The YesterEars line of vintage-inspired clothing is now featuring three new limited-release shirts, available through May 25th only, at DisneyStore.com.
Two unisex adult tees, one featuring the Disneyland State Fair logo from 1987-88, and one sporting original Disneyland Space Mountain artwork, are available, as is a third design, a women’s tee in pink featuring a vintage Disneyland Hotel logo.
Disneyland’s Space Mountain first opened to guests on May 27, 1977, so this shirt commemorates the 40th anniversary of that ride’s opening.
These shirts retail for $27.99 and there is also a Buy One, Get One 40% Off promotion available.
Get yours before they’re gone on Thursday May 25, 2017!
According to sources at the Disneyland Resort, the Paint the Night Electrical Parade is all packed up to be shipped off, but where is it going?
Paint the Night debuted at the Disneyland Resort in May 2015 as part of the Diamond Celebration and ran through the end of the event in September 2016, only briefly for the holiday season in 2016 before vanishing again. The Main Street Electrical Parade returned to Disneyland Park in January 2017 and will be running through August 2017 (at least), meanwhile, Fantasmic is slated to return to Disneyland this summer and a brand new Disneyland fireworks show is reportedly coming in early 2018. With all of this nighttime entertainment, apparently it has been decided that they can afford to let Paint the Night go somewhere else.
Where will the parade go? Many expect that it is going to the Magic Kingdom since the Main Street Electrical Parade was taken away from Walt Disney World’s flagship park in the Fall of 2016. However, it is hard to image that it can successfully run a new parade in addition to a brand new (and very popular) fireworks show in Happily Ever After. Other parks at Walt Disney World seem an unlikely home for the parade, and Hollywood Studios can’t currently handle such an offering in its current state.
Simply because I have zero confirmation of where the parade is going, it may be worth mentioning that Disneyland Paris and Shanghai Disney are both without a nighttime parade as well. Regardless, the smart money would still be on The Magic Kingdom.
We’ll wait and see what happens, but regardless, the Paint the Night parade is packed up and ready to go, we just need to fill out the recipient’s address…
Just recently, the Collector made a little trip to the Disneyland Resort. Here is Benicio Del Toro, the actor who portrays him in the Guardians of the Galaxy Universe as he shares his excitement for the new ride coming to the Disneyland Resort in this video from the Disney Parks Blog:
Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout opens May 27th at the Disneyland Resort in California Adventure.
With Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout opening to the public this Saturday, May 27th, Disney is now sharing pictures and more from inside of this new attraction that is controversially replacing the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
The queue features many of the Collector’s prized possessions, including Cosmo the Space Dog, brought to life by audio-animatronics technology. Other recognizable artifacts are on display as well from the MARVEL Universe, as well as a few fun Disney Parks references.
The main pre-show experience takes place in The Collector’s office with an escaping Rocket Raccoon.
Theme Park Insider has a fantastic tour of the queue with Imagineer Joe Rohde, who is basically the lead on all of the MARVEL theme park projects. The video includes both attraction pre-shows for you to enjoy, including a look at the AWESOME Rocket Raccoon audio-animatronic figure:
No video of the on-ride portion is available yet, but IGN offers a really good review of the on-ride experience and 4 of the 6 ride profiles/soundtracks:
My favorite part of all this news about the attraction today? These somewhat psychotic press photos of “guests” on the ride…
Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission Breakout opens at Disney California Adventure on May 27th, 2017.
On May 26th, Disneyland Park launched the much-discussed Tomorrowland Skyline Lounge experience, an event meant to be a fireworks dessert party held on the second floor of the Star Wars Launch bay building. Based on the reaction our breaking of this story received, we decided to send someone out to review the very-first night of the experience on Friday.
Check-in took place at the Tomorrowland fruit cart, located underneath the former Observatron/Rocket Jets. The price for this experience was $45 per person, that was not collected on making the reservation for some reason, so they do collect before giving you your lanyard and wristband.
Guests lining up to enter prior to the event start.
Check-in began at 7:45pm and you are allowed up into the lounge at 8:00. You check-in (again) at the bottom of the ramp of the former-Innoventions building (now Star Wars Launch Bay on the bottom floor) where you are escorted up to the second level.
You then receive a free drink of your choice. Coke products, coffee, tea, etc., and you also receive your dessert box before being seated in one of the lounge areas. There were 4 or 5 different areas in all with several couches and chairs. At the very end of the balcony, there were several high-top tables if you would rather sit there. You were grouped with other parties, so you did have to share the space if you have a smaller group.
Once seated, you could charge your phone at one of the many charging stations, which is nice. Games were available to play such as Jenga, Connect Four and Checkers, because nothing says Tomorrowland like classic board games. You are in Disneyland, where you can play in essentially the world’s greatest playground, but hell, LETS GO FOR IT, CONNECT FOUR!
PhotoPass photographers were available to take pictures with the beautiful Tomorrowland scenery in the background, which is actually really neat. The views from up here are great, incase you have never been up on this patio (which I can’t imagine in many cases as it was open to the public for years).
Mickey and Minnie even made an appearance for a short meet and greet, the pair also available for photos. Blankets were provided by cast members if you were a bit chilly as well.
This being Disneyland, there is a good chance that the nightly fireworks are cancelled due to high winds and such. Needless to say seemingly, fireworks ended-up being cancelled due to high winds for this very first night of the experience.
The lounge itself was nice enough. The couches were nice and there were plenty of places to charge devices.
The dessert tray, while very tasty, was extremely rich. It includes:
Mickey Cloud Cake – Cream-filled Sponge Cake
Chocolate Eclipse – Cream-Filled Chocolate Cake drenched in Chocolate
Coconut Comet – Coconut-Strawberry Iced Sponge Cake filled with Cream
Planetary Pie – Mini Cherry-Filled Pie
Moon Rocks – Boursin Herbed Cheese, Cream Cheese, Shredded Cheddar, and Jack Cheese, Chives Pimento, and Bacon
No one sitting in our group finished any of their desserts. Again, not because they were bad, but just incredibly sweet. The Coconut Comet was basically a Hostess Zinger pumped up to eleven, and if you don’t know what a Zinger is, please head to the grocery store and rectify that. The Moon Rocks were probably the highlight of the offerings; a delicious cheese spread covered in bacon with an assortment of crackers.
The fancy-Zinger
This is a nice offering and is at a low cost in comparison to the World of Color or Fantasmic dessert party packages. However, without fireworks, it’s a giant waste of time. Disneyland Park has the most unreliable nighttime spectacular of all U.S. Disney Parks, making it a gamble each night whether the show will be performed. Even the slightest amount of wind can cancel a show due to the proximity of the park to nearby neighborhoods. Seriously, only half of the Celebrate America Fourth of July fireworks shows ever scheduled at Disneyland, have actually happened.
You could always do this with the Jenga game if the fireworks don’t happen, I guess…
This is probably why event organizers decided to call it Tomorrowland Lounge rather than a fireworks dessert party, to try to ease some of the complaints that are going to come regardless when the fireworks are cancelled. We were even told several times by cast members that the fireworks were only an addition to the experience and that the lounge is the experience by itself. Large disclaimers on the website when booking this alls make it unmistakebly clear.
$45 for dessert and Connect Four? Just come to my place and I’ll host you for $20 a person, buy a box of Zingers, and play a Fireworks video on my TV for you.
In our opinion, you would be better off just spending your $45 on the many other delicious snacks in the park and grabbing a spot on Main Street, even if you do have to be around other people. It will result in less time lost from your day if the fireworks do not actually go off. On a side note, if you are on Main Street, you could have seen the short projection show that takes place on the front of the castle when the fireworks are cancelled. You’re also not going to see the awesome projections on Sleeping Beauty Castle if Remember… Dreams Come True does perform…
In review, unless you have the strong urge for a fancy Zinger and a rousing game of Jenga (which I hoped ironically would have been the Tower of Terror version), you should probably skip the Tomorrowland Skyline Lounge at Disneyland Park.
It’s been a while since we last took a look at the construction for the upcoming land based on everyone’s favorite galaxy far far away, so let’s see how things are shaping up over at Disneyland.
Progress on Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is coming along nicely at Disneyland. The general outline of the land is really apparent now.
Here is an aerial view of the land from the east side.
From the north side we get a really great view of the entire land.
Here is a close up of the show buildings for both attractions, Battle Escape to the left and the Millennium Falcon to the right. We also recently got a deeper look at the Falcon attraction, which you can take a look at here.
Below is where guests will stand when they first enter the land through the Big Thunder Ranch entrance.
The show building for the battle escape attraction that will put guests in the middle of the action as the Resistance battles it out against The First Order.
Here are some photos of the land from the south side.
A final aerial view photo of Galaxy’s Edge from the west side perspective.
The stunning aerial photos shown above have been provided by Nearmap.
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will open at Disneyland in 2019, and shortly afterwards in the same year at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
A recent posting to the Disney Auditions website has fueled rumors that Disney is looking to create living “Cars” characters for Cars Land at Disney California Adventure and beyond.
The posting claims it is looking for “male & female individuals who are outgoing, energetic and enthusiastic to help bring to life the citizens of Cars Land”. The required skills include getting in and out of float vehicles repeatedly, being between 5’2″ and 5’8″, and a clean DMV driving record.
All of these requirements seem to point towards the addition of “living characters” at Cars Land, not unlike the Talking Mickey at the Magic Kingdom that can have a full conversation with guests.
Be sure to check back as more details become available on this story.
Guests visiting Star Wars Launch Bay at Disneyland Park and Disney’s Hollywood Studios are now being treated to a new preview of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, opening in 2019 at both parks.
A small section of the model of the entire land that was on display at the D23 Expo this year is on display now at Disneyland’s Launch Bay. Walt Disney Presents at Hollywood Studios has had a different section on display since September.
In addition, the Star Wars Launch Bay film was updated on both coasts to include a new, never-before-seen preview of the 14-acre land coming to Disney Parks:
A transformer failure at the Disneyland Resort resulted in loss of power to much of Fantasyland and Mickey’s Toontown Wednesday afternoon December 27th, in the middle of one of the busiest days of the year.
According to ABC7.com, the local ABC affiliate in Los Angeles, reported that a Disneyland spokesperson said guests were being evacuated from “about a dozen” rides, including the Monorail, which, interestingly, isn’t technically a Fantasyland or Toontown attraction.
As of 3pm PST (6pm EST), power to much of the park had been restored, with all of Toontown plus some Fantasyland attractions, including “it’s a small world” which is currently sporting its holiday overlay.
At least one guest paid way too much for Disneyland tickets and then complained they weren’t offering refunds when the rest of the park, as well as Disney California Adventure, were open and operating.
Nonsensical time spent at Disneyland. There is a power outage and there is no refund either!!! $1100 down the drain!! #disneypoweroutage#poorcustomerservice
