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Is Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party Worth It in 2026? · The Worst: Beyond the Magic

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  SPEAKER_01: It's a Halloween party designed for children.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then explain why I'm prepared to fight a seven-year-old for a better view of the headless horseman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And don't get me started on the gravediggers.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have a very specific Disney problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the worst beyond the magic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, Pete.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh today we're talking all things Mickey, not so scary Halloween party.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: It is tis the season.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is September.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is here.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is still 90 degrees out here in the mid-Atlantic.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, uh even hotter in Florida where Mickey is, but it's Halloween time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're here to talk about the party.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been to the party.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you been to the party?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I've been a couple a few times, actually.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm very much uh a fan of the party.
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  SPEAKER_00: Same.
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  SPEAKER_00: I agree.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's what we're here to talk about.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: So just to set up the episode a little a little bit, Mickey's not so scary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Halloween party is expensive.
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  SPEAKER_00: It also can be crowded.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um there's also a lot of exclusive entertainment to that party that you wouldn't normally get at a regular park day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's also very capable of being peak Disney World.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I highly recommend it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So our main question for today or for this very today's episode is is it actually worth the extra money to attend the party?
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  SPEAKER_00: And what are you getting with that party?
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's take it from there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, uh we'll I know we'll break it down a little bit more, but um, you know, for the the grand overview, Mickey's not so scary as great.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like you have the whole park set up, and you can see the park if you go, but the whole park is set up, and then they really pull out all the stops for the party.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, we've got the special characters, we've got the special snacks, you know.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'm waiting in line for that popcorn bucket.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, they've got uh trick-or-treating, you know, it's fantastic because the adults and the kids can trick-or-treat.
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  SPEAKER_01: What are uh what are some of those specialty characters?
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  SPEAKER_01: I know we got Jack Skelton.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who else is out there?
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um there's a couple new ones this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there is Lelo and Stitch are gonna be there.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's Captain Jack Sparrow, which is brand new.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, of course, Jack and Sally, you can't forget them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um there's Minnie and Mickey, of course, in their Halloween costumes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also special guests, the Sanderson sisters, which I've Winnie the Pooh in their Bumblebee costumes and all the the friends in the Seven Acre Wood, Ariel and Eric, Aladdin and Jasmine, and then villains appearing around the park.
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  SPEAKER_01: Villains get their day.
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  SPEAKER_00: They do get their day, and they're about to get their own part of the park, which I'm super excited about.
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  SPEAKER_00: We talked a lot about that in previous episodes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, um, so who is this for?
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: Who is this for?
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: Who who is this party for?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it for Disney adults like you and I, or are we Disney adults?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not really entirely sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe some people think we are.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a little nervous about wearing that title, but I think uh I think most people would say, Yeah, we're definitely Disney adults.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but who's it for?
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: That's a really that's a really good question because this uh this is a I mean, I love it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like it's one of the things I wish we could go every year in October.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, because this is the highlight.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, we'll talk about it uh through the through the episode, but the headless horseman um is is a is a peak highlight.
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  SPEAKER_01: The the gravediggers, um they uh like um like living on the land, they have their own cult following, you know, and it's really great.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, we we we talk about um you know families, uh it's it's expensive.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, what do you think?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, if you are you recommending this to a family of six?
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  SPEAKER_01: The tickets are you know, you've got to really plan in advance, and they're not cheap.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're not cheap.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they could be anywhere around from$130 to all the way to$229 a person.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's just for an extra ticketed event that does not include a full day of park day.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about your planning for just a second.
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  SPEAKER_00: You you had mentioned just a minute ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're gonna go to Magic Kingdom during the Halloween party and you don't plan on going to the Halloween party, pay attention to which days are your party days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um you don't want to go visit the Magic Kingdom on a party day because they're gonna kick you out at 4 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so you're not getting the most amount of worth amount of money out of your ticket as you would normally.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, if you do have a park ticket, the time you want to enter the park for that party is 4 p.m.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: They will allow you in as early as 4 p.m.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um a small caveat to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: They the secret is out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember when we talked about there's no secrets left?
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: This the secret is out on that one.
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  SPEAKER_00: So everybody who can read the internet, everybody is on Instagram and TikTok and knows that they allowed you in at 4 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's my here's my two cents on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't show up at 4 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: unless you want to stand in a mob of people trying to get through a couple different checkpoints.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just show up at 4.15 or 4.30.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: The line will be moving at that time, and once the line starts moving, it moves relatively quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um just just show up at 4.30, cut it 30 minutes later, and I think you'd be good to go.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to be extra super early, uh show up at 3 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can stand in line out front, you'll be with the very first ones in for the Halloween party an hour later.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: If it's me, I'm I'm just gonna show up at 4.30 and move right along in with the line as it's moving along.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: That's just me.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you you're getting there pretty early, but you still have to deal with all of the people that bought a regular park ticket for the day that are crammed in there along the people that are coming in for the party.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_01: So you got an influx of a lot of people there, and you're not gonna be able to um go back to back on those rides or really get to anything.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if you're just in there to kind of get a lay of the land, move around, um, get over to Big Thunder Mountain for when the park is officially closed and you can take that ride three or four times in a row.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, totally.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: But there I honestly, I think you're right, Jamie.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: There's really for me, there's no rush.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um this is for, you know, there's a lot of uh there's a lot of like uh magic in this part in this uh party because you know, I would recommend it uh as a travel agent, I'd recommend it to first-time visitors.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, if you're into rides, this is really the one where you know you don't have to, there aren't any lightning lanes, there's no fast passes.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um so this is one where you can typically get on a ride if you like it, you can get back off and get up right on it again.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um the wait times are significantly lower because the um the amount of people at the parties are less than your normal day.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, if you're looking for those characters, who else?
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: Who else are we missing?
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: People who love Halloween, yeah, like myself, all those spooky people.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: I think I think you're missing people who love trick-or-treating.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: Show fans who like show fans who like trick-or-treating, and they give you the good candy.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's yeah, they give you the good candy.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: They they're handing out MMs, they're handing out uh, I mean, it's it's supplied by Mars companies.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever candies that Mars makes is is the candy that you're getting.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the best out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick tip on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you do enter the park, uh you head right as you come down uh Main Street USA and they take you around the back end of Main Street USA to let all the people leaving the for the park head out for the main entrance.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna make a quick right around that first turnabout and uh go along the back side of Main Street USA behind the confectionery.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'll hand out trick-or-treating bags then.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, say please and thank you.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: Take your trick-or-treating bag.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, however, pack, remember you when you and I were kids, what did we use for trick-or-treating?
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: What did you use?
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: Dang pillowcase.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bring it with.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: Bring it with so bring one that you don't care about, bring one that you you paid$2 for on Amazon, whatever, and bring that pillowcase.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: You are gonna clean house when it comes to candy.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, use the one that Disney has given you, but take take an extra bag as well because that little tiny bag that they hand out, although it's cute and gotta has characters on it, it's gonna fill up quickly.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: And they are handing out gobs of candy, like fistfuls of candy, at at these different stops.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: If we're looking for the worst thing about, I think the crowds in the beginning of this party um really feels like the worst.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: So if you give up too soon, um, when everybody's coming in and everybody's trying to get um rate-centered and find those first trick-or-trick trick-or-treat spots, if you're trying to do everything all at once, um, in the beginning, you're you're gonna have a bad time, you're gonna get uh disenchanted, you're gonna leave, and then you're gonna miss the best part.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: You guys can kind of like relax, maybe hit a trick-or-treat spot, um, maybe get to a ride, but then once the the main crowd from the earlier in the day goes and people spread out, it tends to be a much better, much better experience.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I think you just you just hit the nail on the head, you said the key word there is spread out.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: Spread out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you first enter the park, like you said, people are super concentrated in towards the uh towards the front of the park, towards the front of the castle, and uh they're taking it all in and they're hitting those those tree trails right then there.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: If you spread out, um you can hit those tree trails on the app.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: The app surprisingly does a really good job trying to show you exactly where you are in relation to those tree trails.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and again, the cast members are not stingy.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like they're they're handing out fistfuls of candy, uh, and so there's gonna be plenty to go around.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: Trust me on that.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: You'll be eating candy for for months on end, trying to finish up all Halloween candy from this one.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: But what else can we get at the Halloween party?
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: Is there any specialty type of food that you can mention?
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um the food, I don't remember the food.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: I know there's always um the candy apples, but really for me it's the popcorn buckets, um, you know, the merch.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I really get a kick out of that.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: I know there's a cake.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: I honestly I can't remember any of the food.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um, have you gotten some?
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: We've talked about snacks in the past, and I think they kind of take um some some frosting and kind of do up the kind of uh treats that they have normally and they make them coffin-shaped.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah nothing, nothing there's nothing like Halloween, like spending eleven dollars on a coffin-shaped something.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's uh that's how they're that's how they're gonna get you on that.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um I think the candy is where it's at.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't waste my mind, uh time, or money on the extra little specialty snacks that they have there.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I think I think I think what you're going after is definitely the candy that they're handing out.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's a little air.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it is.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: How about the entertainment on this one?
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: The reason you buy into the party.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: Talk to me about that.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, this is great.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: So, I mean, we're gonna get into the parade.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: The parade is is uh what's a better word?
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_01: Magnificent.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: It really is.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: Between the headless horseman, like we talked about, all the characters, the villain characters.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we're gonna go we'll go in and in and out of that a lot for this one because I think the parade, the parade is the premiere.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: I don't see any other parades any other time we're at Disney, but the booty you parade is just phenomenal.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: They've really knocked it out of the park.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: When we've been, we've had a really good time.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: We've done the parades, we've gone out, we've gone trick-or-treating, we've done the thing, but they also have um dance parties with the characters.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: So if you want to uh dance with Sully, um, he comes out and dances.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: I've got a picture of Mia just completely hopped up on sugar and spent from the day really doing it, cutting it up with Sully.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's really, it's a it's a great experience.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so throughout the whole park, those those experiences with the decorations and the entertainment, like it's just one thing after the other.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_01: That's why the food is like, I don't even remember the food because we're just doing so much.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's really, it's really worth it.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: I have a you have a fond memory of me.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: I have a fond memory of of Evelyn when she was two.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: We had not yet given her any type of sugar or any type of candy up until that point for the first time we went to that party when she was two years old.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: She was dressed as Tinkerbell.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to tell you that Tink hopped and fluttered her little wings as far as fast as she could through that park because she has hopped up on Hellman Candy for the very first time.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's a memory that you'll you'll you'll soon forget.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: And we walked right through one of the dance parties that was going on.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: I think Max was there from a goofy movie, which of course is a favorite of mine.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and he was doing doing the dance and it was eye to eye playing, and it was there was strobe lights and like Halloween smoke.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was really cool.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: But I'll never I'll never forget little tiny tinkerbell two years old, just living her best life, you know, double fisting candy bars for the first time in her life.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's it's a great memory uh that I have.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: We mentioned a little bit earlier, you said about stage shows and dance parties.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: At the Rocket Tower Plaza stage in Tomorrowland, um, there is the Stitch Lilo and Angel Masquerade that's gonna go on.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's before that's um when Evelyn was two, that's where they had that uh dance party with Max that was going on.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: I think it changes year to year.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I think we saw it, we've seen it with um the monsters folks uh a couple times.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's it it changes every year.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: So right now, it's for this year, 2026 time of recording, Stitch and Lilo and and uh it's an angel masquerade that's going on.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Is this something if I mean your daughter is in college now and my youngest is five, is this something that we would typically spend time and stopping and doing?
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: Or are we enjoying five minutes of it and continue on to the next true trail?
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: No, I mean, you know, you it for everything it's it's the vibe, right?
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll go and we'll we'll check it out.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: If we're uh if we're not feeling it, um, you know, we'll we'll kind of move on.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: But like most of the time we do, like, you know, every every age, you know, it's fun to dance and jump around for a few minutes and and and feel it.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, nowadays she's not as hopped up on sugar and exhausted from like the day, and her little feet keep trying to keep up all day.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: So now it's it's it's more chill and she gets more fun with it.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, we'll get something for the gram.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, you know, for the I think it's still always worth stopping and worth experiencing that um a dance party is good for all ages.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: And who doesn't like hanging out with the characters?
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna jump around this script.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: I get so excited about the Halloween party.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like thinking of characters, there's two points I want to make up, and I I'll, you know, I know it's further on in our little uh guideline for the day, but one is one of the best parts about this whole party is you know, roaming around and like interacting with the characters.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: So we used to interact with Sully, I just think that was the greatest, but you you often run into Jack Sparrow, um, and he's you know being Jack Sparrow doing his thing, walking around the park.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um who else?
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: We we we always look for, I don't think we've ever found him, but um Jack Skelton, we've we've always looked for him.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: Then the other part of that thing, too, to jump around even further, just to confuse this process.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, every time the the costumes, you forget about the costumes.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like we used to dress up, we would wear similar things.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: She and I both were Ninja Turtles one year, we were superheroes another year, um, we were um Guardians of the Galaxy, she was Gomorra.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, she was all painted green.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: So it's fun.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: One of the best parts, uh, and I see the videos of this all the time.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: If you are dressed like one of the characters in the movie that the character is or the story that the character's in, they will usually give you like a little look or a high five or come over and visit you.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: I remember Alice came over when she was dressed like Alice and gave her a big hug.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it was amazing.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: That is that's my tangent.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for listening.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: You're welcome.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: That was Pete's Ted Talk.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh one new one quick uh piece of advice about Jack Skellington.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: I've been fortunate enough to meet Jack Skellington, and this piece of advice goes for both the Halloween party and the Christmas party.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: You can both you can see Jack and Sally at both parties, okay?
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's right.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, obviously for the Halloween party, they are dressed as themselves, right?
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: And the set piece that they're within is very Halloween-ish.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh at Christmas time, they have um Jack has on a Santa hat, um, and and and the scene is set to Christmas, right?
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: But for specifically for the Halloween party, and here's the piece of advice.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: If you set up, if you walk into Main Street underneath the railroad, first thing you come to is the first roundabout, right, where the flagpole is.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Follow me so far.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: If you make a right-hand turn and go around towards uh the um the town hall, right, Jack and Sailing meet, if you continue to round that corner and post up at the corner of Main Street at that first roundabout, right where the confectionery is.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yep.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: Post right there and watch that's where you want to watch the Booty U parade, okay, for one.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: Oh that's exactly where you want to sit because you can catch the castle, you can, and then you can see the projections of the parade down Main Street.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: You get a view of both.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: However, this is the fun part.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: This is like mad dash.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: Once the parade has terminated there, at the end of that roundabout, make a mad dash for the main street theater.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: There is nobody.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: There is no one.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that they they're all piled up to see that parade, but once the last character goes through uh that backstage gate, make head left around that roundabout and go right into the main street theater, and you can walk right in to see Jack and Sally.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: We've done this for you.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: Giving you pearls here, man.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: This is some insider knowledge right here.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: You cannot beat it.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to post up a little bit closer to the Main Street theater, okay, do that.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's fine, but you won't be able to see down that straight down Main Street USA.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, post right up at that corner and then make a mad dash for it.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: You cannot beat it.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then once you see Jack and Sally, you can walk right in to see Mickey Mouse.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: He's right now.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Mickey's always there.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: He's great.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: That's great.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: We saw him together one year, right?
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: We went to see the boss.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: Who are you who are you sacrificing the party to meet?
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sacrificing the party to meet anybody.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to see the parade.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a fan of the parade, like you said.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, just like you are.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: But I think I think there's if there's anyone I'm gonna meet and actually stop to see, and it's gonna be Jack and Sally because it's those are characters that you don't see on a regular basis throughout the park.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: And through the Halloween party and the Christmas party, they have those characters throughout that you're that are only there for during that that time.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: So if there's anyone I'm gonna wait to see, and I I try not to wait at all, to be honest, it's gonna be Jack and Sally.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: If you take my little piece of advice and post up where I'm telling you to go and then make a mail-dash for it, you'll be you'll be right as rain every single time.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: You'll be getting worth your time.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: So so apparently there are our headless horsemen people, Pete.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: I've got to be one of those people if there are people.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: And you're obviously one of you're one of them, obviously.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, I didn't choose this life.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes, you did.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: So why does this why does this parade feel different?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so that's a great question.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: I think you look at the decorations, you get in there, and you you get that spooky feel.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, and I love Halloween as it is.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm one of the Halloween people too.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, this hits all kinds of places.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: But then you've got the beginning of the parade, it's got that eerie kind of silence, they pipe in the music, and then you know, I'm old enough.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: When I first saw him, the headless horseman used to actually trot down um the the roads, like you know, at a good little clip.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: He walks now, very slow.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but he used to go fast.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and then, you know, liability and rules and people suing people.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but it's still amazing.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: So you you you know, you hear the clippy-clop of this horse, you see the actual headless horseman there with no head, riding this uh this horse down Main Street.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's just it's phenomenal.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, we've got the the music, uh, it's all like the booty song, stays in your head for months after.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_01: You got those rare characters we've already talked about.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: The Haunted Mansion is just like the main theme for this.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I know both of us have discussed this.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: We both love the haunted mansion.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um you know, so those rare characters we talked about, the villains get a day.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: We too, I know in past uh podcasts we've talked about the villains too, and we all have an affinity for them, even though they're bad.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: But sometimes it's good to be bad.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's fun to be bad, it's fun to be bad.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: I think you've got to see the booty parade, if not for the specialty characters in it and the music, like you're saying.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: And then, of course, the the grave diggers.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: Ah, the grave diggers.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's worth it alone.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: They're like pretty much right up in the beginning of the parade, they're not too far down the parade route.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so if you only stop to watch these guys, they have the shovel choreography, they get the sparks from the shovel going on, and uh they interact with the crowd.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um and I there's uh earlier when I mentioned the the spot to post up, I think that's the best place to see them, and then obviously make it make a beat for uh Jack and Sally.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um but personally I'm not uh wasting my precious park time to watch the entire parade and or stand in line to see a specific character.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's just me.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: But everyone is welcome to do Disney differently.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: I will definitely watch the whole parade.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: I've seen it enough times now.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's your it's your first time.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: You definitely have to, you definitely have to watch the whole thing.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: I think uh I think if you've gone enough times and you've watched the parade a couple times, it the parade typically doesn't tend to change much.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: The next thing I want to bring up is the other specialty entertainment that goes on, and that's the Hocus Pocus villain spectacular with the Sanderson Sisters.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I haven't seen this.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: I know we're getting real big with the Sanderson Sisters.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: I know it's come back really um aggressively, and you know, everybody loves uh uh Hocus Pocus, but tell tell me about it.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_01: What do they do?
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: So they're basically doing the the a small bit of the movie on stage with Disney characters, all right.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: So there's Dr.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: Frisillier is in that, Oogie Boogie's in that, your girl Maleficent's in it, my man Aze is in it, Corella, Jafar, the evil queen, like all the perfect villains that we loved, that we love to hate and love also are in the show.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's I think it's worth it to see.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you want to see this, obviously the closer you are to the stage, uh, the better you are you are gonna see this, and and don't be the parent that.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: That holds their kid up on top of their shoulders and so the people behind you can't see that because that happens.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: I know you love your kids, and I know you love parades, and I know you love fireworks, but the more you block people behind you, the more you become the villain.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I like that.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's true.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: So here's here's our debate on this one.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: Are you waiting to see the headless horseman, the for from Bootyou or Hocus Pocus?
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: You can only see one.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: What are you seeing?
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: What do you not what are you not going to do?
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: Headless horseman all day, every day.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the Sanderson sisters are right, Hocus Pocus is alright, but I'm not on the hype train as much as that.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm the headless horseman all day.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: I agree with you.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: You catch a couple minutes of the show as you're walking along Main Street and you either head left to Adventureland or head right to Tomorrowland.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I I'm not going to stop and watch the entire show, but it it's a cute show to see, and of course, you see the our three Disney lovely lady characters dressed up as Handerson Sisters and all the songs that you know and love from that movie earlier.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: And that, plus all these extra characters I just mentioned.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's a cool, it's a neat, it's a neat show to see.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: I think we've come out and said this a bunch of different times, but it's it's this uh we uh whether you want to be hand solo or whether you want to be um you know young again, like this is another one of those things where you know it's designed for children, but you get out there with your kids, not only are you seeing the magic with your kids, but you're you're out there trick-or-treating, you're wearing a costume, you're roaming around like in that idyllic um movie setting that we always watch TV where people are out you know trick-or-treating with all and everybody's everywhere, having a great time.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like you you're really setting yourself into that small town America Halloween um funness.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: Uh really is another thing that brings you back to that 10-year-old thing and that that feelings.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: So there's one more thing, one more entertainment thing I want to bring up, and that's the not-so-spooky spectacular starring uh Jack Skellington himself.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: And that's more or less a bit of a stage show, but it's more or less a fireworks show.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: Are you a fireworks kind of person?
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we like them when we can see them, but you know, we don't try to find a spot for them or buy for them.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: Normally you get happily ever after on a normal party night or on a normal night.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh obviously, this is not a normal night.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um there are they are specialty Halloween fireworks.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: However, they do burn about 20 to 30 minutes, uh both, you know, and that that's the show by itself.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: And then add in your time to get up to a viewable area, and then also afterwards to try and move away from the crowds of people to get to go to what you want to do next.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: So these are all things you've got to keep into mind.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm I'm a ride person, so yeah, go ahead.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that I mean I think we both do this, and and we can tell our clients and and tell y'all listening if you if you're not a huge fireworks person, this is a good time to go and jump on some of those rides because a lot of the crowds over there watching the fireworks, so you get less lines um over at some of the bigger rides.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: There are a couple other things, and we're gonna play a little, is it worth your time for the the party?
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um Pete Pete's gonna answer yes, no, and we're gonna argue about a couple of different things.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we're trying to keep this episode short.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: I know Pete and I are super long-winded, and we could talk for for hours about this kind of stuff, or we're trying to try to keep it to 30 minutes.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_00: So it seems like we're going a little fast in this episode.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're we're trying to do it in 30 minutes.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Pete also has a flight to catch.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: Pete to where?
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: Where are you going?
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: Literally, I mean, we're not even joking.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: Literally, right after this podcast, I'm leaving, hopping on a plane, and I'm going to Disneyland, Paris.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: Please, please say hi to Olaf.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: Give him a warm hug when you see him in the land of frozen for me.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's pretty cool.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: I too love warm hugs.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: So if you see Pete on the street, please give him a warm hug.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna break out some of that jujitsu if you try that.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh trick-or-treating.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: Is it worth your party time?
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: It's part of the experience.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_01: You can't miss it.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: I 100% agree.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: I think you should do it.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, bring that pillowcase, my friends.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: Bring two pillowcases.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: They don't care.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_00: Bring as many as you like.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: Fill them jokers up as much as you can.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's expensive candy.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: Think about it if you were buying that candy.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: Could you get$130 worth of candy out of the if that's how much your perk to cost?
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: I I'm probably.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: I could.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: I bet you could do it.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: I bet you could do it.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's a lot of bags of candy, but you could do it.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: Rare character lines.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: So we talked about Jackson, Jack, and Sally, which I'm gonna do, but obviously I taught you how to do it and not stay in line at all.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: So for me, if you have somebody that you love, if you're a big uh nightmare before Christmas fan, I'd say go for it.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, just uh get lucky as you're roaming around the park and run into character as you're going, but I'm I'm not waiting in lines.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's a skip.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: No, I think I I want to see them in passing.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: You can you can wave high from a distance and say hello.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but I can't think of other anyone other than Jack and Salah that I actually want to stand in line and wait for and and take precious time out of my uh extra ticketed event that I paid extra for uh for this for those characters or for the for this party.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: How about the space mountain overlay?
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: Now we haven't talked about the space mountain overlay.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: For those of you that are are roller coaster connoisseurs, I know I am, I'm pretty sure Pete is as well.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: The space mountain overlay is in complete darkness.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: So when you when you load the vehicle, obviously you have a little bit of light to do that.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: They want to be safe when they put you in the in the cart.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: But past that point, you cannot see your hand in front of your face because you're going on this roller coaster.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: It is so much better.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_01: It is, I agree.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's fantastic, and it's uh, but it did unlock my first fear of my daughter falling out of the cart, but because I couldn't see her, it was so dark.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, she could be gone, and I won't know until the end of the ride.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: That's when I started putting my hands uh over to make sure I could touch her along the ride.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, it's legit dark.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, it is.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: How about uh monsters incorporated last laugh floor?
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: What about that?
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: Now there's a tree trail that goes through that.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, tree trails are always worth it because you get multiple stops.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I I I've not done the laugh floor um with the holiday, uh with the Halloween aspect to it.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_00: I have, and I think Monsters Incorporated the Laugh Floor is worth it in itself, just by if it even if it isn't a party, I think it's a lot of fun.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: It is, especially with kids that are want to interact with what's going on on stage.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: But for the Halloween party specifically, all they do is they walk you straight through.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: There's no sitting down.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: You can sit down if you want to, but there's really they just have uh so uh Sally, uh Mike Wasowski's up there and his other character or his other monster friends are up there telling jokes.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh they have a tree trail right as you enter into the auditorium, and then you just walk on through and walk right out the other side.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: It there's no there's no stopping.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_00: There's there's that's a good one to show.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: The amount of times I've gone, I've I've not known that.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean, I think that, you know, hey, here you go.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_01: You're you're getting some else great from us.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, that's a good one to go to.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: Because anywhere they have multiple stops on one is is the way to go.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: So um, how about the fireworks?
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_00: You stopping to watch the fireworks for Jack Skeleton?
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um if if I'm standing there, probably not.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna use that time to to get on the rides where or go buy the popcorn where there's less people.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: I I am to I am a ride person as well, and during those shows is when we hit those rides.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: You see the shows, see the parade at least at least one time, so you can say that you did it and you experience it, and it's a lot of fun, and it is.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not here to shy away from it, but I think after you've seen it one time, I think it's time to go get on those rides because there is literally no wait for most of them.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you we want you want to ride Barnstormer or Pete's favorite ride six times in a row, you can ride Barnstormer six times in a row.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: There's no one fighting you to get on that ride.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: There's no one fighting you.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: There's no one fighting you.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: How about uh costume watching?
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: What are we doing?
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: Are you are you dressing up?
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm definitely dressing up.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_01: And and if we're doing like uh group uh dressing up.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you saw me, we went to tea um at uh the Grand Floridian, and I dressed up like the street sweeper.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and um, you know, my lady brush, she came as Mary Poppins.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, I'm I'm still doing it, you know, even my kids are doing it, I'm gonna make them as adults do it.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: You you you dressed up as Bert.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, that's right.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I can't I still can't forgive you for that.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: I can't believe you did that.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: I had no now no prior knowledge that you were gonna do that.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I saw the pictures, I was like, wow, I found the perfect person to do this podcast with.
• 30:49
  unknown: Yeah.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm all in, man.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm all in all the time.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh obviously.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: How about the cadaver dance?
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know who the cadaver dance are?
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_01: I do, yeah.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_01: Those are perfect.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_01: They're great too.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'll stop and watch them if they're there for sure.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: I I I want to see the the cadaver dance.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, of course.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: So uh this is because of the worst, you know.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta give you one of the things that Disney has has um taken from me that I don't like.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you remember, but there used to be a card game um that you could go into the fire station at the beginning of uh Main Street, and you could go in and you could get a pack of cards, and you could use those cards around the park to do like sorcerer stuff.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um and they were all different.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: I've got a whole pack of them.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_01: I think I'm missing a few of them, but the best part was during any of the parties, the Christmas party, the Mickey's not so scary Halloween party, you went to the fire station and they gave you a special card that was representative of the party.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so it was a free souvenir, which was amazing, and the cards were really great.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I still have them, but I'm sad about that.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_01: So that that is the worst.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's the worst right now.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: I do remember that game.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't remember if it was for specifically for the parties or if you could get it anytime.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_01: You could get it anytime, but the parties you had a special card.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_00: I check it out the firehouse for obvious reasons anyway.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's just me.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um I go, I go and take a picture of it and uh and check out the fire engine in there, and it'll go the patches from everywhere.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: And and uh yeah, it's cool.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's neat to see.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, if you're in Disneyland, uh that's where Walt's apartment is, is above the firehouse.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I love that.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um anyway, uh all right.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: So Mickey's not so scary.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna pivot from Mickey's Not So Scary to our regular after hours parties just for a couple minutes here to close out our episode.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so right now they just released a whole bunch of days for after hour hours parties.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: I know that you and I have done an after hours party before.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do you think an after-hours party is worth the extra ticket to go to that?
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I do.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_01: If you can't make it here for the Halloween party, and I'm not saying that they're the same, they're because they're definitely not, but you can't make it to the Halloween party, you can't make it to the Christmas party.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: This is your next best thing because there is a magic to um like Magic Kingdom or Disney at night.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, there's a really great vibe.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: There's crowds are a lot less, um, especially without the party.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: When you when you take away the party and you end up with a lot less crowds because most of the younger kids, most people are back at the hotel.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and this is legit some of the times that you can go on the ride over and over and over again.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_01: But for the the not so scary party, everything is open.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_01: But the after hours party, I'll tell you a lot of the kiosks close down, so you don't get a full experience, but it is a low-key way to enjoy the park at night without as many people.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_00: I think you're right.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_00: I think um I know I know people want to hear us argue more, but it's hard to argue if you're the other person hosting is right.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um I think I think the extra after hours parties and Mickey Sound So Scary and the and the Christmas party, because they're basically all the same, those two parties together, one's just one's Christmas, one's Halloween, and then the after hours parties are a little bit different without all the theming.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think they're worth their weight in gold.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_00: And the reason why I think that is because specifically ticketed extra events, so not everyone visiting the Magic Kingdom that day or whatever park that the after-hours party is, is gonna go to that event.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_00: So there's less of a crowd anyway.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I know I know that that's visibly present, especially in an after-hours party.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's a little bit more adult themed because uh the smaller kids are are you know obviously winding down for bedtime.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you and I have done this before.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: You can hop on the rides you want to go on, you don't have to worry about lightning lanes.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I think in previous episodes, Pete and I have talked about being like too encompassed into your phone and too like worried about getting your next lightning lane and not experiencing the magic in the park around you because you're so worried about what's coming next and how to get your next ride.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's what you're worried about, right?
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: With the after hours party and the not so scary party and the Christmas party, you don't have to worry about that at all.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_00: There are no landing lanes, period.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: There are none.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_00: You just walk on and walk off as much as you like, right?
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_00: There's there's no it says you can't ride the ride more than one time.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's a small weight.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and I think that's why that's why it's the extra ticketed event is is worth it, period, no matter what it is, whether it's a Halloween party or whether it's after hours or whether it's a Christmas party.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: All right, my friend, I need to get going, but I'm gonna I want to ask the audience if we have any in the goldfish, which uh are they are they headless horseman men or are they gravedigger people?
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_01: Who who are they?
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um if they were at the give give me some feedback on the Halloween party.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_01: What's their favorite part?
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm curious to know.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so Pete's gonna close it out.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: If I can complain about the ticket price, I'm gonna complain about the crowds, but then uh lights go down, I hear boo to you, the headless horseman comes around the corner, and suddenly Disney has my credit card number again, right?
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's all worth it because of that.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_01: So is your verdict not to go then?
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh no, my verdict is Disney is the worst, but in the best way.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_00: It really is.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_00: It really is.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_00: And somehow we'll of course be back next year.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: All right, we are we got our listeners and they they know the assignment now.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: They gotta let us know if they're headless horsemen or gravedigger people.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, we're here to give you the real deal.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_01: Mouse droppings included.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: This has been the worst beyond the magic.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: See ya.