Carnation Plaza Gardens Articles
Disneyland To Rework Carnation Plaza Gardens Into Fantasy Faire
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Disneyland Park in Anaheim plans to rebuild its Carnation Plaza Gardens Stage into a storybook village called Fantasy Faire. The news was announced last week during the annual D23 Expo convention for Disney fans held at the Anaheim Convention Center. The project will change Carnation Plaza from a venue where high school bands, orchestras and choruses perform into a fairytale village that will be ...
Move Over Mickey Disneyland's Princesses Are Getting New Digs
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Sleeping Beauty and company will be moving to a new Disneyland hangout. Come 2013, the princesses will have their own storybook village, dubbed Fantasy Faire, to call home. The princesses have been holding their meet-and-greets in the Fantasyland Theatre since 2006. Construction is expected to begin this fall on the re-imagined princess experience built up around this venue. According to ...
Fantasy Faire Replacing Carnation Plaza Gardens
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An iconic Disneyland entertainment area is soon to be transformed into a meeting place for their favorite Disney princesses. Disney announced Carnation Plaza Gardens, a fixture in the Plaza Hub since 1956, will be replaced by Fantasy Faire. Disney Imagineer Michel Den Dulk said the new area will be a storybook village where park-goers can meet Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and ...
Disneyland Sets End Date For Iconic Carnation Plaza
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Disneyland's iconic Carnation Plaza Gardens' entertainment venue will close at the end of the month to pave the way for a new princess greeting area, putting an end to rumors that the plans may be canceled. Since 1956, the Main Street, U.S.A. plaza has hosted entertainers including famous musicians, such as Benny Goodman, and beginners, like high school bands and children's groups. Each Saturday, a ...
Disneyland Moves Entertainment To Frontierland
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Disneyland next month is moving outside performing groups and adding a new entertainment feature to a normally closed area of Frontierland. The Disney Performing Arts program will host community performing groups and run education sessions in the Festival Arena, which is normally closed in the back of Frontierland. The program is moving after the May 1 closure of Carnation Plaza Gardens, where ...
Farewell To The Historic Carnation Plaza Gardens At Disneyland
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Announced at the D23 Expo in August of last year, Carnation Plaza Gardens at Disneyland park was scheduled to be reimagined into the new Fantasy Faire an enchanting village square that will immerse guests in the stories of their favorite princesses. The construction was to have begun in September 2011, but for some reason never took place. It has now been recently announced that at the end of the ...
2 Disney Rides Temporarily Close This Month
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Two Disneyland rides will temporarily close for part of this month as crews undertake projects. Disney traditionally schedules few rehabilitation projects during the busy summer season, when crowds are heavy. Meanwhile, the Jungle Cruise is scheduled to reopen Thursday after a weeklong closure. Crews are shrinking the gap between the dock and the boats to make it easier for visitors to get on ...
Disneylands Princess Fantasy Faire To Close In August
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On Aug. 2, Disney Parks Blog announced that Disneyland park will close its Princess Fantasyland Faire at the Fantasyland Theatre on Aug. 12. Princess Fantasy Faire, a Disney Princess meet-and-greet, will be closed for an extended period of time. When it re-opens in summer 2013, Princess Fantasy Faire will add a "live entertainment experience" to the meet-and-greet in which Disney's focused on ...
New Show Coming To Fantasyland
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Cinderella, Snow White and their princess friends will move out soon of their spot in Disneyland's Fantasyland Theatre. The princess meet-and-greet center will relocate, temporarily, to near the "It's a Small World" ride starting Aug. 13, Disney said. Construction crews are going to transform the theater for what Disney so far is only calling a "live entertainment experience." A new show ...
New Disneyland Show Opens This Summer
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A new theatrical production that incorporates Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters will debut this summer at Disneyland. "Mickey and the Magical Map" will appear in the Fantasyland Theater near It's a Small World. The theater closed in August so crews could start preparing for a new play, but Disney did not reveal the concept until recently. In the new show, Mickey Mouse "stumbles into ...
Summer News At Orange County's Theme Parks
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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 ...
A Family Tribute To Walt Disney San Francisco Museum Tells The Story Of The Man Not The Brand
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During Sunday brunch in a diner near Fisherman's Wharf, I started contemplating how my 14-year-old daughter and I would spend the afternoon. My husband and son were hustling off to the baseball park for a Giants-Brewers game so on our third day here, we had several unplanned hours to soak up more attractions -- or maybe just stroll, I thought. We had covered so much ground the first couple of days -- the ...
Disneyland Halloween Night Parties To Include Stormtroopers
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Stormtroopers, Duffy the Bear and Phineas and Ferb are set to crash Mickey's Halloween Party at Disneyland. Mickey's Halloween Party is a series of after-hours parties that include an exclusive fireworks show, trick-or-treating, a character costume party and dance parties. Beginning on Friday, Sept. 30, 10 events are scheduled for alternating Mondays and Tuesdays and every Friday throughout ...
Disneyland's Mickey's Halloween Party 2011 Offers New Tricks And Treats
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Disneyland Resort's Halloween Time is almost here, and Disney Cast Members and fans are getting into the spirit of the holiday. One of the highlights of the season is Mickey's Halloween Party, the after-hours event that takes place at Disneyland Park. On Sept. 7, Disneyland released information to help guests planning their visit. Here are some highlights of what's new for the 2011 Mickey's Halloween ...
Dining Delights At Disneyland
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Whatever you wish - quick snack and refreshments or a delicious dinner - you'll find "good eating" at Disneyland. Located throughout the Magic Kingdom's five "lands" are 20 distinctive restaurants and refreshment centers. And directly across the street from the Park is the beautiful Gourmet Restaurant, composed of Coffee Shop, Cocktail Lounge and Dinning Room, in the Disneyland Hotel. An ...
Electrical Light Magical Nights
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The evening air is hushed. The aura of anticipation is everywhere. Then, into the summer darkness come the lights Blues, yellows, reds and greens -- all cheer up the charcoal sky and enable Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, Alice, Dumbo, and a host of other friends to sparkle their way through the night. Imagine, if you will, the B1ue Fairy from "Pinocchio" in a towering gown of azure lights. Picture Alice ...
Super Bowl Sunday A Goofy Notion Of Smaller Crowds At Disneyland
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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 ...
Top Disneyland Ride Creator Steps Down
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Tony Baxter began scooping ice cream at Disneyland in 1965 as a college job and rose up to spearhead the creation of some of the park's biggest rides, including Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and Star Tours. Now, 47 years later, Baxter is stepping down from overseeing Disneyland attractions. Baxter, who lives in Anaheim Hills, announced Friday that he was leaving his job as senior vice president ...
Disney Says New Showplace Fit For Princess Or 10
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Alessandra Douglas of Las Vegas was getting a princess makeover at Disneyland a yellow Belle dress, glittered hairstyle and pink sash for her third birthday. She was tapped with a surprise invitation: Want to meet a princess? Alessandra lucked out and was among visitors allowed into the new Fantasy Faire, where the public can meet princesses, as the theme park showed off the attraction to ...
Fantasy Faire New Disneyland Attraction Opens March 12
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It took a village to capture Elizabethan England in Disneyland's newest attraction. Fantasy Faire actually is a mini-village, and it celebrates the era of best-loved fairy tales. It opens to visitors on March 12. The Fantasy Faire was built where the old Carnation Plaza Gardens and dance floor used to be, in an odd corner between the entrances to Frontierland and the Sleeping Beauty Castle. ...
Oldest Disneyland Rides From 1955 To Today
July 17, 1955: Peter Pan's Flight
As one of the oldest rides in Disneyland, it's also one of the most popular, with lines regularly settling in at an hour or more even on less crowded days. Passengers board individual flying ships and lift up into the air to view different scenes from London and Neverland as the vessel hangs from a track above and navigates gentle dips and ...
Goodman At Disneyland May 27 To 29
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Benny Goodman, rated the most gifted clarinetist in show business, will be featured Memorial Day weekend at Disneyland. Appearing with Goodman will be the Young Men from New Orleans, Dixieland artists, and the Elliott Brothers Swing Band. Goodman and his 10 jazz performers will appear in Tomorrowland on a specially built bandstand for dancing from 8 p.m. until midnight. May 27-28-29. The ...
Disneyland Schedules Fourth Annual Horseless Carriage Days Weekend
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New cars and Fall fashions of 1958 will take a "rumble seat" this Saturday and Sunday at Disneyland when the calendar will be turned back 50 years for the Fourth Annual "Horseless Carriage Days" celebration. The chemise, high-necked dresses and bathing suit fashions of Grandmother's day - and the automobiles she rode in when Grandfather courted her-will be on display during the two day event at the ...
Vintage Autos Will Be Seen At Disneyland
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New car models of 1961 will be forgotten Today at Disneyland when 60 antique automobiles - all pre-1915 vintage - wheel down turn of the century Main St. in the sixth annual Horseless Carriage Day. More than 250 participants -- owners of the classic cars and their families---will ride in the parade beginning at 2:30 p.m. The auto passengers will be dressed in fashions representing the ere of their own ...
Disneyland And Imagineering Part 4
Last time we left off, we were meeting some of the Imagineers who were responsible for the initial creation of Disneyland. We began to see the park take physical shape and learn about the origins of Main Street USA and Sleeping Beauty's Castle. There were roughly 6 months until the opening. The orange and walnut groves that once existed all to themselves were being transformed into a pear-shaped amusement ...
This Is How Disneyland Changed In The 2000s
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The new century started out with few changes inside Disneyland, as the company was focused on big changes outside the park, but things would liven up as the century progressed. 2000 Parking at Disneyland changed with the opening of the Mickey & Friends parking structure on the land that was a strawberry farm for decades. The more than 10,000-space structure was the largest one when it started ...
Six Ways To Celebrate Beauty And The Beast At Disneyland Resort
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There is so much excitement and chatter about the new Star Wars-themed land opening at the Disneyland Resort in 2019, it sometimes seems like people have forgotten all about the classics that made Disney what it is. But fear not, with the new live-action "Beauty and the Best" film opening in theatres on March 17, 2017, the Disneyland Resort is pulling out all the stops as it celebrates its fifth ...
Annette Is Feature At Disneyland
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Annette, popular teen star of Walt Disney films, television and Vista Records, is performing in special shows at Disneyland over these Thanksgiving holidays through Sunday. Backed by the Elliott Brothers rhythm band, Annette is being featured in two shows each day, at 1:30 p.m. and 3 30 o'clock in Disneyland's Plaza Gardens. In her performances, Annette features both sides of her newest Vista ...
Disneyland Adds More Dance Areas
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Running to a big success every night of the week, "Disneyland After Dark" today announced the addition of three more dancing areas with top bands on Friday and Saturday nights throughout the summer. A total of seven dancing areas include three new locations for Friday and Saturday nights: the Mall in Tomorrowland; the Pirate's Cove in Fantasyland, and dancing on the Delta in Frontierland. Dance ...
Saving Disney From Itself
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Friends, the past few months have been a mere exercise in what is about to become the largest online and public battle against Disneyland-specifically its managers, starting with Paul Pressler. He is the one who will be held responsible for the destruction of Disneyland as we know it and as Walt planned it. I write this with a very heavy heart. I do not want my playground to become my battlefield, but that ...
Disneyland And Imagineering Part 5
Last time we left off, opening day was rapidly approaching. Teams of artists were working in their respective areas and time truly was of the essence. The lifestyle in the mid-50s was a family oriented, hard working culture, with a new-found desire for excitement. World War II had been over for almost ten years and the subsequent opening of the park would be two years and several days after the Korean War ...
