Ka-chow! Just a few more days until Cars Land opens at Disney California Adventure park! We’ll be celebrating big, starting the evening of Wednesday, June 13. Join us here on the Disney Parks Blog and on Twitter at @Disneyland for live coverage starting at 6 p.m. Pacific time. We’ll also be tweeting LIVE from...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Adventure ’
We’re Getting Geared Up for Cars Land at Disney California Adventure Park! What Are Your Questions for the Cast of ‘Cars’?
Moms Panel Monday: Amanda & Laura Visit Cars Land at Disney California Adventure Park
This weekend, I put on my big sunglasses, my pink fedora and channeled my inner Nora Ephron and head to Hollywood to be a director! Well, not exactly Hollywood, but to Disneyland Resort to a film shoot at the soon-to-be-opened Cars Land! Disneyland Mom Amanda Ficili and I spent the weekend filming some fun...
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Disney California Adventure Park Guests Will ‘Glow with the Show’
Starting June 15, Disney California Adventure park guests will have the chance to light up the night when Glow with the Show Ears become available for purchase at select locations throughout the park. For more than 55 years, the classic, black Mickey Mouse ear hat has been a Disney Parks guest favorite. In 2005,...
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Take 5: Get ‘Mad’ About Mad T Party at Disney California Adventure Park
In just a few days you’ll finally be able to make your way down the Rabbit Hole to discover Mad T Party at Disney California Adventure park, where you’ll enter a fantastical new world featuring an assortment of joyfulutionary entertainment. To get you ready for all the fun it has to offer, we’re sharing...
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Carthay Circle Restaurant at Disney California Adventure Park to Open with 92 Sommeliers
Carthay Circle Restaurant will be the first restaurant in the world to open its doors with 92 sommeliers, according to Gary Maggetti, General Manager of Food & Beverage and Store Operations at Disney California Adventure park. The Carthay Circle Restaurant team passed their introductory level sommelier exam, which is the first of four arduous...
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Brent Musburger Tours Cars Land at Disney California Adventure Park
If you weren’t one of millions of fans who tuned into the Indy 500 on ABC, you missed seeing Brent Musburger, voice of Brent Mustangburger in “Cars 2,” getting a special tour of Cars Land at Disney California Adventure park from John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation. Take a look!...
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Ghirardelli Soda Fountain and Chocolate Shop is Now Open at Disney California Adventure Park
This morning, Disneyland Resort President George A. Kalogridis and Disney California Adventure park Vice President Mary Niven joined Ernst Tanner, CEO, Lindt & Sprüngli AG, to officially open Ghirardelli Soda Fountain and Chocolate Shop at Disney California Adventure park. It was a sweet ceremony, complete with chocolate, sundaes, confetti and Mickey Mouse and Minnie...
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Photo: Larry the Cable Guy and Mater at Cars Land in Disney California Adventure Park
You never know who you’re going to run into in Radiator Springs. We recently followed Mater over to the Cozy Cone Motel where none other than Larry the Cable Guy was having a look around Cars Land. Can you just imagine the conversation these two were having? Photo: Larry the Cable Guy and Mater...
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Travel Back in Time with Mater – ‘Time Travel Mater’ to Premiere June 15 at Disney California Adventure Park and June 16 on ABC
The movie “Cars” took us on an unforgettable road trip down Route 66 and dropped us off in Radiator Springs, the quaint little town that’s located on the famous Mother Road. But how did Radiator Springs come to be? Who rolled down an empty road and parked himself on that very spot, creating the...
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New Art ‘Roars’ to Life in Disney California Adventure Park
Here’s a look at some of the newest releases from Imagineers, artists and car culture enthusiasts making their mark at Disney California Adventure park on June 16. Up first and heading down the track is “Red Car Trolley” from Imagineer and Creative Director of Buena Vista Street, Ray Spencer. I had a minute to...
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Ten Days to Cars Land at Disney California Adventure Park – Submit Your Cars Land Questions Now!
The countdown is on! In ten days, Disney California Adventure park guests will be racing through Ornament Valley and cruising down Route 66 when Cars Land opens. The photo above shows the sign that will welcome guests to Cars Land at the north end of Route 66. Ahead of them will lie Mater’s Junkyard...
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Meet Chef Gloria Tae at Carthay Circle Restaurant in Disney California Adventure Park
Fans of Napa Rose at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa already know Chef Gloria Tae, who has worked side-by-side with Chef Andrew Sutton at Napa Rose for four years (you also may remember her from The Vineyard Room at Disney California Adventure park). With Andrew as executive chef of both Napa Rose and...
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June 15 Special Merchandise Offerings at Disney California Adventure Park
Can you feel the excitement in the air? I know I can! Buena Vista Street, Cars Land, Mad T Party and of course, our all new merchandise locations … The big day is almost here! For those of you amazing Disney Parks fans out there wondering if there will be any limited-edition commemorative merchandise...
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‘Toying’ Around Disney California Adventure Park
So now that you’ve seen some of the renderings of Sarge’s Surplus Hut, Radiator Springs Curios and Ramone’s House of Body Art, along with some of the merchandise that will be available, I’m anxious to know what you think… And of course, if you’re ready to see more! Because I have your first look...
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New Photos: Cars Land in Disney California Adventure Park, Day and Night
Usually only the birds get this great view of Cars Land, but recently, I had a chance to get above it all in Radiator Springs. The result is these photos taken just a few hours apart. Whether in all its daytime glory, or glowing against the backdrop of a twilight sky, Cars Land is...
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First Look: Ghirardelli Soda Fountain & Chocolate Shop at Disney California Adventure Park
Last week, we told you about the unveiling of Carthay Circle Theatre and the fountain in Carthay Circle. And today, just around the corner, the new Ghirardelli Soda Fountain & Chocolate Shop has emerged in the Pacific Wharf area at Disney California Adventure park. In the photos above by Paul Hiffmeyer, you can see...
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Crashing the Mad T Party at Disney California Adventure Park
Last week I took the video crew out for a sneak peek through the looking-glass at the new Mad T Party at Disney California Adventure park. I spoke with fellow Disney Parks Blog author Robin Trowbridge about the eclectic entertainment that will soon be offered nightly in Hollywood Land. Come join the fun when...
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Pull into the Cozy Cone Motel in Cars Land at Disney California Adventure Park
We love all the neon signs and the retro restaurants in Cars Land. And wait ‘til you taste the fun and unique meals, snacks and drinks at each of five roadside “wig-wams” in Cars Land. Welcome to Cozy Cone Motel! Cone #1: Churro bites with cinnamon-chocolate sauce, regular or cinnamon-spiced hot cocoa, and Ramone’s...
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Disneyland Resort Annual Passholders and D23 Members: Register Now for Disney California Adventure Park Experience Opportunities
Disneyland Resort Annual Passholders and D23 members – you have a special opportunity to experience Cars Land and Buena Vista Street before they open on June 15 at Disney California Adventure park! This is your chance to be among the very first to experience Cars Land and the new Buena Vista Street, ride attractions,...
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Review: Mad T Party keeps rocking at Disney California Adventure – Los Angeles Times
Review: Mad T Party keeps rocking at Disney California AdventureLos Angeles TimesDisney has a longstanding reputation of doing cool and hip very badly in its never-ending desire to stay current with pop culture. Witness Disney Dance Crew with its epic fail of Mixmaster Mickey Mouse hip-hop dancing to mash-ups of urban street sounds …and...
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Disney hopes Cars Land boosts California Adventure
California Adventure has always lagged behind Disneyland, but with a major overhaul, including Cars Land, Disney executives believe it'll catch up. For more than a decade, Disney California Adventure Park has been putt-putting along in the slow lane, trailing its neighbor Disneyland in the race for big attendance numbers. Disney – Yahoo! News Search...
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Disney California Adventure Park Will Have Plenty of Character This Summer
When it’s officially reopened on June 15, Disney California Adventure park will feature even more Disney than ever before, with our famous cast of characters making special appearances in delightful new entertainment offerings. Down on Buena Vista Street, it’s the 1920s and 1930s, and you may run into those young upstarts, Chip ‘n’ Dale,...
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Disney hopes Cars Land makes California Adventure a golden state
California Adventure has always lagged behind Disneyland, but with a major overhaul, including Cars Land, Disney executives believe it'll catch up. For more than a decade, Disney California Adventure Park has been putt-putting along in the slow lane, trailing its neighbor Disneyland in the race for big attendance numbers. Disney – Yahoo! News Search...
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Disney hopes Cars Land makes California Adventure a golden state – Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times Disney hopes Cars Land makes California Adventure a golden stateLos Angeles TimesCalifornia Adventure has always lagged behind Disneyland, but with a major overhaul, including Cars Land, Disney executives believe it'll catch up. By Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times For more than a decade, Disney California Adventure Park has been …Carthay Circle...
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Carthay Circle Fountain Revealed at Disney California Adventure Park
In the video below (filmed before the construction walls came down), Imagineer Lisa Girolami gives some insight into the inspiration for this fountain and how it helps tell the story of the Los Angeles that Walt Disney may have discovered when he first arrived. Come see Carthay Circle for yourself when Buena Vista Street...
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Heads Will Rock ‘n’ Roll at the Mad T Party in Disney California Adventure Park!
Joining the Mad T Party this summer? Then make sure you are dressed to a T, or it will be off with your head. Just last month, I gave you a look at some of the art you will find on a selection of tees, but what if I told you these next items...
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More of Lightning McQueen and Mater In Cars Land at Disney California Adventure Park
Then I caught up with Mater outside Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree where I think he had hoped to find a hidden Mickey, but apparently he never saw one. Oh well. Keep looking, Mater. Read more about Cars Land in the posts below: Lightning McQueen and Mater Come Home to Cars Land at Disney California Adventure...
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Lightning McQueen and Mater Come Home to Cars Land at Disney California Adventure Park
If you were photographing two of the most famous residents of Radiator Springs, what location in Cars Land would you choose? What if you didn’t have to choose only one? For the next few days, I’ll be sharing new photos of Lightning McQueen and Mater inside Cars Land – assuming I can keep up...
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