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10 Disneyland Attractions That Do Not Exist Anymore But We Wish Did
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It's not easy being Disneyland. To keep people coming back and visiting year after year, the Anaheim amusement park has to constantly reinvent itself while not changing in ways that'll alienate diehard fans whose nostalgia runs deep. A few months ago, the park permanently closed the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror to turn it into Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: Breakout!, which opens May 27. While Disney ...
10 Major Rides In Disneyland That Are Not At Disney World
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When it comes to the American Disney Parks, it's a regular Battle Royale between the east coast and the west coast. On the one hand, Disneyland is Walt's original park. On the other, you have a bigger, better, and brighter version of the California classic. In our humble opinion, it all comes down to a matter of attraction. Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida might be the golden boy of ...
12 Essential Tips For Enjoying Disneyland In The Rain
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A day at Disneyland is usually fun in the sun thanks to Southern California's reputation for year-round sunshine - unless you happen to show up at the theme park on one of the 23 days when it rains each year on average in Anaheim. This will go down as one of the rainiest weeks of the year in Anaheim, with the forecast calling for showers stretching into the weekend. While Disneyland remains open ...
23 Rides That Have Shut Down And The Surprising Reasons Why
Rocket to the Moon closed and inspired several futuristic flight rides were equally unsuccessful. Rocket to the Moon was a Disneyland opening day attraction in 1955 that placed guests in a giant rocket ship, or moonliner, standing in Tomorrowland. The futuristic simulation ride was sponsored by the now defunct airline TWA (Trans World Airline). Guests sat in a circle with screens ...
5 Disney Ride Ideas That Never Saw The Light of Day
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Disney parks are known for bringing the magic of their movies and making it into a tangible experience for fans across the world. But as much success as Disney has had - magical or otherwise - not all of their ideas have been great enough to make it to fruition. At one time or another the following five rides were thought to be great ideas before getting shut down. Whether it was for licensing, ...
5 Tips For A Perfect Day At Disneyland
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If you are planing to go to Disneyland this week, you need these tips. The Disneyland Resort is busy, but not packed. That's right, you won't see 2 hour line at any attraction. In fact, I waited ONLY 20 minutes getting into the submarine ride -- and it is August! So what exactly are you waiting for? Why haven't you visited Disneyland this month? Do you need an invite from Mickey Mouse? Silliness ...
60 Reasons To Visit Disneylands 60th Anniversary
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You don't really need a reason to visit Disneyland. It is the happiest place on earth after all. But when was the last time you stepped onto Main Street U.S.A. and took a spin on Dumbo the Flying Elephant? If it's been awhile, you might want to consider planning a visit this year as the resort goes all out for its 60th anniversary Diamond Celebration. In honor of the occasion, let's highlight 60 of ...
7 Secrets About Disney Rides Direct From The Imagineers Who Designed Them
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From Space Mountain's backwards architecture to Tinker Bell's secrets of flying, there are plenty of insider-y tidbits to know about Disney's parks. But these bits of insider info are different, because they come straight from members of Walt Disney Imagineering, the brilliant minds behind the rides, attractions, hotels, restaurants and entertainment at Disney Parks worldwide. Take stock of these ...
7 Tips For Tackling Disneyland In A Day
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I've been to Disneyland hundreds of times over the last two decades and have been writing the Funland theme park blog for about four years now. As a result, people are always asking me how to do everything at Disneyland in a single day. The short answer is you probably can't. It can be a struggle for even hard-core fans with military assault-like strategies. The longer answer is there's lots of ways ...
9 Extinct Disneyland Attractions You Probably Never Knew Existed
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Over 60 years ago, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California. In the decades since, Walt Disney's original theme park vision has undergone changes both big and small. Rides, attractions, and entire swaths of land have sometimes been overhauled or torn down to make way for modern amusements. But thanks to documentaries and numerous Disney bloggers, we can still look back at some of the most iconic rides ...
A Four Year Old Boy's Delight There Was Not A Princess In Sight
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We're going to Disneyland. When you say those words to your child, the last thing you expect to hear is, "I don't want to go there." I was surprised by my son's initial reaction until I learned the reason behind it. Disneyland is for girls, he said. Only princesses live in Disneyland. Determined to prove him wrong, we sat at the computer and within seconds found all kinds of Disney ...
A Grandmother's Magical Return To Disneyland
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If you live in North America, indeed much of the world, you are unlikely to have avoided the spell that has been cast over modern culture since the day Walt Disney opened the gates to his Disneyland theme park in California in 1955. If you were a lucky child, your parents loaded up the station wagon and headed to Anaheim at least once during your childhood, cramming the family into a little offsite ...
A Look Back At Matterhorn Bobsleds Submarine Voyage And Monorail On 60th Anniversary Of Disneyland Rides
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It was 60 years ago this week that the first wave of E-Ticket attractions swept into Disneyland with the debut of Matterhorn Bobsleds, Submarine Voyage and the monorail as the Anaheim theme park underwent its first major expansion in June 1959. With the help of U.S. vice president Richard Nixon, Disneyland introduced three new attractions on June 14, 1959 that helped usher in the E-Ticket era ...
A Special Kind Of Weird
Howard Johnson 's Anaheim branch hotel is less than half a mile from the Disneyland Resort, a roughly 8 minute walk. The hotel also has a webcam pointing at various spots at the Resort. The main spots are in Disneyland, with the Matterhorn acting as Sleeping Beauty Castle, so to speak, having the whole mountain and a zoom in on one of the Bobsleds. The mountain is featured prominently in the overview of ...
A Special Way To Experience A Classic Attraction
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage is one of Disneyland 's more unique attractions, located in Tomorrowland. In this attraction, Guests can embark on a submarine to discover the secrets below the surface of the water and go on a journey to find Nemo while encountering other memorable characters from the film Finding Nemo. However, this attraction includes some stairs into the submarine, which may ...
A Spoonful Of Sugarforward Into The Past At Disneyland's Storybook Memories Exhibit
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Every now and then, as you're digging around trying to find some old tax papers in all those boxes crammed into your garage, you'll stumble across some forgotten but potent artifact from your childhood. It could be the teddy bear you carried everywhere when you were 5; it could be the Star Wars lunch box that mysteriously vanished when you were 6; it could be some Popsicle-stick dragon you made when you ...
After Dark The Dirty Work At Disneyland Begins
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A crew of 600 custodians, painters, gardeners and decorators works 365 nights a year to ensure that the 85-acre park meets Walt Disney's squeaky-clean ideals. When the last Jungle Cruise boat docks for the night and lights fade to black on Sleeping Beauty's Castle, the real work begins. At lush Pixie Hollow, gardeners don miner's headlamps as they begin uprooting stubborn weeds. On Main Street, ...
All 9 Lands At Ranked
Fantasyland offers the most rides and is ideally located in Disneyland. Mickey's Toontown has mediocre rides and limited shopping and dining options. New Orleans Square has the best dining options and underrated classic rides. Disneyland in Anaheim is divided into nine distinct ''lands,'' and some of these certainly offer better experiences than others. ...
All Water Rides Ranked By An Expert
I 've ridden every one of the water rides at Disneyland Resort trust me, these are the best (and worst!) in the parks.
In the last 30 years, I 've visited Disneyland nearly every month, which means I 've ridden a lot. And while there 's magic in (almost) every attraction, Disneyland 's water rides are a bit different. They run the gamut from calm and completely dry to thrilling and full of ...
Avoiding Bummers At The Happiest Place On Earth
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The long awaited trip to Disneyland so many years ago was supposed to be special. The family saved for years for a dream vacation to the land of Mickey Mouse but the reality turned into a major disappointment. The park was so crowded the family spent all day waiting in winding lines and managed to get on only five or six rides, a fact that Birmingham, Ala., author Bob Sehlinger, who made that trip, ...
Beloved Disneyland Rides And Attractions That No Longer Exist
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Since its opening in 1955, Disneyland has seen a number of rides and attractions come and go. And while some of the rides were replaced with newer and better thrills, some are sorely missed. Up ahead, we take a look at some of the most beloved Disneyland attractions that no longer exist. 1. Submarine Voyage In 1959, Disneyland introduced one of its first E ticket rides (aka, more advanced or ...
Brimming With Colour
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Over the top is a good thing at Disneyland California. The bigger, the brighter, the brasher and the more blockbuster, the better at the Happiest Place on Earth. Take for instance the theme parks' latest attraction World of Color - a night-time spectacle of 1,200 fountains that shoot water 75 metres into the air, creating a 6,000-square-metre projection surface that emanates Disney's favourite ...
Bruce Gordon 56 Helped Create Disney Attractions
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Bruce Gordon, a formerlongtime Disney Imagineer who was involved in the creation of numerous Disney theme park attractions around the world and wrote or co-wrote an array of Disney-related books, has died. He was 56. Gordon died at his home in Glendale on Tuesday, a Disney spokesman said. The cause of death has yet to be determined. A Disneyland fan since he first visited the Anaheim theme park ...
Budget Your Time At Disneyland. Tips To Pack In FUN
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When you think about budgeting on your vacation to Disneyland, you don't want to be thinking just about money, you need to be thinking about your time too. During the summertime, the Disneyland Resort starts to fill up with lots of guests and the idea of riding all the attractions without spending hours in the lines begins to be a tricky proposition as there isn't always enough ride for all the ...
California vs. Paris: The Lands of The Future - Part One
This month and next, I shall be comparing the Lands of The Future found in the two Disneyland parks closest to my heart (California and Paris). In California, as per Florida, Tokyo and Hong Kong, this land is called Tomorrowland; in Paris this is called Discoveryland. For the benefit of these articles, when I say Tomorrowland, I am only referring to the California one; I am also only writing about the ...
California vs. Paris: The Lands of The Future - Part Two
This month I shall continue my comparison of California's Tomorrowland with Paris's Discoveryland, by looking at their versions of Nautilus and Star Tours, as well as the two Lands' arcades, shows, theatres and eateries Les Mysteres du Nautilus at Disneyland Paris is nothing like the submarine attraction in California, either in its present Finding Nemo state or its previous incarnation. Contrary to ...
Can You Name All 15 Eticket Rides Still At Disneyland It Is Not As Easy As You Think
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As Disneyland celebrates the 60th anniversary of the E-ticket, it seems like a good time to look back at the rides that earned that distinction at the Anaheim theme park. But what are the E-ticket rides of Disneyland? Naming them all is not as simple as you might think. There were 23 E-ticket attractions during the ticket book era that stretched from 1955 to 1982, according to ...
Cartoon Connection
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It's D-Day for Daniel Fallon as he fulfils a lifelong dream, his three children in tow. Disneyland. This single word can evoke so many images. As a child I would dream about Mickey Mouse clowning about with his famous cartoon friends behind the walls of Sleeping Beauty's castle, as fireworks exploded above and visitors enjoyed fabulous rides. Now, as a father of three, Disneyland evokes ...
Cast Members Testing Davy Crocketts Explorer Canoes
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Over the last few weeks, Disney fans have been excited to see progress at the Disneyland Resort. Recently, we shared that Disneyland is prepping many restaurants to reopen very soon in Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Parks, and Avengers Campus is allowing Guests to fully enjoy their own Marvel experience with super hero interactions happening in every corner. With Disneyland ...
Closer To Finding Nemo
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The construction phase of Disneyland's submarine ride is about 75 percent to 80 percent complete, on track for reopening in June after a nine-year absence. Workers are putting finishing touches on glass-speckled rocks, starfish molds and pliable coral and kelp in the lagoon. About 6.3 million gallons of water will be flowed in during the first week of January, Disney officials said during a sneak-peek ...
C'mon Get Happy!
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Disneyland is billed as the happiest place on Earth. It's hard to argue otherwise. A cast member helping visitors climb into a canal boat in Storybook Land told my family that Walt Disney's vision for his theme park was to "have every person, whether 9 or 90, feel like a kid again." Were he alive today, Disney would see that vision in action. Disneyland itself has not changed that much in ...
