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First dark ride built at Disneyland in over a decade.

First time in a Disney dark ride the rider can turn the steering wheel of the cab and change direction.

The name of the cab you ride in is Lenny.

Voices:
Roger Rabbit - Jess Harnell
Baby Herman - Jim Cummings
Weasel - Charlie Adler
Weasel - June Foray

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2 Nighttime Spectaculars Added To Premium Maxpass System
Date Line:	April 09, 2019
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Disney has added the "Fantasmic" and "World of Color" nighttime spectaculars to the MaxPass system which lets visitors book FastPass attraction times via a mobile app at its two Anaheim theme parks. The $15 up-charge MaxPass system works with the free FastPass systems to allow visitors to set

7 Tips For Tackling Disneyland In A Day **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	February 28, 2012
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I've been to Disneyland hundreds of times over the last two decades and have been writing the Funland theme park blog for about four years now. As a result, people are always asking me how to do everything at Disneyland in a single day. The short answer is you probably can't. It can be a

A Visit To Disneyland Priceless **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	May 13, 2008
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My 9-month-old baby daughter had been good most of the morning. There hadn't been a single tear or even a squeak from her. We had driven to Disneyland, parked the car, taken the tram to the entrance gate and walked all the way to Mickey's Toontown at the other end of the park. I would have thought

Boy Dies Years After Disneyland Ride Accident **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	January 26, 2009
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A 13-year-old boy who never fully recovered from crushing injuries after he fell from a Disneyland children's ride in 2000 died today. An autopsy was inconclusive as to the cause of death. Brandon Zucker was 4 when he fell from the Roger Rabbit Car Toon Spin ride in September 2000. The boy

Brandon Zucker Dies At 13 Injury At Disneyland Brought Focus To Amusement Park Safety **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	January 27, 2009
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Brandon Zucker recieves a visit in a rehabilitation hospital from his parents, David and Victoria, and brother, Nicholas. He was severely hurt in an accident on a Disneyland ride in 2000, and he battled his injuries for eight years. In 2000, Brandon Zucker tumbled from a Roger Rabbit ride and

C'mon Get Happy! **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	June 21, 2009
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Disneyland is billed as the happiest place on Earth. It's hard to argue otherwise. A cast member helping visitors climb into a canal boat in Storybook Land told my family that Walt Disney's vision for his theme park was to "have every person, whether 9 or 90, feel like a kid again." Were

Dangerous Disneyland Mental Fatigue Part 2
Date Line:	February 14, 2016
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It wasn't until I was almost finished with the human stupidity portion of this "Dangerous Disney" article that I realized that this should be a two-parter, so that (in addition to keeping it from being too long) some might hopefully regain some faith in humanity. Here is that second part. Again,

Discover Disneyland Hidden Park Secrets **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	March 22, 2011
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It's hard to deny that magical feeling when leaving the real world behind and entering the gates of Disneyland. No matter how many trips have been made to this wonderful amusement park, part of the magic of the "Happiest Place on Earth" is that millions of people have been visiting for more than

Disney Magic, West Coast Style **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	September 01, 2009
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We were halfway through the six-hour flight from Newark to the John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, CA when I began to question our decision to haul our two kids, ages 8 and 16 months, clear across country to visit Disneyland. True, it's a shorter flight to Orlando, but my son shared our "been

Disney Parks Temporarily Close 10 Rides **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	November 02, 2010
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Ten attractions at two Disney parks will be closed for refurbishments for at least part of this month. Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin in Disneyland has among the longest closures in November. The Mickey's Toontown ride closed Sept. 20 and is set to reopen Dec. 17. Most rides are scheduled

Disneyland For Haters **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	June 25, 2009
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Think you're too cynical, sophisticated, debauched or underfunded to visit the Happiest Place on Earth? This one's for you. I am of Disneyland. My love for Walt Disney's 54-year-old theme park can move (space!) mountains. In fact, my love for Disneyland is so perfect and so complete that I

Disneyland From A to Z **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	January 31, 2006
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A recent four-night stay at Disneyland proves that this rich, glorious theme park, celebrating its 50th anniversary from now until 2007, is best enjoyed as a planned excursion, not as a whim. Begin with Birnbaum's, an indispensable annual paperback that's available for around twelve dollars.

Disneyland Gears Up For New Toontown Ride **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	November 01, 1993
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Toontown, Disneyland's first new "land" in 20 years, will unveil its latest attraction--Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin--on Toontown's first birthday, Jan. 26. Car Toon Spin is a gas. Those at the Disney-sponsored second annual Disneyana Convention in mid-September were treated to a gala evening

Disneyland Has Hottest Day On Record As Temperatures Hit 45c
Date Line:	July 11, 2018
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Temperatures at California's Disneyland hit a whopping 114F (45C) on Friday, the hottest day ever recorded at the popular family attraction. The sweltering conditions intensified a difficult day, which also saw Disney Parks' apps and websites crash, resulting in minimal information about wait

Disneyland In One Day **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	March 01, 2000
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The First Hint that my mission will be daunting: I tell the cast member in Guest Relations the title of the article I'm researching, and she starts to giggle. Disneyland in a day? Who am I kidding? "It might be a little hard," she says, handing me my tickets, "to do it all in a day."

Disneyland Memories
Date Line:	July 01, 2011
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Two months ago, I was warned that my article for the July issue would be about my first memories of Disneyland. I knew from the outset how hard this would be. If I had been asked about my first visit to Florida's Magic Kingdom this would be easy. It was November 18th 1988, which was

Disneyland Roller Coaster Accident Kills One **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	September 05, 2003
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A car derailed on a roller coaster at Disneyland, killing one man and injuring 10 others on Friday morning, city officials said. A car on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad attraction derailed while the train went through a dark tunnel about 2:20 p.m. EDT, said officials in Anaheim,

Disneyland To Fix Roger Rabbit **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	January 08, 2001
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A state order requiring Disneyland to overhaul a ride that left a 4-year-old boy with brain damage is raising questions about whether theme-park regulations now being drafted should require safety improvements in similarly designed rides. The California Division of Occupational Safety and

Disneyland vs. Knott's **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	January 17, 2013
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People who are traveling in the southern California area always wonder should I go to Knott's Berry Farm or got to Disneyland. Personally I think they are both great places to visit and have a good time with family and friends. The both have great attractions to ride and play at. For example,

Every Attraction Ranked By Three Disney Superfans
Date Line:	August 15, 2018
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While pretty much everybody loves Disneyland to one degree or another, for some of us, love borders on obsession. Three of us in particular at CinemaBlend have been to Disneyland so many times that we've lost track. Jessica and Mack are both former Southern California residents who used to frequent

Fastpass Service At Disneyland Resort **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	March 24, 2013
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Free to all guests Available for 13 attractions Spend less time standing in line The FASTPASS attraction entrances are separate, with much shorter lines Park admission passport goes into the machine A ticket prints out with a window of time to return Simple to use

Fifty Years And Five Days Of Disneyland **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	January 31, 2006
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It's hard to say when it was decided to schedule a vacation at Disneyland. A year of pictures dominated by apes, lions and burning flesh-and those were just the kids' movies-probably had something to do with it. In any case, it was time to celebrate Disneyland's golden anniversary in style.

Hang With Mickey And Friends
Date Line:	April 19, 2017
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"Mickey's Toontown" is designed cartoonishly. Everything from "Mickey's House" to the post office looks, well, goofy. Opening in 1993, it was inspired by "ToonTown" in the 1988 movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" It was originally planned to be behind "Main Street, USA" and called "Hollywoodland."

Is Disneyland Getting Its First Ride Based On Mickey Mouse
Date Line:	October 31, 2018
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Will Mickey Mouse finally get his own ride at Disneyland? A Disney fan blog is reporting that the park plans to build a major new ride in Toontown called Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway, modeled after a similar ride already under construction in Florida. Disney officials declined to comment

Only Half A Day For Disneyland? GO! **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	April 16, 2009
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So you've just flown across the country, and arrived in California. You're excited to start your vacation, but wonder, is it worth heading right to the park? Maybe you're tired from a long flight. Maybe it's already after noon, and you're thinking how much can you really see? Maybe you're

Six Disney Attractions To Temporarily Close For Rehab **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	December 01, 2010
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Six attractions at the two Disneyland Resort parks will be closed for rehabilitation for at least part of this month. Most rides will stay open because of high traffic during the holiday season. Crews usually do longer renovation projects in the spring, starting in January, when attendance is

Stricter Rules For Amusement Parks **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	July 24, 2013
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Once upon a time, in a land known as Anaheim, the rulers of the Magic Kingdom of Disneyland had things pretty much their way when it came to customer safety, as did the rulers of all the amusement parks in the great regulatory wilderness of California. They had no legal obligation to report

The New Roller Coasters: Thrills, Chills And Few Spills **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	June 26, 2001
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Roller coasters are supposed to scare us. They wrap our non-phobic, perfectly natural fears of heights, speed and being turned upside down 200 feet above the cotton-candy stand into one vomit-inducing 2-minute thrill ride -- and then they set us back on the ground, pat us on the back, and tell us

This Is How Disneyland Changed In The 1990s
Date Line:	July 15, 2016
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It was a "Fantasmic!" start for Disneyland in the 1990s, and the decade ended with a new Tomorrowland and the disappearance of the parking lot. 1990-92 Not much happened for the first two years in terms of changes or additions of new attractions until 1992. Mission to Mars had its last

Trivial Pursuit At The Venerable California Theme Park **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	April 22, 2010
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Disneyland, the theme park that bills itself as "the happiest place on Earth," filled with people during a recent spring-break April day when the temperature hovered near 90. People waited for more than two hours for a chance to ride Splash Mountain. Finding a bench to sit for a moment with a

Walking In A Winter Wonderland **RESTRICTED CONTENT** Click Here to gain access
Date Line:	December 20, 2011
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Having grown up in Southern California, I can't remember a time when I wasn't aware of Disneyland. I've loved the amusement park and all things Disney since I was itty bitty. I can remember being carried out to the car while it was still dark out when I was a little girl only to wake up again