Millions of tourists trek up the hill to Universal Studios Hollywood each year to witness studio-produced earthquakes, firestorms and man eating dinosaurs. They eat and shop along a promenade of faux Los Angeles attractions, and perhaps take in a movie at an 18-screen multiplex. And then they leave-many to stay overnight in Orange County and hotels at Disneyland. But MCA/Universal is in the initial ...

At Disneyland, you can find Main Street, U.S.A., Adventureland, Fantasyland, Frontierland, Tomorrowland and perhaps soon a Virtualland. What You Need To Know The U.S. Patent Office on Dec. 28 granted The Walt Disney Co. a patent to create a virtual-world simulator in a real-world venue The patent could mean the creation of a virtual theme park or similar type of ...

A recent visit to the Disneyland Hotel with my children inevitably led me to the adjacent world-famous Disleyland and Disney California Adventure theme parks, which now offer a plethora of perks for the luxe-minded family vacationer. When even an extraordinary day at Disneyland just won't do, consider these elite experience options: Disneyland VIP Tour Services Perfect for those ...

Theme Park Connection specializes in buying and selling Disney and theme park items online and through their huge warehouse in Winter Garden, Fla. While they've sold a lot of huge collectibles, this is their largest yet It's a four-story, seven bedroom, six bath, more than 10,000-square-foot home modeled after Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. The livable mansion is located in Duluth, Ga. and you can ...

*If you don't want to pay for parking and are going to park hop, you can use the Downtown Disney 3 Hour lot for free (for three hours) and either go in and out every three hours, or buy something and validate the ticket for more time. *Use the Grand Californian Hotel entrance/exit from DCA to sneak out for mojitos. Constantly. *Fastpasses aren't really a hack, as they're for every guest, but ...

Disneyland's newest exhibit, Frontierland s Mineral Hall, is giving many of the Park's guests their first exposure of the wonders of to Black Light, the Ultra Violet rays that are found at the low end or invisible end of the light spectrum. The free exhibit gives dramatic evidence of the uses of Ultra Violet light in home, industry medicine, food processing and even crime detection. The many ...

Disney Parks have a reputation for presenting themselves as perfect, flawless places where nothing could ever possibly go wrong. Some less-than-amazing stuff has allegedly happened inside the parks, but by many accounts, Disney works realllll hard to make it all feel truly magical. But it turns out, Disneyland was decidedly not the happiest place on earth on its opening day, July 17, 1955*. In ...

In the early '50s an artist drew up plans for an amusement park, but not just any amusement park. This was to be a land of its own, a center of magic and imagination, a place where everyone could be a child, one that was wholesome and good, set apart from the world and all its problems. And he saw it as nostalgic and innovative, offering great diversity so that visitors would be constantly challenged by ...

"The missiion is to bring happiness to millions," a promotion piece about Walt Disney stated in 1966. "It first became evident in the twenties, when this lean son of the Mid-West came unheralded to Hollywood and began to animate his dreams." What dreams! They extended from Mickey Mouse to Snow White, "Mary Poppins" to Disneyland. Let me confess, however, that I was an early theological critic of ...

I guess it's a fact of life that not every idea for an attraction or Land can actually be built. Occasionally, the failed idea was a revamp or replacement of an older attraction that was shut down for various reasons. Other times, the idea was scrapped because of the success of another, similar, ride. There are a multitude of other reasons things can be scrapped. After Submarine Voyage closed, it was ...

Have you ever wondered why you get that warm and fuzzy feelings just as you walk into Disneyland? We caught up with Katie, a Disneyland VIP tour guide who says the magic is hidden in the details. You can find them all over the park. It starts at the Candy Palace on Main Street, USA, where vents work overtime to pump out the sweet smell of yummy goodness being baked inside the store. It's not ...

Disneyland 's Star Tours: The Adventures Continue has proved to be one of the theme park 's most versatile attractions. Though perhaps no longer the groundbreaking technological marvel that it was when it debuted in 1987, the flight simulator ride has shifted with the franchise, withstanding cultural trends and aligning with whichever version of “Star Wars” is popular at the moment - or ...

Hello everybody and welcome to Disneyland's Jungle Cruise. I'm Captain Jeff, your humor-modulated river pilot, and I'm here to provide a safe, fun and ethnically proportioned adventure for you and your sulky, dehydrated family. As you settle into your seats, let me confirm that Disneyland recently fired several ``river pilots'' for ignoring the official Disney script for this ride. That shouldn't be a ...

If grandmother's attic could produce treasures so interesting that they would convert a dull, rainy afternoon into an event of lasting memory, think what an "attic" a hundred times its size, serving a family of 6,000 could do. And the typical grandma's garret rarely exhibits such incongruities as a wall-full of tiki masks beneath draped red, white, and blue bunting ... or 18 crates of ...

If you 've got $10 and a hankering for an unremarkable plastic cup with only passing ties to the “Star Wars” franchise, have I got news for you. Online auction website eBay is the hopping place for trading and selling merchandise from Disneyland 's new Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge, with listings for everything from limited edition T-shirts to custom lightsabers. Some of the items ...

Pirates and cannons may not be typical wedding features, but they were the perfect setting for a Utah couple recently married on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disneyland. Tory Elegante had always dreamed of getting married at Disneyland, so when his bride-to-be said a Disney wedding would be OK, he got to planning. He surprised her with packets containing different versions of wedding plans ...