Space Shot Restored Prop Bound For Museum
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Dan Viets isn't the attorney Columbia thinks he is at home. Oh no, no, no - he's a rocket man. Shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday, Viets, wife Sheila Dundon and friend Don Jourdan set off in a two-vehicle caravan as Jourdan's F-150 pickup towed a trailer carrying a 40-foot novelty shaped like a rocket known as the Moonliner II. They were headed for the Airline History Museum in Kansas City. "I just ...
Special Airspace Bulletin
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FAA issues flight restriction NOTAM over Disneyland AOPA is sending you this message to advise you that the FAA has established a 3-nautical-mile flight restriction around the Disneyland theme park. Aircraft are now prohibited below 3,000 feet agl within the restriction area. Because of elevated concerns for terrorist activities, the restriction is effective until further notice. The full text of the notam ...
Special Fantasmic Anniversary Dessert At Cafe Orleans
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Disneyland annual pass-holders witnessed a special 20th anniversary, after-hours performance of Fantasmic! on Monday. The multimedia show began with a four-minute prologue showing planning and preparation for the attraction and its premiere in May, 1992. The event took place at 11:30 p.m., after the park was closed to all but pass-holders who had picked up tickets in advance to attend. Even ...
Special Fireworks At Disneyland For July 4
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For the second consecutive year, Disneyland is putting on its special Fourth of July fireworks display over four days. "Disney's Celebrate America! A Fourth of July Concert in the Sky," is set for 9:30 p.m. beginning Friday and running through Monday, July 4. John Addis, senior show director, said the fireworks display will salute the pioneering spirit and beauty of America. "Continuing ...
Spectacular Plus
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The newspapers boosted the event like a Community Chest drive. The Hollywood Bowl was jumping with thousands of kids wearing coonskin caps. ABC-TV put on a special one-and-half-hour telecast requiring 24 cameras, and Simon and Schuster published a special book about it. The man behind the trumpeting was Walt Disney, who gave the nation Mickey Mouse and Davy Crockett. The occasion was this week's opening of ...
Spend 24 Hours At Disneyland
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YOUR RITUALS X 2: Question: What do you do at Disneyland when your spirits are lagging and your mouth is yawning and you need a little oomph after the half day you've put in riding and walking and ice-cream-ing and people-watching and mouse-hugging? Every fan has their revive-me-now ritual. Some go for a bowl of tomato basil soup at the Jolly Holiday, some go for a refreshingly wet ride on Splash Mountain, ...
Spicy Milk Is Out Of This Galaxy
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FLYING THE MILLENNIUM FALCON... through a space field that's absolutely crowded with huge asteroids? It's an experience that can really build up a person's thirst. As can dealing with a throng of testy droids, or a broken Landspeeder, or any of the issues a member of the Resistance regularly has to face. But there are ways to find a bit of refreshment, the sort of sippable treat that has a bit of ...
Spider Man To Join Fellow Superheroes At Disneyland
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Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is coming Disneyland. As part of the theme park's Super Hero HQ attraction opening Nov. 16 in Tomorrowland, a Spider-Man character will join other Marvel superheroes, including Thor and Iron Man, to pose for pictures and sign autographs with park visitors, the theme park has announced. The bad news is that Captain America won't be at Spider-Man's side. ...
Spike Jones At Disneyland For 6 Nights
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Spike Jones and his City Slickers open a six-night engagement at Disneyland at 8 p.rn. Tuesday, with three shows nightly in Tomorrowland's 20,000 Leagues area. Songstress Helen Grayco will be featured. Other Disneyland special nighttime activities include the Elliott Brothers Orchestra, the Young Men from New Orleans, the Firehouse Five Plus Two, the Ward Gospel Singers and the Royal Tahitians. ...
Splash Mountain Is Closing Is The Song Of The South Story Finally Going Away
Disneyland first announced changes to Splash Mountain nearly two years ago, with an intention to make the ride more inclusive. While the company has maintained that the plans are still in place, it doesn't appear that major changes are happening any time soon. Plans to remove the Brer Rabbit theming on Splash Mountain, the log flume water ride that opened in 1989 in Disneyland and 1992 in ...
Splash Mountain Princess And The Frog Retheme Everything Unveiled So Far
Disneyland is finally showing off more details of the long-awaited Princess and the Frog retheming of its iconic ride Splash Mountain. Tiana's Bayou Adventure is expected to open at Disneyland in late 2024, with imagineers speaking at Disney's D23 Expo in Anaheim, California, in September to describe the ride concept. The ride will be set in 1927, when Tiana is hosting a party at her ...
Splash Mountain Ride To Be Rethemed
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The "Splash Mountain" attraction at Walt Disney World and Disneyland is being re-themed to The Princess and the Frog, Disney announced on Thursday. On Disney Parks Blog, a Disney official said that the classic attraction will be completely reimagined and that this project has been underway since last year. The ride will reportedly be set in 1966 New Orleans and will join Princess ...
Splash Mountain Rides New Name Revealed At Disneyland Disney World In Response To Cries Of Racism
The rebranding of Disney 's Splash Mountain is finally happening. In early July, Disney declared a formal name change for the well-known ride. The ride formerly known as Splash Mountain will be renamed Tiana 's Bayou Adventure from 2024 onward. The popularity of Princess Tiana from “The Princess and the Frog” has led to a name change for Splash Mountain. In late 2024, Disneyland and Walt ...
Splash Mountain Shuts Down Permanently
Disneyland 's well-known Splash Mountain attraction is no longer available to visitors. Its closure took place Wednesday, with the Anaheim, California, park offering guests the last rounds of rides on the log flume attraction the prior day, FOX 11 reported. The interactive map available on Disneyland 's website now shows a graphic that says “Tiana 's Bayou Adventure coming 2024!” ...
Splash Mountain To Close May 31
Disneyland may well be the Happiest Place on Earth, but not every attraction leaves visitors grinning. Which is why, after 34 years, the theme park is shutting down Splash Mountain, the log ride based on Song of the South, the 1946 film that in recent years-especially since the George Floyd protests in 2020-has become infamous for its overly bucolic depictions of the Old South and other tone-deaf offenses. ...
Splash Mountain Voice Actor Responds To The Walt Disney World And Disneyland Ride Redesign
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While theme parks spent months closed this year, and Disneyland still is, Disney's parks were still the talk of the town earlier this year when fans began a social media campaign asking the company to redesign one of Walt Disney World and Disneyland's most iconic attractions, Splash Mountain into a ride based on The Princess and the Frog. And then Disney sent a shockwave through the community when ...
Stanleys Exploits In Search For Livingston Brought To Life By Adventureland Boat Trip
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The only boat trip of its kind in the world, satisfying the adventurer's urge to explore wild and uncharted tropical lands, is highlight of the Adventureland section of Disneyland. Seven boats, christened "Congo Queen," "Swanee Lady," "Amazon- Belle." "Ganges Gal," "Nile Princess," Mekong Maiden," and lrrawaddi Women" carry adventure seekers along an authentic tropical river, where ...
Star Tours 2 In The Works At Disneyland
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It's apparently going to be a good summer for theme park rides and theme park ride rumors. After half a decade of teasing, it looks like the Star Tours attraction at Disneyland might finally get an face lift. The simulator ride debuted at the Anaheim park's Tomorrowland all the way back on January 9, 1987. For the next decade and a half it was one of one of Disneyland's most popular attractions, with ...
Star Tours 2.0 Journey Started 14 Years Ago At Skywalker Ranch
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After 14 years in the making, the long-rumored and oft-delayed remake of the Star Tours attraction at Disneyland is about to become a reality. Walt Disney Imagineering's Tom Fitzgerald has been there since the beginning, writing the attraction's original story line back in 1987 and shepherding Star Tours 2.0 since 1997. On June 3, the rebooted simulator ride makes its official debut at the Anaheim ...
Star Tours 2: New Pilot Revealed 54 Possible Different Experiences
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Disney is planning to relaunch the Star Wars ride Star Tours with a new 3D version officially titled Star Tours: The Adventures Continue on May 10th 2011 in Disneyland in Anaheim and May 17th 2011 in Walt Disney World in Orlando. Not much is known about the new ride other than it will include locations and characters from both the original trilogy (Chewbacca, c-3PO, R2-D2, Aqualish. Bith, Rodians, etc) and ...
Star Tours Adds A New Planet
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Somewhere in Disneyland Park, right now, or at least very recently, or soon in the future, this exact question is being put to someone who just rode Star Tours by someone who opted to visit another attraction: Where'd ya go? Because, as is the way with the popular motion simulator adventure, a person could visit Hoth or Naboo or Tatooine due to the fantastical fact that "...multiple story combinations ...
Star Tours Disneyland Relaunch T-Minus Three Weeks
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To say that Disneyland's old Star Tours ride (which originally opened in the park in 1987) was a little dated doesn't even begin to do it justice. Sure, some of the park's attractions are brought back with an admitted sense of nostalgia attached to them. Occasionally, enough time has passed for them to become kitschy and "cool again." Other times, all it takes is the unexpected death of a pop icon to ...
Star Tours Gets Ready To Make Final Flights To Endor
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Disney Parks' Star Tours attraction will soon go out of commission to make way for a 2011 upgrade, but it's not shutting down without a send-off. From 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. on August 14, Disney Parks is hosting the "Last Tour to Endor," a special event that coincides with the official Lucasfilm fan convention, "Star Wars" Celebration V. Star Tours is a Disney and "Star Wars" fan favorite that opened ...
Star Tours Jumps To Lightspeed
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Hang on, we're making the jump to lightspeed. Tomorrow the all-new Star ToursThe Adventures Continue, a reimagining of the classic Star Wars-themed ride, makes its highly anticipated debut at Walt Disney World (at Disneyland, June 3), and unless you have a T-14 hyperdrive, it's about as close as you're going to get to that Galaxy Far, Far Away. The entire attraction has been upgradedfrom the ...
Star Tours Ride Will Feature Scenes From Star Wars The Last Jedi
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Passengers aboard Disneyland's Star Tours next month will journey to a new planet in the Star Wars universe. Starting Nov. 17, visitors on board the 3-D simulator ride will explore scenes of Crait, a remote, uncharted planet that is expected to be heavily featured in the Walt Disney Co.'s upcoming "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" movie. The ride will bring guests "in the middle of an epic battle," ...
Star Tours Takes The Force Awakens Detour With Season Of The Force Retool
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As usual, the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 bicker as Star Tours opens, with the speeder in hyperdrive heading to a desert planet. But the destination is not Luke Skywalker's Tattooine - it's Jakku, the home of Rey, one of the main characters of the upcoming "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." The popular Star Tours ride, closed since early November, has been updated to include a scene from the seventh ...
Star Tours Will Roam A New World Hyperspace Mountain Will Return Too
What to Know 1 Star Tours - The Adventures Continue is located in Tomorrowland at Disneyland Park in Anaheim 2 The attraction will feature new experiences inspired by recent Disney+ series; look for ''The Mandalorian,'' ''Ahsoka,'' and ''Andor'' to be featured starting April 5 3 ''Season of the Force'' returns on April 5 ...
Star Wars Disneyland Expansions Will Not Be Based On The Movie
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Disney announced in 2015 that it would be expanding its Disneyland and Disney World amusement parks (in California and Florida, respectively) with Star Wars-themed expansions. At Star Wars Celebration 2017, the company shed some light on these ambitious projects. Here's what we know so far: The Star Wars parks won't be based on scenes or locations from the movies While certain elements from the ...
Star Wars Expansion Land Will Open At Disneyland Next Summer
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Anticipation has been high for the Star Wars-themed expansion lands being built at Disneyland and Disney World, but it hasn't been clear when fans will actually be able to venture into the new parks. Today, that got a little clearer: Disney officially announced Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge will open at Disneyland in summer 2019, with the Disney World version of the park following suit in late fall. Disney ...
Star Wars Fireworks And New Star Tours Scenes
A Stars Wars festival returning to Disneyland will bring a fireworks show with a galactic soundtrack in Galaxy 's Edge and new Star Tours destinations in Tomorrowland as the annual event continues to grow in size and scope. The annual Season of the Force event returns April 5 through June 2 at the Anaheim theme park. A galactic soundtrack featuring Star Wars music will be played ...
Star Wars Flops Now Employees Getting Hours Cut Source
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The force is not strong at Disneyland Opens a New Window. this summer and employees are feeling the pinch. The new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Land made its debut to the public in May of 2019 at Southern California 's Disneyland and has become a bit of a disappointment Opens a New Window. to the theme park employees whose hours and paychecks have suffered due to lack of attendance. ...
