Flying Saucers Are Reported Heading Toward Disneyland
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No figment of the imagination, flying saucers are destined for the Park, to become one of Walt Disney's latest attractions for the 1961 season.
Scheduled to open this summer,the new adventure will have a space station in Tomorrowland,where guests can climb aboard their own Saucer, take to the air, guide their own ship, and return to land on the outer space station.
Disneyland Vice- President ...
Foamrubbersville
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Foamrubbersville: Los Angeles obviously believes in its own existence but it is hard for the visitor to share the native faith. The faith it self is as nebulous as it is intense-as all enduring faith should be-but one really needs to be born to it, for conversion comes hard. Like its central shrine, which is, of course, Hollywood, Los Angeles does finally flicker as if with life, but only as the projection ...
Food By The Numbers Millions Of Churros Hot Dogs And Mickey Pretzels
Disneyland food and drinks take center stage in the second season of the “Behind the Attraction” documentary series on the Disney+ streaming service.
“Behind the Attraction” takes a by-the-numbers look at the many theme park treats produced each year by Disneyland - and eaten by Disneylanders.
During the Disney food episode, the show offers a behind-the-scenes look inside the ...
Food Can Be Fun Too
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Our need for nourishment is never far distant and Disneyland visitors have been known to work up a handy man's appetite touring the Park.
The mouth watering aromas drift from the 20 restaurants and refreshment centers located throughout Disneyland's sixty acres of entertainment make a combination that is almost irresistible.
"Let's eat," is a good two word description of the reaction.
The ...
For A Decade Disney Will Give Every 6th Grader In Anaheim A Disneyland Ticket For Community Service
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For the next 10 years, every sixth grader at an Anaheim public or private school could receive a free ticket to Disneyland for doing something to benefit their community, Disney announced Friday.
"Sixth grade is a great year to help inspire students to give back to their community through service," said Jill Bolton, director of corporate citizenship at Disneyland.
The "Happiest Class on Earth" ...
For A Homemade Magical Kingdom, You Need $300, Sheets And Backyard
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Most teens who have $300 to spend are going to come up with similar wish lists: An Xbox. An iPod. Fifteen copies of "High School Musical."
Andrew Vivas Anabu took the same amount of money and transformed his San Leandro backyard into a theme park experience -- building a nighttime special effects show that includes synchronized lighting, video screens, bubble machines and an animatronic parrot. ...
For Disneyland 60th There Mickey And Minnie And Cutting-Edge Technology
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On a rainy spring night, Disneyland technology guru Chuck Davis paced along Main Street, overseeing a rehearsal of a new fireworks and light show for the park's 60th anniversary celebration..
Projectors, lasers, fireworks and audio equipment were assembled to create a show that displays well-known Disney characters on the facade of Main Street buildings while music blares and fireworks rocket over ...
For Disneyland's New Indiana Jones Adventure, Waiting Is Half The Fun
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Imagine you run a theater and you're faced with 21,000 people in line every day expecting nothing but the best. There are 2,400 eager customers queued at any given time waiting to get in. Your venue seats 180 people for each performance.
Those impossible numbers would make most producers with any sense throw in the towel.
But not Disneyland. The Magic Kingdom has spent the past 40 years fine-tuning ...
For 'EO' Fans, The Thriller's Gone
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Brent Fidler gave it his best shot. He scrawled "Save Michael!" across a white T-shirt, distributed homemade "Pedal Captain Eo, not drugs" Pog milkcaps and even circulated a petition at school.
Despite his allegiance, "Captain Eo" zoomed out of 3-D sight forever when Disneyland closed Sunday night.
"I swear I'm going to cry," said Fidler, 14.
Tomorrowland's 3-D musical space adventure starring a ...
For Ghostly Fun, Disneyland Resort Celebrates The Fall Season With Two Spirited Attractions
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For those in search of happy haunting grounds this autumn, the Disneyland Resort becomes a spirited realm of other-worldly adventures guaranteed to put a chill down the most courageous spine. The frightfully fun "Haunted Mansion Holiday," a popular seasonal transformation of the classic "Haunted Mansion," returns to Disneyland on October 1, while the exhilarating thrill of "The Twilight Zone Tower of ...
For Her, He Was Dad, Not Uncle Walt
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To millions around the world, he was known as Uncle Walt, but to one Napa resident, he was simply Dad.
As Disneyland celebrates its 50th anniversary, Walt Disney's daughter, Diane Disney Miller, agreed to sit down and reminisce. She talked about her father's life and a special gift she's planning at San Francisco's Presidio to honor his memory.
Walt Disney was the king of cartoons, making ...
For Residents Near Disneyland, Nightly Fireworks Shows Have Lost Their Spark
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Though many in proximity to the resort admit there is an appeal to the bursts that fill the night sky throughout the summer, those seeking peace and quiet have long tried to limit the noise and smoke.
Disneyland's fireworks show is visible from a neighboring residential area in Anaheim.
For most people, fireworks are a special treat loud, luminous displays to savor on Independence Day or New ...
For Sale: Pirates Premiere
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If you've stashed away a pirate's booty of $1,500, you can book passage to Disneyland's May 19 world premiere for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Disneyland, the host for all three Pirates premieres, is selling tickets to the public in hopes of raising more than $3 million for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Twelve hundred tickets will be available, starting today, at www.piratespremiere.com.
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For The First Time Disneyland To Host Separate Ticket After Hours Christmas Holiday Event For 165 Dollars
For the first time in its history, Disneyland Resort will follow its sister property in Florida and host a limited capacity, separate ticket Christmas season after-hours event this winter.
For $165 per person, visitors to the Disney Merriest Nites at Disneyland can enjoy a special performance of a Christmas Fantasy Parade, enjoy a new "Frozen"- themed party in Fantasyland, and revel in the ...
For The Young And The Star-Struck
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According to Disneyland's corporate marketing parable, Mickey's Toontown isn't new; it's been there since the 1930's, but we couldn't see the secret hideaway until January of this year. That was when the cartoon community decided to go public and allow us non-toons-real-life human beings-not only to visit but also to take tours of Minnie and Mickey Mouse's houses.
Yeah, right. Don't try running this ...
Forever Let Us Hold Our Banner High
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Annette Funicello
The death of Annette Funicello this month set off a wave of nostalgia among baby boomers who remember her as the star of the "Mouseketeers" of the original Mickey Mouse Club (MMC). MMC was the brainchild of Walt Disney, studio founder, entertainer, and entrepreneur, originally as a means of promoting the then new Disneyland, which opened in Anaheim, California on 17 July 1955.
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Former Disney Dancer Can Still Can-Can
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When the can-can dancers kick up their legs for Disneyland's "A Salute to the Golden Horseshoe Revue," they will be watched over by a dancer from the original show who last kicked up her legs more than 25 years ago.
Demetra "DeeDee" Bozikis was a can-can dancers during the last nine years of the original show's 31-year run, which ended in October 1986.
"It was wonderful to work with those Disney ...
Former Imagineer Shares Early Concept For Attraction
Early concept designs for Gadget 's Go Coaster were recently revealed online by former Disney Imagineer Jim Shull. See the photos, and why Jim says they didn 't go with the original concept for the attraction.
Jim Shull took to his Twitter to share a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Gadget 's Go Coaster at Disneyland. Gadget 's Go Coaster is a family-friendly roller coaster themed to ...
Former Marshall Resident Wins Contest To Play Character On Disney Ride
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Brodie Brockie will join two dozen other people in California's Disneyland Resort as winners of the CareerBuilder.com Disney Dream Jobs competition.
Disney on Tuesday announced its 25 winners; Brockie was among them and is slated to be an honorary Jungle Cruise skipper.
Brockie, a 1991 Marshall High School graduate and current Ann Arbor resident, said the 10-minute boat ride through waters filled ...
Four Classic Rides Just Closed For A Massive Makeover
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As you get ready to plan your park visit, it's helpful to know which attractions could be closed and when. Four Disneyland rides closed for refurbishment this year; they're going to look so different!
Don't worry, though. The closures are all seasonal and will re-open at various times throughout the year. So here's the big question. What rides are off the table?
Here ...
Frantic Kingdom: A Wild Ride In Search Of Lost Sister
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It was 1968, and Mom had volunteered to take us four girls from Portland to Disneyland while Dad was on a business trip.
We were a handful - I was the oldest at 13; Mary was 9; Jean, 5; and Sarah, 3. And we had big plans: the Matterhorn, Teacups, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Sleeping Beauty's Castle and those nutty submarines that weren't even completely submerged.
The first couple of days were fun in ...
Free Passes And Canoe Race Wages May Be Low But Little Known Perks Make Working At A Theme Park More Attractive
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Nine Disneyland custodians who call their team Clean Sweep launched their canoe with a splash.
"One and two and three and," shouted the stroker, the paddler at the front of the boat, in a race around Tom Sawyer Island. At the back, Melody Anderson wedged her oar into the water, hoping to steer her team to a fast enough time to make the finals.
"This perk is very high on my list," the 61-year-old ...
Free Roaming Droids To Make Appearances At Star Wars Galaxys Edge
New droids capable of dancing, hopping in place, bowing their heads and nudging humans like pets are coming to Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge at Disneyland beginning on Friday.
The droids, known as BD-X droids, will make appearances at various locations around the Black Spire Outpost at Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge throughout the day. The appearances will coincide with the resort 's “Season of the ...
Free Shows And Exhibits
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Walt Disney always believed that entertainment of educational value should be presented so that everyone is able to see it, and the Disneyland staff holds on to that important ideal today.
Since everything at Disneyland is set either in the past or the future, most of the free exhibits deal with history or things to come. Main Street, U.S.A. is a free show in itself a perfect replica of a ...
Freeway Jammed By Disneyland Mob
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Honking horns and steaming engines of cars backed up for miles on the Santa Ana Freeway and other roads near west Anaheim Monday morning sounded fanfare for the public opening of Disneyland.
The huge amusement area officially opened for business at 10 a.m. Monday after some 35,000
invited guests attended the press preview Sunday.
The public opening drew some 50,000 persons to the $17,000,000 ...
Friend of Mickey
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Little noticed in the hoopla surrounding Walt Disney Co.'s record 1995 earnings was the fact they wouldn't have been record but for the efforts of Judson Green, president of the theme park unit.
Green, 43, is a former Arthur Young CPA who climbed Disney's ranks to became chief financial officer in 1989. Two years later he took over Walt Disney Attractions, just as the Gulf War, recession and tired ...
From Ashes To Ashes, At Disneyland
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Everyone who rides Disneyland's popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" attraction knows "dead men tell no tales," and its animatronic figures aren't talking either. But, oh, if they could.
On Friday, workers at the Anaheim theme park spotted a guest on the ride sprinkling an unidentified substance into the water, prompting them to close the attraction and alert police.
"A witness described the ...
From Disneyland To The Movies And Back Again
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A longtime favorite Disneyland Resort attraction is reopening May 25 with new swashbuckling adventures as Captain Jack Sparrow and his gaggle of mates take over Tom Sawyer Island and turn it into their own "Pirate's Lair." The pirates will loot and carouse as they attempt to recruit island guests into their brotherhood of freedom and greed at Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island.
"The phenomenal ...
From Dumbo To Mr Toad Disneyland Collection Goes Up For Auction
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For years, Dumbo the Flying Elephant hung from his living room ceiling, a Mr. Toad Wild Ride car was parked in his library and Bashful's cart from Snow White's Scary Adventures sat on his front lawn in suburban California.
Now collector Richard Kraft is selling off his 750-item collection of theme park vehicles, props and artifacts spanning six decades of Disneyland history.
Kraft, a Hollywood ...
From Face Masks To Theme Park Reservations Here Is What Parkgoers Can Expect
To align with the reopening of California's economy on June 15, Disneyland Resort on Monday announced some relaxed Covid-19 restrictions for guests.
Following a yearlong closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Anaheim theme park reopened to California residents at a limited capacity on April 30. On Tuesday, the park welcomed out-of-state guests for the first time this year.
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From Fantasmic To Fireworks Magic Takes Place In Disneyland After Dark
Head to the "Happiest Place on Earth" and experience Disneyland after dark, where the lights, shows and characters are sure to bring a smile to your face.
After the sun goes down, Disneyland features the 50th Anniversary Electrical Parade, where everyone can see their favorite characters march down Main Street on sparkling floats.
Fantasmic!, which tells Disney stories right in ...
