Category: Disneyland Resort
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Disneyland After Dark After-Hours Events Returning to Disneyland Resort in 2022
The popular Disneyland After Dark after-hours events are returning to the Disneyland Resort in 2022. Today Disney announced that Sweethearts’ Nite, Villains Nite, and Star Wars Nite. This time around, there will be more nights offered for each. Disneyland After Dark events run for four hours after the conclusion of Disneyland’s normal operating day. They include special…
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Sterling K. Brown Shares the Spirit of the Season While Narrating Disneyland’s Candlelight Processional
The Disneyland Candlelight Processional is an annual tradition dating back to the early days of Disneyland. Through the years, there have been many celebrity narrators that have climbed the podium in front of a mass choir, orchestra, soloists, trumpeters, and handbell choir to read the story of Christmas. This year, the narrator was Sterling K.…
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A Magically Foggy Night at Disney California Adventure
On December 1, 2021, the DAPS MAGIC team stopped by Disney California Adventure for an evening watching Phat Cat Swinger. The performances at 8:00 and 9:15 were absolutely wonderful and so much fun. As the night progressed, fog started to creep in on Disney California Adventure. By the time the second set had ended, fog…
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I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas – The Magic of the Holidays at Disneyland
The holidays at Disneyland is always such a special time to me. Everything seems to have a little more pixie dust. The extra lights are vibrant and beautiful, the entertainment a little merrier, the food a little more delicious, the weather a little cozier, and all the moments a little more magical. As I think…
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Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival Returns in Spring 2022 to Disneyland Resort
The Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival has become a fan favorite at the Disneyland Resort. This festival will allow guests to experience and explore California regions and neighborhoods in multiple ways. This includes some incredible food, a variety of entertainment, merchandise, and more. The Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival will run…
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Lunar New Year at Disney California Adventure Returning to Disneyland Resort
The Lunar New Year celebration is returning to Disney California Adventure in 2022. The celebration will run from January 21 – February 13, 2022. Each year, Lunar New Year at Disney California Adventure commemorates the traditions of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese cultures. The celebration includes multicultural performances, activities, themed food, décor, merchandise, and more. 2022…
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Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort Expands Merchandise Mobile Checkout
Merchandise mobile checkout continues to expand to more locations at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts. This service allows guests to utilize their mobile devices to checkout with each resort’s mobile app. The following locations either have mobile checkout or will soon have mobile checkout: Walt Disney World Resort World of Disney at Disney…
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It’s a Small World Holiday Expected to Reopen at Disneyland Next Week
For many fans visiting the Disneyland Resort during the holidays, it’s a small world Holiday is one of the highlights of a trip to the merriest place on Earth. This year, however, things didn’t go as planned for the beloved attraction. The holidays started and this holiday attraction remained closed. Today, the OC Register is…
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Imagining… Fantasmic! – 30 Years Ago at Disneyland
In planning, this blog entry was to be the first of two parts, spanning October to November. In execution, it is one bog entry, appearing at the end of November. In my defense, it is a pretty big subject. While that Afternoon Avenue promotion was dominating the east side of Disneyland, over on the west…
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Take a Look at Mickey’s Dazzling Christmas Parade! at Disneyland Paris
Christmas has taken over Disneyland Paris and to say it is beautiful would be an understatement. This year, Disneyland Paris debuted a new Christmas parade. Mickey’s Dazzling Christmas Parade! This parade consists of five floats that have Mickey and friends, along with Disney Princesses, Santa Claus, and even Tinker Bell celebrating the season. Each float…
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Disneyland Resort Announces 2021 Candy Cane Dates
An annual tradition is back at the Disneyland Resort this year. Today the Disneyland Resort released the dates for candy canes being made at Candy Palace and Candy Kitchen at Disneyland along with Trolley Treats at Disney California Adventure. This tradition dates back to 1968. The tradition includes mixing ingredients, hand-pulling, rolling, and finally twisting…
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Sterling K. Brown to Narrate Disneyland’s Candlelight Processional
Disneyland’s Candlelight Processional traditionally is presented on the first weekend of December. This annual tradition dating back to the 50s tells the story of the first Christmas with a celebrity narrator, orchestra, handbells, and mass choir that includes members of the community and a celebrity narrator. In recent years, the narrator is unknown until a…
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Believe Key Becomes Second Magic Key to Sell Out at Disneyland Resort
Disneyland Resort has stopped selling a second Magic Key. The Believe Key is no longer being sold. This follows the suspension of sales for the Dream Key, which had sales halted in late October. The Believe Key costs $949 and allows admission to Disneyland Resort parks most days of the year. It includes 6 park…
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Disney Shares Details About Upcoming 30th Anniversary Celebration at Disneyland Paris
At Destination D23 this last weekend, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Chairman Josh D’Amaro shared about some of the exciting things coming to the Disney Parks around the globe. Over at Disneyland Paris, there are two milestones coming in the next year. In 2022 Disneyland Paris will be celebrating its 30th Anniversary. It will also…
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Details Revealed About Disneyland Hotel Expansion
This morning at Destination D23, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Chairman Josh D’Amaro shared about a lot of new magic that is coming to the Disney Parks around the globe. This includes a reimagined west end of the Downtown Disney District. Another announcement D’Amaro made was about the expansion of the Disneyland Hotel along with…
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West End of Disneyland Resort’s Downtown Disney District to be Reimagined in 2022
The Downtown Disney District will soon be looking different when guests visit the Disneyland Resort. Today during a Destination D23 presentation Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Chairman Josh D’Amaro announced that the west end of Downtown Disney District will be getting reimagined. The enhancements begin in January 2022. The former AMC Theatres building will be…
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MagicBand+ and “Hey Disney!” Voice Assistant Coming to Disneyland Resort
For years part of visiting Walt Disney World Resort has been getting and using a MagicBand. As part of the 50th Anniversary announcements, the upgraded MagicBand+ was revealed. Today at the Destination D23 event it was announced by Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Chairman Josh D’Amaro that Walt Disney World Resort wouldn’t be the only…
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Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance to Test Standby Queue at Disneyland
Starting on Monday November 22, 2021, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance will begin testing a standby queue ahead of the arrival of Disney Genie+ at the Disneyland Resort. According to Disneyland Resort officials, the attraction will begin testing the hybrid standby and virtual queue starting on Monday. The standby queue will be utilized with…
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Disney Releases Details on ABC’s The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration and Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade
It is the merriest time of the year. With this comes some very fun holiday entertainment from Disney. Today, Disney released some details about two holiday programs that will be seen on ABC that come from Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort. The two programs will include a look at Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser,…
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Disneyland Celebrate’s Mickey and Minnie’s Birthday with Cavalcade
Today is Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse’s 93rd birthday. To celebrate, the Disneyland Resort honored the world’s most famous mice with a cavalcade up and down Main Street, USA. Buttons were also handed out at the entrance to the park to commemorate the day. The cavalcade began around 12:30 PM. A special banner and birthday…
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Residents and Offworlders on Batuu Celebrate Life Day at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland
November 17th is the day known as Life Day. This celebration originated as a Wookie holiday traditionally celebrated around the Tree of Life, which represented the first seed of life on the Wookie planet of Kashyyyk. With the fall of the Galactic Empire, this celebration became a galactic holiday celebrated after autumn. Throughout the galaxy,…
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Phat Cat Swinger Makes Magical Return to Disney Festival of Holidays
On Friday, November 12, 2021, Phat Cat Swinger returned to the Disneyland Resort to open Disney Festival of Holidays. To say it was magical would be an understatement. Ahead of the band’s first set at 8:00 PM, guests were already waiting and anticipating the band’s return. There was a palpable energy that was a beautiful…
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Disney Announces Reimagined Mickey’s Toontown at Disneyland
Today Disney announced that Mickey’s Toontown at Disneyland is getting reimagined. This re-imagined area will be finished by 2023 when Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway debuts at Disneyland. The news was announced by Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Chairman Josh D’Amaro at the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) Expo. The reimagined Mickey’s…
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A Christmas Fantasy Parade Adds Extra Magic to Holidays at Disneyland!
After a hiatus last year due to the parks being closed because of the pandemic, parades are back. Specifically, A Christmas Fantasy Parade ushered parades back to day-guests at the Disneyland Resort. The parade returned to the public as a part of Holidays at Disneyland on November 12th after being shown at the Disney Merriest…