Tickets for 2013 Disneyland Halloween Party go on sale this month

Considered by many to be the unluckiest day of the year will actually be the start of a celebration at Disneyland.

© Steven Liebman The  Haunted Mansion Holiday

Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, will mark the beginning of Halloween season in California as Halloween Time returns, complete with Mickey’s Halloween Party, a revamped Haunted Mansion Holiday and Space Ghost Galaxy and a new event at the Tomorrowland Terrace — the “Monsters U Dance Party.”

The Halloween season at Disneyland lasts through Oct. 31.

Disneyland gets all decked out for the holiday with Main Street, U.S.A. transformed into a Pumpkin Festival, with hundreds of pumpkins on display. Big Thunder Ranch in Frontierland will host the Disney villains and Disney characters. Frontierland will also observe Dia de los Muertos with a traditional skeleton display.

The 999 ghosts who normally inhabit the Haunted Mansion leave for a few months to allow Jack Skellington and his friends from “Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas” to take over the mansion for the Haunted Mansion Holiday

Space Mountain is also turned into Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy with ghosts appearing out of the darkness.

The big celebration is Mickey’s Halloween Party, expanding to 13 nights. Tickets go on sale starting July 8 for annual passholders, Visa Rewards card holders and Disney Vacation Club members. The general public can start purchasing tickets on July 15.

The party includes:

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• The “Halloween Screams” fireworks spectacular.
• “Mickey’s Costume Party,” , performed twice nightly.
• Disney villains arriving amid thunder and lightning to transform Town Square, Main Street, U.S.A., into Villains Square
• The Cadaver Dans ghoul quartet, perform Halloween-themed tunes aboard a drifting graveyard-themed raft on the Rivers of America
• Photo locations with some popular Disney and Pixar Pals, and Disney Villains
• Complimentary parking for one standard-size vehicle

The tickets range in price from $59 to $74 depending on the date. The date’s for the parties are:
Friday, Sept. 27
Tuesday, Oct. 1
Friday, Oct. 4
Tuesday, Oct. 8
Friday, Oct. 11

Tuesday, Oct. 15
Friday, Oct. 18
Monday, Oct. 21
Wednesday, Oct. 23
Friday, Oct. 25
Monday, Oct. 28
Wednesday, Oct. 30
Thursday, Oct. 31