If you got excited about the Fantasmic in your own backyard post, you’ll love this. Dean, obviously very talented with his video camera, built out a version of Soarin right in his house. Looks like a ton of fun.
Walt Disney Animation Studios is alive and well. Thanks to the Pixar buyout, Disney has the advantage of John Lasseter to head up this group and keep it rolling. In the past, this group has been the target of cut backs, layoffs and reorganization.
Adventures by Disney has released their 2009 destinations. New vacation spots include Bella, Italy, New York, New York, and the Montana’s Flathead River.
A Disneyland Frontier reader asked for a schedule of the fireworks in Hong Kong Disneyland. The schedule changes depending on the time of year, but currently you can see the fireworks every night at 9:00 PM.
You can see a calendar with a schedule on their site’s Monthly Calendar.
All attractions at Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure shut down while inspectors performed safety checks; almost all had reopened by Tuesday evening. At Knott’s Berry Farm, some park-goers found themselves stuck when power was cut during the quake and rides shut down; the rides all re-opened later in the day. No injuries were reported at either park.
CNN’s Ed Lavandera was at Disneyland in Anaheim, southeast of Los Angeles, with his family and felt the temblor. He said the shaking lasted about 5 seconds.
CNN affiliate KABC is reporting that Disneyland’s rides have been evacuated.
Lavandera was standing in line for a ride when he saw the ride’s top “shaking back and forth.” ”
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You could hear the metal kind of clanging around, and the ride was just ending, so for a moment … I thought maybe something was wrong with the ride. Then I realized the ride had already stopped moving and the ground was still moving,” he said.
This blogger went to Disneyland expecting the worst:
I expected it to look like a Mad Max wasteland, as depicted in the 2Pac and Dr. Dre music video of “California Love“. I was disappointed in this respect.
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