As much as it might be nice to think otherwise, we 're all basically creatures of habit. We choose the same foods over and over, drive the same routes to the same places, sit in the same spots even when there are other options. It 's no different at Disneyland. Those of us who visit the park frequently tend to fall into the same patterns every time. Maybe we

Author Marcy Carriker Smothers had a continuing internal dialogue with the late Walt Disney as she wrote her new book about taking a walking tour of Disneyland from the park founder 's distinct and well-informed point of view. “I can 't write about Walt or read about Walt without his voice in my head,” Carriker Smothers said during an online video interview.

Disneyland 's Farley the Fiddler will be hanging up his spurs this holiday weekend after decades of entertaining generations of dedicated fans with music and laughter as the roping, joking, fiddling cowboy of Frontierland. Gary Francisco, better known to his legions of Disneyland fans as Farley the Fiddler, will retire from his daily Disneyland gig on

In Anaheim, Frontierland has five very distinct shops (Bonanza Outfitters, Pioneer Mercantile, Silver Spur, The Spirit of Pocahontas Shop and Westward Ho Trading Company) whereas there is really only one store in the Frontierland of Disneyland Paris. This is the Thunder Mesa Mercantile Building, although it is split into three separate parts: Tobias Norton & Sons, Bonanza

Disneyland recently began selling wooden toy guns again, about nine years after pulling them off of store shelves. Disney officials decided to resume sales of the toy guns, which are now orange and green, because of customers' requests, said Betsy Sanchez, a Disneyland Resort spokeswoman. Disneyland had continued selling plastic guns, including space-like and