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(2/16/19) Star Wars: Galalxy's Edge Could Just Quietly Open One Day (MORE...)

(2/10/19) Rumored Fantasyland Addition Could Remove Two Incredible Dark Rides (MORE...)

(2/3/19) Space Mountain Status Update

(2/1/19) 20 Year Old Climbs Out Of Moving Space Mountain Car (MORE...)

Ride Rehabs - These dates are not guaranteed to be 100% accurate.

Astro Orbitor - NOW CLOSED through TBD

Sailing Ship Columbia - NOW CLOSED through TBD

Fantasmic! - NOW CLOSED through Early March, 2019

Splash Mountain - NOW CLOSED through Feb. 14

Space Mountain - Feb. 25 through TBD

General Park News - (2/3/19) Good news today for Disneyland fans as Space Mountain was cleared and reopened on Friday after the investigations over the man who forced his way out of a train in mid-ride were completed. No word on what exactly was determined in the reports, we just hope the OSHA or the insurance companies don’t use this as an excuse to put horse-collar style restraints onto Space Mountain as Splash Mountain was forced in adding lap-bars for a similar reason.



(2/1/19) In a classic “What the Hell?!” moment… a 20 year old man climbed aboard Space Mountain at Disneyland on Tuesday and then once the ride was in motion, managed to “use force” and contort himself free of the locked restraints and then climbed out of the train while it was making the slow journey from the station to the top of the coaster. I’m unsure if he climbed out in that one dark corridor between the lifts, or if he simply exited during the lift hill itself, but he managed to do it all and was injured in the process.

According to this report the man, whose identity has been withheld, suffers from “cognitive disabilities”. The Space Mountain staff quickly noticed he had climbed out of the train and E-Stopped the ride, and sent cast members into the attraction to locate him and bring him to escort him to safety. Space Mountain now currently closed while DOSH and Cal-OSHA conduct their investigations before clearing the park to reopen the ride.



(1/25/19) Micechat has posted a very interesting article for Disneyland fans, going over a park improvement initiative taking place at Disneyland known internally as “Project Stardust”. The program seeks to both enhance park features as well as address the growing needs of Disneyland with enhanced new queue spaces (Dumbo, Space Mountain and Matterhorn as examples from 2018), wider pathways where possible and do what they can to increase overall capacity in all areas to handle the park’s year-round heavy crowds. Plus they are looking into ways to streamline the construction process so that these projects can happen more quickly than they have in the past.



(1/17/19) Is Disneyland preparing to launch an all new fireworks show on Friday? According to a reader who was staying in a hotel near the park noticed a rehearsal performance of what appeared to be an amazing new fireworks show after the park was closed that seemed to throw a lot of extra light around… could be normal lighting, could be projection mapping I suppose. Stay tuned.



(12/16/18) While even this is before my time… as a fan of Tomorrowland and a kid who grew up building his share of plastic models, I would be remiss not to mention this interesting find. A old model kit from the 1950’s has been revived that will let you build a re-creation of the old Moonliner rocket that used to sit in Disneyland in front of the Rocket to the Moon attraction. While the original Moonliner was sponsored by TWA Airlines at the time, this one has a clever workaround for that, labeling it as the “FASTWAY” instead… which just happens to use the same font style as the old TWA logo, and with a scissors it would be easy to trim the decal to match the Disneyland version.



(11/20/18) The Matterhorn has reopened at Disneyland… along with a very different queue that puts the majority of the queue switchbacks in what was once the park pathway just outside the ride’s old traditional queue area, which removes the need to wrap the lines around the side of the mountain any longer.



2019 - Mickey’s Mix Magic / Mickey’s Soundsational - (11/21/18) Disneyland has announced that starting in January 2019 Mickey’s Soundsational Parade will return, complete with a brand new Mickey Mouse float that will lead the parade down Main Street. Also starting on January 18 is Mickey’s Mix Magic, a musical dance party celebration set to transform much of the park after dark.

If you need a reminder of what Mickey’s Soundsational looks like, check out Screamscape’s own video below showing off the parade when it premiered back in 2011 while attendance the media preview days.



Summer 2019 - Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - (2/16/19) How many days until Star Wars: Galalxy’s Edge opens? How long? When? Tell us when already!

This is the question on everyone’s mind, including the competition as it seems no one want sto announced anything or to try and hold their own grand-opening event anywhere near the date when Disney is going to open Star Wars. Case in point… this is likely still the major reason why Universal has yet to release any details or even the name of the new Wizarding World coaster opening in Islands of Adventure this year.

The whining of the fans is almost deafening at this point… as people want to make vacation plans (or call in sick) in order to descend in mass upon the Disneyland Resort, all to jump in an epic line that could very well set length records for all time. Clearly this is going to be a nightmare scenario for the Operations crew at Disneyland and they know it… but what if there was a way around all this opening day fuss?

What if… Disney did the unthinkable?

What if Disney defied all modern theme park marketing strategies and went old school on this one? By this I mean, what if one day guests entered Disneyland and without any hoopla or celebration, without any pomp and circumstance… what if the gates to Galaxy’s Edge were just suddenly OPEN?!

In this day of social media it wouldn’t take long for the word to get out to the public that the portal to Galaxy’s Edge was now open, but it sure would solve the operational and security headache caused by the announcement of an official grand opening date. And invitational media previews could be done in private ahead of time, possibly with a strict publication embargo if need be.

This may just be a wild idea… but it could also be something that Bob Iger may have hinted about during a shareholder meeting when he confirmed that Disney doesn’t have any big promotional plans in the works, because the new Star Wars lands are already the talk of the world. He even joked that, “I’m thinking that maybe I should just tweet, ‘It’s opening,’ and that will be enough.” followed by the comment that since the attractions themselves will do all the marketing for them, “That’s a signal I just sent to our parks and resorts people to keep that budget really low.”



(1/17/19) BlooLoop has posted a new preview about what we can truly expect to find within Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge when it opens later this year.



(12/27/18) A new teaser video from Disney showing off Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has been posted which actually seems to feature some footage shot in the land (made to look as if it was open), as well as some new footage that looks to be shot on both of the main attractions themselves that looks incredible.



Disneylands Star Wars Land progress. You can now see the spaceship from Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. #GalaxysEdge ?? pic.twitter.com/mHd4j7UM45 — Attractions 360° (@SoCal360) October 24, 2018

Were home. #starwars #galaxysedge - Learn more this Saturday at Star Wars: Galactic Nights at Disneys Hollywood Studios. pic.twitter.com/wGe1rUzpwH — Disney Parks (@DisneyParks) December 13, 2017

Take a look AT-AT how construction is progressing on our Stars Wars-themed land. pic.twitter.com/As3OhYvLNF — Walt Disney World (@WaltDisneyWorld) March 16, 2017

???? - Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway - Rumor - (10/31/18) While Disneyland has not yet confirmed anything, the latest rumor making the rounds this week claims that a clone of the Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway attraction under construction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios park in Florida will be coming to Disneyland’s Toontown as the next big attraction to open inside Disneyland probably about three or four years after Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens in 2019.

The attraction's large ride building is said to be built almost entirely backstage so that none of the existing attractions will have to be removed, with the exception of a retail space that is likely to be lost to make room for the attraction's entrance and exit pathways.

???? - Beauty & The Beast Dark Ride - Rumor - (2/10/19) For years we’ve been so focused on what is happening in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and how the Marvel universe will be brought to life across the promenade at Disney California Adventure there really hasn’t been much speculation about what could be the next major project for Disneyland itself. So far we’ve also heard about a rumored clone of Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway that could come to Toontown, but now I’m hearing about another plan for a new attraction in Fantasyland instead. Unfortunately, unlike the Toontown project, adding anything to the cramped Fantastland landscape will come at the expense of removing older attractions.

According to rumor the project in mind would bring a copy of the new Beauty & The Beast dark ride under construction in Tokyo Disneyland to California. This is the amazing looking dark ride Tokyo and WDI have been promoting online that features some of the best animatronic figures I’ve seen to date, along with trackless dark-ride vehicles shaped like giant tea-cups. If you haven’t seen the preview video of it yet, check it out below!

Ok… back? So far this all sounds fantastic,, but remember what I said about there being a cost to pay. Space in Fantasyland is very limited and to put in a new dark ride of this scale will mean the removal of existing attractions… and often the choice comes down to removing the ones with the smallest lines. In this case, I’m hearing that Pinocchio’s Daring Journey and Snow White’s Scary Adventure may both be on the chopping block to make room. The two inhabit the same large structure on the west side of Fantasyland, and the alternative would be to remove the three classic dark rides on the east side instead: Peter Pan’s Flight, Mr Toad’s Wild Ride and Alice in Wonderland. Unfortunately Pinocchio and Snow White probably have shorter lines mainly because they are much higher capacity attractions, as Peter Pan and Mr. Toad vehicles only fit two riders.

It would be sad either way though… if it were up to me, I’d keep all five of those dark rides and opt instead to bring the bulldozer down on the Casey Jr. Circus Train and the Storybook Land Canal Boats instead, which is a bigger site and might even allow for them to add a Be Our Guest restaurant into the mix as well. Just saying…

For now this is all a rumor, but take the time to enjoy all the classic dark rides when you can. You never know when they might vanish someday.

