I completely agree with you above, but it just wasn't 100% entertaining this year, it was almost like they were TRYING too hard. But it looks like again for a 2nd year in a row the USH Bill and Ted out did Orlando again from videos I've seen online.
As far as a character list this is what I saw before I left:
Sucker Punch girls
Green Hornet
Papa Smurf
Twilight
True Blood
Osama Bin Laden
Anthony Weiner
A Honey Badger
Coco the Barbarian (Conan O'brien)
True Grit
Smurfette
And this is about the time I was leaving when Osama Bin Laden was in the tower singing before they obviously blew him up.