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10 Classic Theme Parks That Influenced Walt Disneys Creation Of Disneyland
Walt Disney spent more than a decade dreaming up Disneyland during his travels to European amusement parks and sent his Imagineers on a series of road trips to visit popular attractions across the United States that influenced the development of the Anaheim theme park. A new history of Disneyland details the classic amusement parks that inspired Walt Disney 's creation of Disneyland in 1955. ...
10 Family Traditions At Disneyland That Will Never Grow Old
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There are some things that'll never get old, like spending time with your loved ones and going on vacation to the Happiest Place on Earth. It's actually at Disneyland where you can make some of the best memories in between riding Splash Mountain and enjoying Mickey-shaped ice cream. For a crew that likes to go to the parks, you probably even have some family traditions at Disneyland that'll ...
12 Essential Tips For Enjoying Disneyland On A Rainy Day
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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 two dozen days when it rains each year on average in Anaheim. A series of storms headed for Southern California are expected to bring showers to the region over the next two weeks, making for a wet holiday season as ...
12 Fun Things You May Not Know About Disneyland
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Test your Disney trivia mojo here. How many of these items do you already know? 1. King Arthur Carousel. The lead horse on the iconic Fantasyland carousel is named Jingles. Walt Disney wanted all horses on the carousel, and he wanted them all to be leaping, so when a classic carousel was purchased, it was supplemented with other horses and those that had straight legs were redesigned. 2. Main ...
14 Venues, Show Temporarily Close In Disney Parks
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Disneyland Resort parks have 14 venues and one show that are temporarily closed during May, mostly for major makeovers or special events. Many of the projects are ending this month as the two parks -- Disneyland and Disney California Adventure -- prepare for the summer season. Along Disneyland's Rivers of America, four attractions and the Fantasmic! Show are shut down for preparations of the ...
15 Items To Bring On A Trip And What To Leave At Home
After shutting down for over a year during the pandemic, Disneyland is officially back and fully reopened. While vaccination against COVID-19 isn 't required to visit the resort, Disney recommends that guests are either vaccinated or receive a negative test before entering the resort. Masks for guests ages 2 and older are required indoors and recommended outdoors. Packing is always a major ...
19 Seriously Amazing Disneyland Hacks To Make Your Trip Even More Magical
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You've bought the plane tickets, booked the hotel, stocked up on super stylish Mickey gear, got your nails did, and have your Disneybounding all ready; you're truly invested in that upcoming Disneyland trip. Now it's time to do absolutely everything you can to ensure that you have the BEST TIME EVER. We can help! Here are 19 tried-and-true Disneyland hacks to assist you in having the most magical time at ...
1st Look At The New Tianas Palace Restaurant
A new themed restaurant, Tiana's Palace, is opening Thursday at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California. The restaurant's opening is just one of several steps in bringing Princess Tiana from 2009's "The Princess and the Frog" film into the Disney parks permanently. This multiyear process will culminate in the opening of Tiana's Bayou Adventure, a reimagining of the attraction ...
2 Nighttime Spectaculars Added To Premium Maxpass System
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Disney has added the "Fantasmic" and "World of Color" nighttime spectaculars to the MaxPass system which lets visitors book FastPass attraction times via a mobile app at its two Anaheim theme parks. The $15 up-charge MaxPass system works with the free FastPass systems to allow visitors to set up return times for popular attractions in Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. The popular ...
2 Ways To Get On Tianas Bayou Adventure Virtual Queue Or Lightning Lane
Disneyland will offer two ways to get on Tiana 's Bayou Adventure when the new water ride officially opens to the general public either by joining the free virtual queue or by paying for the Lightning Lane line-cutting service.
Tiana 's Bayou Adventure will use a virtual queue when the attraction opens at Disneyland on Nov. 15, according to Disneyland officials.
Tiana 's Bayou ...
20 Loudest Rides And 20 Noisiest Shows With Decibel Readings
Disneyland 's monorail horn is as loud as a piledriver, its railroad trains as ear-splitting as a jackhammer and the nightly fireworks more deafening than a bulldozer, according to a noise analysis conducted on behalf of the Anaheim theme park. The decibel readings for attractions, shows and parades at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure are buried deep in the 17,000-page Environmental ...
20 Surprising Things You Can And Can Not See Do And Taste At Your Next Visit
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Blue milk. Human ashes. Feral cats. Disneyland may be 85 acres of carefully curated mirth, but even after nearly 65 years of operation in Anaheim, Calif., the vacation destination can still surprise -- as park-goers who 've encountered the blue milk, human ashes and, yes, feral cats can attest. Before you next pass through the turnstile en route for the old-timey Main Street ...
30 Captions For Couples Who Are Having A Date That Is Like A Fairy Tale
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When visiting Disneyland, there's nothing more magical than having your SO by your side. What could be more romantic than sharing a churro Lady and the Tramp-style with bae and holding hands while you're getting spooked at the Haunted Mansion? For a date that's truly fairy tale-worthy, you need to plan a trip to Disneyland. When you get there, don't forget to get a selfie in front of the ...
45 Surprising Secrets About Disneyland
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It's been 45 years since Disney Parks first took intrepid thrill seekers into the darkest corners of outer space. We're talking, of course, about Space Mountain. And while it's true that the iconic indoor roller coaster opened first at Walt Disney World in Florida on January 15, 1975, did you know that it was first dreamed up, at the request of Walt Disney himself, by ...
5 Disneyland Secrets That Nobody Knows
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If you're heading to Disneyland this summer, you can increase your knowledge and impress your traveling companions by sharing these 5 little-known secrets from the park. So without further ado: 1. The Disneyland "Test Bricks" If you are heading down Main Street toward Sleeping Beauty Castle, take a quick right toward the locker rentals. There, just to the right of the entrance to the lockers, ...
5 Lightning Lane Attractions Closing In January For Refurbishment
It 's just about that time of year again when some of Disneyland 's most popular attractions go out of commission for a few weeks or several months to get a little TLC. The end of the Christmas holiday season always brings a flurry of seasonal refurbishments at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure in January - with nine attractions getting a refresh in early 2023. January ...
5 Rides To Go To First When The Park Opens
When Disneyland in Anaheim first opens its gates every day at eight in the morning, there are a few rides visitors should make a beeline for if they don't want to be standing in line for hours. Since it debuted in 1955, Disneyland has boasted many popular rides and other experiences that capture the magic of the company's extensive list of films and shows, primarily of the fantasy and adventure ...
50 Things You Didn't Know About Disneyland
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In honor of Disneyland's 50th anniversary, we present 50 cool, obscure and simply odd things you probably didn't know about the self-proclaimed Happiest Place on Earth. Many were culled from Mouse Tales by David Koenig (Bonaventure, $19.95). Some were provided by Disney archivist Dave Smith, and others came from 101 Things You Never Knew About Disneyland by former park employee Kevin Yee and lifelong fan ...
50 Ways To Love Disneyland
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Mickey Mouse is planning a blowout as Disneyland Resort in California celebrates its 50th anniversary, starting Thursday. Sure, it'll be hot, and the lines will be long. But you know you want to go: the Matterhorn; Mickey-shaped, chocolate-covered ice cream; mouse ears with your name embroidered on the back. Arizona is second only to California for the number of people who make the pilgrimage to the ...
7 Most Underrated Experiences At Disneyland
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If you're any kind of Disneyland fan, then you know the glory of the Jungle Cruise ride and you've eaten more Dole Whips than you can count. But even some of the most avid park-goers skip key experiences during their visits. The following rides, secret spots and shows often go under-appreciated in favor of bigger, sparklier Disneyland attractions. Seek out these little-known gems the next time you ...
7 Tips For Tackling Disneyland In A Day
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I've been to Disneyland hundreds of times over the last two decades and have been writing the Funland theme park blog for about four years now. As a result, people are always asking me how to do everything at Disneyland in a single day. The short answer is you probably can't. It can be a struggle for even hard-core fans with military assault-like strategies. The longer answer is there's lots of ways ...
8 Magical New Reasons To Visit This Year
In my humble opinion, there's always a reason to go to Disneyland. You just got paid? Go to Disneyland. There's a new churro flavor? Go to Disneyland. It's Tuesday ... well, you get the idea. You don't necessarily need a special reason to visit The Happiest Place on Earth. However, there are quite a few new attractions and special events coming to Disneyland Park and Disney ...
8 Memory Keepers To Pick Up At Disneyland & Almost ALL Under 10 Dollars
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I dare you to go to Disneyland and not buy at least one souvenir on your visit. Unless you work there or are a season pass holder who drops by whenever you please, odds are you will pick something up to help you remember the "magical" time you had. Me, I'd like to take the entire park home with me, but that just wouldn't be practical. Instead my family picks up a little this or a little that some sort of ...
8 Secrets About Disneyland
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From how to score a cocktail to where to scatter grandma's ashes, this is your ticket to the real Magic Kingdom. 1. There are dead bodies in the Haunted Mansion The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland is one of the scariest places in the park, but not for the reasons you'd expect. In his 1994 book "Mouse Tales," former Disney employee David Koenig tells the story of a tourist group that ...
8 Things You Loved As A Kid And Still Do Even In Your 20s
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If you think Disney is just a place for kids, I'm here to let you in on a little secret: Adults can have just as much fun there. Disney is meant for everyone, and it's the things about Disney you loved as a kid and still do in your 20s that prove exactly that. I'm a proud 29 year old who spends her free days going to Disneyland to ride on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and eat as many ...
A 6-Year-Old's First Visit To Disneyland Hits Some Attractions, Misses Others
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You can't do it all, and truth be told, a child doesn't miss what she doesn't know about. A look back at what we saw and did -- and didn't do -- in one day. Don't miss the Toontown roller coaster, somebody said. Don't bother with Toontown, somebody else said. Don't risk the Matterhorn with a first-grader, somebody said. Don't miss the Matterhorn with a first-grader, somebody else said. ...
A Bear Necessity
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The Country Bear Jamboree, a 17-minute show made up of more than 20 audio-animatronic bears, originally opened as an "E" ticket ride in Walt Disney World Florida, as one of the premier attractions for the park's opening in 1971. Just one short year later, it opened here in our very own Anaheim Disneyland, in Bear Country to be exact, on March 24, 1972. It's been there ever since. The original Jamboree ...
A Considerable Town
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Pam Wells has been to Disneyland, she estimates, 50 times in her 43 years. In fact, she's going again this weekend, for her 44th birthday. She can still remember being too excited to sleep the night before a Disneyland outing. And she can list all the places you used to be able to make out and/or smoke pot (Monsanto, the Sky Buckets) back in her teenage days. She talks of the days of E Tickets. She can ...
A Diamond Celebration In Sardineland
It had been three or four years since I had last been to Disneyland. But, on May 22, my mother and I went, just the two of us. That day was the opening day, for lack of a better term, of the park's Diamond celebration. As a part of that, the parks were open for 24 hours, closing at 6 A.M. on May 23 for a few hours. Rather inadvertently, we ended up parking in the "Toy Story" parking lot instead of ...
A Disneyland Chronology
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Summer 1948: Walt Disney visits the Chicago Railroad Fair, a spectacle that spurs his dream for a "Mickey Mouse Park." June 1953: Stanford Research Institute is tapped to conduct a survey for a site within metropolitan Los Angeles and accessible by freeway. Search ends with purchase of 160 acres of orange groves in Anaheim. July 21, 1954: Construction of Disneyland begins. July 17, 1955: ...
A Magical Experience Takes Flight
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It was as if Tinker Bell flew in from Neverland and sprinkled some of her fairy dust as pure magic occurred for some very special kids Thursday. Eyes sparkled and smiles beamed while 81 children with life-threatening illnesses and severe physicial disabilities explored Disneyland. And when Dreamlift came to a close, they had forever touched the hearts of those who shared the day with them. "The ...
