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Fall 2017 STORIES AND TIPS TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR DISNEY REWARDS HAPPY HALLOWEEN AND Hello, Villains! WE DARE YOU TO LOOK INSIDE... In This Issue SCARE UP SOME SMILES with Halloween festivities at Disney Theme Parks Pages 4, 5 & 6 SET SAIL FOR DISCOVERY Enjoy a special Cardmember offer on the Danube River Cruise from Adventures by Disney® Treat Your Family This Fall Page 7 with the Disney® Visa® Debit Card. SAVOR THE FLAVORS at the 22nd Annual Epcot® International Food & Wine Festival Page 11 We’re channeling our inner villain this costumes to join in on the fun with the Cardmember offer on the Danube River issue and why not? Halloween is the kids. The family that scares together, Cruise from Adventures by Disney® on DRESS IMAGINATIONS UP perfect time to break out the bad. laughs together. page 15. This all-inclusive river cruise, and see the newest costumes at Pumpkins and parties, tricks and which takes you to four countries, offers Disney Store and DisneyStore.com treats—fall is such a fun season. It’s If the season conjures up thoughts of dozens of on-shore adventures designed Pages 12 & 13 always exciting to watch the kids dress tasty treats and delicious food, you’ll to delight family members of every age. up in their costumes and, let’s admit it, want to catch up on devilish desserts the kid in each of us loves to celebrate, from around the world at the 22nd Be sure to flip to page 15 to see CARDMEMBER too. In this issue of Disney Rewards Annual Epcot® International Food & all the other special, limited-time LIMITED-TIME OFFERS insider, we’re sharing “inside news” and Wine Festival. You’ll also find a guide to Cardmember offers.And remember, Treat yourself to great offers lots of ideas and tips to help you get signature dining throughout Walt Disney use your Disney Visa Debit Card at just for Cardmembers the most out of your Disney Visa Debit World® Resort, where you can enjoy Disney Store and DisneyStore.com Page 15 Card this season. your Cardmember savings of 10% off for Halloween decorations, costumes select dining locations most days on or treats for the “big night” and take When we think of Halloween, the first unforgettable dining experiences.1, 2 advantage of your savings of 10% thing that pops into our minds is choosing on select purchases.3 the perfect costume. This year, Disney Epcot® celebrates its 35th Anniversary Store and DisneyStore.com offer such a (can you believe it?), so we’re offering Happy Halloween! We hope you and wide variety that your biggest challenge a fun, fact-filled look at this amazing your family have some wicked fun! will be choosing your favorite. We’ve Theme Park on page 10. If you prefer highlighted some of them on pages 12 water over land, embark on the ultimate and 13, where you’ll also find great adult family journey and check out the special 2 3 LEARN MORE AT DISNEYDEBIT.COM LEARN MORE AT DISNEYDEBIT.COM Fall 2017 Fall 2017 Even Cadillac Range has changed colors, going from red and Ghoulish Fun gold to purple and green. “The entire land will have a different feel,” Caranci says. “It’s very unique and immersive.” for Everyone Oogie Boogie also makes his dastardly appearance at Disneyland® Park, and this time he’s fiendish with food. This year, the famous gingerbread house in Haunted Mansion Holiday features a 7-foot-tall cookie in the shape of Oogie Boogie peering into a gingerbread house crawling with giant gummy worms, spiders, scorpions and bugs. Want to add some “eww” factor to your own Halloween décor? Check out the 18-inch-tall version of the gingerbread house. It comes pre-constructed so all you have to do is have fun decorating it! Use your Disney Visa Debit Card to get 10% off select merchandise purchases of $50 or more at select locations.5 “Oogie Boogie is so much fun to work with—he’s just so delightfully ‘icky,’” says Karlos Siqueiros, Manager, Food & Beverage, Disneyland® Resort. HAUNTED MANSION HOLIDAY Jack Skellington and his crew are dying Look for new Halloween pins featuring some of your favorite to have you join them and share the “spirit” Characters, as well as Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before of the season at Disneyland® Park. Christmas. “We have a great selection of new Halloween items including apparel, headwear, plush, seasonal and Oogie Boogie takes home décor items, pins and more. There’s something for the entire family,” says Michelle Harker, Manager, Merchandise, ® Disneyland® Resort. Prepare to have the merriest, scariest time ever. Oogie can’t on the Disneyland Resort wait to scare you! “Bug out” with the master of mayhem and celebrate the season of tricks and treats at the Disneyland® Resort from September 15 to October 31.4 GHOST GALAXY AT SPACE MOUNTAIN Hang onto your seat as intergalactic specters As Halloween creeps closer at the Disneyland® Resort, there’s a At Cars Land, Walt Disney Imagineers have obviously had chase you on a whirling ride through space at new baddie taking over Disney California Adventure® Park. It’s way too much fun helping Lightning McQueen, Mater and Disneyland® Park. Oogie Boogie from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. their pals prepare for the holiday. “The entire Radiator Springs The slithery bag of badness has commandeered the entrance to gang has decorated their own area for Halloween using the the Park, where a 30-foot-tall moon hovers above and bats fly automotive gadgets they have around—just like they do for from the branches of an enormous Oogie-Boogie-shaped tree Christmas,” says Charlie Kowalski, Art Director, Disneyland® whose twisted tendrils crawl over the turnstiles. Resort. Giant spiderwebs made of chain are infested by spiders created from hubcaps. Mater Stroll along Buena Vista Street, taking in “We wanted to provide Guests has dressed up as a vampire and turned the themed Halloween window displays a unique Halloween experience Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree into Mater’s as Halloween music weaves a mysterious that’s different than anything Car Graveyard Jam-Boo-Ree. At the spell around you. At Carthay Circle Cozy Cone, the big orange traffic cones Theatre, trees are illuminated with an we’ve done in the past.” have been transformed into Jack-a- eerie orange glow near the fountain, — David Caranci, Manager, Creative Cones. Lizzie, self-proclaimed scary which bubbles green water. Development, Disneyland® Resort witch of Cars Land, can be found stirring up a “ghoul-ant” brew to bring CARS LAND A word of caution—watch out for a huge statue of the Headless cars to life. It seems to be working as a 1930s roadster buried Cars Land will get all gussied up with Horseman, with a steam-snorting horse and blazing pumpkin in Lizzy’s yard rises from the ground, with radio blaring and four-wheeled frights as the citizens of head in front of Elias & Company. But don’t let him deter you lights flashing. “We call it a ‘Zoom-bie’ mobile,” jokes David Radiator Springs don their Halloween from shopping in the store and using your savings of 10% off Caranci, Manager, Creative Development, Disneyland® Resort. costumes and get in gear for the holiday. select merchandise purchases of $50 or more.5 4 5 LEARN MORE AT DISNEYDEBIT.COM LEARN MORE AT DISNEYDEBIT.COM Fall 2017 Fall 2017 Disney Villains Make the Scene “All of our excursions are created with an eye for fun for the Meet some of your favorite baddies at Mickey’s Not-So-Scary entire family. That’s Halloween Party at Magic Kingdom® Park at Walt Disney World® what sets us apart.” 4 Resort select evenings from August 25 to November 1. — Heather Killingbeck, Director of Trip Development for Adventures by Disney® SPELLBINDING ENTERTAINMENT Take time from trick-or-treating to catch the Hocus Pocus During Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, the Disney Villain Spelltacular shown several times nightly during the Villains come out to play! “Halloween is their favorite time of Party. The 20-minute musical show stars the three bewitching year,” says Denise Case, Show Creative Director. “So naturally, Sanderson sisters, brewing a cauldron of spells and inviting they want to be part of the celebration.” Look for them in Dr. Facilier, Oogie Boogie, Maleficent, Jafar and other Villains Mickey’s “Boo-to-You” Halloween Parade which includes over to come by for some mischief making. “It’s a fantastic show,” 120 performers and Characters, including 11 who can only be says Gene Harding, Producer. “Hocus Pocus is one of Disney’s seen this time of year in the parade. most popular Halloween films, and our show has been a huge Set Sail on a hit with Guests.” If you love to experience the Characters up close and personal (and who doesn’t?), the Party is the perfect time to Harding also suggests dropping by the Rocket Tower Plaza trade hugs (if you dare) with Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear, Cruella Stage in Tomorrowland for the “Monstrous Scream-O-Ween de Vil, Jafar, Gaston and more. Family Adventure Ball” where the Characters from Disney•Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. FOR FOODIES mingle and rock out with kids and families. Make your own goulash in Budapest, visit local wineries Choose from dozens of fascinating excursions in FIREWORKS, TRICKS AND TREATS and learn to make strudel. And what would a celebration be without Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Germany on the fiendish fireworks? The Ghost Host from the Haunted Mansion invites you to drop in as the Danube River Cruise from Adventures by Disney®.