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An after-hours Halloween lawsuit astatine Disney California Adventure that was canceled past twelvemonth owed to the COVID-19 pandemic has travel roaring backmost this vacation play with a family-friendly matter that puts the accent connected Disney quality interactions alternatively than terrifying humor and gore.
Oogie Boogie Bash kicked disconnected connected Thursday, Sept. 9 astatine Disney California Adventure with a Halloween parade, Disney villains walk-through experience, Mickey Mouse children’s show, trick-or-treating trails and vacation decor. The separate-admission Oogie Boogie Bash volition instrumentality spot connected 24 much prime nights done Oct. 31.
Jack Sheeran is dressed arsenic the Magic Mirror from Snow White arsenic helium and visits Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, with his household successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Constance Hatchaway, besides known arsenic The Black Widow Bride, from The Haunted Mansion thrust astatine Disneyland, has a beating reddish bosom and a bouquet of flowers with a hatchet inside, during the Frightfully Fun Parade astatine Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Maleficent, the self-proclaimed “Mistress of All Evil” from Sleeping Beauty, greets visitors to Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Jack Skellington and Sally, from Tim Burton’s 1993 stop-motion Disney movie The Nightmare Before Christmas, during the Frightfully Fun Parade astatine Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The Headless Horseman leads the Frightfully Fun Parade during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Sidney “Sid” Phillips, Andy’s evil adjacent doorway neighbour from the 1995 Disney•Pixar animated film, Toy Story, greets visitors astatine Pixar Pier during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Visitors to Disney California Adventure enactment up to participate Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The Headless Horseman statue, from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, sits astatine the apical of Buena Vista Street during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Hades, from Disney’s 1997 animated diagnostic film, Hercules, greets visitors during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Agatha Harkness, from WandaVision, greets visitors wrong the Ancient Sanctum astatine Avengers Campus during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guardians of the Galaxy – Monsters After Dark during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lights and projections formal up Villains Grove, astatine the tract of Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lights and projections formal up Villains Grove, astatine the tract of Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lights and projections formal up Villains Grove, astatine the tract of Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Oogie Boogie, the main antagonist successful The Nightmare Before Christmas, greets visitors during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Oogie Boogie, the main antagonist successful The Nightmare Before Christmas, greets visitors during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The Evil Queen, besides known arsenic the Wicked Queen from Walt Disney Productions’ archetypal animated diagnostic movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, greets visitors during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Mickey’s Trick & Treat amusement during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Cruella de Vil, from 101 Dalmatians and the caller Disney film, Cruella, greets visitors during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Agatha Harkness, from WandaVision, greets visitors wrong the Ancient Sanctum astatine Avengers Campus during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Cruella de Vil, from 101 Dalmatians and the caller Disney film, Cruella, greets visitors during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The helium Carthay Circle country is lit up for Halloween during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lights and projections formal up Villains Grove, astatine the tract of Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lights and projections formal up Villains Grove, astatine the tract of Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lights and projections formal up Villains Grove, astatine the tract of Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lights and projections formal up Villains Grove, astatine the tract of Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lights and projections formal up Villains Grove, astatine the tract of Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lights and projections formal up Villains Grove, astatine the tract of Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Visitors from Utah are dressed arsenic Oompa-Loompas, workers astatine Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Maleficent, the self-proclaimed “Mistress of All Evil” from Sleeping Beauty, greets visitors to Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The Frightfully Fun Parade astatine Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Ghosts from The Haunted Mansion during the Frightfully Fun Parade astatine Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The helium Carthay Circle country is lit up for Halloween during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Ursula, besides known arsenic the Sea Witch, from Disney’s 1989 animated diagnostic movie The Little Mermaid, during the Frightfully Fun Parade astatine Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The Frightfully Fun Parade astatine Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Constance Hatchaway, besides known arsenic The Black Widow Bride, from The Haunted Mansion thrust astatine Disneyland, has a beating reddish bosom and a bouquet of flowers with a hatchet inside, during the Frightfully Fun Parade astatine Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The Frightfully Fun Parade astatine Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The Cadillac Range astatine Radiator Springs Racers successful Cars Land is lit up with Halloween colors during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The Mayor of Halloween Town, from Tim Burton’s 1993 stop-motion Disney movie The Nightmare Before Christmas, during the Frightfully Fun Parade astatine Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The Cadillac Range astatine Radiator Springs Racers successful Cars Land is lit up with Halloween colors during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Mickey Mouse greets visitors during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Cruz Ramirez, a car from the Disney•Pixar movie Cars 3, is dressed arsenic a pirate successful Cars Land during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Hunter Gunnels, 5, dons a Buzz Lightyear costume during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Halloween decorations astatine up astatine Cars Land during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Halloween decorations astatine up astatine Cars Land during Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, successful California Adventure astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Visitors to Disney California Adventure enactment up to participate Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, astatine the Disneyland Resort successful Anaheim, CA, connected Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Disney moved the after-hours Halloween lawsuit from Disneyland to Disney California Adventure successful 2019 and rechristened Mickey’s Halloween Party arsenic Oogie Boogie Bash. The Halloween lawsuit went connected hiatus successful 2020 owed to the extended coronavirus closures of the parks.
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Disney ratcheted backmost the offerings for this year’s Oogie Boogie Bash, but die-hard Disney fans didn’t look to caput with each nighttime of Oogie Boogie Bash sold retired earlier the lawsuit adjacent started. Most of the returning elements stay unchanged from the 2019 Oogie Boogie Bash lawsuit with a fewer caller villains taking up residence on the dainty trails.
Cruella DeVille from the live-action “Cruella,” “WandaVision” witch Agatha Harkness and “Toy Story” antagonist Sid Phillips joined the rogue lineup of Disney, Marvel and Pixar villains dotting the immersive dainty trails this Halloween season.
The Emma Stone-inspired mentation of Cruella hosted a manner amusement successful the Hollywood Land backmost batch portion judging Halloween costumes and begged for compliments arsenic visitors walked past.
“It’s been astatine slightest 5 minutes since anyone has told maine however astonishing I am,” Cruella said portion strutting connected stage.
Agatha Harkness took implicit Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum successful Avengers Campus and bragged astir her ace powers.
“It’s not each time you conscionable the world’s astir almighty witch,” Harkness said portion towering implicit visitors.
Bad Boy Sid turned a circus sideshow successful Pixar Pier into the “Sid Show” filled with his mutant toys.
Returning villains on the dainty trails included the Mad Hatter, Dr. Facilier, Maleficent and Snow White’s Evil Queen.
Maleficent beckoned visitors to travel person from her throne down Soarin’ Around the World.
“I don’t wound often,” Maleficent told the crowd. “I’m the instrumentality and the treat.”
The Evil Queen had ore wagons afloat of rosy reddish apples adjacent to her smoldering caldron adjacent the Grizzly River Run wherever she treated visitors with disdain.
“You indispensable bow earlier me,” the Evil Queen told passersby connected the dainty trail.
Monster of scare-e-monies Oogie Boogie from “The Nightmare Before Christmas” took implicit the lobby of the Disney Animation gathering successful Hollywood Land and hurled insults astatine trick-or-treaters.
“This is what kids see scary?” Oogie said from his perch. “You’re joking. You’re hopeless.”
Rarely seen characters specified arsenic Hades, Megara and Pain from “Hercules” made appearances astir the Carthay Circle fountain astatine the halfway of the park.
The limited-capacity lawsuit is 1 of the fewer times of the twelvemonth erstwhile older kids and adults tin deterioration Halloween costumes successful the taxable parkland arsenic they trick-or-treat for candy. The King household from Salt Lake City, Utah, showed up successful off-brand yet inactive show-stopping “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” costumes with 24 Oompa Loompas successful mill idiosyncratic jumpers and a stroller-pushing Willy Wonka.
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The Frightfully Fun Parade featured seldom-seen characters similar the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, Dr. Facilier and the Cheshire Cat.
The instrumentality of the Halloween parade marked the archetypal clip DCA oregon Disneyland has hosted a parade successful 18 months since the pandemic shuttered the Anaheim taxable parks successful March 2020.
The Headless Horseman kicked disconnected the parade portion riding connected horseback and carrying his carved pumpkin head. Mickey and Minnie made an quality successful festive Halloween costumes with a creation unit successful tow.
Widow Bride Constance Hatchway rode connected the Haunted Mansion interval with a beating reddish bosom pulsing beneath her wedding gown and a hatchet hidden successful her floral bouquet. The Mansion’s Hitchhiking Ghosts interacted with the assemblage arsenic they tried to hitch a thrust portion a gravedigger creation unit scraped spine-chilling shovels on the parade way that threw disconnected showers of sparks.
Dr. Facilier from “The Princess and the Frog” arrived connected a voodoo interval with a spooky moss-covered day-glow histrion that seemed to scope retired toward the crowd. Hades presided implicit a interval festooned with horned demon statues that glared astatine visitors with glowing aureate eyes. The pink-and-purple-striped Cheshire Cat brought up the rear of the parade connected the backmost of the Fantasmic float.
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The Villain’s Grove walk-through acquisition transformed the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail with ethereal scenes inspired by fan-favorite Disney scoundrels. Lighting, dependable and peculiar effects suggested the beingness of the characters -— who don’t marque appearances successful the Villain’s Grove.
Key scenes successful the Instagram-friendly installation included allusions to Frollo from “Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Maleficent from “Sleeping Beauty,” Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts from “Alice successful Wonderland,” Scar and the hyenas from “The Lion King” successful the Elephant Graveyard, Dr. Facilier from “The Princess and the Frog” and the Old Hag from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” successful the Lightning Forest.
Candelabras dotted the wood and stained solid lights painted the walkway successful the Hunchback scene. Roses glowed successful the underbrush of the Wonderland conception of the trail. Hyena shadows marched crossed a stone partition successful the “Lion King” scene. Purple and greenish laser lights covered the treetops successful the Old Hag’s Lightning Forest.
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The “Mickey’s Trick & Treat” amusement successful the Disney Jr. Dance Party theatre featured a huffy idiosyncratic who brews up a potion that unleashes bats, spiders and ghosts created with video projections and peculiar effects.
Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald appeared successful Halloween costumes to archer playfully spooky stories successful betwixt little creation numbers and drama skits successful a amusement geared to the preschool and people schoolhouse assemblage successful attendance.
Halloween decor filled Disney California Adventure with Cars Land remaining a item from past seasons. Animated eyeballs peeked retired of the windows of the Radiator Springs courthouse and purple and greenish lights bathed the Cadillac Mountain Range.
Background euphony passim the parkland played vacation favorites including “Monster Mash,” “Superstition” and “Somebody’s Watching Me.”
Most DCA attractions remained unfastened during Oogie Boogie Bash with shorter hold times owed to the constricted capableness of the event. Toy Story Midway Mania had an uncharacteristically abbreviated 10 infinitesimal hold and Soarin’ Around the World was a virtual walk-on.
Missing from Oogie Boogie Bash 2021: The villain-themed “World of Color” amusement and “Descendants”-inspired creation enactment that were portion of the 2019 after-hours event.
Tickets for the lawsuit — which ranged from $114 to $169 — are sold out. The five-hour separate-ticket lawsuit runs from 6-11 p.m. with aboriginal introduction parkland mix-in opening astatine 3 p.m.
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