Tony

I Had similar feelings being a Gator myself but that was a good read. Makes you see things very differently. Thanks for sharing that.

Yeah, she helped me out when I had a problem

6 minutes ago, Tri-Circle-D said:

Ah.

Mrs. TCD doesn't allow us to watch "R" rated movies.  So, I didn't know that.

TCD

understandable :)

2 hours ago, Tri-Circle-D said:

Let's move along.

The special MK Halloween and Christmas parties don't officially start until 7:00 pm, but guests can use their party tickets to enter the park beginning at 4 pm.

As passholders, we were able to enter the park earlier, and that's what we did.  There was no back up at security when we entered.  We picked up our party wristbands at the checkpoint in Tomorrowland, so we were good to go.

When there's a Halloween party, we like to watch guests as they come in to the park.  We have found that the 4 pm crowd are serious party attenders, and the people watching is best then.  For this party, though, we didn't make it to our viewing spot until around 5:20, so we missed the very early arrivals.  The people watching was still good.

Those guests over there have great costumes:

Take a closer look, it's Henry and Teddy Barra from the Country Bear Jamboree:

Henry even has Sammy the raccoon up there on his hat!

Oh, hey, it's a female Peter Pan:

We saw several Reys (from the Force Awakens) over the course of the evening, but this is the first one we saw, along with BB8.  Nobody really knew who they were last Halloween:

Take a closer look at those two:

Wow.  Here come some Flyer fans.  Very rare:

There's a nice Dalmatian family:

They need a Cruella, or at least those dog catcher guys:

A lot of the costumes people wear are very clever, and take a moment to figure out.  For example, look at this group, and note who you see:

Did you notice the Ariel and Flounder there on the left? 

How about in this group- do you recognize any of the costumes?:

Who is that guy with the Mickey eye black supposed to be? What about the guy in the Crocs?:

There's a Mom who wanted to be Cinderella pre-fairy godmother:

It looks like one of the kids in that group has the new Elena dress, but then there's a Nick Wilde there, and an Alice in Wonderland.  I guess everyone in that family got to chose to wear any costume they wanted:

There's a Buckeye family.  But not the Buckeye family I like:

But, who is that dude in the long-sleeved dress shirt?  It wasn't exactly a cool afternoon:

I think these girls are supposed to be Dory and Darla from Finding Nemo:

That one girl made herself some headgear out of tin foil.  A+:

If you don't want to mess with costumes, you can't go wrong with matching t-shirts.  There goes the tie die t-shirt crew:

Here comes a new batch of guests- let's see what we have here:

It looks like we have Mrs. Incredible, a Mad Hatter, and a girl in a skirt who is probably supposed to be someone, but I don't know who:

Hey, there goes the Wicked Witch:

There's also a guy in a toga:

I thought this was Anna, Elsa and Kristoff:

But, upon closer inspection, it looks like Kristoff is actually Sven:

And, they just keep coming:

I can pick out another Alice and Mad Hatter, but the rest of that group isn't much into costumes:

I'm not sure what these two new ladies are supposed to be:

It looks like the girl in the yellow socks is sporting a tail. Those girls sitting there on the curb appear to be as confused as I am:

I like this group- they are all dressed as Photopass photographers:

A closer look- they even all have cameras:

By the way, in case you haven't noticed, there are Castmembers posted here directing all of the MNSSHP guests to head into the Main Street bypass- that's where they were passing out the candy bags to the arriving guests.  I haven't seen that done before:

I'm not sure who this lady is dressed as, but I like her style:

Just wow:

There's a guy in a Goofy hat, and a lady with a tiny hat:

Over to the left of that photo, we can see a couple of the green aliens from Toy Story, and Indiana Jones, I guess:

There's some tropical folks there on the right, and pirates on the left:

That guy with the pirates has a fake baby in a baby carrier.  I am concerned about his intentions:

More party guests:

I'm not sure what all is going on here- the guy has camo shorts, and the girl has blue hair and rainbow socks:

How are you liking this all so far?

It was fun to see.

I'll stop here, and I'll have one more batch of costume photos for you to look at before we move on to the actual party.

TCD

The Guy with the baby is supposed to be Allen form the movie the hangover.

I usually get it, and yes I would ask at check in. Sometimes they'll have you call the front desk the morning of checkout as well.

12 minutes ago, CJHokie said:

Had to make a tough call on Ellie yesterday. Her tumors started getting infected and the vet said antibiotics would be an uphill battle. Plus she wasn't eating and could barely get up off the floor. We know it was the best for her but very sad. Random things make me cry, like seeing a potato chip piece on the floor under the kitchen table. She got to spend her last days doing her favorite things - swimming and hanging out with us. 

Very sorry for your loss, they leave a big hole behind.

I Don't have reservations at the fort but I'm less than an hour away, I might book an all star just so I can swing by the GG Saturday. I Would love to meet everyone there! 

3 minutes ago, Cortezcapt (Derek) said:

Welcome. We are usually up there the first week of December, great time of year. We mixed it up last year and went for Christmas week and much prefer earlier in the month.

Nothing set in stone yet but likely we will be up around that time.

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Likewise we went closer to the 25th one year and we prefer earlier in the month. I'm always hoping for a cold/cool front though!

You got it Brady  always such a good time!!

Thanks TCD it's one of our favorite times of the year !!

New Fiend here! I've been reading the forums and poking around for years and figured its time to say hi!!  

It's a family tradition started by my parents when we were young (brother and I) and over the years my brother and I have carried on the tradition by bringing mom to the fort in December just like they did for us. I was just wondering if any fiends will be out in about at the fort Nov 30th-Dec5th. Once we get the cart decorated we'll be cruising around looking for new people to meet.