Local Horse Lover Is The Happiest Gal

Posted: August 14, 2017

Alexis Cole has grown up in the High Desert, graduating from Granite Hills High School in 2012. Describing herself as the typical "horse crazy girl," Cole says she has always been interested in horses. When she was three years old, her mother gave her riding lessons as a gift. After that, Cole says, "I was hooked." What better career for someone with a love of horses than working with and around them, and Cole set her sights high, seeking a job working with the horses at Disneyland. "I started my employment with Disney in April of last year as a stable attendant," Cole reports.

Disneyland Delish New Fancy Doughnuts

Posted: August 14, 2017

DEAR CHURROS, it has been a good long while since we've written, and for that we do apologize. Life has kept us busy, but your cinnamon sweetness, your easy hold-a-bility, and your notable soft-to-the-teeth-ness remains forever on our mind and in our heart. So this is just to say that we do adore you, and Dole whips, and those Mickey Ears cookies, and all of the goodies we can find up and down Main Street, U.S.A., and just off it, too (we know, we need to stroll to Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room for our Dole-based longings). This is all to say that the classic Disneyland Park treats, those

Remembering Disneyland Wild Opening Day In 1955

Posted: August 6, 2017

Marty Sklar, the legendary Disney Imagineer who not only closely worked with Walt Disney for years, but also had a vital hand in shaping Disney theme parks as we know them, has died. He was 83 years old. The creative was an icon in the Disney community, known for having never missed an opening of the company's famous parks all over the world. He was even there for the 1955 opening of Disneyland, which was one of the most chaotic moments in the company's history. Thousands of people showed up with counterfeit tickets, turning a dreamy day into Walt's worst nightmare. At the time, Sklar

Disneyland Return Railroad And River Attractions

Posted: August 6, 2017

The building of a space port in a galaxy that happens to be located far, far away doesn't normally prevent an earthbound train from traveling the route it has run along for decades. The port is somewhere deep in the cosmos, light years from this planet, while the train tracks? They've been placed on terra firma, and the engine that toot-toots along them will never be impacted by what happens in space. There is an exception to this, however, and you can find it at Disneyland Park. The construction of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, the new land themed to the "Star Wars" universe, happened to be

Disney Imagineer Story

Posted: August 5, 2017

Martin A. "Marty" Sklar, a right-hand man of Walt Disney and central figure in the development and expansion of his company's theme parks around the world, has died. Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown confirmed Sklar's death for The Associated Press. He died Thursday at his Hollywood Hills home at age 83, a company statement says. No details were released on his cause of death. "Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy," Sklar said in 2005, reading from a plaque at the front of the park. "That says so much about what Walt intended here," Sklar

Fantasmic Drops Old Favorites For New Stars

Posted: August 5, 2017

Disneyland faced a daunting challenge with the remake of the 25-year-old "Fantasmic" nighttime spectacular: How do you update a beloved modern classic without alienating its die-hard fans? The Anaheim theme park has succeeded with a retooled show that largely hews to the original story line with just a sprinkling of new characters and technological flourishes. For the uninitiated, "Fantasmic" projects animated videos onto 60-foot-wide water mist screens in the Rivers of America. The new version of the show adds video mapping technology to the existing colored fountains and