Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party
Season Start
August 7, 2026
Season End
October 31, 2026
Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party nights
This event runs on 38 select nights this season. Highlighted dates are event nights.
Season Start
August 7, 2026
Season End
October 31, 2026
This event runs on 38 select nights this season. Highlighted dates are event nights.
Three more nights are off the calendar: August 23, October 8 and October 15, taking the 2026 total to sixteen nights gone out of 38. Two of those three were still on sale on Tuesday morning. August is down to the 25th, 28th and 30th, remaining nights run $144 to $224, and WDWmagic says the season is now moving faster than 2025, which sold out completely on September 24.
Hades' henchmen used to dance at the rear of the Skeleton Band float, at first inside dark metal cages with glowsticks, and in later years with just the glowsticks. For the 2026 run of Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, Anastasia and Drizella have the spot instead, with no cages and no glowsticks. WDW News Today argues the swap may quietly retire the last of the parade's grown-up streak.
Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party opened August 7, and Magic Kingdom's daily hours changed with it. On party dates through August 21 the park opens at 8am instead of 9am, with resort early entry at 7:30am, and on Halloween party dates it closes to regular admission at 6pm so the party can begin at 7pm. Happily Ever After and the Disney Starlight parade do not run on party nights, and some Extended Evening Hours have moved to Disney's Hollywood Studios or Disney's Animal Kingdom.
Magic Kingdom's Space Mountain was closed all day on Friday, August 7, and did not reopen until around 6pm, just in time for the opening night of Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party. The day before, the coaster had been running on one side of its dual track and its standby wait climbed to 175 minutes. Disney posted an in-app apology signed by the park's vice president.
Max Goof's Powerline-inspired dance party has been a roaming Main Street, U.S.A. pre-parade in past seasons, dating back to 2022. On opening night of Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party 2026, it did not run there ahead of the parade at all. It now runs as a stage show with five set showtimes a night, at locations including the Adventureland stage and Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe.
Disney teased a nameless Captain Jack Sparrow offering for Adventureland back in June and left every practical question open. Nearly six weeks later the answers landed: it is called Captain Jack's Buccaneer Bash, it takes over the Adventureland stage across from Pirates of the Caribbean, and it runs as a rolling 7 p.m. to midnight window instead of scheduled showtimes. Disney promises a salty pirate band, jugglers and sailor superstitions. It debuts tonight, Friday August 7, on the opening night of Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party 2026.