Halloween
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Holiday "overlays," as Disney calls them are nothing new to Disneyland, which I visited on a recent vacation. An "overlay" is when a ride gets re-decorated for the holidays, and there are two great examples right now at Disneyland.
Here's one more snapshot of differences between California's Disneyland and our own Magic Kingdom here in Central Florida.
For many years, Disneyland has remade the ...
Halloween At Disneyland Is Fun For Kids - And Moms
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From pumpkins and fall colors to spooky fun, I kinda wish it were Halloween Time all the time.
Especially at the Happiest Place on Earth.
This past weekend, the monster and I had the privilege of attending a mom blogger event at Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure, where they told us all about the cool things the parks are doing for Halloween. I almost couldn't contain my excitement. ...
Halloween At The Happiest Place On Earth
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Disneyland donned its best Halloween costume to celebrate the season.
Smiling jack-o-lanterns peered out of windows on Main Street while candy corn littered Disney's California Adventure park. The ghouls of "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" took over the Haunted Mansion and children dressed in colorful costumes - lots of princesses, a couple of Jedi knights and at least one dragon - roamed ...
Halloween Comes Early To Disneyland
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The Disneyland Resort is starting its Halloween season earlier than it ever has before, part of a nationwide trend of extending the growing holiday attractions' business.
Halloween Time in the Disneyland Resort, which includes special decorations and ride features, starts Friday (today) and runs through Oct. 31. That's a week earlier than last year and about two weeks earlier than when Disney began ...
Halloween Party Has A New Name And Home
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The resort announced this morning that the event formerly known as Mickey's Halloween Party is getting a new home and a new name. Oogie Boogie Bash - A Disney Halloween Party will run for 20 nights from September 17 through Halloween night at Disney California Adventure.
The reason? Disney did not officially say, but if you guessed that the resort wanted to take some pressure off Disneyland during the ...
Halloween Party Tickets Sold Out
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Disneyland's annual Halloween party is now completely sold out within days of the first party night last Wednesday.
Mickey's Halloween Party will be held on 15 separate nights between Sept. 19 and Halloween and includes trick-or-treating stations throughout the park, the Headless Horseman riding down Main Street, the Frightfully Fun Parade, the Cadaver Dans - an a capella group singing spooky ...
Halloween Season Is About To Begin At Disneyland
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Disney's Bi-Coastal Event planned for September 13th will begin the 6-week Halloween Season at Disneyland in Anaheim California. LaDiscountTickets.com provides exclusive discount tickets to this event.
Tis the spooktacular season at Disney, and with the change comes new events and opportunities. Both Disneyland Park and Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort will stay open until the ...
Halloween Season Is Also Refurbishment Season At Disneyland
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The Jack O'Lanterns have taken over Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland as the Halloween season is in full force. But along with Halloween comes the other major part of autumn at Disneyland, refurbishments.
Scrims were up on a variety of shops and attractions throughout the parks and Downtown Disney at the Disneyland Resort.
Even the Downtown Disney parking area was getting a fresh look, as park ...
Halloween Time At Disneyland Draws Crowds And Revenue
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On the fifth anniversary of its Halloween celebration, Disneyland in Anaheim reported an overall increase in attendance of at least 40% since the park began to redecorate for the holiday in 2005.
During a news briefing Friday, Disney officials declined to say how many people enter the park during its Halloween Time events, but they noted that the celebration has grown in attendance and sales of ...
Halloween Time: Disneyland Decorates Main Street USA With 300 Pumpkins
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Disneyland has just decorated Main Street USA for the guests. 300 Pumpkins, all dressed up in faces, are found the street of Main Street USA.
Full of fun and a few frightful, the idea behind this new edition of Halloween Time at Disneyland is bringing Disney guests plenty of smiles.
The pumpkins are virtually everywhere and the hunt to see them all is a thrill in itself. Starting at the entrance ...
Halloween Treats 2019 Roundup Is Tasty And Bootiful For The Gram
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Someone cue the Nightmare Before Christmas music, because "this is Halloween," and it's time to get your spook on. Once you see that Mickey pumpkin smiling on Main Street, you know Halloween time at Disneyland is officially here. For any foodie, you also know there will be a ton of Instagrammable treats on the menu in both Disneyland and California Adventure to check out. That's why this Disneyland ...
Halloweentime Comes To Disneyland Once Again
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For decades, Disneyland has upheld its legendary motto as the "Happiest Place on Earth - and as a profitable worldwide travel destination for all ages - but in the daunting month of October, can it be transformed into the "Scariest Place on Earth"?
Well, not quite.
Nevertheless,the Disneyland Resort's second annual HalloweenTime is a celebrated occasion dedicated to the more, for the lack of a ...
Halt Construction During Coronavirus Closure
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Disney has halted construction on the Avengers Campus themed land at Disney California Adventure and Mickey and Minnie 's Runaway Railway dark ride at Disneyland during the coronavirus closures of the Anaheim theme parks.
In line with direction from government and health officials, the temporary closure of Disneyland Resort includes construction sites, Disney officials said.
The ...
Handbuilt Lightsabers In Star Wars Galaxys Edge Will Cost 199.99
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The Savi 's Workshop page on the official Disneyland Resort website has been updated providing more about the handbuilt lightsaber experience that will be available inside Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge, including the $199.99 price tag.
We already knew that there were four hilt themes available:
Peach and Justice - Salvaged scraps from fallen Jedi temples and crashed starships in these ...
Hang With Mickey And Friends
"Mickey's Toontown" is designed cartoonishly. Everything from "Mickey's House" to the post office looks, well, goofy. Opening in 1993, it was inspired by "ToonTown" in the 1988 movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" It was originally planned to be behind "Main Street, USA" and called "Hollywoodland." "Hollywoodland" combined the concept of "Mickey's Birthdayland," which was to be in the Florida park for the ...
Happiest Haunts Tour Is Filled With Tricks And Treats
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When the spell is cast and the pumpkins appear, Disney 's Happiest Haunts Tour at the Disneyland Resort shows the spirits are near! A special opportunity to add to the fun, this tour is only offered for the Halloween season. With your own ghoulish guide and a headset to listen, you walk through the parks while the jack-o '-lanterns glisten.
As you learn about the history of Halloween as a ...
Happiest Place On Earth
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My spring break was way better than all of yours. I feel like I can confidently say this because I went to the happiest place on earth. No, not Vegas. Disneyland! Probably the only place in the world where you can eat foods shaped like mice and not want to throw up. Tell me that's not magical.
A trip to the park was long overdue. I was still closing my eyes on the Haunted Mansion ride the last time I ...
Happiest Place On Earth' Calms Crankiness, Almost
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A while ago, I went on a vacation to Disneyland for a small-scale family reunion.
Now I have to tell you, I am not a stranger to Disneyland. I love the "happiest place on earth." It's a genetic thing, I guess, because my whole family loves it, too.
But on every trip I've ever been on, there is one constant: people around me complaining about the lines.
I think these people traveled to ...
Happiest Place On Earth Not Exactly Here Is Why Disneyland Has Lost Its Magic
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Disney executives hope every guest has an unforgettable experience when visiting their theme parks. They succeed every time, though sometimes for all the wrong reasons.
While I've made many magical memories with my family at Disneyland before, the memory of one terrible experience outweighs them all and remains forever stamped on my brain.
I won 't go into all the details of ...
Happiest Race On Earth Takes Runners Through Disneyland And Angel Stadium
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Dust off those running shoes -- Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle, Disneyland Resort President Matt Ouimet and Mickey Mouse announced today plans for the inaugural Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend scheduled for September 15-17, 2006. Nearly 10,000 runners are expected to participate in the "Happiest Race on Earth," a 13.1-mile road race that will take runners through Disney's California Adventure and Disneyland ...
Happiest Worker Marks 55 Years At Disney
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On Friday, Disney will hold an internal party to celebrate Martinez's tenure the longest in Disneyland's history.
In his signature, tall white chef's hat, Oscar Martinez holds out a hand out as he greets just about every breakfast guest sitting on the patio at Disneyland's Carnation Cafe.
With a warm smile and a twinkle in his eyes, he asks a series of questions: "How long have you been ...
Happy Birthday Disneyland Happiest Place On Earth Turns 60
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Like the animator and entrepreneur, Disneyland was ambitious and imaginative - a real-life play land for children and adults alike. Thomas, a longtime Hollywood reporter for AP and author of a Walt Disney biography who died in 2014, wrote that Disneyland cost $17 million to build, and that no detail was spared. He also noted that a day trip was doable but "you'd no doubt end up with a headache."
Sixty ...
Happy Birthday Disney-Style
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This year Disneyland-the California original-will be thirty years old, and the Magic Kingdom plans to celebrate the event all year long. Daily parades, nonstop special events and plenty of celebrity entertainment are just the start of the giant birthday party. The highlight of the festivities, however, is the stupendous twelve-month give away that's just getting under way.
To commemorate its ...
Happy Birthday To Disneyland And To Tomorrowlands Forgotten Pig
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Today, Disneyland's Tomorrowland is populated with characters from "Star Wars," "Toy Story" and, increasingly, figures from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But long before there were meet-and-greet sessions with the likes of Captain America or Thor, Tomorrowland was home to a different sort of critter..
When the park opened 60 years ago today (July 17) in 1955, Tomorrowland was ready to welcome a ...
Happy Birthday Walt Disney
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Today is the great and imaginative Walt Disney's birthday. The innovator died on Dec. 16, 1966, days after he turned 65.
Because of Walt Disney, children young and old get to experience and know such characters as Mikey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto and Goofy.
His finest creation, Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., receives millions of visitors each year. In May 2008 it was reported that 14.87 million ...
Happy Birthday, Disneyland
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"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." Walt Disney
It was 56 years ago today July 17, 1955that Walt uttered those memorable words as he welcomed the first people to pass through the gates of Disneyland.
The first day was deemed a disaster because ...
Happy Birthday, Disneyland
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Disneyland was Walt Disney's baby, a dream he nurtured for years which eventually turned into a flat-out obsession ... an obsession that had as many skeptics as it had bank creditors demanding that Disney make good on all the loans he needed to make his pie-in-the-sky come true.
Tomorrow, The Happiest Place on Earth celebrates its 55th anniversary. Five and a half decades after the world's first ...
Happy Howl-idays
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You'd think Jack Skellington would have learned his lesson. After having nearly made a disaster of the winter holidays in The Nightmare Before Christmas, you'd think he'd be happy to stick with his regular beat, Halloween. Guess again. Somehow, the pumpkin king has taken a wrong turn on his way back to Halloweentown and has wound up in Disneyland. This time he's bringing his own special spin to the season ...
Happy Parks II: Disneyland
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Tivoli, that Bosky enclave of pleasure in the center of Copenhagen whose name has become a generic term for amusement parks, is 124 years old, more than ten times the age of Disneyland, which will mark its 12th anniversary this summer. In these short dozen years. Disneyland has achieved a sudden, enormous and saturating fame. While its purpose to please is exactly akin to Tivoli's role in Danish life, ...
Harriet Burns Who Help Create Disney Rides Dies
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Harriet Burns, the first female artist at Walt Disney Imagineering and a designer of several famous Disneyland rides, has died. She was 79.
Burns died Friday at USC University Hospital of complications from heart surgery, Frank Reifsnyder, a spokesman for Glendale-based Walt Disney Imagineering, said Tuesday.
Burns worked for Disney from 1955 to 1986, beginning as a prop and set designer for TV's ...
Harrison Ford Reveals Disney Star Wars Theme Park Plans
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Disney brought out the big guns to tease plans for the upcoming Star Wars theme park expansion: Harrison Ford and BB-8.
The Han Solo actor and roly-poly droid were part of ABC's Disneyland 60 tribute to Walt Disney's first park on Sunday night, and their appearance heralded the latest galactic addition to both the Disneyland park in Anaheim, California, and Walt Disney World in Orlando - the Star ...
