The Merriest Of Holiday Celebrations Make Spirits Brighter Than Ever At Disneyland Resort
(November 11, 2008)
When it comes to celebrating the magic and sparkle of
the holidays, there's no place like the Disneyland
Resort, the Merriest Place on Earth. From November 21
through January 4, the annual Disneyland Resort holiday
celebration will be more dazzling than ever.
Guests will enjoy the return of the
holiday's most popular offerings as well as be immersed
in new entertainment at both Disneyland and Disney's
California Adventure parks.
Sleeping Beauty's
Winter Castle, first introduced in 2007, will be
decorated even more elaborately this holiday season with
additional snowdrifts and icicles. After dark, a
sensational new holiday lighting and special effects
show will carry the magic of the holidays from the
Castle all the way to the Christmas Tree in Town Square.
And, for the first time in 53 years, the Christmas Tree
will be completely artificial, which enables Disneyland
to present a holiday light show like no other with more
than 62,000 energy-efficient LED lights.
The
Sleeping Beauty's Winter Castle presentation unfolds
throughout the evening in three acts, each of them
featuring a touch of winter snow on Main Street,
U.S.A. The finale of the show includes the
legendary "Believe in Holiday Magic" fireworks show,
which takes guests on a journey of sights and sounds of
the season and ends with a touching rendition of "White
Christmas" along with a climactic snowfall swirling down
on Main Street, U.S.A., "small world mall" and New
Orleans Square.
New this year, just in time for
the holidays and for the first time in seven years,
guests will walk through the iconic home of Sleeping
Beauty. A "reawakened" Sleeping Beauty Castle show tells
the story of "Sleeping Beauty" in a style reminiscent of
the Disneyland Castle walkthrough of earlier years, but
enhanced with 21st-century special effects.
Themed entertainment, sparkling decorations and
tasty treats add festive warmth to holiday fun at both
Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure. Guests can
also book guided holiday tours that provide expedited
entry into the "it's a small world" holiday and Haunted
Mansion Holiday, VIP seating for the Disneyland "A
Christmas Fantasy" parade and entertaining information
about the history behind Disneyland holiday traditions.
For information and reservations guests can visit
Disneyland City Hall or call (714)
781-4400.
Other returning holiday favorites at
Disneyland park include:
- Santa's Reindeer Round-up, which transforms Big
Thunder Ranch into a "West Pole" getaway where Santa
can unwind with Mrs. Claus and his team of reindeer.
Kids and their families will chat with St. Nick, see
real reindeer grazing in a corral, play some reindeer
games, create take-home Yuletide souvenirs and join in
holiday line dances with music from a Western trio.
- "A Christmas Fantasy" parade will be presented November 21 through January 4 on Main Street, U.S.A. This ever-popular procession depicts an enchanting collection of holiday scenes, music and a cast of Disney characters and performers in Yuletide vignettes.
- Haunted Mansion Holiday presents a madcap celebration as the traditions of Halloween and Christmas collide. The ghoulish but well-meaning Jack Skellington from the film Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas has come to the Haunted Mansion to transform it with his skewed vision of the holidays.
- "it's a small world" holiday transforms "it's a small world" into a worldwide celebration of the season, boasting more than 300,000 glittering lights on its facade.
Disney's California
Adventure celebrates the season with fanciful park-wide
decorations and lively entertainment.
- Guests approaching the park will immediately get in the holiday mood as they encounter the iconic "CALIFORNIA" letters transformed to appear as swirling red and white peppermint sticks.
- "a bug's land" transforms as Flik and his bug buddies spread giant Christmas lights and oversized ornaments throughout their realm.
- The holiday scene
at Paradise Bay includes a beautifully decorated
Christmas tree, hundreds of sparking lights on nearby
trees, and lampposts decorated with seasonal wreaths.
The Downtown Disney District and the Disneyland Resort hotels will join in the merriment with twinkling lights and ornaments, special entertainment and holiday dining.
Just in time for
the holidays, new entertainment comes to life in both
parks. At Disney's California Adventure, the daily
"Pixar Play Parade" is joined three times each day by
performances of the energetic, traveling rock and dance
concert show, "High School Musical 3: Senior Year -
Right Here! Right Now!" Also new to Disney's California
Adventure is the Blue Sky Cellar, a Walt Disney
Imagineers' workshop that offers guests a preview of new
attractions coming to the park over the next few years.
At Disneyland, in addition to the reopening of
the doors to Sleeping Beauty Castle, guests have a new
opportunity to explore the world of Tinker Bell inside
Pixie Hollow, a magical place where visitors meet "Tink"
and her pixie friends.
Expanded hours at both
Disneyland Resort theme parks will extend the holiday
fun. For more information about holidays at the
Disneyland Resort, and to send Disneyland Resort e-card
holiday greetings to friends and relatives, visit
www.disneyland.com/holidays.
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-- Posted November 13, 2008