Disney Temporarily Closes 8 Attractions
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Disney parks are renovating eight attractions and other venues that are shut down for at least part of March. Many of the areas are already closed and some are slated to reopen later this month in the two parks, Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. The closures include eight attractions, four restaurants and one shop. Crews are finishing up a paving project in Tomorrowland in Disneyland ...
Disney Temporarily Closes 8 Attractions, 1 Show
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Eight Disney parks attractions, one show and some hotel pools will be temporarily closed for at least part of February mostly because of maintenance projects. Disney traditionally conducts most of their big renovation projects in the winter months following the busy holidays when tourism slows down. On Friday (today), Disney is reopening two of those attractions -- Redwood Creek Challenge Trail ...
Disney Theme Park Has Bad News About A New Attraction
Fans of Walt Disney Co. theme parks are in constant anticipation of the opening of new rides and attractions and spend a lot of time planning their trips to parks, buying admission tickets and getting their reservations lined up. Both Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif., have big development projects underway, including new rides and attractions ...
Disney Theme Parks' Dress Code Relaxed
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Female employees don't have to wear pantyhose with skirts anymore, unless the leg wear is part of a costume. Chalk one up for women who work at Disney theme parks: They don't have to wear pantyhose anymore. In the biggest change to the company's appearance code in a decade, the Walt Disney Co. has decided to let most female employees at Disney theme parks worldwide, including the Disneyland ...
Disney Theme Parks Quietly Abandon Middle Class Travelers
For decades, a trip to a Disney theme park was a hallmark of the American dream - accessible to the middle class, and a shared cultural rite that an estimated 70 to 90% of Americans experienced at least once, according to the National Museum of American History.
But a park visit may be increasingly out of reach for the masses. A New York Times writer argued in a recent opinion piece that ...
Disney Tightens Their FastPass Ride Reservation Policy
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There's all kinds of tricks, tips, and tidbits when it comes to visiting a mega theme park like those in the Disney empire. However, one of the best secrets was a kind of loophole in the FastPass ride reservation system over at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. It wasn't really that big of a secret, but it's something we considered pretty slick. The FastPass kiosks read your park admission tickets ...
Disney To Boost Minority Builders
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Walt Disney Co. plans to target minority-owned business for up to $450 million in labor and materials for its proposed $3-billion expansion project near Disneyland - expected to be one of the Southland's largest construction projects in the 1990s. The entertainment conglomerate has set what it calls an "aggressive" target of awarding 15% of the contracts for a 470-acre expansion of its original Anaheim ...
Disney To Bring Back Discounts For Disabled
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Step aside, Scrooge McDuck. Tinker Bell waved her wand Monday and restored Disneyland's half-price admission for disabled patrons. Two days after Disneyland said the $18 Happy Hearts prices would end, the company relented. Not only will the half-price admissions be restored starting in November, but they'll be expanded from 12 days a year to 24. "I would apologize ... if we in any way offended ...
Disney To Build Avatar-Themed Lands
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The Happiest Place on Earth is going to Pandora and beyond. But not to Disneyland or Disney California Adventure, at least right now. The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that it had formed a partnership with Academy Award-winning director James Cameron and Twentieth Century Fox to develop themed lands based on the blockbuster movie "Avatar" in Disney parks. At a press conference at ...
Disney To Impose Age Policy At Theme Parks
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Children under age 14 will have to be accompanied by someone 14 or older to get into Disneyland and Disney California Adventure starting March 23. The policy change is going into effect across Disney's American resorts, which previously had varying age policies. "We regularly review all policies and identified an opportunity to provide a consistent age of admission and address a question we ...
Disney To Install Permanent Security Gates
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Anaheim, California Bowing to fears of terrorism, Walt Disney plans to build permanent security gates at the Disneyland Resort next year. The company had resisted security gates around Disneyland and its California Adventure theme park next door, saying that the sense of fantasy would be spoiled. Disney already screens purses, backpacks and coolers, but the bag-check tables have been moved away from the ...
Disney To Make Movie Loosely Based On Your 35th Favorite Disneyland Attraction
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As someone who works in an ostensibly creative profession, I understand that coming up with ideas is hard, but I think if Disney hasn't hit the bottom of the conceptual barrel with a movie sort-of-not-really adapted from the Enchanted Tiki Room, the second take on The Haunted Mansion certainly is. "Pirates of the Caribbean" is one of the most successful franchises in the history of Disney. But when it ...
Disney To Offer Ride Wait-Time Updates Via Cellphone
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My friend and colleague Dawn Chmielewski reports that starting next year, visitors to Disney theme parks will be able to use their cellphones to check ride wait times, locate restaurants and find characters as well as receive admission discounts and merchandise deals. Disneyland and Walt Disney World visitors would have to download an application to their Verizon Wireless phones to access the ...
Disney To Project Guests Photos On Ride
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A new Disneyland show featuring photos of visitors is set to debut next week. The first show, called "The Magic, the Memories, and You," is scheduled for 6 p.m. Jan. 27 in the outdoor mall area in front of the "it's a small world" ride, said John McClintock, a Disneyland Resort spokesman. Disney plans to project pictures of visitors many of them taken that day on the facade of the ride building ...
Disney To Provide Park Navigation By Cell Phone
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Disneyland visitors will soon be able to find their way about the park by cell phone - and like a ghost at Haunted Mansion, the mobile application could follow you home. The Walt Disney Co. and Verizon Wireless announced Wednesday that they have reached a multiyear deal to provide theme park information and extras to Verizon customers who download a special application. Beginning next year, ...
Disney Top 10 Innovations Of All Time
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The Walt Disney Company is known for its creativity, innovative thinking and technological advances. Who, but Walt Disney, could have given us a motion picture like "Snow White," the first full-length animated feature film which was a movie industry first? Who, but the Walt Disney Company, could have given us Epcot, perhaps the most unique theme park experience in the world? On a recent ...
Disney Tram-Injured Woman Reach Settlement
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A Chinese woman who fell out of a moving Disneyland tram and suffered injuries that left her needing 24-hour medical supervision for the rest of her life has reached a settlement in a lawsuit she filed against the Walt Disney Co. Lawyers for Qi Zhao and Disney reached the agreement Tuesday, bringing a two-week trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court to an abrupt end. Details of the accord ...
Disney Trip Evokes Magic Of The Past
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Keeping the porch light on shone a new meaning for me recently. Our family journeyed down to Disneyland for seven days to explore The Happiest Place on Earth. I have visited Disneyland twice before so I was eagerly looking forward to sharing the magic with my wife and the rest of our family. Seeing my 11-year-old grandson Nicholas enjoy Disneyland - the rides, the churros, the ice cream and ...
Disney Trippers
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The tears were still damp on the powdered cheeks of Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson when she announced to her waiting public that the very first thing she was going to do now that she was Miss America was go to Disney World. Her decision was not altogether unexpected, since the Orlando playground and its progenitor in Anaheim seem to be the destinations of choice these days for big-time winners. Doug ...
Disney Turns 100 Here Is A Look Back At Price Changes Over The Years Including The 1 Dollar Ticket When Disneyland Opened In 1955
One hundred years ago today, Walt Disney and his brother Roy signed an agreement to form Disney Bros. Studios, which would produce a live-action/animated film series called The Alice Comedies. Walt himself starred in the first of the shorts, but they would hardly be the sort of things an empire was built upon. The real turning point would come five years later with the release of Steamboat ...
Disney University Teaches The Art Of Making Customer Magic
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Disney University teaches employees the principles of making memorable experiences. If Disney University had an inscription carved in marble somewhere, that phrase would be it. From how to stand when speaking to a visitor to the genesis of the company's practices, Disney University is the entertainment giant's training unit, graduating thousands of workers every year-every public-contact employee ...
Disney Unveils Disneyland Toontown Revamp
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When Mickey's Toontown reopens sometime early next year, visitors will see a newly reimagined area of Disneyland. The moment visitors walk underneath the Disneyland train trestle that separates Fantasyland from Toontown, they'll first encounter CenTOONial Park. There, they'll see a large manicured grassy area and, in the middle, a Dream Tree modeled after the same tree ...
Disney Ups Halloween Party Prices
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The Disneyland Resort has more than doubled prices for its special Halloween trick-0r-treat parties since they started five years ago. This year, the cost starts at $49 each for advanced tickets on most nights, but tickets can go up to $59 for Oct. 29 and 31 at Disneyland. In 2005, the prices began at $18 when the parties debuted at Disney California Adventure. Tickets to the general public go on ...
Disney Vacation Pros Dish Up Budgeting Tips for Trips
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Taking a Disney vacation can be pure magic. That's what it feels like for Becca Robins of Boise, Idaho. She travels to Disneyland in Anaheim, California, about twice a year with her husband and three sons - one 7-year-old and 3-year-old twins. "We really fell in love with it when we had our first son," says Robins, who runs the travel blog This Crazy Adventure Called Life. She and her husband ...
Disney Version
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For all the natural grandeur of the west, its greatest tourist attraction is a synthetic creation: Disneyland-the subject, along with Disney's films and Disney himself, of Richard Schickel's The Disney Version (Simon and Schuster, $6.50). Those who remember Disney fondly may find this book discomforting or worse. Schickel's view is critical and frequently provocative, though not a diatribe of the sort that ...
Disney Voice Over Actors Bring Theme Park Rides To Life
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Voice-over actors are the hidden artists who provide the audio atmosphere and essential back stories that bring theme parks to life.. From the parking lot tram spiel to park-wide announcements to ride narrations, the best work of voice-over actors often goes unnoticed simply because it blends so seamlessly into the overall theme park experience. During the upcoming ScareLA convention on Aug. 8 ...
Disney Wants To Invest $1 Billion At Disneyland In Exchange For No New Gate Tax
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The Walt Disney Co. is seriously considering a $1 billion-plus expansion of the Disneyland Resort with new attractions, a new parking structure with at least 5,000 spots and other improvements to the massive theme park complex. In exchange for the investment, Disney wants the city of Anaheim to forgo a tax on theme park admission tickets for another 30 years, according to a public notice published ...
Disney Wants To Make Theme Park Rides Controlled By Your Emotions
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Disney has filed a patent for theme park rides that can be controlled by your emotions. Titled, 'Sensing and Managing Vehicle Behaviour Based on Occupant Awareness', the patent seeks to develop technology which can read the facial expressions of riders, determining their emotions and customising the experience around those emotions. Bored? Your vehicle may suddenly speed up, or start spinning ...
Disney Welcomes Young At Heart To Disneyland
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"To all who come to this happy place: welcome. Disney-land is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past ... and here youth may savour the challenge and promise of the future. "Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America ... with the hope. that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world." These words ...
Disney Will Close Mcdonalds Restaurants In Anaheim
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A spokeswoman says the move is unrelated to the theme park company's push for healthier children's food. McDonald's Corp. is apparently no longer "lovin' it" at the "Happiest Place on Earth." The three McDonald's restaurants at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim will close Sept. 2 as part of planned refurbishments, Disneyland spokeswoman Lisa Haines said Thursday. Disney has been promoting ...
Disney Will Explore Disneyland History With Behind The Attraction
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What do you know about The Haunted Mansion? How about Space Mountain, or The Jungle Cruise? People have loved these iconic Disney rides for decades, but it takes a special breed of fan to actually research the history of how they were created. Disney+ hopes to make those stories a little more accessible, while also shining a spotlight on the brilliant Imagineers who made these attractions possible, with ...
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