Fantasy Faire 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 ...
Learning To Love Disneyland Again
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As we walked across the broad, brick-paved plaza, a burst of music swelled, the strings rising to cinematic heights amid a pounding of kettle drums. A man in a crisp white shirt waved and beamed. Perfectly manicured flowers swayed in the breeze. It felt, for a moment, that we had accomplished something greater than simply walking out the gates at Disneyland in Southern California. But that is the ...
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 ...
Fantasy Faire Makes Regal Debut At Disneyland Park March 12
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Enchanted Village Features Royal Hall for Princess Greetings, Royal Theatre for Interactive Storytelling 'Mickey and the Magical Map' Live Show Also Opens in 2013; Sofia the First and Doc McStuffins Join 'Disney Junior - Live on Stage!' For many guests at Disneyland Park, the encounter with a Disney Princess and her story is an essential part of any visit. Beginning March 12, 2013, Disney ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fairy Tale Treasures Opens Its Doors At Disneyland
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Time to get out the old tape measure and see if the Disney Princess tent taking up part of the playroom will fit in my suitcase. Why you ask? Because Fairy Tale Treasures, one of the enchanting locations at Fantasy Faire in Disneyland, opens its doors March 12, and for a little girl who will be heading there for her first time this summer, I'm thinking she may set up camp. The quaint little ...
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. ...
Disneyland Debuts Fantasy Faire For The Princess Mad Masses
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What do you call a gathering of princesses? A pack? A gaggle? A bevy? We don't know, either, but travelers heading to Disneyland may find themselves pondering that question when the theme park's newest attraction, Fantasy Faire, opens on Tuesday, March 12. With the likes of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" on hand to meet and greet little visitors, it promises to be a ...
Fantasy Faire Opens At Disneyland With Princess Meet And Greet Plus Two New Shows
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Fantasy Faire, a storybook village square and the latest expansion of Fantasyland at Disneyland Park, opened to the public today. Located on the west side of Central Plaza at the Anaheim, Calif., park, the highlight of the village square is Tangled Tower, a sculpture inspired by the story of Rapunzel. After dark, Rapunzel's hair, twisting around the tower sculpture, comes to life with twinkling ...
Have A Relaxing Disneyland Staycation
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Disneyland used to be a "one and done" visit a one-day rush through Disneyland with a pit stop at California Adventure for a couple of favorite rides and then home. That's almost impossible to do now as the new-and-improved California Adventure with Cars Land is a destination itself and Disneyland continues to add new attractions and shows. These days, stay a night or two; make it a staycation and your ...
Mickey Mouse Returns To Disneyland's Fantasyland Theatre In High-Tech Stage Show
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Mickey Mouse is center stage again in Fantasyland. The world's most famous mouse has reclaimed Disneyland's Fantasyland Theatre for himself after a six-year occupation by the Disney princesses. In recent years, the theme park venue was used as a meeting place for Disney royalty instead of an actual theater. It's now home to a new song-and-dance extravaganza called "Mickey and the Magical Map." ...
3 Must See Shows At Disneyland Resort
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This summer, millions of people will walk through the gates of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park. Some will hyper-focused on the rides, while others (like me) will be intent on eating and shopping their way through Main Street. And although shopping, eating and riding are definite draws, there's a huge part of the park experience you shouldn't overlook when mapping out your day the live ...
Disneyland At 58 Nostalgia Change And Inside Peeks
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Here's a provocative and mind-bending question for you lifelong SoCalers out there, as well as those people who visited a certain Anaheim destination when they were children: When you think of Disneyland, or even go to Disneyland now, do you still see the park as it was on your first visit? Nostalgia is such a powerful driver for the world's most famous theme park that we do believe everyone who ...
Disneyland Resort Courts Local Residents After Holidays
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Southern California residents can "show their Disney side" in 2014 as the Disneyland Resort once again presents a ticket offer especially for them, with options for two or three days of fun and adventure at the parks -- all at special prices. To explore all there is to do at Disneyland park and Disney California Adventure park, Southern California residents may purchase a 2-day ticket with their choice of ...
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 ...
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 ...
12 Essential Tips For Enjoying Disneyland In The Rain
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A day at Disneyland is usually fun in the sun thanks to Southern California's reputation for year-round sunshine - unless you happen to show up at the theme park on one of the 23 days when it rains each year on average in Anaheim. This will go down as one of the rainiest weeks of the year in Anaheim, with the forecast calling for showers stretching into the weekend. While Disneyland remains open ...
One Reporter's Tortured Quest To Meet Disneyland's Anna And Elsa
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Children, you have no idea what your parents endure to get you a little "Frozen." Merchandise is scarce. Birthday parties with official tie-in decorations are nearly impossible to pull off. And the theme-park lines to meet Anna and Elsa, the sibling royals at the heart of the world's highest-ever-grossing animated movie, are long. Very, very, very long. I was dispatched to Disneyland in ...
Diamond Celebration Will Light Up The Disneyland Resort Beginning With Dazzling 24-Hour Event
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A dynamic 24-hour party will kick off the summer and launch the Disneyland Resort Diamond Celebration, May 22-23, as guests enjoy the thrilling premieres of three, new nighttime spectaculars: the glittering "Paint the Night" parade and the groundbreaking "Disneyland Forever" fireworks show at Disneyland Park, plus the new presentation, "World of Color - Celebrate! The Wonderful World of Walt Disney," at ...
Disneyland Diamond Celebration Looks Ridiculously Amazing
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When Walt Disney opened his first theme park on July 17, 1955, he said, "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 savor the challenge and promise of the future." Sixty years (and 700 million guests) later, Disneyland is marking its six-decade anniversary by hosting a summer-long party, called the Diamond ...
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 ...
