Now not that it’s a contest, however the 2026 Mickey’s Now not So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration at Walt Disney Global began gross sales quicker than did Oogie Boogie Bash at Disneyland. That’s the first time this has ever took place. In reality, the Disney California Journey particular tournament has been one of the most hardest tickets to attain for the previous a number of years.
Disneyland began Oogie Boogie presales again on Tuesday, beginning first with best tier Encourage Key Annual Passholders, adopted via all different Magic Keymasters on Wednesday. These days marked the beginning of normal public gross sales, which is in most cases additionally the day that many, if now not maximum, dates of the Halloween Birthday celebration promote out.
To the marvel of nobody, Oogie Boogie Bash presales didn’t get started as anticipated on Tuesday. As an alternative of the ready room opening at 8:45 am as marketed, price tag gross sales began in a while prior to then. A number of dates confirmed as offered out virtually right away. Panic ensued, and it gave the impression that ole Oogie used to be again to his same old methods with stratospheric birthday party price tag call for.
In spite of everything, it used to be all a mistake and the whole lot has been clean crusing since. We bought our tickets in a question of mins on Tuesday, and didn’t even hassle with more than one browsers, notification, and so on. Sure dates did promote out all through each days of presales, specifically make a selection weekends in September and October.
Typically talking, 2026 Oogie Boogie Bash presales didn’t promote out to almost the similar extent as earlier years. Prior to now, it’s been not unusual for plenty of (if now not all) dates to promote out all through the phased presale. I don’t stay tremendous shut information since pre-sales aren’t as significant as normal public gross sales (since Disney can allocate as a lot or as little stock to presales), however there have been more than one years we discovered part of all dates offered out by the point it used to be our flip to buy tickets. No less than at the floor, it could seem that OBB pre-sales offered significantly slower than final yr, let on my own the height years of 2022-2024.
What was once a multi-hour digital queue when price tag gross sales began used to be lowered to mere mins, and there’s no digital queue by any means as of two:30 pm Pacific on June 18, 2026. Only some years in the past, Disneyland fanatics who joined the ready room at 8:45 am may nonetheless be ready to buy tickets!
Up to now, the one date that has offered out is October 31, 2026. That’s to be anticipated, because it at all times is without doubt one of the first nights to promote out. (“A few of the first” versus one thing extra declarative as a result of there were years when OBB has offered out so rapid that it’s been virtually inconceivable to establish the collection of offered out dates.)
The fascinating wrinkle this is that the October 31, 2026 birthday party didn’t promote out till round 11 am, at which level the digital queue used to be already instant. That means that anybody who sought after tickets for All Hallow’s Eve and used to be on-line this morning may’ve gotten them. That isn’t standard.
The October 31, 2026 date of Mickey’s Now not So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration offered out someday between 8:30 am and 9 am Japanese on Would possibly 12, 2026. That also is now not (traditionally) standard, nevertheless it’s turning into the ‘new standard.’ Because of this, for the primary time ever, MNSSHP has outpaced OBB on price tag gross sales.
It is going to additionally most certainly be the final time. Or a minimum of the final time for this yr. After we final noticed the digital queue for Oogie Boogie Bash, there used to be a bulletin that price tag stock used to be low for October 11, 2026. That shall be the following date to promote out, and it’ll most certainly happen someday these days.
This is sensible, as that’s Columbus Day weekend, which sees an inflow of tourists from Northern California, Utah, Nevada and past to Disneyland. After that, it’s most likely that September 6 and 20, in addition to October 4, 18, and 25 might be subsequent to promote out in line with the Magic Key presale cadence. We wouldn’t be shocked to peer all of the ones dates long gone via this weekend.
At the present, MNSSHP has now not offered out some other dates and most certainly received’t for the following month. Final yr, the following MNSSHP date to promote out used to be August nineteenth, which offered out on July thirteenth. Opening night time used to be subsequent to promote out, which came about on August 1st. Many extra dates offered out between then and mid-September.
In contrast, it wouldn’t be in the least unexpected if part of the Oogie Boogie Bash season is offered out via July thirteenth, and that’s regardless of MNSSHP having a large headstart on price tag gross sales.
That is rather the alternate from simply final yr for Oogie Boogie Bash price tag gross sales. On the first actual day of normal public gross sales, June 26, 2025, a number of high-priority dates vanished virtually immediately. To the marvel of nobody, Halloween night time (Friday, October 31) offered out virtually immediately. I by no means even noticed it by the point I were given during the digital queue, which used to be longer than 2026 however nonetheless now not as unhealthy as the height of 2022 to 2024. Becoming a member of it on day one have been Sunday, October 12, and Tuesday, September 16.
Different dates to promote out briefly incorporated opening night time (Sunday, August 17), which is at all times some other fashionable pick out with the bloggers/vloggers/influencers/gotta be first crowd. Different dates to replenish rapid have been Sunday, August 31 (Hard work Day weekend), September 9, October 2, October 5, and October 19.
The rest dates didn’t promote out as briefly final yr, particularly August. The final two nights didn’t promote out till after opening night time, turning into unavailable on both August 18th or nineteenth. On the time, we attributed this softer call for for August dates partially to standard other people now not in need of to have a good time spook season so early and the Radiator Springs Racers refurbishment that took the number one DCA appeal offline all through the earliest occasions.
There’s additionally the truth that Disneyland has added many extra OBB tournament dates to the calendar, so it’s additionally imaginable that call for is kind of unchanged whilst provide has greater. All instructed, the 2026 Oogie Boogie Bash might be hung on a file 33 nights, which is two extra dates than final yr.
For the ones holding ranking at house, 2025 used to be additionally a file. In 2024, Oogie Boogie Bash used to be held 27 occasions, which used to be additionally a file on the time. Equivalent tale the yr prior to that. Disney helps to keep increasing the development to fulfill call for. The primary Oogie Boogie Bash used to be again in 2019, and it began on September seventeenth and ran 20 nights. The 2026 Oogie Boogie Bash begins a complete month previous and provides 13 nights.
Nonetheless, this doesn’t give an explanation for the faster-flowing digital queue. As contrasted with earlier years, there used to be by no means a “greater than an hour” wait. It used to be only some mins after it first opened and “not up to a minute” now not lengthy after that. That is rather the alternate from the peak of Oogie Boogie’s recognition, and issues to lowered call for.
This explosion in tournament dates has took place for excellent explanation why, and has indubitably helped sluggish gross sales. The worst yr for making an attempt to buy Oogie Boogie Bash tickets used to be 2023. There used to be a multi-hour digital queue all through Magic Key presales, with all tickets all through that unique window promoting out prior to everybody in line had an opportunity to shop for.
The next week all through most of the people gross sales false get started, there used to be additionally a multi-hour digital queue–only a few other people have been ready to finish transactions prior to the queue closed because of technical difficulties. Two weeks later, there used to be as soon as once more a digital queue for the second one try at normal public gross sales.
Each and every unmarried night time of Oogie Boogie Bash offered out on that day, and prior to everybody had an opportunity to shop for. We all know somebody who used to be in all 3 of the ones digital queues, losing 12+ hours within the procedure, and used to be nonetheless close out of tickets utterly. That’s vastly unhealthy good fortune, nevertheless it did occur!
To their credit score, Disneyland has been making an attempt to steer clear of a repeat of that state of affairs since then. In consequence, final yr offered slower than 2024, which offered out slower than 2022-2023.
Even prior to price tag gross sales began, it used to be affordable to be expecting this pattern to proceed in 2026, and with out regard for meant staleness or the rest. Tickets promoting out slower is nearly indubitably a function for Disney!
Accordingly, it could be disingenuous to border this tale as one completely about lowered call for for Oogie Boogie Bash. Even supposing we’ve undoubtedly noticed much less buzz in regards to the birthday party in fan circles, that is as a lot or extra a tale of provide. And Disneyland has greater that to the purpose that the presales and unencumber morning don’t seem to be just about as aggressive as they as soon as have been.
In spite of everything, there’s the likelihood–if now not chance–that none of this issues. That each Oogie Boogie Bash and Mickey’s Now not So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration will as soon as once more promote out each and every unmarried date. That even concept there’s much less fan pastime because of the belief of the occasions getting stale, that’ll be sufficiently offset via (much less vocal) vacationers through the years. Finally, the whole lot is new to them; not anything is stale.
Truthfully, our hope is that tickets proceed to promote slower in 2026 and that a couple of nights don’t promote out, duration. Two dates of Oogie Boogie Bash already got here ‘dangerously’ just about that final yr. What we’ve already noticed all through presales and early normal public gross sales as contrasted with final yr suggests softening call for for Oogie Boogie Bash, so it’s a definite risk.
In all probability visitors don’t seem to be viewing “Madame Leota’s Swinging Wake – A Haunted Mansion Side road Birthday celebration” (erroneously) as an exhilarating new addition, however moderately (and appropriately) a downgrade from the Frightfully Amusing Parade. We have been nervous that the other can be true, and fanatics can be blinded via the novelty issue and Haunted Mansion affiliation, inflicting 2026 tickets to promote quicker than they did final yr. As an alternative, most likely the other might be true. That may be excellent information for fanatics!
There hasn’t ever been a unmarried Oogie Boogie Bash date that didn’t promote out, nevertheless it seems we’re nearer to ~2019 standard when it comes to price tag gross sales. Again then, it took till mid-September for the development to promote out (the development additionally began in mid-September versus mid-August).
It’s our hope that the slower gross sales pattern is actual, and incentivizes Disneyland to handle the Oogie Boogie Bash staleness factor in 2027 (or in all probability last-minute prior to 2026, if there’s nonetheless time). We had was hoping that Disneyland would make bigger and enhance Oogie Boogie Bash in next years after it introduced, particularly given the native fanbase. Sadly, that hasn’t even remotely been the case.
As an alternative, the development has in truth worsened because it debuted in 2019, with 2026 poised to be the weakest yr but when it comes to substantive choices (barring main unannounced surprises). We coated this all at duration in Why You Will have to Skip the Oogie Boogie Bash Disney Halloween Birthday celebration, which makes the case towards attending the development. Even supposing that’s most commonly geared toward locals and repeat guests, one of the vital issues practice to first-timers, too.
In the event you’re fascinated by attending this yr’s tournament however are questioning whether or not it’s well worth the cash, what each and every piece of leisure is like, or the rest, take a look at our Oogie Boogie Bash Halloween Birthday celebration Information.
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