Halloween is Over – Bring Out the Fat Man

It amazes me that Disney dedicates one third of the year to two holidays. For one third of the year you cannot see Disney World in its natural state. When it’s boiling hot in Florida, Halloween decorations are going up. Who cares about Summer, we need to make money! I guess coming up with a summer party they don’t need to decorate for never occurred to them.

So Mickey starts putting kids into diabetic shock before the leaves start changing in New England and keeps it up right through Halloween. As soon as the candy runs out Disney needs another way to make money. God forbid you take a break until Thanksgiving. Breaks are for wimps! Bring out the fat man! When the leaves in NH haven’t even hit the ground yet, Disney is putting up their Christmas decorations. Unlike Halloween the decorations stay up beyond Christmas. They stay up through New Years. That’s more than two months of Christmas crap.

I think all the cast members who work through the Christmas season deserve hazard duty pay. Everything might seem nice for a few weeks but I’m guessing they are sick of it by Thanksgiving and that means they still have more than a month left. No human can take that kind of abuse.

Some of it is nice. Like the castles winter overlay is great but it’s the sheer quantities that get to you. Some things do not need to be decorated. When you go overboard you ruin the effect.

Then you get people like me who never cared about Christmas but always ended up in Disney World that time of year because it was cheap and the crowds were low. That would have continued too if not for resources like Touringplans.com. Thanks to them I was able to find a time of year where the crowds are low and there are no decorations. I know some people love the decorations. I can understand that but for someone who hasn’t seen “natural” Disney since he was kid the decorations are a distraction at this point.

You might complain and say “well don’t go then.” That’s the idea but you want to know something crazy? There was once a day when Disney did next to nothing for Halloween and Christmas didn’t start until after Thanksgiving. Yes I know. I just dated myself.