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Pixar Pier Opening Date and New Paint the Night Float
At the D23 Expo in Japan, more details on the upcoming Pixar Pier transformation at Disney California Adventure emerged. The “new” area of the park will open June 23. An overhanging gateway will have the Pixar lamp on the marquee to welcome guests. Paint the Night will get a new float featuring the Incredibles also…
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Christmas Fantasy Parade At Disneyland – Sundays With DAPs Update
It’s Christmastime at Disneyland! One of the great things to do at the park is watch the Christmas Fantasy parade. Our view of choice is on Main Street. For the first week the toy soldiers were not in the parade lineup, but are now back in. Absent were snowflakes and skiiers, and this was because…
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Super Hero Half Marathon and Holidays at the Parks – Sundays With DAPs
This last weekend was full of events at the Disneyland Resort. The holidays at the parks kicked off with several festivities to celebrate the season. It was also the 2016 Super Heroes Half Marathon weekend (formerly the Avengers Half Marathon weekend). I participated in the Infinity Gauntlet Challenge, which consisted of running the Doctor Strange…
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Disneyland Half Marathon, Gaston, and Jasmine – Sundays With DAPs
In this update on some of the goings on of the Disneyland park we take a look at the 2016 Disneyland Half Marathon. The theme was “duos” where a pair of characters were the focus of each race. The pair for the 5K was Big Al and Liver Lips from the Country Bears. For the…
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Tomorrowland Takeover – Hong Kong Disneyland In Detail
Moving through a tour of Hong Kong Disneyland it’s time for Tomorrowland! When I visited Hong Kong Disneyland it was the second day of the Star Wars Takeover, and much of the pictures reflects it. Though it’s not quite the extent of other takeovers like at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios, it still had a…
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New Starbucks Opens At Downtown Disney
The Disneyland Resort has quietly opened a new coffee house close to the Disneyland Hotel. A second Starbucks location has opened today on July 18, 2016 for more drink enjoyment. It’s a smaller location, but well accommodates those visiting this other end of the shopping center. The inside is mostly the usual line, registers, and…
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Celebrating Disneyland’s 61st Birthday
This July 17, 2016, marked Disneyland’s 61st anniversary of park opening. Though the resort has still been celebrating the 60th, this day was still a special one to mark. And in a special celebration the park did so. At the Main Street Train Station was where the ceremony took place. The Disneyland Band marched down…
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Entering Main Street – Hong Kong Disneyland In Detail
When I went to Shanghai Disneyland’s grand opening, I booked ended it with visits to Hong Kong Disneyland. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, this is the first Chinese Disney park that has opened. Having a more classic feel, for an avid original Disneyland goer, this had a same but different feel to it all. To…
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Toy Story Hotel – Shanghai Disneyland In Detail
I know this post was put up much after the last of the park detail posts, but here is the last of the series of the grand opening adventure at the resort! The Toy Story Hotel is one of the opening day hotels at the Shanghai Disneyland Resort. Themed to the iconic film series, it…
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Disney California Adventure at 15 Years
Today marked an anniversary for a staple at the Disneyland Resort: Disney California Adventure. This second gate has seen many changes in its 15 year life thus far. And it has grown into a great park for guests of all ages. 15 years ago, guests lined up to be the first into the park on…
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Marvel Comics News Digest 1/11 – 1/15/16
Marvel has some big announcements this week. A new Miles Morales series will be premiering soon! All New X-Men will have a brand new storyline! Dave Bautista is on the first of a new series on YouTube called “Ask Marvel.” Deadpool is celebrating his 25th anniversary! And a big event in Marvel history will hit…
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Disney California Adventure – 15th Anniversary – Part Two: Party In Hollywood
Continuing a series that will lead to the 15th anniversary of Disneyland’s second gate we’ll look at a couple of party offerings that hit the park around the 2010 time. We all know of Mad T Party, and even Freeze The Night that have been in the Hollywoodland area of DCA. But, its predecessors have…
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Disney California Adventure – 15th Anniversary – Part One
2016 will mark an anniversary for a certain theme park. Yes, Magic Kingdom will be celebrating 45 years in October. Yeah, Tokyo Disney Sea will have its 15 year anniversary in September. But, here on the West Coast of the United States, we get to celebrate first. It’s Disney California Adventure’s (or DCA as some…
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Recap of Disneyland’s Candlelight Processional 2015
Candlelight Processional at Disneyland has always marked the holiday season. This weekend event has had many celebrity narrators that have read the Christmas story with great reverence. This year was another joyous and momentous occasion. Geena Davis narrated the first night, Saturday, December 5th. Her reaction after Silent Night summed up her delight in being able…
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Reviews of Two New Dining Experiences at Walt Disney World
Walt Disney World keeps expanding their menu, so to speak, with great dining experiences throughout the resort. Earlier this month I got to experience two of them in Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney Springs: Sci-Fi Dine In’s new breakfast dining and Morimoto Asia. Sci-Fi Dine In At any time of day, this restaurant has been…
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Marvel, SDCC, and Other Comics News July 6 – July 8, 2015
It’s a special edition of comics news for you, just in time for the San Diego Comic Con. In addition to what Marvel has in store for there, below are two reviews of recent comics that are quite a paradigm shift in comics as we know them. Marvel Unveils Action-Packed Line-Up Of Exclusive Collectibles At…
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More From Star Wars Celebration 2015
Star Wars Celebration 2015 lasted 4 days. It seems fitting to try to report as much as we can from this very unique event. Rather than tell with words, here’s some photos I took during the whole event. Hope you enjoy them!
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Disneyland's Innoventions – The Bottom Floor – Daps From the Past
Innoventions is an ever changing attraction in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland. Because of that there is much ground to cover on the history of the attraction. For now, we’ll start on the ground floor. The attraction opened in 1998 as part of a new Tomorrowland initiative. The building once housed such attractions as Carousel of Progress, America…
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A Haunted Mansion Mystery – Hatbox Ghost Materializing?
The Disney Parks Blog has posted a cryptic message about recent developments inside the Haunted Mansion. They acknowledge that there’s something strange right after leaving the attic scene in the attraction. The challenge they gave was to guess the specter that is coming in the comments section of the post. Overwhelmingly, the response was the…