As I was finishing up one last class and ending the school year, I did not quite have enough time to post news on MTPN. Now that the year is over and I am going to graduate from high school this weekend, I can finally do so much more during my large amount of free time.
This past week, there has been a lot of news and buzz around the Disneyland Resort. MiceAge delivered these news yesterday on their “Dateline Disneyland” update.
Disney’s California Adventure
First of all, Disney’s California Adventure got a new, classic 1930′s themed logo that will match the new “Early 20th Century California” theme of the park. Instead of the generic theme with the grizzly peak on it, the new logo now has a nice new 1930′s era-looking “California” on it- we posted an image from Miceage below.
New DCA Logo- image src: miceage.com
Mickey’s Silly Swings, the new “Mickey and the Band” retheme of the Orange Stinger just soft-opened Friday after a long and very thorough retheme. It will not have its grand opening until the World of Color nighttime spectacular opens June 11.
mickey's silly swings- just soft-opened- image src: miceage.com
This month, Disney announced that the World of Color show on the Paradise Pier lagoon would open June 11th as part of the return of the resort’s summer promotion, Summer Nightastic, that Disney kicked off last summer as well. Disney has a snazzy looking page to promote the World of Color. Miceage also posted this brilliant new TV ad that Disney put to promote this new nighttime spectacular that I posted below.
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Carsland, Little Mermaid, and the Red Car Trolley construction are also both progressing very well. Radiator Springs Racers is already testing its vehicles on the track! The Little Mermaid ride building steel framework is now up and is visible from throughout the pier. The Red Car Trolley track construction is finished on the Hollywood Boulevard section of the park and is continuing to be built behind the Tower of Terror.
Disneyland Hotel
A ton of big news about the Disneyland hotel was just released within the past month- a retheme of the Peter Pan “Neverland Pool” and a retheme of the current three hotel towers: the Dream, Wonder, and Magic.
The theme of the Neverland pool will change to a theme of the Disneyland monorail when it first opened. Instead of pirate ship slides, you will see waterslides themed to the monorails. There will also be a new restaurant by the poolside rethemed to the former Tahitian Terrace at Disneyland’s Adventureland (which existed from 1962-1993). These changes should be done by next year.
The three hotel buildings- the Wonder, Magic, and the Dreams buildings will also be rethemed to match the lands at Disneyland and their original artwork. They will be rethemed to the Adventure, Fantasy, and Frontier buildings and will be themed to these lands of the park.
Disneyland Resort
Star Tours is now going to shut down in July, being ahead of schedule to make way for its sequel, Star Tours II (it was supposed to shut down October 11).
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