History Of Disneyland The Surprising Way The Park Came To Be
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Disneyland wasn't always intended to be what it is today. If Walt Disney were not running the operation, Disneyland could have ended up as just another boring studio tour. Read on for a look at how the park came to be what it is today, including why the park ended up in Anaheim, California.
1. The demand was there
According to Designing Disney, "Due to the popularity of his cartoons, children ...
History Shows Higher Prices Will Not Push Fans Away
With Disneyland having raised its ticket prices again, many people are asking if this will be the increase that finally causes fans to stop visiting.
Just like they asked that the last time Disneyland raised prices. And the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before that … .
Sure, that new top one-day Park Hopper price of $244 might drop the jaws of people who ...
Holiday Happenings At Disneyland
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Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park are both in the forefront of theme park holiday activities, with new attractions, new decor, and inclusive events celebrating a wide range of seasonal experiences.
At Disneyland, the attention to detail is in its decorations, and their elaborate construction is a big part of the draw for park guests. According the Walt Disney Imagineering part director ...
Holiday Happenings At Southern California's 'Big Four' Theme Parks
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One highlight of any vacation in Southern California is making a trip to at least one of the big theme parks. Now is an especially rewarding time to visit for a dose of holiday cheer, plus all the rides and attractions the parks normally offer. The four listed here have lavish holiday plans to entertain vacationing children, as well as ...
Holiday Parade At Disneyland Disney Davy Lead Yule Parade
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Two of the entertainment figures in the nation - Walt Disney and Fess Parker -- co-starred as -grand marshals in the spectacular circus parade at Disneyland Thanksgiving Day to open Christmas festivities here.
Beginning at noon the parade was headed by a color guard from Town Square and progressed down Main St, around the Plaza and into Holidayland.
THIS NEW part of Disneyland opened especially ...
Holiday Season Opens For Disneyland Today
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People dressed as reindeer rehearse their dance moves and work crews in cherry-pickers add lights to Sleeping Beauty Castle as the Disneyland Resort prepares for the holiday season.
Each year, Disney's theme parks, hotels and Downtown Disney undergo a transformation that begins right after the last visitor clears the gates from Disneyland's Mickey's Halloween parties on Oct. 31. Over two weeks, ...
Holiday Spectacular 11 Must See Attractions
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It 's hard to believe, but the winter holidays were once the slow season at Disneyland, back when people spent their weekends shopping instead of heading to a theme park. Those days are long gone, thanks to the resort 's over-the-top holiday decorations and entertainment. With a holiday season that extends from early November through Jan. 6, the decked-out Disneyland and California Adventure have become ...
Holidays At Disneyland
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New Entertainment & Cherished Favorites Bring Holidays to Life at the Disneyland Resort
When it comes to celebrating the magic and sparkle of the holidays with friends and loved ones, there's no place like the Disneyland Resort from November 13, through January 3, 2010, the holidays will shine more brightly than ever.
Guests will enjoy the return of the Disneyland Resort's most popular offerings ...
Holidays At Disneyland Are Truly The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
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To be sure, the holiday season wasn't created by the Walt Disney Company, but the folks who encourage us to believe in magic have certainly put their stamp on "the most wonderful time of the year."
Having spent countless hours enjoying what Walt Disney World has to offer during this special time of year, we entered the Disneyland Resort recently somewhat apprehensive. Frankly, we have been spoiled by ...
Holidays Make A Great Time To Visit Disneyland
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The magic of Disneyland and California Adventure parks gets "super pixie dusted" during the holiday season coming up Nov. 21-Jan. 4, but so do the lines. Better to plan your magical excursion in the next couple of weeks before the holiday rush.
Here are some tips for making the most of your time:
Be an early bird: Check the opening times of both parks. California Adventure usually opens later and ...
Hollywood Home Movies Disneyland Is An E-Ticket To The Park Past
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Baby boomers with stardust memories of Disneyland often lament how the park has changed. Gone are the E-tickets, the Rocket to the Moon, the Skyway, the Submarine Voyage, the PeopleMover and the mule rides.
For a misty-eyed ride into that past, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is presenting "Hollywood Home Movies: Disneyland," a sold-out show Saturday night, Oct. 24, at the Linwood Dunn ...
Home Of The Future Planned For California's Disneyland
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Builder Taylor Morrison to partner with Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Exceptional Innovation, maker of LifeWare, to build 21st-century home.
In June 1957, the same year Sputnik ignited the Space Race, the Monsanto House of the Future opened at Tomorrowland in Disneyland Park. The house portrayed a modern home in 1985 and featured devices we think of today as commonplace, items such as microwave ...
Honda And Disneyland Resort Form Strategic Alliance
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A new 10-year business alliance was announced today between American Honda Motor Co., Inc. and the Disneyland Resort that provides sponsorship of the theme park's new 50th Anniversary fireworks show and its annual Grad Nite celebrations.
The parties are also in the process of finalizing an agreement to develop a new exhibit at Innoventions in Tomorrowland that may feature ASIMO, Honda's advanced ...
Honda And Walt Disney
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After making several appearances in the UK over the last few months, Honda's ASIMO - claimed to be the world's most advanced humanoid robot - has flown across the Atlantic to Disneyland, where it is being demonstrated in a special show included in the rather awkwardly named Innoventions attraction.
The 15-minute act takes place in a simulated home environment and involves walking forwards and ...
Honda To Give Away A Civic-A-Day At Disneyland
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Starting October 1, Honda will present a month-long 2006 Civic-A-Day giveaway at the Disneyland Resort as part of the re-launch of "Space Mountain," American Honda Motor Co. and Disneyland Resort jointly announced today.
Honda's "The Coolest Ride in the Galaxy" sweepstakes is the latest addition to the 18-month celebration of Disneyland's 50th Anniversary that continues through 2006. Each day, one ...
Honda To Give Away A Civic-A-Day At The Disneyland Resort
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Starting October 1, Honda will present a month-long 2006 Civic-A-Day giveaway at the Disneyland Resort as part of the re-launch of "Space Mountain," American Honda Motor Co. and Disneyland Resort jointly announced today.
Honda's "The Coolest Ride in the Galaxy" sweepstakes is the latest addition to the 18-month celebration of Disneyland's 50th Anniversary that continues through 2006. Each day, one ...
Honda's New Generation ASIMO Robot Goes To Disneyland
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A new version of Honda's popular humanoid robot, ASIMO, is now appearing in its very own stage show at Disneyland in California. Twenty years in the making, the first generation ASIMO has undergone numerous improvements and has even appeared as a spokesperson for Honda , featuring in a series of television advertisements in the UK.
The latest enhancements to ASIMO (which is short for Advanced Step in ...
Honeywell Unveils Lively Home Comfort Exhibit At Disneyland
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Interactive Games Celebrate the Family, While Product Displays Show Full Range of Affordable, Energy-Efficient Comfort Solutions for the Home
What in the world is going on here?
Eager families stand in line, waiting to jump onto two games that look like enormous, round, bronze-colored thermostats. A dozen yards away, a game show host encourages wildly cheering teams who are trying to beat the ...
Horoscopes
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This week, our unlicensed astrologers tell your fortune based on your favorite attraction at Disneyland.
Splash Mountain
Drinking a can of beer through a straw is totally unclassy, but drinking an entire pitcher that way will make you the biggest badass in a 12-mile radius.
Dumbo
You'll attend a "Funk and Waffles" party. Waffles - $1. Funk - free. Funk AND waffles - priceless.
The ...
Horse Sense
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Brent Deines makes sure that Disneyland's horses hit the road without a hitch. Among the fixtures of Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A., are the horse-drawn trolley cars that clip-clop down the avenue carrying guests past City Hall and the Main Street Cinema. Brent Deines is Disneyland's head horseman, a onetime farmhand whose job involves everything from making harness to choosing which horses to buy. ...
Horses Are Back To Pull The Trolley On Main Street USA
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Clip clop. Clip clop. In case you've been missing the sound of hooves on pavement, the horses are back at Disneyland.
The horse-drawn trolley is one of the few Disneyland attractions that's been operating since opening day in 1955, carrying park visitors up and down Main Street USA nearly every day for more than 60 years. That was until Jan. 8, when they went on hiatus while Disney workers repaired ...
Horses Spotted On Main Street
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With the anticipation of Disneyland releasing a reopening date at any point, us fans are ready to hear it! When both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure shut their gates on March 14th, 2020 due to the pandemic, no one could have guessed the park would be closed for 6 months and counting.
After the two parks had to forgo their originally scheduled opening on July 17, it has truly been ...
Hotel Restaurants Can Feed 2000 Visitors In Fine Settings
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The $350,000 Gourmet - Disneyland Hotel Restaurants, which opened this spring as a prelude to this week's formal opening festivities of the Wrather - Alvarez Disneyland Hotel, form the third of the triumvirate of facilities at the new western play-land:
1 Entertainment, at the internationally famous Disneyland.
2 Accommodations and recreation, at the $10,000,000 Disneyland hotel, with Olympic - ...
House Of The Future
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Monsanto's plastic house looks serene amid its landscaping here. Its white, cantilevered wings make cloud reflections in the quiet pool at its base. It looks as though it suited its hillside setting or could fade nicely into a flat plot in the Midwest, or a rocky one in New England, or among the jack pines and live oaks of South Carolina.
The thousands of people who visited the House of ...
How 50 Attractions Could Change When The Parks Reopen
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Virtually every Disneyland ride and attraction will change in some way to accommodate the new normal of COVID-19 health and safety protocols when the Anaheim theme parks reopen following an extended coronavirus closure.
Visitors returning to Disneyland will find social distancing measures stretching from attraction queues to the rides themselves with extensive sanitization measures throughout ...
How A Frugal Family Makes Disneyland Affordable
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I finally caught up on my newspapers, and saw the request about making Disney affordable. I think those who chose to respond do not know how to have fun on a budget.
Disneyland is a very special trip. Here's how my family and I (we have three young children) saved on our most recent trip:
We purchased a seven-day hotel package from GetAwayToday.com with three-day Park Hopper passes. We went in ...
How A Popular Prop Thats Been Lost For Over 30 Years Made It Back In The Park
Disneyland Resort is full of nostalgia for times in American history that people look back on fondly. Of course, since Disneyland is over 65 years old, the park itself is a nostalgic location for many. Guests return again and again to see how Disneyland has changed, and how it is still the same. And for the park 's 100 Years of Wonder Celebration an iconic piece of park history is back after being lost for ...
How Attraction Wait Times Have Changed Since Reopening
The changes in wait times at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure since the yearlong pandemic closure read like a timeline of the phased reopening of the Anaheim theme parks and the roller coaster ride of the COVID-19 pandemic 's ups and downs.
Thrill Data, which uses big data and statistical analysis to track theme park attraction wait times, has been collecting wait time data for ...
How Club 33 Really Got Its Name It Is Not What You Think
The official version of the Club 33 origin story has a new twist involving 33 corporate sponsors that helped build Disneyland thanks to a 300-page history of the Anaheim theme park that delves into the legend and lore of the exclusive private club in New Orleans Square.
A new history of Disneyland written by the Historic Resources Group for the 17,000-page DisneylandForward Environmental ...
How Costumed Characters Will Interact With Guests After The Park Reopens
Disneyland will change the familiar meet-and-greet photo opportunities with princesses, superheroes and villains to socially distanced wave-and-play impromptu moments when the Anaheim theme parks return after a yearlong coronavirus closure.
New physical distancing rules will mean that theme park visitors won 't be able to hug Mickey Mouse, high-five Goofy or dance with Cinderella when ...
How Counterfeiters Nearly Ruined Opening Day At Disneyland
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When ABC television host Art Linkletter greeted viewers from Disneyland on July 17, 1955, he marveled that 15,000 happy visitors were in attendance. Beaming and resplendent in his suit, Linkletter was unaware of the seven-mile gridlock backing up the Santa Ana Freeway, that children who had been trapped in cars for hours were relieving their overtaxed bladders in the parking lot, or that Disney die-hards ...
