Everyone Plays For The Kids' Price At The Disneyland Resort
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During "Year of a Million Dreams" celebration at the Disneyland Resort, guests can dream and play like kids with two special vacation offers.
For a limited time, kids can fly free to the Disneyland Resort from major U.S. cities. Each child (ages 2-11) flies free with the corresponding purchase of one adult ticket on either Alaska or United Airlines, as part of a Walt Disney Travel Company package (for ...
Lawsuit Settled In Death Of Woman Who Rode Disneyland Ride
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A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against The Walt Disney Co. brought by the heirs of Cristina Moreno, according to their attorney, prompting the cancellation of Thursday's scheduled pretrial motions and the start of jury selection on Friday.
The young woman from Spain was on her honeymoon when she suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage after riding the Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland in ...
A Land Of Dreams And A Land Of Fears
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My blessings are too many to count, so instead, I count the things I'm gonna miss when I die.
Originally, my list was made up of mostly family and friends. But then I started adding things like sex and Haagan-Daz, fried green tomatoes, Lucky Charms and pork chops, jump shots and over-the-shoulder catches, Chopin and Al Green, and before long, my miss-list was larger than my blessings-list.
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Will Bring Great Stories to Life - And Expand To New And Different Places
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After a momentous 2006, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is poised to unveil a full slate of exciting new attractions and entertainment in the coming year, highlighted by the continued rollout around the world of its groundbreaking Where Dreams Come True initiative.
"As proud as we are of all that we accomplished in the last year, particularly with the great, global success of Disneyland's 50th ...
Pixar Rides Coming To Disney Theme Parks
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There was no mention of the much-rumored plan to turn Tom Sawyer's Island into a Pirates of the Caribbean Island, but the Walt Disney Company did outline a number of planned additions to its theme parks that will be based on movies produced by Pixar. Among them will be the "Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage" that will return one of Disneyland's oldest rides to the Anaheim amusement park. "Submarine Voyage" ...
Disney Parks To Add Pixar Based Attractions
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Many will be delighted to know that some family favorite Pixar movies will soon come to life at the Walt Disney Parks.
The Walt Disney Company has recently announced its plans to add several attractions to the theme parks inspired by Pixar produced movies.
An under the sea attraction that is currently in the works is the "Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage." The attraction is expected to open in ...
Ex-Disneyland Engineer Dies
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For a guy with a keen sense of humor like Don Edgren, working for the Walt Disney Company was a dream come true.
What better way to earn a paycheck, the Murrieta resident said when discussing his career last year, than to rub elbows with the man who practically invented animation and his legions of off-the-wall-thinking cartoonists, engineers and other artistic wizards charged with making people ...
Disneyland Memorial Orgy
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In the midst of Disneyland's 50th anniversary celebration, DisneyLies.com claimed to be serving 50 to 100 gigabites a day of such online imagery as a couple of newlyweds caught on Tom Sawyer Island after dark, major nudity on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and a virtual orgy on Pirates of the Caribbean. There's also a steamy incident with a couple of cast members in the secret room at the top of the Matterhorn. Ah, ...
Model-Railroad Exhibition To Make Stop In Area
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Thanks to his dad, Michael Broggie has the inside track to the real story behind Walt Disney's fascination with trains and model railroading.
Michael's father, the late Roger E. Broggie, worked for the entertainment pioneer as head of the Disney Studios machine shop, where he oversaw the development of the railroad and monorail systems at Disneyland.
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K.C.-Area Disney Studio Renovation Draws Near
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Renovation of the building in which a young Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse is nearing completion.
Dan Viets, president and secretary of Thank You Walt Disney Inc., said Wednesday that the Kansas City-based group hopes to complete renovation of the two-story building within six months.
The Walt Disney Family Foundation gave the group a $450,000 matching grant about five years ago, Viets said. ...
Biz Fallout From Roy E. Disney's Divorce?
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Huge surprise (even to his publicist) about Roy E. Disney, who looks so eeerily like his late uncle Walt, divorcing his wife of 51 years, Patricia. And so sad, like Mickey and Minnie splitting up. All I can say is that, when he worked at the Mouse House, Roy made time to return home every day to have lunch with Patty. (Maybe my pal Hollywood Oscar hostess Dani Janssen's musing about marriage is correct: ...
Don Edgrren, 83 Engineer Helped Create Disney Parks
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Pirates of the Caribbean was already being built as a walk-through attraction at Disneyland when Walt Disney decided to transform it into a boat ride that would open in 1967. Suddenly, Don Edgren and his engineering crew had to figure out a way to take the expanded ride deeper underground.
"Don knew it was an engineering challenge, but he had that can-do spirit. Nothing was impossible," Marty Sklar, ...
Pirates Invade Tom Sawyer Island
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Disneyland officials are saying "Aye!" to pirates, but "Arrr!" to looting Tom Sawyer Island.
Officials announced Friday that live pirate characters and games will become part of Tom Sawyer Island, the classic Disneyland playground designed by Walt Disney himself.
Disney officials also announced plans to open the Toy Story Mania! ride next year in Disney's California Adventure. The interactive ...
Exile On Main Street
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Exiled Wearsider Richard Geere is hitting the high notes in a real Mickey Mouse job in the States. The former Bede School pupil plays piano on Main Street in Disneyland, California.
He wears a name badge telling visitors he is from "Sunderland, England" and never misses a chance to tell people about his home city.
Paul McCartney is among the thousands of Disneyland guests who have witnessed ...
Disneyland Intros Roving Animatronic Muppets; Mickey And Friends Fear Pink Slips
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The happiest place on Earth (Disneyland, not Las Vegas during CES) just got a little happier this week, thanks to a new exhibit called the Muppet Mobile Laboratory that roams the park and delights visitors with inane banter and sprays of water. Probably having nothing to do with the fact that the human costumed characters like to videotape themselves in suggestive poses while still in uniform, Disney ...
Disney Fairy Tale Isn't For Everyone
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The job description is simple: Make the customers believe that Disneyland is "a magic kingdom where life is a fairy tale and dreams really do come true."
But at the end of the workday, many of the people who work at the "Happiest Place on Earth" sleep on air mattresses, in by-the-week motel rooms and in apartments shared with other families.
"I've been at this motel since 1997," said Derrick, a ...
Disneyland As Classroom
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With childlike gleams in their eyes and notebooks in hand, nearly two dozen corporate managers from three Orange County companies visited Disneyland last week - but not just to have fun.
They went as part of a UC Irvine Extension program in search of Walt Disney Co. innovations, insights, and inspirations that they could put to use at their own companies.
"Disneyland is 50 years old, but they're ...
Judge Responsible For Ending Disneyland Gay Ban Dies
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Retired Judge James Randal Ross, great-grandson of outlaw Jesse Woodson James and author of the book "I, Jesse James," has died. He was 80.
Ross died Monday of a heart attack at his Fullerton home, his third cousin Eric James, president of the James Preservation Trust, confirmed Wednesday from his home in Danville, Ky. Ross had been in failing health for a year.
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Disneyland Re-Imagining The Familiar
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Welcome to the world of pirates," says Walt Disney Imagineering executive Bruce Vaughn as he describes the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.
A "world" is how he conceives of the ride - a seemingly mundane description that has implications not only for Disney's recent updates of that attraction, but also for other organizations' innovations far different from those at Disneyland.
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Eustace Lycett, 91; Oscar-Winning Special Effects Expert For Disney
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When Eustace Lycett was studying mechanical engineering at Caltech in Pasadena in the 1930s, he figured he'd wind up in the oil or aircraft industries when he graduated. He never considered a career in the movies.
But three days after graduating in 1937, he went to work in the engineering department at the Walt Disney studio on Los Angeles' Hyperion Avenue, where he worked on the studio's new ...
Putting Disney Food To The Test
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Most kids would probably agree that Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, but on a recent trip with my family to the Anaheim park, I couldn't help but ask: Is it the healthiest place on earth?
Disneyland's food never mattered much to me as a kid, not when Matterhorn and Space Mountain were calling. It's only been in recent years, as I've trekked there regularly with my nieces and nephew, that ...
When You Wish Upon A Star
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Disneyland is everything you have read about, and more.
Ever since I was a child, I wanted to visit Disneyland. Isn't that every kid's dream?
That dream became a reality just before Christmas last year. My mum, brother and I finally made a trip to that magical place.
The flight from Malaysia to the US was terribly long and tiring. However, it was worth it when I got my ticket to enter ...
The Pirates of the Caribbean's 40th Anniversary at Disneyland
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The day dawned gray and drizzly, and the passing of Walt Disney was still felt sharply, yet the Press, tourist and locals turned out for Disneyland's newest Attraction - the long awaited and much anticipated "Pirates of the Caribbean". This was the first big event at Disneyland since it's founders death, and was marked with a celebratory feeling among ...
Pirates Of The Caribbean Sails Stronger Than Ever After 40 Years
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Francis X. Atencio remembers riding with Walt Disney through the dark swamp in Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride before it opened - from haunted caverns to a pirate galleon to a ransacked Caribbean seaport.
He turned to Disney and apologized as they drifted past a bustling marketplace scene, where a pirate auctioned off a woman to a crowd of rowdy buccaneers.
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Is Disney Ready To Make Big Thunder?
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Nearly two decades ago, former Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner ordered up a grand plan for Southern California. "Amaze me," he told his staff.
They brought him visions of a massive expansion near Disneyland that included an international theme park, three resort hotels and a 6-acre lake.
That vision never came to fruition, but Disney did open a second theme park in 2001 - part of a larger ...
Peter Ellenshaw Film Special-Effects Virtuoso
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Peter Ellenshaw, matte artist: born London 24 May 1913; married 1942 Bobbie Palmer (one son, one daughter); died Santa Barbara, California 12 February 2007.
In the era before computer-generated special effects, budget-conscious film-makers relied upon background paintings to conjure up convincing historical or exotic locales as a cheap substitute for building sets or filming on location. This arcane ...
Fullerton Sleuth Helps Disneyland Guests
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Betsy Chan feels a bit like the 1930s fictional film character Detective Charlie Chan, who used personable skills to solve what could have been baffling mysteries.
Fullerton's Chan plays detective at Disneyland Resort, attempting to reunite some of the 200,000 lost items with their owners.
As one of the Guest Relations hostesses, Chan, 22, helps visitors fill out claim forms, researches possible ...
Disneyland Opens Weddings To Gay Couples
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Same-sex couples who want to exchange vows in front of Cinderella's Castle now have the chance.
The Walt Disney Co. had limited its Fairy Tale Wedding program to couples with valid marriage licenses, but it is now making ceremonies at its parks available to gay couples as well.
"We believe this change is consistent with Disney's long-standing policy of welcoming every guest in an inclusive ...
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As soon as I heard Disneyland would be giving Space Mountain a "rock and roll" makeover, I quickly made the appropriate arrangements. When Disneyland tries to be all rockin', things can get pretty cute up in that bitch.
Take, for example, the outdoor concert area in Tomorrowland. It looks like a set from The Jetsons, or LAX - all retro-futuristic, with a stage that rises up from below. Bands appear ...
For Sale: Pirates Premiere
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If you've stashed away a pirate's booty of $1,500, you can book passage to Disneyland's May 19 world premiere for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Disneyland, the host for all three Pirates premieres, is selling tickets to the public in hopes of raising more than $3 million for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Twelve hundred tickets will be available, starting today, at www.piratespremiere.com.
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Disney Donating Pirates Premiere Treasure To Make-A-Wish
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Disney will use the power of its "Pirates" to help make wishes come true for kids all over the world.
Access Hollywood has learned the Walt Disney Company will be donating proceeds from the world premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" to the Make-A-Wish foundation.
The premiere will take place May 19 at Disneyland, with all of the film's stars expected to attend.
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Twenty-Five American Workers Escape The Daily Grind To Live Out Their Dream Job For A Day At Disneyland
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After nearly 1 million votes, America is sending 25 of their favorite Dream "Job" finalists to Disneyland Resort in June. The most popular videos included a Princess-in-Waiting, who received more than 70,000 votes and a Haunted Mansion Butler/Maid who received nearly 50,000 votes.
Each winner will live out their ultimate Disney Dream "Job" in one of the five categories: Jungle Cruise Skipper, Pirate, ...
Disneyland Gets Greener
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The trains that fueled the dream for Walt Disney and his empire are being fed a steady diet of cleaner-burning, more environmentally friendly biodiesel.
The magic ingredient: soybean oil.
Since January, the four operable trains that run along the Disneyland Railroad have been injected with the orangey-yellow liquid (resembling apple juice), with workers slowly weaning the steam locomotives off ...
Former Marshall Resident Wins Contest To Play Character On Disney Ride
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Brodie Brockie will join two dozen other people in California's Disneyland Resort as winners of the CareerBuilder.com Disney Dream Jobs competition.
Disney on Tuesday announced its 25 winners; Brockie was among them and is slated to be an honorary Jungle Cruise skipper.
Brockie, a 1991 Marshall High School graduate and current Ann Arbor resident, said the 10-minute boat ride through waters filled ...
Teen Hurt On Jungle Cruise
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A 17-year-old girl sustained minor injuries when a tree frond fell on the Jungle Cruise boat at Disneyland this afternoon.
At about 12:30 p.m., winds gusting to 22 mph whipped the frond of a bird of paradise tree, which struck the boat, said Bob Tucker, spokesman for the Disney Resort.
People were getting ready to get off the ride, which was standing still when the incident occurred, Tucker ...
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Notice the emotional power in the drab colors that darken the cellar where Disney's 1950 "Cinderella" lives and the gaudy over-the-top decor of her wicked stepmother and stepsisters - that's Blair at work, breaking out of the all-sweetness-and-light Disney tradition in the late '40s and early ...
Find Nemo At Redone Disneyland Ride
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The cheesy robotic mermaids and plastic fish have been beached, and Disneyland's submarine ride in Tomorrowland is now the domain of everyone's favorite flounder.
Nemo, Marlin, Dory and company will accompany guests on the new Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, set to open June 11. Visitors sign on as crew members of the eight thoroughly overhauled vessels for an expedition to an erupting undersea ...
The Happiest Place On Earth?
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Of course, I'm talking about Disneyland. Right now, my feet are still aching! It was a quick trip. We flew in Saturday and went straight to the park. On Sunday, we went to California Adventure. Then, we headed home!
My son is almost two. I was worried he would be too young, but he loved it. The highlights: Meeting Mickey, Pooh, and Goofy! My son loved that part. He also loved the parade, the Buzz ...
Disneyland Locomotive Headed For Fullerton
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For the first time in its 52 years, the C.K. Holliday Locomotive No. 1 will leave Disneyland and trundle down Harbor Boulevard for a guest appearance at this city's ninth-annual Railroad Days on Saturday and Sunday.
The 9-ton engine will be loaded onto a flatbed truck about noon Friday for the half-hour trip to the Fullerton Transportation Center, 122 E. Santa Fe Ave.
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Disneyland Visit A Joy For Chivas USA
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As a child in Cuba, Chivas USA forward Maykel Galindo had no aspirations of visiting Disneyland.
So while he soaked in his first-ever trip to the Happiest Place on Earth, Galindo could not help but feel the excitement only Disneyland can give. "It's incredible. I'm impressed by the amount of things there are here inside," Galindo said. "I feel like a child. I feel like I'm three years old."
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The ‘Nemo Dream Mobile' Takes To The Road
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Disneyland Park California is being readied for its June 11 premiere of its newest attraction Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage. To preview the attraction The Nemo Dream Mobile will be coming out of the water and onto the road in the US beginning May 4 for a spring-summer tour. This road-tripping submarine-on-wheels will bring some of the magic of Disneyland Resort and its new summer attraction to cities where ...
Memorial Set For 'Voice of Disneyland'
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A memorial service will be Sunday for Earl Raymond Jackson, dubbed "the voice of Disneyland," who died April 30. He was 72.
He moved with family to California in 1967, working in the Entertainment Division at Disneyland. After producing and announcing many live shows, including the premier of Disneyland on Parade, Jackson was dubbed "the voice of Disneyland" by Walt Disney.
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Pirates Aims For The Real Thing
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Under a high, hot September sky, Disney Studios has clearly surrendered. Deep in the heart of the back lot, all those striding, BlackBerry-monitoring employees give way to denizens of a different sort. Pirates of every hue, hair configuration and state of personal hygiene. Pirates in velvet, silk and leather. Chinese pirates and African pirates, French pirates and Arab pirates, 150 of them all told, some ...
Thousands Attend Annual Fullerton Train Days
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Thousands gathered in downtown Fullerton for the ninth annual Fullerton Railroad Days on Saturday and Sunday.
The Fullerton Railway Plaza Association hosts the event every year to raise money to build a future museum.
"We draw somewhere between 30,000 to 40,000 people a year - it's the largest function in the city of Fullerton," said Harold Benasn, who sits on the association's board of ...
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We weren't even in the park yet when the perjury began.
Giddy with the excitement that only a day at the Magic Kingdom can conjure, my friend told Disneyland's parking attendant that she had given him a $50 bill rather than a $20 - just to watch him squirm.
I apologized to the unfortunately dressed, overweight gentleman and told my friend that she simply couldn't pull that crap here.
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Fulton Burley, 84: Popular Performer and Jovial Singing Host of Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue
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Popular performer entertained millions of Disneyland guests over span of 25 years with legendary Golden Horseshoe Revue.
Fulton Burley, the wisecracking Irish tenor who entertained millions of Disneyland guests for 25 years as the popular star and master of ceremonies at the long-running Golden Horseshoe Revue, passed away on Monday May 7th at Sunrise Assisted Living at La Costa in Carlsbad, ...
Heat Exhaustion Hits 2 Disneyland Performers
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Two girls in a youth music group that was performing at Disneyland's Magic Music Days were hospitalized Sunday for heat exhaustion, fire officials said.
Authorities were called to the park about 11:45 a.m. after the group, consisting of about a dozen 13- and 14-year-old girls from Woodland, Calif., complained of being overheated, Anaheim Fire Department spokeswoman Maria Sabol said.
The teens were ...
Submarine Voyage Christened
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Navy Vice Admiral John G. Morgan and Disneyland Resort President Ed Grier pour water from the East Australian current into the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage lagoon.
The move followed a ceremonial re-commissioning of the Disneyland submarine fleet in Anaheim on Monday.
When the original "Submarine Voyage" closed in Sept. 1998, the Navy officially de-commissioned the existing eight submarines.
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Live The Pirates Fantasy At Disneyland
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First came the ride. Then came the movie. Then the movie found its way into the ride.
Now pirates will be taking over another part of Disneyland when Pirate's Lair at Tom Sawyer Island opens Friday. All those pirates - including Jack Sparrow, ladies - who have been milling around New Orleans Square singing sea chanties, posing for pictures and insulting tourists as only pirates can will now be ...
Pirates Premieres at Disneyland
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Disneyland closed early Saturday night for the private world premiere of "Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End."
The films in the trilogy are based on one of Disneyland's most popular attractions.
The park will close to regular guests at 5 p.m. to make way for the red carpet, which will stretch down Main Street USA to Frontierland, where the film will be shown on huge screens in front of Tom ...
Exclusive Pirates Of The Caribbean DS Content At Disneyland
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Timed to the release of the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End video games, Disney Interactive Studios announced today a partnership with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts to release exclusive content for the upcoming Nintendo DS video game at Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort, where wireless capabilities are in beta testing as part of ongoing New Media enhancements.
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Disneyland Transformed For Pirates Premiere
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Teens bursting into tears at the anticipation of seeing Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush conducting interviews with a monkey on his shoulders, and fans chanting "Jer-ry! Jer-ry!" were some of the images seen and heard on the 1,000-foot long red carpet that stretched along Main Street, USA, at Disneyland in Anaheim Saturday at Walt Disney Pictures' premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End."
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A longtime favorite Disneyland Resort attraction is reopening May 25 with new swashbuckling adventures as Captain Jack Sparrow and his gaggle of mates take over Tom Sawyer Island and turn it into their own "Pirate's Lair." The pirates will loot and carouse as they attempt to recruit island guests into their brotherhood of freedom and greed at Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island.
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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 ...
New Pirates Themed Island At Disneyland
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Disneyland's Tom Sawyer Island in California has been overrun by pirates.
The family oriented tourist park opened the renovated attraction with a "Pirates of the Caribbean" theme to coincide with the release of the newest installment in the film series.
Thousands of visitors had already hunted for treasure on the old Tom Sawyer Island after it re-opened Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Lessons Learned In Disneyland
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We're Disneyland freaks. We love the Matterhorn; Mickey-shaped, chocolate-covered ice cream; and mouse ears with our names embroidered on the back. At least twice a year, we make the trek to the Happiest Place on Earth.
As veteran visitors, we think we know just about everything there is to know about Disneyland. Still, every trip we take note of new lessons. From our Memorial Day weekend trip:
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Pirates Steal The Show At Disneyland
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Just as Disney is celebrating the second Pirates of the Caribbean film picking up the award for best film at the MTV awards, Disneyland has opened an all-new pirate-themed attraction at Disneyland.
Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island is a refurbished version of the old pirate fort and provides a whole host of new features based on the Pirates of the Caribbean adventures, including a stage show and ...
Disneyland Adds Magical '8th Day' To The Week
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In the spirit of Walt Disney's renowned ability to create magic, the Disneyland Resort is sprinkling some pixie dust on the calendar and virtually creating an "8th Day" in its operating week in anticipation of high demand for the new Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage attraction, which resurfaces June 11 in the Tomorrowland Lagoon. The subs return as part of the ongoing Year of a Million Dreams celebration at ...
Submarine Ride Returns To Disneyland
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Fake fish dangling from strings, animatronic mermaids and a menacing sea serpent are out.
Talking cartoon clown fish, bouncing iridescent jellyfish and a dark trip into a whale's mouth are in.
The Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage may be in the same vessels and location as the previous Disneyland sub ride that closed nine years ago, but the new technology is among the most complicated Disney ...
Disneyland's Submarine Voyage Reopens
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After nearly a half-century, there's been an extreme makeover of Disneyland's "Submarine Voyage" ride.
Disneyland closed down the submarine ride a decade ago and spent 70-million dollars to construct a state-of-the-art attraction. The attraction reopens today at the Anaheim theme park with a new story line, shiny new coral reefs and something not envisioned when it debuted in 1959 -- an alternate ...
From the Silver Screen to Disneyland Resort: 'Finding Nemo' And 'Pirates of the Caribbean'
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The subs are once again diving and the pirates are even more conniving as Disneyland Resort launches into summer during the Year of a Million Dreams celebration.
Disney officials today dedicated Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, the much- anticipated return of a classic attraction with a technological twist that immerses guests into the colorful underwater world of the clownfish Nemo and his friends.
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Find Nemo, Wait In Line For Hours At Disneyland
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Disneyland's Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage ride opened to the public Monday and proved so popular that customers waited in line for almost five hours to cast off.
The ride combines the Submarine Voyage, a 1959 ride that operated for 39 years, with characters from the Pixar movie.
One set of visitors told KCAL 9 that they arrived at 5:30 a.m. to get their place in line, and then "sat around and ...
Nemo Ride Draws Celebrities Stars Come Out To Preview The Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage Attraction
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For actresses Brooke Shields and Denise Richards, the opening of Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage wasn't just about going on the re-opened Disneyland ride.
It was also a chance to bring their young daughters to the theme park for the first time.
"I remember the submarine ride from a long time ago," said Richards, as she carried 3-year-old daughter Sam. "The kids don't really understand it until ...
Disneyland Launches Finding Nemo Sub Ride
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Disneyland visitors can take a submarine journey through an Australian reef to search for Nemo, the famous clownfish, on a new underwater ride.
Walt Disney Co today launched the Finding Nemo ride with underwater animation at its Disneyland park, in an effort to use its Pixar film division to bolster theme park admissions.
Disney saw attendance at its parks rise to record levels the past two years ...
Disneyland Gets Green Makeover
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Disneyland has made a number of green changes that it says has saved the park $60 million over the past 10 years, mostly through reducing the amount of paper used, MSNBC reports.
Earlier this week, Disneyland re-launched one of its oldest attractions, the submarine ride, nine years after it emptied the lagoon. The ride still uses all eight original submarines, but the engines are now powered by ...
Disneyland Presents Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage
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It's a little-known fact that Sombrero Grande's first job out of high school was working at Disneyland as a "captain" on the Submarine Voyage attraction in Tomorrowland. In 1998, I left the park's employ and the Subs were mysteriously closed down soon afterwards. Immediately rumors began swirling on the Internet theorizing that the Subs were closed due to "budget cuts" or "an upcoming replacement ...
A Spoonful Of Sugarforward Into The Past At Disneyland's Storybook Memories Exhibit
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Every now and then, as you're digging around trying to find some old tax papers in all those boxes crammed into your garage, you'll stumble across some forgotten but potent artifact from your childhood. It could be the teddy bear you carried everywhere when you were 5; it could be the Star Wars lunch box that mysteriously vanished when you were 6; it could be some Popsicle-stick dragon you made when you ...
IATSE Gets Disney Pyrotechnics Contract Negotiations Begin Later This Month
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The Intl. Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has unionized the employees of the pyrotechnics department at Disneyland.
IATSE announced Monday it had won the majority of votes in an election to represent the 30 employees in the unit. It noted that Disney has accepted the result.
The union said negotiations on a contract will probably begin later this month.
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Oceans And Seas
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Hi, this is Marcia Schlegelmilch reporting from Disneyland in sunny southern California. Disneyland -- where Mickey, Minnie and friends reside in the cartooniest of homes. Where pirates landed as they escaped the Caribbean. Where storybook characters like Alice, Pinnochio and Peter Pan come to life on a parcel of land dubbed the "Happiest" on Earth.
I had been to this place before in my life, back in the ...
Historical Disneyland Photography By Mell Kilpatrick
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Historical Disneyland Photography by Mell Kilpatrick have been captured on film and can now be found in Disney Fine Art available for the first time in Northern Utah.
The authorized Disney Fine Art Gallery will be exhibiting over 10 Disneyland Photography pieces along with Post Cards, Pins, Coffee Table Books and Fine works of Art of Mell's Photography.
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Club 33 — The Happiest Clique On Disneyland Earth
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One-of-a-kind Disney photos and memorabilia hang on the wall inside Club 33 in Disneyland's New Orleans Square.
With an unmarked door and shrouded in mystery for years, Club 33 has inspired a cult-like fascination.
The hottest attraction at Disneyland may be the biggest secret.
It's not plotted on any official Disneyland maps. Thousands of tourists pass by every day, oblivious.
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Finding Nemo, Not Memories
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Disneyland is well-known for its "Imagineers," the people who combine imagination and engineering to create the spectacular. Their most amazing work, of course, is seen in commercials for the "Happiest Place on Earth."
Ever notice how Disneyland isn't crowded in the commercials? With some serious Imagineering, and a few actors, the most-crowded place on Earth looks like a park where you can stretch ...
Disneyland Reveals The Magic To Good, Clean Fun
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Fog turns the streets of Disneyland spooky after midnight with even the merry music wafting from hidden speakers sounding sinister as the "Third Shift" arrives to restore order to the Magic Kingdom.
Walt Disney referred to Disneyland, the only park he saw during his lifetime, as "a show" and its workers as "cast members" who are on always stage when they are in the park.
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A Family-Friendly Halloween Tradition Returns As Disney's Halloweentime
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Halloween Dreams Come True Beginning Sept. 21 When Parks and Characters Are Transformed For the Autumn Holiday Season
Following up on the success of its inaugural season last year, Disney's HalloweenTime will return to the Disneyland Resort this fall with a lively mix of Disney characters in seasonal costumes, whimsical decor, decked-out attractions, themed shows and tasty treats designed with the ...
You're Not Alone Number 001
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I'm halfway through a typical 60-minute wait for Disneyland's Space Mountain. In front of me, the back of a twelve-year-old boy's head nods to a silent beat as the white buds of an iPod plug his ears. He inches along, following the line. As he turns into a switchback I notice a sleek cell phone in his hands. His fingers deftly punch in a text message. Only a moment passes before a chime rings signaling a ...
The World's Saddest People Visit The World's Happiest Place
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Since 1999, goths, industrial fans, and other members of "Dark Alternative Subculture" have descended on Disneyland every August for Bats Day In The Fun Park, which started as a day-long outing to the amusement park and has since evolved into a three-day event that bills itself as "the premier event on the West Coast, if not the world, for the Gothic and Industrial subculture of all ages." We sent comedy ...
Day For Night The Annual Goth Gathering At Disneyland
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A sweaty and irritable 6-year-old girl, in line for Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, asks, "Mommy, why is everybody wearing black?" Mommy shakes her head, befuddled, as riders on the Thunder train scream and the line of gloomies swathed in capes and robes and knee-high patent-leather skull-buckle boots creeps forward with paralyzing, agonizing slowness.
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Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage: We All Wait In A Long, Long Line For A Yellow Submarine
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My friend Liz and I have annual passes to Disneyland ... y'know, Disneyland Annual Passports ... and they expired this past Monday. So, of course, we simply had to make a final trip to the Happiest Place on Earth on the expiration date.
We love Disneyland, and our goal for the day was to check out Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, which opened for business a few months ago and replaced the classic ...
The Day The Goths Got Happy
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I love visual incongruity. Life is more fun when you see the least expected. You know, like a rapping granny, a huge man walking a teeny tiny Pekingese, a super nerd with a smoking-hot girlfriend or the Happiest Place on Earth overrun with people not usually associated with happiness. Yep, my daughters and I were at Disneyland on Goth Day.
Lots of groups have gatherings at Disney theme parks. Disney ...
Disneyland, Run Around And Talk Up a Storm
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Honda's ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) humanoid robot is back on his feet after a conspicuous face-plant late last year, and now he's returning to the stage at Disneyland, running around at nearly 4mph. Besides all that robo-sprinting, this version of ASIMO reportedly interacts a lot with a live host in the 15-minute Say Hello to Honda's ASIMO show starting August 29. It's the only permanent ...
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Honda announced today they have their new ASIMO robot that can run 4MPH in a permanent installation on a Disneyland stage. Naturally the host of the robot show is the Honda ASIMO theater inside the Innoventions attraction.
The show is called the "Say "Hello' to Honda's ASIMO" show and shows off ASIMO's latest technological improvements including several new mobility and AI capabilities that enhance ...
Honda's New Generation ASIMO Robot Goes To Disneyland
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A new version of Honda's popular humanoid robot, ASIMO, is now appearing in its very own stage show at Disneyland in California. Twenty years in the making, the first generation ASIMO has undergone numerous improvements and has even appeared as a spokesperson for Honda , featuring in a series of television advertisements in the UK.
The latest enhancements to ASIMO (which is short for Advanced Step in ...
Line-Up Announced For 10th Annual Gay Days At Disneyland
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Following last year's successful event, which attracted nearly 30,000 gays and lesbians from California and all over the country, fans of Mickey and Minnie Mouse are once again preparing for the popular "gay days" event at Disneyland, set for Oct. 5-7 in Anaheim, Calif.
Modeled after the gay days at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., the Disneyland event is a "mix-in" with straight park-goers. Gays ...
An Enchanted Afternoon With A Legendary Fairy
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The woman Disney animators modeled Tinker Bell after flitted into town Tuesday for a private tour of Pixie Woods. I caught up with her at the giraffe slide.
Margaret Kerry, 78, is a pixilated 5-foot-2 and still has many of the perky moves that won her the role as "reference model" for Tinker Bell in Disney's 1953 "Peter Pan."
She also uses the expression "Good golly."
"I am enchanted; that ...
Waiting For Disneyland's Finding Nemo Submarine Ride?
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Most days at Disneyland the line for the new Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage averages about one to two hours. So far I've passed on the ride, delaying my virgin voyage until the wait drops to a more tolerable 30 minutes or less (my personal rule).
Disneyland cast members suggest getting in the Nemo line at 11:59 p.m. (or just before the park closes on any given night). Once you're in line, you're ...
YouTube Sensation: Pluto Chases Kid At Disneyland
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It's becoming one of the most popular videos on YouTube.
The video purports to show Pluto at Disneyland angrily chasing after a child. What set Pluto off is anyone's guess, but the entire chase was Caught On Tape...as was the angry mom pushing Pluto to the ground.
KCAL 9 and CBS 2 reporter Dave Malkoff went to Disneyland Wednesday to gauge public reaction to the shoving and chasing incidents. ...
Disneyland Finishing Suite Conceived By Walt Disney Decades Ago
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Designers and construction crews at Disneyland are completing a project that Walt Disney himself started more than 40 years ago -- a private living suite tucked into the theme park.
The Walt Disney Co. announced the project Monday, saying theme park guests will be able to win an overnight stay in the suite beginning next year.
Disney dreamed up the spacious suite in the 1960s and designed it ...
Gay Days Disneyland: A Daily Report
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The OC may have gotten the axe but the real Orange County is alive and thriving.
Our very own Dennis Hensley ventures behind the orange curtain for Gay Days at Disneyland and much, much more. Do these mouse ears make me look gay?
Day 1 - Thursday, October 4 - Anaheim, CA
A Menage I can get used to
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Community Contributions Send Kids To Meet Mickey
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Attention Mickey and Minnie Mouse: A group of kids from Yountville are looking to meet the both of you first thing this morning.
Nothing says excitement like a trip to Disneyland. For 45 Yountville kids and their families, that excitement reached a fever pitch as they boarded a bus Friday afternoon for the long drive to "the Happiest Place on Earth."
Getting on the bus was the final step in a ...
Halloweentime Comes To Disneyland Once Again
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For decades, Disneyland has upheld its legendary motto as the "Happiest Place on Earth - and as a profitable worldwide travel destination for all ages - but in the daunting month of October, can it be transformed into the "Scariest Place on Earth"?
Well, not quite.
Nevertheless,the Disneyland Resort's second annual HalloweenTime is a celebrated occasion dedicated to the more, for the lack of a ...
Disney Offers Night In Walt's Apartment
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You don't always have to wish upon a star to make your dreams come true if your dream is to take a kip in Walt Disney's apartment.
Disney has just announced that one of the major prizes in its Year of a Million Dreams competition is a sleepover in Walt's apartment in New Orleans Square at Disneyland.
The apartment was one of Walt's dreams and he was working on bringing it to reality when he died ...
Disney Announces Significant Expansion Plan For The Disneyland Resort
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The Walt Disney Company today unveiled a significant multi-year expansion plan for the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim that continues its growth as a multi-day, world-class tourist destination.
Announced by Disney President and Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger and Parks and Resorts Chairman Jay Rasulo at a press conference at Walt Disney Imagineering's Glendale headquarters, the expansion will bring new ...
No One Over 55 Should Be Allowed At Disneyland
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Two noteworthy events collided in 1955: My parents purchased a television set (black-and-white with rabbit ears) and Disneyland theme park opened in Anaheim, Calif.
Sunday after Sunday I sat in our family living room watching Disneyland, as the television series was called back then. I didn't realize it at the time, but the television program was, in reality, an extended advertisement for the theme ...
Disneyland Designing It's A Small World To Fit Fatter Folks
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Looks like it's a fat world after all. According to recent news reports, the beloved It's a Small World attraction at Disneyland will be closing down in January 2008 for almost a year for some major re-engineering.
Actually, scrap that. Let's call it "re-Imagineering." After all, such grade A spin is what Disney is likely going to be putting on the billboards covering the attraction next year, once it ...
Bruce Gordon 56 Helped Create Disney Attractions
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Bruce Gordon, a formerlongtime Disney Imagineer who was involved in the creation of numerous Disney theme park attractions around the world and wrote or co-wrote an array of Disney-related books, has died. He was 56.
Gordon died at his home in Glendale on Tuesday, a Disney spokesman said. The cause of death has yet to be determined.
A Disneyland fan since he first visited the Anaheim theme park ...
From Ashes To Ashes, At Disneyland
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Everyone who rides Disneyland's popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" attraction knows "dead men tell no tales," and its animatronic figures aren't talking either. But, oh, if they could.
On Friday, workers at the Anaheim theme park spotted a guest on the ride sprinkling an unidentified substance into the water, prompting them to close the attraction and alert police.
"A witness described the ...
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Reflecting the American sense of informality widely associated with the movie studio's namesake and founder, people know the chairman of the Walt Disney Studios as Dick, not Richard, Cook. The former Disneyland cast member, who was asked during an event at the Anaheim theme park to be interviewed at his Burbank office, is in charge of development, production, distribution and marketing for live-action and ...
Walt Disneys Hideaway
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His secret apartment at Disneyland was his home away from home. Now the park is planning tours for selected guests.
One of the most momentous occasions of my childhood was the day I met Mickey's dad.
I must have been about 7 when my parents took me to Disneyland, the enormous, newfangled amusement park that opened the previous year. We were just inside the gate when a steam engine lumbered up and ...
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Guests to Disney Parks on both coasts are in for some eye-popping spectacle this holiday season. Thanks to new lighting and special effects packages, glistening snow blankets Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland.
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New enchantment arrived in Disneyland Nov. 16. The holiday season finds Sleeping Beauty's Winter Castle covered in freshly fallen snow. With its exciting new look, the ...
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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 ...
No Place Does Christmas Like Disneyland
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It's called the happiest place on Earth but at Christmastime, Disneyland gets a full, festive makeover. Bulking up its attractions, characters and music, Disneyland is extra special this time of year, even for frequent visitors. And through it all, Anaheim is quite weather-friendly in December, unlike much of the country.
Through Jan. 16, Sleeping Beauty's castle is a snow and icicle-covered park ...
Cage Wants A National Treasure Ride
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Nicolas Cage is begging Disneyland bosses to create a new ride based on his movie franchise NATIONAL TREASURE. The actor is a huge theme park fan and insists it's his dream to ride his own rollercoaster. National Treasure and new sequel Book of Secrets were produced by Disney - and Cage is hoping they will grant him his wish. He says, "My biggest thrill would be if Disney was so happy with the movie that ...
New Monorail Arrives At Disneyland
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Guests will be able to ride the new train starting in February. The first car shipped in today.
The first new monorail car in two decades slid onto the Disneyland track on Thursday as the theme park prepares for guests to ride it starting in late February.
Starting Monday, five flat-bed trucks transported in the five cars of the first redesigned train from Vancouver, Canada, where they were ...
Disneyland On New Years Go California Adventure Instead
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Last year, my boyfriend and I wanted to go somewhere fun but romantic but local for our New Years Eve. We had just gotten back from a major trip to Belize, so we weren't in the mood for anything that would stretch our brains or require too much planning. Disneyland seemed like the best choice -- an easy drive (holiday traffic), mindless amusement, and maybe we'd get in a nice dinner at one of the park's ...
Disneyland Hits Capacity And Stops Sales
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The week between Christmas and New Year's Day traditionally is the busiest of the year for Disneyland. And this week is no different.
At least three times this week, Disneyland had to stop letting new visitors in because too many people were crowding the park. This afternoon, electronic readers on roads in the Disneyland area warned visitors that tickets were sold out for the day. When that happens, ...
Plan For Happiest Vacation On Earth
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Cheap airfare. Discounts on lodging and park admission. Short lines. No crowds. Sunny weather that's not too hot.
Those are just some of the reasons to consider taking your trip to the Magical Kingdom in the winter instead of during summer or spring break, like most people do.
I recently returned from a five-day trip to Disneyland with my three children, all younger than 6. Many of the important ...
