Halloween has taken over the parks, and it is still August.
Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party has been running for weeks at Magic Kingdom, with nights already sold out. Oogie Boogie Bash is going on at Disney California Adventure. Halloween Time started at Disneyland Resort on August 21. Halloween Horror Nights kicks off at Universal later this week.
The season is basically two months long now, and the merchandise pulls as hard as the parties do.
Two new pieces just landed at Disneyland. Collectors are going to notice.
Full disclosure on my bias. If these were in Florida, I would be running for that pumpkin.
The Glass Mickey Pumpkin
$126
Bright orange jack-o’-lantern with big oval eyes and a wide smile. A swirling curlicue green stem and leaf on top. Sits on a cylindrical brown base.
What works is that it reads as a Mickey pumpkin, not a Mickey head stuck on a pumpkin. The face is carved, the way a real jack-o’-lantern would be. That curling stem adds movement that a straight one would not.
It is also cheerful instead of creepy, which means it can stay out all fall rather than just the final week of October.
The Glass Poison Apples
$65 each, sold individually
Miniatures of the apple that the Evil Queen hands Snow White while disguised as the Old Hag. One sparkles red, one sparkles black. Both have the dripping skeleton face from the poisoned apple in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, topped with a short gold stem and one leaf.
Selling them separately is clever and slightly evil.
Sure, you can buy just the red. But releasing a red and a black together, same size, same stem, is daring collectors to take both home. That is $130 for two miniatures, and plenty of people will do it.
The black is the rarer look. Black glass with sparkle is not something Disney reaches for often, and it photographs nothing like the red.
Where They Are in Disneyland
Crystal Arts at Disneyland Park.
That is a Main Street, U.S.A. institution, and the spot guests go specifically for blown glass. Seasonal pieces show up there first and tend to go fast.
Worth remembering that blown glass means no two are identical. Stems swirl differently, faces sit differently. If you are picky, look at a few.
Sorry, Florida
Here is the bad news for East Coast fans.
Disneyland and Walt Disney World do not run matching Halloween merch. Some things cross over. Plenty do not. Blown glass, in particular, tends to stay with the shop that makes and sells it.
Walt Disney World has its own glass, but the Mickey pumpkin and the poison apples are Disneyland items. Nothing has been announced about either heading east.
Not going to California this fall? Your options are thin.
The Rest of Halloween Time at Disneyland
These arrived mid-season, and the season is stacked.
- Main Street, U.S.A. covered in character and attraction pumpkins
- A dedicated Disneyland Park Halloween Time map at the entrance
- Fall menus with Halloween treats across both parks
- Mickey and Friends Halloween Cavalcade running daily down Main Street, U.S.A.
It is one of the best seasonal packages Disneyland puts out, and merch is a real part of it.
Before You Go
Seasonal glass does not restock on any reliable schedule. See it, want it, buy it.
Prices are firm. $126 pumpkin, $65 per apple.
If you are torn between the apples, look at them side by side in person. Red and black catch light completely differently, and photos do not do it justice.
I will be on the wrong coast, admiring that pumpkin from afar.
Source: WDW News Today for the debut of the glass Mickey pumpkin and poison apples at Disneyland Resort.
