HALLOWEENTIME BRINGS TRICKS & TREATS
BACK TO DISNEYLAND RESORT!
Halloween Dreams Come
True Beginning Sept. 21 When Parks and Characters Are
Transformed For the Autumn Holiday
Season
ANAHEIM, Calif. (July
13, 2007) Following up on the success of its
inaugural season last year, Disney’s HalloweenTime will
return to the Disneyland Resort this fall with a lively
mix of Disney characters in seasonal costumes, whimsical
décor, decked-out attractions, themed shows and tasty
treats designed with the whole family in mind. This
inviting interactive Halloween experience at Disneyland
and Disney’s California Adventure will begin a week
earlier this year starting Friday, Sept. 21, and
continuing through Wednesday, Oct. 31. HalloweenTime at
the Resort is part of the Year of a Million Dreams
celebration at Disney Parks.
All new this Halloween
season, the Sunshine Plaza in California Adventure will
become the site of “Candy Corn Acres,” where Mickey
Mouse’s pal Goofy will set out to grow the West’s
biggest and most unusual candy corn: candy corn
coconuts, candy corn carrots and candy corn pumpkins,
among other delicious produce offerings. The Plaza will
be overgrown with the “fruits” of Goofy’s
labor.
Also expanded will be
Mickey’s HalloweenTreat, a separate-ticket nighttime
event which gives kids and their families the
opportunity to dress in their Halloween costumes and
trick-or-treat throughout Disney’s California Adventure
after it has closed to day guests. This year’s
HalloweenTreat will offer tricksters of all ages more
treat locations along with fun character encounters
(including an all-new nightly cavalcade), interactive
games, and spirited music with DJ Mickey. Older
kids and parents will want to experience the
heart-dropping Twilight Zone Tower of Terror® and meet
the hotel’s ghostly staff members who materialize only
during the Halloween season.
This year, additional
nights have been scheduled for Mickey’s HalloweenTreat:
Thursdays and Fridays beginning October 4 plus
Monday-Wednesday, October 29-31. Tickets go on sale
August 1.
During regular park
hours at Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure,
Disney’s HalloweenTime will offer parents and children
lots of not-so-scary fun in addition to the parks’ many
popular Year of a Million Dreams adventures.
HalloweenTime experiences will include special Halloween
shows, meet-and-greets with Disneyland characters in
their Halloween costumes and spooky-silly holiday themed
decorations which guests begin to spot as soon as they
reach the entrances to the parks.
Jack-o’-lantern
creations resembling Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald
Duck, Pluto and Goofy will adorn the top of the Main
Entrance to Disneyland park. Across the Esplanade, at
the entrance to Disney’s California Adventure park,
guests will see the iconic 11-foot-tall CALIFORNIA
letters transformed into giant pieces of candy corn.
Main Street, U.S.A. in
Disneyland will once again be decked out for the Main
Street Pumpkin Festival. Guests will be greeted there by
Miss Cobbler, Queen of the Pumpkin Festival, and
Constable Jackie O’Leary. More than 300 jack-o’-lanterns
will peek out of shop windows, while festive orange and
yellow bunting will grace the quaint Victorian
buildings. The whimsical 12-foot tall Mickey Mouse
jack-o’-lantern, complete with pumpkin ears, will return
to highlight Town Square, smiling at guests as they
enter Main Street and giving them a playful wink when
they depart.
The Central Plaza of
Disneyland, near Sleeping Beauty Castle, will also be
specially decorated with Disney character-inspired
jack-o’-lanterns surrounding the famous “Partners”
statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse. Additionally,
the Disney characters themselves will get into the
“spirit” of the occasion, wearing their favorite
Halloween costumes, while meeting and greeting guests.
“Woody’s Halloween
Roundup” once again will take over Big Thunder Ranch in
Frontierland. The Roundup fun will include a visit
with the animals in the “Petting Boo,” crafts and
musical activities including a Halloween Hoedown and a
spooky interactive sing-along version of “Old McDonald
Had a Farm” featuring black cats, ghosts and werewolves.
Woody, Jessie and Bullseye from the Disney•Pixar Toy
Story movies will appear throughout the day on stage in
comic adventure tales hosted by a guitar playing,
storytelling cowboy. The Roundup will also feature an
array of tasty treats to satisfy the most monstrous of
appetites, including cotton candy in Halloween colors
and Creepy Cookie Critters that guests create
themselves.
Returning to Disney’s
California Adventure will be the spooky Hollywood Tower
Hotel staff members who haunt the Twilight Zone Tower of
Terror during the Halloween season, and “Golden
Screams,” where Disney villains roll out the black
carpet for an awards ceremony – “Best Scream,” “Best Act
of Villainy” – held daily inside the Golden Dreams
Theatre.
Favorite Disney
villains, including Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians,
the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Captain
Hook from Peter Pan and others, will roam both
Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure for
HalloweenTime meet-and-greets with park guests.
Throughout the
Disneyland Resort during Disney’s HalloweenTime,
families can enjoy unique Halloween-themed food items
including Zero’s Ghostly Ghoulash, a favorite of Jack
Skellington’s pet in “Haunted Mansion Holiday,” and
merchandise including Disney costumes, collectible pins
and coins, and a special set of Halloween-themed Mickey
Mouse ears resembling a Mickey
jack-o’-lantern.
And no Halloween
celebration at Disneyland would be complete without the
return of Jack Skellington and his friends to transform
the Haunted Mansion in New Orleans Square into the
popular seasonal “Haunted Mansion Holiday.” Inspired by
the innovative animated film Tim Burton’s Nightmare
Before Christmas, “Haunted Mansion Holiday” depicts the
holiday mayhem that occurs when Halloween and Christmas
traditions collide.
Disney’s HalloweenTime
will be presented throughout the Disneyland Resort from
Sept. 21 – Oct. 31, 2007 as part of the Year of a
Million Dreams celebration at the Resort. For more
information about new attractions, the Year of a Million
Dreams, and vacations at Disneyland Resort visit
www.disneyland.com,
call (866) 60-DISNEY or visit local travel agents. The
Official Disneyland Resort Audio and Video Podcasts can
be found at www.disneyland.com/podcast.
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Disneyland is making Dreams come true.......
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From an Overnight Stay inside
Cinderella Castle to a Golden FASTPASS, Dreams Big
and Small to Come True During a First-of-its-Kind
Celebration That Also Features New Attractions and
Entertainment at Disneyland and Walt Disney World
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BURBANK, Calif. -- From an overnight stay inside
Cinderella Castle to a Golden FASTPASS, dreams big and
small will come true at Disneyland and Walt Disney World
resorts during Disney's "Year of a Million Dreams," a
first-of-its-kind celebration of the individual dreams
of Disney Parks guests.
The year-long celebration, beginning
Oct. 1, 2006, at Disneyland Resort in California and
Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, will feature the
debut of an incredible lineup of new attractions and
entertainment at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World
resorts, plus new technologies that allow guests to
customize their Disney park experience.
And, for the first time, during the
"Year of a Million Dreams" celebration, Disney cast
members will award a million dreams -- both large and
small, including many "money-can't-buy" experiences --
to guests selected through a random process as part of a
unique "Disney Dreams Giveaway" promotion.
"Throughout this incredible celebration,
special dreams and unique experiences once thought
impossible will be awarded by our cast every day," said
Jay Rasulo, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
"Disney parks are always the place
where dreams come true -- but even more so during the
'Year of a Million Dreams.' "
The "impossible" includes the creation
of over-the-top, overnight experiences for winning
guests at both East and West Coast resorts: a royal
bedchamber inside Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World
Resort and a Mickey Mouse Penthouse
at Disneyland Resort, both expected to be complete by
January 2007.
A day of royal treatment will end with a
night of enchantment inside Cinderella Castle for a
different lucky guest each night. Cinderella's royal
bedchamber, now under construction at Magic Kingdom,
will allow Disney guests to stay overnight inside the
park and enjoy a view shared only by Tinker Bell. The
lavishly decorated bedroom will be
located in a space originally planned as an in-park
apartment for the use of the Disney family.
And for a lucky Disneyland guest, each
night, the all-new Mickey Mouse Penthouse at Disneyland
Hotel will pour on the Mickey charm and include magical
views overlooking both Disneyland and Disney's
California Adventure parks. The
extraordinary penthouse will be decorated in all things
Mickey, with finishing touches by none other than Minnie
Mouse herself.
In addition, during the year-long
celebration, other Disney dreams both large and small
will be awarded in the "Disney Dreams Giveaway"
promotion, such as:
- Traveling to each Disney resort
around the world to serve as grand marshal in a Disney
parade.
- A variety of unique Disney vacation
experiences.
- Admission to special parties and
other extraordinary experiences in the Disneyland and
Walt Disney World parks.
- Private meetings with favorite Disney
characters.
- Or, a Golden FASTPASS ticket with
unique access entitlements to some of Disney's most
popular attractions.
Make Hotel reservations at one of
Disneylands Cool Resorts:
Disneyland Hotel | Disney's California Grand
Hotel | Paradise Pier | Disneyland
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Pirates of the
Caribbean
The classic Disney theme park
adventure brought to the big screen in Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, is adding new
characters and features from the blockbuster
entertainment franchise and debuting when the next
adventure begins in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s
Chest.
Both the Disneyland Resort in California
and Walt Disney World Resort in Florida will close the
attraction in March to complete the updates in time for
the opening of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s
Chest on July 7. The attraction will re-open at
Disneyland on June 26 and in Florida’s Magic Kingdom on
July 7.
The attraction will feature the addition
of two of Hollywood’s most infamous buccaneers, Captain
Jack Sparrow and his nemesis Barbossa. Joining the
wildest crew that ever sacked the Spanish Main, Captain
Jack and Barbossa add an exciting new twist to the
attraction’s original storyline as they race to be the
first to claim a cache of plundered treasure.
“Successfully adding the popular
characters from the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ films
with the mythology of our classic attraction is an
example of Disney synergy and Walt Disney Imagineering at its finest,” said Jay Rasulo,
chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. “These
additions will result in an exciting new chapter for the
attraction and an unforgettable experience for our
guests, giving them another reason to come and be a part
of our continuing 50th anniversary celebration.”
Woven into some of the attraction’s most
memorable scenes, the rival swashbucklers will be seen
interacting with some of the more familiar Audio-Animatronics buccaneers found
inside the ride-thru adventure. Also making a
guest appearance is the ghostly Davy Jones from the
second movie in the series, Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest. But new characters are only the
beginning. New special effects will also be added
to enhance the “Pirates of the Caribbean” theme park
experience.
"The creative legacy of ‘Pirates of the
Caribbean’ has come full circle with the attraction initially inspiring our highly
successful film franchise and now the films inspiring
exciting additions to the attraction itself,” said Dick
Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios. “The
attraction enhancements capture the same spirit,
swashbuckling humor and action that moviegoers loved in
the first `Pirates of the Caribbean' which will continue
with the highly anticipated new tales this summer and
beyond.”
Created under the direct creative
supervision of Walt Disney himself, Pirates of the
Caribbean is the quintessential
Disney theme park adventure, a swashbuckling voyage that
transports guests back to the days when pirates and
privateers roamed the Spanish Main. Starring a comical
cast of rascals, scoundrels, villains and knaves, the
world-famous attraction sends guests of all ages on a
boat ride through mysterious caverns where “Dead men
tell no tales” and then into a colonial era Caribbean
seaport under siege by a band of fun-loving pirates. The
attraction’s jaunty theme song, “Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life
for Me),” sets the show’s light tone with its
tongue-in-cheek depiction of high-seas
lawlessness.
The original incarnation of Pirates of
the Caribbean premiered on March 18, 1967, in New
Orleans Square at Disneyland in California. Featuring
more than 120 Audio-Animatronics performers, lavishly
decorated sets and special effects, it’s considered to
be one of the most spectacular and enduring attractions
ever created for a theme park. With its setting revised
slightly to fit a Caribbean Plaza location in
Adventureland, the attraction opened to guests at Walt
Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on December 15, 1973. More
than 500 million people have experienced the rollicking
fun of Pirates of the Caribbean in California and
Florida over the past 39 years.
“Enhancing the classic Pirates
attractions with new characters and new technology will
ensure their relevance and place in Disney theme parks
as timeless adventures,” said Tom Fitzgerald, senior
creative executive for Walt Disney Imagineering. “We’re
adding a layer of storytelling from the films to the
attraction while retaining all the familiar elements
that make it vibrant and exciting for every age
group.”
The Pirates of the Caribbean
additions are one part of the “Happiest Celebration on
Earth,” an 18-month salute (continuing through 2006) to
50 years of Disney park magic around the globe that
started with the opening of Walt Disney’s original park,
Disneyland, in
1955.
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Make Hotel reservations at one of
Disneylands Resorts:
Disneyland Hotel | Disney's California Grand
Hotel | Paradise Pier | Disneyland
