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 ...

The head of the Disney company confirmed Tuesday that there could be more room for "Star Wars" and Marvel attractions at Disneyland. But they won't go where Nemo swims. Bob Iger, chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Co., said Disney has no plans to get rid of the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage ride at Disneyland, addressing well-circulated rumors that the lagoon space could be used for a new ...

Disneyland and a travel agency have been sued by the mother of a New Mexico teenager who drowned while intoxicated last June during a graduation party at the amusement park. The lawsuit contends the park was negligent in letting a drunken Philip Straughan enter Disneyland on June 3, his 18th birthday, and that Academy Travel Bureau Inc. failed to keep its promise to supervise high school ...

One day after the Disneyland Resort expansion received the endorsement of Gov. Pete Wilson and the pledge of $60 million in support from the state, several property and hotel owners Thursday sued the city of Anaheim and the Walt Disney Co. over the project's environmental analysis. But proponents of the massive resort plan received good news as well when several local school districts, which had ...

A recently-graduated Sultana High School student was hospitalized late Thursday night after taking ecstasy while at the school's grad night celebration at Disneyland, according to officials. "A young man, a minor, [from] Sultana, at Disneyland pretty much became unconscious," Hesperia Unified School District Superintendent Mark McKinney said. "Later we found it was due to ecstasy, and was transported ...

Orange County's theme entertainment parks Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm are worth a visit any time. But this summer, they're pulling out all the stops, with parades, fireworks, and new attractions. Both are just an hour's drive from downtown Los Angeles. At Disneyland: Fantasyland revival and two new movies. You can visit dozens of storybook characters in the newly revamped Fantasyland, which ...

Summer nights at Disneyland Resort will be brighter and more exciting than ever as Summer Nightastic! returns, bringing with it the most dazzling show of all: the new "World of Color." Presented on Paradise Bay, "World of Color" is a major milestone in the multi-year expansion of Disney's California Adventure park. The show combines hundreds of versatile, performing fountains, popular Disney music and ...

It all started with cars. Some folks on my paper route in 1944 always had neat cars. A few years later, one of the kids that lived there was in our same car club, the "Road Burners". Name was Dave Iwerks. We went hunting and fishing together. His dad had a short first name, Ub. After I returned in 1953 from a year designing cars in Detroit, I was a regular visitor at the Iwerks home. Ub was a quiet guy; ...

Is Super Bowl Sunday the least busy day to visit the Happiest Place on Earth? According to persistent online chatter and practically anyone with a Disney annual pass that doesn't black out on weekends (sorry Southern California passholders, this doesn't include you), the day of the Big Game is regarded by many Mickey-ophiles as an all-day extension of magic morning hours shorter lines for marquee ...

Not for nothing did a grizzled lifer at Disneyland refer to his worksite as "Mauschwitz." In this case, "lifer" means "one condemned to wear a Donald Duck suit, day in and day out, even when it's 110 degrees in the shade, even when he can't see well enough through the eyeholes to make out which kid is kicking him in the nuts, and even when he's so saturated in sweat that his vision is blurry and his ...

The suspicious object that forced Disneyland officials to lock down the theme park Saturday morning was a rolled-up piece of paper with a "spiritual message" discovered in a tree near the entrance, authorities said. A Disney employee spotted the item in the tree outside a ticket booth shortly after 7 a.m. while greeting visitors at the park entrance, officials said. Visitors were temporarily ...

You expect to find a little magic dust at Disneyland, but not this kind. Ticket booths at the Disneyland Resort were temporarily shut down Sunday morning after authorities became alarmed over a suspicious powder stuck to their windows. The park reopened after the substance was determined to be fine-grained sand. Police were summoned after cleaning crews spotted the powdery substance on ...

I slipped through the sweaty crowd like a cipher. Locating my unmarked rendezvous point, I discreetly flipped up a nondescript panel, pushed a button and spoke a few words into a small speaker. A nearly inaudible buzzer sounded, and a door clicked open just slightly. I ducked inside as stealthily as a secret agent. Safely inside, I was greeted by the local operative: "Welcome to Club 33. Moore, party of ...

Just before 8 a.m., the gates to the park open and the mad rush begins. A stampede dashes down Disneyland's Main Street U.S.A., past the cinema, the penny arcade and the cart selling overpriced cotton candy. Run. These ambitious guests aren't racing to be the first in line at Space Mountain or The Matterhorn. Nope, they want candy canes. The line forms at Candy Palace, the park's ...

A portion of the Swiss Family Tree House at Disneyland received minor damage from fire Saturday. Flames broke out about 7:50 p.m. near the Crows nest at the top of the tree located in Adventureland. Three units from the Anaheim fire Department controlled the blaze within 20 minutes, a. spokesman for Disneyland said. There were 12 persons in the lower part of the tree when the fire broke out ...

Disneyland's Swiss Family Treehouse is another romantic adventure that has been re-created in the Magic Kingdom from Johann Wyss's classic novel, "The Swiss Family Robinson." The, story of the Robinson family dates back to the early 1800's when they were shipwrecked on a deserted South Sea island. Resigned to their fate, the family, Mr. Robinson, a Swiss gentleman; Mrs. Robinson, his ...

Siemens is pleased to announce that its Sylvania lighting brand will be the sponsor of the classic "it's a small world" attraction at Disneyland Resort. "We are thrilled to be associated with such an icon of the Disney experience. At SYLVANIA, we are creating ways to see the world in a new light. Our association with 'it's a small world' is a perfect fit for our own vision," said Rick Leaman, ...

A glitch just as powerful but nowhere near as cute as Vanellope von Schweetz from “Wreck-It Ralph” brought the Disneyland website and mobile app to a screeching halt - but fortunately the system crash has been resolved at the Anaheim theme park. Disneyland visitors and annual passholders who ran into a 404 error code on Tuesday, Nov. 7 due to a system outage can once again purchase tickets and ...