Tag: Disneyland

  • Celebrate the end of Celebrate!

    Thursday, November 11 marked the end of the disappointing Celebrate! A Street Party and I was there to make sure that Disneyland wasn’t just pulling our legs.  Celebrate, which has been partying in the streets since March 2009, will be replaced next year with the Soundsational Parade.  Read on for a few pics from the final show.

  • New Blog Series – The Gems of Disneyland!

    Where can you find the change of the seasons so obviously displayed, with pumpkins on the ground and snow on the castle? In answering that, I’m going to introduce you to a new series of articles that I’ll be bringing to you, hopefully bringing you some joy and surprises – The Gems of Disneyland!

  • Disney’s 2010 Earnings – Good for Investors or Theme Park Guests?

    post by Jack Burgin The Walt Disney Company released its final quarter earnings report on November 11, 2010.   The report is, of course, chocked full of large dollar amounts (Disney’s figures start at a million dollars).  Others can and already have better analyzed Disney’s earnings.  I will try to go behind the numbers and…

  • Culinary Quest: Mmmm…Cupcakes!

    Mmmm…Cupcakes.  Never have two words ever been so true.  At the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, a new (kind of new) gourmet cupcake shop has opened to the delight of this blogger, his family, and all lovers of sugary goodness throughout the world.

  • #3 The New Disney Store: Stars Shine at Santa Monica Place

    So in my last two blogs, we talked with Disney Stores Worldwide President – Jim Fielding, we discussed design with Jon Endicott – Director of Global Design and Construction, and now, we cover the star-studded Grand Opening of their Santa Monica Place store!  I know.  I did a blog on the Montebello, CA Disney Store –…

  • Rapunzel Lets Her Hair Down in Her New Cottage at Disneyland

    We’ve told you it was coming.  We’ve shown you the concept art. With the advent of having a Rapunzel in our own house for Halloween, we had to take a run down to the park to get some photos of the heroine herself – with our miniature version, of course!   Therefore, we took ourselves on…

  • Club 33: A Very Special Episode of Culinary Quest

    Welcome to “a very special episode” of Culinary Quest. No important social issues will be discussed a la a 1980’s sitcom, but as culinary quests go, this one is unique. Nothing will be mentioned as to quality and value or whether anything was worth it. No, Club 33 stands alone. Instead, this is a sharing…