Jack Lindquist Chapman Trustee And Former Disneyland President Dies At 88
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Who was Mickey Mouse's best friend?
Some might say Donald Duck, but according to Brian Alters, who teaches "The Pursuit of Happiness and Knowledge: Walt Disney and Charles Darwin" at Chapman, it was the late Jack Lindquist, Disneyland Resort's former president and Chapman Board of Trustees member.
"Jack and Mickey were the dynamic duo," Alters said.
Lindquist, 88, died at his family home in ...
Jackson Kids Attend Special Screening Of Captain EO
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Michael Jackson's young children were given a special treat during a trip to Disneyland, California last Thursday (10Sep09) - they attended a one-off screening of the late King of Pop's 3-D movie CAPTAIN EO.
The 17-minute film closed as an attraction at the theme park in 1998, but Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and seven-year-old Prince Michael II, aka Blanket, were given a rare chance to catch the ...
Jake Is Newest Character At Disneyland Resort
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A new pirate showed up at the Disneyland Resort over the weekend, this time at Disney California Adventure.
Jake from the Disney Channel's animated series "Jake and the Neverland Pirates," is on board as the newest walk-around character at the theme park.
In the show, Jake heads up a three-character band of child-like pirates who look for hidden treasure. The show takes place in Neverland, as ...
JoAnn Dean Killingsworth Disneyland First Snow White Dies At 91
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JoAnn Dean Killingsworth, the first person to play Snow White at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., died Saturday. She was 91.
Her death comes just a few weeks shy of the park's 60th anniversary. Disneyland recently hosted a weekend of festivities to celebrate its six decades in California.
Killingsworth, a professional figure skater and dancer on Broadway and in Hollywood, was born in Minneapolis in ...
Joffrey Named Official Coffee Of Walt Disney
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Joffrey's Coffee & Tea Co. and Walt Disney have entered into a long-term agreement making Joffrey's the official specialty coffee of Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort and Disney Vacation Club properties.
According to a company statement, guests at the Walt Disney World Resort are already familiar with Joffrey's as it has been operating specialty coffee kiosks throughout the property since ...
John Stamos Disney Collection Is The Stuff Of Legend
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Making it big on a television series is a great way for a performer to make a legacy in acting, and this is precisely what John Stamos was able to do on the series Full House. Before Friends, The Office, and The Bachelor made their way onto the small screen, Full House was dominating on television, and Stamos used his time on the show to become a major star.
Over the years, Stamos would make a ...
John Williams Will Compose The Score For Disneyland Galaxy Edge Park
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The new Disneyland park "Star Wars: Galaxy Edge" will come with a familiar soundtrack.
John Williams will provide the score for the theme park, Entertainment Weekly reports. Disney released a preview of music from the London Symphony Orchestra of what songs will play at the park, which also shows off some of the park's newest elements.
Review: "The score is epic and sweeping, and it certainly ...
Johnny Depp Spent A Day At Disneyland Pretending To Be A Robot Capt Jack Sparrow
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Actor Johnny Depp, star of the film series Pirates of the Caribbean, spent Wednesday pretending to be an animatronic at the Disneyland ride that originally inspired the movie.
Pirates of the Caribbean, which opened 50 years ago, is a "dark ride" in which boats full of riders are floated past elaborate full-size tableaus depicting a pirate takeover of a Spanish colonial town.
Clad as his ...
Jolly Holiday Restaurant Opens
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Mary Poppins' teaspoon that made the medicine go down is on display at Disneyland's new Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe. But there's no sugar in the spoon.
The sugar is in the pastry display cases.
The Main Street USA restaurant officially opened Saturday but began serving park guests a couple of days earlier.
It provides counter service with patio seating, in the manner of the Plaza Pavilion on ...
Jon Favreau To Direct Magic Kingdom For Disney
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Disney has already turned theme park attractions into movies such as "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Haunted Mansion." Now it's one step closer to turning the entire park into the basis of a movie.
Jon Favreau is set to direct "Magic Kingdom," Disney's project centred around the Disneyland theme park in which attractions and characters come to life.
The deal is a development pact for Favreau and ...
Jon Voight-Hosted Event To Draw Disneyland Crowds
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It's a private event, but the celebrity-hosted Candlelight Ceremony is in a very public part of Disneyland. So, visitors should expect extra crowds near the park entrance this weekend.
More than 4,000 people are expected to attend the annual Candlelight Ceremony's four shows in Disneyland's Town Square on Saturday and Sunday nights, said Betsy Sanchez, a Disneyland Resort spokeswoman. This year's ...
Journey Through Jazz History With The Side Street Strutters
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In 1917, the Original Dixieland Jass Band released a record of their "Livery Stable Blues," believed to be the first jazz recording in history.
One hundred years later, the Side Street Strutters are paying tribute to the musical pioneers and jazz innovations in the decades since in their show "Vinyl Jazz, A Century Celebration." The band will bring their world-class show to Hutchins Street Square on ...
Judge Backs Fired Disney Worker
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An administrative law judge has ruled that a Disneyland employee fired for allegedly stealing complimentary tickets is entitled to unemployment benefits because the theme park did not provide proof of his guilt.
Betty G. Leiter, a judge in the Orange County office of the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, said in a Feb. 17 ruling that Disneyland had offered no evidence to challenge a sworn ...
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Disney On Ride Policy For Disabled
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A federal judge in Florida dismissed a lawsuit that claimed Walt Disney World violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it changed its original policy on accommodating guests with disabilities.
U.S. District Judge Anne Conway ruled Thursday that Disney provided the plaintiff, a family with a child who has autism, with individual accommodations that met their needs and afforded them the same - ...
Judge Responsible For Ending Disneyland Gay Ban Dies
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Retired Judge James Randal Ross, great-grandson of outlaw Jesse Woodson James and author of the book "I, Jesse James," has died. He was 80.
Ross died Monday of a heart attack at his Fullerton home, his third cousin Eric James, president of the James Preservation Trust, confirmed Wednesday from his home in Danville, Ky. Ross had been in failing health for a year.
Born in July 1926, in ...
July 4 Comes Early To Disney Parks
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Disney parks started Fourth of July festivities three days before the actual holiday.
Nearby, Knott's will offer a fireworks show on the Fourth, and will offer free admission to veterans July 2-6.
On Sunday, Disneyland and Disney California Adventure launched their special entertainment features created for Independence Day. Fourth of July is one of the busiest holidays at the Disneyland ...
June 12, 1957: Future Is Now In Monsanto's House
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1957: Chemicals manufacturer Monsanto opens its House of the Future at Disneyland. In the midst of the Cold War and standing at the threshold of the Space Age, the future is where we all want to be.
The striking, futuristic structure - elevated on a central pedestal with its four wings cantilevering outward from the center - perched over a landscaped garden featuring a waterfall and pond that provided ...
Jungle Cruise Gets A Holiday Makeover At Disneyland
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The Jungle Cruise attraction at Disneyland and Walt Disney World will get a special holiday makeover for the first time ever this year.
For the first time ever, the iconic Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland Park in California and in the Magic Kingdom at Florida's Walt Disney World will be getting a special holiday makeover.
The "Jingle Cruise" will launch in early November at both parks, and will ...
Jungle Cruise Is Now A Self Sustaining Ecosystem And Requires Very Little Landscaping
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If you've ever been on Disneyland's jungle cruise you might be surprised to know that after so much work that's been done to it that it's now a self-sustaining ecosystem. It almost seems as though that could have been the intention of the landscapers and management looking after the park in the first place. From what I recall of the ride it was more native-looking the last time I saw it than anything, ...
Jungle Cruise Its History Criticisms And The Changes Made By Disney Parks
Disneyland's Jungle Cruise ride is one of the amusement park's more popular rides since 1955. Yes. You've read that right. The ride's been with the park ever since it was first opened to the public on July 17, 1955, according to Time. As such, if it could talk, the ride can tell you how much the amusement park has changed since then.
However, with the changing of the times, ...
Jungle Cruise Jokesters Take Their Show On The Road
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Richard Nixon's Press Secretary Ronald Zeigler, Disney/Pixar's digital animation head and creator of the Toy Story movie franchise John Lasseter, both cut their public speaking teeth working as wise-cracking tour guides or "skippers' on Disneyland's popular comedy-driven Jungle Cruise ride.
Sunday, a new crop of skippers is taking their Disney-honed improvisation skills beyond the walls of Walt's ...
Jungle Cruise Lacks One Thing Walt Disney Really Wanted Live Animals
The original Jungle Cruise attraction that mixed together ideas from Oscar-winning wildlife documentaries, a Humphrey Bogart-Katherine Hepburn film and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” lacked one thing Walt Disney really wanted: Live lions, tigers and giraffes.
“Walt did originally want to have real animals in the Jungle Cruise,” Imagineer Vanessa Hunt said in a new Disney+ series. “It was ...
Jungle Cruise Release Date Cast Plot Trailer And How Is The Production Going On
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Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, the upcoming movie is based on the trio genres of action, comedy and adventure. Jungle Cruise is in the making, and we are all set to join our favourites, Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in Disney 's JUNGLE CRUISE, which is an adventure-filled, Amazon-jungle expedition. It is based on a story by Ficarra and Requa. The original Jungle Cruise opened on July 17, 1955, at ...
Jungle Cruise Reopens With A Brand New Dock At Disneyland
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The wise-cracking skippers were, once again, taking passengers on a tour deep into the rainforest of Adventureland at Disneyland.
The Jungle Cruise reopened Friday after a nearly four-month refurbishment.
During that time, maintenance workers built a new dock, and fixed a couple of broken animals. Okay, broken mechanical animals.
One was a broken tree, on which a python was draped. The tree ...
Jungle Cruise Ride Is Finally Getting That Makeover Check Out The New Details
Back in January Disney Parks revealed official plans for a major redesign of the classic Jungle Cruise attraction. Previously, the attraction was a loose affiliation of animatronic sequences that were really only held together by the Jungle Cruise skipper and their endless stream of corny jokes. The new Jungle Cruise was described as a more cohesive story, but exactly what that story was we did not know, ...
Jungle Cruise Scene By Scene Preview Of Changes Coming
Disneyland will remove several racially insensitive scenes from the Jungle Cruise and replace them with comic scenes featuring mischievous animals and a new cast of culturally diverse characters as part of a major overall of the classic attraction.
Disneyland will reopen Jungle Cruise on July 16 after the boat ride undergoes a major makeover to remove outdated cultural depictions and add a ...
Jungle Cruise Skipper View Of The Opening Day Attraction
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Cast member Richard Wallace, a Jungle Cruise Skipper at Disneyland Resort discussed his role on one of the most classic rides in the park. Those amazing jokes are old stand-bys and favorites for Annual Pass Holders.
What is O2H?
The backside of water, of course.
Parents often choose The Jungle Cruise as seven minutes of sitting down in the middle of a Disneyland day. But, when your skipper ...
Jungle Cruise That Removes Racially Insensitive Depictions Adds New Story
Disneyland revealed its course correction for its Jungle Cruise attraction in Anaheim, California, and Walt Disney World in Florida that removes racially offensive depictions of Indigenous people.
The changes to the popular ride, one of the original attractions overseen by Walt Disney himself when Disneyland opened in 1955, will be officially opened in the Florida and California locations July ...
Jungle Cruise Visitors Get Another Shot At Fun
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Rounding another bend in the treacherous river, your skipper tells you to watch out for the hippos. They can be dangerous when they blow bubbles or wiggle their ears.
"Look out!" he cries, as the hippos instantly wiggle their ears. "I'm going to try and scare them off."
Bang!
That sound - absent for about four years - returned this week to the Jungle Cruise, one of Disneyland's most popular ...
Jungle Trips Draw Crowds
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Disneyland officials report that 2,084,189 persons enjoyed Adventureland's jungle river cruise during the first year of operation. Runners-up were the Mark Twain with 1,318,926 passengers; the Santa Fe and Disneyland Passenger Train with 1,143,959; and Snow White Ride with 1,021,976 adventurers.
It was pointed out, however, that the popularity of individual attractions cannot be judged by the number ...
Jury Says Splash Mountain Accident Not Substantial Factor In Injury
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Disneyland was negligent in an accident involving the Splash Mountain ride, but the incident was not a substantial factor in the injury of a rider who sued, a jury has found..
Steven Wilson of Anaheim said in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles that he fell while trying to evacuate the Splash Mountain plume ride after it became stuck in March, 2010.
The lawsuit claimed that ...
