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2000 Disneyland

April 1, 2000

April--$41 adult ticket price now applies to visitors ages 10 and older. The price previously started at age 12. Children ages 3 to 9 can still get into the theme park for $31

2000 Articles:

Fired Disney Workers Angry
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Several former Disneyland employees are crying foul after being fired late last year for allegedly stealing complimentary passes to the theme park. One worker, Jacqueline Madory, filed a lawsuit against Disneyland on Feb. 18 in Orange County Superior ...

Judge Backs Fired Disney Worker
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An administrative law judge has ruled that a Disneyland employee fired for allegedly stealing complimentary tickets is entitled to unemployment benefits because the theme park did not provide proof of his guilt. Betty G. Leiter, a judge in the Orange ...

Fired Workers Say Disneyland Played Rough
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Raising new questions about hard-edged Disneyland security tactics, some former guest-relations workers contend they were threatened during lengthy interrogations, then fired improperly for allegedly stealing passes to the Anaheim park. The ...

Frontierlands Keel Boat Ride
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Well, howdy there, pioneers and sod-busters ... welcome aboard the ol' Gullywhumper ... Ya know, this here's the boat that ol' Mike Fink used a while back when he took on Davy Crockett for the wildest keel boat race this river has ever seen ... well, we ...

Disneyland's Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship Resturant
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Walt Disney's first Fantasyland was designed to give the impression that Sleeping Beauty Castle (with its rockwork turrets and extended walls of stone) was the single permanent structure in the area. Fantasyland's rides and concessions were arranged in ...

Celebrating a Disneyland Milestone
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On paper, the new 45 Years of Magic procession at Disneyland might look like just another gala parade. The real thing, however, is closer to kinetic art. That, at least, is the vision of Jean-Luc Choplin, the creator of an extravaganza opening on February ...

Disneyland In One Day
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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 ...

Sunday Dinners With The Iwerks Family, A Call To The Studio, Autopia Chassis
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It all started with cars. Some folks on my paper route in 1944 always had neat cars. A few years later, one of the kids that lived there was in our same car club, the "Road Burners". Name was Dave Iwerks. We went hunting and fishing together. His dad had ...

Security Chief Sued Before
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The head of a Disneyland security unit accused recently of heavy-handed tactics against park employees has been sued in at least three previous security jobs, according to court records. Numerous former and current Disneyland employees have ...

Disney Delights
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Disneyland features new shows, attractions, rides and a dedicated agent Web site to keep retailers excited and informed The road to Disneyland may be laden with bulldozers and big plans, but the destination is worth it, both before and after the ...

Disney Shaves Facial Hair Ban
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Disneyland is anticipating a new look among some male employees since its announcement that mustaches are no longer banished from the Anaheim, California, theme park's male grooming code. Beards, goatees and shaggy sideburns are still not permitted, but ...

Autopia's New Wheels
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If the new Autopia at Disneyland needs a slogan, it could be "Cars are people, too." At Tomorrowland beginning June 29, guests will have the choice of three personality-filled vehicles to "drive": Suzie, a cute, curvy compact; Dusty, a rugged and roomy ...

A Talent For Topiary
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At Disneyland, you'll find several delicate swans, sculpted from plants, set amid the grassy slopes at Sleeping Beauty Castle. You'll see topiary Dumbos on location at the Flying Elephant ride. But perhaps the most famous Disneyland topiaries are set in ...

More Cars To Design, WED Life At The Studio, Beyond The 'Carneys'
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My regular week-day job as a designer at Channing Wallace Gilson Industrial Design in Hollywood, just a mile from where Walt and Roy first set up camp in the 1920's no longer seemed like fun. Not when I could draw car sketches at night, then spend all day ...

Chevron and Disneyland Unveil Redesigned Autopia
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Disneyland and Chevron today unveiled a remodeled Autopia featuring restyled cars and roadways with interactive surprises, visual puns, unexpected road hazards and humorous billboards. The new attraction, which officially opens to the public ...

ColorShift Effects Capture the Imagination of Disneyland
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The color of tomorrow is at Disneyland today. Thanks to a new innovation called ChromaFlair(R) light interference pigments, the cars in the completely redesigned Autopia ride appear to have captured a rainbow as they circle the track. The color shifts ...

Autopia Manufacture
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Some thought Walt was nuts to get into the automobile manufacturing busines. Why not just buy one of the typical carnival type midget autos that were commercialy available. Why go to the trouble of developing Disneyland's own little Autopia car? Well, to ...

Autopia Testing
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By April 1955, the first Autopia car body was finished and mounted on the hand-built production test chassis. The Disney Studio Machine Shop now had a complete car ready for test driving, but without any bumpers. Kaiser Aluminum was to be a sponsor of ...

Takin' It To The Streets
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In his and rhino hat, Disneyland guest coach Kevin Rogers plucks park visitors from the crowd and prepares them to participate in the daily 45 Years of Magic ... Parade of the Stars. We caught up with Rogers as he was being mobbed by folks hoping to grab ...

Greetings From Disneyland
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If Imagineers David Mumford and Bruce Gordon have gained fame among Disney fans, it may be because they haven't forgotten their roots. Gordon spent his childhood building Disneyland models in his garage and went on to become a show producer on the park's ...

Opening Day
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July 17, 1955 Autopia Day of Infamy! About half the Autopia cars were taken from the ride and moved to an offstage area next to the Main Street Town Square for the Opening Day Parade. The first sign of trouble appeared as I started the cars using a kick ...

Autopia Busted! Disneyland Learns Real Engineering
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At the end of Disneyland's opening week we had just two cars running out of the (37) Autopia ride vehicles built. Walt's custom car was safe on its rotating display turntable parked in Tomorrowland, while the two police cars were still running good ...

Steam Freaks
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When Roger Broggie set me to work on the Autopia Mk I, he gave me a drafting board in a room with some interesting "olde tyme" characters from America's railroad past......steam freaks, I called them. We seemed worlds apart; they were mostly in their 50's ...

Attractions Opened/Closed in 2000:

Autopia

Rocket Rods

Special Preview Disney's California Adventure

Woodys Roundup

Restaurants Opened/Closed in 2000:

Main Street Cone Shop

Parades Performed in 2000:

45 Years of Magic

Parade Of The Stars

Shops Opened/Closed in 2000:

Autopia Winner Circle

Leather Shop

Events in 2000:

Emile Kuri set designer for Club 33, Plaza Inn and Sailing Ship Columbia dies at age 93

One Day Adult Ticket Prices increase from $39 to $41

January 12--Animator Marc Davis with Disney since 1935 dies. Marc played an active roll in the planning of Disneyland. He developed story and character concepts for many Disneyland attractions, including Pirates of the Caribbean, the Haunted Mansion, It's A Small World.

The Disneyland Kennel closes

Wathel Rogers helped create Audio Animatronics for Disneyland including Mr Lincoln dies in Arizona at age 81

April--$41 adult ticket price now applies to visitors ages 10 and older. The price previously started at age 12. Children ages 3 to 9 can still get into the theme park for $31

November--One Day Adult Ticket Prices increase from $41 to $43

December 25--Disneyland closes gates from 3pm to 6pm due to capacity

December 27-- Disneyland closes gates at 12:30pm due to capacity

December 28-- Disneyland closes gates at 11:45am to 5:30pm due to capacity

Annual Attendance for 2000 13.9 million