global fanatics conversant in standard deal with trails. To that time, see our Villains Deal with Path Pointers at Oogie Boogie Bash if you want additional convincing.
Fortunately, Walt Disney Global is in spite of everything beginning to catch up on this division.
All through ultimate yr’s Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration, Princess Fairytale Corridor used to be now not a meet & greet location for the princesses. As a substitute, it used to be an enhanced deal with path that includes two villains, Maleficent and the Evil Queen. Those villains had been within the queue in entrance of a portrait in their story’s princess, as they mingle with visitors and pose for selfies. This didn’t dangle a candle to the deal with trails at Oogie Boogie Bash the place the villains are implausible performers, but it surely used to be a pleasant get started.
For the 2025 Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration, visitors can be expecting much more amusing than ever sooner than with some acquainted (and fiendish) faces unexpected visitors alongside the paths. It’s unclear what, precisely, Walt Disney Global has deliberate. Our expectation is that the villainous deal with trails will make bigger for 2025 to make this the marketable new addition. It almost certainly nonetheless gained’t dangle a candle to what’s introduced at Oogie Boogie Bash, the place the immersive deal with trails are the spotlight of the development, however having 3-4 villainous deal with trails could be an enormous win.
Degree Presentations/Leisure: Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration – Let’s proceed the craze of bouncing from one excessive to some other, with one who Magic Kingdom wins handily. Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular is among the very best productions by means of Disney Are living Leisure any place ever.
Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular is an all-time vintage, worthy of a spotlight reel of the highest degree displays at Tokyo Disney Hotel, Disneyland Paris, and so on. And don’t hate me, however I say this as anyone who thinks the film itself handiest has a cult following on account of severe youth nostalgia. I attempt to catch Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular no less than two times according to MNSSHP, and would pay the cost of admission only for this. It’s severely that just right.
This isn’t the one leisure at Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration, both. There’s additionally a number of dance events in case you’re into that form of factor, plus the Cadaver Dans Barbershop Quartet and Rusty Cutlass Pirate Band in Adventureland. I’m handiest into the latter, however nonetheless, one thing for everybody. Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration may be the one match to characteristic the hijinks and hilarity of the Nation Bears–want I even say extra?!
Oogie Boogie Bash used to have Mickey’s Trick and Deal with degree display, however that has since moved to sunlight hours at Disney California Journey. The development nonetheless has Villains Grove, which is an overlay of Redwood Creek Problem Path. So now not truly a degree display in any respect, and even conventional leisure, for that topic.
That is walk-through global of Disney villains, reworked with lighting fixtures, projections, sounds, and particular results to create a haunting, dreamlike (or nightmare-like?) setting. It’s very impressionistic and atmospheric–a Disneyfied twist on Halloween mazes discovered in different places. It’s a neat novelty and amusing for pictures, however attracts shockingly lengthy traces for what it’s, and isn’t that just right.
I wouldn’t be stunned to look Disneyland upload a brand new degree display or leisure component for the 2025 Oogie Boogie Bash. The development wishes a shot within the arm, and that is something it’s lacking.
Environment: Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration – Just by distinctive feature of being within the citadel park as a substitute of the second one gate, Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration wins this. There’s simply one thing about seeing Primary Side road reworked for Halloween, with an additional layer of lighting fixtures and track on best of the pumpkins and day-to-day decor. The similar used to be true for the California match when it used to be held at Disneyland.
Past that, the opposite lands have a greater vibe all through MNSSHP. There’s track, projections, and lighting fixtures results all over the park, and the ones open-concept lands merely ‘paintings’ higher than San Fransokyo or Avengers Campus celebrating Halloween. Vehicles Land and Buena Vista Side road are the most important exceptions, however they rejoice Haul-O-Ween and BatFest (I don’t know what it’s if truth be told referred to as) each day all over September and October.
Crowds: Oogie Boogie Bash – It’s exceeding tricky for the typical attendee of both of those events to do the whole lot in one night time. Chances are high that, you gained’t be capable of meet each unmarried personality, see the parade, degree displays, and different leisure–by no means thoughts doing rides along with the party-specific stuff. However which is extra difficult? The place are crowds worse?
There’s a model of this the place the solution is “it relies.” Any person in the market may have very particular priorities that make Oogie Boogie Bash the more serious of the 2 occasions for crowds. As with ghosts and leprechauns, I additionally consider in unicorns. However the ones individuals are the absolute outliers. For the majority of attendees, Oogie Boogie Bash goes to be the fewer crowded and laid again revel in.
On moderate, traces for characters are shorter, the Deal with Trails make up-close encounters with villains a breeze, it’s more straightforward to look the parade, trip wait instances are minimum, and there aren’t any spaces of the park that experience any place close to the extent of congestion as Primary Side road at Magic Kingdom between the primary and ultimate parade. Disneyland is solely normally decrease tension and decrease stakes, and that extends to Oogie Boogie Bash. (Smartly, with the exception of for scoring tickets within the first position!)
Larger Image: Disneyland – There’s no actual comparability. Right here’s a partial record of the Halloween choices at Disneyland:
- Halloween Screams Fireworks
- Haunted Mansion Vacation
- Vehicles Land Haul-O-Ween
- Guardians of the Galaxy – Monsters After Darkish
- Plaza de los angeles Familia/Musical Birthday celebration of Coco
You’ll additionally meet Mickey & Pals in spooky personality costumes on each Primary Side road at Disneyland and Buena Vista Side road at Disney California Journey, whilst Jack Skellington and Sally seem in New Orleans Sq. with a line that’s in most cases a lot shorter than MNSSHP. All of the ones characters seem each day–the whole lot above is integrated with common admission at Disneyland Hotel.
In contrast, Walt Disney Global gives the Primary Side road Pumpkin Pageant (additionally at Disneyland) and…uh…does the EPCOT Meals & Wine Pageant rely? (There wasn’t a unmarried pumpkin merchandise on the ones menus the ultimate two years.)
There also are some paid choices, like Minnie’s Halloween Dine at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and I suppose there are pumpkins at Disney Springs, however out of doors of Primary Side road in Magic Kingdom, you want to simply cross a whole travel in September or October with out figuring out that Walt Disney Global is “celebrating” Halloween.
Now not so at Disneyland. If you need a festive fall getaway with a large emphasis on spook season, Disneyland is the arms down winner. See our Final Information to Halloween at Disneyland for a complete record of the whole lot the parks, lodge motels, and Downtown Disney be offering.
In the long run, our ‘verdict’ could be that Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration is the awesome match for first-timers or Disney fanatics who get to the parks on an rare foundation. In isolation, MNSSHP gives greater than OBB on a pound for pound foundation due to the fireworks, degree display, atmospheric leisure, and larger & higher parade. Despite the fact that the nature element is miles higher at Oogie Boogie Bash, that’s merely now not sufficient to bridge the distance until you’re a typical attendee, truly into villains, or your night will revolve round characters.
On the other hand, we mentioned on the best that this used to be now not only for amusing, but in addition for making plans functions. Realistically, only a few individuals are going to be deciding between Walt Disney Global and Disneyland for a Halloween 2025 travel only at the foundation of the exhausting price ticket occasions. If you zoom out, it’s tricky to look how Walt Disney Global wins.
For something, probably the most stuff “lacking” from Oogie Boogie Bash is integrated with admission subsequent door at Disneyland. And talking of leisure integrated with admission, there’s the Disneyland seventieth Anniversary, because of this quite a few particular limited-time celebratory choices like Paint the Evening parade and Global of Colour: Happiness. In equity, Walt Disney Global can have Starlight Evening Parade in Fall 2025, however that one providing can not compete with the mountain of leisure to be had within the California parks.
Talking of California, Disneyland additionally doesn’t have Florida climate–that’s lovely related all through past due August by way of October. Even if unspoken, I’d be keen to guess numerous our Florida pals factored the loss of triple-digit climate and hurricane season into their value determinations of Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration vs. Oogie Boogie Bash – A Disney Halloween Birthday celebration. You realize what? They’re proper!
And truly, on the finish of the day, most of the people are going to have a great time irrespective of whether or not they cross to Disneyland Hotel or Walt Disney Global, as long as they correctly get ready for the travel. On that be aware, see our Information to Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration at Magic Kingdom or our Information to Oogie Boogie Bash Halloween Birthday celebration at Disney California Journey. For the larger image, remember to learn our Walt Disney Global Travel Making plans Information and Disneyland Travel Making plans Information.
YOUR THOUGHTS
Have you ever attended Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration or Oogie Boogie Bash? Which did you suppose had the simpler setting, characters, parade, leisure, and so on? Would you quite do Disneyland or Walt Disney Global all through the Halloween season? Do you disagree with any of our recommendation and exams? Any questions? Listening to your comments–even whilst you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please proportion your ideas underneath within the feedback!
There are two large fall exhausting price ticket occasions at Walt Disney Global and Disneyland: Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration at Magic Kingdom in Florida and Oogie Boogie Bash at California Journey. This publish compares and contrasts the 2 to look which is healthier for characters, parades, leisure, crowds, and extra. (Up to date Would possibly 17, 2025.)
At the one hand, this can be a “only for amusing” comparability for the reason that two Halloween events are on reverse coasts, so it’s now not truly a choice between the 2 for many Disney planners. However, we spot extra spirit jerseys on flights between the 2 Orange Counties, and diehard Disney fanatics are visiting each coasts with higher frequency. With that during thoughts, we’re penning this that will help you decide whether or not you will have to seek advice from Walt Disney Global or Disneyland for the Halloween season.
Whilst the comparability turns out herbal and logical sufficient from a making plans viewpoint, this used to be if truth be told impressed by means of our many Florida-based pals and acquaintances who’ve made the travel to California, executed Oogie Boogie Bash for the primary time, and completely liked it. We’ve heard quite a lot of rave evaluations about Oogie Boogie Bash from Walt Disney Global-centric fanatics…however can’t assist considering that the ones are rather faulty.
Don’t get us mistaken, we completely love Oogie Boogie Bash. It’s an unbelievable match that we’ve executed each unmarried yr since it all started–and a number of other sooner than that once the exhausting price ticket choice used to be Mickey’s Halloween Birthday celebration at Disneyland. And we’ll do it once more in 2025, too!
On the other hand, I believe there’s completely a ‘freshness bias’ from a Florida fan viewpoint. For lots of, the ultimate main certain exchange to Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration used to be the addition of Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular. That used to be a decade in the past. Earlier than that and because then, now not a lot had modified at MNSSHP in a very long time. Now not even the nature meet & greets range a lot from yr to yr.
There’s a positive line between nostalgia and stagnation, and in case you’re an annual attendee of MNSSHP, it arguably feels a little drained. That’s almost certainly doubly true in case you had the Birthday celebration Go in 2019 and feature disproportionately attended the unbearably sizzling August events since, as is the case with many superfans. (Raises hand!) Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween is feeling a little drained. For those who’re a Disneylander who has been attending Oogie Boogie Bash since that social gathering began, it’s a beautiful equivalent tale, with (principally) handiest two new Villains on the deal with trails each and every of the previous few years.
However that’s the viewpoint of a blogger, vlogger, or diehard fan who lives in the neighborhood to one of the vital coasts. It’s now not consultant of the typical attendee and even the extra informal fan who visits on occasion. Whilst everybody clearly has biases, that’s our tried perspective when making this try at an purpose comparability between Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration and Oogie Boogie Bash…
Parade: Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration – Nowhere is it extra obvious that ‘fatigue’ exists amongst Florida fanatics than of their evaluation of the parades on the respective Halloween events. There may be really no contest right here, as Mickey’s Boo to You Parade completely trounces Frightfully A laugh Parade.
Boo to You has extra gadgets, floats, and performers. It has extra iconic moments and track. Despite the fact that it’s considerably longer, it’s an overly tight parade that by no means overstays its welcome or appears like filler. (Glares at ‘A Christmas Delusion’ Parade.) It’s the more potent parade in nearly each imaginable manner, and in truth, I don’t even see how that is up for debate.
About the one “weak spot” of Mickey’s Boo to You Parade is that 90% of it existed a decade or two in the past. So for some Walt Disney Global fanatics, it feels drained and late for a substitute. To that, I say don’t repair what isn’t damaged. What number of Walt Disney Global fanatics consider the substitute for HalloWishes is a real improve? In brief, watch out what you want for.
With that mentioned, I don’t consider Frightfully A laugh Parade has any actual weaknesses. It’s very sturdy, with menacing moments and floor stage performers. It simply must be longer. This began out as an alternative for Mickey’s Dress Birthday celebration Cavalcade, and my assumption used to be all the time that it’d make bigger through the years, with new gadgets added in next years. That hasn’t took place, but it surely will have to. “Borrow” a drift or two from ‘A Christmas Delusion,’ it doesn’t want all of them!
Middle of the night Spectaculars: Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration – Magic Kingdom’s exhausting price ticket match is the winner by means of default right here. Disney’s Now not-So-Spooky Impressive is the fireworks display offered all through MNSSHP and whilst it’s arguably not so good as HalloWishes in tactics, it has a really spectacular Jack Skellington puppet that hosts the display. It additionally has explosions over Cinderella Citadel, which is lovely rad.
It additionally exists, which is greater than can also be mentioned for a middle of the night impressive at Oogie Boogie Bash. For its first yr, Global of Colour – Villainous used to be the middle of the night impressive at OOB. It has now not been noticed or spoken of once more since. Whether or not that is because of anemic visitor delight rankings or the logistics of operating Global of Colour and a parade in the similar house on a good turnaround time is someone’s wager. Even if Global of Colour – Villainous used to be arguably underwhelming, I doubt even its most harsh critics would contend it used to be addition-by-subtraction dangerous. Regardless, this is a straightforward win for Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration.
Characters: Oogie Boogie Bash – Now we flip to the simple win for Oogie Boogie Bash. The meet & greets be offering all kinds of uncommon & vintage characters from animated motion pictures, plus Pixar Friends and Wonder Tremendous Heroes.
There’s a large collection of choices, and not know who you’re going to search out in Carthay Circle. Additionally, the days are moderately manageable with the foremost exception of the Sanderson Sisters, who incessantly have an hour-plus wait. Everybody else, even Bruno from Encanto and the Kingdom Hearts characters, is in most cases now not too dangerous.
Possibly that is my very own bias creeping in, however the personality meet & greets at MNSSHP feels nearly like a chore at this level. Arrive early for Jack Skellington so perhaps you’ll “handiest” wait in a ~90 minute line. Be tremendous strategic about different best characters, or else waste some other hour-plus. Etcetera, etcetera. Truthfully, even supposing my viewpoint here’s jaded or coloured by means of burn out–and it really well could be–Oogie Boogie Bash wins right here even in an purpose landslide. It’s more straightforward, higher, and a lot more pleasing for personality fanatics.
Trick or Deal with Trails: Oogie Boogie Bash – That is arguably an extension of the purpose about characters, because the trick or treating at Oogie Boogie Bash is the Villains Deal with Trails. Those are ostensibly a method to accumulate sweet and, project completed on that entrance, as we amassed a stockpile to provide out to trick or treaters on Halloween.
Their actual spotlight is the villains who seem on the finish of the paths and supply leisure and have interaction with visitors. As famous above, the most important new addition to Oogie Boogie Bash each and every yr has a tendency to be the creation of 2 new villains, which might be generally uncommon characters or surprising surprises. In reality, that is the spotlight of Oogie Boogie Bash as an entire, and is the number 1 reason Florida fanatics rave about Oogie Boogie Bash.
They’re completely proper about this. See Pass judgement on Doom kill a cool animated film survive degree or Ernesto de los angeles Cruz kill it making a song “Take note Me,” and you are going to straight away transform an OOB aficionado. Phrases don’t do the Villains Deal with Trails justice, and it’s unattainable to put across how amusing those are to Walt Disney Global fanatics conversant in standard deal with trails. To that time, see our Villains Deal with Path Pointers at Oogie Boogie Bash if you want additional convincing.
Fortunately, Walt Disney Global is in spite of everything beginning to catch up on this division.
All through ultimate yr’s Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration, Princess Fairytale Corridor used to be now not a meet & greet location for the princesses. As a substitute, it used to be an enhanced deal with path that includes two villains, Maleficent and the Evil Queen. Those villains had been within the queue in entrance of a portrait in their story’s princess, as they mingle with visitors and pose for selfies. This didn’t dangle a candle to the deal with trails at Oogie Boogie Bash the place the villains are implausible performers, but it surely used to be a pleasant get started.
For the 2025 Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration, visitors can be expecting much more amusing than ever sooner than with some acquainted (and fiendish) faces unexpected visitors alongside the paths. It’s unclear what, precisely, Walt Disney Global has deliberate. Our expectation is that the villainous deal with trails will make bigger for 2025 to make this the marketable new addition. It almost certainly nonetheless gained’t dangle a candle to what’s introduced at Oogie Boogie Bash, the place the immersive deal with trails are the spotlight of the development, however having 3-4 villainous deal with trails could be an enormous win.
Degree Presentations/Leisure: Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration – Let’s proceed the craze of bouncing from one excessive to some other, with one who Magic Kingdom wins handily. Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular is among the very best productions by means of Disney Are living Leisure any place ever.
Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular is an all-time vintage, worthy of a spotlight reel of the highest degree displays at Tokyo Disney Hotel, Disneyland Paris, and so on. And don’t hate me, however I say this as anyone who thinks the film itself handiest has a cult following on account of severe youth nostalgia. I attempt to catch Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular no less than two times according to MNSSHP, and would pay the cost of admission only for this. It’s severely that just right.
This isn’t the one leisure at Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration, both. There’s additionally a number of dance events in case you’re into that form of factor, plus the Cadaver Dans Barbershop Quartet and Rusty Cutlass Pirate Band in Adventureland. I’m handiest into the latter, however nonetheless, one thing for everybody. Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration may be the one match to characteristic the hijinks and hilarity of the Nation Bears–want I even say extra?!
Oogie Boogie Bash used to have Mickey’s Trick and Deal with degree display, however that has since moved to sunlight hours at Disney California Journey. The development nonetheless has Villains Grove, which is an overlay of Redwood Creek Problem Path. So now not truly a degree display in any respect, and even conventional leisure, for that topic.
That is walk-through global of Disney villains, reworked with lighting fixtures, projections, sounds, and particular results to create a haunting, dreamlike (or nightmare-like?) setting. It’s very impressionistic and atmospheric–a Disneyfied twist on Halloween mazes discovered in different places. It’s a neat novelty and amusing for pictures, however attracts shockingly lengthy traces for what it’s, and isn’t that just right.
I wouldn’t be stunned to look Disneyland upload a brand new degree display or leisure component for the 2025 Oogie Boogie Bash. The development wishes a shot within the arm, and that is something it’s lacking.
Environment: Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration – Just by distinctive feature of being within the citadel park as a substitute of the second one gate, Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration wins this. There’s simply one thing about seeing Primary Side road reworked for Halloween, with an additional layer of lighting fixtures and track on best of the pumpkins and day-to-day decor. The similar used to be true for the California match when it used to be held at Disneyland.
Past that, the opposite lands have a greater vibe all through MNSSHP. There’s track, projections, and lighting fixtures results all over the park, and the ones open-concept lands merely ‘paintings’ higher than San Fransokyo or Avengers Campus celebrating Halloween. Vehicles Land and Buena Vista Side road are the most important exceptions, however they rejoice Haul-O-Ween and BatFest (I don’t know what it’s if truth be told referred to as) each day all over September and October.
Crowds: Oogie Boogie Bash – It’s exceeding tricky for the typical attendee of both of those events to do the whole lot in one night time. Chances are high that, you gained’t be capable of meet each unmarried personality, see the parade, degree displays, and different leisure–by no means thoughts doing rides along with the party-specific stuff. However which is extra difficult? The place are crowds worse?
There’s a model of this the place the solution is “it relies.” Any person in the market may have very particular priorities that make Oogie Boogie Bash the more serious of the 2 occasions for crowds. As with ghosts and leprechauns, I additionally consider in unicorns. However the ones individuals are the absolute outliers. For the majority of attendees, Oogie Boogie Bash goes to be the fewer crowded and laid again revel in.
On moderate, traces for characters are shorter, the Deal with Trails make up-close encounters with villains a breeze, it’s more straightforward to look the parade, trip wait instances are minimum, and there aren’t any spaces of the park that experience any place close to the extent of congestion as Primary Side road at Magic Kingdom between the primary and ultimate parade. Disneyland is solely normally decrease tension and decrease stakes, and that extends to Oogie Boogie Bash. (Smartly, with the exception of for scoring tickets within the first position!)
Larger Image: Disneyland – There’s no actual comparability. Right here’s a partial record of the Halloween choices at Disneyland:
- Halloween Screams Fireworks
- Haunted Mansion Vacation
- Vehicles Land Haul-O-Ween
- Guardians of the Galaxy – Monsters After Darkish
- Plaza de los angeles Familia/Musical Birthday celebration of Coco
You’ll additionally meet Mickey & Pals in spooky personality costumes on each Primary Side road at Disneyland and Buena Vista Side road at Disney California Journey, whilst Jack Skellington and Sally seem in New Orleans Sq. with a line that’s in most cases a lot shorter than MNSSHP. All of the ones characters seem each day–the whole lot above is integrated with common admission at Disneyland Hotel.
In contrast, Walt Disney Global gives the Primary Side road Pumpkin Pageant (additionally at Disneyland) and…uh…does the EPCOT Meals & Wine Pageant rely? (There wasn’t a unmarried pumpkin merchandise on the ones menus the ultimate two years.)
There also are some paid choices, like Minnie’s Halloween Dine at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and I suppose there are pumpkins at Disney Springs, however out of doors of Primary Side road in Magic Kingdom, you want to simply cross a whole travel in September or October with out figuring out that Walt Disney Global is “celebrating” Halloween.
Now not so at Disneyland. If you need a festive fall getaway with a large emphasis on spook season, Disneyland is the arms down winner. See our Final Information to Halloween at Disneyland for a complete record of the whole lot the parks, lodge motels, and Downtown Disney be offering.
In the long run, our ‘verdict’ could be that Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration is the awesome match for first-timers or Disney fanatics who get to the parks on an rare foundation. In isolation, MNSSHP gives greater than OBB on a pound for pound foundation due to the fireworks, degree display, atmospheric leisure, and larger & higher parade. Despite the fact that the nature element is miles higher at Oogie Boogie Bash, that’s merely now not sufficient to bridge the distance until you’re a typical attendee, truly into villains, or your night will revolve round characters.
On the other hand, we mentioned on the best that this used to be now not only for amusing, but in addition for making plans functions. Realistically, only a few individuals are going to be deciding between Walt Disney Global and Disneyland for a Halloween 2025 travel only at the foundation of the exhausting price ticket occasions. If you zoom out, it’s tricky to look how Walt Disney Global wins.
For something, probably the most stuff “lacking” from Oogie Boogie Bash is integrated with admission subsequent door at Disneyland. And talking of leisure integrated with admission, there’s the Disneyland seventieth Anniversary, because of this quite a few particular limited-time celebratory choices like Paint the Evening parade and Global of Colour: Happiness. In equity, Walt Disney Global can have Starlight Evening Parade in Fall 2025, however that one providing can not compete with the mountain of leisure to be had within the California parks.
Talking of California, Disneyland additionally doesn’t have Florida climate–that’s lovely related all through past due August by way of October. Even if unspoken, I’d be keen to guess numerous our Florida pals factored the loss of triple-digit climate and hurricane season into their value determinations of Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration vs. Oogie Boogie Bash – A Disney Halloween Birthday celebration. You realize what? They’re proper!
And truly, on the finish of the day, most of the people are going to have a great time irrespective of whether or not they cross to Disneyland Hotel or Walt Disney Global, as long as they correctly get ready for the travel. On that be aware, see our Information to Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration at Magic Kingdom or our Information to Oogie Boogie Bash Halloween Birthday celebration at Disney California Journey. For the larger image, remember to learn our Walt Disney Global Travel Making plans Information and Disneyland Travel Making plans Information.
YOUR THOUGHTS
Have you ever attended Mickey’s Now not So Frightening Halloween Birthday celebration or Oogie Boogie Bash? Which did you suppose had the simpler setting, characters, parade, leisure, and so on? Would you quite do Disneyland or Walt Disney Global all through the Halloween season? Do you disagree with any of our recommendation and exams? Any questions? Listening to your comments–even whilst you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please proportion your ideas underneath within the feedback!
