The scenes in the windows of Main Street, U.S.A. in Disneyland park have been updated to feature dazzling new displays of classic Disney films, including "Peter Pan" and "Cinderella." The windows now feature two scenes, transforming every few minutes to reveal more of the beloved stories. It's A Small World Picture Disc
$21.98 Join children from the around the globe as they joyously sing together a song of peace and kindness. This collectible vinyl picture disc features classic attraction poster art designed by Paul Hartley in 1963. Memories of your happy voyage will be complete with original music composed for the attraction by The Sherman Brothers including the iconic “It’s A Small World”. Track List: Side 1: 1. It’s A Small World – Performed by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman 2. Queue / Entrance Music - Performed by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman 3. Exit Music - Performed by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman Side 2: 1. The Ultimate Mega Mix - Performed by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman ORDER HERE Montclair, CA Disney Store is OPEN! And looking very retro....this is what all of the stores looked like in the mid-1990s. Back in the day, Disney Stores were pink and green and known as colonies. These stores represented their neighborhoods. San Francisco celebrated fisherman's wharf, the theater district, and the "pink ladies". FUN FACT! This Disney Store used to have a restaurant, Mickey's Kitchen, short lived fast food where you could also have birthday parties.
The Main Street Electrical Parade is a nighttime parade, created by Robert Jani and project director Ron Miziker. It features floats and live performers covered in over 600,000 electronically controlled LED lights and a synchronized soundtrack triggered by radio control along key areas of the parade route. The predecessor to the 1972 Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade was the Electrical Water Pageant, a show made up of fourteen 25-foot-tall screens with electrical lights placed on them. Not long after the Electrical Water Pageant debuted, Card Walker commissioned the development of what became the Main Street Electrical Parade to provide Disneyland with a similar nighttime visual spectacle. The parade's design used nickel–cadmium batteries, which the Disney movie studio had recently started using, and Italian-made miniature bulbs that Disneyland staff had seen in light displays along Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Disney arranged for the parade's original floats to be constructed by Silvestri, the Chicago-based company responsible for those holiday displays. Two months to deadline, Disney discovered the float contractor was far behind schedule and decided to finish the floats themselves in a backstage area at Disneyland. Disney brought on welders, electricians and other temporary workers to assemble the floats and hand-tint and install 500,000 bulbs. The engineers who helped create the parade also created the first automated parade show-control program. This allowed the 2,000-foot long parade route to contain multiple radio-activated "trigger zones". Using radio-activated triggers as each float entered a zone, the audience would hear float-specific music through the park's audio system. Each zone was between 70 to 100 feet long, and the zoned system meant that every person watching the parade would experience the same show, no matter where they stood along the parade route. As part of Project Stardust, the Disneyland Resort—and specifically Disneyland park—has been undergoing a number of enhancements to continue to deliver a world-class guest experience. The enhancements have ranged from overall beautification of the theme park to maximizing guest flow. The latest of these efforts include a new entrance for Tomorrowland.
A new look will be completed in 2020! When planning, Imagineers wanted to open up the space and improve access into the land. However, it was important to maintain its overall complexion—with trees and beautiful planters. As shown in this rendering, guests will soon be entering Tomorrowland on a widened pathway lined with elliptical planters that are filled with swirls of colorful flowers. You may recognize that this new threshold into the future pays homage to Tomorrowland entrances of yesterday. Disney Imagineer Kim Irvine noted, “Tomorrowland has always represented a feeling of optimism. [Imagineer] John Hench originally designed the land with this notion of being wide open to innovative ideas and technology. When we started looking at the different Tomorrowland entrances through the years, both the 1955 and 1967 versions had a very optimistic appeal which resonated with us.” When “new” Tomorrowland debuted in 1967, Walt Disney and his Imagineers envisioned this land as a “world on the move,” featuring a variety of futuristic vehicles zooming around and the Googie architecture that had become representative of the Space Age. Today’s Imagineers are creating Space Age-inspired spires, which will flank the entrance. We look forward to revealing the new entrance soon, welcoming future generations to tomorrow. source: Disney Parks blog |
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