Disney Gave Input On Measles Health Messages
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As the measles outbreak spread last month, Disneyland executives sent a series of emails to California health officials asking them to emphasize that the theme park was not responsible for the illnesses and was safe to visit, documents obtained by The Associated Press show. There is no evidence Disneyland - or health officials, who incorporated at least some of the theme park's suggestions - tried to ...
Disney Gets Federal Permission To Fly Drones Over Theme Parks
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Walt Disney Parks and Resorts has received federal permission to fly drones over its theme parks. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a waiver this week allowing Disney to use drones through November 2020. Disney asked for permission last year to fly the drones at Disneyland and Disney World for entertainment purposes, including fireworks shows. The waiver will allow nighttime use of ...
Disney Gets Pricier
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Gas prices are climbing, house prices are soaring and Disney theme-park prices are keeping pace. The regular adult admission ticket jumps to $56 on Monday, and the price for children 3-9 goes to $46. Each price reflects a $3 increase, and it's the second time this year Disney has raised prices for Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure. The price will be $9 higher than 2003, a 19 percent ...
Disney Gets Serious About Saving Star Wars Land
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"Do or do not," Yoda famously says in The Empire Strikes Back. "There is no try." With the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge expansion at both of Disney's stateside theme park resorts falling into the "do not" camp these days, the entertainment giant is rolling out a promotional blitz on its own cable and media network properties to promote the new Star Wars-themed lands. The media blitz kicks ...
Disney Getting Good At Recycling Movie Ideas From Disneyland Rides
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If Disney CEO Bob Iger ends up running for California governor - as has been rumored - I'm sure that the environment will stand atop his platform, because nobody in the entertainment business recycles more than Disney. Animated movies becoming live action films, movies becoming theme park rides, theme park rides becoming movies. It's the Circle of Life, Hollywood style. Most recently, Disney ...
Disney Ghosts Feast On Mansion's Gingerbread
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Halloween and Christmas collide at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland when characters from "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" take over the home of 999 Happy Haunts. Brian D. Sandahl is the art director in charge of the annual conversion of the mansion into the Halloween/Christmas-themed ride that plays off of Burton's animated movie. He said one of the most anticipated features is the ...
Disney Gives Heave-Ho To Ho-Hum Food Items
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Is the world ready for the Banana Dog? Will kids really eat something called a Pale of Mud? The world will find out Friday, when Disneyland opens three new restaurants and introduces a line of huge, showy foods that are supposed to make visitors shout, "I want one!" "I'm focusing on the overall `wow' of the food," said James Wierzelewski, 33, Disneyland's new executive chef. "I do the `wow' kind of ...
Disney Goes On A Jungle Cruise
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Following the record-breaking success of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Walt Disney Pictures is giving high-priority status to another movie project based on a Disneyland ride. The Hollywood Reporter says "Smallville" showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar are in talks to write Jungle Cruise, an adventure movie and potential franchise that is being produced by David Hoberman and Todd ...
Disney Guests To Skip Ride Lines With New Plan
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Disneyland Resort park visitors will be able to reserve times for rides and check into hotel rooms from home under a new system that the company is developing, the parks' chairman announced Thursday. Tom Staggs, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, announced the new plan for visitors to avoid lines and personalize their vacations during a 25-minute presentation at Walt Disney Company's 2011 ...
Disney Halloween Tickets Resell For $200 Online
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Tickets for Mickey's Halloween Party at Disneyland are at a premium this season as the event continues to grow in popularity, with online ticket brokers attempting to resell them at up to three times face value. Tickets for the special event are sold by the Disneyland Resort for $46 for pass holders to $69 for the public. But they quickly sold out on several nights and are being advertised ...
Disney Halts Famed 'I'm Going' Super Bowl Ads
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Who is going to Disney World after winning the Super Bowl on Feb. 6? Nobody, because after 19 years the Magic Kingdom has elected to halt the promotional series in which a star of the game proclaims he is headed for the popular Florida theme park. The absence of the promotion by family-oriented Disney comes as the NFL attempts to clean up the Super Bowl after Janet Jackson's breast-exposing ...
Disney Has A New Skinless Robot That Is So Human
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Disney Research has recently released footage of a new robot that has human-like characteristics. The robot has subtle head movements and some blinking patterns that look similar to how a human interacts. The robot has a sensor inside of its chest that notifies it when to move and how to move its eyes for contact with other humans, too, Gizmodo reports. The robot uses ...
Disney Has More In Store For Visitors
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As Disneyland puts away the 50th anniversary party hats from its 18-month celebration, Walt Disney Co. executives are faced with their next challenge: how to avoid a midlife crisis at the company's theme parks. Banking on the momentum of their packed theme parks, Disney executives this week said they planned to lure tourists back using advertising, prizes and new attractions. Gary Slade, editor ...
Disney Hikes Annual Pass Prices By Up To $50
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For the second time in less than a year, Disneyland Resort has hiked prices for annual park passes. Starting today, theme park-goers will pay between $30 and $50 more than they paid in early 2009 for the same annual passes that can be used at Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure. The hikes range from 11 percent to 26 percent. The prices for annual passes depend on the number of ...
Disney Hikes Price Of Socal Ticket Deal
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Disney hiked the price of its annual two-day ticket deal for Southern California residents a promotion that begins Sunday (today). Southern California residents can pay $99 for two days at Disneyland Resort parks Disneyland and Disney California Adventure (The usual cost for a single-day, one-park pass is $76). In recent years, Disney sold two-for-one park tickets to Southern California ...
Disney History President Sends Turkeys To Disneyland
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Take a look at what happened this week in Disney history: Nov. 24, 1955: Mickey Mouse Club Circus, starring Jimmie Dodd and many of the original Mouseketeers, premieres in Fantasyland (it will become one of the shortest lived attractions at the Park, closing January 8, 1956). Nov. 24, 1955: "Christmas Show Parade" kicks off its first holiday season at the Park on Thanksgiving Day and runs daily ...
Disney History: Dixieland At Disneyland
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Take a look at what happened this week in Disney history: Sept. 26, 1955: The First Annual Horseless Carriage Day is held on Main Street, U.S.A. Oct. 1, 1960: Dixieland at Disneyland debuts on the Rivers of America in Frontierland. Six Dixieland bands draw 9,000 jazz fans to a musical procession of boats and rafts on the Rivers of America followed by concerts at locations throughout the park. ...
Disney Holiday Fireworks Parade Return Friday
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Crowds at the Disneyland Resort are expected to thicken as the popular holiday season, including special fireworks and a parade, return Friday. The resort's season runs through Jan. 2 with special entertainment, attraction makeovers and festive decorations. Disney crews have been installing decorations in the parks since Halloween. Earlier this week, the snow features were on Sleeping Beauty ...
Disney Honors 5 Millionth Grad Nite Guest
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A graduate from Fontana received a special surprise when he entered the gates of the Magic Kingdom late Thursday. Samuel Jacobo, a graduate of Summit High School, was tagged as Mr. 5 Million. Jacobo was deemed the five millionth guest to pass through the gates of Disneyland for a Grad Nite - an all-night tradition that began in 1961 as a safe place for grads from across Southern California to ...
Disney Imagineer Collin Campbell Passes Away, Leaves Legacy
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Disney Imagineer Collin Campbell passed away on Saturday, April 2, 2011. Campbell, an employee of WED Enterprises, the division of the Walt Disney Company directly responsible for creating the iconic Disney theme park attractions, was involved in many aspects of the design of Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and the international Disney theme parks. Campbell's distinctive paintings of the Jungle ...
Disney Imagineer Recalls Haunted Mansion Tricks Treats
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On Tuesday, scores of Disney fans will celebrate Halloween with a ride through the Haunted Mansion at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim. Carlsbad resident Roland "Rolly" Crump, 87, won't be among those rolling through the spooky attraction in pitch-black "doom buggies," but he will be there in true ghostly spirit. Crump is one of the last surviving Disney Imagineers whose designs and models ...
Disney Imagineer Story
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Martin A. "Marty" Sklar, a right-hand man of Walt Disney and central figure in the development and expansion of his company's theme parks around the world, has died. Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown confirmed Sklar's death for The Associated Press. He died Thursday at his Hollywood Hills home at age 83, a company statement says. No details were released on his cause of death. "Here you leave ...
Disney Imagineering Made A Significant Mistake On A Classic Disneyland Attraction
Did you know Disney Imagineering made a huge mistake on a Disneyland opening day attraction? Blink, and you 'll miss it. Disneyland Resort has been a staple for family fun in America since the 1950s, welcoming millions of families each year, eager to experience Disney magic through breathtaking storytelling, immersive lands, timeless attractions, innovative new experiences, world-class ...
Disney Imagineers Seek To Inspire The Next Generation Of Theme Park Dreamers And Builders
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Dreaming up a roller coaster that wraps around a mountain or a theme park land set in a galaxy far, far away is a puzzle that can only be solved with a mix of creativity and technical know-how. “It becomes this problem-solving exercise of how do we do this?” Walt Disney Imagineering executive creative director John Larena said. “And then when we figure out how to do it, how do we keep it ...
Disney In talks To Buy Pixar
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting (Bloomberg, too) today that Disney is in serious talks with Pixar about acquiring the animation studio in a stock deal worth nearly US$7 billion. Most people have probably heard about the well publicized rift between the two companies over renewing Disney's distribution rights to Pixar films. Steve Jobs, the CEO and majority shareholder in Pixar, had decided not ...
Disney Indiana Jones Ride Whipped Into Shape
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The adventure ride was closed for three months for refurbishment. Disneyland's Indiana Jones Adventure will resume operation on Dec. 8 after a three-month refurbishment. Besides the popular inside ride, based on the "Indiana Jones" movies, no other Disneyland Resort attraction is scheduled for closures in December because of the heavy crowds coming for special holiday features and long school ...
Disney Investment In A Dream
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Adventure is the goal of master showman Walt Disney as he transforms 160 acres of [arm land on the outskirts of Anaheim into a spectacular showpiece of past, present, future, feet and fantasy -- to be known as Disneyland. Opening date is set for July 15. Adventures will include activities of Frontierland, one of the four major realms of Disneyland. America's frontiers of the 18th and -19th Centuries ...
Disney Is Apparently Making Flying Stunt Robots For Its Parks
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In a move straight out of Tomorrowland, Disney is about to use robots in a brand new way. While visiting Disney Theme Parks always includes more spectacles than our eyes can handle, the bi-coastal and worldwide parks are stepping up their game in a big way. For decades, Disney has been incorporating animatronic robots into various attractions, from the famed Hall of Presidents and franchise-inspiring ...
Disney Is Turning Club 33 Into A Movie
Welcome to the club. Disney is inviting moviegoers into Club 33, a feature film inspired by the private restaurant that has been nestled inside Disneyland's New Orleans Square since 1967. A prized invitation for Disney fans, the members-only dining club - named after its former entrance at 'ཝ Royal Street,'' near Walt Disney's iconic Pirates of the Caribbean attraction that inspired the ...
Disney Just Updated Its Pirates Of The Caribbean Ride. Here's What Changed
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We know a little more about why Disney decided to update its Pirates of the Caribbean rides. Visitors to the Pirates of the Caribbean rides at Disneyland and Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom have gone through the same experience for 50 years. Few people ever noticed a scene in which pirates auction off women to pirates to be their brides. Disney announced in June 2017 it wanted to change a ...
Disney Knotts Frequent Targets Of Lawsuits
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Darth Vader was shooing away a bird at Disneyland when he smacked a woman in the back according to the lawsuit she filed claiming such "severe injuries" as back pain, headaches and trouble sleeping. Scores of other visitors to Orange County's showcase theme parks have gone to court in recent years with accusations of dangerous mistakes, accidents large and small, and lots of slippery floors. A ...