Meet & greets are a well-liked factor to do all through the 2024 Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration. This persona information for MNSSHP covers the place to search out each and every spot, reasonable wait occasions, priorities & technique, and when to do high-demand M&Gs. Technique is vital, as a result of persona M&Gs will also be very time-consuming, with lengthy traces losing hours of the development. (Up to date August 6, 2024.)
The very first thing you want to grasp is that it’s vital to plot forward. That’s all the time the case with Walt Disney International, but it surely’s specifically vital for characters at Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration. In the event you merely arrive at 7 pm when the development formally begins, clutch a get together map, and head to a meet & greet, you’re going to be at a definite drawback.
It’s because Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration in reality begins prior to 7 pm, a number of characters meet previous to then, maximum traces shape prior to then, and the get together map doesn’t even listing which characters seem the place. That’s the unhealthy information…for the common attendee of Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration. That’s just right information for everybody who reads this, as you’ll have a couple of hours headstart, all through which the principle factor to do is meet characters at MNSSHP…
Ahead of we get began, there’s extra “unhealthy” information. You can not most likely meet each and every unmarried persona at Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration in one evening. You’re going to need to make tough choices when it comes meet & greets, since you merely can not do all of them. There are air quotes round unhealthy above as a result of this can be a reasonably just right drawback to have–in part brought about through there being such a lot of characters.
However it’s additionally in part brought about through lengthy traces at a number of of the uncommon characters, which makes the time dedication too lengthy to satisfy all of them. So it’s reasonably of a blended bag. Finally, we propose skipping any characters that it’s worthwhile to meet all through a standard day in Magic Kingdom, or at probably the most different Walt Disney International theme parks. Talking of which, for the entirety you want to find out about this match–past characters–see our Final Information to the 2024 Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration!
August 6, 2024 Replace: Walt Disney International has shared a primary take a look at the brand new characters and costumes that’ll be showing at Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration when it kicks off later this week.
Mickey & Minnie are debuting all-new costumes this 12 months, that includes a neon spider internet design. Whilst those costumes were redesigned and glance rather just right, they observe a well-known components and don’t truly reinvent the wheel. As such, we wouldn’t be expecting particularly longer traces after the primary couple of events.
Extra importantly, the places for Mickey & Minnie don’t trade. This stuck us through wonder, as we anticipated Mickey and Minnie Mouse to after all meet in combination once more. They’ll no longer. Mickey will greet visitors at The town Sq. Theater and Minnie continues to seem in Storybook Circus.
The even larger addition to the 2024 Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration is that visitors may even be capable of meet Bruno along Mirabel within the Myth Lawn. That is the primary time each Encanto characters will probably be doing a meet & greet in combination at Walt Disney International.
Oogie Boogie Bash has had Bruno for the previous few years, and he’s a surprisingly just right face persona for meet & greets. We’re no longer the most important fanatics of Encanto, however truly have loved assembly him on the match–he’s a amusing persona with a sly character who’s nice for a laugh interactions.
Since Encanto stays standard and that is in reality a new-for-2024 addition to MNSSHP, we’re anticipating this to be probably the most absolute best call for meet & greets with reasonable wait occasions round 60 mins. Because of logistical difficulties, we don’t look ahead to this being probably the most meet & greets that begins prior to Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration formally starts. Then again, the ones are simply trained guesses at this level–and might be fallacious. We’ll replace accordingly as soon as events get started and extra is understood about optimum methods, and so on.
Talking of technique, let’s communicate you throughout the evening. You wish to have to you should definitely’re in Magic Kingdom together with your dress as with reference to 4 p.m. as conceivable. That’s the earliest you’re allowed to go into Magic Kingdom for the pre-party “mix-in” together with your match price ticket, and the road to go into the park generally bureaucracy round 3 p.m. (We suggest arriving no later than 3:30 p.m.)
In the event you’re already in Magic Kingdom previous to this, we extremely suggest going to probably the most wristband stations within the park moderately than exiting and re-entering. No longer most effective will the road be shorter, however this offers you a definite merit if you happen to’re planning to do the most well liked meet & greet on the very entrance of the park on Major Side road.
Talking of which, right here’s an inventory of all of the persona places for the reason that Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration map equipped through Disney doesn’t listing them…
Major Side road USA
- Sally & Jack Skellington – The town Sq. Theater (Tinker Bell Line)
- Mickey Mouse – The town Sq. Theater
Fantasyland
- Ariel and Prince Eric – Prince Eric’s Village Marketplace
- Belle – Close to Enchanted Stories with Belle
- Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore – The Thotful Spot close to the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Alice & Mad Hatter – Mad Tea Birthday celebration
- Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum – Mad Tea Birthday celebration
- Queen of Hearts – Mad Tea Birthday celebration
- Drizella and Anastasia – Fantasyland (Roaming)
- Mirabel & Bruno – Fairytale Lawn (NEW)
Storybook Circus
- Seven Dwarfs – Pete’s Foolish Sideshow
- Witch Minnie, Princess Daisy & Pumpkin Donald – Dumbo
- Pirate Goofy – Barnstormer
Adventureland
- Abu and Aladdin – Agrabah
- Genie and Jasmine – Agrabah
- Jafar – Close to Magic Carpets of Aladdin
- Captain Jack Sparrow – Close to Pirates of the Caribbean
- Max Goof as Powerline – Throughout from Pirates of the Caribbean (Pop-Up Dance Birthday celebration)
Frontierland
- Nation Bears – Walkway Close to Nation Undergo Jamboree (Roaming)
Tomorrowland
- Elvis Sew – Sew’s Nice Get away (Close to Front to Tomorrowland)
- Timon – Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe (Dance Birthday celebration)
- Vamprinia – Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe (Dance Birthday celebration)
- Document McStuffins – Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe (Dance Birthday celebration)
- Fancy Nancy – Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe (Dance Birthday celebration)
- Max Goof as Powerline – Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe (Pop-Up Dance Birthday celebration)
Longest Traces for Characters
- Jack Skellington and Sally – 90 Mins to three Hours
- Seven Dwarfs – 90 Mins to two Hours
- Elvis Sew – 45 t0 90 Mins
- Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore – 45 to 60 Mins
- Mirabel & Bruno – 45 to 90 Mins (Predicted)
- Witch Minnie, Princess Daisy & Pumpkin Donald – 45 to 60 Mins
- Mickey Mouse – 10 to 60 Mins
We can not tension sufficient the stage to which the above are estimates. Even those with large levels. As an example, we’ve waited not up to 10 mins for Jack Skellington and Sally, in addition to the Seven Dwarfs on Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration nights previously. That’s an excessive instance, as the ones had been dates that had been impacted through extremely wet nights and/or storm scares…however that’s changing into an increasingly more commonplace phenomenon, so don’t rely it out.
On different events, we’ve waited much less time than the levels above because of atypical timing. Both we jumped in line at simply the appropriate time firstly of the evening, or on the finish of the evening. However it’s no longer all just right information. We’ve additionally have shyed away from traces that had been in reality longer than 2-3 hours at the excessive finish, with staffing shortages, specifically scorching climate, or colossal crowds skewing the wait occasions for standard meet & greets above the aforementioned averages.
Characters That Meet Early
- Jack Skellington and Sally – Roughly 4:30 p.m.
- Seven Dwarfs – Roughly 6:20 p.m.
- Elvis Sew – Roughly 6:30 p.m.
- Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore – Roughly 6:30 p.m.
Once more, those are approximations. Since they’re unofficial and unpublished, they’re additionally matter to switch. In fact, it’s no longer simply those characters who’re matter to switch. Each and every different persona is meant to return out at 7 p.m., however that doesn’t all the time occur.
One among our go-to meet & greets is Witch Minnie, Princess Daisy & Pumpkin Donald, and there were occasions after they’ve pop out at 6:45 p.m, and different events after they haven’t proven up till nearly 7:15 p.m.
Clearly, we don’t attend each and every unmarried Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration. That might briefly get ridiculously dear! Then again, we’ve been doing this once a year since 2007, and attended over a dozen events in 2019 on my own. From that, we’ve realized a ton…however there’s nonetheless a large number of inconsistency and variability.
Simply one thing of which you will have to bear in mind as you propose the characters you need to satisfy–and the entirety else you’ll do all through MNSSHP. You might be able to accomplish a long way much less–or a lot more–than is indexed in our 1-Night time Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration Plan! With that during thoughts, right here’s our optimum technique to characters all through the development…
What’s This? What’s This? There’s Other people All over the place! – Jack Skellington and Sally meet in The town Sq. Theater beginning round 4:30 p.m., which is why it’s extremely wonderful to get your get together wristband early and “beat” the get together mix-in visitors arriving by the use of the entrance front. If you’ll be able to be within the foyer of The town Sq. Theater proper when the road opens at 4:00 p.m., you may be out of right here through 5:30 p.m. or previous.
In the event you don’t get into Magic Kingdom till 4:15 p.m. and line up then, it’s conceivable you received’t be out of line till round 7 p.m. if you happen to get unfortunate. Severely, quarter-hour will also be that a lot of a distinction.
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho It’s Off to Storybook Circus We Cross – In the event you’re too sluggish for Jack Skellington and Sally, you’re truly truly speedy and are out of there early, otherwise you merely don’t care about Nightmare Ahead of Christmas characters, the Seven Dwarfs are a just right selection first select.
Those characters meet in Pete’s Foolish Sideshow, which is within the private nook of Magic Kingdom. On account of that–and the meet & greet no longer beginning rather as early–the road generally doesn’t shape as speedy. (If it’s a scorching day, the road could also be slower to shape since the wait begins open air within the solar.) You’ll be able to arrive right here round 5 p.m. and nonetheless be fantastic–most likely even 5:30 p.m.
The only factor you completely don’t need to do is line up for Jack Skellington and Sally or the Seven Dwarfs between 6 pm and seven pm. That’s when the traces will probably be at their longest, and also you’ll finally end up ready in line for more than one hours of get together time.
Pooh’s Posse – In the event you get started with the Storybook Circus characters, it’s simple to then soar over to the Pooh line through the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in Fantasyland. This could also be one of the crucial standard meet & greets at Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration.
All 4 meet in combination, and so they most effective take one photograph in keeping with visitor. It felt much less like a meet & greet and extra like a “photograph meeting line.” At the plus facet, the wait wasn’t just about so long as it’s been previously.
Donald & Daisy and Minnie – Additionally again in Storybook Circus, you’ll in finding Donald & Daisy, and Minnie Mouse dressed in particular Halloween costumes for Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration within the Dumbo queue. That is any other just right choice after you end up with the Seven Dwarfs.
You’ll be able to additionally in finding Pirate Goofy again right here through the Barnstormer. As Goofy meets through himself, he has a tendency to have a considerably shorter wait than the opposite characters in the course of Storybook Circus.
Word that that is generally an both/or scenario. You can not generally meet Pooh’s Posse *and* Donald & Daisy, Minnie, and Pirate Goofy. Make a selection probably the most two units of the 4, and both save the opposite for the tip of the evening, or skip them fully.
Skip the Traces! – In the event you observe the above technique, it’s more than likely going to be someday between 7:30 p.m. and eight p.m. while you’re after all completed. That is the purpose within the get together when the nature meet & greet traces are longest. So, until you’re a hardcore hunter of characters, it’s time to do one thing else. (Or you’ll be able to persist with characters, however you chance burnout.)
One choice is to as an alternative hit up the dance events and spaces of Frontierland and Fantasyland that experience free-roaming characters to “skip” the traces and nonetheless get your persona repair. In the event you do see free-roaming characters, cross engage with them! They generally don’t get very lengthy waits regardless of while you cross and they’re, and will also be heaps of amusing.
As for dance events, there’s Max Goof’s Powerline “Stand Out” Pop-Up Birthday celebration that occurs in Tomorrowland and Adventureland, the Disney Junior Jam in Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe in Tomorrowland, and the Zom-Beatz Bash at the Rockettower Plaza Degree in Tomorrowland.
Submit-Fireworks – We don’t suggest any person skip Mickey’s Boo-to-You Halloween Parade or Disney’s No longer-So-Spooky Impressive Fireworks. In the event you watch each, that’s going to occupy you from round 8:45 p.m. (assuming you don’t wait till the closing minute for a parade spot) till 10:45 p.m. After that, you’ll be able to resume persona searching.
One just right choice this is creating a beeline to The town Sq. Theater after the fireworks. In the event you watch from the tip of Major Side road close to the Educate Station and are speedy, you’ll be able to most likely catch the road for Jack Skellington and Sally when it’s shortest. This could also be a great time for Mickey Mouse if you happen to’ve already knocked out many of the extra standard characters.
Now could also be a great time for the Aladdin characters and Captain Jack Sparrow in Adventureland or the royalty in Fantasyland.
Remaining Name for Uncommon Characters – In contrast to points of interest, you can’t line up for characters till 11:59 pm. Maximum traces for uncommon characters get reduce round 11 p.m., but it surely truly varies according to crowds and insist (Disney’s purpose is to have the closing visitors out of line as with reference to nighttime as conceivable–however that frequently runs over).
Accordingly, you truly need to be in line for any of the ‘longest traces’ listing through 11 p.m. There were occasions once we’ve had good fortune leaping into line as past due as 11:15 p.m.; on different events, we had been denied in a while prior to 11. We’re fanatics of doing Elvis Sew as our “closing name” persona, and in our anecdotal revel in, his line has a tendency to die down later within the night. Winnie the Pooh and his posse frequently have shorter traces–more than likely as a result of the ones characters skew more youthful.
Ahead of Middle of the night, Meet Mickey – After 11 pm is the most productive time to seek advice from Mickey Mouse. In the event you decide to observe the second one parade from Major Side road, you’ll be able to generally race right here, beat the group, and nonetheless arrive prior to his line is reduce. Without reference to while you do that, don’t do it as a part of the ‘wave’ of visitors exiting after the parades or fireworks–that’s when the road is longest. You both want to beat the ones exodus crowds, or steer clear of them fully.
Ultimate Countdown – The closing efficiency of Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular begins in the dead of night, which will provide you with a “bonus” 20 mins on the finish of the development. This can be a great strategy to prolong Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration, however even this ultimate appearing is crowded. Clearly, this isn’t a personality meet & greet–only a piece of recommendation we’re including since you’ll more than likely be executed with characters through nighttime and there’s a great opportunity you didn’t see this previous if you happen to had been competitive with the nature searching. Revel in this fulfilling finish in your night!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Have you ever attended Mickey’s No longer So Horrifying Halloween Birthday celebration? Which persona meet & greets are your most sensible priorities? Did you meet Jack Skellington & Sally or the Seven Dwarfs…or had been the ones traces too lengthy for you? What about Elvis Sew, Pooh’s Posse, or different uncommon characters with extra reasonable traces? Do you disagree with anything else in our 1-night MNSSHP persona searching plan? Any questions? Listening to your comments–even while you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please percentage your ideas under within the feedback!
