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 park ...
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 Maps From Early 1950s Show Plans That Never Happened
Disneyland could have had a Robin Hood Castle, Pleasure Island, archery range, ghost town and little church if initial plans dreamed up in the early 1950s by Walt Disney and his artists for the fledgling theme park had come to fruition.
Early conceptual maps of Disneyland drawn by Disney Legends Harper Goff in 1951 and Marvin Davis in 1953 reveal a host of early ideas that were never realized ...
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 guests.
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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 ...
Disneyland Memorial Orgy
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In the midst of Disneyland's 50th anniversary celebration, DisneyLies.com claimed to be serving 50 to 100 gigabites a day of such online imagery as a couple of newlyweds caught on Tom Sawyer Island after dark, major nudity on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and a virtual orgy on Pirates of the Caribbean. There's also a steamy incident with a couple of cast members in the secret room at the top of the Matterhorn. Ah, ...
Disneyland Memories
Sitting here in the hub of Main Street, coffee in hand, and hands sticky from the cinnamon roll I just devoured, I would like to start my first article with the past, my past, and my early Disneyland experiences that have implanted themselves in my heart and brain over the years. "Here age relives fond memories of the past" -Walt Disney Today, as a man at the tender age 51, the first ...
Disneyland Memories
Two months ago, I was warned that my article for the July issue would be about my first memories of Disneyland. I knew from the outset how hard this would be. If I had been asked about my first visit to Florida's Magic Kingdom this would be easy. It was November 18th 1988, which was Mickey's 60th birthday. I could write reams about my memories: the parades; my first trip on a monorail; finding ...
Disneyland Memories
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I'm in the process of planning my fifth trip to Disneyland this year, which would make it my thirtieth time, total. I went in January, May, July and August and I'm trying to make a trip in time for the Halloween decorations, but if not, then definitely for the It's A Small World re-opening. I'm getting ahead of myself. Hello, my name is Jessica and I'm a Disneyland addict. I spend a lot of ...
Disneyland Memories Stay Forever Young
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When I read of the battles being waged by soulless egomaniacs for control of the Disney entertainment empire, my mind instinctively retreats to the pre-Beatles 1960s when there was just kindly old Walt and his Wonderful World of Color enchanting my family on a black-and-white TV screen on Sunday nights in Ashland, Ohio. Walt Disney was a god, conversant in the dialects of ducks and mice, and if ...
Disneyland Menu Icon IDs Healthier Childrens Items
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Parents now can easily see when they are ordering healthier fast food for their children at Disney parks. Disneyland and Disney California Adventure have added a symbol next to children's menu items that meet certain nutritional guidelines at quick-service restaurants. Table-service restaurants at the Anaheim parks will start using the symbol, called Mickey Check, this month. The Mickey Check ...
Disneyland Model Maker Died
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Fred Joerger, one of Disneyland's original model makers who crafted miniature versions of the park's Sleeping Beauty Castle and other attractions, has died. He was 91. Joerger died of natural causes on Aug. 26 at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, according to his niece, Gloria Penrose, The Los Angeles Times reported Monday. "He provided the ...
Disneyland Monorail Closes After Short Circuit
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Disneyland's Monorail was shut down temporarily Monday after a mechanical problem on busy Presidents Day. A short circuit caused smoke on one Monorail car, prompting the park to temporarily halt the entire ride midday, said Suzi Brown, a Disneyland Resort spokeswoman. About 10:20 a.m., crews shut off the ride's power while they towed in the troubled car to drop off passengers and then take it to ...
Disneyland Most Dizzying In Anaheim
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"Are you in good health?" asks Olivia, my 9-year-old niece. We're waiting in line for the Hollywood Tower of Terror, which she says is the scariest ride at Disney's California Adventure, the theme park that opened next door to Disneyland in 2001. "I like to think I am," I respond. "Do you barf easily?" "No, not really. I recently had a nine-year no-barf streak." Soon we are wearing ...
Disneyland Moves Entertainment To Frontierland
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Disneyland next month is moving outside performing groups and adding a new entertainment feature to a normally closed area of Frontierland. The Disney Performing Arts program will host community performing groups and run education sessions in the Festival Arena, which is normally closed in the back of Frontierland. The program is moving after the May 1 closure of Carnation Plaza Gardens, where ...
