Pirates Of The Caribbean Ride Once Had Real Human Bones And Maybe Still Does
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate 's afterlife for me.
That 's probably not what the people who willed their remains to UCLA 's Medical Center imagined would be their final repose, but for some, it actually was. Maybe even still is - the jury is out on that. But one thing is absolutely certain: When Pirates of the Caribbean opened at Disneyland in 1967, all of the skeletons on the attraction were actual ...
California Theme Parks Must Close Some Indoor Rides And Shows State Guidelines Say
Revised state guidelines will force Disneyland, Universal and other California theme parks to minimize attraction lines, close some indoor rides and shutter indoor shows once they reopen starting next week after more than a year of coronavirus closures.
California has issued revised COVID-19 health and safety guidelines for theme parks that detail new rules and regulations regarding ...
How Rides Will Change Under COVID19 State Guidelines
Riding on Space Mountain, soaring on Dumbo the Flying Elephant or journeying into the Haunted Mansion will be a far different experience for Disneyland visitors in the age of coronavirus.
An in-depth set of state guidelines provide California theme parks with a roadmap for reopening rides and attractions following more than a year of coronavirus closures.
The COVID-19 health and ...
Jungle Cruise Ride Is Finally Getting That Makeover Check Out The New Details
Back in January Disney Parks revealed official plans for a major redesign of the classic Jungle Cruise attraction. Previously, the attraction was a loose affiliation of animatronic sequences that were really only held together by the Jungle Cruise skipper and their endless stream of corny jokes. The new Jungle Cruise was described as a more cohesive story, but exactly what that story was we did not know, ...
Woman Of Color At Center Of Revamped Jungle Cruise Backstory
Walt Disney Imagineering has made a woman of color the central character of the revamped Jungle Cruise rides at Disneyland and Walt Disney World set to undergo major makeovers to remove “negative depictions of native people.”
Alberta Falls is the free spirited adventuress and descendant of world explorers from India and England who will serve as the fictional heroine of the renovated Jungle ...
Reopening In April But There Is A Quiet Catch
After more than a year of being shut down, Disneyland Park and California Adventure Park are set to re-open to guests at the end of next month. Both parks will allow guests who are California residents to return on April 30, after a year of being closed down due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The two parks, which are based in Anaheim, CA, will open at limited capacity, as new safety ...
What A 15 Per Cent Attendance Cap Could Mean
Disneyland and Disney California Adventure could look like ghost towns for those fortunate enough to nab tickets during the first few weeks after the Anaheim theme parks reopen in late April with strict attendance capacity limits.
Updated state guidelines will require California theme parks operate with social distancing-friendly attendance caps in place once they reopen following year-long ...
Disneyland Says It Will Reopen On April 30
Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park will reopen with limited capacity starting April 30 after being closed for more than a year because of the coronavirus, the entertainment giant said Wednesday.
The theme parks initially will admit only California residents while Disney continues to follow state health and safety protocols. Californians interested in visiting the parks will have ...
Disneyland Looks To Reopen By Late April After Yearlong Closure Due To Covid19 Pandemic
Disneyland is aiming to open by late April following a yearlong closure because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek announced Tuesday.
“Here in California, we 're encouraged by the positive trends we 're seeing and we 're hopeful they 'll continue to improve and we 'll be able to reopen our Parks to guests with limited capacity by late April,” Chapek said in a ...
Disneyland Looks To Reopen In Late April Says CEO Bob Chapek
After California officials issued new guidelines Friday allowing theme parks and stadiums to reopen as early as April 1, Disney CEO Bob Chapek said at the company 's annual shareholder meeting Tuesday that Disneyland is hoping open its gates again in a matter of weeks.
“The fact is, it will take some time to get them ready for our guests,” he said, adding that Disney is focused on “recalling ...
California Oks Reopening Of Ball Parks Disneyland
California has cleared a path for fans to hit the stands at opening-day baseball games and return to Disneyland nearly a year after coronavirus restrictions shuttered major entertainment spots.
The state on Friday relaxed guidelines for reopening outdoor venues as a fall and winter surge seemed to be ending, with COVID-19 infection rates, hospitalizations and deaths plummeting and vaccination ...
Snow White Ride Has Been Scaring Kids For Decades But Its New Makeover Should Change That
While Disneyland in Anaheim, California, has been closed to visitors, it's given one of its long-standing attractions a major makeover.
The theme park's Snow White's Scary Adventures ride will soon be known as Snow White's Enchanted Wish - but it isn't just the name that's changing. The ride itself has been redone and includes all-new scenes.
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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 ...
Reverent Flag Ceremony Endures Thanks To Gunny And Some Day The Kids Will Return
”You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.” - Walt Disney
At sunset on Dec. 5 last year - Walt Disney 's 119th birthday - security officer Ernie “Gunny” Napper lowered the flag in Disneyland 's Town Square, and walked it over to a private apartment above the firehouse where Disney spent many of his days ...
Disneyland Will Stay Closed For At Least Another 1 Or 2 Months Says Disney CFO
Disneyland and Disney California Adventure are expected to remain closed for more than a year and not reopen before late March or early April while California theme parks remain shuttered under state guidelines, according to Disney officials.
“Our current expectation is that Disneyland and Disneyland Paris will be closed for the entirety of the second quarter,” Disney Chief Financial Officer ...
Lost Park Attraction Only Exists In Marvel Comics
Back when Walt Disney was still alive and developing attractions at Disneyland with his team of Imagineers, there were some attractions that were conceptualized that were never made. One such attraction would have been a companion to the Haunted Mansion. Unfortunately, upon Walt's passing, the plans were scrapped and it was never built. It does exist, however, in a Marvel comic series.
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Disneyland Is Giving Another Controversial Attraction A Nonracist Makeover
Whenever Disneyland finally reopens, guests will enjoy a new and improved Jungle Cruise attraction, minus the dated caricatures and imperialist overtones that made it unseemly even when it opened in 1955, and which by today 's standards are just plain racist, the Los Angeles Times reports.
On the heels of Disney 's decision to retool its dated Splash Mountain attraction at Disneyland and Walt ...
We Are Going To Liberate Minnie Mouse The Day Yippies Invaded And Shut Down The Park
Before the pandemic shuttered Disneyland in March, there had only been a few days that the park had unplanned closures: the day after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, after the Northridge earthquake in 1994, and after 9/11. But there was another day, in 1970, when Disneyland was overtaken by protesters, whose number and fury - about Minnie Mouse and miniskirts - closed the park early.
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Legendary Photographer Renie Bardeau Dies At 86
The man who arguably best documented the world 's first theme park over his long career has died at age 86, at his retirement home in Glendale, Arizona.
Renie Bardeau - a publicity photographer at Disneyland for nearly 40 years - died of kidney failure Monday, after having recently contracted COVID-19, his daughter, Debbie Bardeau said Tuesday from her house in Carson.
“What ...
Mr Disneyland Ron Dominguez Passes Away On New Years Day
The year has started off on a sad note for the family and friends of Disney Legend Ron Dominguez, also fondly referred to as “Mr. Disneyland.”
Disneyland Alumni Club Facebook group member Mark Eades shared the unfortunate news, writing:
Some sad news to start the new year. The Disneyland Alumni Club has learned that Ron Dominguez, to many known as “Mr. Disneyland, and a former ...
Growing Up In Disneyland
Some of you may have attended one of my many presentations at D23 or Disneyana Fan Club events over the past twenty years. My brother, David, has joined me as we walked the attendees through the wonderful life we had growing up in a celebrity family and Disneyland. Dad owned his own restaurant in Frontierland from 1957 to 1962 - a most unusual part of the Park 's history. Well, now I 've got a new book ...
Meet Maynard Smith The 25-Year Disneyland Employee Who Is An Attraction Himself
It's unlikely that anyone who met Maynard Smith at Disneyland would forget him. Whether he's working at the Enchanted Tiki Room or hosting as his "evil twin" at the Haunted Mansion, Smith brings his many comical voices and a unique presence to work on every shift.
He's so popular, in fact, that his fans created a Facebook page called "Maynard, the amazing Disneyland Castmember!" with 2,050 members ...
Tropical Hideaway Now Dole Whip Up Our Lives
There are many fortuitous foods that you can consume as the new year begins.
Particular legumes? So lucky, it is often said. Various fruits? Healthful and hope-filled for the future.
A Dole Whip, like you might queue for in front of Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room on a toasty July afternoon?
Any pineapple person and/or aficionado of icy-cold treats can testify that the Dole Whip is among ...
Another Fantastic Dream
Fantasmic! Will forever be my favorite Disney Park show. So, when I heard that the show was getting an upgrade on effects and scenes, as one might be able to imagine, I was happy about the new effects and iffy about the new scenes, especially when I heard that "Peter pan" would be replaced with "Pirates of the Carribean." Believe me, "Pirates" is one of the best movies ever made, but come on, leave the ...
Disneyland And Imagineering Part 14
There's Got to be a Morning After
When we last left off, Walt Disney had made it through Opening Day. It wasn't all that he had hoped it would be, but he made it. "Black Sunday" was supposed to be a relatively tame press preview. Instead it resembled more of an all out free-for-all -- the park being besieged by triple attendance that was more than expected. From a certain point of view, this was ...
Every Town USA
The final stop on my lovely tour of Disneyland, at least until "Star Wars Land" is completed, is the entrance to the entire park.
Said to be inspired by Walt's hometown of Marceline, Missouri, "Main Street, U.S.A" is designed to look like the idealized center of a town at around 1910. One of the designers, Harper Goff, showed Walt some pictures of his childhood home in Colorado and Walt liked the ...
Disneyland And Imagineering Part 13
Disneyland, the idea, came from the mind of Walt Disney, but Disneyland, the theme park, was a collaborative effort. It took a great many men and women to create it. Since all men are created equal, everyone who contributed should be credited. I've known about C.V. Wood for many years, and although he was not an Imagineer, he was a land developer who made significant contributions in terms of sales and ...
A Sprinkle Of Pixie Dust
"Fantasyland" is said to be Walt Disney's favorite Land. And it's tough to blame him. "Sleeping Beauty Castle" welcomes you, as both the main entrance and park icon. "King Arthur Carrousel" was built in 1875 and operated in Ontario, Canada from 1922 until 1955 when it was relocated to Disneyland. Until 1975, only one horse was white, and now all of them are. Merlin hosted a ceremony that determined which ...
Disneyland And Imagineering Part 12
Although Disney had a dislike for the typical carnivals of the time, it wasn't so much the content, but the environment and the lack of attention to detail. Long before the park was built, after one of his frequent visits to Griffith Park with his daughters, he stated, "Things could be done better than this. A park should be designed for total family enjoyment. Besides a merry-go-round, there could be ...
Hang With Mickey And Friends
"Mickey's Toontown" is designed cartoonishly. Everything from "Mickey's House" to the post office looks, well, goofy. Opening in 1993, it was inspired by "ToonTown" in the 1988 movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" It was originally planned to be behind "Main Street, USA" and called "Hollywoodland." "Hollywoodland" combined the concept of "Mickey's Birthdayland," which was to be in the Florida park for the ...
I Was A Real Life Mermaid
Did you know there used to be live mermaids at Disneyland in the late 1950s and 1960s? It's true! In this excerpt from Chris Strodder's book The Disneyland Book of Lists, one of these former Disneyland mermaids shares her tale.
When the new Submarine Voyage launched in mid-1959, eight costumed mermaids splashed around in Tomorrowland's lagoon as part of the celebratory festivities. ...
