Construction Walls Go Up Around Sleeping Beauty Castle
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Even a princess' castle needs its beauty rest from time to time.
Construction walls have gone up around Sleeping Beauty Castle as a major refurbishment of Disneyland's iconic centerpiece begins ahead of the grand opening of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in June. The extensive castle makeover will last until spring with no reopening date set, according to Disney officials.
The work includes a $300,000 ...
Converting The Closed Aladdins Oasis Into A Dining Spot
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Disneyland will put a new themed spot called "The Tropical Hideway" between the Enchanted Tiki Room and the Jungle Cruise in Adventureland, in a little used space that was formerly Aladdin's Oasis. Park officials are calling it a "dining location," adding that few details are available at this time, but it won't be a full-service restaurant. Continuing the park's tradition, it will not serve alcohol.
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Cool Clear Water Water
My how time fly's, seems like yesterday I was asking about when the Rivers of America would be filled again. I never like to visit the park when any of the water is not working. It even bummed me out during the renovation of It's a Small World when I saw the canals were dry. I know, weird eh? Yeah that's me; the water kind of calms me down. Those of you that have read my previous articles know ...
Cool Disney Jobs Candy Corn Pumpkins And Lollipop Gourds
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Interview with Sara Dehghan:
Role: Park Decorator
Years with the Company: 2
Hometown: Tehran, Iran
Interests: Art museums and galleries, painting, hiking and swimming
Q. Please tell us about your role.
A. I am a Resort Enhancement lead. Our team develops and installs the seasonal décor for Disneyland park, Disney California ...
Cooling Tower Was Likely Source Of All 22 Legionnaires Cases Official Testifies
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A cooling tower at Disneyland was the likely source for all 22 cases in a Legionnaires' disease outbreak last year near the theme park, an Orange County health official testified Tuesday.
Most of those who fell ill visited the park in the fall of 2017. Disneyland has denied it was the source, pointing to three infected people who had been in Anaheim but not at Disneyland. One of them died.
Dr. ...
Co-Owner Of The Merry-Go-Round That Inspired Disneyland Has Died
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Gosdinski became co-owner of the merry-go-round in 2011 when the previous owner passed away and left his share to him. However, his love affair with the attraction started 30+ years earlier when he was still a high school student.
Last year, during a visit to the merry-go-round with Adventures by Disney, Gosdinski told us the story of the famous benches where Walt Disney sat on Saturday ...
Coronavirus Closure Ends One Mans 2995 Day Streak
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Jeff Reitz won 't resume his 2,995 consecutive day streak of visiting Disneyland when the Anaheim theme park reopens after an extended coronavirus closure.
“The streak 's been ended,” Reitz said at Disneyland on the last day before the closure.
Disneyland closed on Friday, March 13 and won 't reopen for the rest of the month due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure of the park ...
Could Disneyland Return To The Days Of Ride Tickets Why That May Not Be The Worst Idea
Walt Disney famously said that Disneyland would never be finished; it would always grow and change with time. That 's certainly been true with the attractions, for the most part, but it 's also true when it comes to the way the Disney Parks operate. New policies and procedures get implemented over time which change the way simply getting into the parks functions. But the new processes recently implemented ...
Could Flash Mountain Return, In Light Of Disneyland Job Cuts?
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Call it an unexpected consequence of the bad economy: A recent round of staff reductions at Disneyland could result in the return of embarrassing episodes of public nudity at the Happiest Place on Earth.
Way back in 1997, a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times chronicled a scintillating Internet phenomenon involving the Anaheim theme park's Splash Mountain log ride: Photos of women flashing their ...
Could Slightly Lower Attendance Be A Good Thing
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Is Disneyland's attendance falling? And if it did, would that be a bad thing?
The theme park industry's annual attendance report came out last week, and it reported a nearly 2 percent attendance drop for Disneyland and nearly 1 percent decline at Disney California Adventure in 2016.
That might seem hard to believe for many Disneyland fans that spent the past year crammed in pathways around ...
Counterfeiters Prefer Disneyland
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Disneyland's 1955 opening was plagued by snafus, including the widespread distribution of counterfeit tickets.
More than 60 years later, security agents at the Anaheim theme park are on the lookout not only for phony tickets but for bogus money, too
Police reports show that crime rates at Southern California theme parks are extremely low, but each park wrestles with unique crime problems such as ...
Country Bears
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You know Disney's suggestion Jar must have come up empty when they start adapting the theme park attractions for films - but that' exactly what they've done with "the Country Bears", conspired a feature length film based around the hoary, slightly iconic, musical attraction at Disneyland. And just how confidant is Disney with their film? Let's just say they tore down the attraction shortly before the film ...
Couple Sues After They Were Kicked Out Of Club 33
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A Los Angeles couple who said they were banned from Disneyland's pricey and private Club 33 have sued the park, contending they were retaliated against for criticizing sexual harassment and other problems that arose as a result of new management.
"There is a waiting list to become a Club 33 member. It's our belief that new management has been told to force the older members out so they can bring in ...
Couple Tries For Year Of Daily Disneyland Visits
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It seems like a dream as flighty as Tinkerbell and as quirky as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
Yet a Southern California couple have passed the halfway mark in their quest to visit Disneyland every day this year.
"We joke around that we're here more than the cast members are," Jeff Reitz said Tuesday.
Reitz, 39, of Huntington Beach, and Tonya Mickesh, 45, of Lake Forest were both unemployed when she ...
Court Tells Disneyland To Study Segway Use
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A California appeals court told Disneyland it must consider allowing use of two-wheel Segways by disabled people.
Disneyland currently allows disabled visitors to use wheelchairs and scooters at the Anaheim theme park, but the justices of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said it's time for "The Happiest Place on Earth" to study the idea of adding Segways.
"We have every ...
Crack Down On Disability Access Service Misuses And Abuses
Disneyland and Disney World will attempt to rein in the unwieldy Disability Access Service that has bogged down attraction queues and backed up Genie+ lanes as a result of a tripling in usage of the program ripe with misuse and abuse.
The Disneyland and Walt Disney World resorts updated the Disability Access Service programs on Tuesday, April 9 that offer assistance to theme park visitors ...
Craft Is Designed For Cushion-Air Trip To Worlds Fair
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A Maryland manufacturer of air cushion vehicles hopes to build a ferry on which Passengers can glide between Manhattan and the New York world's fair grounds in 1964 and 1965. A patent for the new craft will be issued next week. The inventor is Melville W, Beardsley, vice-president of National Research Associates. Inc., of Laurel, Md. The company has built a score of vehicles that ride on air, and regards ...
Crane Co Showing Plumbing Future
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One of the newest exhibits in Disneyland is the display by Crane Co., makers of "Everything AND the Kitchen Sink." Giant cranes, fabricated of pipe, join Walt Disney's cartoon characters in a park dedicated to a new concept of entertainment for youngsters and adults.
The Crane exhibit in the Tomorrowland section was dedicated by company President Frank F. Elliott and Walt Disney, creator of ...
Crews Put Out Fire At Disneyland After Small Blaze Erupts
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Crews put out a small blaze that erupted at Disneyland Thursday evening, fire officials said.
The blaze was reported just after 6 p.m., according to the Anaheim Fire and Rescue Department.
Officials said firefighters who responded to the scene put out the blaze before additional units arrived.
The blaze may have happened in a vegetation area of the park, officials ...
Crews Work 24 7 To Reopen Its A Small World After The Flood
It took a small village of more than 20 Disneyland departments to repair and reopen It 's a Small World in time for Christmas after a flood threatened to shutter the classic boat ride for the entire holiday season.
It 's a Small World is expected to reopen next week, according to Disneyland officials. Disneyland began testing Small World boats along the water canals of the attraction on ...
Crowded Or Not What Is Disneyland Like Now That All Passholders Can Return We Have The Numbers
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Disneyland continued to remain uncrowded in September after lighter-than-expected crowds following the launch of Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge and a brief midsummer attendance spike, according to data from a theme park tracking company.
Disneyland rarely talks about attendance numbers. But Touring Plans, an online subscription service that lets users create custom theme park itineraries, tracks ...
Crowds Return For Halloween Screams Fireworks Show Filling Both Parking Garages To Capacity
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The triumphant return of the “Halloween Screams” fireworks show filled Disneyland 's two parking garages to capacity on Friday night as crowds returned to the Anaheim theme park for the kick off of the Halloween Time holiday season.
Halloween Time returned to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure on a hot and balmy early September day that topped 90 degrees as the parks ushered in the ...
Crowds Wait Five Hours For New Fireworks Show Wondrous Journeys
On Jan. 27, Disneyland kicked off 100 Years of Wonder, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company. The yearlong party includes a makeover for Sleeping Beauty Castle and “platinum” decorations throughout both parks, new food and merchandise, and the opening of Mickey & Minnie 's Runaway Railway, a new ride in Toontown.
It also includes two new nighttime shows. World of ...
Cuban Sculptor Carves Furniture For Haunted Mansion
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For Ciro Rolando Santana y Arrite, a soft-spoken, wiry little Cuban sculptor of extraordinary talent, a temporary position at Disneyland has become a springboard to the fulfillment of a long-time dream - to bring his family from an adopted home in Puerto Rico to the United States and continue his career as a sculptor.
Rolando Santana came to this country early in 1969. He had been at ...
Cursed History Of Problematic Fantasmic Dragon That Burst Into Flames
The Disneyland dragon that burst into a towering inferno during “Fantasmic” has a troubled history stretching back more than a decade to the cursed debut of the 45-foot-tall audio-animatronic beast nicknamed after Murphy 's Law.
The “Fantasmic” dragon that caught fire during a performance of the nighttime spectacular over the weekend was an embarrassing no-show throughout summer 2009 when the ...
Cushions Added To The Matterhorn Bobsleds
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Rides got a little comfier on the Matterhorn Bobsleds.
Disneyland officials confirmed they have added cushions on the bottoms of the seats on the ride vehicles.
The bobsleds were converted to a single seat configuration in 2012, with new interlocking seatbelts. The belts were designed to keep people from unbuckling or slipping out of them while riding the tubular roller coaster. Under the current ...
Custodian Has Cleaned Disneyland Since 1964
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The first time Mike Larson walked along Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A., he focused on the horse poop.
Larson started as a Disneyland custodian 48 years ago, his first job pushing a "honey bucket" to scoop up the mess that the carriage horses left behind.
"At that time for me, it was basically tunnel vision. I knew I had to do the job," said Larson, 67, of Orange. "I didn't have time to view ...
Customer Service The Disney Way
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I just returned from the Happiest Place on Earth in a foul mood. I'm not mad at Disneyland. As always they did everything right, providing an exceptionally magical experience for my family. I'm angry at other customer-facing merchants and businesses who fail to do the simplest things to improve customer satisfaction.
You must understand that as a communications specialist, I experience Disneyland ...
