Happy Birthday, Disneyland!

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54 years young!

This year we’ve already seen the opening of the updated “it’s a small world” attraction, the new Celebrate! A Street Party, the Celebration Round-up and BBQ dining experience, and the new Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. Over at DCA, the Food and Wine Festival returned for a 4th year, Cocina Cucamonga moved to a new location with an expanded menu, Mickey’s Fun Wheel opened, and the Blue Sky Cellar preview center just re-opened with updated exhibits on what we can expect in DCA’s continuing expansion.

I think Disneyland received some of its birthday presents early this year with the premiere of the new Summer Nightastic! event, featuring the return of revamped favorites like Disney’s Electrical Parade and Fantasmic!, and the new TLT Dance Club, Pixie Hollow Enchantment, and the all new fireworks show, Magical, where Dumbo flies around the castle.

The Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend returns Labor Day weekend, with events Friday-Sunday – Lee and I will be running the half marathon on Sunday. And the very first D23 Expo takes place at the Anaheim Convention Center September 10-13.

Disney’s HalloweenTime returns on September 25, including the popular Haunted Mansion Holiday and the return of Mickey’s Trick or Treat Party at DCA on selected nights in October.

Also this fall, the very first DVC resort in California, The Villas at Disney’s Grand Californian Resort & Spa opens its doors.

The holidays return to Disneyland in November as Disneyland is transformed into the “Merriest Place on Earth”, with all of the special decorations, parade and fireworks that go with it.

Next spring the new Disney’s World of Color nighttime spectacular opens in DCA and who knows what else Disney might have planned?

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Happy Birthday, Disneyland!

AllEars pages on some of the events and attractions mentioned above:
“it’s a small world”
Celebrate! A Street Party
Celebration Roundup and BBQ
Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique
Disney’s California Food and Wine Festival
Mickey’s Fun Wheel
Summer Nightastic!
Disney’s Electrical Parade
Fantasmic!
Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend
Mickey’s Trick or Treat Party

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Laura Gilbreath is a native of San Diego, CA. She has been making the trek up Interstate 5 to Disneyland since she was a small child and terrified of talking tikis and hitchhiking ghosts. She and her husband Lee enjoy trips to Disneyland and Walt Disney World, as well as sailings on the Disney Cruise Line.

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