State Blames Ride Death On Lax Work
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State investigators Wednesday blamed a series of human errors for September's fatal crash on Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, underscoring concerns by some workers that efforts to make ride maintenance more efficient have undermined the park's once-unassailable reputation for safety.
A report by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health found that workers who maintained Big ...
State Investigates 27 Theme-Park Medical Problems
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The state has completed investigations this year into 27 medical problems sustained on Orange County theme park rides, often when visitors were getting on or off the attractions, an Orange County Register analysis found.
Venues with permanent rides are required to submit state reports when visitors have injuries or other issues that require medical attention beyond first aid, under a 2000 state ...
State Reduces Fines And Citations Against Disneyland
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State regulators have reduced the fines and the number of citations against Disneyland over safety requirements for maintenance crews working on Space Mountain.
The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health last month issued fines of $234,850 against Disneyland for six alleged violations, including three willful and serious safety violations.
The fines followed an investigation by the ...
State Says Disney Failed To Properly Clean Cooling Towers Linked To Legionnaires Outbreak Disney Disputes Claims
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In what became one of the nation's biggest Legionnaires' disease outbreaks, 22 people fell sick with the dangerous lung infection last fall in Orange County, including one who died.
Local health officials said the outbreak seemed connected to Disneyland, as 19 of the 22 people who were infected had visited the park. But they never pinpointed a cause of the infections.
The California Occupational ...
Staying Cool When The Sun Shines Bright
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Right now there are so many new things to see and do at the Disneyland Resort, that it 's a great time to visit! As the Southern California sun shines bright, here are some ways to keep cool during your stay:
First up is Disneyland park!
Break away from the bright sun in a galaxy far, far away at Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge. Within the planet of Batuu, you 'll find many cool ...
Steam Freaks
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When Roger Broggie set me to work on the Autopia Mk I, he gave me a drafting board in a room with some interesting "olde tyme" characters from America's railroad past......steam freaks, I called them. We seemed worlds apart; they were mostly in their 50's to 70's while I was a green kid of 22. Steam railroads were their passion, sports cars and airplanes were my big thrill.
The whole bunch had a ...
Steamboat 'round The Bend
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A summer vacation with pay. . . traveling down the rivers of America into the past . . . the exotic and the whimsical . . . this was my summer travel adventure.
Dozens of school teachers and college students shared this unusual tour, yet none of us traveled more than 50 miles. All of us met thousands of people from nearly every corner of the earth. We were part of the newest of Americana, Disneyland, ...
Steeds Prance To Caliope Tunes
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Old and colorful looking Dentzel mounts, whose design combines the austere tones of the 6th century with the heavy barouge common to the 12th and 13th, whirl horse-mounted riders around the gay carrousel in the courtyard of Fantasyland's medieval castle.
Seventy-two steeds of this King Arthur Carrousel prance to callope tunes which act as a call to prospective young knights, enticing them ...
Steel Is Landing In The Star Wars Land Project
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Those aren't droids, they're tall construction cranes above the treeline at Disneyland. The cranes were putting up structural steel as the buildings for "Star Wars" land started taking shape in the northwest section of the theme park.
Related to that, the rock work that will line the new route for the Disneyland Railroad and the Rivers of America was getting new colors, so the rocks will not just be ...
Step By Step Preview Of The Lightsaber Building Experience Coming To Star Wars Galaxys Edge
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Padawan learners strong with the Force will be able to build their own lightsabers using scavenged parts from fallen Jedi temples inside a covert workshop hidden from the watchful eye of the First Order when the new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge opens at Disneyland.
The build-your-own lightsaber experience will take place in Savi's Workshop - Handbuilt Lightsabers when the 14-acre land debuts May 31 at the ...
Step Inside Ogas Cantina Wretched Hive Of Scum And Villainy At Star Wars Galaxys Edge
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When you step inside Oga's Cantina in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland you're likely to find a bartender mixing interstellar cocktails, a droid DJ spinning otherworldly tunes and a bounty hunter who wants to talk to you about the galactic credits you owe a space pirate.
"Every self-respecting spaceport has a cantina," said Walt Disney Imagineering portfolio creative executive Scott Trowbridge. ...
Step Inside Star Wars Galaxys Edges Millennium Falcon On A Behind The Scenes Tour
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Just beyond a curved archway, the Millennium Falcon came into view against a backdrop of 135-foot-tall petrified trees hand-carved from rock work as construction workers hustled to complete Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland.
"What you see before you is obviously the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy," said Asa Kalama, Walt Disney Imagineering executive creative director. "It would not be "Star ...
Step Into House Of The Future At Disneyland Exhibit
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But many gadgets in Microsoft-centric Innoventions Dream Home are available now
Welcome to 360 Tomorrowland Way, the residence of the Elias family.
If you like technology, you'll feel right at home here.
Step into the foyer with one of the Elias family members, and the pictures and music change to fit their personality. When 10-year-old Robbie comes in, for instance, his favorite music ...
Stevie Wonder Brings Christmas Cheer To Disneyland
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November's only just begun, but that doesn't mean it's too early for some Christmas cheer. Stevie Wonder brought just that as he performed in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle for a multitude of fans on Sunday.
Wonder filmed a segment for the annual Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade, where he performed the song, "That's What Christmas Means to Me."
Some fans waited hours to catch a glimpse of the ...
Still Magic In The Kingdom
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Disneyland is a place where a grown man looks perfectly normal wearing Mickey Mouse ears and where a little girl can feel like a princess.
The first true theme park also is a melting pot where an Indian woman in traditional dress poses for a photo in front of the Small World ride featuring children from around the world and where instructions to ride the Winnie the Pooh attraction are given in ...
Still Returning After 36 Years
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Having first visited Disneyland as a 2-year-old, Fairfax journalist James Croot reflects after his recent sixth visit.
"To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savour the challenge and promise of the future."
Walter E Disney's words when he opened his theme park in July 1955 have never felt truer than ...
Still Very Bitter The Closed Restaurant Fans Miss Most
“It was probably the best job I 've ever had,” says Vera Nitinthorn, a former cast member of the Tahitian Terrace. She is one of many who sing praises of a fondly remembered place from Disneyland 's dining history.
The Tahitian Terrace was a Polynesian dinner show that opened in 1962 at the height of the post-World War II American fascination with the tropics and remained until closing in ...
Stomach-Turning Spin Ride Not Quite My Cup Of Tea
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"Dizzy, I'm so dizzy my head is spinning
"Like a whirlpool it never ends
"And it's you girl makin' it spin
"You're making me dizzy"
- "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe and Freddy Weller
When I was about 10 or 11, I spent a summer at my Aunt Setsuko and Uncle Sumio's home in Irvine, in Southern California. It's not far from Anaheim, so of course, we had to go to Disneyland.
I remember my ...
Storm In A Teacup
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With a boy of his own, Stephen Lacey makes his first visit to the Disneyland of his childhood.
When I was a boy, my idea of Disneyland was pretty sketchy; it was where Mickey and Donald lived. And there was a ride where you sat in a giant spinning teacup.
I knew only one kid who had been, a boy in third class named Brian. He was terribly thin, with bruises all over his body. One day our ...
Stormtroopers Will Help Enforce Reservation Time Limits At Star Wars Galaxys Edge
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Should guests exceed their four-hour reserved time slot when visiting Disneyland 's Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge expansion in its first weeks, patrolling Stormtroopers may ask stragglers to “move along.”
The land, which will be reservation only until June 24, will restrict guests to a four-hour time limit enforced by colored wristbands, the OC Register reports.
Galaxy 's Edge will ...
Story Book Adventures Live Again In Fantasyland
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Story-book adventures have long fascinated and excited the imagination of young and old alike. The stories of the escapades of Snow White, Peter Pan, Mr. Toad and a whole host of other unforgettable tales have been read through the years, and passed on from generation to generation.
Recognizing this and desiring that the youth of all ages have the opportunity to take part in the same ...
Storybook Land Boat Takes On Water Prompting Evacuation Of Ride
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Disneyland had to evacuate riders from the Storybook Land Canal Boats attraction Monday morning when water flowed into one of the boats.
About 10 children and adults on the Fantasyland kiddie attraction were transferred from one boat to another and transported to safety at approximately 11:30 a.m. Monday. A Disneyland ride operator travels on each boat with the passengers.
Nobody was injured and ...
Storybook Land Miniature Kingdom
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Monstro the Whale, once the terror of the deep in the story of "Pinocchio," has acquired a new and vastly different role at Disneyland-that of a friendly "host", to one of the Magic Kingdom's favorite attractions, Storybook Land.
After boarding one of the gaily colored, picturesque European canal boats in Fantasyland, visitors are whisked through the wide open mouth of Monstro and into the ...
Stricter Rules For Amusement Parks
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Once upon a time, in a land known as Anaheim, the rulers of the Magic Kingdom of Disneyland had things pretty much their way when it came to customer safety, as did the rulers of all the amusement parks in the great regulatory wilderness of California. They had no legal obligation to report accidents to the government. They investigated mishaps and came to their own conclusions, which generally went like ...
Student Ideas A Hit With Disney
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If Mickey Mouse and Snow White seem to know you by name someday when you visit Disneyland, it might just be thanks to two students at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham.
Lara Clark and Yrinee Michaelidis took second place (and $1,500 each) combining their creativity and engineering skills in this year's ImagiNation's competition sponsored by Disney Imagineering.
Imagineers are ...
Sub Ride Mountain Due For Disneyland
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Walt Disney has announced a $5,500,000 new building program for his fanatastic Disneyland playground the largest expansion since the fun spot opened in 1955. Disney said the expansion would consist of six projects, including a full scale, monorail the first of its type in the United States; a submarine voyage beneath "The Polar Ice Cap;" reconstruction of the Materhorn, complete with bobsled and skyway ...
Sub Statistics Parks Undersea Fleet Big Attraction For Curious
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No attraction at Disneyland evokes more behind-the-scenes interest and questions than the landlocked fleet of submarines, whose passengers want to know all about capacity, operations, names, and the ships' full-sized counterparts in the U. S. Navy.
Ride operators, thoroughly schooled by the University of Disneyland for the job, are equipped with a beautiful blue handbook packed with ...
Submarine Lagoon Refilled With Submarine Fleet In Place
Back in 2021, graphics and signage appeared on walls surrounding the submarine lagoon in Tomorrowland at Disneyland Park announcing that the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage would return in the Winter of that year. That time frame came and went but more progress was taking place in the drained lagoon that was visible from the Disneyland Monorail as it cruised overhead.
As of yesterday, May 28th, ...
Submarine Ride Returns To Disneyland
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Fake fish dangling from strings, animatronic mermaids and a menacing sea serpent are out.
Talking cartoon clown fish, bouncing iridescent jellyfish and a dark trip into a whale's mouth are in.
The Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage may be in the same vessels and location as the previous Disneyland sub ride that closed nine years ago, but the new technology is among the most complicated Disney ...
Submarine Voyage Christened
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Navy Vice Admiral John G. Morgan and Disneyland Resort President Ed Grier pour water from the East Australian current into the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage lagoon.
The move followed a ceremonial re-commissioning of the Disneyland submarine fleet in Anaheim on Monday.
When the original "Submarine Voyage" closed in Sept. 1998, the Navy officially de-commissioned the existing eight submarines.
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Submarines Already Rusting Badly After Yearlong Refurbishment
Disneyland 's fleet of submarines are rusting badly just a few months after a yearlong refurbishment that saw the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage lagoon get an extensive makeover and the subs receive a fresh yellow and blue paint job.
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage reopened in July after an extended refurbishment that kept the popular Tomorrowland attraction closed when the Anaheim theme park ...
