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 the ...
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 ...
Disneyland Sued Over Fatal Ride
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Disneyland has been sued for $5 million by relatives of a woman killed on the park's Matterhorn bobsled ride list month, a family attorney says. Young. 43. of Fremont apparently fell out of her bobsled, then was run over on the sled tracks by the following gondola Jan 3 The Matterhorn is a roller-coaster ride in the shape of the famed Swiss alp. The Orange County Superior Court suit filed Tuesday ...
Disneyland Summer Hours
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Disneyland offers some good news today. The fabulous fun land will be open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. starting Saturday, offering more opportunities for sightseeing to those who find the present 8 p.m. closing time inconvenient. And starting now, Disneyland will be open every Monday - the day it formerly was closed.
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Disneyland Summons A Spirited 50Th For The Haunted Mansion
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Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of, what's the word we're searching for... Foreboding. Of course, those aren't just words heard over and over again inside a beyond-iconic attraction in Anaheim; they're currently true, for many Disney devotees. For perhaps you have a profound sense that something is on the wind, a big event is on approach, a splendid ...
Disneyland Swaps Peter Pan For Jack Sparrow When Fantasmic Returns In May
The “Fantasmic” nighttime spectacular will return to Disneyland 's Rivers of America on May 24 with a beloved Peter Pan sequence on the Sailing Ship Columbia and a new climactic battle scene between Sorcerer Mickey and Maleficent. The returning scene - featuring Peter Pan and Captain Hook sword fighting amid the masts of a pirate ship - was part of the original “Fantasmic” show when the ...
Disneyland Swatting Hoax Triggers Large Law Enforcement Presence
A heavy presence of police officers responded to Disneyland after reportedly receiving calls of a mass shooting at the beloved theme park Wednesday night.
Details are limited and it 's unclear exactly what time police responded to the park, but footage of the scene obtained by KTLA showed at least a dozen Anaheim Police Department patrol cruisers staged on Disneyland grounds.
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Disneyland Switches Fireworks Shows
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Disneyland is switching up its fireworks shows over the next two weeks. The last night of "Halloween Screams" - a special fireworks show for Halloween Time - was Sunday. That show ran almost every night for about five weeks. This coming weekend, the "Remember Dreams Come True" show will come back for just three nights: Nov. 6, 7 and 8, according to the Disneyland Web site. "Remember" was ...
Disneyland Takes Delivery Of 10 Foot Tall Animatronic Snake For Indiana Jones Adventure
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A really big animatronic snake that Indiana Jones would hate and riders will love is set to be installed in the Disneyland attraction that pays tribute to the archaeological professor turned action hero. A 10-foot-tall audio-animatronic king cobra that hisses and strikes at riders in Indiana Jones Adventure has arrived at Disneyland ahead of an extensive attraction refurbishment scheduled to ...
Disneyland Tapping Talents
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Julie Houth sashayed like Daisy Duck. David Truong, 18, pretended he was 40 as he held up his imaginary hammer to pound nails into his home. They daintily walked like Minnie Mouse and tilted their heads upward to portray the Queen of Hearts. They curled up on the floor mimicking babies. The two were effervescent and creative - all for a chance to become Disneyland characters and hostesses at a ...
Disneyland Taps Employees As Cultural Experts On Everything From Food To Decor
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The Disneyland resort enhancement team planned to decorate a Plaza Point centerpiece display of two Victorian children mannequins pulling a wagon for the Lunar New Year with firecrackers, lucky red envelopes, oranges, tangerines and mandarins. The Disneyland designers brought in a group of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese cultural experts during the research and development phase to provide ...
Disneyland Teases Cutting Edge New Mickey Mouse Ride At Toontown
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With all the hype surrounding Disneyland's upcoming Star Wars land, one of the park's most overlooked areas is about to get a much-needed toon-up. Toontown will be the home of Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway, a cutting-edge dark ride slated to open in 2022, park officials announced Friday. The attraction will send guests on a wild train ride through a Mickey Mouse cartoon short and a ...
Disneyland Teases Indiana Jones Themed Bar For Expansion Project
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An Indiana Jones restaurant and bar at Walt Disney World themed as a pilot hangout in an airplane hangar is one example of the high-end “eatertainment” concepts that Disneyland could build under a reimagined long-term vision for the Anaheim theme park resort district. Disneyland teased Jock Lindsey 's Hangar Bar in Disney Springs at Walt Disney World as one of the potential restaurant concepts ...
Disneyland Terrace Set To Close Until Summer
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Disneyland guests will have to find a new place to pick up cheeseburgers and fries until this summer. The Tomorrowland Terrace is scheduled to close starting today while workers expand and renovate the kitchen, said John McClintock, a Disneyland Resort spokesman. The outdoor restaurant is set to reopen before July 4. The service-counter eatery mostly sells sandwiches, burgers and salads. ...
Disneyland Tests New Talking Mickey Mouse Character
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Disneyland is testing a groundbreaking Mickey Mouse meet-and-greet character that talks to visitors while posing for photos, according to Walt Disney Imagineering officials. The talking Mickey Mouse has been greeting visitors during unannounced and intermittent "play tests" in his cartoon-style house in Toontown, officials confirmed. After nearly 55 years of mute costumed characters at the ...
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