Family Sues Disneyland After Roller Coaster Accident
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Four members of a family involved in a 2004 roller coaster accident sued Disneyland, alleging the theme park failed to follow proper safety procedures on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride.
The lawsuit was filed in Orange County Superior Court on Thursday. It says the Cope family of Telluride, Colo., was on the ride returning to the loading area when their train collided with another one being ...
Disney Paid Eisner $10.1 Million In 2005
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Michael Eisner, former chief executive of The Walt Disney Co., received $10.1 million in compensation last year, including a $9.1 million cash bonus, according to the company's annual proxy statement filed Wednesday.Eisner left the company on Oct. 1 after serving as CEO for 21 years. He was succeeded by Robert Iger, who serves as president and CEO.
Iger received total compensation of $9.7 million in ...
Going To Disneyland? Tips To Keep You Sane
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It's been a little more than a week since we've returned from our family trip to Disneyland. I'm almost scared to admit this, but I'd happily return with my four-year-old son, Nolan and his eight-month-old brother, Quin. Now that we've experienced the chaos once, I know what I'd do to make it even better the next time. Here are six of my tips that could make your Disneyland visit run a little smoother...
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Disney In talks To Buy Pixar
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting (Bloomberg, too) today that Disney is in serious talks with Pixar about acquiring the animation studio in a stock deal worth nearly US$7 billion.
Most people have probably heard about the well publicized rift between the two companies over renewing Disney's distribution rights to Pixar films. Steve Jobs, the CEO and majority shareholder in Pixar, had decided not ...
Disney Deal For Pixar Sealed
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The Walt Disney Co. will pay $7.4 billion in stock to acquire Pixar Animation Studios, the companies said Tuesday.
The deal has Steve Jobs, the new-media maverick who is CEO of Pixar and Apple Computer, becoming the 14th member of Disney's board of directors.
The transaction, expected to close in the summer after the release of Cars-the final movie under a previous partnership between Disney and ...
Disneyland From A to Z
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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. The goal-oriented guide should be read by every visitor to insure unit cohesion. It answers detailed ...
Fifty Years And Five Days Of Disneyland
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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.
Buyer's remorse set in as soon as the trip was confirmed. What could one possibly do for five days and four ...
50 Years Of Disneyland
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Disneyland spokesman Tim O'Day, hired as a parade performer in 1976 and knowledgeable about virtually every Disneyland detail, is practically the grand marshal of the theme park's rich history, including its integration to motion pictures. The co-author of Disneyland: Then, Now and Forever talked with Box Office Mojo about the Happiest Place on Earth.
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Captain Jack Sparrow To Join The Pirates At Disneyland
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Funny thing, synergy.
It seemed like Disney would have a lot more to work with in constructing a film version of its beloved Haunted Mansion ride than its similarly revered Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. Both elaborate "ride-thrus" strewn with "audio-animatronic" figures doing their things, the romp through Gracey Mansion seemed to offer more cinematic fruit related to the ride's spooky, witty ...
The New Magic Man
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When Walt Disney died in 1966, the big rumor was that he'd been cryogenically frozen, waiting to be revived for that great big beautiful tomorrow promised in the theme song of his "Carousel of Progress" attraction. It was just an urban legend. But if it were true, the first person in line to greet the thawed genius would certainly be Pixar's John Lasseter, whose computer-generated films-from "Toy Story" to ...
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You know Disney's suggestion Jar must have come up empty when they start adapting the theme park attractions for films - but that' exactly what they've done with "the Country Bears", conspired a feature length film based around the hoary, slightly iconic, musical attraction at Disneyland. And just how confidant is Disney with their film? Let's just say they tore down the attraction shortly before the film ...
Official Disneyland Resort Podcast Debuts First Episode Of 2006
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The first 2006 episode of the popular "Official Disneyland Resort Podcast" series is now available on computers worldwide. This free monthly Internet-based show is accessible to a global audience. Listeners can also subscribe through the iTunes Podcast Directory to receive each show automatically each month.
Achieving a rating of four-and-a half stars out of a possible perfect five on the iTunes ...
Disney's Longtime Imagineering Chief To Step Down
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Martin Sklar, the creative force behind most of Walt Disney Co.'s theme parks, will step down as head of the company's famed Imagineering division, Disney said on Friday.
Sklar, 72, takes on a new role as a recruiter and ambassador for the division where he worked for 50 years and was regarded as a legend.
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Disney Legend Marty Sklar Leaves His Post At Imagineering
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Signaling the end of an era at Walt Disney Co., Marty Sklar is stepping down as the principal creative executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, the company's theme park design and development arm.
Sklar, 72, is one of the last remaining employees who once worked closely with the Burbank company's late co-founder, Walt Disney.
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No Slowing Down For Dis Imagineer Sklar
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If he'd done nothing else in his career, Marty Sklar would rank as a Walt Disney Co. legend because of his exhaustive track record of impressing the heck out of the boss during the years when Walt Disney was achieving his ultimate dream, the launch of Disneyland.
Sklar, 72, served the Disney company for 50 years as the creative leader of the renowned Walt Disney Imagineering research and development ...
Virtual Magic Kingdom Hits Million Player Mark
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Barely more than seven months after its official launch, Virtual Magic Kingdom, a free multiplayer gaming community inspired by Disney's famous theme parks, has acquired the one-millionth character in its virtual community, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online announced.
Quickly establishing itself as one of the coolest destinations online for gaming fans, the virtual theme park at vmk.com has grown ...
Disney Must Supersize Costumes
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It's not such a small world after all. As Disneyland celebrates its 50th birthday, the park is grappling with a harsh reality of middle age: Mickey Mouse's entourage has put on a few pounds.
To accommodate the ballooning bodies of American workers, the Magic Kingdom is redesigning some of its costumes for ride operators, shop clerks, waitresses and other employees.
A couple decades ago, the ...
Disneywhirl: How Adults Can Maximize The Magic At The Two Parks
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If you experienced a Disney theme park as a child, you might remember the joy of meeting Mickey Mouse, fear at the sight of ghosts in The Haunted Mansion or inevitable end-of-day exhaustion as fireworks burst overhead and Tinkerbell zipped through the sky.
But how do these Happiest and Most Magical Places on Earth stack up when you're a single adult searching for theme park thrills?
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Disney For Adults
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Disneyland is a magical place. Fifty years after it opened its doors, it continues to excite and thrill children - and children at heart - the world over.
It's a place where you can truly escape from the world and where you can act like a kid no matter your age. You see them all over the park, adults with Mickey Mouse ears perched on their heads, others joining packs of youngsters lining up for a few ...
Thanks For The Magic Memories
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Some people preserve family memories in scrapbooks and dresser drawers, filling them with vintage photographs of mom and dad, mementos of wartime service, souvenirs of that first trip to Disneyland.
Diane Disney Miller has all that, too -- and she's planning a museum to share it with us.
It will be a lot more than a scrapbook, but it won't look like a monument, a theme park or a shopping mall. ...
Readers Recall Visiting Happiest (Or Scariest, Or Friendliest) Place On Earth
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When we asked readers to share their favorite Disneyland moments, we expected to hear about "Snow White's Scary Adventure" and shaking hands with Mickey Mouse.
What we didn't expect were the more poignant moments -- the Vietnam vet overcome by emotion when a greeter welcomed him home from the war. The adopted orphan from Russia who started to embrace her new culture through the wonder of Disney.
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Oakland Museum's Disneyland Exhibition
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Walter Disney's daughter and a longtime collaborator were in Oakland Wednesday to launch the Oakland Museum of California's new exhibition "Behind the Magic -- 50 Years of Disneyland.''
Diane Disney Miller and Martin (Marty) Sklar, vice chairman and principal creative executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, were on hand to talk about the exhibit and the idea behind creating this show that honors the ...
Disney Parks For Grown-Ups: An Insider's Guide
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Because of my lifelong passion for Disney theme parks, I've become something of a counselor to friends and co-workers considering a visit to Disneyland or Walt Disney World. They'll stop by my office before a vacation to tell me their fears or ask for tips.
Believe it or not, the park is still just as magical to me today as it was when I was 9 and made my first visit. My husband and I have been to a ...
Disneyland Autopia Cars Race For Charity At The Indy 500
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Checkered flags waved, crowds cheered and engines roared as two American traditions teamed up to celebrate special milestones.
In honor of Disneyland's 50th anniversary and the 90th running of the Indianapolis 500, "The Happiest Place on Earth" and "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" teamed up for the "Minnie Indy Charity Race" on Wednesday, May 24 (Thursday, May 25 HK Time) at the Indianapolis Motor ...
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Even though she was in the middle of Disneyland on a sunny summer afternoon, 8-year-old Erica Fieldman was not happy.
She didn't want to go on the rides that her cousin and brother wanted to try. She didn't want to wait for them while they rode, either. I told her she could choose the next ride (usually a successful tactic), and then I warned her about staying put until we were ready to move on.
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I flew down to California for a wedding a couple weeks ago. As the old adage says, "When in Anaheim, go to Disneyland and spend all your money."
It was here, at the end of a long day in the Mecca of princesses, pixies and capitalism that I had an epiphany. What I realized that fateful weekend is that, after ...
During Year Of A Million Dreams Celebration Disney Cast Members To Award A Million Magical Dreams
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From an overnight stay inside Cinderella Castle to a Golden FASTPASS, dreams big and small will come true at Disneyland and Walt Disney World resorts during Disney's "Year of a Million Dreams," a first-of-its-kind celebration of the individual dreams of Disney Parks guests.
The year-long celebration, beginning Oct. 1, 2006, at Disneyland Resort in California and Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, ...
Disney Has More In Store For Visitors
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As Disneyland puts away the 50th anniversary party hats from its 18-month celebration, Walt Disney Co. executives are faced with their next challenge: how to avoid a midlife crisis at the company's theme parks.
Banking on the momentum of their packed theme parks, Disney executives this week said they planned to lure tourists back using advertising, prizes and new attractions.
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Disney's Pirates Ride Gets Controversial Cross-Promotional Makeover
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Back in 1997, Disney angered some of its fans by making the outlaw buccaneers in its popular Pirates of the Caribbean ride less rapey, altering it so that its horny bandits were chasing a meal instead of terrified wench tail. Today's LAT reports that the Most Synergistic Place on Earth has once again run afoul of purists by cynically inserting characters from their blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean ...
MSN and Disneyland Resort to Webcast the 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest' Red Carpet World Premiere
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MSN® Video will broadcast live the world premiere of Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" on Saturday, June 24, from 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. PT to a worldwide audience on MSN Video. Pirates of the Caribbean, the popular Disney theme park attraction that inspired the movie, is once again brought to the big screen in Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." In a unique twist, the ...
Disney Adds More Depp
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Hey, isn't that Johnny Depp chasing the serving wench?
When the Pirates of the Caribbean ride reopens June 26 at Disneyland after being shuttered since March, visitors will be treated to bigger cannon explosions, more gold doubloons and an animatronic figure of Captain Jack Sparrow from the film franchise originally inspired by the classic theme-park attraction.
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Pirates to make splash at park Sequel's actors celebrate premiere at Disneyland.
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Yo ho! Yo ho! It's a pirate's life for O.C.
The stars of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," including Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, will take over Disneyland's Main Street on Saturday with a red-carpet stroll to the premiere of the movie sequel inspired by the ride.
The remodeled ride with features and characters from the movie will make its private debut the same ...
Pirates' Sets Sail At Disneyland
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By 5:30 a.m., Shelley Thompson and Caitlin Bruffey were already on a mission at Disneyland - to see Johnny Depp.
The 17-year-old Orange girls, sporting yellow T-shirts stating: "Captain Jack is Back," camped out all day on a blanket along the red carpet for the world premiere of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel at Disneyland. The park opened early, at 6:30 a.m., because it closed early for the ...
1955: Disney's Tomorrowland Features Circarama
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June 27, 1955: In preparation for the opening of Disneyland, Walt Disney studios unveiled Circarama, a film projection technique to be used in the park's Tomorrowland.
"Eleven projectors utilizing 16-millimeter film were called into service to make possible this completely circular picture on a 360-degree screen," The Times reported. "As one observer said, this new dimension makes it impossible for ...
McDisney's Happy Ending
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McDonald's Corp. and Walt Disney Co. have been promoting each other's offerings for nearly 20 years. And that makes breaking up hard to do.
But the end of their exclusive 10-year relationship has arrived. And while launching the last official joint promotion next week, they remain locked in talks over new promotions for 2007 and 2008. They also continue to discuss the future of McDonald's restaurants ...
Revamped Pirates Ride Sets Sail
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They're doing more than just swabbing the decks in the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Disneyland's venerable attraction - the last one built under the creative supervision of Walt Disney - now has a special-effects makeover, new wrinkles in the story and some characters just off the ship from the 2003 movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" and the sequel, which opens July 7.
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A Ride On Disneyland's Reimagined Attraction
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A ride on Disneyland's reimagined attraction, Pirates of the Caribbean, leaves one singing the Yo Ho song as never before. The overlay is, in a word, terrific.
Timed to promote this summer's sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the 39-year-old attraction, located in Disneyland's New Orleans Square, takes place before Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) recaptures the title ship in the ...
Mouse Ears Get New Looks
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For more than 50 years, Disney barely touched the design of the classic and iconic black mouse ears that have been among its top-selling souvenirs.
"How much do you change a popular (product)?" said Marianne Sharpe, vice president of merchandise and store operations for Disneyland Resort.
But for Disneyland's 50th anniversary, the company took a risk and launched golden-colored mouse ears ...
Who Needs Special Effects When You Can Hire A Magician?
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Marilyn Manson is one weird dude - but if you didn't already know that, well, you haven't been paying attention.
"Do these glasses make my butt look fat?" he joked last weekend as he made a rare appearance at, of all places, Disneyland. "I really want a pirate hat."
Longtime pal and part-time pirate Johnny Depp could likely fulfill that request for Manson, who was walking the red carpet at the ...
Yo-ho, Yo-ho, No Pirate's Life For Me
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Say what you will about the Mouse, but Disneyland knows how to throw a party. Their ability to pander to the media is rivaled only by a handful of seasoned pimps in Southeast Asia, and even they struggle to keep up. For every whim and request lovingly catered to by smiling Disney cast members, and with unlimited food and booze supplied to party guests, positive coverage of a Disney event is virtually ...
23-year-old Disneyland Die-Hard Still Feels Magic
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Sometimes he makes the two- to three-hour drive just for dinner. Lorenzo Salazar, 23, of Bakersfield goes to Disneyland at least two times a month, but in the last week, he has gone four times.
"For as long as I can remember, I've loved Disney. It is like I was born with it," Salazar said.
Recently, while at work, Salazar began to crave fried chicken and mashed potatoes from the French Market ...
Classic Disney Ride Adds A New Pirate
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Call it the "Pirates of the Caribbean featuring Capt. Jack Sparrow."
The anticipated reworking of Walt Disney World's classic ride Pirates of the Caribbean is complete and ready for a grand reopening today - the same day Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the second movie of the franchise, opens in theaters nationwide.
The old ride, which inspired the first Pirates movie, was the last ...
Disneyland Resort Debuts First-Ever Video Podcast; Introduces Newest Episode of Its Popular Audio Podcast
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Following the groundbreaking precedent of its popular monthly audio podcasts the Disneyland Resort in Southern California today introduces a new monthly series of video podcasts that will bring all the magic and fun of "The Happiest Place on Earth" to fans around the world via their desktop computer or video iPod. As one of the first organizations to successfully venture into audio podcasting (launching ...
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A magician can pull a rabbit out of a hat, he can cut a woman in half, and he can even make a grown man disappear-I've seen it. But I can't say I really believe in magic. That is, I didn't believe in magic until my wife and I recently took our son to Disneyland.
Going to Disneyland is a major deal to me. My parents took my siblings and I to the "happiest place on Earth" once a year when we were kids. ...
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Q: Ever wonder who or what Captain EO is?
A: Captain EO was a 3-D film that debuted at Disneyland in 1986. It starred Michael Jackson as Captain EO and Anjelica Huston as The Supreme Leader.
The film, which lasted about 17 minutes, cost more than $17 million - some estimate as much as $30 million - making it the most expensive film ever produced on a per-minute basis at the time.
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Noaa National Weather Service Declares Disneyland Resort Stormready
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Officials from the NOAA National Weather Service have declared Disneyland Resort in California as a StormReady community. Along with the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, the Disneyland Resort joins more than 1,070 StormReady communities throughout the United States and is one of 18 such communities in California.
"More than 10,000 severe thunderstorms, 2,500 floods and 1,000 tornadoes affect the ...
The Mice That Roared
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They weren't exactly Hollywood's idea of a power couple: Disney CEO Robert Iger, once derided as a "suit," and studio chief Richard Cook, who got his start as a monorail operator at Disneyland. But last week Iger and Cook dropped a bomb bigger than any of the explosions you'll see in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." Just weeks after the record-smashing release of the sequel-soon to be the ...
Taking The Kids - To Disneyland
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It's sweltering and Disneyland is packed, but 8-year-old Katie Grace Dhority and her 6-year-old sister, Laurel, are too excited to care that it's at least 90 degrees in the shade and there are lines everywhere, even at the water fountains.
This is, after all, their first trip to Mouseville, and since they live in Pocahontas, Ark., they aren't sure when they'll be back. They're studying a map ...
Magical Movement
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The idea of the company began with a young boy's trip to Disneyland. From that it has become the largest animatronics firm in the world.
As a youngster growing up in San Bernardino during the 1970s, Garner Holt convinced his parents to take him to the Disney theme park.
"I went on the Pirates of the Caribbean," Holt recalled. "By the time I got off that ride, I knew that's what I wanted to do." ...
A Free Ride To Disneyland
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Although there may be no such thing as a free lunch--there are ways to get into Disneyland for free, even if you have to pay. Out of the four times I have been to the theme park, I've only paid for a legitimate ticket once. So if you're cash-strapped but still looking to get a piece of the Happiest Place on Earth, here's the skinny on three tried-and-true ways to get in the Magical Kingdom's back door...
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Long before the Strip was dry-cured to its current shoe-leather state, it dreamed of being the first meat patty in space. That's why this curious cutlet's juices started flowing when it heard about a rocket ship landing soon in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
On September 1, a 35-foot rocket is scheduled to take a ride on a flatbed truck through Kansas City streets like a Soviet-era weapons parade. ...
Video Calling Lets You See The Big Picture
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I remember visiting Disneyland as a child and digging Tommorrowland. When I was older, not only could I expect the promise of taking a Flight to the Moon and partaking in a Mission to Mars, but I'd be using one of those spiffy video phones. Maybe some aspects of Tomorrowland should have found a home in Fantasyland, but I can now see who I'm talking to while they're in another place and have the added bonus ...
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"Don't you think a 3-year-old is too young to take to Disneyland?" my aunt asked me over dessert and coffee.
I told her that when my son was three, I took him on his first trip to Disneyland.
"Yes, but did he get much out of it? -- Is it safe? -- Do you have to always be watching your kids or can they just run around?"
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Puppy With Hidden Mickey Markings Ushers In Dog Days Of Summer 2006
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"The Dog Days of Summer" take on special significance today at Disneyland with the unusual visit to "The Happiest Place on Earth" by Nutmeg ("Meg" for short), a nine-month-old Beagle whose markings include a perfect Mickey Mouse-shaped silhouette on the top of her head. Disney "Imagineers" sometimes design subtle "Hidden Mickeys" into Disneyland Resort attractions, but Meg's natural markings make her a ...
One-Time Disneyland Singer Still On Stage
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Forest Meadows resident Doug Scott spent 26 years singing barbershop quartet songs in the magic kingdom known as Disneyland.
Wearing a bright yellow vest, yellow striped pants and a straw hat, his bass blended smoothly with the other three Dapper Dans of Disneyland voices to keep park visitors tapping their toes and smiling.
Today, photographs fill two walls of his home, showing the quartet ...
Space Shot Restored Prop Bound For Museum
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Dan Viets isn't the attorney Columbia thinks he is at home. Oh no, no, no - he's a rocket man.
Shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday, Viets, wife Sheila Dundon and friend Don Jourdan set off in a two-vehicle caravan as Jourdan's F-150 pickup towed a trailer carrying a 40-foot novelty shaped like a rocket known as the Moonliner II. They were headed for the Airline History Museum in Kansas City.
"I just ...
Artist Banksy Targets Disneyland
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A life-size replica of a Guantanamo Bay detainee has been placed in Disneyland by "guerrilla artist" Banksy.
The hooded figure was placed inside the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the California theme park last weekend.
It is understood to have remained in place for 90 minutes before the ride was closed down and the figure removed.
A spokeswoman for Banksy said the stunt was intended ...
Microsoft, Disney and the 'home of the future'?
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Sssshh, I know a dirty rumor.
Despite the fact that Disney has just inked a deal with Apple Computer over movie sales in the iTunes Store, and the fact that Apple head honcho Steve Jobs is Disney's largest shareholder, the company that made mouse ears an American icon just might be playing for both teams.
Yeah, word on the street is that Disney, or at least its Anaheim, Calif., theme park, has ...
Disneyland Prices Up $4 As Of Today
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Effective today, the Disneyland Resort has increased its single-day admission price by $4, from $59 to $63 for adults, and from $49 to $53 for children (ages 3-9). The previous increase was on Jan. 3, 2006.
"We offer a great value for guests who experience our world-class entertainment, enjoying a full day of fun including rides, parades and other spectaculars," the company said. "Many local guests ...
Imagination Reigns At Disneyland!
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"To all who come to this happy place welcome!" Walt Disney's voice echoed over a loudspeaker when the park first opened. The Magic Kingdom's 18-month-long 50th anniversary celebration is slowly winding down, but the rides that have been refurbished, including the Pirates of the Caribbean, will remain.
When entering the park, guests pass under a simple bronze plaque that states, "HERE YOU ENTER THE ...
7 Hurt When Big Rig And Anaheim Resort Shuttle Crash Injuries Range From Moderate To Mild, Authorities Say.
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An Anaheim Resort shuttle bus taking a load of passengers to Disneyland collided this morning with a big rig making a left turn, sending seven passengers to the hospital, authorities said.
The collision at Anaheim Boulevard and Disney Way was reported at 9:40 a.m., said Anaheim police Sgt. Rick Martinez.
Seven people were taken to area hospitals, one with moderate injuries and six suffering with ...
Disney Goes On A Jungle Cruise
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Following the record-breaking success of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Walt Disney Pictures is giving high-priority status to another movie project based on a Disneyland ride.
The Hollywood Reporter says "Smallville" showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar are in talks to write Jungle Cruise, an adventure movie and potential franchise that is being produced by David Hoberman and Todd ...
Disney Promises Grins Over Gore
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The Disneyland Resort on Thursday unveiled specifics of its "HalloweenTime" seasonal event, billed as the "biggest and best Halloween event ever celebrated" at the resort in its 51 years.
The event, which starts Sept. 29 and runs through Oct. 31, is part of Disneyland's attempt to bolster attendance in the period between its peak summer and Christmas seasons. It aims to attract Southern California ...
Family Members Share Disney Passion Cousin Of Mouseketeer Remembers Meeting Walt Disney
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Former Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer Bonnie Lynn Fields has returned to Richmond to be near her mother, but she also has many family members in the community.
Fields, who uses the name Lynn Fields now, is teaching dance and spending time with family these days.
Recently, she and several other family members gathered at Golden Rule nursing center to celebrate the 90th birthday of her mother, ...
Disneyland Parking Toll Booths Robbed No Arrests Have Been Made, Police Say.
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A parking toll-booth attendant was robbed Tuesday, the second armed robbery at a Disneyland lot in the past two weeks, authorities said.
Two unidentified men drove up in a dark-colored Porsche at about 3:50 p.m. Tuesday. One man got out of the car, walked up to the toll booth and demanded all the money in the cash box. A weapon was seen by the attendant but never pointed. The man was given the money, ...
For A Homemade Magical Kingdom, You Need $300, Sheets And Backyard
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Most teens who have $300 to spend are going to come up with similar wish lists: An Xbox. An iPod. Fifteen copies of "High School Musical."
Andrew Vivas Anabu took the same amount of money and transformed his San Leandro backyard into a theme park experience -- building a nighttime special effects show that includes synchronized lighting, video screens, bubble machines and an animatronic parrot. ...
Theme Parks Know Halloween Is Big Business. Even Disney Has Decided To Go All Out.
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More than 30 years ago, a few guys who worked in Knott's Berry Farm's Ghost Town thought it would be fun to throw on costumes for Halloween and scare some unsuspecting guests.
"It wasn't really thought out," admitted park spokeswoman Michele Wischmeyer. "It was just last minute."
Since that first year in 1973, when Sinister Seymour served as Knott's inaugural "Ghost Host," the Knott's Scary Farm ...
Fullerton Resident Designs Displays For Disneyland
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This summer while the nation was wrapped in red, white and blue bunting for Independence Day celebrations, Shawna Tice-Miles was thinking orange.
Orange as in the 300 foam-core pumpkins that needed to be carved for Disneyland's Halloween windows. And orange as in the orange-and-white cobweb cakes created to dazzle children's eyes in the costume shop.
As one of the top window-display artists at ...
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 ...
Growing Up In Disneyland
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It has been said children grow up way too quickly these days, but every generation must have their own version of this story. At the same time it is also said that youth is wasted on the young. Thanks to the Disney Corporation, we now have indisputable, verifiable evidence that something is actually being done about all this.
Disneyland now considers a 10-year old an "adult" for the purpose of ...
Retired Disneyland Photographer Captured Lifetime Of Enchanting Moments
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For four decades, Renie Bardeau's job was simple: Capture the magic.
If he had been a farmer or chef or bus driver, Bardeau's task would be difficult, because magic in the real world is rare and fleeting.
But Bardeau did not work in the real world. He spent his time at a place where castles were real and fantasy had its own land, a cloistered kingdom built by a dreamer. Here the magic happened ...
Give Disney A High Four Company Will Help Parents Steer Kids To Healthy Foods
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Winnie the Pooh had better start watching his waistline. Walt Disney may no longer be so happy that he's ``short, fat and proud of that.''
Disney's decision this week to serve healthier meals at its theme parks and allow its characters to be used to support only foods with reduced fat and sugar content should be applauded. About 15 percent of American children ages 6 to 19 are obese. Businesses, ...
Student Ideas A Hit With Disney
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If Mickey Mouse and Snow White seem to know you by name someday when you visit Disneyland, it might just be thanks to two students at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham.
Lara Clark and Yrinee Michaelidis took second place (and $1,500 each) combining their creativity and engineering skills in this year's ImagiNation's competition sponsored by Disney Imagineering.
Imagineers are ...
The Man Who Would Be Walt
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Neal Gabler worked on his biography of Walt Disney for seven years.
"There has been so much written about him," Gabler says in a phone interview from his home in Amagansett, N.Y., "and I felt obligated to read everything that everyone has written about him previously, because I wanted to know the lay of the land. And then there was the archival research, which was very extensive."
The archives he ...
Disneyland Tapping Talents
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Julie Houth sashayed like Daisy Duck. David Truong, 18, pretended he was 40 as he held up his imaginary hammer to pound nails into his home.
They daintily walked like Minnie Mouse and tilted their heads upward to portray the Queen of Hearts. They curled up on the floor mimicking babies.
The two were effervescent and creative - all for a chance to become Disneyland characters and hostesses at a ...
The Realities Of Fantasyland
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Despite the note of triumph sounded in the subtitle of Neal Gabler's new biography of Walt Disney, this is a book riddled with ambivalence.
In his own lifetime, Disney was hailed as a creative genius, awarded honorary degrees by Harvard and Yale, presented the Medal of Freedom by Lyndon Johnson (Disney wore a Goldwater button under his lapel at the ceremony), and given more than 30 Academy Awards. And ...
Disney Worries Housing Project Near Parks Would Be Eyesore
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A plan to put 1,500 condos and apartments within the shadows of Disneyland is drawing criticism from Walt Disney Co. officials, who argue such housing would be an eyesore located that close to the company's amusement parks.
The City Council has embraced the project, which calls for 1,300 condominiums and 200 low-cost apartments, in hopes of easing a housing shortage.
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Fireworks Touch Off Small Blaze At Disneyland
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Several cardboard boxes full of files caught on fire during the Disneyland fireworks show Wednesday night.
The boxes were stacked outdoors in Disneyland's back lot near the Ball Road entrance when a lit firework from the nightly "Remember Dreams Come True" fireworks extravaganza drifted onto the boxes, touching off a small blaze, Anaheim Fire Department spokeswoman Maria Sabol said.
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Walt Disney Receives Star On The O.C. Walk Of Stars
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Walt Disney, who transformed Anaheim into a city known throughout the world by purchasing 160 acres of orange groves and walnut trees for Disneyland, received the first star on the Anaheim/Orange County Walk of Stars Friday.
Ed Grier, president of Disneyland Resort, accepted the star on behalf of Disney, who died in 1966. Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle joined Grier in speaking at the morning ceremony on ...
Westminster Resident Is Guest Of Honor At Disneyland As She Celebrates 100
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Juanita Owens, you're turning 100 - what are you going to do?
Go to Disneyland, of course.
It was, after all, one of the few things she had yet to do in this lifetime.
Owens was full of smiles Saturday morning as Mickey Mouse and Minnie surrounded her wheelchair and peppered her with kisses, and the Mayor of Main Street proclaimed Nov. 11 to be "Juanita Owens Day."
Clutching some of the ...
Ruth Shellhorn, Landscape Architect
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Landscape architect Ruth Shellhorn, who designed landscaping for institutions throughout Southern California, died Nov. 3 at Torrance Memorial Medical Center. She was 97.
By the time she retired in 1990, she was recognized for helping define the Southern California look of midcentury modern architecture for the now-defunct Bullock's department store chain and planning some of the central landscaping ...
Landscape Contractor's Talents In Bloom For Disneyland Holiday Opening
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David Bishop is oblivious to the eight live reindeer prancing in the Big Thunder Ranch corral.
Bishop, a lifelong Fullerton, Calif. resident, and his crew worked from 2-7 a.m. Nov. 10 plugging hundreds of red poinsettias and cyclamen into the Frontierland gardens for the 8 a.m. opening of Disneyland's holiday season.
"We had to wait until workers strung all the Christmas lights before we could do ...
Trip Of A Lifetime
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A Sunshine Dreamlift to Disney is all about journeys.
Last Wednesday's 2006 Dreamlift, the fifth in the B.C. Interior, was a perfect example.
Seventy-nine youngsters from the Interior flew from the snowy, chilly Okanagan Valley to sunny Southern California.
Mentally, they were in a different world altogether.
Gone for a day were their lifelong physical limitations, their ...
TV Exec Auctioning Disney's First World
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No one has come forward yet with the minimum opening bid of $250,000, but Barbara Popovic isn't worried. After all, Disneyland wasn't built in a day either. Popovic, who is executive director of Chicago Access Network Television, and her husband, Radoje, are looking to sell the Northwest Side home where Walt Disney was born on Dec. 5, 1905.
The two-story frame structure at 2156 N. Tripp was built in 1893 ...
Dreams Of A Nightmare Come To Life
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In a neighborhood aglow with typical power-sapping Christmas light displays, the Bloors' front yard looks like a nightmare.
Justin Bloor, a Saugus High School junior, made his foray into the world of front lawn Christmas decorations by taking characters straight from Tim Burton's imagination and bringing them to life on his family's Deodar Place lawn.
He's no small fan of Burton's "Nightmare ...
Disneyland Bringing Back Sub Ride
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Construction workers are in the final stages of building a lagoon of glass-covered rocks, pliable coral and starfish for the re-opening of Disneyland's submarine ride.
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage is set to open in June, nearly nine years after the previous sub attraction was shut down partly because of unpopularity.
Disney officials gave a sneak peak of the construction Thursday before workers ...
Closer To Finding Nemo
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The construction phase of Disneyland's submarine ride is about 75 percent to 80 percent complete, on track for reopening in June after a nine-year absence.
Workers are putting finishing touches on glass-speckled rocks, starfish molds and pliable coral and kelp in the lagoon. About 6.3 million gallons of water will be flowed in during the first week of January, Disney officials said during a sneak-peek ...
Disneyland's Village Haus
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When Mickey Force Feeds, It's Hard to Swallow
I am more than willing to pay over $230 hard-earned clams (not including parking) for the opportunity to tell the world that I took my family of four to the Happiest Place on Earth (that would be Disneyland for all of you hermits). Sure, it's a pretty penny, but worth sharing this American rite of passage with my daughters. But there's one thing I won't ...
Electrosynthomagnetic Sounds And Sparkling Lights
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It is dark. Crowds line the streets in anticipation; some have put down blankets and saved their places for over an hour. Finally, an announcement is made: "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Disney proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination in thousands of sparkling lights and electrosynthomagnetic musical sounds - Disney's Electrical Parade!"
Those who ...
Red Hot Chili Peppers To Rock Disneyland Resort
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers will entertain visitors to California's Disneyland Resort during the first few months of 2007 by helping to transform two of the resort's most popular rides with their music.
As part of the Disneyland Resort's "Year of a Million Dreams" promotion, both the venerable Space Mountain attraction in Disneyland and the California Screamin' roller coaster in neighboring Disney's ...
