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 Clears Parade Route As Smoke Billows From Paint The Night Float
A fan-favorite nighttime parade with 1.5 million LED lights that returned for Disneyland 's 70th anniversary celebration billowed smoke and forced the evacuation of the parade route in front Sleeping Beauty Castle.
The Little Mermaid float had a power issue on Wednesday, Sept. 10 during the Paint the Night parade, according to Disneyland officials.
A complication with the brakes ...
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 Ogas Cantina For Extended Refurbishment
Oga 's Cantina will close for at least six weeks at Disneyland ahead of a major overhaul of Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge that will bring a younger proprietor to the hive of scum and villainy and new music to the alien cocktail bar 's soundtrack.
Disneyland will close Oga 's Cantina from Tuesday, Jan. 20 through at least early March for an extended refurbishment with no reopening date yet ...
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 ...
Disneyland Combats Renting Out Park Passes
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Disneyland is trying to put a stop to the so-called "renting out" of discounted park passes. Multi-day passes are cheaper, per day, than single-day passes. The multi-day passes are being purchased, then offered for "rent" on websites like Craigslist and at ticket brokers. The person who rents the pass then returns it and someone else pays to use it the next day. To discourage this, ...
Disneyland Comes to Washington
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WHAT: The National Museum of American History will receive ride vehicles from two of Disneyland's opening year (1955) attractions: "Dumbo the Flying Elephant" and the "Mad Hatter's Tea Party." WHEN: Thursday, June 9, 9 a.m. WHERE: National Museum of American History, 14th and Constitution Avenue NW, First floor, West corridor WHO: -- Brent Glass, director, National Museum of American ...
Disneyland Considers Prohibiting Admission To Annual Passholders For Two Months Following Star Wars Land Opening
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Disney has started surveying Disneyland and Disney World annual passholders about the possibility of adding a block-out period for a theme park for the first two months of a new attraction like the upcoming Star Wars Lands, Pandora: The World of Avatar, Toy Story Land or Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout. But will Disney add an AP block-out for Star Wars Land? A recent survey conducted by ...
Disneyland Converts Classic Attraction Into A Gift Shop
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When walking right down the middle of Main Street, U.S.A. at the Disneyland Resort, guests will find an opening day attraction has been transformed into a store. The Main Street Cinema, a staple of the small Midwest town-inspired Main Street since the park 's 1955 founding by Walt Disney, has long exhibited classic silent films and cartoons, including 1914 animated short Gertie the Dinosaur - ...
Disneyland Copter Crashes 22 Killed
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Twenty-three including many who spent a fun-filled day at Disneyland were killed Wednesday in a fiery helicopter crash at Paramount, a Los Angeles suburban town. Cause of the crash was not determined immediately, but operators of the regularly scheduled helicopter said it was a "possible midair collision" because another aircraft had been seen in the immediate vicinity. Sheriff's deputies said ...
Disneyland Could Customize Your Visit By Scanning Your Feet
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Disney has invented technology to recognize guests in its theme parks using their feet. At Walt Disney World, Disney has already introduced MyMagic+, a system that allows visitors wearing a "Magic Band" on their wrist to customize their in-park experience, but with a patent recently awarded by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the company could use a recognition system that scans a ...
Disneyland Covers Up Sexy Jessica Rabbit In A Detectives Trenchcoat And Fedora
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Sexy cartoon actress-turned-private eye Jessica Rabbit has covered up her signature sparkly red dress with a detective 's trenchcoat and fedora on a Toontown dark ride in the latest change to make Disneyland attractions more culturally relevant. Roger Rabbit 's Car Toon Spin is the latest Disneyland attraction to undergo a major refresh to remove outdated and problematic scenes - joining ...
Disneyland Covers Up Terrifying New Clown Faces In Haunted Mansion Holiday Overlay
It has been a long-running tradition to “plus” the Haunted Mansion every year in the fall for Halloween. In a move emblematic of Disneyland 's penchant for innovation, the Haunted Mansion began a seasonal transformation in 2001, becoming the Haunted Mansion Holiday. Inspired by Tim Burton 's “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” this overlay was a significant departure from the attraction 's original theme. ...
Disneyland Cracks Down On Fake Disabilities Forgets Real Ones
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Disney parks used to be a haven for children with disabilities and their families. But that's about to change. As my mother once observed to me, "A day at the beach with your family is no day at the beach." This is no reflection on the members of my family. Looking at them with a cold unbiased journalistic eye, I can observe clearly that I happened to wind up with the three most amazing kids ...
Disneyland Cracks Down On FastPass Abusers
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Disneyland is cracking down on park goers abusing their FastPass system. The system was introduced in 1999 to help visitors to the Magic Kingdom spend less time in line. Free reservation tickets are issued at the beginning of the line of their most popular attractions, with a specified one-hour window during which patrons can get in with little to no wait. However, some Disney visitors have ...
Disneyland Cracks Down On Parade Seat Savers
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At Disneyland, folks will not be allowed to set up camp for the high-demand spots until parade set-up begins. And even then, park guests won't be able to hold spots for friends who are gallivanting elsewhere in the park. A policy change hasn't happened at Disney World. The problem just isn't as prevalent in Florida, Disney World ...
Disneyland Day Every Day For This Couple
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At 8 a.m. today, Tonya Mickesh and Jeff Reitz were to go through the entrance turnstiles to Disneyland for the 366th day in a row. It's a journey that's seen them spend 24 hours in the park for the 24-hour Leap Day, watch baby ducks grow up, and go from unemployed to full-time jobs while becoming nationally known as the "everyday Disneyland couple." "It was a way to keep ourselves occupied because ...
Disneyland Debuts Fantasy Faire For The Princess Mad Masses
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What do you call a gathering of princesses? A pack? A gaggle? A bevy? We don't know, either, but travelers heading to Disneyland may find themselves pondering that question when the theme park's newest attraction, Fantasy Faire, opens on Tuesday, March 12. With the likes of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" on hand to meet and greet little visitors, it promises to be a ...
