Disneyland Halloween Half Marathon Weekend 2024

[superchime]

Proof of time is required for 2:30 and faster and the proof is due by March 1!

 

[fatmanatee]

10k price for this month's race was $149, now $175. Half was $235, now $260. Honestly having photo pass included makes it pretty worthwhile... as long as they do good work with it.

BTW, I still have no idea where it came from but someone (on Reddit?) mentioned the 10k having a HM theme, sounds like their info was right.

 

[StarGirl11]

That's a generous and mature take on the situation.
My less generous and less mature take on it is that they know the theme will be popular and that the races will sell out even at an increased price, so why leave money on the table? I hope they at least decrease the number of runners and spread things out a bit for the safety and enjoyment of all.

I mean possibly and we’ll know for sure once W&Ds site is updated. But again if we don’t see a hike accompanied with ‘photos are now covered by race fee’ note than I think it’s safe to assume what went down.

It will be interesting to see though I doubt it…. If they do however I might just save the $100 add on to my AP as I mainly pay that extra for race weekends

The reason I’m thinking it is because of all the spot selling. Like I said we’ll find out when Wine and Dine updates in a month ish. But if the price hike and this aren’t related to all of the people selling the photos I’ll be surprised and we’ll know if it continues to FL

Like come on y’all we go years without selling spots. And then people are making money on that and you don’t think the two are related to the price hike

There’s at least a non zero chance their connected is what I’m saying.

Proof of time is required for 2:30 and faster and the proof is due by March 1!

Yeah that I was surprised by. That’s sooner than normal I’m pretty sure. Maybe their trying to make sure they have better corral management this time?

 

[DisneyParrothead]

Wonder if photos being included means they'll take more or or less photos during the race.

If that's the reason why the prices have increased, it's hard to justify. My photos rarely look good so I normally don't splurge on that.

 

[fatmanatee]

Proof of time is required for 2:30 and faster and the proof is due by March 1!

That's waaaaaaaaaaaay too early. I feel like they didn't even have that many issues with POT, what really got jumbled was the shorter races, for who knows what reason.

 

[Blue Caterpillar]

I'd be surprised if the WDW photos are included. In Disneyland it is already included in Genie and that hasn't moved over.

 

[StarGirl11]

Wonder if photos being included means they'll take more or or less photos during the race.

I doubt the Photopass people have that much say on it. Though if they’re covering it they might put more out to avoid more complaining.

If that's the reason why the prices have increased, it's hard to justify. My photos rarely look good so I normally don't splurge on that.

Not to defend but I doubt any of the Photopass people had a lot of training on how to shoot a moving object going in. Pretty much most photos are standstill.

And as someone who has photographed race horses. Everything changed when you’re dealing with a moving object.

WDW has had years to perfect the craft. DLs photo people from the first go around might not even still be there. So you’ve got people trying to understand new settings and all that.

In other words I think/hope that it’s going to improve quality wise with this weekend as people get better adjusted to how to do race photos

 

[Blue Caterpillar]

Proof of time is required for 2:30 and faster and the proof is due by March 1!

I'm glad they are increasing the time, but that is super soon to be due. I wonder if they are adding a POT corral or just expanding the ones they have.

 

[Grabnar]

I'd be surprised if the WDW photos are included. In Disneyland it is already included in Genie and that hasn't moved over.

I think this is also them justifying the fewer photos overall fwiw

WDW has more photos overall (and higher quality if my photos are representative)

 

[DisneyParrothead]

I doubt the Photopass people have that much say on it. Though if they’re covering it they might put more out to avoid more complaining.


Not to defend but I doubt any of the Photopass people had a lot of training on how to shoot a moving object going in. Pretty much most photos are standstill.

And as someone who has photographed race horses. Everything changed when you’re dealing with a moving object.

WDW has had years to perfect the craft. DLs photo people from the first go around might not even still be there. So you’ve got people trying to understand new settings and all that.

In other words I think/hope that it’s going to improve quality wise with this weekend as people get better adjusted to how to do race photos

That is a good point, but it doesn't matter what race I do, Disney or otherwise, my photos don't look good. I did get my photopass with Edna at Springtime, but I was standing still and the photopass was so much better than the pictures on my phone due to the humidity.

 

[1lilspark]

RE Virtuals and “leaving money on the table” I wonder if Disney instead of adding virtual options to in person races will instead end up adding another unique virtual event like summer shorts and 12Ks of Christmas

 

[fatmanatee]

Not doing this but I have two half marathons coming up and two others I'd consider doing with the goal of getting a better POT. Feels weird that they'd exclude an entire season's worth of races well before this race weekend happens!

 

[StarGirl11]

That is a good point, but it doesn't matter what race I do, Disney or otherwise, my photos don't look good. I did get my photopass with Edna at Springtime, but I was standing still and the photopass was so much better than the pictures on my phone due to the humidity.

Ooh yeah can’t help there. Rough problem that’s for sure.

RE Virtuals and “leaving money on the table” I wonder if Disney instead of adding virtual options to in person races will instead end up adding another unique virtual event like summer shorts and 12Ks of Christmas

See that could make sense because the virtual series tend to be lower cost for us and still sell out. Where as the race weekend virtuals I don’t think have sold out in a while. So they could add another series in and make a better profit there.

Will be interesting to see what happens

 

[The Expert]

I feel like these themes are aimed directly at me, but I'm hesitant to go back in person after all the issues. And I really dislike the HM course, so fingers crossed for virtual.

I'm pretty sure they outsource the entire virtual fulfillment process, so it isn't a matter of fewer Disney cast members, but I can still see costs being an issue. There are hiring shortages still happening everywhere, plus materials and shipping costs have skyrocketed lately.

Happy to see POT bump back to 2:30 and hope it holds for other races. But it is very strange the timing is so tight. I'm guessing the entire rD staff takes their time off between the end of this season and start of the next, which is when they'd need to be verifying those submitted POTs. Seems like they are trying to get them done before they wrap up after SS in April.

 

[Novatrix]

Anyone else starting to have FOMO about this race? I really like those designs/themes and the wake-up times weren't nearly as painful at Disneyland coming from the East Coast.

Be interesting to see what issues they fixed. Plus chance of having a perfect race in the future...

 

[fatmanatee]

I'll say this: if they're having everyone pay for photopass by default, after the complaints that happened for this past race weekend, I would expect more and better out of them. Will racers actually get that? We'll see!

 

[DisneyMountainWoman]

I think this is also them justifying the fewer photos overall fwiw

WDW has more photos overall (and higher quality if my photos are representative)

I agree.... I think they added photos into the race costs so they can have less amount of photographers then WDW and be able to say it was included in the price so do not complain.

 

[DisneyParrothead]

Anyone else starting to have FOMO about this race? I really like those designs/themes and the wake-up times weren't nearly as painful at Disneyland coming from the East Coast.

Be interesting to see what issues they fixed. Plus chance of having a perfect race in the future...

I love the 10K distance but am not loving the graphics for the HM theme. The tall skinny ghost reminds me of the Monstars from Space Jam. I'm loving the half graphics, but I haven't done a half in 10 years, and really would not enjoy training for one during the summer.

 

[StarGirl11]

So looking at the webpage noticed this wording difference.


So there’s only so many ways to do a race only in DL. So we’re either dealing with another in park start (that hopefully goes better) or we’re starting on DL Drive. And right now I’m hoping it’s the former especially considering the later probably means more work for them

I feel like these themes are aimed directly at me, but I'm hesitant to go back in person after all the issues. And I really dislike the HM course, so fingers crossed for virtual.

I'm pretty sure they outsource the entire virtual fulfillment process, so it isn't a matter of fewer Disney cast members, but I can still see costs being an issue. There are hiring shortages still happening everywhere, plus materials and shipping costs have skyrocketed lately.

Happy to see POT bump back to 2:30 and hope it holds for other races. But it is very strange the timing is so tight. I'm guessing the entire rD staff takes their time off between the end of this season and start of the next, which is when they'd need to be verifying those submitted POTs. Seems like they are trying to get them done before they wrap up after SS in April.

It should be noted there’s a non zero chance will have a different course for the half at least. The half’s historically went different ways depending on what race weekend it was. (DL went west, Tinkerbell North, Avengers southwest, and Star Wars east) so I don’t think we’ll have a carbon copy course for the 1/2

5k is a whole other things because there’s only so many ways you can do 5k with optimal parks on property. But for the 1/2 we open up a lot,

But if it’s the Anaheim thing you don’t like yeah just a heads up that won’t ever change. That was a constant. They can only do so many ways to optimize park time and they won’t loop us through twice I’m fairly sure

 

[DisneyMountainWoman]

Also POT being 2:30 is slower than other races right? like others are 2:15... I hope this tranfers to WDW... 2:30 I have a better chnace of getting