Disneyland Haunted Mansion Is A House Of Fancy Frights
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No one in Orange County decorates a house for Halloween quite like the creative minds behind the Haunted Mansion Holiday at Disneyland. It has been 14 years since the seasonal "Nightmare Before Christmas"- themed overlay was launched at the classic Haunted Mansion, and the ghoulish meets quirky meets elegant design continues to evolve as the designers tweak or add new features for a three-month run. ...
Disneyland Haunted Mansion Painting Sells For 17500 Dollars
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An animatronic doll from Disneyland's It's a Small World ride and an original "stretching portrait" from the park's Haunted Mansion attraction were the top-grossing items at a recent auction of Disney memorabilia in Los Angeles. The portrait brought in $172,500 and the Small World animatronic doll sold for $80,500 at Van Eaton Galleries' "Souvenirs of Disneyland" auction. The gallery announced ...
Disneyland Hikes Prices Fans Angry
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Disneyland, the self-proclaimed "Happiest Place on Earth," has ignited a strong response from many people angry about the latest price increase on all ticket options. With the new price hike, which took effect on Sunday, it now costs $87 (up from $81) for a one-day ticket to enter just one of the two California parks. For a one-day park-hopper ticket, guests are now paying $125 (up from $105). The ...
Disneyland Hikes Prices Starting Sunday
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Single-day visitors to Disneyland Resort theme parks will pay $3 more starting Sunday. The theme parks are hiking their prices as they have done at least once a year for the past five years. The new cost for a single-day pass will increase to $72 for adults and $62 for kids. For at least four years, single-park passes to Disneyland or Disney's California Adventure have gone up by $3 each year. ...
Disneyland Hits Capacity And Stops Sales
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The week between Christmas and New Year's Day traditionally is the busiest of the year for Disneyland. And this week is no different. At least three times this week, Disneyland had to stop letting new visitors in because too many people were crowding the park. This afternoon, electronic readers on roads in the Disneyland area warned visitors that tickets were sold out for the day. When that happens, ...
Disneyland Holidays 2012
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Halloween is over and the Holiday season has arrived to Southern California .The decorations have been brought out, great meals are planned and with family and friends arriving to celebrate, there is so much left to do! Favorites are coming back and new additions to the Parks are going to be showcased with seasonal flair. During the Holiday season, it seems that Disneyland tries to top the year before and ...
Disneyland Holidays Transform Park To Merriest Place On Earth
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What is your favorite part of visiting Disneyland Resort over the Christmas holiday? Some recaps will appear across the parks in 2019, but also some new attractions are in the works! This winter, Disneyland presents "Mickey's Happy Holidays!" featuring never before seen inclusive events like a guest dance party and live performance starring Mickey Mouse and his friends! ...
Disneyland Hopes Fans Will Want To Play In Star Wars Galaxys Edge
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In just a few days, Disneyland will open its new portal to a galaxy far, far away. Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge opens to advance reservation holders and resort hotel guests on May 31, with a second opening for all Disneyland ticket holders on June 24. Disneyland invited me to walk through the land a couple of weeks ago, just after Disney 's Imagineers turned the land over to the park 's ...
Disneyland Hopes To Preserve And Reuse Iconic Adventureland Sign During Entryway Expansion
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Disneyland hopes to preserve and reuse as much of the iconic Adventureland sign as possible as work begins in the next few days on the entryway-widening project designed to improve pedestrian traffic flow at a notoriously crowded pinch point in the Anaheim theme park. A building permit filed with the city of Anaheim called for the demolition of the existing Adventureland marquee and the installation ...
Disneyland Hosts Great Circus During Yuletide
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One or history's most remarkable circus events now is playing In the "magic kingdom" of Disenyland. It is the fast-moving, colorful "Mickey Mouse Club Circus," produced by Walt Disney at a cost in excess of $300,000. Featured in Holidayland-Disney's newest realm--the circus is inaugurating the first annual Christmas Festival at Disneyland with all the romance and color of years long forgotten. ...
Disneyland Hotel
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The formal opening festivities of the $10,000,000 Disneyland Hotel Saturday by owners Jack Wrather, Los Angeles and Texas industrialist, and Helen Alvarez of San Diego, marks a milestone in the 16-month construction program by Wrather-Alvarez Hotels, Inc., which commenced with formal groundbreaking ceremonies on March 18, 1955. The first and largest major resort hotel to be built in the Southland ...
Disneyland Hotel First Units Readied For August Opening On Site Adjacent To Park
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Reservations and requests for information about the Disneyland Hotel, located opposite the main exit of Disneyland Park, are pouring in to Jack Wrather, operator of the modern new establishment. From all over the country letters of inquiry have been received asking for information about the accommodations, opening date and other facilities, according to Wrather. A $10,000,000 ...
Disneyland Hotel Nears Completion
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With a complete absence of fanfare, Orange County's tallest, most elaborate structure has neared completion in less than a year. A new floor of the $2.5 million Disneyland Hotel Tower has been completed for occupancy each Friday since June 22. The 10th floor of the 11 story structure was opened day before yesterday. All that remains to be done, are "The Top of the Park" penthouse cocktail lounge, main ...
Disneyland Houses Giant 70-Foot Tree
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Walt Disney advised visitors today to go climb a tree his latest addition to the magic kingdom. Disney and his magicians have built the first high-rise treehouse in the world, towering 70 feet over the jungleland area of Disneyland. To build the treehouse it was necessary to build a 150 ton tree to hold it. "The poem says 'only God can make a tree,'"' Disney said. "After my experience with this ...
Disneyland Houses Hundreds Of Feral Cats
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Southern California feral cats have been making their home in Anaheim's Disneyland since the theme park opened in 1955. No one knows how the cats got there. Disneyland has always been mum about their feline population, refusing to comment on the feral cats, although they will admit they have 100 of them roaming the park's grounds. The cats were probably originally strays or former pets when they first ...
Disneyland Imagineer Shares Memories At MV Historical Association Event
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As Disneyland celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, more than 150 history lovers gathered to celebrate Mountain View's connection to the theme park's early history. Disneyland's iconic giant spinning teacups, flying elephants and speeding bobsleds were engineered in Mountain View by pioneering amusement park ride manufacturer Arrow Development Co. At its annual summer barbecue Aug. 2, the ...
Disneyland In 1955 Rides Now Long Gone Weird Glitches On Opening Day
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Disneyland was dedicated during a special preview opening day on July 17, 1955. The public opening was July 18. The dedication aired on ABC at 4:30 p.m. July 17. Some details of the opening: Park attendance: 6,000 guests were invited for the special preview opening, but an additional 22,000 showed up with counterfeit tickets, making for a total of 28,000 guests that day. Temperature: 101 ...
Disneyland In A Day Plan
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It's no secret Utahns love Disneyland! Let me preface the posting by saying this plan has been tried and tested by hundreds of loyal viewers in addition to yours truly. It's a great way to tackle the very best Disneyland has to offer in a time efficient manner. So first things first. When to go? Every Disney connoisseur knows there's certain months to run through those park gates and other ...
Disneyland In Dearborn
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The Henry Ford is collaborating with Walt Disney Imagineering, to create an unprecedented exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of Disneyland -- Disney's original theme park. Titled "Behind the Magic: 50 Years of Disneyland," the exhibit brings to life Walt Disney's creation that established a brand new genre of family entertainment. This rare and innovative exhibit opened Sept. 30. "Behind ...
Disneyland In One Day
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The First Hint that my mission will be daunting: I tell the cast member in Guest Relations the title of the article I'm researching, and she starts to giggle. Disneyland in a day? Who am I kidding? "It might be a little hard," she says, handing me my tickets, "to do it all in a day." Disneyland has its own special feel, and nostalgia is only part of it. Yes, it's the only park Walt Disney lived to ...
Disneyland In September
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Disneyland in the fall...should you or shouldn't you? Is it too crowded, is it too hot? The answer...I loved it! The kids and I made our big trek last week and this time my four year old is finally 42 inches. (That's the magical Disneyland height to get on most of the big rides!) I took a picture of her standing in front of Soarin' Over California with a huge smile because last year, even ...
Disneyland In The Beginning A Look Back
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The youngest grandchildren made their first trip to Disney World over the Christmas holidays. They loved it. My fairest daughter, who hadn't been there since she was small, came back raving about the quality of the entertainers in Magic Kingdom, impressed at how they managed to be so consistently nice to children day after day. She took the occasion to tell the kids that their grandfather, the author of ...
Disneyland Increases Halloween Prices
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Disneyland visitors will pay $2 to $5 more to go to the park's popular after-hours Halloween parties this year. Disney is already getting ready for its big fall promotion, Halloween Time. The company this week announced the dates and prices. Halloween Time runs Sept. 14 to Oct. 31 with a few ride revisions and special decorations that can be seen by all visitors. The after-hours Mickey's ...
Disneyland Inks Benny Goodman For Three Nights
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Benny Goodman is coming to Disneyland. The King of Swing will reign over the Magic Kingdom for three consecutive nights beginning tomorrow. For dancing pleasure, and for those who just care to sit and listen, Goodman and his magic clarinet will appear at a specially built bandstand and dance area in Tomorrowland from 8 to 12 p.m. each evening. Goodman and his 10 artists will usher in ...
Disneyland Innoventions Set To Close March 31
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Disneyland's Innoventions attraction is closing March 31, a Disneyland spokesman said Friday, and rumors are already flying that "Star Wars" attractions could end up there. "As part of our continuing efforts to offer our guests new magic, we regularly make modifications and enhancements throughout the Disneyland Resort," said John McClintock, a Disneyland spokesman. "We have nothing further to ...
Disneyland Intros Roving Animatronic Muppets; Mickey And Friends Fear Pink Slips
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The happiest place on Earth (Disneyland, not Las Vegas during CES) just got a little happier this week, thanks to a new exhibit called the Muppet Mobile Laboratory that roams the park and delights visitors with inane banter and sprays of water. Probably having nothing to do with the fact that the human costumed characters like to videotape themselves in suggestive poses while still in uniform, Disney ...
Disneyland Is A Home For 19 Members Of The Same Family That Spans 4 Generations
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When brother and sister Kaiden and Mikayla Gerlach began working at Disneyland, their family celebrated but no one was surprised. They grew up going to the theme park and photos show Mikayla as a child with her great-grandmother buying balloons at Disneyland. "It's crazy to think I'm walking the same streets that Walt Disney and my great-grandmother that everybody behind me has walked," said ...
Disneyland Is Adding Star Wars The Last Jedi Scenes To Its Star Tours Ride
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"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" doesn't open in theaters until Dec. 15, but Disneyland visitors who board a vehicle on the Star Tours attraction will get an early glimpse of scenes from the film starting this week. Disneyland will add scenes from the newest "Star Wars" movie to its Star Tours attractions Friday, the resort announced in a blog post. The park said people on the flight simulator ride ...
Disneyland Is Already Decking The Halls For The Christmas Holiday Season
Disneyland is already making plans for the holiday season in the middle of summer that will fill the Anaheim theme park this winter with seasonal parades, ride overlays, Santa visits, food and decor complete with Christmas trees, faux snow and shimmering icicles. The winter holiday season returns to Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and the three Disney resort hotels ...
Disneyland Is Changing Its Early Entry Perk For Resort Guests In 2024
Disneyland is changing its Early Entry benefit for guests staying at Disney hotels beginning in early 2024. Starting January 20, 2024, Disney will designate one of Disneyland 's two theme parks for Early Entry each day. Guests staying at a Disney resort may enter that specific park 30 minutes before regular guests. This is a significant change from the current perk that offers 30-minute Early ...
Disneyland Is Friendly To Those With Disabilities
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Almost 60 years ago, Walt Disney stood at a podium at the entrance to Main Street and declared "To all who come to this happy place, welcome." Ask my family, every time I hear a recording of that speech I turn to mush. My breath catches and I fight all the good tears because I am always one step away from the ugly cry. Why? Because "all" means all. Young, old, middle-aged, those with ...