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Just in time for the December holiday season. That’s the schedule given by Disney today for the opening of the refurbished walkthrough attraction at Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle. Some of the new enhancements include:
New scenes
Special effects
New technology
A special room providing a virtual experience of the walkthrough attraction for guests in wheelchairs or unable to climb […]
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts recently launched the Disney Parks Channel on YouTube. To hype the new Disney Channel on YouTube, Disney is having a contest! The My Favorite Disney Parks Memory Contest will reward one lucky winner with a Disney dream vacation that will include a night in the Disneyland Dream Suite!
Here’s a […]
Disney and Honda are teaming up to offer the Honda Pilot Ride Ready Adventure Sweepstakes that will reward two lucky winners each with a 2009 Honda Pilot and a trip for four to Disneyland (including hotel accommodations for three nights at a Disneyland Resort hotel, roundtrip coach airfare, ground transportation and Disneyland Park Hopper […]
Check out this cool video tour of the new Disneyland Innoventions Dream Home from the Los Angeles Times. The video features a preview of the kitchen and dining room. I’m still not really sure how practical the futuristic technologies included in the Disneyland Innoventions Dream Home are, but they’re still cool.
Follow the link to […]
The new Indiana Jones show, “Secrets of the Stone Tiger”, has only been opened at Disneyland for about a month, but changes are coming already.
The changes will take place in the choreography of the Indiana Jones show. Three direct punches will be replaced with pushing and shoving. Apparently, audience reactions to Indiana Jones […]
Today the new Disneyland Innoventions Dream Home opens for previews. It will open to all guests at the end of June. To hype the event, Disney sent out a press release that describes each room of the home. It sounds very cool!
A fictional family will take guests through the home as they prepare for a […]
Last week, President Bush signed a bill that includes $45 million to develop a high-speed levitating train that will run between Disneyland and Las Vegas. A one-way trip would take less than two hours at speeds up to 300 mph.
Don’t get too excited yet. The $45 million will be used to pay for environmental studies. […]
I picked up a cool tip from the Daily Travel and Deal Blog from the Los Angeles Times. According to an article on CNET, Hayden Landis, a computer graphics supervisor on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, said his next project as part of the team at Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic […]
A new Indiana Jones show opened in Disneyland called Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Stone Tiger. The show is performed several times per day at Aladdin’s Oasis in Adventureland.
The new show is interactive and invites guest to find clues and decipher codes that will lead them to Indiana Jones, himself. This is sure […]
Another new feature has been added to The Disney Traveler. You can now make your Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure vacation planning even easier with the new Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure Closings and Refurbishments page on The Disney Traveler.
This page will be updated on a regular basis when Disney announces planned closings and refurbishments on Disney […]
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Written by Susan Gunelius [email] for b5media.
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