For the first time ever on KZfaq, experience a close up 4k view of the projections on the crystal ball/sphere balloon located next to Sleeping Beauty Castle during Halloween Screams!
Halloween Screams is a projection and firework show that runs in Disneyland Park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California through the months of September and October. It debuted on September 26th 2009 and shares many similarities to Happy Hallowishes (The Halloween firework show that ran at Walt Disney World in Florida from 2005-2018). In 2015, Halloween Screams received projection updates and in 2022, Jack Skellington got a new look in the show, making him more realistic to his actual appearance in the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. Halloween Screams incorporates projections, lasers, searchlights (moving head lights) and fog machines together with fireworks to make a dazzling display. Projections of the show can be viewed at Sleeping Beauty Castle, It's a Small World, Rivers of America, Main Street USA and the Matterhorn. Each area has a different set of projections, making each area unique. Enjoy!
Helpful Information to Point Out:
1: Fireworks in Disneyland are only presented Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Otherwise, the show runs with projections only. Exceptions include special occasions, such as Halloween week, 4th of july, november-december, summer, etc.
2: Unlike Walt Disney World, because Disneyland is very small and surrounded by many buildings, fireworks can be very easily cancelled due to high winds. From my own experiments, wind needs to be below 4mph. It happens very often, and the bad part is that fireworks are only cancelled right before the show begins.
3: For Halloween Screams, it is possible to see 2 versions. For the Monday-Friday version (or fireworks cancelled version), the show is 3 minutes shorter, eliminating some sections or cutting them short throughout the show. The other version is the full version of the show with projections and fireworks presented whenever fireworks occur, which is a few minutes longer.
4: Halloween Screams is presented to everyone every night. From 2009-2018 it was presented during Mickeys Halloween Party for the special event guests, but since the party retired and now Oogie Boogie Bash (the current halloween party) is in DCA, the show is presented to everyone.
5: Since people care more about fireworks than projections, the nights with projections only are much emptier than nights with fireworks. You can find a spot right in front of the castle around 2 hours before, or even less, compared to about 3.5 if it was a firework night.
This video was filmed October 23rd 2023 directly in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle. The camera is focused on the projections on the sphere balloon located next to the castle during the show. The show began at 9:30pm. This video was filmed the same night as my castle video: • 4K Disneyland Hallowee...
I used the following equipment in this video:
Camera: Sony A7C
Lens: www.amazon.com/Tamron-28-200-...
Tripod: www.amazon.com/Camera-Monopod...
Tripod Dual Camera Mount: www.amazon.com/Neewer-20-3cm-...
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