Being Dopey
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I just wanted to be Dopey. While all the other dwarfs clomped around Disneyland in lock-step, Dopey got to dawdle and wander, hamming it up for adoring tourists - especially teenage girls. When it came to the Seven Dwarfs, Dopey was the big draw. Me? I wore tights and a loincloth, an embarrassing ensemble for a skinny 14-year-old coming of age in the turbulent 1960s. I was Mowgli (aka Man ...
Beloved Disneyland Candymaker Remembered By Castmembers
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You may have seen him when you passed by the window, stopped to watch him work his amazing confections, or enjoyed one of his fantastic creations while strolling down Main Street to Sleeping Beauty's Castle. After all, Disneyland Candymaker Rob McHargue was a beloved employee of the Disneyland Resort for over 43 years. Robert Earl McHargue, 63, was born on October 3, 1954, in Ottumwa, Iowa. He passed ...
Beloved Disneyland Draft Horses Retire After Decade Of Pulling Main Street USA Trolleys
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It was often difficult to tell Disneyland 's pair of snow white draft horses apart as Reggie and Brother took turns ferrying visitors down Main Street U.S.A. in vintage horse-drawn trolleys. One way to distinguish them: Brother has a pink nose. The other major difference is in their personalities. Brother isn 't a morning horse. Reggie typically took the morning shifts on Main ...
Beloved Disneyland Rides And Attractions That No Longer Exist
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Since its opening in 1955, Disneyland has seen a number of rides and attractions come and go. And while some of the rides were replaced with newer and better thrills, some are sorely missed. Up ahead, we take a look at some of the most beloved Disneyland attractions that no longer exist. 1. Submarine Voyage In 1959, Disneyland introduced one of its first E ticket rides (aka, more advanced or ...
Best Easter Eggs In Mickey And Minnies Runaway Railway
Sometimes, you have to look really hard - or get incredibly lucky - to see an Easter egg Disneyland Imagineers have placed in one of the park 's rides. But on Mickey & Minnie 's Runaway Railway, the new ride that opened Jan. 27, the secrets are right there in plain sight … as long as you know what to look for. In fact, the ride holds a unique distinction: It has more hidden ...
Best Place To Eat In Fantasyland New Red Rose Tavern
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The Red Rose Tavern opens for a limited time Feb. 24 in Disneyland Resort's famed Fantasyland. Belle and Beast would be thrilled to invite you to be their guests to the former Village Haus Restaurant, now all dressed up in Beauty and the Beast finery for a limited time. "Over the next few days, guests will see Village Haus Restaurant magically transforming into Red Rose Taverne, a lively tavern ...
Best Places To Eat At Disneyland
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Disneyland may be where all childhood dreams come true, but Disneyland is also quickly becoming a foodie mecca as well. With a wide array of culinary pleasures to choose between, from carts to fine dining, here are our picks for best Disneyland eats. On The Go For a quick bite on the go without the muss and fuss of sitting to eat because you've got places to go and lines to wait in! Fresh ...
Best Places To Eat At Disneyland On A Budget
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Disneyland is a magical place where kids and adults can go and have fun together. Disneyland is also an expensive place with some very expensive places to eat. However, there are a lot of places in Disneyland to eat that are really not much more expensive than eating at fast food joints. All of the food is delicious and filling. Sometimes if a person is not real hungry a meal can be shared to save money ...
Best Snacks To Get Based On Your Favorite Movies
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Your bags are packed, and you have your Mickey ears ready to go. A Disneyland vacation is on the horizon. There's so much to do and see in the parks - from the rides to the characters - but the real treat is pulling up a chair and being a guest for some tasty food at Disneyland. The food is becoming just as much of an attraction as It's A Small World and Space Mountain. You most likely have heard about the ...
Best Spots For Making Tiktok Videos
TikTok has become hugely popular in recent years, with people creating fun 15 to 60 second videos set to music. Disneyland is a prime location for making engaging TikTok content. Guests are allowed to film TikTok videos throughout the Disneyland parks and resorts. When deciding where to film your Disneyland TikTok videos, it 's best to choose locations that are less crowded so you don 't disrupt other ...
Best Ways To Experience Halloween
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Halloween has been one of the most awaited holidays for everyone. Parade of costumes, trick and treats and parties, these are just some of the few that attest to the fun the celebration promotes. Yet, somewhere, in Disneyland, a splendid month-long Halloween holiday is brought across ages and becomes the world's best place to spend the Halloween with. With a bunch of goings-on and aesthetics, tourists ...
Beyond The Magic
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NO FANTASYLAND: The Walt Disney Co. is buying up the tiny motels that surround Disneyland so it can expand the aging theme park. In the process, hundreds of people are losing the only homes they can afford. An odd assortment of drug dealers, down-on-their-luck families and teen-age castaways live side by side in the tiny tourist motels that crowd the streets around Disneyland. These are the working ...
Big Disneyland Expansion Since Original Opening
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When Walt Disney completed the $2,000,000 expansion program at Disneyland this summer, it was estimated by park officials that the capacity had increased by 100,000 rides per day. Completion of Disneyland"s first expansion program came this past month with the opening of the Rainbow Caverns Mine Train Ride in Frontierland. The Rainbow Caverns ride was the last and most costly of the new ...
Big Marketing Campaign Heralds Indiana Jones Adventure At Disneyland
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Late last year, Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner trumpeted that no one living west of the Mississippi River would escape the marketing blitz that heralds the March 3 opening of the Indiana Jones Adventure thrill ride at Disneyland. After reviewing all the pieces of Disney's promotional campaign, Disneyland's marketing vice president, Michele Reese, has upgraded Eisner's assessment to simply "no ...
Big Show At Low Prices
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Walt Disney's circus is one of the greatest values in Big Top history, show business surveys revealed last week. Once inside Disneyland, general admission tickets are only 50 cents. Reserved section tickets are $1. Admission to Disneyland with all its brilliant Christmas season music and decorations -- remains $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. The Mickey Mouse Club Circus is a ...
Big Surprise At Disneyland Star Wars Lands Not So Long Waits
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Walt Disney Co. 's efforts to prevent overcrowding at its new Star Wars themed land appear to be working. Websites that track attendance at Disneyland, the second-busiest theme park in the world, say the crowds have been manageable. The wait Wednesday afternoon for the signature Millennium Falcon ride was as little as 25 minutes, comparable to the 25-year-old Roger Rabbit 's Car Toon Spin, ...
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad At 40 A Timeless Triumph Of Theme Park Design
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When the D23 Expo unveiled a series of theme-park announcements in late August, one of them was unsurprisingly focused on the upcoming Epcot attraction centered on Marvel 's Guardians of the Galaxy. This new roller-coaster, subtitled “Cosmic Rewind”, is meant to be a 360-degree immersive ride; among its many elements, as noted in the press release, Cosmic Rewind will feature the first reverse-launch in a ...
Big Thunder Trail Reopens With New Features
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It is now easier to get from Frontierland to Fantasyland at Disneyland, or vice-versa. The theme park on Thursday, June 8, reopened its Big Thunder Trail that connects the two lands to the public, after being closed since early 2016. The trail was shut down so it could be revised, with new rock work, and themed decorations related to Disneyland's construction of the "Star Wars" land expansion. ...
Big Top Goes Up At Disneyland
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"SHAKE IT! Shake it!" the echoed across Disneyland as circus workers and Mouseketeers joined hands to raise the Big Top of the Mickey Mouse Club Circus, a feature attraction of the Christmas season at Disneyland opening Thanksgiving Day. The cry to the workers to "shake it" was to help the huge tent float on air bubbles and relieve some of the effort required to stretch the tent to the anchor areas. ...
Bill Justice, Walt Disney Studios Animator Worked On Fantasia And Bambi
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Bill Justice, a former Walt Disney Studios animator who worked on classics such as "Fantasia," "Bambi" and "Alice in Wonderland" and later joined Walt Disney Imagineering where he helped program Audio-Animatronics figures for attractions at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, died Thursday, a day after he turned 97. Justice died of natural causes in a nursing home in Santa Monica, said Ted King, a ...
Birth Of Disney's Dark Ride
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There are those who love carnival haunted houses and dark rides, and those who don't. The clackity-clack of the cars running along the track, the musty air with an occasional whiff of cotton-candy or bile, the gaudy plywood forms painted in florescent hues, the air-powered peek-a-BOO! pop-up ghoulies - all of these things inspire either fear and loathing or a giddy sense of escape, depending on the stars ...
Birthdays At Disneyland Really Are Free Heres How It Works
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When we heard that Disneyland was giving free tickets on your birthday, we thought the least we could do was go check it out. The process for getting into Disneyland free on your birthday is pretty simple. The rules say bring a driver's license or passport for adults and a certified birth certificate for kids. The offer gets you into one park. Or you can upgrade to a park hopper by paying the ...
Bit Of Disney Magic Found In Used Book
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Like a scene from the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," Austinite James Peterson found a "golden" ticket - an unused Disneyland ticket from the 1950s - tucked into a book of poetry at Half Price Books on U.S. 183 North. This week, he sold the complimentary child's ticket to the amusement park in Anaheim, Calif., on eBay for $435. "In this case the ticket is not golden, but it's ...
Biz Fallout From Roy E. Disney's Divorce?
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Huge surprise (even to his publicist) about Roy E. Disney, who looks so eeerily like his late uncle Walt, divorcing his wife of 51 years, Patricia. And so sad, like Mickey and Minnie splitting up. All I can say is that, when he worked at the Mouse House, Roy made time to return home every day to have lunch with Patty. (Maybe my pal Hollywood Oscar hostess Dani Janssen's musing about marriage is correct: ...
Bizarre Facts Fishing At Disneyland
You 're probably familiar with Tom Sawyer Island, an attraction at Disneyland that was inspired by Mark Twain 's classic novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. While most are acquainted with Twain 's stories, you might not know that the classic attraction was once open for fishing. In the late 1950s, there was a location within Tom Sawyer Island called Catfish ...
Bizarre House Of The Future Of The Past
As a Disney theme park enthusiast, I think if you'd asked me a couple of weeks ago to list all the attractions I was interested in, past and present, at the very bottom of the list would have been The House of the Future, which stood in Disneyland from 1957 to 1967. It's often given as an example of how desperate Disneyland was to get anything into its early Tomorrowland. Simply a free ...
Black Panther Star Sterling K Brown To Narrate Candlelight Processional
The name of the Disney celebrity that is typically kept secret until the last possible moment as a surprise for VIP visitors invited to the annual Candlelight Processional at Disneyland has been revealed for this holiday season. Consider this your spoiler alert. “Black Panther” and “Frozen 2” star Sterling K. Brown will narrate the Candlelight Processional at Disneyland on Saturday, Dec. 4 and ...
Black Santas In Holiday Celebrations For The First Time
There may not have been a press conference or even an official announcement signaling the change, but Black Santas have been participating in Christmas celebrations at U.S. Disney theme parks this year. Indeed, visitors have seen a Black Santa Claus at meet-and-greet events and employees have reported seeing Black Santas at after-hours Christmas parties at both Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, ...
Black Sunday Remembering Disneylands Disastrous Opening Day On Its 65th Anniversary
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Disneyland's opening day started off very inauspiciously for Walt Disney. Exhausted by last-minute preparations, he'd gone up to his private apartment above the firehouse on Main Street to get a little sleep before festivities began on the morning of July 17, 1955. When he awoke, he realized he'd somehow locked himself inside the room. So Walt Disney began yelling for help. ...
Blacks And Whites Both Accuse Disneyland Of Racism
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Mickey and his pals have some explaining to do. After going public last week with a discrimination lawsuit he's waging against Disneyland, a California attorney says he's hearing all sorts of allegations about employees of the amusement park. Since announcing earlier this month that he'd be representing a case that's accusing Disney staffers of racism, attorney Dan Gilleon has had his phone ringing ...
Blaine Gibson Disney Legend Behind Pirates And Haunted Mansion Dies At 97
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Legendary Disney animator and sculptor Blaine Gibson, who designed some of the most iconic images in the company's theme parks around the world, died on Sunday, according to the Orange County Register. He was 97. Gibson worked alongside Walt Disney during the development of Disneyland, and his sculptures were used to create the faces on characters in rides such as "Pirates of the Caribbean" and ...
