Disneyland Sets Dates For Fresh Candy Canes
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Disneyland has started making and selling fresh candy canes popular treats that prompt fans to line up early during the holidays. The park's Candy Palace and Candy Kitchen sold the holiday candies for the first time of the season on Wednesday, when people formed a queue to get their holiday canes on Main Street U.S.A.. The store has scheduled seven more dates for candy-cane making and ...
Disneyland Sets End Date For Iconic Carnation Plaza
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Disneyland's iconic Carnation Plaza Gardens' entertainment venue will close at the end of the month to pave the way for a new princess greeting area, putting an end to rumors that the plans may be canceled. Since 1956, the Main Street, U.S.A. plaza has hosted entertainers including famous musicians, such as Benny Goodman, and beginners, like high school bands and children's groups. Each Saturday, a ...
Disneyland Sets Opening Date For Bayou Country Gift Shop
A Disneyland gift shop next to the exit for Tiana 's Bayou Adventure will open before the reimagined ride with T-shirts, hats and souvenirs themed to the musical critters performing during a Mardi Gras party at the heart of the attraction.
The Louis ' Critter Club gift shop, taking over the half of Pooh Corner closest to the former Splash Mountain ride, will open on Nov. 13 two days before ...
Disneyland Sets Reopening Date For Mickeys Toontown
The Mickey 's Toontown section of Disneyland will reopen on March 8, 2023 following a year-long renovation, Disney announced Friday. Renovations began this past March to coincide with the debut of the West Coast version of the Mickey and Minnie 's Runaway Railway trackless dark ride, which itself will open on Jan 27, 2023. When the rest of the land reopens, guests can expect to find some areas ...
Disneyland Sets Return Date For Michael Jackson's 3D Film Captain EO
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Disneyland has set an official date for the re-opening of Michael Jackson's 1986 3D film "Captain EO." The film will officially open to Disneyland guests on Tuesday, February 23rd. "Captain EO" will return to its former home in the California theme park for a limited engagement. The 17-minute musical film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and executive produced by George Lucas, featured Jackson as the ...
Disneyland Sets Splash Mountain Closing Date Releases New Concept Art For Tianas Bayou Adventure
Disneyland 's Splash Mountain - the famed log flume ride whose imagery is rooted in the dated and racist 1946 film “Song of the South” - has an end date. Guests will have their final chance to plunge a five-story drop through a briar patch on May 30, giving Disneyland attendees one last busy Memorial Day weekend to experience the attraction in its current form. But the imaginative water-based ...
Disneyland Sets Summer Preview
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Seven nights of star-studded musical variety will fill Disneyland for Easter Week as a sneak preview of Summer '67 in the "Magic Kingdom." From the famous Mills Brothers to teen favorites Steve Alaimo and Martha and the Vandellas in Country Music with Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys, Easter Week will feature musical entertainment for every taste. Kick-off for the Park's Easter season ...
Disneyland Ships In Bread From New Orleans For Tianas Palace Sandwiches
Disneyland foodies craving an authentic taste of Louisiana will need to look no further than the po 'boy and muffaletta sandwiches on the menu at the new Tiana 's Palace restaurant in New Orleans Square. “We are bringing the bread in from New Orleans,” Disney Parks Food & Beverage Director Michele Gendreau said. Tiana 's Palace will open Thursday, Sept. 7 in the former French ...
Disneyland Show, Summer Fireworks Return Friday
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Disneyland's water-and-light show and the summer fireworks display are set to return to the park for the Memorial Day weekend, two weeks before the official season begins. The Fantasmic! show, which appears on the Rivers of America, is set to come back Friday after a nearly five-month absence. The water-and-light spectacle took a break while the waterway was emptied for an upgrade project, ...
Disneyland Shows Newly Discovered Film From Park's Early Days
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Disneyland now is showing never-before-seen film footage of the park's first five years. Disney released the footage, which was "newly discovered," as part of Disneyland's 55th anniversary celebration on Saturday. Disneyland released never-before-seen film clips from the park's first five years at Main Street U.S.A. Cinema on Saturday, the park's 55th anniversary. A rare, color movie is ...
Disneyland Shows Off New Fireworks Show
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Just a year after Disneyland opened in 1955, Walt Disney saw some fireworks being tested in the parking lot when he thought, "Let's give it a try." In 1956, the first fireworks show was created by hand, with employees touching off the fuses with a flare. A few years later, technology enabled fireworks to be launched electronically and synchronized with a soundtrack. The current system, which has ...
Disneyland Shuts 35 Rides After Nearby Earthquake Shook Things Up
A minor earthquake near Disneyland forced the closure of dozens of rides and left visitors with little to do while employees conducted mandatory safety protocols before reopening the attractions at the Anaheim theme park. An earthquake in Fullerton on Monday, Dec. 4 centered about 2 miles north of Disneyland forced the temporary closure of at least 35 rides. “Felt like it was ...
Disneyland Shuts Down 2 Cooling Towers After Legionnaires Disease Sickens Park Visitors
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Disneyland has shut down two bacteria-contaminated cooling towers after Orange County health officials discovered several cases of Legionnaires' disease in people who had visited the Anaheim theme park, authorities said. Twelve cases of the bacteria-caused illness were discovered about three weeks ago among people who had spent time in Anaheim and included nine people who had visited Disneyland in ...
Disneyland Signals Plans To Celebrate 70th Anniversary In A Big Way
Disneyland appears to be gearing up for a 70th anniversary celebration in 2025 to rival the yearlong parties for the 50th and 60th anniversaries that brought new or returning parades, fireworks shows and nighttime spectaculars along with themed decor, food and merchandise.
Disneyland cast members will launch 70th anniversary preparations with a “Road to the 70th” backstage party on ...
Disneyland Signals Plans To Celebrate 70th Anniversary In A Big Way
Disneyland appears to be gearing up for a 70th anniversary celebration in 2025 to rival the yearlong parties for the 50th and 60th anniversaries that brought new or returning parades, fireworks shows and nighttime spectaculars along with themed decor, food and merchandise.
Disneyland cast members will launch 70th anniversary preparations with a “Road to the 70th” backstage party on July 17 ...
Disneyland Skyway Station To Be Demolished To Make Way For Star Wars Land
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As Disneyland heads into the future with "Star Wars" land, the park is letting go of some of its past. Disneyland officials have filed a permit with the city to demolish the Skyway Chalet in Fantasyland, once one of two endpoints for open-air gondolas that floated via cables over the park beginning in 1956. Visitors hopped aboard the ride, affectionately called the Buckets by guests, and slowly ...
Disneyland Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs Statues Are Missing
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I'm wishing the Snow White grotto at Disneyland would come back. A wooden construction fence was recently built around the beloved, if slightly off the beaten path, attraction, and now a fan site reports that the 55-year-old diorama is completely gone. The marble figures of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were nestled in a pine forest with some animal friends in the shadow of Sleeping Beauty's ...
Disneyland Sold Out For The Rest Of December
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If you waited until now to book a reservation to visit Disneyland and Disney California Adventure in December you are pretty much out of luck. After today, daily ticket and annual passholder reservations for Disneyland and Disney California Adventure are unavailable for the rest of December. At the time of publication, reservations for Wednesday, Dec. 1 were still available for ...
Disneyland Space Mountain Remains Closed For Safety Repairs
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Disneyland's Space Mountain remains closed for safety repair work, two weeks after state regulators cited the park for hazards to maintenance workers on the outside of the attraction. Disneyland officials, who said they have no estimate on when the ride will reopen, closed Space Mountain and two other rides April 13, after receiving the state citations. The state inspected several Disneyland ...
Disneyland Spends 60,0000 Dollars To Replace Jungle Cruise Animatronic Tiger Scene
The crumbling ruins around an animatronic tiger on the Jungle Cruise that became a little too realistic and left the big cat comically stuffed in a wooden box will soon be updated at Disneyland.
Disneyland has filed building permits valued at $600,000 with the city of Anaheim to replace the audio-animatronic tiger structure on the Jungle Cruise attraction, according to city records.
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Disneyland Staff Trade Costumes For Canoes In Race
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Disneyland employees have traded costumes for paddles in the 50th annual cast canoe race. Eighty teams of Disneyland Resort cast members raced around Disneyland's Rivers of America on Wednesday before the Anaheim park opened. It's a tradition begun in 1963. Teams paddled 1,410 feet in the Native American-style canoes that normally carry tourists around the artificial river. Nobody beat the ...
Disneyland Starts Fireworks Earlier To Ease Crowds At Closing Time
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Local residents living near Disneyland who have been able to set their watches for years by the fireworks show that took to the skies each night at 9:30 p.m. above the Anaheim theme park will have to reset their internal clocks now that the pyrotechnic spectaculars are starting earlier. Disneyland 's nightly fireworks show will start at 9 p.m. through August and possibly the upcoming Halloween ...
Disneyland Still A Blast, For All Ages
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A spectacular fireworks show still lights up the sky over the Fantasyland castle every night at Disneyland in California. THE DISNEY "cast members" (known more commonly as park employees) were directing one-way pedestrian traffic around the Disneyland square as if it were rush hour on Interstate 95. In the distance, the banner over Fantasyland's castle waved in the mild evening breeze as ...
Disneyland Still Has The Magic
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To think it all came from one man's imagination. Where once there were orange groves and a couple of acres of walnut trees, there is now a collection of craggy peaks, fathoms of coral reef-filled sea, a jungle full of animals, subterranean caves that serve as a pirate lair, a parsec of space, a turreted castle and entry to the many other worlds conceived by one of the greatest human minds ever to ...
Disneyland Still Magical At 50
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Disneyland is giving itself a 50th birthday bash and we're all invited. The party began on the fifth of May and my family and I visited on the eighth. When I passed through the turnstile, the employee greeted me with a hearty, "Welcome home," in keeping with the 50th Anniversary theme, "Happiest Homecoming on Earth." I did feel I was coming home, and I'm sure other guests had similar feelings. Disneyland ...
Disneyland Still Tops
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Nobody does fun better than Walt and his successors. She lost her stuffed puppy somewhere between the Enchanted Tiki Room and Tomorrowland. Too much ground to cover and thousands of people meant the search was futile -- we retraced our steps, but no puppy. To us, her parents, it was just another toy, but to our three-year-old daughter, the lost black-and-white stuffy was cause for ...
Disneyland Stops Hosting Pardoned Thanksgiving Turkey
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This year's presidentially pardoned turkey won't be the Happiest Turkey on Earth. After five years, Disney has decided to stop housing the National Thanksgiving Turkey and an understudy after they are pardoned by the U.S. president. After the traditional ceremony, an official turkey has served as the grand marshal in a Thanksgiving parade, and then both lived at Disney parks, since 2005. It's ...
Disneyland Stops Selling Merchandise At Main Street Cinema Adds Park Benches To The 1955 Attraction
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Disneyland has completed an initial test using merchandise as an incentive to drive traffic to an original 1955 opening day attraction celebrating some of Walt Disney 's earliest animated films in an attempt to drive more interest in the Main Street U.S.A. location. For less than a week, Disneyland 's Main Street Cinema sold merchandise inside the vintage movie palace with a Cartoons and ...
Disneyland Store Prepares To Close
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Photos of regular customers sit behind the jewelry counter of the Disneyland store. A bride wearing a pearl necklace from the store. A prom goer who purchased a ring for the occasion. A couple who bought a wedding ring there on the day of their ceremony. Those pictures will be packed up next week after the store closes. Jewel of Orleans is set to be open for the last time Sunday after about ...
Disneyland Sued For Negligence In Jungle Cruise Crash
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Disneyland sells its popular Jungle Cruise boat ride this way: "Board a trusty tramp steamer for a 7-minute guided tour of jungles from around the world, brimming with exotic animals and lush tropical foliage. Keep an eye out for potential perils -- and stunning beauty -- as your daring skipper navigates untamed waters with a skilled hand, a brave heart and a clever joke." We all know the hype ...
Disneyland Sued Over Fatal Accident On Ride
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The Walt Disney Co. was sued on Tuesday by the family of a man who died on a Disneyland ride last year, and by four other passengers injured in the derailment of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride. The three separate lawsuits, filed in Orange County Superior Court, seek unspecified general and punitive damages for the death of 22-year-old Marcelo Torres and injuries suffered by other passengers ...
