Disneyland Cancels Grad Nite Parties Due To Coronavirus
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One of the popular teenage traditions of Southern California - Grad Nite at Disneyland - has been canceled this year due to COVID-19, the park has announced on its Disneyyouth.com website. “In light of recommendations by school and government officials to limit gatherings for the remainder of the academic year, we are making the difficult decision to cancel Disneyland Resort Grad Nite 2020,” ...
Disneyland Cancels Tale Of The Lion King Performance After Cast Illnesses
Disneyland has canceled a performance of a new “Lion King” musical stage show less than a week after opening at the Anaheim theme park after several members of the cast fell ill amid a surge in COVID-19 cases across the United States. The performance of the “Tale of the Lion King” in the Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland planned for Thursday, June 2 has been canceled out of an abundance of ...
Disneyland Candlelight Parade Holiday Ceremony Expands December Dates
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It's been a Disneyland tradition since 1958. But it's also been a well-kept secret, until now. Disneyland's Candlelight Ceremony and Processional is a holiday concert featuring 600-person choir and an orchestra of local notable musicians, as well as a notable thesp narrating the story of the first Christmas. It's all staged with great fanfare on the steps of the Main Street railroad station. Past ...
Disneyland Capital Investment Grows
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During its first 10 years, Disneyland's capital investment grew from $17 million on opening day to more than $53 million. In the next five months, the figure will jump another $20 million with the completion of four new gigantic attractions. "What we will do by this summertime," Walt Disney said after announcing the new attractions last week, "is to raise our investment more than the whole of ...
Disneyland Carves Up Exotic Pumpkins
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A Monsters Inc. pumpkin wears a construction hat. Other pumpkins are engraved with intricate faces, including Sally from "The Nightmare before Christmas." Blue paint coats a version of Ursula from "The Little Mermaid." Disneyland visitors are finding 25 to 30 decorated pumpkins not the standard fare found on porches on display in Frontierland. Guests can watch carvers create new ones. For ...
Disneyland Cast Members Dominate 2005 Disney Legends Awards
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In celebration of 50 years of Disneyland magic, The Walt Disney Company inducted the 2005 "class" of Disney Legends for their roles in creating the company's treasure trove of entertainment, particularly their part in creating "The Happiest Place on Earth." Today's 10:00 am ceremony was presented in the Main Street Opera House at Disneyland. Following the awards presentation, the honorees participated in a ...
Disneyland Cats Are Real Here Is How To See Them
You might think the Disneyland cats are a myth. After all, a theme park encouraging stray cats to live inside its gates to keep the vermin population down does seem a little wild - especially when you consider the theme park famously “all started with a mouse,” according to Walt Disney. But Disneyland 's “community cats,” as it calls them, are very real. So real, in fact, that they have a fan ...
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 ...
Disneyland Celebrates 50 Years Of Magic
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How is it possible that a tiny plot of 130 acres has brought joy to more children -- and adults -- than any place on the planet in the past 50 years? It's astounding that for half a century, kids have been plunking sweaty coins into piggy banks to get here. That the phrase "We're going to Disneyland" can make young hearts jump with joy months ahead of the date. This year is the 50th anniversary ...
Disneyland Celebrates 50th Anniversary
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Disneyland, the granddaddy of the modern theme park, marked its 50th anniversary with a ceremony that culminated with a fireworks-and-confetti display featuring Mickey Mouse and dozens of other characters brought to life by founder Walt Disney. Thousands of fans, some waiting outside the gates since midnight, filled the theme park that was spruced up with touches of gold-colored gilding and fabric to ...
Disneyland Celebrates 50th Anniversary
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Disneyland, "The Mickey Mouse Club" and the Mouseketeers -- three American pop culture icons -- share their 50th anniversaries in 2005 and 10 of the original Mouseketeers are returning "home" to Disneyland on Monday, October 3, to celebrate their golden milestone where they first made their initial public appearance. In salute to one of the most popular children's television shows of all-time, the ...
Disneyland Celebrates 57th Birthday Today
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Tuesday has arrived with The Happiest Place on Earth's 57th birthday. It was this date in 1955 that Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif. on 60 acres of orange groves. Starting with just 20 attractions, the wonderland has since turned into a major tourist destination in Orange County with something for everyone. On the special day Tuesday, Disneyland will honor their 57th anniversary with a ...
Disneyland Celebrates 60th Anniversary
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Disneyland will be celebrating its 60th anniversary and guests are given their first taste on what the amusement park holds for them. On Wednesday, the Disney Resort in Anaheim revealed some of its biggest plans for the park's anniversary and confirmed that there will be repaint of Sleeping Beauty's castle, according to Neon Tommy. The theme park will also introduce a new World of Color in Disney ...
Disneyland Celebrates A Half-Century Of Joy
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From Sleeping Beauty's castle to the spinning teacups, the magic of Disneyland has endured for 50 years. The 60-acre Anaheim park opened on July 17, 1955, but Disney officials aren't waiting for summer. They'll kick off 18 months of celebration on Thursday. We knew there had to be desert residents who were there, enjoying the fun on that first day, and that the park would continue to attract fans for ...
Disneyland Celebrates Black History Month With Gospel Showcase
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Sixteen choirs from Southern California - three of them from Orange County - are performing Saturday at Disneyland for the theme park's annual Black History Month celebration. Orange County's New Generation Youth Choir, Friendship Baptist Church's Friendship Mass Choir and Spiritual Truth are set to take the stage in Disney's sixth Celebrate Gospel event. The performances, which run from noon to ...
Disneyland Celebrates Its 59th Anniversary
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Take a stroll on Main Street USA inside Disneyland in Anaheim and you will find a plaque in middle of the main square with Walt Disney's famous July 17th 1955 opening day speech. "To all who come to this happy place, Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past. And here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the ...
Disneyland Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary And Spiderman Arrives On Nov 16
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While many amusement parks have opened up and closed down soon enough, Disneyland remains sustainable and popular while celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. The popularity of this fantasy land has been consistently maintained for both adults and children "despite shifting demographics, the rise of video games and all the other societal changes that have sunk so many other businesses". ...
Disneyland Changes Star Wars Galaxys Edge Menu Names So That Visitors Will Know What They Are Eating
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Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo chef Strono “Cookie” Tuggs has gotten a very unusual shipment of fried chicken, pork ribs and cinnamon rolls at his Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge restaurant in Disneyland from a galaxy far, far away - planet Earth. Disneyland has changed the other-worldly Star Wars names of some menu items at the restaurants and food stands in the new 14-acre themed land to better ...
Disneyland Changes Tram Loading And Security At Mickey And Friends
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Disneyland is switching up the way that many fans will enter the park, again. Visitors parking in the Mickey and Friends structure will find that Disney has moved its security check and tram loading inside the parking garage, taking over the former Chip 'n Dale parking area on the south end of the structure. The move is the first step of the construction process as Disneyland builds a second parking ...
Disneyland Changing Its Fastpass To Electronic System To Skip The Long Lines
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Fastpasses are changing fast at the Disneyland Resort. The resort started testing its new Fastpass system this week. No longer will visitors receive a printed Fastpass that they then give to cast members at an attraction. Instead, the new system requires visitors to have their admission ticket or annual pass scanned at the attraction at their appointed Fastpass time. The paper Fastpass tickets ...
Disneyland Characters Could Be Scrapped In Favour Of Robots In The Future
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If you're the type of person who gets over-excited at the prospect of visiting Disneyland and wearing the obligatory Mickey Mouse ears, then listen up! Disney has provided an insight into the future of its theme parks - where its iconic characters could be replaced by robotic replicas. Yep, at SXSW 2017, Disney bosses explained how soon you'll be able to interact with story-telling robots at its ...
Disneyland Christmas Photoblogging
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The Lovely Christine and I went to Disneyland for Christmas. I'm not a huge Disney fan, mainly because I know a little too much about Disney. Back in the 1990's, I worked for a company in Orange County, first as the head of their computer training division, and later as the head of the programming/networking division. While I was the training manager, we got the contract to provide all the computer ...
Disneyland Cinema Closes For Construction
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The Main Street U.S.A. Cinema in Disneyland is set to be closed until next month while crews install new floors. No new changes are planned for the attraction when it reopens, said Suzi Brown, a Disneyland Resort spokeswoman. The cinema closed starting this week and is set to reopen Feb. 2. The cinema, an original attraction from 1955, plays classic Mickey Mouse films on six different screens. ...
Disneyland Cinema Scheduled To Return Early
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Construction on the Disneyland movie house is ahead of schedule. The Main Street U.S.A. Cinema is expected to re-open Friday instead of early February, said Suzi Brown, a Disneyland Resort spokeswoman. The venue was closed while workers installed a new floor. The cinema has six different screens where classic Mickey Mouse films are shown. Movies include "Steamboat Willie," the first ...
Disneyland Cleared To Add 455 Parking Spaces To Its Toy Story Lot
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In a move that will help prepare for the expected onslaught of visitors to its "Star Wars" land opening in two years, Disneyland Resort is adding more parking spaces to its off-site parking lot. Disneyland got unanimous approval from the Anaheim Planning Commission last week to add an additional 455 parking spaces to its Toy Story lot off Harbor Boulevard and Convention Way. Guests parking there are ...
Disneyland Closed For Birthday-Bash Preview
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Disneyland is closed to the public today as 1,200 journalists and special guests get a sneak peek of attractions that are part of the 50th anniversary. The official celebration begins Thursday. Disneyland has rarely been closed since it became a 365-day-a-year operation in 1986. It did not open on Sept. 11, 2001. Disneyland's 50th birthday is July 17, but the company chose the date 05-05-05 to ...
Disneyland Closes As California Rushes To Battle Coronavirus
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Disneyland will close its doors for the rest of the month, an extraordinary decision mirrored throughout California by companies big and small after Gov. Gavin Newsom 's call for any nonessential gatherings of 250 people or more to be canceled to help stop the rapid spread of the new coronavirus. Newsom issued an executive order late Wednesday recommending the closures extend through March, ...
Disneyland Closes Attractions For Pirates Premiere
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Disneyland this week temporarily closed five attractions as the park prepares for next week's celebrity-studded premiere of the upcoming "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" movie. Crews are building a screen and seating along Rivers of America for the outdoor viewing May 7 of "Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides" for celebrities, invited guests and ticket holders. The screening follows "black" ...
Disneyland Closes Critter Country During Splash Mountain Renovation
Princess Tiana 's takeover of Critter Country will expand further into the Hundred Acre Wood when the Winnie the Pooh and Brer Rabbit shops are pushed out of the neighborhood to make more room for retail space themed to the 2009 “Princess and the Frog” animated film. Disneyland will temporarily close Critter Country on May 1 to reimagine two retail shops as Louis ' Critter Club and Ray 's ...
Disneyland Closes Gates As Holiday Crowds Fill The Park
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Disneyland temporarily shut its gates Friday, Dec. 27 as crowds filled the Anaheim theme park and new visitors were directed to Disney California Adventure across the esplanade until attendance levels declined. “We have temporarily stopped selling tickets to Disneyland Park,” the official Disneyland Today Twitter account said. “As of 11:40 am, Disney California Adventure Park tickets remain ...
Disneyland Closes Parts Of Mickeys Toontown Again To Fix Persistent Problems
A big chunk of the recently reimagined Mickey 's Toontown is once again behind construction walls as Disneyland crews work to address persistent problems that continue to plague the popular kiddie playland. Centoonial Park remains closed through Oct. 22 for a month-long refurbishment and Goofy 's How-to-Play Yard will close Oct. 23 for additional work. The recently refreshed ...
