Meet & greets are a preferred factor to do throughout Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion. This character information for the 2025 MNSSHP covers the place to seek out every spot, common wait occasions, priorities & technique, and when to do high-demand M&Gs. Technique is vital, as a result of characters might be very time-consuming, with lengthy strains losing hours of the occasion. (Up to date August 15, 2025.)
The very first thing you might want to know is that it’s vital to plan forward. That’s at all times the case with Walt Disney World, but it surely’s significantly vital for characters at Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion. In the event you merely arrive at 7 pm when the occasion formally begins, seize a celebration map, and head to a meet & greet, you’re going to be at a definite drawback.
It is because Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion really begins earlier than 7 pm, a number of characters meet previous to then, most strains kind earlier than then, and the celebration map doesn’t even record which characters seem the place. That’s the dangerous information…for the common attendee of Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion. That’s excellent news for everybody who reads this, as you’ll have just a few hours headstart, throughout which the primary factor to do is meet characters at MNSSHP…
Earlier than we get began, there’s extra “dangerous” information. You can not presumably meet each single character at Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion in a single night time. You’re going to should make tough choices when it comes meet & greets, since you merely can not do all of them. There are air quotes round dangerous above as a result of it is a considerably good downside to have–partly attributable to there being so many characters.
Nevertheless it’s additionally partly attributable to lengthy strains at a number of of the uncommon characters, which makes the time dedication too lengthy to fulfill all of them. So it’s considerably of a combined bag. In any case, we advocate skipping any characters that you could possibly meet throughout a traditional day in Magic Kingdom, or at one of many different Walt Disney World theme parks. Talking of which, for the whole lot you might want to find out about this occasion–past characters–see our Final Information to 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion!
Talking of technique, let’s speak you thru the night time. You need to ensure you’re in Magic Kingdom along with your costume as near 4 p.m. as doable. That’s the earliest you’re allowed to enter Magic Kingdom for the pre-party “mix-in” along with your occasion ticket, and the road to enter the park often varieties earlier than 3 p.m. (We advocate arriving no later than 3:30 p.m.)
In the event you’re already in Magic Kingdom previous to this, we extremely advocate going to one of many wristband stations within the park reasonably than exiting and re-entering. Not solely will the road be shorter, however this gives you a definite benefit in case you’re planning on doing the most well-liked meet & greet on the very entrance of the park on Major Avenue.
Right here’s an inventory of all of the character areas on the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion…
Character Meet & Greets at MNSSHP
Major Avenue USA
- Sally & Jack Skellington: City Sq. Theater (hottest meet & greet, line varieties at 4 pm)
- Minnie & Mickey Mouse: City Sq. Theater
Fantasyland
- Alice, Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts, Tweedle Dee, and Tweedle Dum: Outdoors the Mad Tea Occasion
- Anastasia, Drizella, and Woman Tremaine: Fantasyland
- Ariel and Eric: Close to Beneath the Sea – Journey of the Little Mermaid
- Belle: Enchanted Tales with Belle Queue
- Gaston: Close to Gaston’s Tavern
- Pluto: Entrance to Storybook Circus
- Daisy and Goofy in Halloween Apparel: Pete’s Foolish Sideshow
- Pooh as a Bumble Bee, Piglet as a Butterfly, Eeyore as a Clown, and Tigger as a Pirate: Pooh’s Thotful Spot
Adventureland
- Aladdin, Abu, Princess Jasmine, and Genie: Agrabah Market
- Captain Jack Sparrow: Caribbean Plaza Close to Pirates of the Caribbean
Frontierland
- Shaker, Wendell & Large Al: Frontierland (roaming)
Tomorrowland
- Elvis Sew: Throughout from Monsters Chortle Flooring
Character Sightings at MNSSHP
Along with character greetings, you may run into different spirits round Magic Kingdom on these frightful evenings. These are sightings versus meet & greets since you sometimes see the character and may possibly (in case you’re fortunate) rating a selfie, however not a posed picture or prolonged uninterrupted interplay. We’re massive followers of character sightings, and need Walt Disney World would do extra of them.
Haunted Mansion Residents
- Hitchhiking Ghosts: Frontierland Balcony and the Diamond Horseshoe Stage (varies all through the night)
- Miss Carlotta, Madam Renatta, and Broome the Butler: Haunted Mansion Graveyard
Different Disney Characters
- Donald Duck in his Halloween Costume: Mickey’s PhilharMagic
Disney Villains
- Mom Gothel: Major Avenue Bypass/MNSSHP Arrival Hall
- Maleficent & Evil Queen: Princess Fairytale Corridor (unconfirmed for 2025)
Mickey’s Boo to You Halloween Parade Characters
Greater than 50 characters seem in Mickey’s Boo to You Halloween Parade, which runs twice nightly from Frontierland to Major Avenue, U.S.A. at 8:15 pm and 11:15 pm.
Listed here are the characters you’ll see in Boo to You, organized by parade unit:
- Mickey and Buddies
- Mickey Mouse
- Donald
- Minnie Mouse, Daisy and Clarabelle Cow dressed because the Sanderson Sisters
- Chip ‘n’ Dale
- Pluto
- Goofy
- Disney Animation Princesses and Princes
- Snow White
- Princess Jasmine
- Prince Aladdin
- Rapunzel
- Flynn Rider
- Disney Villains
- Captain Hook
- Mr. Smee
- Ursula
- Flotsam and Jetsam
- Cruella De Vil
- Horace and Jasper
- Queen of Hearts
- Ache and Panic
- Oogie Boogie from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas
- Anastasia and Drizella
- Dr. Facilier
- Bowler Hat Man
- Foulfellow
- Gideon
- Jafar
- Maleficent
- The Queen
- Mom Gothel
- Disney Parks Characters
- Haunted Mansion Gravediggers
- Constance Hatchaway
- Hitchhiking Ghosts
- Wendell, Large Al, Shaker, and Romeo McGrowl
- Different Basic Characters
- Dopey
- Alice
- Mad Hatter
- Pooh
- Tigger
- Misplaced Boys
- Peter Pan
- Wendy
- Tinker Bell
- Captain Jack Sparrow
- Captain Hector Barbossa
- Clara Cluck
- Vanellope von Schweetz
- Ralph
MNSSHP Character Technique & Wait Occasions
Longest Traces for Characters
- Jack Skellington and Sally – 90 Minutes to 4 Hours
- Elvis Sew – 45 t0 90 Minutes
- Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore – 45 to 60 Minutes
- Princess Daisy & Pirate Goofy – 45 to 60 Minutes
- Minnie & Mickey Mouse – 10 to 60 Minutes
We can not stress sufficient the diploma to which the above are estimates. Even those with large ranges. For instance, we’ve waited lower than 10 minutes for Jack Skellington and Sally on Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion nights up to now. That’s an excessive instance, as these had been dates that had been impacted by extremely wet nights and/or hurricane scares…however that’s turning into an more and more widespread phenomenon, so don’t depend it out.
On different events, we’ve waited much less time than the ranges above due to extraordinary timing. Both we jumped in line at simply the suitable time at the start of the night time, or on the finish of the night time. Nevertheless it’s not all excellent news. We’ve additionally averted strains that had been really longer than 2-3 hours on the excessive finish, with staffing shortages, significantly sizzling climate, or colossal crowds skewing the wait occasions for well-liked meet & greets above the aforementioned averages.
Characters That Sometimes Meet Early
- Jack Skellington and Sally – Roughly 4:30 p.m.
- Elvis Sew – Roughly 6:30 p.m.
- Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore – Roughly 6:30 p.m.
Once more, these are approximations, and so they’re based mostly on previous precedent versus 2025. Since they’re unofficial and unpublished, they’re additionally topic to vary. Truly, it’s not simply these characters who’re topic to vary. Each different character is meant to come back out at 7 p.m., however that doesn’t at all times occur.
Certainly one of our go-to meet & greets is inside Storybook Circus; there have been occasions once they’ve come out at 6:45 p.m, and different events once they haven’t proven up till nearly 7:15 p.m.
Clearly, we don’t attend each single Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion. That may shortly get ridiculously costly! Nonetheless, we’ve been doing this yearly since 2007, and attended over a dozen events in 2019 alone. From that, we’ve discovered a ton…however there’s nonetheless numerous inconsistency and variability.
Simply one thing of which try to be conscious as you propose the characters you need to meet–and the whole lot else you’ll do throughout MNSSHP. You might be able to accomplish far much less–or far more–than is listed in our 1-Evening Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion Plan! With that in thoughts, right here’s our optimum method to characters through the occasion…
What’s This? What’s This? There’s Folks In every single place! – Jack Skellington and Sally meet in City Sq. Theater beginning round 4:30 p.m., which is why it’s extremely advantageous to get your celebration wristband early and “beat” the celebration mix-in friends arriving through the entrance entrance. In the event you might be within the foyer of City Sq. Theater proper when the road opens at 4:00 p.m., you might be out of right here by 5:30 p.m. or earlier.
In the event you don’t get into Magic Kingdom till 4:15 p.m. and line up then, it’s doable you gained’t be out of line till round 7 p.m. in case you get unfortunate. Severely, quarter-hour might be that a lot of a distinction.
Our expectation is that this line is even longer on the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion on account of Jack Skellington’s new head. Severely (once more). It’s one of many few new issues, so many followers will make this a prime precedence for a recent picture with the new-look character.
It’s Off to Storybook Circus We Go – In the event you’re too gradual for Jack Skellington and Sally, or in case you’re actually quick and are out of there early, otherwise you merely don’t care about Nightmare Earlier than Christmas characters, Storybook Circus generally is a good choose.
The issue right here is that it’s unclear whether or not this meet & greet will begin early through the 2025 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion. This was the Seven Dwarfs, and it could then. Then it switched to Minnie, Daisy, Donald & Goofy final yr. Each of these meet & greets have been retired. Now it’s simply Daisy and Goofy for 2025. It might not open early, through which case there’s no sense in prioritizing it.
These characters meet in Pete’s Foolish Sideshow, which is within the deepest nook of Magic Kingdom. Because of that–and the meet & greet not beginning fairly as early–the road sometimes doesn’t kind as quick. (If it’s a sizzling day, the road can be slower to kind as a result of the wait begins outdoor within the solar.) You’ll be able to arrive right here round 5 p.m. and nonetheless be advantageous–presumably even 5:30 p.m.
Pooh’s Posse – In the event you begin with the Storybook Circus characters, it’s simple to then bounce over to the Pooh line by the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in Fantasyland. That is additionally some of the well-liked meet & greets at Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion.
All 4 meet collectively, and so they solely take one picture per visitor. It felt much less like a meet & greet and extra like a “picture meeting line.” On the plus aspect, the wait wasn’t almost so long as it has been up to now.
Skip the Traces! – In the event you comply with the above technique, it’s most likely going to be someday between 7:30 p.m. and eight p.m. once you’re lastly completed. That is the purpose within the celebration when the character meet & greet strains are longest. So, until you’re a hardcore hunter of characters, it’s time to do one thing else. (Or you possibly can stick to characters, however you threat burnout.)
One choice is to as a substitute hit up the dance events and areas of Frontierland and Fantasyland which have free-roaming characters to “skip” the strains and nonetheless get your character repair. In the event you do see free-roaming characters, go work together with them! They sometimes don’t get very lengthy waits irrespective of once you go and they’re, and might be tons of enjoyable.
Publish-Fireworks – We don’t advocate anybody skip Mickey’s Boo-to-You Halloween Parade or Disney’s Not-So-Spooky Spectacular Fireworks. In the event you watch each, that’s going to occupy you from round 8:45 p.m. (assuming you don’t wait till the final minute for a parade spot) till 10:45 p.m. After that, you possibly can resume character searching.
One good choice right here is making a beeline to City Sq. Theater after the fireworks. In the event you watch from the top of Major Avenue close to the Prepare Station and are quick, you possibly can presumably catch the road for Jack Skellington and Sally when it’s shortest. That is additionally a great time for Mickey Mouse in case you’ve already knocked out a lot of the extra well-liked characters.
Now can be a great time for the Aladdin characters and Captain Jack Sparrow in Adventureland or the royalty in Fantasyland.
Final Name for Uncommon Characters – In contrast to sights, you can not line up for characters till 11:59 pm. Most strains for uncommon characters get reduce round 11 p.m., but it surely actually varies based mostly on crowds and demand (Disney’s objective is to have the final friends out of line as near midnight as doable–however that usually runs over).
Accordingly, you actually need to be in line for any of the ‘longest strains’ record by 11 p.m. There have been occasions once we’ve had luck leaping into line as late as 11:15 p.m.; on different events, we had been denied shortly earlier than 11. We’re followers of doing Elvis Sew as our “final name” character, and in our anecdotal expertise, his line tends to die down later within the night. Winnie the Pooh and his posse typically have shorter strains–most likely as a result of these characters skew youthful.
Earlier than Midnight, Meet Mickey & Minnie – After 11 pm is the perfect time to go to Minnie and Mickey Mouse. In the event you choose to observe the second parade from Major Avenue, you possibly can often race right here, beat the gang, and nonetheless arrive earlier than his line is reduce. No matter once you do that, don’t do it as a part of the ‘wave’ of friends exiting after the parades or fireworks–that’s when the road is longest. You both must beat these exodus crowds, or keep away from them completely.
Remaining Countdown – The final efficiency of Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular begins at midnight, which provides you a “bonus” 20 minutes on the finish of the occasion. This can be a good method to prolong Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion, however even this closing displaying is crowded. Clearly, this isn’t a personality meet & greet–only a piece of recommendation we’re including since you’ll most likely be achieved with characters by midnight and there’s a great likelihood you didn’t see this earlier in case you had been aggressive with the character searching. Get pleasure from this satisfying finish to your night!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Have you ever attended Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion? Which character meet & greets are your prime priorities? Did you meet Jack Skellington & Sally…or had been these strains too lengthy for you? What about Elvis Sew, Pooh’s Posse, or different uncommon characters with extra average strains? Do you disagree with something in our 1-night MNSSHP character searching plan? Any questions? Listening to your suggestions–even once you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!