2008 Disneyland
July 1, 2008
July 29--Harriet Burns, the first female artist at Walt Disney Imagineering and a designer of several famous Disneyland rides, has died. She was 79.
2008 Disneyland Articles:
Little Kids Loved Mickey
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Paul Castle waved to children in thousands of parades, threw the first pitch at the opening of Angels Stadium of Anaheim, Calif., and opened a World's Fair with his boss, Walt Disney.
From 1961 to 1986, Castle posed in countless photographs with ...
22 Years And Still Jazzed About Disneyland Gig
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For 22 years, a group of Arizona State University graduates have held squatters' rights to one of the choicest pieces of real estate on Planet Earth.
The spot: At the bend of the river in Disneyland's New Orleans Square, just across from the ...
Parts And Labor
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All Things Being Equal
A few months ago, a friend asked me to explain how equal length headers work and why they make more power. I explained scavenging effect and resonance tuning and how you have to decide on a specific powerband to tune for. I ...
Traveling To His Past Has Effect On Future
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The boy lost track of him years ago.
It was nothing dramatic, really. He just, well, sort of faded away.
Davy Crockett, that is.
The boy first met him when he was almost 5 years old. That was about the same time the boy was hospitalized ...
Its A Scholl World
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After all, storyboard artist Larry Scholl has transformed his childhood home into a mini-park reminiscent of Disneyland.
It might be expected in Hollywood Hills, but not so much in the hills of Fair Oaks, where Larry Scholl has a pint-size Disneyland ...
Exclusive Tour Inside Disneyland's Dream Suite
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Starting Thursday, Disneyland plans to award free overnight stays in the $3-million Dream Suite, once intended as Walt Disney's private apartment.
During an exclusive tour last week, computer technicians armed with laptops continued to fine-tune and ...
Charles Coburn Topiary Designer Dies
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Charles Coburn, a California horticulturist who created topiary works for Disneyland and for movie stars, has died at 62.
Coburn suffered from cancer, the Los Angeles Times reported. His wife and partner, Jennifer Coburn, said that he died Jan. 25 at ...
Disneyland Goes Back To The Future
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Millions of Disneyland visitors lined up a half-century ago to catch a glimpse of the future: a home teeming with mind-blowing gadgets such as hands-free phones, wall-sized televisions, plastic chairs, and electric razors and toothbrushes.
The "House ...
Missing: Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain Goat
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Missing since November, the beloved dynamite-chewing goat on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster is expected to wander back to his exposed butte in the next few weeks, according to Disneyland officials.
The extended and unexplained ...
Do Disneyland
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Many of us have to do the obligatory family-touristy thing when we travel.
But don't despair: There's even star power at Disneyland if you know where to look.
First, Walt Disney slept there -- setting Disneyland apart from any other Disney park ...
300-Mph Train Would Whisk Travelers From Vegas To Disneyland
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It's been hailed as the future of mass transit and ridiculed as a big gamble on little more than an amusement park ride. Which is a pretty clever insult, considering the project in question is a magnetically levitating train that would speed tourists from ...
Politics Hit Disneyland
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Over Presidents' Day weekend a group of friends and I embarked on a trip to the happiest place on earth in an effort to honor famous presidents of the United States, of course. Right to honor past presidents that is why we went right. Disneyland, ...
My First Long-Awaited Much Anticipated Wonderful Trip To Disneyland
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I had never been to Disneyland. When I was growing up, we watched "The Wonderful World of Disney" TV show and thought it looked like a magical place, but the idea of piling all seven of us into the 1953 Plymouth and heading for California was not ...
The DL On Disneyland
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After visiting Disney's California Adventure the previous day, head into the park when it opens at eight for shorter lines at those rides you are dying to get on. Sure, the newest ride in the park the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage is interesting, but ...
Disneyland Ride Threatened
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Attention Disney fans - the classic Disneyland ride "It's a small world" (with perhaps the most teeth-grindingly annoying song ever, next to "Kokomo") is in danger of commercialization! The ride is closed for ten months so that the boat flumes can be ...
No One Asked Me But
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No one asked me but We have a young new track coach. Shane Hickman is one of us. He graduate from Moapa Valley High School and will be remembered for leading MVHS to state football and track championships. He was one of the "Cardiac Kids" who went down ...
Home Of The Future Planned For California's Disneyland
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Builder Taylor Morrison to partner with Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Exceptional Innovation, maker of LifeWare, to build 21st-century home.
In June 1957, the same year Sputnik ignited the Space Race, the Monsanto House of the Future opened at ...
Out Disneyland Rainforests. In Freedom Land
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It's not the first time Disney has unceremoniously cut the work of once-beloved 1940s feminist Mary Blair (Tomorrowland, ironically, is long gone), but making her Small World smaller will leave a lasting scar.
More after the jump...
Blair, known ...
A Dream Vacation
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Back in the 1960s, Walt Disney dreamed of a luxury apartment where he could entertain friends and special guests while enjoying the festive spirit
of Disneyland's New Orleans Square.
Disney hired famed "Gone with the Wind" set designer Dorothea ...
New Monorail Arrives At Disneyland
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A 75-foot-tall crane hoisted the first of the new Mark VII monorails from a flatbed truck onto the beam way track this morning at Disneyland.
The five-car burnt-burgundy train is the first of three new monorails expected to go online at the Anaheim ...
Taylor Morrison To Build Dream Home In Disneyland
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Bradenton-based home builder Taylor Morrison has agreed to build Disneyland 's "Innovations Dream Home" at the California theme park. The 5,000-square-foot house, to be built in Tomorrowland, will showcase current and future technological advances in home ...
Save Small World Ride Creator's Family Begs Disneyland
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An "idiotic plan" to add Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters as well as an American tribute scene to Disneyland's It's a Small World represents a "gross desecration" that would "bastardize" the stylized artwork and "marginalize" the original theme of ...
Disneyland's Monorail Red Puts Rumors To Rest
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Disneyland has been conducting regular after-hours tests of Monorail Red, putting to rest persistent Internet chat room rumors that the new Mach Mark VII would have to be sent back to the assembly plant for major modifications.
Disney officials said ...
Disneyland Is Jeered Over Ride Restyling
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Disneyland's "Small World" will soon be getting a little more crowded.
The Anaheim amusement park is planning to add iconic Disney characters to the anonymous international cast of the beloved 'round-the-globe boat ride. The idea has sparked outrage ...
Disney Pixar Artists Rally To Preserve Small World Ride
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More than dozen Disney and Pixar creative artists who worked on "The Lion King," "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin," "Toy Story," "A Bug's Life," "Monsters Inc.," "Finding Nemo," "The Incredibles," "Cars" and "Ratatouille" have rallied together to protest ...
Disneyland Issues Golden Tickets To VIPs
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Disneyland issues up to 10 VIP FastPasses on an average day to "extremely high-profile guests" enabling Hollywood celebrities, professional athletes and state and federal politicians to skip long lines at some of the Anaheim theme park's most popular ...
Indiana Jones Stunt Show Coming To Disneyland
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Indiana Jones swings into Disneyland this summer in a live-action stunt show timed to coincide with the fourth installment of the movie series, "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
The Anaheim theme park is casting actors with combat experience for the ...
New Monorail Train Rolling In Friday
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The new Monorail Red or Mark VII is expected to open to the public Friday morning at Disneyland.
What's red, white and blue and glides through the air?
It's not some superhero. It's the new monorail opening to the public Friday at Disneyland.
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Disneyland's New Monorail Glass Changes Color In Sunlight
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Disneyland has updated its classic monorail train meandering through the amusement park, adding a better seating arrangement and glass that changes color in the sunlight.
The new Monorail Red, or Mark VII, train debuts Friday.
Monorail lead ...
Disneyland Resort President Discusses Expansion
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Plans include a new Tinker Bell attraction to open at Disneyland in October.
More rides, theme park land and hotel rooms are in the future for the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, said Disneyland Resort President Ed Grier Wednesday.
Disney plans to ...
Salem Family Shares Suite Dreams Of Disneyland
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The trio win a stay in the Dream Suite, but the resort hotels also would dazzle.
She may not own glass slippers or a sparkly ball gown, but when Christine Terwilliger of Salem visited Disneyland on Jan. 31 this year, she starred in her very own fairy ...
Disneyland Trip With Special-Needs Child Brings Tears Joy
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Nothing brings three generations of family together like a teacup spinning out of control.
It had been 50 years since my mom, Adrienne, first had her turn on the teacups at Disneyland, and she was relishing the chance to live it again with her ...
A Visit To Disneyland Priceless
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My 9-month-old baby daughter had been good most of the morning. There hadn't been a single tear or even a squeak from her. We had driven to Disneyland, parked the car, taken the tram to the entrance gate and walked all the way to Mickey's Toontown at the ...
Indiana Jones Summer Of Hidden Mysteries Coming To Disneyland
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After other Disney blogs have rumored Indiana Jones movie tie-ins coming to Disneyland, the company announced the new features this afternoon.
As Indiana Jones looks for a mysterious Crystal Skull in movie theaters starting Thursday, the same ...
Disneyland Launches Its Own Indiana Jones Program
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At Disneyland, this is the season of Hollywood synergy as the park's grand old Adventureland district takes on the khaki-colored charm of Indiana Jones, who (in case you hadn't noticed) is back in the theaters in a big way.
That means a new ...
Gone But Not Forgotten The Disneyland E Ticket
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I've been working on a Chronicle magazine article about Bay Area roller coasters, which doesn't suck as far as assignments go. You can expect a lot of coaster-themed posts when it comes out in July.
While conducting my research, I ran into an article ...
What Is The Ecological Footprint Of Disneyland
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Having just returned from a visit to the magic kingdom, the above was a question that continually haunted my consciousness. Disneyland was remarkably pristine in that cookie cutter, artificial, yet aesthetically pleasing way, but it must be a major sink ...
The Best Disneyland Ride Of All Time
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After our E Ticket discussion from last week, I thought picking the best Disneyland rides would be fun. I might follow up with a worst rides post, although I'm not sure if I want to relive this again.
As I've been riding the local roller coasters for ...
Disparity Of Passions Unveiled At Disneyland
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There are things I can't tell my family. Things they wouldn't understand.
They don't know, for example, that elbow-length satin gloves make me warm and tingly inside. They've never noticed how my eyes go swirly-girly at the mention of glass slippers ...
Lifeware Connects Current And Future Technology At Innoventions Dream Home
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Lifeware simplifies life for the fictional Elias family and educates visitors about the potential and possibilities for their own digital homes.
Lifeware™ is excited to announce its participation in the new Innoventions Dream Home at the Disneyland ...
Step Into House Of The Future At Disneyland Exhibit
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But many gadgets in Microsoft-centric Innoventions Dream Home are available now
Welcome to 360 Tomorrowland Way, the residence of the Elias family.
If you like technology, you'll feel right at home here.
Step into the foyer with one of the ...
Im Going to Disneyland
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My wife and I went to Disneyland. Since becoming an adult, this was the first time I was ever there without kids or a joint. No strollers, no giant diaper bags, no getting home and realizing we had left somebody. Also, we had never seen the adjacent ...
Disneyland Opening Innoventions Dream Home With Help From Microsoft
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Disneyland opening new Innoventions Dream Home, with high-tech help from Microsoft, plus its new Toy Story Mania, a 3-D ride based on the popular films
Disneyland has seen the future, and the future is now-ish.
For its "Innoventions Dream Home" ...
This Dream Home Comes With A Mouse
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Jonathan Cluts is the type of guy who once rewired his dorm room to control all the lights from a central switchbox. And as a kid, he thought it would be great to be an "Imagineer," one of the creative minds behind the Disney theme parks.
He hasn't ...
The Worst Disneyland Ride Of All Time
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Our best Disneyland ride post got a nice response, along with a gratuitous dissertation-quality analysis of guys with moustaches who wear white tank tops and jeans shorts. Have to say, that was a nice little detour ...
Today, let's talk about the ...
Disneyland New Monorail Remains Sidetracked
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Every once in a while, visitors to the Magic Kingdom might catch sight of the new, candy-red colored monorail cars gliding overhead. But don't try and get on board. Several months after they were to go into service, the custom-made Mark VII monorail cars ...
Disneyland To Celebrate 45th Anniversary Of The Enchanted Tiki Room
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Sunday marks the 45th anniversary of the Enchanted Tiki Room.
On June 22, 1963, people first entered the attraction "where the birds sing words, and the flowers croon, in the tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki room."
Here are some facts about the ...
Its Back To The Future At Disneyland
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Theme Park Opens $15 Million High-Tech Dream Home, 41 Years After Tearing Down The First
Disney has its vision for the future, and in case you're wondering, there are no flying cars or sweet-faced robots anywhere to be found.
But there are touch ...
Falling Tree Branch Hits People At Disneyland
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A tree branch broke and fell onto a pathway last night near the French Market restaurant in the New Orleans Square area of Disneyland.
A Disney spokeswoman said it was one branch and that it did not fall directly on anybody. She said that no more ...
Goth Day To Take Over Disneyland In November
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Close to 5,000 ghoulish Goths will descend on Disneyland in November for the 10th Annual Bats Day - a macabre counter-culture celebration that turns the Anaheim theme park into the blackest place on Earth.
Bats Day in the Fun Park (popularly known as ...
Worker Rescued From Roof At Disneyland
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The Anaheim Fire Department responded to Tomorrowland in Disneyland at 7:21 a.m. after reports that a worker fell from a ladder onto a roof.
Officials said the worker fell while working on the roof of a gift shop near the Space Mountain ride.
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New Red Disneyland Monorail Takes First Public Guests Around The Park
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At about 5 p.m. today the first members of the public boarded the new Mark VII Monorail at Disneyland's Tomorrowland station.
While some people who went on the first red monorail trip seemed to think it was just another monorail, some guests were ...
Disney New Monorail, Its Transportation Of The Future Still Is
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Although the new craft has made appearances, riders will have to wait a little longer.
Those yearning to ride Disneyland's long-awaited new monorail found they had to hang on a little longer Saturday. The Mark VII, which had appeared off and on late ...
Disneyland Artist Pulls Man From Wrecked Semi
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Graveyard shift backdrop painter still reported for work, soaked in diesel fuel.
Robert Olvera left for work early Tuesday, heading for a graveyard shift as a backdrop painter at Disneyland.
It didn't occur to him he'd be pulling a man from the ...
The Future Knocks Again
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To get to the front door of the Elias family, the inhabitants of the new Dream Home at Disneyland, you must step onto a revolving walkway and glide past Tom Morrow, a Nathan Lane-voiced robot with a face like a machine-age Arcimboldo and a brush cut of ...
One Ringie Dingie Two Ringie Dingies
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Yes, I have finally purchased my first cell phone.
No, I am not going to tell you the number. I really don't want anyone calling me (more on that later). I didn't buy the danged thing so folks could call me. Well, actually I did. Sort of.
I ...
New Book Covers Disneyland From A To Z
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The Disneyland Encyclopedia' features entries on popular attractions, trivia and insider secrets.
Like most of us, Chris Strodder vividly remembers his first trip to Disneyland, a journey to the Magical Kingdom from Northern California in the ...
Interpreter Allows Disney Attractions To Be Fully Enjoyed
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Recently, my family returned to California to attend a wedding and take a much-needed vacation. For months my wife and four kids were bubbling with excitement to go to Disneyland. As a native Californian, I went to Disneyland about once or twice a year ...
Harriet Burns Who Help Create Disney Rides Dies
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Harriet Burns, the first female artist at Walt Disney Imagineering and a designer of several famous Disneyland rides, has died. She was 79.
Burns died Friday at USC University Hospital of complications from heart surgery, Frank Reifsnyder, a ...
Disneyland Prepares To Open Sleeping Beauty Castle
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The interior of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland will open in time for the December holiday season, offering guests a "reawakened" version of its classic walkthrough presentation kissed with vibrant scenes of Aurora, her charming prince, the evil ...
Disney Raising Theme Park Ticket Prices
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As if rising gas and food prices weren't enough, a ticket to the Magic Kingdom will soon cost a few bucks more.
Walt Disney Co. said Friday that it would raise one-day ticket prices at its domestic parks starting Sunday.
One-day tickets for ...
Real House Of The Future Is No Disney Dream
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A "House of the Future," a concept of what tomorrow holds for cutting-edge living, usually tells us more about the dreamers than the dream.
In the mid-1950s, Disneyland, with the help of Monsanto, cooked up its "House of the Future," nearly all of ...
New Tourist Thrill No Lines At California Theme Parks
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We scooted quickly to the front of Indiana Jones Adventure, Disneyland's herky-jerky thrill ride designed, I'm sure, by a chiropractor looking for business.
We hopped right on Knott's Berry Farm's Sierra Sidewinder, a newfangled roller coaster that not ...
Disney Will Close Mcdonalds Restaurants In Anaheim
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A spokeswoman says the move is unrelated to the theme park company's push for healthier children's food.
McDonald's Corp. is apparently no longer "lovin' it" at the "Happiest Place on Earth."
The three McDonald's restaurants at the Disneyland ...
Disneyland To Shut Down For Miley Cyrus 16th
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Teen pop sensation Miley Cyrus will stage her sweet 16 birthday party at Disneyland in California.
The Hannah Montana star will shut down the theme park for the day on Oct. 5 so she can party with friends, contest winners and fans who pay $250 to ...
The Early Word: New Books
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Walt Disney's Legends of Imagineering and the Genesis of the Disney Theme Park
By Jeff Kurtti, Bruce Gordon (Illustrator)
Growing up in Southern California, I've seen the rise and downsize of many amusement parks - Pacific Ocean Park (P.O.P.), ...
Disney Style Halloween Offers Spook-tacular Entertainment
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Beginning September 26 and continuing through Sunday, November 2, Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure parks become a one-stop destination to experience spook-tacular entertainment, whimsical decor, a lively mix of Disney characters in Halloween ...
Blending Visual Computing And Visual Networking
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Two of my favorite attractions at Disneyland when I was growing up and working at the park, and which are no longer there, were the Carousel of Progress and the House of the Future.
Both showcased a future based on the thinking that was going on when ...
Jungle Cruise Jokesters Take Their Show On The Road
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Richard Nixon's Press Secretary Ronald Zeigler, Disney/Pixar's digital animation head and creator of the Toy Story movie franchise John Lasseter, both cut their public speaking teeth working as wise-cracking tour guides or "skippers' on Disneyland's ...
Disneyland The Happiest Place on Earth
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I went to Disneyland today.
I was expecting the worst. It's a Saturday. Great weather, the place would be packed.
I drive up and see parking is $12. Lame. But then, at a Charger game a few weeks ago, parking was $25. Yikes.
My girlfriend ...
What Is The Significance Of The Names On Windows That Line Main Street
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Many fans have known for a long time that the names on the upper-story windows along Main Street pay tribute to real people, most of them Disney employees who contributed to Disneyland in some significant way.
Typically the windows identify a ...
Disney Offers Free Admission To Theme Parks For Visitors On Their Birthdays
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Walt Disney Parks and Resorts will admit visitors free on their birthdays next year.
"Every guest gets in free to one of our parks on their birthday in 2009," Jay Rasulo, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, said at a news conference in ...
Dwayne Johnson To Star In New Disneyland Movie
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Disney bosses are hoping to cash in on the success of the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN movie series - by taking another theme park attraction to the big screen.
The swashbuckling adventures started life as a ride at Disneyland, California.
And movie ...
Haunted Mansion Reopens At Disneyland With ‘Nightmare Before Christmas' Theme
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Disneyland"s Haunted Mansion is expected to "soft open" on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008, with the now-traditional Halloween/Christmas holiday overlay.
The official reopening of the refurbished Mansion - on Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 - coincides with the kickoff ...
Celebrate Halloween Time At Disneyland Resort With Family Fun
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Highlights include Disney's Happiest Haunt Tour, Haunted Mansion Holiday and Mickey's Trick or Treat Party
Halloween Time at Disneyland Resort will fill Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure parks with not-so-scary spook-tacular entertainment ...
Family Says Disneyland Dog Mauled Toddler
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The family of a small girl is suing Disneyland, claiming she was mauled by a dog at the park's petting zoo in 2006 when she was 2 years old.
The suit filed Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court says the dog, a German shepherd-Labrador retriever ...
Sorcerers' Apprentices Concoct New Adventures
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Every childhood visit to Disneyland provoked the same argument between Patricia L. Caplette and her brother over which ride to hit first.
He wanted to head straight for the Haunted Mansion; she insisted on Pirates of the Caribbean. So they bargained: ...
Abundance Of Fall Fun At Disneyland Resort As New Experiences Enhance Traditional Halloween And Holiday Seasons
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The giant Mickey Mouse Jack-o'-Lantern and the Town Square Christmas Tree will be the symbols of celebration for their respective holidays at Disneyland this fall. But the traditional fan favorites are only the beginning as Disneyland Resort welcomes new ...
Sleeping Beauty Castle Walk-Through To Reopen At Disneyland
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When the Sleeping Beauty castle walk-through "reawakens" after a seven-year slumber, Disneyland visitors will find a faithful re-creation of the original 1950s attraction that blends equal parts retro artistry, low-tech wizardry and ageless curiosity.
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Disneyland Memories
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I'm in the process of planning my fifth trip to Disneyland this year, which would make it my thirtieth time, total. I went in January, May, July and August and I'm trying to make a trip in time for the Halloween decorations, but if not, then definitely ...
Tinker Bell Moves Into New Disneyland Home, Giving Ariel The Boot
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How do you sit down for a photo with Tinker Bell without actually sitting on the palm-size pixie? We'll soon find out when Peter Pan's fairy friend gets her own meet-and-greet area at Disneyland.
Pixie Hollow, which takes the place of Ariel's Grotto ...
Holidays Make A Great Time To Visit Disneyland
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The magic of Disneyland and California Adventure parks gets "super pixie dusted" during the holiday season coming up Nov. 21-Jan. 4, but so do the lines. Better to plan your magical excursion in the next couple of weeks before the holiday rush.
Here ...
Avoiding Bummers At The Happiest Place On Earth
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The long awaited trip to Disneyland so many years ago was supposed to be special. The family saved for years for a dream vacation to the land of Mickey Mouse but the reality turned into a major disappointment.
The park was so crowded the family spent ...
Imagineering Field Guide Lets Disneyland Fans Walk In Walt's Shoes
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The new pocket-sized "Imagineering Field Guide to Disneyland" answers the question, "What would it be like to walk through Disneyland with Walt by your side?"
The 128-page paperback takes readers land by land through the Anaheim theme park, offering ...
Disneyland California - Always Something New
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It's been over 30 years since I took my six year old son to Disneyland in Anaheim, California and over 20 years since my last visit. So, when I began thinking about how fun it would be to take my granddaughter there, I had some catching up to do.
For ...
The Merriest Of Holiday Celebrations Make Spirits Brighter Than Ever At Disneyland Resort
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New Entertainment, Cherished Favorites, More Magic and a 'Reawakened' Sleeping Beauty Castle Bring Holidays to Life
When it comes to celebrating the magic and sparkle of the holidays, there's no place like the Disneyland Resort, the Merriest Place ...
Disney To Offer Ride Wait-Time Updates Via Cellphone
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My friend and colleague Dawn Chmielewski reports that starting next year, visitors to Disney theme parks will be able to use their cellphones to check ride wait times, locate restaurants and find characters as well as receive admission discounts and ...
Disney To Provide Park Navigation By Cell Phone
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Disneyland visitors will soon be able to find their way about the park by cell phone - and like a ghost at Haunted Mansion, the mobile application could follow you home.
The Walt Disney Co. and Verizon Wireless announced Wednesday that they have ...
Will I Love Disneyland As Much As Disneyworld?
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Some years ago, we took our two young boys to Disneyworld in Florida. They are grown up and my wife and I are going to California next year. Should we visit Disneyland, or is it a squib after the Florida park?
It's true that the Disneyland complex ...
The Happiest Place In The World
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After giving a talk in Northern California, I prepared for the long winter in Indiana by going on a trip with family to Disneyland-which advertises itself as the "Happiest Place in the World."
You know what-it just well might be.
First of all, ...
Disneyland Doesn't Lose What's Familiar
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Disneyland will never be complete. It's a statement the amusement park's creator, the late Walt Disney, was fond of mentioning when talking about the future of Disneyland.
There will always be a change to be made, or new technology to add to the ...
Halloween At The Happiest Place On Earth
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Disneyland donned its best Halloween costume to celebrate the season.
Smiling jack-o-lanterns peered out of windows on Main Street while candy corn littered Disney's California Adventure park. The ghouls of "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before ...
Disneyland Drama Centers On Jack Sparrow, Pixies, Flashing
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Disneyland management has fired four actors who portrayed swashbuckling pirate Jack Sparrow, but Disney officials deny charges that the pirates were replaced by Tinker Bell fairies, it was reported Saturday.
One former cast member says Disney ...
Christmas Fantasy Continues At Disneyland
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The awe on children's faces was apparent as they lined Main Street, Disneyland, to watch the first day of the Disneyland Christmas parade, which runs everyday until early January.
That's when Denny Newell, the park's senior show director, will start ...
Back To The Housing Future At Disneyland
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That line from the classic movie, The Graduate shows a scene from Benjamin's graduation party. "It's plastics, my boy - there's the future . . ." was indeed a sign of the times when the movie was made in 1967. In fact, the 1957 Monsanto 'Plastics Home ...
Silicon Valley Innovator Left Legacy Of Fun And Thrills
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Karl Bacon was a quiet guy who never wanted much of a fuss. So when he died last month at 98, he almost slipped away from us without being noticed.
And that just wouldn't have been right.
Bacon was a Silicon Valley inventor who did as much for ...
Disneyland Most Dizzying In Anaheim
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"Are you in good health?" asks Olivia, my 9-year-old niece. We're waiting in line for the Hollywood Tower of Terror, which she says is the scariest ride at Disney's California Adventure, the theme park that opened next door to Disneyland in 2001.
"I ...
Disneyland Resort Makes Annual Passes More Accessible And Affordable For Southern California Residents
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As Disneyland Resort celebrates the holiday gift-giving season, a newly launched Monthly Payment Program for Annual Passholders will make it easier for Southern California residents to have their own frequent Disneyland Resort celebrations in the year to ...
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Disneyland Events in 2008:
February 7--Charles Coburn, topiary designer, dies. Charles Coburn, a California horticulturist who created topiary works for Disneyland and for movie stars, has died at 62. Coburn suffered from cancer
July 29--Harriet Burns, the first female artist at Walt Disney Imagineering and a designer of several famous Disneyland rides, has died. She was 79.
August 4--One Day Adult Ticket Prices increase from $66 to $69
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