Designing Disneyland: Halloween style! =D

Because there wasn't much time left before school started, I decided to go to Disneyland during Halloween time.  Now, as we all know, Disneyland is one of the most magical theme parks in the world: a creation of the famous Walt Disney, "Disneyland will never be completed.  It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."  Home of rides and attractions based on the many Disney animated (and a few live) motion picture films, Disneyland involves an incredible amount of cast members and imagineers who help keep the magic going.

For Halloween, there were multiple places in which they decked themselves out in Halloween decor.

Garden Display from the parking structure to Downtown Disney: on the tram

Goofy Jack O' Lantern at the gates

Window decor on Main Street

Speaking of window decorations, Disneyland's Main Street has stores in which every window has an intentional window display of their products.  Lots of work goes into these designs, but that will be another blog I will save for later...  I hope this intrigues you.  =)

Haunted Mansion: Nightmare Before Christmas Style!

Even the attractions themselves have become decked out in Halloween decorations... Or, in the Haunted Mansion's case, Halloween AND Christmas decorations.

Overall, I think the decorators had super amounts of fun giving Disneyland its annual costume.  With Jack O'Lanterns galore and characters dressed in costumes...

Actually can't tell who Mickey is supposed to be... any ideas, anyone?

This can all be considered just decoration, but I believe designers from all sorts of fields collaborate together to figure out the best ways to give Disneyland a Halloween vibe without under-doing it or overdoing it.  Landscape designers helped make the Mickey head of flowers by the entrance, but also included orange and purple flowers to make it seem more like Halloween.  Display designers helped design the window displays with Jack O'Lanterns and also stuck with the same color scheme of orange and purple (but added some green and black for some contrast and darkness).  Who helped created Goofy's Skeleton costume and Pluto's Vampire cape?  Someone had to make the sketches and make it a reality.

Design really is everywhere... even in the most magical place on earth.  I have a feeling that the constant changes in the multiple designs of this land of Disney will remain constantly changing.  I believe it will continue to inspire generations to always imagine and always be inspired to make the world a more beautiful place whether it's through magic or, in a designer's case, with a Prismacolor marker.

Happy (super early) Halloween!

*All photos credited to my fabulously weak Nikon camera and my super lame photography skills... and my boyfriend as well.  =)

Also, if you're interested, you should follow this link here and this link as well to find out about Halloween time in Disneyland and window displays on Main Street.