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Siemens Inks Sponsorship Deal With Disney
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Walt Disney Co. has signed a 12-year marketing agreement with technology giant Siemens AG that includes rights for Siemens to sponsor a number of attractions at Walt Disney World in Orlando.
Siemens will have its brand on the Epcot icon, "SpaceShip Earth," the nighttime Epcot fireworks show, "Illuminations: Reflections of Earth," as well as new attractions that will be incorporated into Innoventions ...
Sleigh Bells Ring, Snow Falls and Chestnuts Roast at The Merriest Place on Earth
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As its 50th Anniversary celebration continues in full swing, the Disneyland Resort has been transformed into a dazzling holiday wonderland (now through January 2) featuring an unbelievable array of spectacular entertainment, amazing decorations, festive foods and favorite adventures and attractions.
The fun is extended with expanded park hours for Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure for much ...
When You Wish Upon A Star
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Disneyland is everything you have read about, and more.
Ever since I was a child, I wanted to visit Disneyland. Isn't that every kid's dream?
That dream became a reality just before Christmas last year. My mum, brother and I finally made a trip to that magical place.
The flight from Malaysia to the US was terribly long and tiring. However, it was worth it when I got my ticket to enter ...
Only Pinocchio Nose For Sure
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We weren't even in the park yet when the perjury began.
Giddy with the excitement that only a day at the Magic Kingdom can conjure, my friend told Disneyland's parking attendant that she had given him a $50 bill rather than a $20 - just to watch him squirm.
I apologized to the unfortunately dressed, overweight gentleman and told my friend that she simply couldn't pull that crap here.
If you ...
Tinker Bell Moves Into New Disneyland Home, Giving Ariel The Boot
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How do you sit down for a photo with Tinker Bell without actually sitting on the palm-size pixie? We'll soon find out when Peter Pan's fairy friend gets her own meet-and-greet area at Disneyland.
Pixie Hollow, which takes the place of Ariel's Grotto near the Matterhorn Bobsleds, is expected to soft open on Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 in advance of an official opening next week.
Visitors walking past an ...
Disneyland's New Parade Isn't A Parade Even Though It Is
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Although Disneyland isn't calling it a parade, the new "interactive street party" debuting March 27 will travel along the parade route, replace the outgoing parade and essentially serve as the daily parade.
In typical punctuation-challenged Disney fashion, Celebrate! A Street Party will feature seven floats and 90 performers in a "celebratory song and dance party."
Banners and ribbons will ...
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 ...
What's New At Disneyland
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A half-dozen new or revitalized attractions will be unveiled May 4: Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters: Piloting individual Space Cruisers in Tomorrowland, riders fire laser cannons at targets to protect outer space from the evil forces of Emperor Zurg. Total scores appear in the Space Cruiser at the end of each ride. But get this: Via the Internet, at-home participants can team up with in-park riders to ...
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 ...
In Step With The Mouse, Disneyland's Opening Was A Wild Adventure
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No one said magic would be easy. Still, 50 years later, what almost no one remembers is the opening day that stumbled like Dumbo dancing in leg irons.
When the widely anticipated, but hardly completed, Disneyland opened its doors on July 17, 1955, so eager was the world to share Walt Disney's dream that instead of 6,000 invited guests, more than 28,000 people - most armed with counterfeit tickets - ...
Discovering Disneyland
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You have to look quickly, and you have to know exactly where to look. But if you do, you'll catch a pretty cool inside joke at Disneyland.
On the Star Tours ride, just before your runaway Starspeeder exits the space station, keep your eye on the lower right side of the screen: You flash past what looks like a giant electron microscope. Old-timers will recognize it as the Mighty Microscope from ...
Disney Celebrates With New Attractions
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The 50th anniversary bash will last for 18 months -- long enough to give every Disney fan on the planet a chance to attend the party.
Most of these changes will premiere May 5 (that's 05/05/05 for numerical emphasis):
* A new parade, ``Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams,'' will feature floats that become mini-stage shows, music and more than 50 Disney characters. Performances twice a day, once in the ...
Age Doesn't Fade The Magic
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Fifty-years seems all too short a time to go from not existing at all, to being the most famous holiday destination on earth.
Indeed, it's doubtful Walt Disney himself - whose opening-day optimism was only slightly shaken by melting asphalt and overflowing toilets - could have imagined the enduring omnipresence of what is, essentially, a glorified fun fair.
Walt's vision for transforming a ...
Disneyland Celebrates 50 Years
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Disneyland, an oasis of niceness in a cynical world wracked by terrorism, war and scandal, celebrates its 50th anniversary on May 5.
And what a birthday party it promises to be: 18 months of "the Happiest Homecoming on Earth", starring every Disney character you know, from Mickey Mouse to Mary Poppins.
Julie Andrews, who won the best-actress Oscar for her role in Disney's classic 1964 Mary ...
Theme Is Summer Fun
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Aaah, summer. Backyard barbecues, playing outdoors, days at the beach.
And as the weather heats up, so do the new thrills at Southern California theme parks.
Aat Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, visitors can go into the deep with a special exhibit charting the course of the blue whale.
Disneyland, as practically everyone knows, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with new rides, ...
Disneyland Gets Its 50th Party Started
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Here's what's new for Disneyland's 50th anniversary, an event being celebrated at Disney parks around the world starting this weekend. All attractions are at Disneyland, unless otherwise noted.
50 Magical Years: Exhibit and film about how Disneyland was created. Open daily in the Opera House.
Parade of Dreams: Seven floats, huge puppets, 104 performers; 4 p.m. and 7:45 p.m.
"Remember ... ...
Disneyland Giving 18-Month Anniversary Party
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The 50th anniversary bash will last 18 months - long enough to give every Disney fan on the planet a chance to attend the party.
Most of these changes will premiere Thursday (that's 05/05/05, a date Disneyland chose for numerical emphasis):
* A new parade, "Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams," will feature floats that become mini-stage shows, music and more than 50 Disney characters. Performances ...
Mickey And Friends Celebrate Disneyland's 50th Birthday
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Disneyland kicked off its "Happiest Celebration on Earth" Thursday, an 18-month-long event to commemorate its 50th birthday.
The celebration pays tribute to Walt Disney's dream of Disneyland, the original park that launched a series of Disney theme parks around the world.
"The dawn of the theme park industry rose from one man's dream as he walked Anaheim orange groves more than 50 years ago, and ...
Disneyland Turns The Big 5-0
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WHAT: "The Happiest Homecoming on Earth," the 50th anniversary celebration of the opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. Anaheim is 27 miles south of Los Angeles and 100 miles north of San Diego.
* WHEN: The 18-month fete begins May 5 and runs through October 2006, which means there's no rush to get there -- especially since Disney sources concede that, just like 50 years ago, not everything will ...
Disneyland's Five-O--California's Storied Theme Park Celebrates A Half-Century Of Mouse Ears And Family Cheers
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Disney was inspired a half-century ago to build a special amusement park in California-a place where adults and children would be amazed by a tropical forest, astonished by a fairy tale castle and astounded by sights of the space age.
Disney, a man of creativity, talent and perseverance, ran a successful movie studio where he put in a lot of hours. He also was father to two young girls and, as he once ...
Disneyland Begins 50th Anniversary Celebration
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Backed by the sound of trumpets, the release of doves and the explosion of fireworks, Julie Andrews stood before Sleeping Beauty Castle Thursday to kick off Disneyland's 18-month birthday celebration.
Andrews, dressed in a white suit, stood with Dakota Sandak, who has appeared in a Disney commercial, and said, "Do it together, one, two, Welcome Home!"
Art Linkletter, on hand during the park's ...
At Least 50 Reasons To Make A Trip To Disneyland
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If the early reviews are any indication, this will really be a happy birthday at Disneyland.
The theme park, which turns 50 on July 17, lit the candles on its anniversary celebration Wednesday with the official debut of a nightly fireworks show, the most elaborate in its history. And the next morning, park officials took the wrappings off two new attractions for Disneyland's next-door neighbor, Disney's ...
Mouse Memories
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Disneyland's golden anniversary party began Thursday and will run through Thanksgiving 2006. We asked Bee readers to share memories of the park's early days. Here's what they recalled. Pop on your golden mouse ears and take a trip back in time ...
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My wife and I were married Sept. 25, 1955. During our honeymoon we ...
Dizzy For Disneyland
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Mickey and Minnie Mouse welcomed some famous friends to their Disneyland home Wednesday to help the theme park kick off its Happiest Homecoming 50th anniversary celebration, which continues through the end of 2006.
Former Mouseketeer Christina Aguilera was spotted in the Haunted Mansion, wrapped in the arms of her fiance, music exec Jordan Bratman.
Jim Belushi and his young son, Jared, ...
Disneyland Marks A Half Century
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Disneyland is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a bang. A lot of them, actually. A pyrotechnic extravaganza is being unleashed nightly as the latest manifestation of the park's fireworks show, and it's an impressive one.
As Disneyland pays homage to some of its most popular attractions down through the years, fireworks are not aimed straight into the sky but at angles, so as to resemble shooting ...
Disneyland Still Magical At 50
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Disneyland is giving itself a 50th birthday bash and we're all invited. The party began on the fifth of May and my family and I visited on the eighth. When I passed through the turnstile, the employee greeted me with a hearty, "Welcome home," in keeping with the 50th Anniversary theme, "Happiest Homecoming on Earth." I did feel I was coming home, and I'm sure other guests had similar feelings. Disneyland ...
Is Disneyland The Most Expensive Place On Earth?
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Planning a trip to Disneyland? Prepare for high prices, terrible food and ridiculously long lines.
They call it the happiest celebration on Earth. And they could be right - no one puts on a show quite like Disneyland. But sadly, being part of the magic doesn't come cheap. Especially on a Kiwi budget.
The dollar was looking good. That's why we chose now to vist Disneyland's 50th anniversary ...
Disneyland From A to Z
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A recent four-night stay at Disneyland proves that this rich, glorious theme park, celebrating its 50th anniversary from now until 2007, is best enjoyed as a planned excursion, not as a whim.
Begin with Birnbaum's, an indispensable annual paperback that's available for around twelve dollars. The goal-oriented guide should be read by every visitor to insure unit cohesion. It answers detailed ...
Puppy With Hidden Mickey Markings Ushers In Dog Days Of Summer 2006
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"The Dog Days of Summer" take on special significance today at Disneyland with the unusual visit to "The Happiest Place on Earth" by Nutmeg ("Meg" for short), a nine-month-old Beagle whose markings include a perfect Mickey Mouse-shaped silhouette on the top of her head. Disney "Imagineers" sometimes design subtle "Hidden Mickeys" into Disneyland Resort attractions, but Meg's natural markings make her a ...
Salem Family Shares Suite Dreams Of Disneyland
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The trio win a stay in the Dream Suite, but the resort hotels also would dazzle.
She may not own glass slippers or a sparkly ball gown, but when Christine Terwilliger of Salem visited Disneyland on Jan. 31 this year, she starred in her very own fairy tale.
Terwilliger and her family -- husband Shane and 6-year-old daughter Marissa -- were randomly selected to be the first guests ever to sleep in ...
Disparity Of Passions Unveiled At Disneyland
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There are things I can't tell my family. Things they wouldn't understand.
They don't know, for example, that elbow-length satin gloves make me warm and tingly inside. They've never noticed how my eyes go swirly-girly at the mention of glass slippers or fairy wings. They're entirely ignorant of my impeccable "Little Mermaid" impression - a spot-on vocal triumph charting every sigh, giggle and vibrato ...
