Disneyland Opens Weddings To Gay Couples
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Same-sex couples who want to exchange vows in front of Cinderella's Castle now have the chance. The Walt Disney Co. had limited its Fairy Tale Wedding program to couples with valid marriage licenses, but it is now making ceremonies at its parks available to gay couples as well. "We believe this change is consistent with Disney's long-standing policy of welcoming every guest in an inclusive ...
Disneyland Or Bust Tips For A Dream Vacation
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Deprived of Vitamin D and perplexed with ways of entertaining children indoors as rain and snow pelt their windows, many families throw in the towel this time of year and book a pilgrimage to that storied place that bills itself as the Happiest Place on Earth: Disneyland. But this hot spot can quickly become Nightmare on Main Street if you don't plan properly. Read this list of dos and don'ts before ...
Disneyland Ousts Old Disneyland Band Members Before 60th Anniversary
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On July 17, 1955, the Disneyland Band debuted and became a core component of Disneyland Resort's entertainment lineup. On July 17, 2015, 60 years later, Disneyland will debut a new Disneyland Band, and old band members will either have re-auditioned for their roles, be playing in smaller breakout bands, or be entirely replaced. Shawn Slater, Communications Manager of the Disney parks, announced on ...
Disneyland Park Celebrates Three Kings Day For First Time In 2012
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In extending its holidays and New Year's celebrations, Disneyland Resort will celebrate Three Kings Day Jan. 6-8, 2012. Three Kings Day activities will take place at Zocalo Park in Disneyland Park. The Disneyland celebration of Three Kings Day is one of many in area. Three Kings Day, or Dia de los Reyes Magos, observes what is widely known as Epiphany. Dia de los Reyes Magos is a holiday ...
Disneyland Park Ghost Spotted Fans Think It Is Walt Disney
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Ghost Seen at Disneyland isn't official part of Halloween Time The Disneyland Ghost was posted on Youtube very casually and it has got the chatter of Disney Fans going insane with theories. This is a video of a 'ghost' walking through Disneyland the back of the park including the Haunted Mansion, on the Rivers of America and in front of the Pirates of the Caribbean. Now before you scream there ...
Disneyland Park Now On The iPhone And iPod Touch
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Timestream (purveyors of the Notescast apps for the Apple family of devices) have just released the Disneyland Park app! Now guests of Disneyland Park can access a powerful new vacation planning and in-park guide on their iPhone or iPod touch. At over 120 pages of information with rich in-depth content, they now can have all of Disneyland Park in the palm of their hand wherever they go and whenever ...
Disneyland Park Releases Dates Details Of Christmas Holiday Season
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Always a magical place, Disneyland Park becomes extra festive during the Christmas season. The theme park will celebrate the holiday from Nov. 12, 2012 through Jan. 6, 2013 with the return of its seasonal offerings, announced Disneyland Resort on Oct. 23. Visiting Disneyland Park is an annual tradition for many guests who come to see the park's festive decor and seasonal overlays, its special parade ...
Disneyland Parking Toll Booths Robbed No Arrests Have Been Made, Police Say.
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A parking toll-booth attendant was robbed Tuesday, the second armed robbery at a Disneyland lot in the past two weeks, authorities said. Two unidentified men drove up in a dark-colored Porsche at about 3:50 p.m. Tuesday. One man got out of the car, walked up to the toll booth and demanded all the money in the cash box. A weapon was seen by the attendant but never pointed. The man was given the money, ...
Disneyland Pass Price Unfair
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Disneyland has been a place where many local residents and tourists turn to for a fun getaway. While some individuals and families are fortunate enough to visit Disneyland a few times in their lifetimes, some local residents have made it a tradition to visit weekly. Many locals have made it a priority to purchase Disney annual passes year after year. However, for the last few years, ...
Disneyland Passholders Watch Out For Birthday Blackout Dates
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By now, most people know you get into Disneyland free on your birthday in 2009. But if you're an annual passholder, you'd better read the fine print. It turns out that if you're an annual passholder - and your birthday just so happens to fall on a Saturday or Sunday, almost any day in June, July or August, during Spring Break, around Thanksgiving, any time between Christmas and New Year's Day or on ...
Disneyland Pays Tribute To Small World Composer Robert Sherman
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Disneyland Resort honored one of its best-known composers, Robert B. Sherman, who died Monday in London, placing a simple wreath of white flowers outside his window on Main Street U.S.A. Robert B. Sherman and his brother, Richard, were given their own window in 2010, which reads, "Two Brothers Tunemakers," a recognition reserved for the most cherished Imagineers, artists and others instrumental to ...
Disneyland People Trap Show A Hallelujah To Hucksterism
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Walt Disney, who got ahead by building a better mouse, trotted out his new people-trap last night. The occasion was a what-is-it called Disneyland '59, a 90-minute ABC-TV commercial-masquerading under the guise of entertainment - devoted to hymning the virtues of Disney's four-year-old California amusement park. It was a kind of Mike Todd party without champagne, a slab of prime time bloated with ...
Disneyland PeopleMover Car Sells At Auction For 471,500 Dollars
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A car from Disneyland's long-running PeopleMover has sold at a Los Angeles auction for $471,500. The PeopleMover was an elevated tram that took visitors on a slow moving ride through the Tomorrowland attraction. It carried its first passengers in 1967 and ran until 1995. The buyer was not identified. Van Eaton Galleries says the auction over the weekend included hundreds of items of ...
Disneyland Performer Plans Appearance At Valley Plaza
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Wally Boag - "Mr. Disneyland," and his entertainers from Disneyland will arrive with a new show at Valley Plaza for three free-to-the-public performances Tuesday at 4, 7 and 9:15 p.m. This will be the final day and night of the week-long Valley Plaza welcome to the new Los Angeles Federal Savings offices at 12160 Victory Blvd. Schedule Can Can The show, spotlighting Boag in the role of ...
Disneyland Plans To Change Fastpass Rides
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Disneyland recently closed the time-saving Fastpass service for one ride and soon plans to use the tickets for another. The Fastpass system allows visitors to get tickets stamped with times when they can come back for shorter lines for certain rides. Disney recently stopped operation of the Fastpass machines for Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, an interactive, video game ride, during other ...
Disneyland Plans To Hold 24-Hour Party
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Disneyland will hold a 24-hour party on Leap Day next year as part of a promotion, Disney announced Saturday. Disneyland will be open for 24 hours starting 6 a.m. Feb. 29, according to a Disney website. Disney made the announcement on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest" show on Saturday. Magic Kingdom in Florida also will have a 24-hour party. As part of the One More Disney ...
Disneyland Plus Babies Equals Fail
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My friends constantly ask me why I haven't taken my 14-month-old to Disneyland yet. The answer is simple. I'm not INSANE. There are many reasons why you won't catch me at Disneyland with my 1-year-old, but here are just a few for starters. Firstly, he won't remember any of it. I'd rather take him when he can remember how much we paid fun we had. It's truly a luxury to go. It should be something ...
Disneyland Plus Corn Dog Plus Horse-Drawn Streetcar Equals Happiness
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I spent a delightful afternoon recently at Disneyland chowing down on a corn dog and riding on every antique vehicle along Main Street USA. I've been to Disneyland at least 100 times and I'm always surprised when I come across something at the park I've never tried. So on this day, I decided to skip all the roller coasters and dark rides and stick to Main Street. I'd often heard that the ...
Disneyland Postpones Riverboats Return
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The Mark Twain Riverboat is tentatively set to return to Disneyland's main waterway on May 22 a day later than previously planned. The other boats on Rivers of America are now back in operation after the waterway was closed for four months, said John McClintock, a Disneyland Resort spokesman. The Rivers of America were drained starting in January for a rehabilitation project, including the ...
Disneyland Power Outage Shutters About Dozen Rides Monorail
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A power outage at Disneyland affected about a dozen attractions in and around Toontown and Fantasyland, including the Monorail and It's Small World attractions during one of the Anaheim, Calif. Attraction's busiest and most lucrative weeks. The outage was caused by a transformer at the park that malfunctioned and knocked out power near the two lands, a Disneyland spokeswoman told Fortune. Disneyland ...
Disneyland Prepares For 24-Hour Party
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Disneyland is making preparations to stay open for a 24-hour party, including special foods that will only be available overnight. The company is having a promotion for Leap Day, called One More Disney Day, in which both Disneyland in Anaheim and Magic Kingdom in Florida will operate for 24 hours -- the first time resorts on both coasts will be open for that long at the same time. The parks will open ...
Disneyland Prepares For The Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Premiere
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A 3-D screen on Tom Sawyer Island, food for 2,000 people, musical acts it takes a seaworthy crew. For the last few weeks, after Disneyland has closed its gates for the night, a team of workers, including eight divers, has labored through into the morning in Frontierland and New Orleans Square, ferrying building materials to Tom Sawyer Island and sinking support structures into the floor of the ...
Disneyland Prepares To Open Sleeping Beauty Castle
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The interior of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland will open in time for the December holiday season, offering guests a "reawakened" version of its classic walkthrough presentation kissed with vibrant scenes of Aurora, her charming prince, the evil Maleficent and other characters from the beloved fairy tale film. "It is fitting that we are announcing the return of a classic on the 53rd anniversary ...
Disneyland Preparing Ghost Mansion
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Disneyland's most frightfully entertaining adventure is now under construction at Walt Disney's "Magic Kingdom" in Anaheim. The "Haunted Mansion," now being furnished with happy spooks from all over the 'world, will open in late summer, according to E. Cardon Walker, executive vice president of Walter Disney Productions. Plans for the multimillion dollar project were begun by Walt Disney and his ...
Disneyland Preps For Halloween As 60th Anniversary Fades Away
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The jack-o'-lanterns started magically appearing this week at Disneyland as the Halloween season grows near. At the same time, the 60th anniversary decorations were magically disappearing into Yesterland. The large "60" button on the front of Sleeping Beauty Castle was removed, as were most of the related decorations on the lamp posts on Main Street U.S.A. Other elements of the 15-month Diamond ...
Disneyland Presents Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage
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It's a little-known fact that Sombrero Grande's first job out of high school was working at Disneyland as a "captain" on the Submarine Voyage attraction in Tomorrowland. In 1998, I left the park's employ and the Subs were mysteriously closed down soon afterwards. Immediately rumors began swirling on the Internet theorizing that the Subs were closed due to "budget cuts" or "an upcoming replacement ...
Disneyland President Remembers Kind And Gentle Employee Who Died After Backstage Accident
Club 33 manager Bonnye Lear is being remembered by her fellow Disneyland employees as a kind, gentle and caring person who was thoughtful, graceful and full of joy. Disneyland Resort President Ken Potrock sent a letter to employees on Monday, June 10 sharing the “heartbreaking” news of the death of Lear, who died last week after a tragic accident at the Anaheim theme park. “I am ...
Disneyland Prices
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Admission prices to Disneyland in Anaheim will be lowered to 90 cents for adults and 70 cents for juniors effective Saturday. The reduction is in line with the abandonment of federal amusement tax on admissions amounting to less than one dollar, Disneyland management reported.
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Disneyland Prices Announced
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Scheduled to open July 15, this world's greatest fantasy has announced prices that will prevail. Adults will pay $1 to enter and children under 12 will pay 50 cents. The general admission will permit the visitors to go through such places as Adventureland. Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and Frontierland without additional cost. Prices for the various rides in the 169-acre attraction will be from 10 to ...
Disneyland Prices Going Up
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Starting Sunday, it'll cost $49.75 for an adult to get into Disneyland or California Adventure, and parents will have to plunk down $39.75 for their children's admission. That's a price hike of $2.75, which reflects investment on new stage shows and rides, such as "Snow White -- An Enchanting New Musical," and the "Twilight Zone Tower of Terror," which opens May 5, the resort's Duncan Wardle said. ...
Disneyland Prices Up $4 As Of Today
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Effective today, the Disneyland Resort has increased its single-day admission price by $4, from $59 to $63 for adults, and from $49 to $53 for children (ages 3-9). The previous increase was on Jan. 3, 2006. "We offer a great value for guests who experience our world-class entertainment, enjoying a full day of fun including rides, parades and other spectaculars," the company said. "Many local guests ...
