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The Disneyland Report > Disney News > Halloween's a Haunting Good Time of "Frights and Sounds" at the Walt Disney World Resort Disney NewsHalloween's a Haunting Good Time of "Frights and Sounds" at the Walt Disney World Resort13 Ways to Scare Up the FunLAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Walt Disney World Resort scares up the fun this Halloween season -- in a family-friendly way -- with events and attractions guaranteed to tingle the spine and turn up the goose bumps. Tricks, treats and enough surprises to fill a witch's caldron await guests who, in this spookiest of seasons, dare to enter the realm of fluttering bats, abandoned hotels and headless horsemen. So popular is Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party that this year's has been extended to (what else?) 13 nights in Magic Kingdom. The special-ticket party lasts from 7 p.m. to midnight and features "Mickey's Boo-To-You Halloween Parade" down Main Street, U.S.A., storytelling and Halloween-themed fireworks. Kids of all ages can trick-or-treat throughout the park, get their faces painted and fortunes told and show off their costumes in special kid-friendly "Mous-Ka-Rade" parties. That's just one of 13 ways to "scare" up the fun this fall: 1. A six-limbed alien sounds ghoulish enough but when it's impish Stitch the fun is more mirthful than menacing. Chaos reigns supreme in Stitch's Great Escape! as the star of Walt Disney Pictures' "Lilo & Stitch" takes not too kindly to being teleported to a processing center for alien prisoners. Stitch's Great Escape! opens later this fall in Magic Kingdom Tomorrowland. 2. Go batty. Imagine being face to (upside-down) face with giant fruit bats with six-foot wingspans. Enter -- carefully -- the rustic, open-air lair of bats on the Maharajah Jungle Trek at Disney's Animal Kingdom. 3. Going (heh, heh) down? Drop-ins are welcome at Hollywood Tower Hotel; leaving with your sanity is the hard part. Legend holds that lightning struck the hotel on Halloween night in 1939. Disney-MGM Studios guests enter this frozen-in-time world of cobwebbed lobby furnishings and a dank, dusty boiler room. What awaits in the rusted service elevator is, well, a pulse-racing trip to the Twilight Zone. Hold on -- and wonder what fate befell hotel guests who vanished that stormy Halloween in 1939. 4. In-your-face fright. Scurrying mice at your feet, a cat that morphs into a lion, a fang-bearing snake close enough to touch? It's all part of the 3-D illusion at Epcot's "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience," sending guests on an unforgettable film-and-special-effects adventure into a world of duplicators and shrinking machines at the Imagination Institute. 5. S-s-s-shark! Typhoon Lagoon water park guests don free snorkel gear and slip into Shark Reef where a sunken tanker is home to tropical fish and cruising nurse, leopard and bonnethead sharks. These are the passive variety. Landlubbing disbelievers can watch through portholes. 6. Creepy crawlers. Tarantulas, spiders and roaches are the stars of "It's Tough to be a Bug!" an animated 3-D adventure with special effects inside The Tree of Life at Disney's Animal Kingdom. The hilarious -- and sometimes terrifying -- film gives guests a bug's-eye view of the trials and tribulations of insects. 7. Witch way out? One of the most beloved fairy tales comes to life, in spooky detail, in Fantasyland's Snow White's Scary Adventures. Hearts pound as Magic Kingdom guests follow the chilling recreation from the haunting castle where the Evil Queen transforms herself into an old hag to the dense forest where she poisons Snow White to the gripping climax where the Dwarfs chase her off a mountainous cliff. 8. Dinosaur! Talk about chase scenes: picture 65 million years ago and YOU being stalked by a rampaging carnotaurus with dinner on his mind. That's just one of the dizzying thrills of DINOSAUR at Disney's Animal Kingdom. Guests in lurching, out-of-control time-travel vehicles dodge meteors as they come face-to-face with fierce, gigantic dinosaurs. 9. House boo-tiful. "Grim grinning" guests of Magic Kingdom's Haunted Mansion will find ghouls and ghosts of every shape and size. Rumor has it there are 999 Happy Haunts in the mansion, but there's always room for one more. Any volunteers? 10. Eats, shrieks! What would Halloween be without candy and costumes? It's all here, with a Disney villains theme, at the Villains in Vogue shop at Disney-MGM Studios. Choose from villains snow globes, mouse pads, computer games, Cruella De Vil collectibles, Sorcerer Mickey items from clocks to key chains, pencil sketchings of Hades, Gaston, Ursula, etc., and candy galore. Kids (and kids at heart) can outfit themselves as Captain Hook (complete with hook), Jack from Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" or Maleficent from "Sleeping Beauty." 11. Halloween hayride. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" inspires hayride thrills at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground. As a storyteller regales guests, there is an encounter with the headless horseman before pausing for a shore-side viewing, across Bay Lake, of the Magic Kingdom "Wishes" fireworks spectacular. Wagons depart at 8:45 p.m. on Oct. 14, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29, 31; at 9:30 p.m. Oct. 15, 16 and 23; and at 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 30. Cost is $12 per person, $8 for guests under 8, under 3 free. No advance reservations, tickets are sold on the day of the ride at the Fort Wilderness Kennel. 12. Nightmare, anyone? Disney villains turn Mickey's dreams into nightmares in "Fantasmic!" an eye-filling nighttime spectacle at Disney-MGM Studios. A giant snake lights the night, a fire-breathing dragon lights the water and guests are fear-struck -- until good triumphs over evil and Mickey saves the day. 13. Villains on parade. Magic Kingdom's "Share a Dream Come True" parade features one float full of nasties you'll want to approach with caution. Disney's biggest and baddest villains ride together with their villainous leader, the Evil Queen from "Snow White" riding inside Chernabog's ("Fantasia") snow globe. Now THAT'S scary! For Walt Disney World reservations, guests should visit disneyworld.com, phone 407/W-DISNEY or contact their travel agent. For information about saving on multi-day tickets before leaving home, guests can ask about Disney's new Advance Purchase Savings program. Source: Walt Disney World Return to Disney News. |
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