It’s never too soon to start looking forward to Halloween and planning ahead for the most popular date on the Disneyland calendar when not-so-scary Disney villains take over Disney California Adventure for Oogie Boogie Bash.
Disneyland has announced Oogie Boogie Bash will return in 2024 without revealing dates for the special event. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have a good sense of when Oogie Boogie Bash will be held in 2024.
Halloween Time will run Aug. 23 through Oct. 31 in 2024 at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
That’s the earliest start ever for Halloween Time that serves an over-aching umbrella for a series of seasonal events that includes Oogie Boogie Bash.
With Halloween Time starting so early, it could push up the first date for Oogie Boogie Bash.
Oogie Boogie Bash ran on 25 nights in 2023 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from Sept. 5 through Oct. 31 in 2023.
Using the same logic, Oogie Boogie Bash could have 28 dates in 2024 with two nights in August, 13 in September and 13 in October.
In 2023, Oogie Boogie Bash started on the first Tuesday after Halloween Time kicked off. If Disney follows the same playbook, Oogie Boogie Bash could run from Tuesday, Aug. 27 through Thursday, Oct. 31.
Here are the expected dates for Oogie Boogie Bash 2024
Tuesday, Aug. 27
Thursday, Aug. 29
Sunday, Sept. 1
Tuesday, Sept. 3
Thursday, Sept. 5
Sunday, Sept. 8
Tuesday, Sept. 10
Thursday, Sept. 12
Sunday, Sept. 15
Tuesday, Sept. 17
Thursday, Sept. 19
Sunday, Sept. 22
Tuesday, Sept. 24
Thursday, Sept. 26
Sunday, Sept. 29
Tuesday, Oct. 1
Thursday, Oct. 3
Sunday, Oct. 6
Tuesday, Oct. 8
Thursday, Oct. 10
Sunday, Oct. 13
Tuesday, Oct. 15
Thursday, Oct. 17
Sunday, Oct. 20
Tuesday, Oct. 22
Thursday, Oct. 24
Sunday, Oct. 27
Tuesday, Oct. 29
Thursday, Oct. 31
Disneyland has not yet announced details about Oogie Boogie Bash 2024 – including dates, when tickets go on sale or the cost to attend. But previous events provide some clues about what to expect.
The Sunday-Tuesday-Thursday calendar has held steady for Oogie Boogie Bash since the after hours, separate admission Halloween event began in 2019. A few additional Saturdays were tossed into the mix in 2021 and 2022 in part because Halloween fell on a Sunday or Monday.
Expect Disneyland to announce the on-sale date this year for Oogie Boogie Bash in late May or early June. Tickets for Oogie Boogie Bash 2023 went on sale starting on the last Tuesday in June. If tradition holds, the last Tuesday of the month in 2024 is June 25.
Expect Oogie Boogie Bash 2024 prices to go up slightly from 2023 – when tickets cost $134 to $189.
Check back here for updates as Disneyland releases more information on Oogie Boogie Bash 2024. We will update this story when official dates are revealed.
Why wouldn’t Disneyland announce dates for Oogie Boogie Bash 2024 while revealing dates for virtually every other special event next year?
Three possibilities come immediately to mind.
1) Disneyland is considering expanding the calendar for the wildly popular Halloween event. Adding dates on Mondays and Wednesdays would make the most sense. The current alternating dates allows out-of-town visitors to schedule a trip to Disney California when it’s open late and hop over to Disneyland on days when Oogie Boogie Bash forces the early closure of DCA to daily visitors.
2) Disneyland doesn’t want to create headaches for its three on-property hotels. Rooms are available through the end of 2024 at the Disneyland Hotel, Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel and the soon-to-be-renamed Pixar Place Hotel. Opening the floodgates now could result in squatters sitting on potential hotel dates in September and October – only to cancel later when preferred Oogie Boogie Bash dates sell out.
The Disneyland resort hotels have a five-day cancellation policy.
3) Disneyland doesn’t want to stoke any further interest in the red hot Oogie Boogie Bash. Announcing dates months in advance for Oogie Boogie Bash 2024 might only add to the madness that enveloped the 2023 ticket launch.
Oogie Boogie Bash fans crashed the ticket system on the first launch date in July 2023 and snapped up tickets for every date in 12 hours about a week later. The 2024 launch promises to be even more insane as fans jockey for tickets and hotel rooms before they sell out.