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DCA Celebrates One Year With Attraction Announcements
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by Rebekah and Doobie Moseley
February 8, 2002
Complete coverage of Disney's California Adventure's one year birthday celebration including the announcement of Tower of Terror and A Bug's Land. Includes a short interview with Barry Braverman.

On February 8th a ceremony was held at Disney's California Adventure to celebrate the park's first birthday and announce two new attractions. Below is a complete transcript and video of the ceremony, concept art for the attractions and a brief interview with Senior Vice President and Executive Producer, Walt Disney Imagineering Barry Braverman

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Videos
Four videos are available from the ceremony together comprising the entire ceremony. All are in RealVideo format and are available for both low bandwidth and high bandwidth connections. For your convience, all the videos are linked here. They are also linked at the appropriate places within the article.

Ceremony, Harriss - Page 1

Announcer: Ladies and Gentleman please welcome our 2002 Disneyland Resort Ambassador, Matt Ebeling.

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Matt Ebeling: Good Morning, everyone. Today it is my honor to welcome you to the Disneyland Resort as we celebrate the first birthday of Disney's California Adventure. (The audience begins to applaud and cheer.) Yes! This is a party. Just one year ago Michael Eisner along with Roy E Disney and Mickey Mouse dedicated Disney's California Adventure to the world. It was a milestone for the Disneyland Resort and today we are here to continue that dream.

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Matt Ebeling: So at this time it is my great pleasure to introduce the President of the Disneyland Resort, Cynthia Harriss along with everyone's pal, Mickey Mouse!

The song Feels Alright accompanies Cynthia and Mickey's walk to the podium.

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Cynthia Harriss: Well good morning everyone! How y'all today? This is a good day. (cheers throughout the crowd Cynthia acknowledges them with an enthusiastic, "hi!") Today is not only a significant day for Disney's California Adventure but it also marks the beginning, last year, of the expanded Disneyland Resort in its entirety. Over the past year the Disneyland Resort along with the city of Anaheim have grown today into this beautiful tree-lined community in which we're inviting guests from all around the globe to come and experience our world -class entertainment, restaurant and shops. In the collective spirit of hospitality that radiates from the supportive community is one that adds just new sparkle to our resort like never before. At Downtown Disney, the Disneyland Park, Disney's California Adventure and all of our Disneyland Resort hotels our cast members have faced unusual challenges along with the rest of the world. But We have continued to offer our guests who have traveled here to find all of those things that they want. It is that joy, the relaxation and the fun of adventure for kids of every age. We deem it a great privilege to be able to be able to offer this haven of happiness and we will always have this as our most treasured undertaking.