The latest addition to the Attractions Refurbishment list, is a short refurb of the Disney Animation building in Disney’s California Adventure. This refurb is just to remove the 70th Anniversary of Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs Exhibit. It will close on April 28th, & re-open on May 2nd.
Check out our Attractions Refurbishment page for up-to-the-date attraction refurbs!
I just got back from 2 wonderful days at the Disneyland Resort! Let’s get straight to the pictures:
A new Kodak sign up on the Honey, I Shrunk the Audience entrance marque
The new Tinkertoy in the Pixar Play Parade
A wall up by Grizzly River Run. As reported earlier this week, the attraction is still open
The new emergency bridge from DCA to the Grand Californian
The Toontown room in the World of Disney store
A construction wall up by the Tomorrowland Terrace
The new Disneyland map front, that debuted today…
… And the DCA one
Today was the first day in this year’s California Food & Wine Festival
The Festival Welcome Center
Let’s take a look at the Festival Guide Booklet…
This year is the 3rd annual California Food & Wine Festival
A special restaurant has been set up in Pacific Wharf just for the Food & Wine Festival, in place of the old Lucky Fortune Cookery
The place to get Food & Wine merchandise. I got the pin!
The menu for this special restaurant, The Taste of California Marketplace
Construction on the ODV structures outside Toy Story Mania
The fountain outside of King Triton’s Carousel is working for once!
The sign for Seasons of the Vine has finally been removed. Weird how the attraction closed just as the Food & Wine Festival started
A new sign for the Year of a Million Dreams on the security tents
This could be DCA’s temporary entrance
Just to give you an idea where it actually is
Stay tuned tomorrow for bigger versions of these pictures & many more pictures in our Image Galleries!
The plans for the DCA renovations always keep changing, & the latest changes were reported today in Al Lutz’s latest column on MiceAge. We’ll also take a look at some other new stuff supposedly coming to Disneyland, & the resort as a whole:
For complete details on all of the things mentioned above & more, check out this MiceAge article!
A construction wall has been put up by the Grizzly River Run lift hill, that is just for work on the Pelton Wheel structure. The attraction is open & operating normally:
Both pictures by David “Darkbeer” Michael
DLRP Today has news on the fate of some of Disney’s parades. While this isn’t entirely Disneyland related news, I still thought I’d mention it.
Disney’s Stars & Motor Cars Parade recently finished performances at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, & has been replaced by DCA’s old parade, Block Party Bash. Disney’s Cinema Parade also finished performances at Walt Disney Studios Paris a couple of weeks ago. It looks like Stars & Motor Cars will replace the Cinema Parade in Paris. And then looking even further into the future, the plan is to have the Pixar Play Parade go to Paris & replace Stars & Motor Cars, instead of it going to Florida to replace Block Party Bash. There’s currently no word on what might happen to Block Party Bash though.
Of course, it is still just a rumor. Stay tuned to Disneyland News Today (and DLRP Today in turn) as more information becomes available!
The Disney VISA rewards program had a little Meet ‘n’ Greet thing inside the Seasons of the Vine theater, that gave you a free PhotoPass photo with Disney characters. Well since Seasons of the Vine has closed to make way for the Disneyland Resort Preview Center, the Meet ‘n’ Greet opportunity has moved to somewhere in Hollywood Pictures Backlot.
The LA Times really slamed DCA down today! You just have to read this one paragraph to see what I mean:
When the park opened seven years ago, its deficits were clear even to the children who visited. One fabulous ride — “Soarin’ Over California” — was buttressed by a small array of standard county-fair attractions, albeit given a Disney gloss: the ubiquitous flume ride, a Wild Mouse coaster, centrifugal-force swings, a giant Ferris wheel. Compared with Disneyland, where delights are tucked into every corner, California Adventure seemed barren, low on rides and big on restaurants and souvenir shops. Mainly, it seemed as if the Imagineers had taken the day off to go to Knott’s Berry Farm.
To read the read of this somewhat disturbing article, plus commentary, check out MiceChat!
It seems to be an hour for refurbishment news. This just in, the Corn Dog Castle refurb that was planned for 5/5/08-5/6/08, has been moved to 5/12/08-5/22/08. Which does mean it has been extended quite a bit! It is probably just routine maintenance though…
And now our good friend MintCrocodile has a video up of Mr. Potato Head! He signs, he talks, & he takes his ear off!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO119YsCZDQ[/youtube]
The Toy Story Mania walls did come down today, somewhat. Actually only a very tiny section has been removed, that being the section that covers up Mr. Potato Head. He should be fully functioning & interacting with guests.
Here’s a picture from today from Jerm of MiceChat, that clearly reveals what’s been done:
