Category: Disneyland
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Orlando and Southern California Theme Park Results in the 2012 Golden Ticket Awards
It’s the top award for theme park and amusement parks worldwide. Each year, ‘Amusement Today’ magazine hands out its Golden Ticket Awards for the best of the best in several amusement park categories. On September 7th & 8th, several amusement and theme park officials and fans gathered at the Dollywood Resort in Pigeon Forge, TN…
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Mineral King – Walt Disney’s Last Lost Project
Walt Disney was an innovator. He changed expectations people had for animated films and amusement parks. Earlier this year at The Walt Disney Family Museum, urban planner and Disney historian, Sam Gennaway, hosted a presentation with Walt Disney’s son-in-law Walt Disney Family Museum Co-Founder and former Disney Company CEO, Ron Miller, and Dave Price, son…
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Don’t overlook Disneyland’s Paradise Pier Hotel
Back in March of last year, I spent one night at the Paradise Pier Hotel. It was the night before a 7-day cruise on the Disney Wonder and I don’t remember much about it. If you pressed me, I would have probably said it was like staying at the Hilton or Marriott. Either I was…
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Table for Three at Disneyland’s Club 33
Recently I had the privilege to go to dinner at the famous Club 33 at Disneyland. As many of you know, Club 33 is a private, membership-only club, located inside Disneyland. My DIS friends Jeff and Stacy Giovanniello were with me. It turned out to be a pretty amazing evening and I wanted to share…
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Disney’s Frankenweenie Invades Parks & Theaters This Fall
This fall, Disney brings to life the tale of a boy on a mission to save man’s best friend. Using stop-motion animation and a story written by Tim Burton over 25 years ago, Frankenweenie will entertain and inspire as it travels across the globe, into Disney parks, and theaters. Image: The story of a boy…
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Adventures by Disney’s “Lights…Camera…Magic” Tour
Recently, Adventures by Disney invited The DIS to experience its one-day “Lights…Camera…Magic” tour, so fellow Disneyland correspondent Tony Spittell and I updated our head-shots and resumes and hopped on the bus to Hollywood. Read on to hear more about our adventures (or listen to Tony and I discuss it on a recent episode of the DIS Unplugged Podcast: Disneyland Edition).
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Destination D: 75 Years of Disney Animated Features – Day 2
This year’s, Destination D event celebrated the 75th anniversary of the release of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” by focusing on Disney animated features. Read on for some pictures from the second day of this two day event (Day 1 Blog) held at the Grand Ballroom of the Disneyland Hotel.