Oogie Boogie Bash Halloween 2023 Super Thread

[wendlle]

Great I can’t wait to get up at 2am again in a weeks time

 

[DizzyDez]

Well that was a fun 7.5 hours

 

[skellinton]

NOOOOO!!! I'll be visiting Paris that day!!!!!!

Is there anyone that can try for you? They don’t say they will for sure be for sale that day. Looks like it will be later on Since they are committed to giving notice.

 

[Snap Crackle Pop]

Don't count out Knott's Scary Farm, it is AWESOME.!!! (almost too scary for some kids tho. lol)

Knotts is so underrated for Halloween time! It’s so fun it’s a little more cheesy but I plan on going this year!

 

[Bee_]

I just opened a new link to the queue and it says the queue has closed and they will post a new date for ticket sales on July 6th and all ticket sales that have happened will be honoured

 

[EmmyT]

I’ll be on a plane all that day!!!

 

[kelmcdstl]

After trying every one of these tips, I kept refreshing and finally got this.

 

[skellinton]

I do want to say thank you to everyone for sharing their experiences, commiserating, updating and just generally making the day go better than it could have.
I appreciate you all.

 

[Bee_]

I just opened a new link to the queue and it says the queue has closed and they will post a new date for ticket sales on July 6th and all ticket sales that have happened will be honoured

Lol woops this is old news when I finished typing lol

 

[DizzyDez]

I’ll be on a plane all that day!!!

They are just announcing an update that day and not selling tickets, so there is at least that.

 

[Lisa24jks]

I do want to say thank you to everyone for sharing their experiences, commiserating, updating and just generally making the day go better than it could have.
I appreciate you all.

Ditto!

I'll be rooting for you and all the other unlucky ones next week. Let's hope we have a better day that day.

 

[Snap Crackle Pop]

I’m sad for everyone that couldn’t get tickets today but I am grateful that I don’t have to go through this headache again.

 

[RoseColored97]

Disneyland, Oogie Boogie.... I love you but:

 

[EmmyT]

Good luck to everyone next time! I hope it will be smooth.

 

[kelby86]

They are just announcing an update that day and not selling tickets, so there is at least that.

That is what stands out to me too... an "update" not another sale.... the agony continues!!

 

[DizzyDez]

Well I guess one good thing is this morning when I went looking for info after it first paused I found this forum that I had no idea existed

 

[obb_2023]

After trying every one of these tips, I kept refreshing and finally got this.
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It's important to emphasize that this message does not say that ticket sales will resume July 6.

It says that on July 6, they will publish an update on OBB sales, which might include a day and time when sales resume, and that such a day and time will provide advance notice.

So in other words, all we know is that they might tell us the new date for sales on July 6, and no sooner. But they might not. We know nothing else. They are probably trying to set expectations and figure out how to improve or change the system to work correctly for attempt #2.

 

[Angel141925]

That is what stands out to me too... an "update" not another sale.... the agony continues!!

Ya I caught that too. Are tickets actually going on sale or are the announcing a new date? We’ll never know.

 

[AndrewC]

Disney doesn't have an outside vendor per se. It is likely that they aren't hosting their server and that the service sits on AWS or some similar service. However, their is a large internal team maintaining the site, so unless the server went down (I can sill surf around the rest of the site) this is probably being handled internally.

You think Disney wrote their ticketing backend and the queue system in house? If so, these guys seriously hire the worst programmers.

I get problems happen. But not having an answer (not even a solution, just an answer of "hey, this is a major hardware failure that can't be fixed today" or "wow, the whole code base was deleted and backups will take too long, there is no way it's happening today" for HOURS makes me think it can't be in house...

The web page and stuff is different than ticketing and reservation programs and stuff. I don't doubt the customer facing stuff is in house Disney.

 

[Chili327]

Unbelievable

How big is Disney? How many tickets have they sold over the years? How many special events have they had?

Edit: And again, this is a zero risk game for Disney. They know they'll sell out. Today, psh, no big deal. Come in tomorrow and start the work day like normal. Call the outside vendor and see how things are going, don't approve overtime or anything though, we're trying to cut costs.

There is no accountability. No equal that is fighting to the attention and money of the public. This won't even affect them on wall street because it'll be spun as "we saw such incredible demand, demand that we've never seen before, that we had a ticketing issue."

Not only have they done this before, but they always seem to have internet issues, not sure why, but it does seem like they either do it on purpose or something deliberate. The demand isn't so much that they shouldn't be able to handle it. I think it must be trying to use some ****ty software that they own stock in or something. lol

Knotts is so underrated for Halloween time! It’s so fun it’s a little more cheesy but I plan on going this year!

It really is, I'm amazed at how many haver never been, I like it much better than Universals mazes, because it has more than just good mazes, Ghost town alone is worth it. (including "The Hanging" stage show)