Fans of Wookiee Mode on the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run at Disneyland and Disney World will want to give Grogu Mode a try once they 've completed a few initial runs on the Star Wars flight simulator ride and need a little comic relief on their next mission. The secret Grogu Mode debuted last week as an Easter Egg game hack on the updated Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction with the Mandalorian and his Baby Yoda sidekick in Star Wars: Galaxy

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You 'll have to fly the Millennium Falcon at least 10 times if you want to find all the possible secret routes you can take on the updated Smugglers Run flight simulator in Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge at Disneyland. The updated Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run ride with the Mandalorian and Grogu debuted last week in Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge at the Anaheim theme park as a tie-in to the release of “The Mandalorian and Grogu” film. Smugglers

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The “happiest place on Earth” is only happy if you don 't break the rules. If you run amok in the house of Mouse, it 's straight to jail for you. Disneyland jail, that is. There might not be any cells or characters locking you up with Mickey-shaped keys, but it 's a real place where people committing serious transgressions are sent before being handed over to local authorities. Many people have shared their stories about the experience including some

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Disneyland visitors who have always wanted to try the $250 lightsaber building experience in Savi 's Workshop without footing the bill or having to lug the Jedi Knight weapon all over the Anaheim theme park will now get their chance. Disneyland will offer a free Youngling Saber Building experience through Sept. 7 at Savi 's Workshop in Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge. The limited time Youngling Saber Building experience is recommended for kids ages

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NEED TO KNOW The Disney parks ' Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction now features a new mission featuring the Mandalorian and Grogu Starting May 22, riders can choose their destinations for the first time and interact with Grogu during the updated experience The change coincides with the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu movie starring Pedro Pascal and Sigourney Weaver The next time Star Wars fans step

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NEED TO KNOW Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run is closing today, May 21, to make way for a new mission starring the Mandalorian and Grogu The ride was an opening day attraction for both Disneyland and Disney World's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge lands The updated attraction will feature new gameplay elements, including choosing destinations and interacting with Grogu Batuu's three suns are setting on one of

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One of the most controversial activities at Disneyland centers on one of the park 's most benign souvenirs. The company 's souvenir pins have a huge fan following: They 're cute and collectable, with some sold as limited editions only available for a short window. People also love to trade pins among themselves, often inside the theme park. But despite the pins ' popularity, the culture surrounding them especially when it comes to pin trading is

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Disneyland plans to launch a parkwide game this summer that will send kids scrambling to find clues and solve puzzles all over the Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island. Mickey 's Park Rangers is coming to the west side of the Disneyland Resort for Kids Rule Summer, according to Disneyland officials. The Kids Rule Summer campaign is tied to a steep ticket discount good from May 22 through Sept. 7 that lets kids ages 3 through 9 parkhop

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Planning your first trip to Disneyland? Here are 5 costly mistakes I made on my first visit and how you can avoid them. A first trip to Disneyland is exciting, but it can also feel like a lot to figure out. Two parks, a packed schedule, rope drop strategies, park hopping rules, mobile ordering, ride closures…there 's a lot of room to mess up! And even with plenty of research before my visit, I still managed to make a handful of mistakes that cost me

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Roger Rabbit 's Car Toon Spin riders no longer have control over Benny the Cab as they race through Toontown in search of Jessica Rabbit while trying to evade the villainous weasels in the latest change to the 1994 Disneyland dark ride. Disneyland made a series of updates to Roger Rabbit 's Car Toon Spin in Mickey 's Toontown during a monthlong seasonal refurbishment in April that sought to reduce downtime, increase throughput, accommodate younger

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Autopia, the gas-powered attraction in Disneyland 's Tomorrowland, is set for a major upgrade. Disneyland officials confirmed to KTLA that the resort has an agreement with the California Air Resources Board to retire the ride 's gas-powered engines in early 2027. Work is underway on the design, engineering and testing of a fully electric vehicle prototype, with more details expected soon, according to resort officials. Closing

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Not too long after Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge opened at Disneyland in 2019, the land brought me to tears. It was a summer weekend evening, and I was strolling the 14-acre area, mainly to people watch. I caught a commotion in the crowd out of the corner of my eye, and decided to follow the activity. There, crouched along one of the walls of the fictional town of Black Spire Outpost, was an actor playing the role of Rey, the hero of the most

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Disneyland fans who want to show their love for the Happiest Place on Earth will soon be able to attach a California license plate to their cars that pays tribute to the Anaheim theme park. The California State Treasurer 's Office announced on Tuesday, May 5 plans to launch a Disneyland-themed specialized license plate that will raise money for children 's hospitals throughout the state. The proposed Disneyland license plate will advance

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Disneyland is testing cashless payments at 25% of its outdoor food vendors starting in late April Payment options include credit cards, mobile payments and Disney gift cards, with signs marking cashless locations The move follows similar changes at Walt Disney World in October 2025 Disneyland and Disney California Adventure are testing out cashless payments. Beginning in late April, a select few of the outdoor

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A tribute honoring legendary Disney Imagineer Bob Gurr took place Sunday night at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. Gurr was hired by Walt Disney in 1954 and became a key figure in the creation of Disneyland. He's the last of the original Imagineers still living. For decades, he has shared stories from the park's earliest days with fans eager to learn more. ''They love Disneyland, but they want to know more about Walt

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Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, is cracking down with a new “guest code of conduct” targeting a surge in ride disruptions. The changes, outlined in a recent operations briefing and detailed by the “Mickey Visit” blog, are aimed at improving reliability across increasingly complex attractions. Guest behavior accounted for 13% of ride shutdowns in fiscal year 2025 up from a 10% historical average prompting new regulations,

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In a galaxy not too far away at the Disneyland Resort, ''Star Wars'' fans will have the chance to enjoy more eras at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge just in time for the ''Star Wars'' holiday, May the 4th. Darth Vader and Imperial Stormtroopers, Leia Organa, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker will be joining the other popular roaming characters in the Outer Rim outpost. Composer John Williams' scores will be playing

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Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge at Disneyland has always been a treasure trove for eagle-eyed Star Wars fans. Seemingly every corner of Batuu is packed with hidden details waiting to be discovered, from scorched blaster marks on the walls of Oga 's Cantina to rare objects tucked in the rafters of Dok-Ondar 's Den of Antiquities. Now, visitors to Batuu will have even more to explore. Beginning April 29, 2026, Galaxy 's Edge is expanding its timeline to

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Disney 's CEO faces an existential crisis brought about by an emerging technology that threatens to make its core product expensively produced, tightly controlled entertainment cheap enough for anyone to create, keeps audiences at home instead of sending them out into the world, and has thrown the economics of the entire entertainment industry out the window. The year is 1955. The emerging technology is television. And Disney 's CEO is Walt Disney.

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