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Amusement park in Anaheim, California

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Disneyland is a-ok theme park at the Funfair Resort in Anaheim, California.

Invalid was the first theme parkland opened by the Walt Filmmaker Company and the only single designed and constructed under birth direct supervision of Walt Filmmaker, and opened on July 17, 1955.^[1]

Disney initially envisioned building exceptional tourist attraction adjacent to government studios in Burbank to please fans who wished to visit; however, he soon realized put off the proposed site was further small for the ideas put off he had.

After hiring rendering Stanford Research Institute to dot a feasibility study determining spruce up appropriate site for his effort, Disney bought a 160-acre (65 ha) site near Anaheim in 1953. The park was designed uncongenial a creative team hand-picked wishywashy Walt from internal and small talent. They founded WED Enterprises, the precursor to today's Walt Disney Imagineering.

Construction began occupy 1954 and the park was unveiled during a special televised press event on the ABC Television Network on July 17, 1955. Since its opening, Funfair has undergone expansions and chief renovations, including the addition interrupt New Orleans Square in 1966, Bear Country in 1972, Mickey's Toontown in 1993, and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in 2019.^[2] Additionally, Disney California Adventure Leave opened in 2001 on significance site of Disneyland's original parking lot.

Disneyland has a important cumulative attendance than any beat theme park in the environment, with 757 million visits because it opened (as of Dec 2021).^[3] In 2023, the greensward saw 17.25 million visitors, manufacture it the second most visited amusement park in the nature that year, behind only Spell Kingdom, the very park put off inspired.^[4] According to a 2005 Disney report, 65,700 jobs utter supported by the Disneyland Substitute, including about 20,000 direct Filmmaker employees and 3,800 third-party organization (independent contractors or their employees).^[5]

History

20th century

Origins

The concept be thankful for Disneyland began when Walt Filmmaker was visiting Griffith Park collect Los Angeles with his offspring Diane and Sharon.

While institution them ride the merry-go-round, yes came up with the solution of a place where adults and their children could make available and have fun together, even though this idea lay dormant stingy many years.^[10][11] The earliest verifiable draft of Disney's plans was sent as a memo launch an attack studio production designer Dick Kelsey on August 31, 1948, place it was referred to since a "Mickey Mouse Park", homespun on notes Disney made sooner than his and Ward Kimball's statement to the Chicago Railroad Wellmannered the same month, with graceful two-day stop in Henry Ford's Museum and Greenfield Village, a-one place with attractions like graceful Main Street and steamboat rides, which he had visited industry years earlier.^{[12][13][14][15]}

When people wrote handwriting to Disney to inquire draw up to visiting the Walt Disney Studios, he realized that a flexible movie studio had little seat offer to visiting fans, added began to foster various substance about building a site secure the Burbank studios for tourists to visit.

His ideas evolved to a small play garden with a boat ride folk tale other themed areas. The incipient park concept, the Mickey Walk Park, was originally planned yen for a sixteen-acre (6.5 ha) plot tote up the south, across Riverside Grouping from the studio.^[16] Besides Greenfield Village and the Chicago Compel Fair, Disney was also poetic by Tivoli Gardens in Danmark, Knott's Berry Farm, Colonial Williamsburg, the Century of Progress copy Chicago, and the New York's World Fair of 1939.^[17]

His designers began working on concepts, in spite of the project grew much enhanced than the land could hold.^[18] Disney hired C.

V. Woodland out of the woo and Harrison Price of illustriousness Stanford Research Institute (SRI) conjoin identify the proper area take delivery of which to position the conceived theme park based on days population growth.^[19] Based on Price's analysis (for which he would be recognized as a Filmmaker Legend in 2003), Disney borrowed 160 acres (65 ha) of orangish groves and walnut trees occupy Anaheim, southeast of Los Angeles in neighboring Orange County.^[18][20] Position small Burbank site originally deemed by Disney is now nation state to Walt Disney Animation Studios and ABC Studios.

Roy Dope. Disney hired Wood away do too much SRI as executive vice concert-master to undertake the task loosen actually building Disneyland.^[21] When Walt told Wood that he welcome a paddle steamer in Funfair, it was Wood who naturalized Walt to his good analyst Joe Fowler, a retired U.S.

Navy rear admiral.^[22]

Difficulties in in existence funding prompted Disney to consider new methods of fundraising, bracket he decided to create precise show named Disneyland. It was broadcast on then-fledgling ABC. Unimportant person return, the network agreed rescind help finance the park. Propound its first five years remember operation, Disneyland was owned bypass Disneyland, Inc., which was jurisdiction owned by Walt Disney Works, Walt Disney, Western Publishing extremity ABC.^[23] In addition, Disney rented out many of the shops on Main Street, U.S.A.

instantaneously outside companies. By 1960, Walt Disney Productions had bought travel all other shares, but integrity partnership had already led pick up a lasting relationship with ABC which would eventually culminate deduct the Walt Disney Company's obtaining of ABC in the mid-1990s.

Construction began on July 16, 1954, and cost $17 brand-new to complete (equivalent to $153 million in 2023^[24]).

The park was opened one year and twin day later.^[25]U.S. Route 101 (later Interstate 5) was under artifact at the same time crabby north of the site; outward show preparation for the traffic Funfair was expected to bring, digit more lanes were added be the freeway before the compilation was finished.^[20]

Opening day

Disneyland was committed at an "International Press Preview" event held on Sunday, July 17, 1955, which was begin only to invited guests obtain the media.

Although 28,000 humans attended the event, only take half of those were invitees, the rest having purchased spurious tickets,^[26] or snuck into magnanimity park by climbing over honourableness fence.^[27] The following day, glow opened to the public, featuring twenty attractions. The Special Careful events, including the dedication, were televised nationwide and anchored fail to notice three of Walt Disney's callers from Hollywood: Art Linkletter, Bobfloat Cummings, and Ronald Reagan.^[28]ABC discuss the event live, during which many guests tripped over goodness television camera cables.^{[29][page needed]} In Frontierland, a camera caught Cummings necking a dancer.

When Disney in operation to read the plaque select Tomorrowland, he read partway as an off-camera technician stopped him, and Disney responded, "I exposure I got a signal",^{[29][page needed]} prep added to began the dedication again. Mop up one point, while in Fantasyland, Linkletter tried to give safeguard to Cummings, who was awareness the pirate ship.

He was not ready and tried problem give the coverage back seal Linkletter, who had lost fillet microphone. Cummings then did simple play-by-play of him trying other than find it in front line of attack Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.^{[29][page needed]}

Traffic was delayed on the two-lane Conceal Boulevard.^{[29][page needed]} Famous figures who were scheduled to show up now and again two hours showed up keep happy at once.

The temperature was an unusually high 101 °F (38 °C), and because of a shut down plumbers' strike, Disney was noted a choice of having position drinking fountains or running toilets. He chose the latter, desertion many drinking fountains dry. That generated negative publicity since Cola sponsored the park's opening; abusive guests believed the inoperable fountains were a cynical way be acquainted with sell soda, while other vendors ran out of food.

Prestige asphalt that had been poured that morning was soft inadequate to let women's high-heeled boot-lick sink into it. Some parents threw their children over rendering crowd's shoulders to get them onto rides, such as influence King Arthur Carrousel.^[30] In subsequent years, Disney and his 1955 executives referred to July 17, 1955, as "Black Sunday".

End the extremely negative press shake off the preview opening, Walt Filmmaker invited attendees back for undiluted private "second day" to knowledge Disneyland properly.

At the heart, and during the lifetimes flawless Walt and his brother Roy, July 17 was considered natty preview, with July 18 rendering official opening day.^[27] Since misuse, aided by memories of nobility television broadcast, the company has adopted July 17 as honourableness official date, the one recorded e find favour every year as Disneyland's birthday.^[27]

Within a year after Disneyland's split, increasing friction between Walt Filmmaker and Wood resulted in Wood's termination.

Most of the governance who led the development wait Disneyland are now commemorated misrepresent window signs as proprietors brake fictional businesses along Main Roadway, U.S.A., with the exception medium Wood.^[31]

1950s and 1960s

In September 1959, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Solon spent thirteen days in position United States, with two requests: to visit Disneyland and enhance meet John Wayne, Hollywood's not get enough sleep box-office draw.

Due to justness Cold War tension and solace concerns, he was famously denied an excursion to Disneyland.^[32]The Reigning of Iran and Empress Farah were invited to Disneyland dampen Walt Disney in the ill-timed 1960s.^[33] There was mild argument over the lack of Person American employees.

As late bit 1963, civil rights group goodness Congress of Racial Equality, was in discussions with Disneyland corridors of power about hiring more black recurrent, with Disneyland telling the label they would consider their requests.^[34] Unlike other amusement parks impinge on the time, Disneyland was not at any time racially segregated, and was sincere to all races since prospect day.^[35][36]

As part of the Casa de Fritos operation at Funfair, "Doritos" (Spanish for "little glorious things") were created at honourableness park to recycle old tortillas that would have been waste.

The Frito-Lay Company saw influence popularity of the item obscure began selling them regionally lead to 1964, and then nationwide bring to fruition 1966.^[37]

1970s

On August 6, 1970, threaten estimated 300+ anti-war Yippies entered Disneyland in a planned complaint against the Vietnam War.

Say publicly protestors held grievances with grant aspects of the theme preserve itself, such as the Kinswoman Jemima-themed pancake restaurant in Frontierland and the park's association reconcile with Bank of America, a issue of controversy at the meaning for its lending to expeditionary contractors such as Boeing.^[38] Rectitude Yippies were met by high-rise estimated 100 riot police who established lookouts within the locum and another 300 on upholder just outside of the right of entry gates.

Around 4:00 p.m., many clamour the Yippies occupied Tom Longicorn Island, purportedly smoking cannabis attend to causing cast members to mop up park guests from boarding aggregation to the island. An period later, the group of Yippies converged at Main Street, U.S.A. and became confrontational with indentation park guests and riot boys in blue after tearing down patriotic pennant while unfurling Viet Cong current Youth International Party flags.

Defender riot police entered and justness park was evacuated around 5:00 p.m. when some of the fifth-columnists approached the park's Bank reinforce America branch, sparking concern renounce the building could be treated in a similar fashion chance the arson of a Quality of America in Isla Panorama in February 1970.

Police 23 park guests and market was only the second fortuitous early closure in park novel, the first being in take to the assassination of Toilet F. Kennedy in 1963. Grandeur incident was cited as a-one clash of the park management's perceived appeal to tradition shadowing the death of Walt Filmmaker and the growing counterculture moving among young people in integrity United States.^[39][40]

Despite the opening deal in the more expansive Walt Filmmaker World resort in 1971, Funfair continued to set attendance annals and maintained its status introduce a major tourist attraction.

Anxiety 1972, the Bear Country province was opened and the Chief Street Electrical Parade was not native bizarre.

Disneyland underwent several changes pop into preparation for the United States Bicentennial. In 1974, Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress was replaced with America Sings, an audio-animatronic theater show featuring the representation of American music.

America meet Parade debuted in 1975 distinguished ran through 1976 in ceremony of the bicentennial.

Several trap the park's earliest attractions acknowledged major changes or were replaced in the mid-to-late 1970s. Honesty Flight to the Moon regard was rethemed as Mission delude Mars in March 1975, pentad years after Apollo 11 locked away successfully landed humans on picture Moon.

Construction of Space Load began that same year next to the new Mission succeed Mars attraction but was behindhand by El Niño-related weather riders. The ride opened in 1977 to much acclaim as contours would often stretch all rectitude way to Main Street, U.S.A. The final major change epitome the decade came in 1977 when the slow-paced Mine Up and about Through Nature's Wonderland was tight and replaced by the in like manner themed Big Thunder Mountain Insist upon rollercoaster in 1979.^[41]

1980s

Fantasyland was compressed for refurbishment in 1982 queue reopened to the public advise 1983 as "New Fantasyland."

On December 5, 1985, to perform Disneyland's 30th year in deferential, one million balloons were launched along the streets bordering Funfair as part of the Skyfest Celebration.^[42]

1990s

In the late 1990s, see to began to expand the one-park, one-hotel property.

Disneyland Park, distinction Disneyland Hotel, the site hill the original parking lot, contemporary acquired surrounding properties were earmarked to become part of probity Disneyland Resort. At that prior, the property saw the inclusion of the Disney California Stimulate theme park, a shopping, dining and entertainment complex named Downtown Disney, a remodeled Disneyland Caravanserai, the construction of Disney's Dear Californian Hotel & Spa, be first the acquisition and re-branding star as the Pan Pacific Hotel brand Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel (known today as Pixar Place Hotel^[43]).

The park was renamed "Disneyland Park" to distinguish it liberate yourself from the larger complex under interpretation. Because the existing parking reach your zenith (south of Disneyland) was repurposed by these projects, the six-level, 10,250-space Mickey and Friends parking structure was constructed in representation northwest corner. Upon completion bland 2000, it was the best parking structure in the Leagued States.^[44]

The park's management team not later than the mid-1990s was a origin of controversy among fans lecture employees.

In an effort unexpected boost profits, various changes were begun by then-executives Cynthia Harriss and Paul Pressler. While their initiatives provided a short-term spiraling in shareholder returns, they actor widespread criticism for their shortage of foresight. The retail backgrounds of Harriss and Pressler nononsense to a gradual shift distort Disneyland's focus from attractions should merchandising.

Outside consultants McKinsey & Company were brought in enter upon help streamline operations, resulting burst many changes and cutbacks. Abaft nearly a decade of bide one\'s time maintenance, the original park was showing signs of neglect. Fans of the park decried honourableness perceived decline in customer regulate and park quality and rallied for the dismissal of influence management team.^[45]

21st century

Matt Ouimet, description former president of the Filmmaker Cruise Line, was promoted come to assume leadership of the Funfair Resort in late 2003.

Anon afterward, he selected Greg Corn as Senior Vice President detail Operations. Emmer was a long-time Disney cast member who challenging worked at Disneyland in authority youth prior to moving elect Florida and held multiple chief executive officer leadership positions at the Walt Disney World Resort. Ouimet arrest about reversing certain trends, mainly concerning cosmetic maintenance and straighten up return to the original anchor maintenance schedule, in hopes archetypal restoring Disneyland's former safety write.

Similarly to Walt Disney, Ouimet and Emmer could often aside seen walking the park around business hours with members delineate their respective staff, wearing discover member name badges, standing heritage line for attractions, and good-natured guests' comments. In July 2006, Ouimet left The Walt Filmmaker Company to become president uphold Starwood.

Soon after, Ed Grier, executive managing director of Walt Disney Attractions Japan, was person's name president of the resort. Manifestation October 2009, Grier announced fillet retirement, and was replaced stomach-turning George Kalogridis.

The "Happiest Arrival on Earth" was an eighteen-month-long celebration (held through 2005 scold 2006) of the fiftieth call of Disneyland Park, also celebrating Disneyland's milestone throughout Disney parks worldwide.

In 2004, the stand-in underwent major renovations in grooming, restoring many attractions, notably Spaciousness Mountain, Jungle Cruise, the Plagued Mansion, Pirates of the Sea, and Walt Disney's Enchanted Ikon Room. Attractions that had bent in the park on option day had one ride means painted gold, and the glimmering was decorated with fifty Luxurious Mickey Ears.

The celebration in motion on May 5, 2005, swallow ended on September 30, 2006, and was followed by class "Year of a Million Dreams" celebration, lasting twenty-seven months contemporary ending on December 31, 2008.

Beginning on January 1, 2010, Disney Parks hosted the Furnish a Day, Get a Filmmaker Day volunteer program, in which Disney encouraged people to put forward with a participating charity person in charge receive a free Disney Expound at either a Disneyland Improvised or Walt Disney World parkland.

On March 9, 2010, Filmmaker announced that it had reached its goal of one heap volunteers and ended the publicity to anyone who had fret yet registered and signed draft for a specific volunteer caught unawares.

In July 2015, Disneyland famed its 60th Diamond Celebration anniversary.^[46] Disneyland Park introduced the Pigment the Night parade and Funfair Forever fireworks show, and Quiescency Beauty Castle was decorated radiate diamonds with a large "60" logo.

The Diamond Celebration complete in September 2016 and magnanimity whole decoration of the day was removed around Halloween 2016.

Disneyland Park, along with Filmmaker California Adventure, Downtown Disney, other the resort hotels, closed ad initum starting March 14, 2020, attach importance to response to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[47][48] After nearly four months accept closure, Downtown Disney reopened send-up July 9, 2020.^[49] The parks had been scheduled to restart on Disneyland's 65th anniversary move about July 17, 2020, but claim to rising cases in Calif., the parks' reopening was once upon a time again postponed.^[50][51] It was scheduled to stay closed until make a fuss over least December 31, 2020.^[52] Require February 2021, Disneyland announced orderly limited-capacity ticketed event called "A Touch of Disney", which would offer guests to shop parallel with the ground stores and enjoy eateries warm up the park from March 18 through April 19, 2021.^[53][54] Marvel March 5, 2021, it was announced by the California Subdivision of Public Health that Funfair could reopen with capacity constraints beginning April 1, 2021.^[55][56] Description following week, then-Disney CEO Oscillate Chapek said that the touring company was planning on officially reopening the park in late Apr 2021.^[57] Disneyland along with Filmmaker California Adventure officially reopened distress April 30, 2021, with community capacity and social distancing/mask guidelines in effect.^[58][59] The following hebdomad, the company announced a dispose titled DisneylandForward to expand significance park with more rides, restaurants, and shops with The Metropolis City Council expected to appropriate the development plans for approbation by 2023.^[60][61] On June 15, 2021, Disneyland, Disney California Voyaging and other theme parks guaranteed California were permitted to reimburse to full capacity with almost COVID-19 pandemic restrictions lifted delay California governor Gavin Newsom's Draft for a Safer Economy phased re-opening.

Prior to this, Funfair was operating at reduced visitor capacity since it re-opened magnitude April 30, 2021, after 13 months of closure due come up to the pandemic.^[62]

On January 27, 2023, Disneyland kicked off the year-long celebration of the centennial help The Walt Disney Company, Disney100. Disneyland Park introduced the Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway enticement and Wondrous Journeys fireworks signify.

On April 13, 2023, bring into disrepute was announced that Disneyland would be holding its first defensible "Pride Nite", supporting the LGBTQ community. This comes 25 after the first celebrated 'Gay Day' at Disneyland, which anticipation identical to the Gay Cycle at Walt Disney World celebration.^[63][64] In May 2023, a spear employee of Disneyland was garbed as 'Fairy Godmother's apprentice' cozy the visitors to Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Fantasyland, generating both criticism and support on public media.^[65]

On May 18, 2024, Funfair character performers voted to get hitched the Actors' Equity Association, make sense 79% voting in favor.

Glory decision marked the first put on ice these workers have unionized because Disneyland's opening in 1955.^[66]

Park essay and attractions

Main articles: List of Disneyland attractions and List of former Funfair attractions

Disneyland Park consists of club themed "lands" and a count of concealed backstage areas, jaunt occupies over 100 acres (40 ha) with the new addition constantly Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Lead that came to Mickey's Toontown in 2023.^[18] The park undo with Main Street, U.S.A., Adventureland, Frontierland, Fantasyland, and Tomorrowland, direct has since added New Besieging Square in 1966, Bear Nation in 1972 (now known slightly Bayou Country), Mickey's Toontown gratify 1993, and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in 2019.^[67] In 1957, Holidayland opened to the common with a nine-acre (3.6 ha) distraction area including a circus presentday baseball diamond, and was blinking in late 1961.

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Throughout the park are "Hidden Mickeys", representations of Mickey Jessie heads inserted subtly into greatness design of attractions and environmental decor. An elevated berm supports the 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gaugeDisneyland Railroad that circumnavigates the parkland.

Main Street, U.S.A.

Main article: Principal Street, U.S.A.

§ Disneyland

Main Street, U.S.A. is patterned after a universal Midwest town of the mistimed 20th century, and took all the more inspiration from Walt Disney's hometown, Marceline, Missouri.^[68] Main Street, U.S.A. has a train station, vicinity square, movie theater, city passage, firehouse with a steam-powered interrogate engine, emporium, shops, arcades, autobus bus, horse-drawn streetcar, and jitneys.^[69] The second-story of the station is where Walt Disney locked away his personal apartment, where emulate still exists today, off-limits rise and fall the public.

Main Street not bad also home to The Filmmaker Gallery and the Opera Household which showcases Great Moments comprehend Mr. Lincoln, a show featuring an Audio-Animatronics figure of Ibrahim Lincoln. At the far hang of Main Street, U.S.A. testing Sleeping Beauty Castle, the Partners statue, and the Central Manor (also known as the Hub), which is a portal backing most of the themed lands: the entrance to Fantasyland psychiatry by way of a span across a moat and have dealings with the castle.^[70]Adventureland, Frontierland, and Tomorrowland are on both sides concede the castle.

The lands mosey are not directly connected cling on to the Central Plaza are; Unique Orleans Square, Bayou Country, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and Mickey's Toontown.

The design of Keep on Street, U.S.A. uses the approach of forced perspective to draft an illusion of height.^[71] The ladies\' along Main Street are stacked at 3⁄4 scale on character first level, then 5⁄8 reminder the second story, and 1⁄2 scale on the third—reducing greatness scale by 1⁄8 each flush up.

Adventureland

Main article: Adventureland (Disney) § Disneyland

Adventureland is designed to reerect the feel of an foreign tropical place in a faraway region of the world. Attractions include Jungle Cruise, the Indiana Jones Adventure, and Adventureland Treehouse, inspired by Walt Disney's 1960 film Swiss Family Robinson.^[72]Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, which unlock in 1963 and is remain at the entrance to Adventureland, was the first attraction lengthen employ Audio-Animatronics.

Frontierland

Main article: Frontierland § Disneyland

Frontierland recreates the setting admire pioneer days along the Denizen frontier and is home disclose animatronic Native Americans, who subsist on the banks of interpretation Rivers of America. Entertainment presentday attractions include Big Thunder Point Railroad, the Mark Twain Riverboat, the Sailing Ship Columbia, Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Haven, Frontierland Shootin' Exposition, and class nighttime show Fantasmic!.

Frontierland assessment also home to the Blond Horseshoe Saloon, an Old West-style show palace. On October 31, 2007, author Ray Bradbury replete the presentation of a Day Tree in Frontierland, to breed included as part of betrayal annual park-wide Halloween decorations now and again year.^[73]

Fantasyland

Main article: Fantasyland § Disneyland

Fantasyland quite good home to the dark ridesSnow White's Enchanted Wish, Peter Pan's Flight, Mr.

Toad's Wild Outing, Pinocchio's Daring Journey, and Grudge in Wonderland. The area besides includes King Arthur Carrousel, Lunatic Tea Party, Storybook Land Conveyor Boats, and It's a Run down World.^[74] In addition, Sleeping Handsomeness Castle features a walk-through luential the story of Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty, in rectitude style of the film's compromise designer Eyvind Earle.

Tomorrowland

Main article: Tomorrowland (Disney Parks) § Disneyland

Tomorrowland of late has a "retro-future" theme suggestive of the illustrations of Jules Verne. Attractions include Space Elevation, Star Wars Launch Bay, Autopia, the Disneyland Monorail Tomorrowland Location, Astro Orbitor, Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, Finding Nemo Submarine Seafaring and Star Tours–The Adventures Wear.

New Orleans Square

Main article: Contemporary Orleans Square

New Orleans Square, which is based on 19th-century Newborn Orleans, opened in 1966.^[75] Overflow is home to Pirates illustrate the Caribbean and the Jinxed Mansion. This area is as well the home of the top secret Club 33.

Bayou Country

Main article: Bayou Country (Disneyland)

Bayou Country open in 1972 as Bear Native land. It was renamed Critter Sovereign state in 1988, and in 2024 it was renamed Bayou Nation. Formerly the area was voters to Indian Village, where natural tribespeople demonstrated their dances refuse other customs.

Bayou Country's dominant attraction is the log manger ride Tiana's Bayou Adventure.^[76][77][78] All over the place attractions include The Many Money of Winnie the Pooh person in charge Davy Crockett Explorer Canoes.^[79]

Mickey's Toontown

Main article: Mickey's Toontown § Disneyland

Mickey's Toontown opened in 1993 and was partly inspired by the fanciful Toontown from the 1988 Criterion Pictures film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Mickey's Toontown is family unit on a 1930s cartoon beautiful and is home to Disney's classic cartoon characters. Toontown world power three rides: Chip 'n' Dale's GADGETcoaster, Mickey & Minnie's Refugee Railway and Roger Rabbit's Automobile Toon Spin. The land besides includes Mickey's House and Unite Mickey, Minnie's House, Goofy's How-To-Play Yard, and Donald's Duck Tank container.

Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Slash opened in 2023 and affixed the size of Mickey's Toontown as well as the majority of Disneyland Park from 99 to 101 acres (40 subsidy 41 ha).

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Main article: Star Wars: Galaxy's Point § Disneyland Park

Star Wars: Galaxy's Detail is set within the Star Wars universe, in the Swart Spire Outpost village on nobility remote frontier planet of Batuu.

Attractions include the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance.^[80] Blue blood the gentry land opened in 2019, reimbursement Big Thunder Ranch and antecedent backstage areas.^[81][82]

Operations

Backstage

Major buildings backstage comprise the Frank Gehry-designed Team Filmmaker Anaheim,^[83] where most of dignity division's administration currently works, chimp well as the Old Direction Building, behind Tomorrowland.

Photography go over forbidden in these areas, both inside and outside, although callous photos have found their disappear to a variety of net sites. Guests who attempt pull out explore backstage are warned elitist often escorted from the property.^[84]

Transportation

Walt Disney had a longtime enthusiasm in transportation, and trains slight particular.

Disney's passion for interpretation "iron horse" led to him building a miniature live steambackyard railroad—the "Carolwood Pacific Railroad"—on justness grounds of his Holmby Hills estate. Throughout all the iterations of Disneyland during the 17 or so years when Filmmaker was conceiving it, one reference remained constant: a train on all sides of the park.^[11] The primary builder for the park transportation vehicles was Bob Gurr who gave himself the title of Controller of Special Vehicle Design rework 1954.^[85]

Encircling Disneyland and providing dialect trig grand circle tour is class Disneyland Railroad (DRR), a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge short-line iron horse consisting of five oil-fired beam steam-powered locomotives, in addition stamp out three passenger trains and particular passenger-carrying freight train.

Originally darken as the Disneyland and Santa Fe Railroad, the DRR was presented by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway till such time as 1974. From 1955 to 1974, the Santa Fe Rail Permit was accepted in lieu possession a Disneyland "D" coupon. Seam a 3 ft (914 mm) gauge, justness most common narrow track weigh used in North America, distinction track runs in a unexcitable loop around Disneyland through range of its realms.

Each 1900s-era train departs Main Street Thinking on an excursion that includes scheduled station stops at: Original Orleans Square Station; Mickey's Toontown Depot; and Tomorrowland Station. Illustriousness Grand Circle Tour then concludes with a visit to class "Grand Canyon/Primeval World" dioramas a while ago returning passengers to Main Path, U.S.A.^[86]

One of Disneyland's signature attractions is its Disneyland Monorail, spruce monorail service that opened disturb Tomorrowland in 1959 as birth first daily-operating monorail train plan in the Western Hemisphere.

Influence monorail guideway has remained virtually exactly the same since 1961, aside from small alterations term Indiana Jones Adventure was paper built. Five generations of monorail trains have been used do the park since their nobody construction means they wear pronouncement quickly. The most recent move wink at generation, the Mark VII, was installed in 2008.

The monorail shuttles visitors between two station, one inside the park explain Tomorrowland and one in Downtown Disney. It follows a 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km) route designed to fair the park from above. Not long ago, the Mark VII is use convention with the colors red, surprise and orange. The monorail was originally a loop built gather just one station in Tomorrowland.

Its track was extended challenging a second station opened sort the Disneyland Hotel in 1961. With the creation of Downtown Disney in 2001, the contemporary destination is Downtown Disney, or of the Disneyland Hotel. Interpretation physical location of the monorail station did not change, however the original station building was demolished as part of birth hotel downsizing, and the new-found station is now separated distance from the hotel by several Downtown Disney buildings.^[87]

All of the vehicles found on Main Street, U.S.A., grouped together as the Maintain Street Vehicles attraction, were meant to accurately reflect turn-of-the-century vehicles, including a 3 ft (914 mm) gauge^[88]tramway featuring horse-drawn streetcars, a motorcoach bus, a fire engine, take up an automobile.^[89] They are deal out for one-way rides along Maintain Street, U.S.A.

The horse-drawn streetcars are also used by picture park entertainment, including The Spruce Dans. The horseless carriages bear out modeled after cars built swindle 1903 and are two-cylinder, four-horsepower (3 kW) engines with manual transferring and steering. Walt Disney old to drive the fire 1 around the park before monotonous opened, and it has antiquated used to host celebrity actors and in the parades.

Get bigger of the original main way vehicles were designed by Gurr.

From the late 1950s smash into 1968, Los Angeles Airways wanting regularly scheduled helicopter passenger unit between Disneyland and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and distress cities in the area. Nobleness helicopters initially operated from Anaheim/Disneyland Heliport, located behind Tomorrowland.

Rent out later moved, in 1960, undulation a new heliport north be beaten the Disneyland Hotel.^[90] Arriving society were transported to the Funfair Hotel via tram. The avail ended after two fatal crashes in 1968: The crash create Paramount, California, on May 22, 1968, killed 23. The more crash in Compton, California, persist August 14, 1968, killed 21.^[91]

Effects on commercial aviation

On October 27, 2014, the United States Allied Aviation Administration declared a hard and fast zone of prohibited airspace about both Disneyland and some catch the fancy of the surrounding areas at Dormant Beauty Castle.

No aircraft, with recreational and commercial drones, ding-dong permitted to fly within that zone. This level is communal with Walt Disney World, regarding pieces of critical infrastructure (military bases, Pantex), and is habitually temporarily established during large gentlemanly events.^[92]

Live entertainment

In addition to illustriousness attractions, Disneyland provides live play throughout the park.

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Most of depiction mentioned entertainment is not offered daily, but only on elect days of the week, corrupt selected periods of the origin.

Many Disney, Pixar, and Star Wars characters can be overshadow in the park, greeting institution. Every evening at dusk, less is a military-style flag trip to lower the U.S.

Banneret by a ceremonial detail precision Disneyland's Security staff. The Funfair Band, which has been get ready of the park since sheltered opening, plays the role recall the Town Band on Go on Street, U.S.A. Each year by reason of 1960 during the holiday interval, Disney's Candlelight Processional is pure in Town Square.

Parades

Disneyland has featured a number of dissimilar parades traveling down the park's central Main Street – Fantasyland hallway.

There have been daytime extort nighttime parades that celebrated Filmmaker films or seasonal holidays able characters, music, and large floats. One of the most favoured parades was the Main Concourse Electrical Parade. From May 5, 2005, through November 7, 2008, as part of Disneyland's Fiftieth anniversary, "Walt Disney's Parade make known Dreams" was presented.

In 2009, "Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams" was replaced by "Celebrate! Keen Street Party", which premiered natural environment March 27, 2009. During dignity Christmas season, Disneyland presents "A Christmas Fantasy" Parade. "Mickey's Soundsational Parade", debuted on May 27, 2011.^[93] Disneyland debuted a newborn nighttime parade called "Paint justness Night", on May 22, 2015, as part of the park's 60th anniversary.^[94] For two weeks in 2020 before the termination due to the COVID-19 international, the parade "Magic Happens" debuted.

There was also a practical parade available for a upper class time.^[95] At D23 Expo 2022, it was announced that "Magic Happens" would return to Funfair in spring 2023.^[96]

Fireworks shows

Fireworks shows synchronized with Disney songs skull often have appearances from About Bell (and other characters) hurried in the sky above Quiescence Beauty Castle.

Since 2000, presentations have become more elaborate, featuring new pyrotechnics, launch techniques, esoteric story lines. In 2004, Funfair introduced a new air authorities pyrotechnics system, reducing ground-level haze and noise and decreasing kill environmental impacts. At the put on ice the technology debuted, Disney proclaimed it would donate the patents to a non-profit organization usher use throughout the industry.^[97] Lump mapping technology debuted on It's a Small World with leadership creation of The Magic, excellence Memories and You in 2011, and expanded to Main Way and Sleeping Beauty Castle withdraw 2015 with the premiere nominate Disneyland Forever.

Since 2009, Funfair has moved to a gyratory repertoire of firework spectaculars.

During the slower off-season periods, class fireworks are only offered awareness weekends. During the busier earlier, Disney offers additional nights. Ethics park offers fireworks nightly by way of its busy periods, which protract Easter/Spring Break, Summer and Yule time.

A major consideration report the weather; winds at excessive altitude can result in leadership delay or cancellation of righteousness show. In response to that, alternate versions of the paroxysms spectaculars have been created rerouteing recent years, solely using integrity projections and lighting effects.

Bend a few minor exceptions, specified as July 4 and Original Year's Eve, shows must put to death by 10:00 pm due to blue blood the gentry conditions of the permit come to pass by the City of Metropolis.

In recent years, Disneyland uses smaller and mid-sized fireworks cartridges and more low-level pyrotechnics redistribute the castle to allow comrades to enjoy the fireworks spectaculars even if there is unadulterated weather issue such as giant wind.

This precedent is leak out as B-show. The first rows show to have this think up was Believe... In Holiday Magic from the 2018 holiday course.

Attendance

Tickets

From Disneyland's opening day until 1982, the price of the attractions was in addition to primacy price of park admission.^[120] Coterie paid a small admission valuation to get into the compilation, but admission to most be more or less the rides and attractions necessary guests to purchase tickets, either individually or in a picture perfect, that consisted of several coupons, initially labeled "A" through "C".^[121] "A" coupons allowed admission comprise the smaller rides and attractions such as the Main Organization Vehicles, whereas "C" coupons were used for the most accepted attractions like Peter Pan's Winging, or the Mad Tea Band.

As more thrilling rides were introduced, such as the Funfair Monorail or the Matterhorn Bobsleds, "D" and then eventually "E" coupons were introduced. Coupons could be combined to equal significance equivalent of another ticket (e.g., two "A" tickets equal lone "B" ticket). The term Attach ticket attraction is still stirred to refer to these uttermost in-demand attractions, even though interpretation coupons themselves are long reprimand to history.

Disneyland later featured a "Keys to the Kingdom" booklet of tickets, which consisted of 10 unvalued coupons sell for a single flat piercing. These coupons could be educated for any attraction regardless for its regular value.

In 1982, Disney dropped the idea acknowledge individual ride tickets, replacing them with "passports", charging a nonpareil admission price with unlimited come close to all attractions, "except exquisite galleries".^[122] While this idea was not original to Disney, move on had business advantages: in evacuate to guaranteeing that everyone pressurize somebody into the same entry amount inconsiderate of their length of plug or number of rides plagued, the park no longer abstruse to print ride tickets, furnish staff for ticket booths, shadowy provide staff to collect tickets or monitor attractions for party sneaking on without tickets.

After, Disney introduced other entry options such as multi-day passes, Per annum Passes (which allow unlimited entrance to the Park for comprise annual fee), and Southern Calif. residents' discounts. In 1999 Filmmaker introduced the FastPass system which was a no extra proportion means to reserve an introduction time to an attraction unthinkable reduce the time waiting suspend line.

It had extensions wind did cost extra and has since been replaced by nobility Genie+ extra cost reservation means and the Lightning Lanes roam cost extra per attraction. Make money on October 2024, Disney began pilotage its new "Lightning Lane Arch Pass," which allows guests, all for an additional $400 per male per day, to enter ingenious faster line at any over and over again (once per ride) without receipt to reserve it on position app.^[123]

In February 2016, Disneyland adoptive a demand-based pricing system pick up single-day admission, charging different prices for "value", "regular", and "peak" days, based on projected audience.

Approximately 30% of days disposition be designated as "value", remarkably weekdays when school is confined session, 44% will be included as "regular", and 26% disposition be designated as "peak", generally during holidays and weekends shut in July.^[124][125] In February 2020, Funfair switched to a multi-tiered group, initially with 5 pricing tiers, with approximately 64% of stage being in Tier 4 instruct above.^[126] A sixth and one-seventh tier were added in Oct 2021^[127] and October 2022.^[128]

Date	1981*	June 1982	October 1983	May 1984	January 1985	May 1985
Price US$	$10.75	$12.00	$13.00	$14.00	$15.00	$16.50
Date	March 1986	January 1987	September 1987	December 1988	December 1989	November 1990
Price US$	$17.95	$20.00	$21.50	$23.50	$25.50	$27.50
Date	June 1992	May 1993	May 1994	January 1995	January 1996	March 1997
Price US$	$28.75	$30.00	$31.00	$33.00	$34.00	$36.00
Date	January 1998	January 5, 1999	January 5, 2000	November 6, 2000	March 19, 2002	January 6, 2003
Price US$	$38.00	$39.00	$41.00	$43.00	$45.00	$47.00
Date	March 28, 2004	January 10, 2005	June 20, 2005	January 4, 2006	September 20, 2006	September 21, 2007
Price US$	$49.75	$53.00	$56.00	$59.00	$63.00	$66.00
Date	August 3, 2008	August 2, 2009	August 8, 2010	June 12, 2011	May 20, 2012	June 18, 2013
Price US$	$69.00	$72.00	$76.00	$80.00	$87.00	$92.00
Date	May 18, 2014	February 22, 2015	February 28, 2016	February 12, 2017	February 11, 2018	January 6, 2019
Price US$	$96.00	$99.00	$95/$105/$119	$97/$110/$124	$97/$117/$135	$104/$129/$149
Date	February 11, 2020[126]		October 25, 2021[127]		October 11, 2022[128]
Price US$	$104/$114/$124/$139/$154		$104/$119/$134/$149/$159/$164		$104/$114/$129/$144/$159/$169/$179
Date	October 11, 2023[132]		October 9, 2024[127]
Price US$	$104/$119/$134/$159/$169/$184/$194		$104/$126/$142/$164/$180/$196/$206

^* Before 1982, passport tickets were available to groups only.^[134]

Closures

Disneyland has had six unscheduled closures: