Before the party really started I hopped on a couple rides including Jingle Cruise, the overlay for Jungle Cruise, which was a welcome barage of new jokes and corny holiday puns. Starting out around 6:30pm Jack Skellington, as Sandy Claws, was already meeting with party guests over in Storybook Circus with a line less than 20 minutes. As he becomes one of the longest lines during the night I was thrilled to basically walk right up to meet. He did not autograph but a "pre-signed" card was offered to every member of each party.
After my early start I got in the forming line for Daisy, Donald, and Scrooge McDuck. Again no autographs but unfortunately no card either.
Princess Fairytale Hall was hosting Prince Charming and Flynn Rider along with the normally present Cinderella and Rapunzel, all of whom autographed.
At Adventureland terrace Peter Pan and Wendy Darling were meeting for the majority of the night.
I'm fairly strict on myself on waiting in line for characters I already have pictures with or that meet in the parks regularly so I skipped out on the Tomorrowland dance party, Mickey, Minnie, Santa Claus, Santa Goofy, Anna, Elsa,Aurora, Snow White, and all Seven Dwarfs (Also at NSS).
The Holiday Hootenany at Horseshoe Review was fairly standard pop music with the Country Bears and some of the classic cartoon friends Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, and Clara Cluck.
I personally skipped the Frozen Castle lighting but heard it was fairly cute as far as dialogue. The Once Upon a Christmas Time Parade is well done but hard to see clearly unless you are right up against the parade route. Even just a couple people in front of me was enough to not be able to get decent pictures or views of most floats and definitely not of the walkers in the parade. The toy soldiers are a yearly favorite and I can see why.
The Holiday Wishes fireworks were twelve minutes of beautifully orchestrated explosions with Christmas music.
In the end I found my night at the Magic Kingdom for the Very Merry Christmas Party to be much more worth the extra money and would absolutely recommend a family to use a this opportunity to spend a long night at Magic Kingdom over spending the $99 for a one day ticket to MK.
As always have a magical day!
