Disneyland Launches Its Own Indiana Jones Program
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At Disneyland, this is the season of Hollywood synergy as the park's grand old Adventureland district takes on the khaki-colored charm of Indiana Jones, who (in case you hadn't noticed) is back in the theaters in a big way. That means a new live-action show at the Oasis theater. The 20-minute show is titled "Indiana Jones and the Secrets of the Stone Tiger" and is staged six times a day; there's a bit ...
Disneyland Launches Magic Key What To Know About The New Annual Pass Replacement Program
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Months after sunsetting its popular annual passports, the Disneyland Resort on Tuesday unveiled a new replacement program: “Magic Key.” Like the old passes, Magic Key offers a variety of tiers, giving Disney fans the flexibility to essentially choose how often and when they can go to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park. And, for the most part, the choices are cheaper. ...
Disneyland Launches New Orleans Parties
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Disneyland is launching a series of New Orleans-style parties this weekend. Over five weeks in February and March, Disneyland is holding New Orleans Bayou Bash events in New Orleans Square, mostly on weekends. The events will include music, Disney characters dressed in Mardi Gras attire, performers and themed food. The first party is set for Friday. The events run 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the ...
Disneyland Launches New Super Complicated Pass That Gets You Into The Parks On More Days
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Disneyland's introducing a new annual pass, which promises the chance to visit the parks with Mickey, Darth Vader, and friends on way more days than many other passes. The pass goes on sale shortly before the new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge land opens. Crowds have always been a problem at the Disney parks, and that's expected to be a bigger issue than ever before with the Galaxy's ...
Disneyland Launches New Weekend Entertainment
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Disney listed Tuesday the themes of the new Family Fun Weekends, which run through March 6, on the Disney Parks blog. The features are an alternative activity while Disneyland's parade is on a break. A Christmas Fantasy parade ended Jan. 3, but Disneyland is still preparing for the new Mickey's Soundsational Parade due later this spring. "We are hoping that people interested in the various areas ...
Disneyland Legends Of Frontierland A Fun Dose Of Wacky Live Action
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"Hey," the kid said. "I can get you out of jail." I politely said no. Standing in lockup, after all, was a rare photo opportunity. The kid shrugged and walked off, and there I stood alone in my cell, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in front of me, the Mark Twain Riverboat docked to my left. Welcome to the Legends of Frontierland, Disneyland's wacky new live-action role-playing game running daily ...
Disneyland Limits Mickey And Minnies Runaway Railway To Virtual Queue And Pay To Play Access
You 'll have to win the virtual queue lottery or pay extra for Lightning Lane access to ride Mickey & Minnie 's Runaway Railway because Disneyland won 't offer a standby line when the new trackless dark ride opens next week at the Anaheim theme park. Disneyland visitors will be required to join a virtual queue or pay an Individual Lightning Lane line-cutting upcharge fee via the Disneyland app ...
Disneyland Locations For Character Autographs
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Disneyland Resort is a wonderful place to spend your vacation. A safe place where you and your family can play on all the attractions, spend quality time together, and even stop by to meet a few characters. Disneyland has a wonderful set up when it comes to meeting the Characters. Not only can you meet them around the park, there are designated areas that the character are waiting for the kids to ...
Disneyland Locomotive Headed For Fullerton
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For the first time in its 52 years, the C.K. Holliday Locomotive No. 1 will leave Disneyland and trundle down Harbor Boulevard for a guest appearance at this city's ninth-annual Railroad Days on Saturday and Sunday. The 9-ton engine will be loaded onto a flatbed truck about noon Friday for the half-hour trip to the Fullerton Transportation Center, 122 E. Santa Fe Ave. This marks the second year ...
Disneyland Looking To Amplify Its Lands Following Bayou Country Retheme
More changes could be coming to the lands within Disneyland and Disney California Adventure following the revamp of Bayou Country, formally known as Critter Country.
The “Happiest Place on Earth” is apparently considering ways to “amplify” areas such as Frontierland, Adventureland, and Star Wars: Galaxy Edge following the changes made at Bayou Country.
Along with the retheme ...
Disneyland Looks Better Through A Child's Eyes
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I miss the mountains. Not the Cascades. Not even the Olympics. I love 'em, but those aren't the mountains I'm talking about. I miss Thunder Mountain. Space Mountain. Splash Mountain. I miss the Matterhorn. I'm in Disneyland withdrawal, baby. I've had the blues ever since my daughter and I trudged out the front gate of Walt Disney's baby born the same year I was, just up the road in ...
Disneyland Looks Forward And Backward With 4 New Exhibits For 70th Anniversary
Disneyland will dive into the archives to look at the evolution of the Anaheim theme park and the history of animatronics as well as pull out plans for upcoming projects during a platinum jubilee celebration kicking off this summer.
Disneyland will roll out four new exhibits in the Main Street Opera House when the “Walt Disney A Magical Life” show debuts on July 17 as part of the ...
Disneyland Looks To Accommodate All With New Mickey Mouse Ride
Of all the new rides and attractions teased at Disney 's D23 Expo in Anaheim earlier this month, the first to open to the public likely will be Disneyland 's Mickey & Minnie 's Runaway Railway. The anchor attraction for the reimagined Mickey 's Toontown is a trackless dark ride through a modern Mickey Mouse cartoon. But that 's not the most significant thing about this new ride. Unlike many ...
Disneyland Looks To Reopen By Late April After Yearlong Closure Due To Covid19 Pandemic
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Disneyland is aiming to open by late April following a yearlong closure because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek announced Tuesday. “Here in California, we 're encouraged by the positive trends we 're seeing and we 're hopeful they 'll continue to improve and we 'll be able to reopen our Parks to guests with limited capacity by late April,” Chapek said in a ...
Disneyland Looks To Reopen In Late April Says CEO Bob Chapek
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After California officials issued new guidelines Friday allowing theme parks and stadiums to reopen as early as April 1, Disney CEO Bob Chapek said at the company 's annual shareholder meeting Tuesday that Disneyland is hoping open its gates again in a matter of weeks. “The fact is, it will take some time to get them ready for our guests,” he said, adding that Disney is focused on “recalling ...
Disneyland Magic Endures Older Attractions Still Appeal, While Fresh Thrills Keep Fans Returning
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When my adventurous eight-year-old resorted to a sympathetic pep talk to convince me to ride Disneyland's Space Mountain with him, the role-reversal was too embarrassing to refuse. On that magical, starlit, pleasantly disorienting plunge, with my son holding my hand, I had my Disneyland moment: the thrill of a great ride shared with an ecstatic child. At its worst, Disneyland with kids, like any ...
Disneyland Makes Changes To Address Star Wars Galaxys Edge Crowding And Long Lines
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Disneyland continues to make crowd management adjustments to Galaxy 's Edge queues outside the wildly popular cantina and the lightsaber and droid building shops that have drawn hours-long lines during the opening days of the new Star Wars themed land. Modest crowds overwhelmed the new 14-acre land on opening day as fans who waited overnight to be the first visitors faced snaking queues that ...
Disneyland Makes Controversial Change To Classic Attraction I Am Livid
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One of the oldest attractions in Disneyland just received an upgrade, but fans are not happy about it. In fact, some of them are actually “livid.” The Main Street Cinema has been in the park since its opening day in 1955. It was a place where guests could go and take a break while enjoying some old cartoons and air conditioning. While Disney is still showing the old animated films, they have ...
Disneyland Makes Tossing Out Leftover Food A Little Less Wasteful
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We 've all been there when it comes to leftover Disneyland food. There 's no way to finish that eyes-bigger-than-your-stomach turkey leg. Nobody wants the dregs at the bottom of the popcorn bucket. The little one is not in the mood for a corndog after all. You 're unable to finish that Mickey-shaped pretzel after a day filled with snacks and treats. It 's a shame to toss ...
Disneyland Marks 50 Years Of Magic
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To build his dream theme park a half-century ago, Walt Disney borrowed against his life-insurance policy and cashed in property, including a vacation home in Palm Springs, to pay the $17 million construction bill.When the theme park opened July 17, 1955, on a sweltering day, toilets clogged, the food ran out and women's high heels sank into wet asphalt. Disney officials still call it Black Sunday. ...
Disneyland Marks A Half Century
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Disneyland is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a bang. A lot of them, actually. A pyrotechnic extravaganza is being unleashed nightly as the latest manifestation of the park's fireworks show, and it's an impressive one. As Disneyland pays homage to some of its most popular attractions down through the years, fireworks are not aimed straight into the sky but at angles, so as to resemble shooting ...
Disneyland Marks Attendance Record In Early 2012
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Disneyland broke an attendance record for the first three months of the year, with boosts from the popular 24-hour Leap Day party and part of spring break, Disney reported today. Jay Rasulo, Walt Disney Co.'s chief financial officer, made the announcement during a conference call with investors about the company's earnings. Overall, U.S. Disney parks experienced a 7 percent jump in attendance in ...
Disneyland Marks Birthday With First-Day Guests
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Fifty-five years later, Fischle remains at Disneyland as a security guard. And on Saturday, Fischle gave a speech about his first experience at the park during a rededication ceremony on Disneyland's 55th birthday. "The thing I remember most about the day is it was hot," Fischle said to laughs. "Much like today." Fischle was one of the people who were present on opening day to return to ...
Disneyland Matterhorn Ride Closes For Extensive Overhaul
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The Scharff family of Spokane, Wash., made a special trip to Disneyland recently to celebrate the birthday of 5-year-old Mason with a ride on the Matterhorn. So they were disappointed to see the 147-foot-tall attraction covered in scaffolding and closed for repairs until June. "We came to the park for a few specific rides, including It's a Small World and Matterhorn," said Ronald Scharff, who ...
Disneyland May Bring Back A Favorite Walt Disney Ride
Walt Disney's genius imagination inspired numerous innovative attractions and rides at his theme parks that persevere long after his death over 55 years ago. The success of his first theme park, Disneyland, which opened in 1955, led Disney to plan what would become Disney World, which originally included a futuristic city he named Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or Epcot. ...
Disneyland May Bring Back Peoplemover And Skyway For Theme Park Expansion
Disneyland could tear a page out of the history books and bring back two classic rides as a way to move visitors between theme parks and parking garages under a massive expansion plan envisioned for the Anaheim theme park resort. The proposed “themed ride systems” are buried deep in the 17,000-page Environmental Impact Report released this week by the city of Anaheim for Disney 's expansion ...
Disneyland May Get Its Own Epcot
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The Walt Disney Co. is considering putting next to Disneyland a new theme park that would be similar to Florida's popular EPCOT Center, Disney officials revealed. Disney Chairman Michael Eisner announced last January that the company plans to spend $1 billion building another Southern California theme park in the near future, either adjacent to Disneyland in Anaheim or next to the Queen Mary in Long ...
Disneyland May Remove Longtime Haunted Mansion Element Imagineer Says
The creative team at Disneyland has considered removing one of the Haunted Mansion 's many “frightful delights,” according to an Imagineer.
Speaking with the Los Angeles Times, Kim Irvine, the creative director of the Imagineering department, indicated that the hanging corpse seen in the stretching room section of the attraction might be removed at some point to avoid upsetting ...
Disneyland Measles Virus Is Identical To Type Found In Philippines
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As California health officials search for the origins of the Disneyland measles outbreak, some of their detective work is pointing to the Philippines.. This measles virus shares the same genetic material as the type most commonly found in the Philippines, according to lab tests of the virus. The highly contagious disease is a much larger problem in the Philippines, where more than 50,000 were ...
Disneyland Memorabilia Fetches $1.7 Million At Two-Day Auction
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An extensive private collection of Disneyland memorabilia that went on the auction block over the weekend generated sales of more than $1.7 million by the time the final gavel had come down, with an animatronic bird from the Enchanted Tiki Room fetching the most at $153,400 and a drinking skeleton prop from the Pirates of the Caribbean proving second-most popular with a final bid of $129,800.. Both of ...
Disneyland Memorabilia Is A Fascinating Look Back
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Of the millions and millions of phone numbers that have been in use since Alexander Graham Bell (or Antonio Meucci, if you're so inclined) invented the telephone, a handful of numbers have managed to live on despite the passage of time ... and the introduction of more numbers and area codes. "PEnnsylvania 6-5000," a hit song by Glenn Miller and his orchestra in the 1940s, comes to mind, as does the ...
