Michael Jackson In ‘Captain EO': A Fellow Dancer Remembers
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In 1986, Michael Jackson became a Disney park attraction in Captain EO, a $30 million "space opera" that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and executive produced by George Lucas. Besides a nifty 3-D component that made it a real gas to watch - was that massive space rock really going to drop in your lap? - the film featured two of Jackson's songs ("We Are Here to Change the World" and "Another Part of ...
Michael Jackson Is Making One Last Appearance At Disneyland
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The biggest theme park news lately has been all about Harry Potter, but there's something else pretty interesting ready to reappear at Disneyland. Captain EO, the snazzy laser-filled 3D movie starring Michael Jackson, is set to return to Tomorrowland sometime this month. We knew it was coming since late last year, but it seems that sneak peeks of the retro attraction might begin any day now. ...
Michael Jackson's Revived Captain EO Is Still Wired Slightly Tired
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Michael Jackson's 3-D short film Captain EO is playing again at Disneyland, and the 24-year-old space opera still holds up. Mostly. Representing the height of 1986 movie technology, Captain EO was a lavish collaboration between Disney and George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic studio. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jackson at the zenith of his career, the 17-minute film was shown only ...
Mickey And Friends Celebrate Disneyland's 50th Birthday
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Disneyland kicked off its "Happiest Celebration on Earth" Thursday, an 18-month-long event to commemorate its 50th birthday. The celebration pays tribute to Walt Disney's dream of Disneyland, the original park that launched a series of Disney theme parks around the world. "The dawn of the theme park industry rose from one man's dream as he walked Anaheim orange groves more than 50 years ago, and ...
Mickey And Minnie 90th Birthday Food And Merchandise Rolls Out At Disneyland
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Mickey and Minnie Mouse will be everywhere this year at Disneyland as the Anaheim theme park celebrates their 90th birthdays with a new line of food and merchandise as part of the World's Biggest Mouse Party. Disney has begun rolling out the limited-edition line of "Get Your Ears On" food, beverages, souvenirs and merchandise at Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and Downtown Disney. The ...
Mickey And Minnie The Rodent Billionaires
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Just about every day now, I send up a silent hosanna along the likes of: "Thank you, Oh Great One, for allowing me to raise my children before texting, sexting, Facebook, rap music and 'Gangnam Style.' " To that I must now add, "the exorbitant admission price for theme parks." Don't know if you saw the little news tidbit a few days back about how Disneyland and its neighboring Disney California ...
Mickey And Minnies Runaway Railway Dark Ride Starts With A Blast
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The opening scene in the first Disney ride dedicated to Mickey Mouse will start with a blast as riders enter the Disneyland attraction through a surprising sight gag. A blast of smoke at the end of a cartoon film short introducing Mickey & Minnie 's Runaway Railway will reveal an explosive hole blown in the movie screen, Walt Disney Imagineering announced Wednesday, Dec. 4. Riders will walk ...
Mickey And Minnies Runaway Railway Fun Facts
Mickey & Minnie 's Runaway Railway is now open at Disneyland Park, as part of the Disney100 anniversary celebration - marking the first time Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse star in a ride-through attraction at the Disneyland Resort. Located in the reimagined Mickey 's Toontown (reopening March 19, 2023), Mickey & Minnie 's Runaway Railway transports guests into the whimsical world of Disney Television ...
Mickey And Minnies Runaway Railway Uses Innovation To Deliver Old School Disney
Part old-school theme park attraction, part love letter to animation and part modern showcase of projection technology, Mickey & Minnie 's Runaway Railway at long last landed in Disneyland 's Toontown, its second but most-fitting home. The Walt Disney World import is a nostalgia-fueled charmer, albeit one that celebrates the Walt Disney Co.'s most recent animated shorts featuring the ...
Mickey And Pals And Disney Villains Transform Disneyland Resort For The Season
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Disney villains will invade Disneyland park along with Mickey Mouse and his friends in Halloween costumes when Halloween Time returns to Disneyland Resort Sept. 17 through Oct. 31. Highlights of the Disneyland Halloween season include the return of Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy the thrillingly "haunted" version of the popular Tomorrowland attraction and the longtime favorite Haunted Mansion Holiday, in ...
Mickey And The Magical Map Coming To Disneyland This Summer
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Mickey Mouse will serve as a mischievous tour guide on a musical journey through a magical map in a new stage show coming to Disneyland's Fantasyland Theatre this summer. "Mickey and the Magical Map" casts the title character in his classic role of sorcerer's apprentice from "Fantasia" in a 25-minute musical featuring songs from half a dozen Disney animated films. Spoiler alert: What follows is ...
Mickey And The Magical Map Show Coming To Disneyland
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My boys are map people. They get that from their mother. They are also big Disney fans, and they get that from both of us. Their two worlds collide when we visit Disneyland. The minute they are in the gate they both grab a map, unfold it, which is more or less a permanent state for said map (despite numerous efforts to the contrary), and start guiding us around the park-imagine taking a vacation with ...
Mickey By Moonlight
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Once the last visitor straggles out of Disneyland each night, the trucks roll in, the tools break out, and the work begins. Nearly 1,500 resort employees begin their shifts under the moonlight - polishing props, testing rides, replacing parts and baking cakes in time to open the gates again in the morning. From Main Street to the California Screamin' roller coaster's 120-foot peak, crews of ...
Mickey Mouse At 90 An Inside Look At Disneyland And The Celebration
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He may be perpetually young at heart, but Mickey Mouse is 90 years old. Still delighting kids of all ages, the Walt Disney creation has no plans to wrap up his birthday celebration any time soon, as the festivities continue into in 2019 at Disneyland Resort. We caught up with Robyn Vossen, general manager of Disneyland Entertainment Operations, to find out more about Mickey's party plans, how the magic is ...
Mickey Mouse Gets A Toon-Themed Tree For The Holidays
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Mickey Mouse celebrates the holidays with a cartoon-style Christmas tree this season as new decor adds merriment to Mickey's Toontown for the 2011 holidays at Disneyland Resort. The holidays shine brightly throughout the resort from Nov. 14, 2011, through Jan. 8, 2012, as guests create memories for a lifetime. Those holiday memories might even appear in the nightly "The Magic, The Memories, and You!" ...
Mickey Mouse Lawsuit Remains Despite Disney Dancing Decree
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Disneyland unexpectedly lifted its 28-year ban prohibiting same-sex dancing last week, but the gay man who challenged the rule in 1980 is still in the courts. Disney officials are attempting to get a reversal of the May 1984 ruling by Superior Court Judge James Ross that Exler and his friend, Shawn Elliott, could dance together at the Anaheim amusement park. A jury had decided 11-1 in their favor. ...
Mickey Mouse Nighttime Show Coming
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Disney is bringing an all-new nighttime show to Disneyland starting in January that features Mickey and Minnie Mouse, including projections, lighting and lasers. This show will only feature fireworks "on select nights," according to the press release, unlike the current schedule which has fireworks nightly, weather permitting. The new show will launch Jan. 18 and include a new song, "It's a Good ...
Mickey Mouse Pancakes Moving To New Location At Disneyland
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For Disneyland visitors wanting a Mickey Mouse pancake for breakfast, they will have to visit the Rancho del Zocalo Restaurant in Frontierland starting in February. The Disneyland Resort made the announcement Thursday on its blog. According to the blog post, River Belle Terrace, the long time home of the pancake that looks like the famous mouse, will be transformed into a table service location ...
Mickey Mouse Returns To Disneyland's Fantasyland Theatre In High-Tech Stage Show
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Mickey Mouse is center stage again in Fantasyland. The world's most famous mouse has reclaimed Disneyland's Fantasyland Theatre for himself after a six-year occupation by the Disney princesses. In recent years, the theme park venue was used as a meeting place for Disney royalty instead of an actual theater. It's now home to a new song-and-dance extravaganza called "Mickey and the Magical Map." ...
Mickey Mouse Welcomes ASIMO To Disneyland
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Mickey Mouse this week welcomed ASIMO, the world's most advanced humanoid robot, to its new home in the Honda ASIMO Theatre, inside Disneyland park. Guests visiting the popular Innoventions attraction at the park can now see ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) in an all-new live science show, Say 'Hello' to Honda's ASIMO, opening June 2 as part of the theme park's 50th Anniversary celebration. ...
Mickey Mouse, A-L-O-N-E
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I end up in this hotel in Orange County whose name refers to two trees for no apparent reasonthere are no trees around, only parking lots, enormous empty parking lots. I have no idea what to do with nine free hours in front of me and no car. Every attraction is at least four miles away; even if I wished to rent a car I would have to walk five miles in the opposite direction from all the attractions, which ...
Mickey's Halloween Haunt All Treat, No Trick
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It's Halloween season at Disneyland. It's a wonder I have yet to write about the magical place that is a mere 30 minutes from Redondo Beach: I have a premium passport, and I can go 365 days a year. Before Smith (B.S.), I loved going to Disneyland, and now that he is my little buddy, it's so much more fun. I spent a long time trying to find a job at Disneyland (at my last job, I was told I ...
Mickey's Halloween Party At Disneyland
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I went to my first Mickey's Halloween Party last Friday! I shot photos and wrote words about the experience! Think I'm lying? Nope, not lying. I've always loved the month of October in the parks. Disney is thorough about pretty much everything they do, but they seem to give an extra bit of attention to detail during their celebration of Halloween. Yes, I've been in the parks many ...
Mickey's Halloween Party Is Fun For All Ages
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It's often said that you can't go home again, but you can definitely return to your childhood during Mickey's Halloween Party at Disneyland in Anaheim, part of the amusement park's holiday celebration through Oct. 31. This family-friendly event is filled with happy surprises, a few scares and a lot of memory-making fun. And unlike at some parks, everyone is encouraged to come in costume. During ...
Mickeys Halloween Party Transforming Into Oogie Boogie Bash Extravaganza
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Princess or villain? That 's the choice Shelley Marie, a young girl who doesn 't fit in with others, must make as she and her mother prepare for Halloween. In deciding, Shelley Marie wonders if she could be as strong and unique as some of her favorite Disney characters - villains who are like rock stars to her. Deciding to step outside her comfort zone, she turns to her mirror in ...
Mickeys Mix Magic Now Dazzling
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Dancing through Disneyland Park? You're as likely to see a character, or even a character-filled guest, shimmying down Main Street as you are people munching on churros and dill pickles. For not only do some of the icons of The Happiest Place on Earth regularly cut a proverbial rug, in parades, at special presentations, and in shows, but visitors, too, have been known to sway or tap a toe. ...
Mickeys Soundsational Parade Dining Package
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Mickey's Soundsational Parade drums up lots of fun at Disneyland park, and now you can enjoy the show from a great viewing spot after a tasty lunch at Plaza Inn Restaurant thanks to a new dining package. Guests can reserve a time to pick up their meals between 1:30 PM and 4:00 PM and then sit at any available table in Plaza Inn Restaurant. Along with the meal, you'll receive one voucher for reserved ...
Mickeys Toontown Is Closing In 2022 For Redesign With New Attractions
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Mickey 's Toontown in Disneyland will close next year to begin work on redesigning the theme park experience, Disney announced Monday. The updated Toontown will debut in early 2023, with new attractions and open grass play spaces for “both spontaneous family play and parental relaxation,” according to the company. Disney says the area will be greener and more spacious, but still ...
Mickeys Toontown Troubles Plague Disneyland 3 Months After Land Reopens
Construction walls have returned to Mickey 's Toontown just a few months after the themed land reopened following a yearlong refurbishment to address persistent problems in the popular kiddie playland. The recently refreshed Mickey 's Toontown that reopened in mid-March at the Anaheim theme park has undergone a series of tuneups and touch-ups in the ensuing months to address issues with ...
Microsoft, Disney and the 'home of the future'?
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Sssshh, I know a dirty rumor. Despite the fact that Disney has just inked a deal with Apple Computer over movie sales in the iTunes Store, and the fact that Apple head honcho Steve Jobs is Disney's largest shareholder, the company that made mouse ears an American icon just might be playing for both teams. Yeah, word on the street is that Disney, or at least its Anaheim, Calif., theme park, has ...
Millennium Falcon Construction Complete At Star Wars Galaxys Edge In Disneyland
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Crews have completed exterior construction of the Millennium Falcon spaceship that will serve as the centerpiece of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge when the themed land debuts at Disneyland next summer, according to recently released aerial images. All that's missing now is some blast damage and the fastest hunk o' junk in the galaxy will be ready for its close-up. Aerial photos taken by James Baker of Rogue ...
