Disney’s American Idol Experience wrapped up its roughly five-year run on Saturday, Aug. 30, with a heartwarming story straight from the fairytale handbook.
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Buena Vista Street at Disney California Adventure Park Fact Sheet
Walt Disney looking back on the day he arrived in California, with a cardboard suitcase: “It was July 1923 … With that wonderful audacity of youth, I went to Hollywood, arriving there with just $40. It was a big day, the day I got on that Santa Fe California Limited. I was just free and happy.”
Overview: Buena Vista Street opened June 15, 2012, as part of a five-year expansion of Disney California Adventure Park. It depicts a typical Los Angeles neighborhood where a young Walt Disney lived and worked after arriving in Southern California in 1923. This idyllic version of the City of Angels is captured with quaint “mom-and-pop” shops and markets, a big city department store and corner cafe. The two Red Car Trolleys providing transportation up and down the boulevard are a nostalgic reminder of Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s. The architecture draws on Los Angeles Spanish/Mexican roots, inspired by actual buildings of greater Los Angeles.
Don’t miss: The entrance to the park is a nod to the old Pan Pacific Auditorium, an L.A. landmark built in the 1930s. Carthay Circle Theatre, the iconic center of Disney California Adventure, honors the place where Walt premiered his first feature-length animation “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in 1937. The Red Car Trolley, inspired by the “Big Red Cars” of the Pacific Electric Railway, provides service between Buena Vista Street and Hollywood Land. On Cathay Circle guests often pose for photos at “Storytellers,” a bronze statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse. It reflects the beginning of a great partnership between the two; a time of great hope and boundless optimism in the life of the up-and-coming filmmaker and his famous creation.
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13 ways Disney could use drones at its parks
Disney just made a bold move. The family friendly entertainment company announced Thursday that it’s filing for three patents that will bring the company into the drone industry.
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Forget the Wait! 9 Ways to Spend Less Time in Line at Disney World
Several things are synonymous with Walt Disney World: iconic characters, turkey legs, Space Mountain, and long lines. Attractions without long lines are the anomaly, and not the rule, at the “Most Magical Place on Earth,” but that doesn’t mean you have to spend your whole vacation waiting.
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B-Roll: Club Disney at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort
The whimsical children’s activity center, Club Disney at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, is inspired by classic Disney Little Gold Books tales such as Pinocchio, Lady and the Tramp and Alice in Wonderland. While parents enjoy a night out, youngsters can delve into dress up, crafts, storytelling and other fun faves in themed areas alongside children’s activity coordinators. Club Disney is a part of an overall renovation of the iconic resort hotel that includes a re-imagined feature pool, new food and beverage offerings and an expansive new lobby area. Club Disney is for guests ages 3-12. For more information and bookings call 407-WDW-DINE.
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Starbucks to Open at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Spring 2015
Disney’s Hollywood Studios will be the latest park to get a Starbucks.The located is planned for the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard.
The Starbucks location is scheduled to open in Spring of 2015. Stay tuned to WDW Daily News for more details as they are announced.
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Why Siemens And Disney Make A Magical Team
Siemens is one of the biggest corporations in Germany with net profits of $6.1 billion last year on revenue of $104.5 billion. With these kind of resources at its disposal you would expect to see the technology firm’s logo front and center in sponsorship deals with major sports series.
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‘The Avengers: Age of Ultron’ To Introduce New Superheroes?
With Vision, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch all being introduced to Earth’s finest superhero team in Marvel Studios’ upcoming movie The Avengers: Age of Ultron, writer and director Joss Whedon has quite a challenge on his hands when it comes to careful management of all the characters’ screen time and story arcs.
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Marvel Getting Extremely Close To Signing Actor As Doctor Strange
Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange has had a lot of names rumored to be in contention for the titular role. In fact, it ranks up there with most rumored names for any comic hero in recent memory. We’ve seen everyone from Jon Hamm to Jack Huston suggested for the role, with Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and even Daniel Radcliffe being whispered in lower tones as contenders in between.
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Video: First Look at the Upcoming Pixar Short ‘Lava’
Yahoo has released the first clip from, Lava, the short film, that will be featured before Pixar’s next feature-length film, Inside Out, in theaters June of 2015.
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