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Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 30th at noon Eastern time for Miley Cyrus’ Sweet 16 Celebration at Disneyland in California.  The party will be held on October 5, 2008 featuring Miley Cyrus, fireworks, music, kids from Youth Service America and more.
Only a very limited number of tickets will be sold for Miley’s Sweet16.  Tickets can only be purchased online from www.disneyparks.com/miley.  A limited number of tickets will be available for purchase per household, and park admission is not included in the ticket price, which has yet to be announced.
I’m sure this will be a popular event!  You can …read more

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Here’s a fun trivia question I found in the most recent issue of Disney Insider that I have to share with The Disney Traveler readers because it’s new info to me!
What actor and comedian’s first after-school job was selling guidebooks at Disneyland and later working at Merlin’s Magic Shop on Main Street?
Leave a comment with your answer.  If the correct answer isn’t given within the next several days, I’ll publish a follow up post with the answer.
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I’ve written about Walt Disney World’s certified green hotels on The Disney Traveler before, so I was excited when Liz Lewis of b5media’s Traveling the Green Way blog offered to write a guest post that highlights some of the green efforts at Disneyland.  Without further ado, here is Liz’s guest post…. 
It’s always been known as the magical kingdom.
But can it also be called the green kingdom?
According to Frank Dela Vara, technical directory of Disneyland Environmental Affairs, it’s something that they are definitely working on.
These days, the cars of Main Street run on compressed natural gas, the train runs on soybean oil, and there …read more

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Earlier this year, Disneyland dedicated the lead horse on the Disneyland carousel to Julie Andrews and gave it the name Jingles.  The horse’s hand-painted features include Julie Andrews’ initials on the saddle and a flying silhouette of her Mary Poppins character. It really is beautiful, and you can follow the link to see the picture of Jingles at full-size, so you can see the Mary Poppins accents.

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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 stairs.

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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 quick overview of how the contest works:

Submit your video of your favorite Disney parks memory by August 5, 2008.
Disney judges will select 10 finalists by August 12, 2008.
Between August 13, 2008 – September 9, 2008, YouTube visitors can vote on their …read more

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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 tickets).
You can follow the link to enter the Disneyland vacation sweepstakes.  Just select the “Sweeps” button on the sweepstakes page to enter the contest.  You have to register for the Disneyland website to enter online (it’s free to register).  You can also select the “Rules” …read more

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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 read more about Disneyland Innoventions Dream Home from the Los Angeles Times or on The Disney Traveler in Disneyland to Open Innoventions Dream Home and Disneyland Innoventions Opens for Preview Today.
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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 directly punching other characters, particularly the female character, Col. Dr. Irina Spalko, have been negative. 
Direct punches will also be removed from the Indiana Jones stunt show in Adventureland.
What do you think?  Should the punches be removed or is Disney being overly-sensitive?
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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 party.  Along the way, they’ll demonstrating the various high-tech gadgets and features and even letting guests try some!  Guests will visit the front yard, kitchen, dining room, family room/home office, teen daughter’s room, younger son’s room, backyard, courtyard and party tent.
Check out the Disney press …read more

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