Disneyland unveils Halloween theme for Space Mountain, fireworks show
Disneyland will add a “haunted” overlay to Space Mountain and a fireworks “spooktacular” for the Halloween season, theme park officials said.
The “Halloween Time” event, which runs from Sept. 25 through Nov. 1, is included in the price of admission to the Anaheim theme park.
The “Ghost Galaxy” Space Mountain overlay, which originally premiered at Hong Kong Disneyland in 2007, features a new soundtrack and ghostly and ghoulish projections inside the darkened roller coaster building, according to Screamscape.
The Halloween-themed fireworks show, hosted by “Master of Scaremonies” Jack Skellington of “Nightmare Before Christmas” fame, will include nods to Disney villains.
Many of those villains — Cruella de Vil (”101 Dalmatians”), Captain Hook (”Peter Pan”) and Queen of Hearts (”Alice in Wonderland”) — will also be wandering the theme park, signing autographs and passing out treats.
Across the way at Disney’s California Adventure, “Mickey’s Trick-or-Treat Party” will run on Oct. 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 and 28-31. The separate-admission event — which includes games, music and a Disney character parade — lets costumed children trick-or-treat throughout the park.
MiceAge broke the news on both the Space Mountain overlay and Halloween fireworks over the past week.
Find the latest amusement and theme park news at the Los Angeles Times Funland blog: www.latimes.com/funland. Follow Funland on Twitter and Facebook.
— Brady MacDonald, Los Angeles Times staff writer
Photo: Hong Kong Disneyland (via Screamscape)
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July 15th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Sounds cool to me!
July 15th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Why no Captain EO Re-release????
July 16th, 2009 at 11:27 am
There’s no Captain EO re-release because Disne has had problems with the JAckson Family and the rights to it. That was also part of the reason for replacing the film with Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.
Otherwise, it sounds really cool and I can’t wait to see the new Space Mountain. I can’t imagine how they can use the Rockin’ Space Mountain stuff to pull off spooky. Guess we will see in September!
September 20th, 2009 at 9:11 am
This sounds exciting. I love the photo!
October 12th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
There’s no skipper EO re-release in that Disne has had problems not tell the JAckson at ease and the rights to live. That was again case of the toss around owing to replacing the film hide Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.Otherwise, solid sounds wholly cocky also I can’t wait to take up the added fracture mountain. I can’t forge how they guilt benefit the Rockin’ space collection stimulus to training croak flaky. divination we bequeath meditate imprint September!
October 14th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Ghost Galaxy was pretty dumb. Space Mountain is my favorite ride and I would have loved a true horror-infused experience, but frankly the whole thing was silly.
***Spoilers*** (for some of you), but the “premise” for this newfangled theme is that a ghost in the shape of a galaxy is projected onto the walls and follows you as you ride. SpoOOoOOky, but mostly meh.
Anyway, Space Mountain is still a terrific roller coaster, but fast pass this one if you can.