It was a pretty huge weekend at the Disneyland Resort with the two biggest developments being the debut of the brand new Magic Happens parade and the return of the Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Fesetival. There was still other work to highlight including crazy crowds and on-going construction of Avengers Campus Marvel expansion and refurbishments including Haunted Mansion, Snow White’s Scary Adventures, and King Arthur Carousel.
Of course, a little merch run awaits you at the end amongst other surprises folded into this latest park pictorial. ENJOY!
Big Changes at the Top
After years of will-he-or-won’t-he debate, Robert A. Iger will officially be stepping down as CEO for The Walt Disney Company. In his place, effective immediately, will be Bob Chapek who most recently served as Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products.
MORE INFO: Bob Iger steps down, Bob Chapek named CEO for The Walt Disney Company
Magic Debuts
It occurs on a daily basis at the Happiest Place on Earth but now MAGIC HAPPENS is also the name of a new parade at Disneyland! Check out our in depth coverage of the new parade that blends a world of whimsy and magic with fantastic new floats, costumes, and music paying tribute to some of Disney’s most magical stories.
DETAILS: FIRST LOOK: MAGIC HAPPENS parade soft opens at Disneyland
MORE INFO: CLOSER LOOK: Obsession-worthy MAGIC HAPPENS parade is a beautiful addition to Disneyland
Wine and Dine
The 2020 Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival is back once again this year and aside from a bunch of new menu items to nosh, nibble, and sip, the offerings should be pretty familiar from the past few years.
MORE INFO: PICTORIAL: A complete look at 2020 ‘Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival’
Hungry For More?
Take a look at the photos and reviews of everything we’ve tried so far for the Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival!
Soarin’ Locally Again
Soarin’ Over California is back for the length of the Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival, February 28 to April 21, 2020! Lines for the attraction soared well over the 2-hour mark at points this past weekend.
Ma’am, yes Ma’am
Operation: Playtime! – Featuring the Green Army Patrol is a small musical atmosphere entertainment offering at Disney California Adventure that features the iconic green TOY STORY soldiers near Pixar Pier and it seems that women have finally been allowed to join the ranks!
MORE INFO: A-TEN-HUT! Women join the ranks for the first time at Disney California Adventure show
RISE and Shine!
We continue to advise that the hour-and-a-half period before Disneyland park opening continues to be very busy at the Disneyland Resort. Expect atypical slowdown on the streets, in the parking lots, and with all lines you encounter once you get off your car. Fans are still very eager to experience the brand new groundbreaking STAR WARS: RISE OF THE RESISTANCE attraction so crowds remain very heavy in the early mornings to secure those very limited numbers of Boarding Group numbers.
We still strongly advise on aiming to be parked no later than 7am if you want to try to secure a boarding group.
Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway
We have not heard confirmations on rumors that progress has paused on the new Toontown attraction in light of coronavirus closures in China and Tokyo. From the look of the construction site last week, it seems like not much is changing week over week.
MORE INFO: News and information about Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway
Avengers Campus
MORE INFO: News and information about AVENGERS CAMPUS Marvel themed land
Around Disney California Adventure
The Food and Wine festival is proving immensely crazy on its first weekend.
Temporary taped queues are used to help keep order to the overflowing lines spilling out into the walkways.
New seating areas have sprung up in Paradise Gardens in anticipation of the Food and Wine festival.
The base layer of clouds on the Hyperion Theatre facade are dark grey which matched the actual clouds on Saturday morning.
Scaffolding has been up for a few weeks on Stage 17 but it doesn’t look like anything’s happened.
Walls are down at Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission – Breakout!
It looks like we have a clear delineation between where Hollywood Land will now end and where Marvel Campus begins.
You can see some of the decorative work in the new flooring and transition.
Still work left to do it would seem.
The Cozy Cones are behind scaffolding and scrims.
We suspect hand sanitizer stations will become a lot more popular in the coming weeks and months amid growing concerns of coronavirus.
Jessie’s Critter Carousel is under refurbishment.
Around Disneyland
A giant Indiana Jones Pop! Funko figure has been released for the 25th anniversary.
Limited Edition pins were also released.
Magic Happens cake has blueberry filling and cream frosting.
How cute is this red velvet Minnie bundt cake?!
Space Mountain stairs are still not finished.
As the sun beats down on the castle, you can see its “actual” color scheme starting to settle in.
Scaffolding and walls are down at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique.
Click is still missing its hands.
Scrims were peeled back temporarily on Snow White’s Scary Adventures offering a peek at the ongoing work.
Meanwhile the King Arthur Carrousel next door is also getting some TLC.
Haunted Mansion scrims were also peeled back offering a look at on-going work there.
It’s a TRAP(door)!
Long lines Saturday afternoon for Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run.
Only one photographer at the Millennium Falcon even though it was the first weekend of a brand new parade and Food and Wine Festival and the parks were packed.
Spring blooms on Batuu.
Dianoga seemed to not be working on Saturday evening.
You’ll want to stake out a spot at least an hour and a half before parade time if you want a good spot for the new Magic Happens parade.
Around the Resort
Parking indicators on Minnie level of the Mickey and Friends Parking Structure.
Merch Run
Easter draws near.
Food and Wine Annual Passholder Exclusives
Food and Wine
Star Wars X TOMS
If you’re at Curl Surf in Downtown Disney, you can pick yourself up one of several different kinds of STAR WARS X TOMS shoes. The kind folks at TOMS sent us some shoes in return for sharing it with our readers here on MouseInfo. After we got them in the mail, we couldn’t help but to take them with us straight to Batuu!
MORE INFO: Second wave of #StarWarsxTOMS collaboration brings even more style from a galaxy far, far away
Resistance Ready?
When it comes to the STAR WARS: RISE OF THE RESISTANCE Virtual Queue / Boarding Group process at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, no result is typical but we were equipped with an understanding for how the process worked from this earlier info guide. There are as many suggestions for securing a Boarding Group as there are twinkles on Cinderella’s dress so ultimately you’ll want to follow the steps that feel right for you.
If you like to live vicariously through other people’s experiences, we invite you now to follow along on our process for enjoying STAR WARS: RISE OF THE RESISTANCE on its first official Saturday of operation at Disneyland!
MORE INFO: TIPS AND INFO: How we got our Boarding Group for STAR WARS: RISE OF THE RESISTANCE at Disneyland
Dark Days Ahead
Disneyland After Dark season is here and while 80s Nite has already come and gone, there’s still more opportunities to rock the night away in special after-hours parks experiences at the happiest place on earth. Each event offers a different theme complemented by unique entertainment, specialty food, collectible merchandise and more!
Magical Savings on Admission
It’s one of the questions we get asked the most, how can you save a little money on Disneyland tickets? Below is what’s available now.
- Spring 2020 Discounts for for tickets and hotels: Disneyland Resort. Through 5/21/20. (MORE INFO)
- 2020 US Military discounts for tickets and hotels; Disneyland, Walt Disney World. Through 2020. (MORE INFO)
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