Tokyo Disneyland Or Bust.....

I want to wish everyone a safe and happy Halloween in advance. I am leaving for Tokyo and I will be there through Halloween. I have never actually been at Tokyo Disneyland on Halloween Day. Like here in the U.S., they always allow children to enter the park in costume. They also allow adults to wear what they call "a hint of Disney" anytime during the year. This means NOT a complete costume, but I have seen some adults looking like they were wearing almost a full costume anyway...and this is throughout the year. On Halloween Day and for the seven days before, they do allow full costumes to be worn by adults. I have seen some pictures and it looks like the costumes get pretty elaborate. I am looking forward to seeing this in person and hopefully I will come back with a lot of new photos to share. I will resume posting when I return. :-)

Halloween Balloons

Today we just have some shots of Tokyo Disneyland's Halloween balloons. Enjoy! (The pumpkin balloons are from 2005 and the Mickey and Minnie ghost balloons are from 2007.)

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 The Plaza - 2007

Today, we are still in the Plaza at Tokyo Disneyland. The year is 2007 and these are the rest of their Halloween vignettes. Once again, the theme was "Happy Haunted Halloween" and the Haunted Mansion was the inspiration for the decorations. (See the post below this one for the rest of the Plaza's Halloween decorations from that year.)

Stitch is entombing himself using a special Stitch-shaped trowel (hopefully he'll never come out and we won't have to deal with him anymore......ah, but that won't happen because Stitch is a VERY popular character in Japan).

Flora and fauna in the Plaza...... Merryweather showed up later. (A little weak humor in honor of Sleeping Beauty's re-release this month.)

And finally, we have Huey, Dewey and Louie as the Hitchhiking Ghosts. Once again, for the photos above and below, I've included a flash and a no-flash version to give an idea of what the plastic clothes on the figures looked like when lit up at night with black lighting. I just couldn't seem to get a clear shot without the flash.

Halloween In The Plaza - 2007

Last year's Halloween theme at Tokyo Disneyland was "Happy Haunted Halloween." The vignettes in the plaza and the floats in the Halloween parade were all inspired by the Haunted Mansion attraction. The picture above was taken with a flash and the one below was taken without. I posted both because even though the spotlights on Mickey and Minnie wash them out a bit in the photo below, you do get a better idea of what the ghosts looked like at night.....which was very much like the ghosts in the graveyard scene of the Haunted Mansion.

The photo below was also taken with a flash, so again, you don't get the full ghost effect that was intended. It was difficult to get an in-focus shot of this scene without a flash (I wasn't using a tripod.)

Below is Goofy as the Haunted Mansion's night watchman and Pluto as his trusty companion.

Since Tokyo gets all new character figures in their plaza every year....and since Anaheim got the figures that Tokyo used in 2005 and has used them every year following, I wonder why Anaheim couldn't just get Tokyo's "hand-me-down" figures every year? Oh wait, that would cost something and I'm sure they don't want to spend one more penny than they have to. What a shame. The figures that were used in Tokyo's Plaza in 2005 and that are still in use today in Anaheim, can be seen by clicking here: Tokyo Disneyland Halloween 2005.

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.