Pixar Fest Is Here A High Energy Show For Kids Relaxing For Parents
Madonna has got nothing on Edna Mode.
''The Incredibles'' character slides side-to-side onstage, hitting Vogue-y poses that could rival the queen of pop herself. Watching with rapt attention are several small children, all of whom appear no more than 10 years old. They jump up and down with her, hitting their own poses and sliding left to right.
At several points, ...
Pixar Fest Will Soon Cartwheel Into Disneyland
What to Know
Pixar Fest at Disneyland Resort frolics from April 26 through Aug. 4, 2024
The event will include fresh additions, including scenes from "Turning Red" in "Together Forever - A Pixar Nighttime Spectacular" at Disneyland Park
A new Pixar sculpture will debut on Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland Park; a ticket and reservation is required to visit the ...
Pixar Pals Parking Garage Set To Open Sunday Months Ahead Of Schedule
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A new $100 million Disneyland parking garage will open this weekend several months ahead of schedule just as summer visitors begin showing up to see the new Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge themed land at the Anaheim theme park.
The 6,500-space Pixar Pals parking structure will open Sunday, June 30, well ahead of the scheduled September opening of the new garage, according to Disneyland officials. A ...
Pixar Rides Coming To Disney Theme Parks
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There was no mention of the much-rumored plan to turn Tom Sawyer's Island into a Pirates of the Caribbean Island, but the Walt Disney Company did outline a number of planned additions to its theme parks that will be based on movies produced by Pixar. Among them will be the "Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage" that will return one of Disneyland's oldest rides to the Anaheim amusement park. "Submarine Voyage" ...
Plan For Happiest Vacation On Earth
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Cheap airfare. Discounts on lodging and park admission. Short lines. No crowds. Sunny weather that's not too hot.
Those are just some of the reasons to consider taking your trip to the Magical Kingdom in the winter instead of during summer or spring break, like most people do.
I recently returned from a five-day trip to Disneyland with my three children, all younger than 6. Many of the important ...
Plan Unveiled For Huge Disneyland Expansion
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Ending nearly a year of speculation, Walt Disney Co. unveiled plans Wednesday for a $3-billion expansion at Disneyland that would include a second theme park patterned after its highly successful EPCOT Center in Florida.
A highlight of the expansion to be called WESTCOT Center, would be a giant golden sphere called Spacestation Earth that probably would join the Matterhorn as Disneyland's best-known ...
Planning A Disneyland Trip Is More Complicated Than It Is Ever Been
There used to be a time when you could just decide on a whim you wanted to visit Disneyland, drive to the park, buy a ticket and walk in the front gate. Those days are long gone. Now, planning a trip to Disneyland requires weeks, sometimes months, of advance preparation. You can blame the pandemic for a lot of the changes: the company probably wouldn 't have implemented a ticket reservation system if there ...
Planning A Trip To The Happiest Place On Earth- Here's Some Tips From Experts And Fans
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"Mommy, we need to go to Disneyland."
My son delivered this suggestion over a bowl of Cheerios, just after he and his little sister waged their daily war over which identical blue spoon they'd prefer.
Neither of my preschoolers remembered that their father and I had forked over hundreds of dollars to take them to the Happiest Place on Earth less than two years earlier. We'd taken turns pushing ...
Plans To Electrify Autopia Convert Popular Attractions Gas Powered Cars
Plans are in the works to replace the gas-powered cars at Disneyland's popular Autopia attraction as part of the Anaheim resort's ongoing decarbonization efforts and its goal of net zero emissions, Disney officials said Tuesday.
''Since opening with Disneyland park in 1955, Autopia has remained a guest-favorite most popular with young kids experiencing driving for the first ...
Plans To Replace French Market Restaurant With Tianas Palace
Disneyland's New Orleans Square is getting a renovation fit for a princess.
On Thursday, Disney announced the area's French Market Restaurant will be reimagined into Tiana's Palace, inspired by the princess' dream restaurant in Disney's The Princess and the Frog.
The current spot will close Feb. 17, along with the Mint Julep Bar, and will reopen as Tiana's Palace ...
Plastic House Of The Future That 20million Disneyland Visitors Flocked To In The 1960s
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The Monsanto House Of The Future was an attraction at Disneyland California, from 1957 to 1967
The 13,000sq ft house was sponsored by the Monsanto Company and the house was created jointly by Monsanto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Walt Disney Imagineering.
The futuristic fibreglass components of the attraction were assembled into the house on-site and the finished attraction offered ...
Plaza Point A New Holiday Shop Debuts
EVEN IF A HOLIDAY... isn't immediately due, it can feel like a celebration is just around the colorful corner at Disneyland Resort. Perhaps it is due to the bounty of decorations, daily entertainment events, or all of those fanciful figures that roam The Happiest Place on Earth, or some other magical reason, but the special-occasion-y vibes are always sparkly and strong. Now that sparkle has a new ...
Please God, Don't Make Me Go Back To Disneyland
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Disneyland is a happier place, since my departure last week from Southern California.
I don't know how many of you have opted to go to God's Largest Amusement Park as adults, but all I can say is that it will be a long time before I want to see another Mickey Mouse.
Especially a Mickey Mouse with a price tag stuck to it.
Yup, I'm the ultimate stick in the mud. I should be wearing a button ...
Plug-Pulling Time At Disneyland
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Back in 1972, the heyday of the technology-heavy world's fairs. Disneyland rolled out its "Main Street Electrical Parade" in a high-tech blaze of 500,000 lights. Twenty-four years later, the electric light parade is a Disney institution, attracting 3 million visitors a year to see vintage characters like Snow White and Dumbo roll by. But all that will end on November 25, when Disney pulls the plug on the ...
Plunge Into A Cartoon On Gadgets Go Coaster
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Gadget's Go Coaster is aimed at small children and pre-teen kids and their parents and can be found in the Mickey's Toontown area at the north end of Disneyland.
The attraction is themed like it is the home of Gadget Hackwrench, the female mouse from the animated television show "Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers." In the show, Hackwrench was always inventing things from stuff she found, like bottle caps, ...
Podcasting Goes Corporate
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At Disneyland's 50th anniversary celebration in July, Newport Beach resident Michael Geoghegan was one of the first people inside the gate.
He wasn't there to enjoy himself but to capture the sounds and secrets of the Magic Kingdom's special event for Disney fans.
Geoghegan treated his audience to a tour of Walt Disney's private apartment above the fire station on Main Street, interviews with ...
Police Find No Sabotage In Disney Ride Crash
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Police have concluded there was no sabotage in the Sept. 5 fatal roller coaster accident at Walt Disney Co's Disneyland theme park and have closed their criminal investigation, an Anaheim, California, city spokesman said on Thursday [10/9/2003]
State safety investigators are about halfway through a separate investigation into the cause of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad accident, California ...
Police School Disney on Accidents
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Disneyland was told to leave all future accident scenes untouched after workers washed away blood from a fatal incident on Christmas Eve.
Police Chief Randall W. Gaston said he told park officials Saturday that officers must be promptly notified of any future accidents, and that any major injury, fatal accident or crime scene must be preserved until their investigation is complete.
On Dec. 24, an ...
Police Seek Help In Robbery Of Disneyland Parking Lot Attendant
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Surveillance tape of a parking lot attendant robbery at Disneyland was released today by police in the hope the images will trigger someone's recognition, a sergeant said.
The parking structure was robbed twice, on Sept. 19 and Sept. 26, but police are not sure if the same men were involved, or if they are part of a group, said Anaheim police Sgt. Rick Martinez.
Tape picked up during the Sept. 19 ...
Police Tell Disney To Leave Evidence Alone
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Safety: Anaheim chief acts after criticism following fatal incident involving ship cleat on Christmas Eve. He stresses in statement that park officials' actions did not impede investigation.
Facing criticism over his department's slow response to the Christmas Eve accident that killed a tourist, Anaheim's police chief told Disneyland officials Saturday to leave major injury and crime scenes ...
Police Took 4 1/2 Hours To Reach Scene
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Anaheim police investigators took 4 1/2 hours--much longer than first believed--to reach the scene of a fatal injury at a Disneyland ride Christmas Eve, according to police reports released Thursday.
The reports reveal a new timeline and details of the police investigation into an accident that killed a Washington man and injured his wife and a Disneyland employee.
Police took about three hours ...
Politics Hit Disneyland
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Over Presidents' Day weekend a group of friends and I embarked on a trip to the happiest place on earth in an effort to honor famous presidents of the United States, of course. Right to honor past presidents that is why we went right. Disneyland, contrary to popular belief, has played a very significant role in the history of American presidents. The life of every president who has left a noticeable ...
Pondering Passing On Our Annual Disneyland Passes
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Early last summer, I wrote a provocative piece called "Ten Ways to Improve Disneyland." It included such controversial suggestions as closing Autopia, banning Craisins and serving alcohol at full-service restaurants. A few weeks ago we were at Disneyland, and I was happy to see the parks had accepted my suggestion to add fast casual breakfast options in the morning. "Breakfast burritos from Rancho del ...
Pooh New? Nah
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Once upon a time, Disneyland built innovative, exciting attractions that helped make it the world's most popular and beloved theme park. Today, many of its former designers are out of work, laid off from Disney's kingdom. Some did go on to design other companies' parks, such as Universal's spectacular Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Fla. Those who remain work with meager budgets, turning out ...
Postcard From Disneyland: Fave Rides
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Disney certainly knows how to tell stories.
And they know how to get us caught up in the stories they tell. That includes the hordes of little girls that I recently saw wandering the Magic Kingdom in princess dresses. And there were the young boys crying out to be chosen at the Jedi Training Academy (Star Wars isn't a Disney creation, but no one seems to mind.)
For those of us a bit older, we ...
Postpones After Hours Star Wars Nite Tied To Canceled Star Wars Celebration
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Disneyland has postponed a Star Wars Nite after-hours party that would have taken over parts of Tomorrowland and Galaxy 's Edge with galactic dance floors, interstellar cocktails and a fireworks spectacular themed to a galaxy far, far away.
The now-postponed separate-admission Disneyland After Dark event scheduled for Aug. 27 was tied to the just-canceled Star Wars Celebration fan event at the ...
Preps For Reopening Plexiglass Installed At Park
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As Disneyland Park still does not have a timeline announced to the public about its reopening, they are still hard at work implementing health and safety measures as they await more guidelines from state officials for reopening theme parks in California. On a visit to Downtown Disney, it can be seen that they are installing physical distancing measures at the entrance to Disneyland Park. It was shown ...
Preteen Activities At Disneyland
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Preteens are a little easier to handle at Disneyland, but sometimes not much. They are not really babies anymore, but not quite ready to let go of all the "baby" activities. This can make them a great age to take to Disneyland. They are big enough to go on most of the roller coasters, yet still young enough to enjoy everything else.
To start off your day with a preteen at Disneyland, you will want ...
Previewing Disneyland's Remodeled Star Tours Attraction
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Being a Disneyland Annual Passholder has its perks. In addition to discounts within Disneyland and California Adventure theme parks and hotels, passholders also have access to a variety of special events throughout the year. Most recently, annual passholders were given the chance to win a preview of Disneyland Park's new Star Tours The Adventures Continue attraction before it opens to the public June 3. ...
Price Hikes Coming In 2020 What To Know
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The start of a new year likely heralds another round of price hikes for would-be ticket buyers at California 's Disneyland Resort, if recent history is any indication.
The Walt Disney Company announces pricing information for park tickets in the early months of each year. While the price hikes were traditionally announced in February, last year 's increase was unveiled on Jan. 6. ...
Price To Visit Disneyland And California Adventure Is Going Up
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The price to visit Disneyland and Disney California Adventure - for either a day or with a year's pass - is going up again.
Effective Sunday, it will cost $97 to go to one of the parks on Value days, the lowest-priced days of the year, up $2.
A visit on a Regular day will be $110, while a Peak day will cost $124, both up $5. Tickets are more on days when demand would be higher.
Parking is ...
