Disney Sets Opening Date For Guardians Of The Galaxy Attraction At California Adventure
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Are you ready to dance with superheroes? If so, plan on a trip to Anaheim. Disney has set the opening date for the new "Guardians of the Galaxy"-inspired attraction and the company is going all out to commemorate the occasion, with new character interactions and even a dance party.
Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: Breakout will open May 27 at Disney California Adventure, but the attraction is just ...
Disney Sets Plans In Motion For The Museum Of The Weird
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Disney's got some more magic a-brewing, and like Jon Favreau is doing for his upcoming Disney project, Magic Kingdom, the people at Disney are looking back in Magic Kingdom history for inspiration. This time, they're looking at a project that lost ground back in the 60s The Museum of the Weird.
The project was an attraction for Disneyland designed by original imagineers Rolly Crump and Claude Coats; ...
Disney Shared A Sneak Peek At The New Princess And The Frog Inspired Redo Of Splash Mountain
Last summer, Disney dropped the big news that a classic attraction was getting a major overhaul. On June, 24, 2020, the company announced that Splash Mountain at Walt Disney World and Disneyland would be re-themed with a story inspired by the 2009 animated film “The Princess and the Frog” and its star, Princess Tiana. Since then, Walt Disney Imagineers have been hard at work developing the attraction and ...
Disney Shares First Look At Tianas Palace Marquee
Disney has shared a first look at the Tiana 's Palace marquee, a preview of what 's to come at the new Disneyland restaurant.
We 're almost there! Earlier this year, Disney revealed that Tiana 's Palace would be opening later in 2023 at Disneyland Resort. The restaurant will be a reimagining of the French Market Restaurant in Disneyland 's New Orleans Square, adding more Princess and the Frog ...
Disney Shaves Facial Hair Ban
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Disneyland is anticipating a new look among some male employees since its announcement that mustaches are no longer banished from the Anaheim, California, theme park's male grooming code. Beards, goatees and shaggy sideburns are still not permitted, but the shift is a significant step, especially for a classic rule in place for 45 years running.
The ban on facial hair, originally instituted in 1957 by ...
Disney Shelves Plans For Luxury Hotel
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Walt Disney World, in Orlando, has more than 30 resorts to house guests on or near its property. Disneyland, in Anaheim, Calif., has three - and now plans for a fourth have been put on hold.
The company has put plans for a luxury hotel in Disneyland's shopping district on "indefinite hold" amidst a battle with city officials over $267 million in subsidies.
Disney originally planned to build the ...
Disney Style Halloween Offers Spook-tacular Entertainment
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Beginning September 26 and continuing through Sunday, November 2, Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure parks become a one-stop destination to experience spook-tacular entertainment, whimsical decor, a lively mix of Disney characters in Halloween costumes and a variety of festive foods.
During regular park hours at Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure, Halloween Time at Disneyland ...
Disney Sued For 3 Million Dollars By Space Mountain Rider Who Alleges Malfunction Led To Injury
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An Alaska woman has sued the Walt Disney Co. seeking $3 million in California federal court, alleging she suffered a head injury while exiting the Space Mountain roller coaster at Disneyland.
Sarah Andrews alleges in a complaint filed on Friday that she “violently struck” her head against a low concrete ceiling after the coaster malfunctioned and the ride was diverted into a dimly lit ...
Disney Sued For Death On Train Ride
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Disney sued for death on train ride The family of a man who was killed when the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride derailed at Disneyland in September 2003 has sued Walt Disney Co., Reuters reports.
Marcelo Torres' family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court Tuesday. It seeks unspecified general and punitive damages, the report states. Marcelo Torres, 22, was killed, and ...
Disney Sued Over Death On Train Ride
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The family of Disney ride-accident victim Marcelo Torres filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday, alleging that poor maintenance by Disneyland mechanics caused the accident that killed their 22-year-old son last year.
Torres was killed on Sept. 5, 2003, when the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster derailed and crashed in a tunnel. State safety investigators found that Disney mechanics had ...
Disney Suggests Anaheim Raise $1 Billion For Resort
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In its initial negotiations with the city, the Walt Disney Co, has suggested that Anaheim raise as much as $1 billion toward the entertainment company's financing of the Disneyland expansion, city sources said Thursday.
However, city officials have answered with a public financing package totaling slightly more than half that amount that includes a variety of funding options, including possible federal ...
Disney Teams With Dupont For Another Futuristic House
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News item: Disney is teaming with a leading United States company to show people what a house years ahead might look like.
That, as many Disney fans remember, was in 1957. Disney's creative team partnered with Monsanto to build what it called a House of the Future, which was on display at Disneyland for about a decade.
It featured many new and exciting concept for better living in the home, ...
Disney Temporarily Closes 8 Attractions
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Disney parks are renovating eight attractions and other venues that are shut down for at least part of March.
Many of the areas are already closed and some are slated to reopen later this month in the two parks, Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
The closures include eight attractions, four restaurants and one shop.
Crews are finishing up a paving project in Tomorrowland in Disneyland ...
Disney Temporarily Closes 8 Attractions, 1 Show
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Eight Disney parks attractions, one show and some hotel pools will be temporarily closed for at least part of February mostly because of maintenance projects.
Disney traditionally conducts most of their big renovation projects in the winter months following the busy holidays when tourism slows down.
On Friday (today), Disney is reopening two of those attractions -- Redwood Creek Challenge Trail ...
Disney Theme Park Has Bad News About A New Attraction
Fans of Walt Disney Co. theme parks are in constant anticipation of the opening of new rides and attractions and spend a lot of time planning their trips to parks, buying admission tickets and getting their reservations lined up.
Both Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif., have big development projects underway, including new rides and attractions ...
Disney Theme Parks' Dress Code Relaxed
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Female employees don't have to wear pantyhose with skirts anymore, unless the leg wear is part of a costume.
Chalk one up for women who work at Disney theme parks: They don't have to wear pantyhose anymore.
In the biggest change to the company's appearance code in a decade, the Walt Disney Co. has decided to let most female employees at Disney theme parks worldwide, including the Disneyland ...
Disney Tightens Their FastPass Ride Reservation Policy
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There's all kinds of tricks, tips, and tidbits when it comes to visiting a mega theme park like those in the Disney empire. However, one of the best secrets was a kind of loophole in the FastPass ride reservation system over at Walt Disney World and Disneyland.
It wasn't really that big of a secret, but it's something we considered pretty slick. The FastPass kiosks read your park admission tickets ...
Disney To Boost Minority Builders
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Walt Disney Co. plans to target minority-owned business for up to $450 million in labor and materials for its proposed $3-billion expansion project near Disneyland - expected to be one of the Southland's largest construction projects in the 1990s.
The entertainment conglomerate has set what it calls an "aggressive" target of awarding 15% of the contracts for a 470-acre expansion of its original Anaheim ...
Disney To Bring Back Discounts For Disabled
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Step aside, Scrooge McDuck. Tinker Bell waved her wand Monday and restored Disneyland's half-price admission for disabled patrons.
Two days after Disneyland said the $18 Happy Hearts prices would end, the company relented.
Not only will the half-price admissions be restored starting in November, but they'll be expanded from 12 days a year to 24.
"I would apologize ... if we in any way offended ...
Disney To Build Avatar-Themed Lands
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The Happiest Place on Earth is going to Pandora and beyond.
But not to Disneyland or Disney California Adventure, at least right now.
The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that it had formed a partnership with Academy Award-winning director James Cameron and Twentieth Century Fox to develop themed lands based on the blockbuster movie "Avatar" in Disney parks.
At a press conference at ...
Disney To Impose Age Policy At Theme Parks
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Children under age 14 will have to be accompanied by someone 14 or older to get into Disneyland and Disney California Adventure starting March 23.
The policy change is going into effect across Disney's American resorts, which previously had varying age policies.
"We regularly review all policies and identified an opportunity to provide a consistent age of admission and address a question we ...
Disney To Install Permanent Security Gates
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Anaheim, California Bowing to fears of terrorism, Walt Disney plans to build permanent security gates at the Disneyland Resort next year. The company had resisted security gates around Disneyland and its California Adventure theme park next door, saying that the sense of fantasy would be spoiled. Disney already screens purses, backpacks and coolers, but the bag-check tables have been moved away from the ...
Disney To Make Movie Loosely Based On Your 35th Favorite Disneyland Attraction
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As someone who works in an ostensibly creative profession, I understand that coming up with ideas is hard, but I think if Disney hasn't hit the bottom of the conceptual barrel with a movie sort-of-not-really adapted from the Enchanted Tiki Room, the second take on The Haunted Mansion certainly is.
"Pirates of the Caribbean" is one of the most successful franchises in the history of Disney. But when it ...
Disney To Offer Ride Wait-Time Updates Via Cellphone
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My friend and colleague Dawn Chmielewski reports that starting next year, visitors to Disney theme parks will be able to use their cellphones to check ride wait times, locate restaurants and find characters as well as receive admission discounts and merchandise deals.
Disneyland and Walt Disney World visitors would have to download an application to their Verizon Wireless phones to access the ...
Disney To Project Guests Photos On Ride
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A new Disneyland show featuring photos of visitors is set to debut next week.
The first show, called "The Magic, the Memories, and You," is scheduled for 6 p.m. Jan. 27 in the outdoor mall area in front of the "it's a small world" ride, said John McClintock, a Disneyland Resort spokesman.
Disney plans to project pictures of visitors many of them taken that day on the facade of the ride building ...
Disney To Provide Park Navigation By Cell Phone
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Disneyland visitors will soon be able to find their way about the park by cell phone - and like a ghost at Haunted Mansion, the mobile application could follow you home.
The Walt Disney Co. and Verizon Wireless announced Wednesday that they have reached a multiyear deal to provide theme park information and extras to Verizon customers who download a special application.
Beginning next year, ...
Disney Top 10 Innovations Of All Time
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The Walt Disney Company is known for its creativity, innovative thinking and technological advances.
Who, but Walt Disney, could have given us a motion picture like "Snow White," the first full-length animated feature film which was a movie industry first?
Who, but the Walt Disney Company, could have given us Epcot, perhaps the most unique theme park experience in the world?
On a recent ...
Disney Tram-Injured Woman Reach Settlement
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A Chinese woman who fell out of a moving Disneyland tram and suffered injuries that left her needing 24-hour medical supervision for the rest of her life has reached a settlement in a lawsuit she filed against the Walt Disney Co.
Lawyers for Qi Zhao and Disney reached the agreement Tuesday, bringing a two-week trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court to an abrupt end.
Details of the accord ...
Disney Trip Evokes Magic Of The Past
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Keeping the porch light on shone a new meaning for me recently.
Our family journeyed down to Disneyland for seven days to explore The Happiest Place on Earth. I have visited Disneyland twice before so I was eagerly looking forward to sharing the magic with my wife and the rest of our family.
Seeing my 11-year-old grandson Nicholas enjoy Disneyland - the rides, the churros, the ice cream and ...
Disney Trippers
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The tears were still damp on the powdered cheeks of Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson when she announced to her waiting public that the very first thing she was going to do now that she was Miss America was go to Disney World. Her decision was not altogether unexpected, since the Orlando playground and its progenitor in Anaheim seem to be the destinations of choice these days for big-time winners.
Doug ...
Disney Turns 100 Here Is A Look Back At Price Changes Over The Years Including The 1 Dollar Ticket When Disneyland Opened In 1955
One hundred years ago today, Walt Disney and his brother Roy signed an agreement to form Disney Bros. Studios, which would produce a live-action/animated film series called The Alice Comedies.
Walt himself starred in the first of the shorts, but they would hardly be the sort of things an empire was built upon. The real turning point would come five years later with the release of Steamboat ...
