Back To Toontown

Let's go back to Tokyo Disneyland's Toontown and look at the rest of it's Halloween decorations. The gazebo/bandstand has two ghosts on it's roof....one wearing orange Mickey ears and another wearing an orange Donald Duck sailor cap. Note the umbrellas over the tables that are all changed just for the season.

Tokyo Disneyland places cast members dressed as witches in both Toontown and in Fantasyland. They pass out candy to park guests, but first you need to tell them "Trick or Treat."

To see more photos of Toontown at Halloween, see my two previous posts: Halloween In Toontown and More Halloween In Toontown.

Ghosts In The Castle

Last week we took a look at the ghosts on the rear balcony of Tokyo Disneyland's castle during their Halloween celebration. Today we go inside the castle to look at a couple more ghosts at play.

The pumpkin-knight scarecrow below can be found just outside the castle in the forecourt area.

More Halloween In Westernland

We're still in Tokyo Disneyland's Westernland, taking a look at Halloween decorations. The scarecrows above are dressed in costumes worn by the Mark Twain Captain (left) and the Western River Railroad's Engineers (right)

Above is another one of the many fun Halloween vignettes set up throughout the park. The scarecrows on either side of the wagon are wearing the ranger (or are they supposed to be cavalry?) uniforms that are worn on Tom Sawyer Island.

The wagon above gets a special holiday covering and the wooden bear that points the way to the Country Bear Theater even gets a special "pumpkin bear head" put over it for the season.

Westernland has LOTS of scarecrows throughout the area.

Halloween In Westernland

Today, we are in Tokyo Disneyland's Westernland at Halloween. This is the Trading Post and on it's rooftop we have a "ghost cowboy" and a "ghost Native American". One of them has a couple bullet holes in it's little ghost body and the other one has several arrows through his chest and hat.

This vignette may be un-PC on several different levels, but I do think it's kind of humorous....especially with the two ghosts smiling at one another.

Halloween In Fantasyland - Dumbo

Today, we're still visiting Tokyo Disneyland's Fantasyland. The lamp posts around the Dumbo attraction all get these special "Pink Elephants on Parade" lamp shades at Halloween......however, they're actually done in orange instead of pink.

The railing around Dumbo even gets it's own special Halloween bunting.

Tokyo Disneyland has a baby shop where you can buy a baby....some clothes or other baby items. The shop is named after the song, "Baby Mine" from the movie "Dumbo" and it's facade gets decorated for Halloween every year. Even some of the trash cans in the park get a special paint job just for Halloween!

To see photos of Tokyo Disneyland's Dumbo attraction without the Halloween decorations, click here: Tokyo Disneyland's Dumbo

Halloween In Fantasyland - The Castle

Another quick post today. This is the backside of Tokyo Disneyland's Cinderella Castle. It gets decorated every year for Halloween with a "Three Musketeers" vignette.....and plenty of orange and black bunting.

Halloween In Fantasyland - The Carousel

This will be a quick post today. These are all pics of Tokyo Disneyland's Carousel at Halloween. Three of the horses get decorated for the occasion and are given "special" riders playing musical instruments. Note the snake's head on the clarinet above, the spider web on the mandolin below, and the ghoulish face on the tambourine in the last photo.

More Halloween In Toontown

Today we are still in Tokyo Disneyland's Toontown, taking a look at their Halloween decorations. Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald each have their own customized scarecrows in front of their homes.

The faces on all of the scarecrows as well as the pumkins, light up at night.

The "ghost pirate" below, is located on the rooftop of Donald Duck's Boat.

Halloween In Toontown

Today, we will visit Tokyo Disneyland's Toontown during the park's Halloween celebration. The columns at the entrance get covered over with stacks of large pumpkins whose faces light up at night.

Above we have a singing trio of pumpkin scarecrows (note the sticks for bodies.) All of the character's houses in Toontown have their own personalized scarecrows at Halloween. We will take a look at those tomorrow.

Tokyo still operates their Toontown Jolly Trolley (unlike Anaheim). Notice how much Halloween decor gets put on the cars. "Kid ghosts" ride on the back of the trolley, wearing orange and black mouse ears and eating popcorn out of a souvenir Halloween popcorn bucket!

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The car below is parked outside of Mickey's house. Note the hood ornament in the shape of a bat. Tokyo really goes all out for Halloween. I will post more photos of Toontown's Halloween decorations tomorrow and then we will move on to take a look at Fantasyland and Westernland. They both get decorated too!

Tokyo Halloween 2005!

We will be taking a little break from Tokyo DisneySea for now, but we will definitely go back and take a closer look since there is still much more to see there. For now, let's go back to Tokyo Disneyland and take a look at how they decorate the park for Halloween. To begin with, I don't remember Disneyland in Anaheim doing too much for Halloween until around the early to mid nineties. Then it seems like they stopped at some point, and didn't do much for Halloween again until just two years ago....but somebody please correct me if I'm wrong about that. I do have photos of DL's Halloween decor in the nineties. I should pull those out and post them.....if I can ever pry myself away from the Tokyo parks. I have to say I was totally blown away by how much decorating Tokyo Disneyland does for Halloween. It seems like more than half the park gets decorated. They decorate the Plaza area, Fantasyland, Westernland, Toontown and World Bazaar (Main St.). The pictures in today's post were all taken in the Plaza in 2005 . If you look closely, you will recognize some of these figures from Anaheim. That's because they acquired them from Tokyo and used them the very next year in 2006......and then again last year in 2007.....and also again this year. Tokyo changes their Plaza vignettes and all of their character figures every year. They only reuse a few of the pumpkin props. In the photo above, the Mickey, Minnie and Donald figures are the same as those seen alongside the tram route in Anaheim. Too bad Anaheim didn't also get the pumpkin carriage.

Anaheim also acquired the Mickey and Minnie ghosts and the Goofy figure seen above and they are also visible along the Disneyland tram route. I am guessing Anaheim didn't want the Marie (Aristocats) ghost figure. (By the way, Marie is a VERY popular character in Tokyo and is depicted on a fairly large selection of Tokyo Disneyland merchandise.)

These ghost figures, Pluto and the pumpkins that spell out "Halloween" were also brought to Anaheim to use the following year.....and the next.....and the next....and we will probably be seeing them again next year, but hey....it's better than nothing, right? I'm guessing that the reason Tokyo changes their figures every year (other than the fact it appears they are not afraid to spend money), is that the figures' costumes reflect what the actual park characters are wearing in the Halloween parade each year. Yes, Tokyo Disneyland has a Halloween parade and THAT changes every year as well....they don't just trot out the same floats year after year. They go to all this effort, for park decorations and a parade that are only in use for about 7 weeks. Oh, and they write an entirely different soundtrack for their Halloween parade every year, done in the classic Disney parade style.

As the month goes on, I will post some photos from Tokyo Disneyland's Halloween parades as well as photos of decorations from other areas of the park.