Just seen this in the News and Rumours on the
DLP Guidebook !!!
"Next week Friday the Halloween Season officially starts in the
Disneyland Resort Paris - and first signs are already to be spot in the Disney Village and the Disneyland Park. For the second year the festival will feature to main storylines / themes: the Disney Villains and the Pumpkin Men.
As in the past the Disney Villains will be out in full force to wrack havoc on Halloweenland (aka Frontierland) and scare the guests especially during the main parade of the day, which they have taken over for a battle between good and bad. Once again the catchy theme song "Halloween - lo ween everybody" will underscore the floats from the Princess' Parade that will be redecorated with much effort to celebrate the arrival of the villains from the movies, that will star on the floats and even bring their own dancers and minions along.
The second main feature are the Pumpkin Men. Once again they are out all over the Main Street, U.S.A., which they try to paint orange and transform into Pumpkin Street. While most of the painters are still to be installed the "Lights of Winter" arches with their minor Halloween overlay in form of some orange lights are already up, soon to go up is the huge Pumpkin on Central Plaza where once again children will get their free Halloween-makeover. But the Pumpkin Men are set to not only repeat last year's popular performance as they are out in even bigger force this year, including a Pumpkin Postman handing out morange letters and packages, a Pumpkin Policeman who will hand out tickets to everybody not following the orange dress codes and a Pumpkin Men Color Rescue Party that will try its best to recolor guests in orange if necessary. Also for the first time Pumpkin Men will reveal some of their secrets in a Pumpkin Forest in Halloweenland and offer guests a glimpse on how they pump up all the orange color from the depts of the Big Thunder Mountain Mine. The orange steel element that was spotted near the top of the mountain most propably is a part of that to be extected themeing added right now. While most of the themeing is added in Frontierland on the go a construction fence has been erected next to the shooting range where the Spider Web Stage will go up, on which different bands including the Pumpkin Men Quartet will entertain the guests during the festival. Also the Phantom Cruise Line pulled by the ghoul can be expected to be spotted on the Rivers of the Far West shortly.
For the first time Pumpkin Men will also be spotted in the Disney Village that has its own Halloween Festival for which the first decorations around the entrances of the Buffalo Tranding Company (the main Halloween Store of the Village) have already gone up featuring the Pumpkin Men."