The DisGeek Podcast

Your Guide to the Happiest Place on Earth

Disney California Adventure Entrance Details

By

From LA Times:

An intense, 16-month construction project designed to transform the Disney California Adventure entryway from a nondescript strip mall into a circa-1920s Los Angeles streetscape will begin in earnest Jan. 4.

As part of an ongoing, $1.1 billion makeover, the sweeping and extensive reimagineering will wall off 4 acres of the main entrance between the C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A letters, Sunshine Plaza, Grizzly Peak and Hollywood Studios Backlot. The remade entryway, dubbed Buena Vista Street, will be designed to evoke the era when a young Walt Disney first arrived in Los Angeles.

After the winter holiday season ends, construction walls will go up around the iconic C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A letters Jan. 4 so that crews can turn the plaza area into Streamline Moderne turnstiles modeled after the former Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Read the rest of the story at the LA Times

Disneyland ride closures schedule for early 2011

By

From The Examiner:

Here are the dates of ride and attraction rehab closures at Disneyland from now (mid December) thru the end of January 2011:

Star Tours – CLOSED through to May 2011
Actually technically Star Tours is closed permanently– at least as it was once known. The ride is getting a complete makeover (hence the length of the closure) to reopen in the Spring as “Star Tours 2”.

Haunted Mansion – 1/3/11 through 1/13/11
This closure happens at least twice a year. The first to prepare it for Haunted Mansion Holiday (The Nightmare Before Christmas overlay), and this one to return the Mansion to it’s regular self again.

Mark Twain – 1/10/11 through 1/12/11
Just a couple of days to give it’s undercarriage a bit of a “who’s your father.”

Small World – 1/18/11 through 1/27/11
Same deal as the Haunted Mansion as the sparkling colorful lights are removed from the attraction until next Christmas.

Splash Mountain – 1/18/11 through 5/26/11
No official word on why it is scheduled to be closed for four months which means it is likely just a major refurbishing and January thru May are always the best times to accomplish such overhauls.

King Arthur Carousel – 1/31/11 through 2/2/11

For more information visit the Disneyland website