Tips To Beat The Disneyland Maingate Line! Get Inside FAST!
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Nothing is more discouraging than a line before you actually enter Disneyland. I mean you are coming from the Mickey and Friends Parking Structure, popped off the tram so fast you felt like an extra for the Incredibles, carefully opened your bags for security to review, then you cringe as you only hurried to walk up to a line to enter Disneyland. It is such a bummer! And with summer upon us, you have to ...
Tips To Stay Safe While Visiting Theme Parks Like Disneyland
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A recent fatality at Six Flags Magic Mountain reminds fans that we are not immune to the risks of everyday life when we visit a theme park.
State officials reopened the Revolution roller coaster at the Valencia theme park earlier this month after determining that the ride was not responsible for the death of a 10-year-old girl three days earlier. The girl had lost consciousness on the roller coaster ...
Tipsyland Ten Reasons To Visit Star Wars Cantina Next Summer
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It only took 63 years, but Disneyland will soon host the Happiest Hour on Earth.
At least it could, if it takes full advantage of its decision to (finally) serve alcohol in the park, a change that required a galaxy far far away.
Disney recently announced cocktails will be served at the cantina when the new Star Wars land opens next summer.
Until then, there have been only two ways to get ...
Tired Of Standing Line Soon You’ll Be Able To Order Meals In Advance
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Tired of standing in long lines to order a meal at Disneyland? Maybe, by this summer, the lines will be shorter.
Disneyland is finalizing plans to launch a new online ordering system that allows visitors to look at menus on the resort's mobile app at any time during their day, and then order a meal for pick-up later. The new system will be available at both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, ...
Tis The Season To Be Spooky
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Separate-ticket 'Mickey's Halloween Party' Offers Trick-or-Treating In Disneyland Park on 10 Special Nights
The spirit of Halloween Time will invade Disneyland Resort this fall with Disney villains, Mickey Mouse and his friends in Halloween costumes, along with the seasonal transformations of Haunted Mansion into Haunted Mansion Holiday and Space Mountain into Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy. Halloween ...
To Disneyland Or Not To Disneyland
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Sometimes an angel just lands on your shoulder.
That's what happened to me seven years ago, when I adopted two kids whose parents couldn't take care of them anymore.
It's not that they're twins. In fact, they're two years apart. They certainly don't look alike, since they had fathers of different races. One is a boy, one is a girl. (At least I think so, since they're at the age now when they ...
To Disneyland Without Your Car
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Does everyone drive to Disneyland? The sea of cars outside the entrance shows that most visitors do. Even so, there are many forms of transportation besides the car that will get you to the park, so we present a summary of what's available.
By air: You can fly into John Wayne Airport, Orange County (in Santa Ana), from Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Tucson on Hughes Airwest; of from ...
To Handle Star Wars Crowds Disneyland Nixes Smoking Areas Bans Wide Strollers
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Disneyland Resort is too popular for its own good. Raising prices, charging extra for high-demand days and adding blackout dates for annual passholders haven't been enough to thin the throngs that increase every year.
Now with the expected onrush of fans for the May 31 opening of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - the biggest expansion in the park's history - Walt Disney Co. managers are going even further to ...
To Skellington Or Not To Skellington Where Do You Stand On Controversial Haunted Mansion Holiday
The days are getting shorter. The sun hangs lower in the sky. A cool autumn breeze begins to settle in across the nation while the very first hints of Halloween make their way into neighborhoods and stores... and that means that for the 22nd year in a row, Disneyland's iconic Haunted Mansion has closed, not to return until after the New Year.
Yep, for Imagineering fans, it's the most ...
To The Lands Of Make-Believe
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Depending on your view of the world's most famous rodent, a plan to visit Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida, one after the other, is either a dream or a nightmare. Those in support of an oversized mousetrap would warn that dragging an adventurous seven-year-old and a jet-lagged nine-year-old across the US to do it is a sign of madness.
Separated by seven states and a minimum 4½-hour ...
Today In Disney History 1957 The Viewliner Opened
Today in Disney history in 1957 the Viewliner opened, serving as the short-lived precursor to the Disney Monorail.
Today in Disney history, we 're taking a closer look at a short-lived but important part of Disneyland 's past. On June 26th, 1957, the Disneyland Viewliner opened. Before there was the Monorail, Disneyland had the Viewliner, which the company called the “fastest miniature train ...
Todays Future
During the rush of getting the Park constructed, "Tomorrowland" was the last land finished. Budget cuts didn't allow all of its attractions to be opened that first day. One of those cuts was to use the "Nautilus" sets from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" as a walk-through. When it closed in 1966, the organ belonging to Captain Nemo was moved to the ballroom of the "Haunted Mansion." For the first four ...
Today's Tom Sawyer
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Let the lads and lasses loot, plunder and pillage to their hearts' content at Disneyland - if they can get past some scurvy scallywags ready to defend their precious spoils.
Now that facets of old Tom Sawyer Island have gotten the heave-ho, the attraction reopens today with a redesigned "Pirates of the Caribbean" theme meant to boost the aging interactive playground and capitalize on the success of ...
Tom Hanks And Tim Allen Set For Jungle Cruise
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Disney enjoyed huge success transforming its Pirates of the Caribbean theme park ride into an adventure movie franchise.
On Wednesday it announced similar plans for its popular Disneyland ride Jungle Cruise.
The new movie will star Tom Hanks and Tim Allen in what is expected to be a rollicking cinematic ride.
Details of the plot are being held strictly under wraps. What is known is that ...
Tom Hanks Movie To Film At Disneyland
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For the first time in a dozen years, Disneyland will host crews filming a major movie this one starring Tom Hanks as Walt Disney himself.
Disney will block off parts of the park Nov. 6-7 for "Saving Mr. Banks," which will tell the back story of the making of Disney's 1964 "Mary Poppins" movie. The film by Walt Disney Studios stars Hanks, Emma Thompson as book author P.L. Travers, and Colin Farrell ...
Tom Sawyer Comes To Disneyland
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Disneyland is now past the half-way point in a spring construction program that will add 1 1/2 million dollars in new rides and amusements to Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom in Anaheim.
Major areas of activity are Frontierland and the Tom Sawyer Island in the Rivers of America. More than $250,000 is being spent to make the island a "playland out of a youngster's dream."
On the island -- named for and ...
Tommy Dorsey Group At Disneyland Sunday
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Disneyland recreates another swinging chapter of the big band era beginning Sunday with the appearance of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra featuring Frank Sinatra Jr., the Pied Pipers and Helen Forrest.
A surprise addition to the summer long parade of big bands at Disneyland, the Dorsey aggregation is under the direction of top bandsman Sam Donahue.
Young Sinatra's appearance will be something of a ...
Tomorrowland And Walts Bathroom Of The Future
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The year is 1954, and construction for Disneyland park is in full swing. The many creative faces of WED Enterprises were hard at work so that it would reach its ambitious opening date in 1955. Scaffolders were placing finishing touches on the rugged cliffs of Adventureland, engineers were developing the precise movements of Abraham Lincoln, and Walt Disney himself was faced with a massive decision.
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Tomorrowland Exhibits Show World Of Future
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Man's activities in 1986, the world of the future, are being presented in various exhibits In Tomorrowland by some of the major corporations in the United States.
The earth's history, dating back three billion years, is portrayed through an animated display by Richfield, while the "Story of Oil," in Cinemascope, is also present. The Autopia, gasoline powered car which travels the ...
Tomorrowland Mystery Box Opens Reveals The Movie True Intentions
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Director Brad Bird and writer Damon Lindelof have concocted something mysterious in Tomorrowland, Disney's new live action adventure movie starring George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, and Britt Robertson. The initial annoucement about the film included a mysterious box that Lindelof and Bird claimed to have unearthed from the Disney archives.
The so-called "1952 box" was found inside the basement of the old ...
Tomorrowland Skyline Lounge Reopens May 20
If you 're looking for a special dining experience at Disneyland, for your upcoming summer travel, the Tomorrowland Skyline Lounge will reopen on May 20, 2022.
Admission will be via the Tomorrowland Skyline Lounge Experience Dinner Package. The package price starts at $60 per person (plus gratuity). Children 2 and younger are free.
Choose to stay for the entire evening or come and ...
Tomorrowland To Sneak At Disneyland
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Walt Disney Parks have announced that they'll present sneak previews of Brad Bird"s film Tomorrowland starting in mid-April. At California's Disneyland, the sneak will be in actual Tomorrowland theme park and in Florida, it'll be at Epcot Center. Below, read more details on the Tomorrowland preview and see some new footage from the movie in a commercial linking the film and the NBA.
It's pretty much ...
Tomorrowlands Empty Hope
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Last year, 157 million people traveled to Disney 's 12 theme parks across the globe. The parks are a $4.5 billion a year business, and one that 's been skewing older and older. Adult Disney fandom no longer holds the stigma it once did, despite the best efforts of the New York Post. We 're all going to die soon, why not let a 28-year-old ride some teacups?
This is a sentiment I relate to. In ...
Tomorrowlands Yesterday Disneyland Autopia Mark VII First Drive
When Disneyland first opened its doors in 1955, its namesake provided a simple mission: "Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future." Perhaps no original attraction better encapsulated that ideal than Tomorrowland's Autopia, which offered adult parkgoers a childlike feeling of discovery while providing many young "drivers" their first ...
Tony Baxter Talks Walt Disney Treasures Disneyland Secrets Stories And Magic
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The Senior Vice President, Creative at Walt Disney Imagineering talks about this immense new set.
Tony Baxter has lived and breathed the creations of Walt Disney for over 40 years. During his incredibly successful career at Walt Disney Imagineering, he even breathed life into some of Disneyland's most successful creations like Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Star Tours, Splash Mountain, Indiana Jones ...
Too Good To Be True
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Clayton Johnson became suspicious when he got a phone call informing him he had won a trip to Disney then was asked for his credit card information. The caller wanted to charge him $190 to hold his prize.
"They said they were calling from Disney to congratulate me on winning a trip," Clayton Johnson said of the mysterious phone call he received on Jan. 12.
"That made me suspicious, because they ...
Too Many People The Restaurant That Was Scrapped Because It Would Be Too Popular
Not everything Walt Disney dreamed up was popular with his Imagineers, the team of creators who make new Disneyland attractions. And not everything Disney wanted to make was possible to execute, like the restaurant he wanted to build for his wife, Lillian.
Crump, the Imagineer who dreamed up the Museum of the Weird - a project Disney championed that was killed because other Imagineers thought ...
Toontown Designed To Be Inclusive Of Every Single Guest
Parkgoers at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, will finally be able to return to Mickey 's Toontown this weekend after a yearlong closure for refurbishment.
The cartoon-inspired land has long been a haven for Disney 's younger park guests, offering character meet-and-greets with the likes of Mickey Mouse, Minnie, Donald, Goofy and Pluto, as well as kid-friendly coasters and play areas.
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Toontown Getting A Major Face Lift
Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California is getting a major overhaul in Mickey 's Toontown according to Disney Parks Blog. The area has been closed since March of 2022.
Josh D 'Amaro, Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products, elaborated on the reimagining of Toontown by saying, “We are so excited to leverage Disney 's powerful brand, develop new stories and share even more magical ...
Toontown Least Liked Land Is Going To Be Renovated Along With Possibly Its Worst Ride
If you 've been to Disneyland this year, or even before the pandemic closure, you 've probably seen the enormous building under construction in Toontown, so big it 's visible from outside the park. That will hold Mickey and Minnie 's Runaway Railway, the only ride in either of Disneyland 's two parks to feature the mice as main characters, which is slated to open in 2023.
But recently, Disney ...
Toontown Officially Reopens What The Refresh Delivers For Kids And Kids At Heart
Mickey 's Toontown opened at Disneyland in 1993, inspired by the wild world of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” But now, after a yearlong closure and refresh, Toontown is doubling down on Mickey Mouse and friends while adding patches of picnic-ready green space that get children out of the strollers and running free.
The hope is that Toontown 2.0 becomes a place that prioritizes imaginative and ...
