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Sleeping Beauty Castle – A Present for Disneyland on its Birthday

Walt Disney and Shirley Temple dedicate the Sleeping Beauty Castle Diorama

Disneyland gave itself a wonderful present yesterday for its 53rd Anniversary when it was announced that by late this year the Sleeping Beauty Castle Diorama would re-open with a new show.

When the attraction is unveiled later this year, the “show” will differ from the dioramas of the 1980s and ‘90s, returning to the unique style of the original 1957 show and motion picture. Enhanced with new scenes and special effects magic, the re-Imagineered attraction will employ technology not available in the 1950s to represent scenes from the story of Sleeping Beauty, including the magic of good fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, and the more sinister spells of the evil Maleficent.

This is a most magnificent development and as along as Maleficent keeps her evil fingers out of the development, Sleeping Beauty Castle should return to entertain new generations of Disneyland visitors.

The full press release is below the cut.

(Above photo: . Photo courtesy and copyright Disney)

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Fifty-Three Years of Memories at Disneyland

53 years ago today Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom of Disneyland opened to the world with a, rare for the time, live broadcast television special featuring some of the biggest stars of the day and a crowd of excited invite only guests (plus about an equal… Read More »Fifty-Three Years of Memories at Disneyland

“Plaid Dreams” Disneyland Guest Relations Goofing Off

Sometimes the stuff I find on Youtube is so bizzare I can’t resist posting it here. This video is called “Plaid Dreams” and was produced by Disneyland Guest Relations Cast Members circa 2001. It’s full of in-jokes and faces that will be familiar to anyone… Read More »“Plaid Dreams” Disneyland Guest Relations Goofing Off

Mickey Pig!

Mickey Pig, Mickey Pig. Does whatever a Mickey Pig does… What do you do when you own an animal that develops a spot that resembles that most famous of mice, Mickey Mouse? Well you try to get Disney to buy it from you to be… Read More »Mickey Pig!

This Week On The BIG 3 – Disney Fan Podcast Review

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Ricky revisits Wall-E and Pleasure Island on Inside the Magic, has he changed his mind? From The WDWRadio Show, Jeff Pepper helps answer email and, wait, Lou smells? And we find Paul from Window to the Magic where else? Disneyland. All this and more on… Read More »This Week On The BIG 3 – Disney Fan Podcast Review

Link Sundae for a Sunday

Had a nice day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios yesterday. Arrived 10 minutes after park opening and already the Toy Story Midway Mania! Fast Pass return time was for 11:45. When we returned at 11:45 all the FP for the day were gone. We waiting once… Read More »Link Sundae for a Sunday

Weekend Reading – Disney Link Roundup

  • July 23-25 dedicated Disney’s Cast Members will volunteer their time to raise money for United Arts with the annual “Encore” choral event. The theme this year is “Anything can happen”. More information at encorecentral.org.
  • The Orlando Sentinel reports on the seemingly ubiquitous Brazilian tour groups that crowd Walt Disney World this time of year. Brazil is third, behind Canada and UK, for foreign tourists to Central Florida.
  • The NY Times chimes in with their feelings about Disneyland’s new Dream Home. I’ll give you a hint, they weren’t amused.
  • WALL-E and EVE Pez Dispensers, available in Europe.
  • Action Figure Insider reports on the coming availability of some collectibles for some forgotten Disney characters.
  • Pop & Politics blog has an outsider’s view on Disney and WALL-E.
  • Please take a look at my current selection of eBay auctions. Nine end tomorrow. There are some great scrapbook pages, and some unique Disney collectibles. Your support helps The Disney Blog and you get something collectible in return. Thank you.

Finally, below the cut is a short video of one crash test dummy riding into another. This will likely be evidence #1 when Disney tries to keep Segways out of the parks in the recent lawsuit.

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Disney’s Fast Pass, a problem looking for a solution

I missed linking to the Orlando Sentinel‘s article on the listing of expired and counterfeit fast passes on eBay. But a post on MouseExtra reminded me that I really felt like Disney has a solution that’s readily available to this problem. Get rid of the… Read More »Disney’s Fast Pass, a problem looking for a solution