Disney Halloween Room Makeover

The second night of our Disney vacation, my family surprised me with a Halloween-themed room makeover. Getting back to the room that night, this greeted me at the door...

I thought for a moment we were at the wrong room because several other rooms doors and windows were decorated for Halloween but ours wasn't.
Little did I know what waited behind the door!

Here's a closer view of the message that was left. The skeleton buckets had all kinds of treats including popcorn, pretzels, chocolate dipped Mickey Mouse Rice Krispie treat pops, lollipops with plastic skeleton arms and legs instead of a stick and foil wrapped chocolate eyeballs. There were also Mickey head-shaped black and orange confetti and glow in the dark eye tattoos. You can kinda see a ghost peeking in the back of the left bucket. There were three "hitchhiking ghosts" to find in the room. And on the beds...

A Minnie and Mickey each with their own light-up ghost necklaces and festive head wear. On Mickey's pumpkin ears, you can pull up the velcro top to reveal an image of Chip and Dale hiding inside! The Haunted Mansion pillow is one of my favorite things among everything I got. It says Tomb Sweet Tomb, there's room for one more. The back of it has the Mansion wallpaper design on it. There's also a pair of Mickey as a ghost pillow cases.

At the foot of the bed was another ghost next to an open autograph book and several foam pumpkin shapes. One of the items left on the table that I didn't mention yet was a blacklight.

It's signed by Mickey Mouse!

The pumpkins also held a hidden message!



There's another set of pumpkins that warn you to "Beware of hitchhiking ghosts!"
The third ghost was on the other bed guarding the final surprise. You can kind of see the spiderwebs in the background that were all around the room and furniture. There were also several of those eye cards placed around the room with Disney villain trivia on the back.



Here's a closeup of the box and its message.

Inside was a great Halloween nightlight!

Not only is it a light up pumpkin, but it also projects an image on the ceiling!



Tomorrow, we'll get to the park and the Not-So-Scary Halloween Party!
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Disney Halloween Treats

Well, I've finally gotten around to sorting through my vacation pics! I've got plenty to share from our Disney trip for Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party. But I'm going to lead up to the "good stuff" to give you an idea just what it's like visiting the Happiest Place 

on Earth when it's in Halloween mode.

Today's post is all about the goodies!

Almost everywhere you can get snacks, there's some kind of seasonal treat.

This bucket of cookies was in the Pop Century Resort's gift shop. I brought a couple home but haven't tried them yet. Mickey is cinnamon sugar and Jack is honey vanilla.

While these aren't all Halloween themed, it does show the variety of treats they have in Main Street's candy shop. Anyone know what the yellow one is? It kinda looks like a construction helmet but I couldn't make an association with any Disney characters...unless it's for Fix-It Felix from Wreck-It Ralph? But that's not likely as I barely found a speck of Ralph merch.

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One thing there is no shortage of throughout the Magic Kingdom is candy apples. I didn't get any of these so I can't tell you what's in each of them. You can watch these getting made at just about every place that sells them.

They also have some fun cake pops, like Monsters U's Mike Wazowski or Jack Skellington.

 

And just in case you haven't gotten hungry yet, here's a few cupcakes. I like the ghost ones with the chocolate Mickey ears. I didn't try any of these because we were celebrating my birthday while we were there. Most restaurants know this and give you a birthday cupcake at the end of your meal. I was pretty cupcaked out during the trip. None of them were as good as the one I got at Be Our Guest which was amazing.

That's all for today, don't forget to stop by Countdown to Halloween and Blog-O-Ween!

Milton Bradley's Boogey Man Card Game

Around the start of Fall, I set up an eBay saved search for Halloween games to try and find something fun. The Halloween game scene has started getting better in recent years even if tthe big box store offerings are just Halloween rethemes of classics like Twister or Bingo.

Occasionally, I manage to find games that might not be specifically Halloween themed but would be a great fit for the season. And so I preset Milton Bradley's Boogey Man!

While the box says "Just for Kids" the art can get nightmare inducing under the right lighting, as you'll see. Clicking on an image will take you to its Flickr page where you can download your choice of size to use as a desktop image, if you're weird like me.

He doesn't look so scary, right?

 It was released in 1987. I don't know if it's because I'm getting old but that's about 5-10 years later than I would have pegged it at based on the box art.

Pillow tokens, flashlight chips and cards

All 60 cards are dealt out and they consist of the Boogey Man and four other images that have similar colors and/or shapes. Players also get 5 flashlight chips. Lastly, a number of pillow tokens are placed on the table, using one less than the number of players.

Everyone flips the top card of their pile at the same time and looks to see if anyone revealed a Boogey Man. The first person to see one shouts "BOOGEY MAN!" and grabs a pillow token. Everyone else then has to scream and grab a pillow token. The person that doesn't get one, loses a flashlight. Aka the Musical Chairs Dilemma.

How does a HATRACK look EVIL?!?!

You also lose a flashlight if you: don't scream before taking a pillow, call Boogey Man where there isn't one, or you're not the first to shout Boogey Man and don't scream before taking a pillow. The game ends when one person runs out of flashlights and the winner is the person with the most flashlights remaining.

Here's my reimagining of the game "story"...
A group of kids are having a sleepover. They turn off all the lights and arm themselves with flashlights to search the house for the Boogey Man. Each time they find him, the slowest kid's flashlight loses some battery power. Eventually, one kid's flashlight is totally drained, leaving them alone in the dark for the Boogey Man. The rest of the kids all celebrate.

Sounds fun, doesn't it? If you're going to play this game with kids, I would recommend not doing so under blacklight unless you want them to have nightmares...

Below is my favorite image, sleep tight.
Forget bedbugs, don't let the Boogey Man get you!

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