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 ...
Disneyland Debuts Macabre Menu Item In Honor Of Haunted Mansions 50th Anniversary
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Well, this certainly feels appropriate for the 50th anniversary of a slightly spooky family attraction! Disneyland 's Haunted Mansion ride is currently celebrating its golden anniversary, having originally opened on Aug. 9. 1969. And seeing as no celebration is truly complete without plenty of food and drink, the park made sure to debut a “spooky array of delightfully delicious offerings just ...
Disneyland Declares Star Wars Land Opening A Success Says Crowding Nonexistent
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Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge wrapped up the first week of its maiden voyage with Disneyland management saying the largest expansion in park history wasn 't marred by crowding problems that some visitors groused about on social media. “The crowding issues that many of our guests anticipated have not come to fruition thanks to the measures we 've put in place,” said Disneyland vice president Kris ...
Disneyland Dedicates 3 Windows On Main Street To Make A Wish
For the first time ever, Disneyland Resort dedicated its Main Street store windows to an organization, rather than a person. For more than 40 years, Disneyland and Make-A-Wish Foundation have worked together to grant wishes to terminally ill children. Typically, individuals who have contributed to Disneyland are honored on these windows. Many well-known Disney people have windows ...
Disneyland Delays Reopening Of Mickeys Toontown
Disneyland officials announced Friday that the reopening of Mickey 's Toontown has been delayed. The cartoon-themed land, which features “Roger Rabbit 's Car Toon Spin,” “Mickey 's House,” “Minnie 's House,” and the new dark ride, “Mickey & Minnie 's Runaway Railway,” will now open on March 19 instead of the previously-announced opening date of March 8. “Due to heavy winter storms ...
Disneyland Delish New Fancy Doughnuts
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DEAR CHURROS, it has been a good long while since we've written, and for that we do apologize. Life has kept us busy, but your cinnamon sweetness, your easy hold-a-bility, and your notable soft-to-the-teeth-ness remains forever on our mind and in our heart. So this is just to say that we do adore you, and Dole whips, and those Mickey Ears cookies, and all of the goodies we can find up and down Main Street, ...
Disneyland Designers Face Pressure To Ensure Star Wars Land Doesn't Flop
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As Disneyland engineers tinker on top-secret designs for the park's new Star Wars Land, a mothballed attraction at nearby Disney California Adventure provides a stark reminder that even the most creative ride ideas can land with a thud, costing park operators lots of money and frustrating visitors.. Luigi's Flying Tires was an ambitious effort that lofted visitors in tire-shaped bumper cars floating ...
Disneyland Designing It's A Small World To Fit Fatter Folks
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Looks like it's a fat world after all. According to recent news reports, the beloved It's a Small World attraction at Disneyland will be closing down in January 2008 for almost a year for some major re-engineering. Actually, scrap that. Let's call it "re-Imagineering." After all, such grade A spin is what Disney is likely going to be putting on the billboards covering the attraction next year, once it ...
Disneyland Diamond Celebration Looks Ridiculously Amazing
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When Walt Disney opened his first theme park on July 17, 1955, he said, "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." Sixty years (and 700 million guests) later, Disneyland is marking its six-decade anniversary by hosting a summer-long party, called the Diamond ...
Disneyland Diamond Days Sweepstakes Will Give Away Diamonds
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Imagine winning a Disney Diamond or a Cinderella glass slipper, or enjoying a private excursion and dinner in Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure Park. Those are a few of the exciting prizes that will be awarded to some lucky guests during the Disneyland Diamond Days sweepstakes, part of the Disneyland Resort Diamond Celebration that begins May 22, 2015. Celebrating the 60th anniversary, ...
Disneyland Digs In At Anaheim
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With opening date set for July 15, construction is going full speed ahead on Disneyland, multi-million dollar wonder of the entertainment world at Anaheim in Orange County. The total investment is expected to approximate $17 million.Grading and bulldozing are completed. Excavation of the various waterways in Disneyland is finished. Construction has started on several buildings, with the exterior of one ...
Disneyland Digs Into The Roots Of Walt Disneys Imagination With His Dreaming Tree
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A new Disneyland landmark inspired by the hometown tree that Walt Disney daydreamed under as a boy will pay tribute to the vivid imagination of the Anaheim theme park 's founder while also serving as a whimsical children 's playground. The new Dreaming Tree coming to Mickey 's Toontown at Disneyland will be inspired by a Cottonwood in Walt Disney 's hometown of Marceline, Missouri. ...
Disneyland Disney World To Stay Open For 24 Hours On May 24
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Grab your mouse ears and get ready to spend an all-nighter at Disneyland and Disney World at the start of Memorial Day weekend, with Pixar characters from the upcoming movie "Monsters University" roving around and other special events. The Magic Kingdom Park in Orlando, Fla., as well as Disneyland and California Adventure Park in Anaheim will open at 6 a.m. May 24 and remain open for 24 hours, ...
Disneyland Doesn't Lose What's Familiar
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Disneyland will never be complete. It's a statement the amusement park's creator, the late Walt Disney, was fond of mentioning when talking about the future of Disneyland. There will always be a change to be made, or new technology to add to the California theme park, Disney predicted. More than 50 years after Disneyland's opening, the phrase continues to ring true. On Monday, the Disneyland ...
Disneyland Donates Matterhorn Cars To Roller Coaster Museum
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Most Disneyland visitors would describe the old cars on the Matterhorn ride as aging and cramped. The chairman of the National Roller Coaster Museum and Archives is calling the cars "the holy grail" of roller coaster artifacts. Disneyland announced Tuesday that it had donated two of the cars from the Matterhorn Bobsled attraction at the Anaheim theme park to the museum in Arlington, Texas. Museum ...
Disneyland Donating Excess Food During Coronavirus Closure
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As Disneyland closes from March 14th until at least March 31st, the theme park has announced via their blog that they will be donating excess food to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County. Last year Disneyland donated more than 200,000 meals to that food bank to help feed those in need in the county. Fruits, vegetables, packaged goods, and banquet meals are among what the food bank ...
Disneyland Dragon Makes First Public Appearance
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The Disneyland dragon has finally joined the Fantasmic! show. Tonight, the problematic dragon came out in public for the first time during a water-and-light show on the Rivers of America. Disney officials announced this afternoon that the animatronic dragon would debut after facing technical trouble all summer. The official summer season ended last month without an appearance by the dragon, which ...
Disneyland Drama Centers On Jack Sparrow, Pixies, Flashing
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Disneyland management has fired four actors who portrayed swashbuckling pirate Jack Sparrow, but Disney officials deny charges that the pirates were replaced by Tinker Bell fairies, it was reported Saturday. One former cast member says Disney officials were worried that the swashbuckling actors were causing young female parkgoers to flash more than their riggings and yardarms late at night. ...
Disneyland Dropped Plans For 5 Missions Aboard Millennium Falcon Ride
Walt Disney Imagineering originally planned to offer a variety of Star Wars missions aboard Disneyland 's Millennium Falcon attraction that lets riders pilot the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy just like Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, according to a new report.
The Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run ride in the Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge themed lands at Disneyland and Disney 's Hollywood ...
Disneyland Drops Free Fastpasses Will Charge Extra To Skip Lines On Some Rides
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Disneyland will replace the free FastPass system with a paid Lightning Lane option and begin charging for premium front-of-the-line access on some individual attractions as the Anaheim theme park launches its new Disney Genie mobile app. The new Disney Genie service will debut this fall as part of the Disneyland and Walt Disney World mobile apps as a replacement for the retiring FastPass and ...
Disneyland Drops From 2nd To 11th In Worldwide Attendance Rankings Report Shows
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Disneyland toppled from the second spot in the worldwide attendance rankings in 2019 and fell out of the global top 10 in 2020 as theme parks around the globe faced widely differing reopening restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on data from a new report. Global theme park attendance declined 67% at the 25 most-visited theme parks from 2019 to 2020, according to a new report from ...
Disneyland Electrical Parade Extended To August
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he Baroque Hoedown music will be heard on Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland for a while longer. The Disneyland Resort announced that the Main Street Electrical Parade's run is being extended until August 20, 2017. The parade was originally scheduled to end its run in mid-June. It was brought back to Disneyland from Walt Disney World in January for a limited run while the Paint the Night parade was ...
Disneyland Employee Arrested Over Dry Ice Explosion In Toontown
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Police have arrested a Disneyland employee over an apparent dry ice explosion which caused the evacuation of the theme park's Toontown on Tuesday. Christian Barnes, 22, described as an outdoor vending "cast member", was being held on $1m bail Wednesday on suspicion of possessing a destructive device. "Barnes is cooperating with investigators and has indicated this is an isolated incident with ...
Disneyland Employee Pleads Not Guilty In Dry Ice Bomb Explosions
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A Disneyland employee pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony possession of a destructive device in a public place during an incident where two water bottles with dry ice exploded in the theme park, authorities said Thursday. Christian Isaiah Barnes, 22, of Long Beach, California, was arraigned Thursday, and his bail was set at $500,000, said Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman for the Orange County district ...
Disneyland Employee Taken To Hospital
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A Disneyland employee was taken to a hospital after being exposed to a chemical cloud in the park's maintenance area, an Anaheim fire official said. The incident on Saturday came one day after three Disney employees from the adjacent California Adventure Park were treated at a hospital and released after one of them inadvertently mixed two chemicals in a water treatment center for one of the park ...
Disneyland Enchanted Tiki Room Turns 50
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More than 50 years ago, Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room first opened its doors to the public. The attraction was revolutionary as the first to use audio-animatronic technology to make the robotic creatures talk and move. Designer Kevin Kidney is a Tiki aficionado and also designed several pieces of the merchandise promoting this year's anniversary. "The whole audio animatronics thing started ...
Disneyland Enchanted Tiki Room, Walt Disney World Polynesian Luau Are Distant Cousins
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The Spirit of Aloha Dinner Show at the Polynesian Resort in Walt Disney World has been entertaining guests since the 1970s. It's a lively night set in the open-air Luau Cove Theater, with ample servings of Polynesian food coupled with traditional South Pacific entertainment, like fire-knife dancing. And yes, there are plenty of grass skirts and leis to go around. But did you know that the Luau ...
Disneyland Ends Political Freebies
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It used to be that elected officials at all levels of California government could count on at least one common perk: free tickets to Disneyland. Not anymore. Politicians are being asked to pay their own way into the Magic Kingdom - thanks to two Anaheim council members who last year were temporarily bared from voting on issues related to Disneyland's $3-billion expansion. The state Fair Political Practices ...
Disneyland Endures As A Rite Of Passage For Enraptured Lifelong Fans
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I came, I saw, I was conquered as a child. I came back as a parent, following the impulse of many eager-beaver new parents to anoint my offspring in the reflected glory of Disneyland's glow. The pilgrimage to the Magic Kingdom is a California rite of passage, whether the children are ready or not -- and they usually aren't. But really, how many of you couldn't wait to take your tots and tykes to ...
Disneyland Expanding Alcohol Options Bringing Beer Wine And Cocktails To New Restaurants
Visitors to Disneyland will soon have the ability to purchase beer, wine and specialty cocktails from several mainstay restaurants as the park continues to evolve and provide new services. On Wednesday, Disney announced new menu changes were coming to the popular River Belle Terrace, Carnation Café and Café Orleans, which included the fresh arrival of alcoholic beverages. Prior to ...
Disneyland Exploring Idea Of Tron Tomorrowland Ride
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Disneyland has long talked of giving their Tomorrowland section of the park an overhaul. And with the new "Tron Legacy" film set to be released later this year, the wheels are in motion to add it to the plans. "Tron Legacy" is a much-anticipated sequel to the popular original '80s "Tron" film. With the success of several other remakes/sequels that have come out in recent years, Disney expects the same ...
