Everyone Plays For The Kids' Price At The Disneyland Resort
Dateline: 1/2/2007
During "Year of a Million Dreams" celebration at the Disneyland Resort, guests can dream and play like kids with two special vacation offers. For a limited time, kids can fly free to the Disneyland Resort from major U.S. cities. Each child

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Lawsuit Settled In Death Of Woman Who Rode Disneyland Ride
Dateline: 1/4/2007
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against The Walt Disney Co. brought by the heirs of Cristina Moreno, according to their attorney, prompting the cancellation of Thursday's scheduled pretrial motions and the start of jury selection on

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A Land Of Dreams And A Land Of Fears
Dateline: 1/5/2007
My blessings are too many to count, so instead, I count the things I'm gonna miss when I die. Originally, my list was made up of mostly family and friends. But then I started adding things like sex and Haagan-Daz, fried green tomatoes, Lucky

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Pixar Rides Coming To Disney Theme Parks
Dateline: 1/5/2007
There was no mention of the much-rumored plan to turn Tom Sawyer's Island into a Pirates of the Caribbean Island, but the Walt Disney Company did outline a number of planned additions to its theme parks that will be based on movies produced by

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Will Bring Great Stories to Life - And Expand To New And Different Places
Dateline: 1/5/2007
After a momentous 2006, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is poised to unveil a full slate of exciting new attractions and entertainment in the coming year, highlighted by the continued rollout around the world of its groundbreaking Where Dreams Come

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Disney Parks To Add Pixar Based Attractions
Dateline: 1/8/2007
Many will be delighted to know that some family favorite Pixar movies will soon come to life at the Walt Disney Parks. The Walt Disney Company has recently announced its plans to add several attractions to the theme parks inspired by Pixar

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Ex-Disneyland Engineer Dies
Dateline: 1/9/2007
For a guy with a keen sense of humor like Don Edgren, working for the Walt Disney Company was a dream come true. What better way to earn a paycheck, the Murrieta resident said when discussing his career last year, than to rub elbows with the

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Model-Railroad Exhibition To Make Stop In Area
Dateline: 1/16/2007
Thanks to his dad, Michael Broggie has the inside track to the real story behind Walt Disney's fascination with trains and model railroading. Michael's father, the late Roger E. Broggie, worked for the entertainment pioneer as head of the Disney

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K.C.-Area Disney Studio Renovation Draws Near
Dateline: 1/17/2007
Renovation of the building in which a young Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse is nearing completion. Dan Viets, president and secretary of Thank You Walt Disney Inc., said Wednesday that the Kansas City-based group hopes to complete renovation

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Biz Fallout From Roy E. Disney's Divorce?
Dateline: 1/20/2007
Huge surprise (even to his publicist) about Roy E. Disney, who looks so eeerily like his late uncle Walt, divorcing his wife of 51 years, Patricia. And so sad, like Mickey and Minnie splitting up. All I can say is that, when he worked at the Mouse

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Don Edgrren, 83 Engineer Helped Create Disney Parks
Dateline: 1/20/2007
Pirates of the Caribbean was already being built as a walk-through attraction at Disneyland when Walt Disney decided to transform it into a boat ride that would open in 1967. Suddenly, Don Edgren and his engineering crew had to figure out a way to

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Pirates Invade Tom Sawyer Island
Dateline: 1/27/2007
Disneyland officials are saying "Aye!" to pirates, but "Arrr!" to looting Tom Sawyer Island. Officials announced Friday that live pirate characters and games will become part of Tom Sawyer Island, the classic Disneyland playground designed by

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Exile On Main Street
Dateline: 2/21/2007
Exiled Wearsider Richard Geere is hitting the high notes in a real Mickey Mouse job in the States. The former Bede School pupil plays piano on Main Street in Disneyland, California. He wears a name badge telling visitors he is from "Sunderland,

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Disneyland Intros Roving Animatronic Muppets; Mickey And Friends Fear Pink Slips
Dateline: 3/2/2007
The happiest place on Earth (Disneyland, not Las Vegas during CES) just got a little happier this week, thanks to a new exhibit called the Muppet Mobile Laboratory that roams the park and delights visitors with inane banter and sprays of water.

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Disney Fairy Tale Isn't For Everyone
Dateline: 3/4/2007
The job description is simple: Make the customers believe that Disneyland is "a magic kingdom where life is a fairy tale and dreams really do come true." But at the end of the workday, many of the people who work at the "Happiest Place on

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Disneyland As Classroom
Dateline: 3/6/2007
With childlike gleams in their eyes and notebooks in hand, nearly two dozen corporate managers from three Orange County companies visited Disneyland last week – but not just to have fun. They went as part of a UC Irvine Extension program in

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Judge Responsible For Ending Disneyland Gay Ban Dies
Dateline: 3/8/2007
Retired Judge James Randal Ross, great-grandson of outlaw Jesse Woodson James and author of the book "I, Jesse James," has died. He was 80. Ross died Monday of a heart attack at his Fullerton home, his third cousin Eric James, president of the

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Disneyland Re-Imagining The Familiar
Dateline: 3/13/2007
Welcome to the world of pirates," says Walt Disney Imagineering executive Bruce Vaughn as he describes the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland. A "world" is how he conceives of the ride – a seemingly mundane description that has

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Putting Disney Food To The Test
Dateline: 3/15/2007
Most kids would probably agree that Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, but on a recent trip with my family to the Anaheim park, I couldn't help but ask: Is it the healthiest place on earth? Disneyland's food never mattered much to me as

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Eustace Lycett, 91; Oscar-Winning Special Effects Expert For Disney
Dateline: 3/15/2007
When Eustace Lycett was studying mechanical engineering at Caltech in Pasadena in the 1930s, he figured he'd wind up in the oil or aircraft industries when he graduated. He never considered a career in the movies. But three days after

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When You Wish Upon A Star
Dateline: 3/17/2007
Disneyland is everything you have read about, and more. Ever since I was a child, I wanted to visit Disneyland. Isn't that every kid's dream? That dream became a reality just before Christmas last year. My mum, brother and I

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The Pirates of the Caribbean's 40th Anniversary at Disneyland
Dateline: 3/18/2007
March 18, 1967 Disneyland, Anaheim California - The day dawned gray and drizzly, and the passing of Walt Disney was still felt sharply, yet the Press, tourist and locals turned out for Disneyland's newest Attraction - the long awaited and

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Pirates Of The Caribbean Sails Stronger Than Ever After 40 Years
Dateline: 3/19/2007
Francis X. Atencio remembers riding with Walt Disney through the dark swamp in Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride before it opened – from haunted caverns to a pirate galleon to a ransacked Caribbean seaport. He turned to Disney and

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Is Disney Ready To Make Big Thunder?
Dateline: 3/22/2007
Nearly two decades ago, former Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner ordered up a grand plan for Southern California. "Amaze me," he told his staff. They brought him visions of a massive expansion near Disneyland that included an

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Peter Ellenshaw Film Special-Effects Virtuoso
Dateline: 4/4/2007
Peter Ellenshaw, matte artist: born London 24 May 1913; married 1942 Bobbie Palmer (one son, one daughter); died Santa Barbara, California 12 February 2007. In the era before computer-generated special effects, budget-conscious film-makers

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Fullerton Sleuth Helps Disneyland Guests
Dateline: 4/5/2007
Betsy Chan feels a bit like the 1930s fictional film character Detective Charlie Chan, who used personable skills to solve what could have been baffling mysteries. Fullerton's Chan plays detective at Disneyland Resort, attempting to reunite

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Disneyland Opens Weddings To Gay Couples
Dateline: 4/7/2007
Same-sex couples who want to exchange vows in front of Cinderella's Castle now have the chance. The Walt Disney Co. had limited its Fairy Tale Wedding program to couples with valid marriage licenses, but it is now making ceremonies at its parks

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Roller Coaster Of Wub
Dateline: 4/11/2007
As soon as I heard Disneyland would be giving Space Mountain a "rock and roll" makeover, I quickly made the appropriate arrangements. When Disneyland tries to be all rockin', things can get pretty cute up in that bitch. Take, for example, the

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For Sale: Pirates Premiere
Dateline: 4/12/2007
If you've stashed away a pirate's booty of $1,500, you can book passage to Disneyland's May 19 world premiere for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Disneyland, the host for all three Pirates premieres, is selling tickets to the public in

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Disney Donating Pirates Premiere Treasure To Make-A-Wish
Dateline: 4/13/2007
Disney will use the power of its "Pirates" to help make wishes come true for kids all over the world. Access Hollywood has learned the Walt Disney Company will be donating proceeds from the world premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At

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Disneyland Gets Greener
Dateline: 4/17/2007
The trains that fueled the dream for Walt Disney and his empire are being fed a steady diet of cleaner-burning, more environmentally friendly biodiesel. The magic ingredient: soybean oil. Since January, the four operable trains that

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Twenty-Five American Workers Escape The Daily Grind To Live Out Their Dream Job For A Day At Disneyland
Dateline: 4/17/2007
After nearly 1 million votes, America is sending 25 of their favorite Dream "Job" finalists to Disneyland Resort in June. The most popular videos included a Princess-in-Waiting, who received more than 70,000 votes and a Haunted Mansion Butler/Maid

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Former Marshall Resident Wins Contest To Play Character On Disney Ride
Dateline: 4/18/2007
Brodie Brockie will join two dozen other people in California's Disneyland Resort as winners of the CareerBuilder.com Disney Dream Jobs competition. Disney on Tuesday announced its 25 winners; Brockie was among them and is slated to be an

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Teen Hurt On Jungle Cruise
Dateline: 4/19/2007
A 17-year-old girl sustained minor injuries when a tree frond fell on the Jungle Cruise boat at Disneyland this afternoon. At about 12:30 p.m., winds gusting to 22 mph whipped the frond of a bird of paradise tree, which struck the boat, said

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Mary Blair
Dateline: 4/29/2007
Year of birth/death: 1911-1978 Years at college: Attended in the 1930s Field of study: Fine arts Notice the emotional power in the drab colors that darken the cellar where Disney's 1950 "Cinderella" lives and the gaudy

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Find Nemo At Redone Disneyland Ride
Dateline: 4/29/2007
The cheesy robotic mermaids and plastic fish have been beached, and Disneyland's submarine ride in Tomorrowland is now the domain of everyone's favorite flounder. Nemo, Marlin, Dory and company will accompany guests on the new Finding Nemo

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Disneyland Visit A Joy For Chivas USA
Dateline: 5/1/2007
As a child in Cuba, Chivas USA forward Maykel Galindo had no aspirations of visiting Disneyland. So while he soaked in his first-ever trip to the Happiest Place on Earth, Galindo could not help but feel the excitement only Disneyland can give.

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Disneyland Locomotive Headed For Fullerton
Dateline: 5/1/2007
For the first time in its 52 years, the C.K. Holliday Locomotive No. 1 will leave Disneyland and trundle down Harbor Boulevard for a guest appearance at this city's ninth-annual Railroad Days on Saturday and Sunday. The 9-ton engine will be

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The Happiest Place On Earth?
Dateline: 5/1/2007
Of course, I'm talking about Disneyland. Right now, my feet are still aching! It was a quick trip. We flew in Saturday and went straight to the park. On Sunday, we went to California Adventure. Then, we headed home! My son is almost two. I was

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The ‘Nemo Dream Mobile' Takes To The Road
Dateline: 5/4/2007
Disneyland Park California is being readied for its June 11 premiere of its newest attraction Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage. To preview the attraction The Nemo Dream Mobile will be coming out of the water and onto the road in the US beginning May 4

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Memorial Set For 'Voice of Disneyland'
Dateline: 5/4/2007
A memorial service will be Sunday for Earl Raymond Jackson, dubbed "the voice of Disneyland," who died April 30. He was 72. He moved with family to California in 1967, working in the Entertainment Division at Disneyland. After producing and

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Pirates Aims For The Real Thing
Dateline: 5/6/2007
Under a high, hot September sky, Disney Studios has clearly surrendered. Deep in the heart of the back lot, all those striding, BlackBerry-monitoring employees give way to denizens of a different sort. Pirates of every hue, hair configuration and

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Thousands Attend Annual Fullerton Train Days
Dateline: 5/7/2007
Thousands gathered in downtown Fullerton for the ninth annual Fullerton Railroad Days on Saturday and Sunday. The Fullerton Railway Plaza Association hosts the event every year to raise money to build a future museum. "We draw

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Only Pinocchio Nose For Sure
Dateline: 5/10/2007
We weren't even in the park yet when the perjury began. Giddy with the excitement that only a day at the Magic Kingdom can conjure, my friend told Disneyland's parking attendant that she had given him a $50 bill rather than a $20 - just to

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Fulton Burley, 84: Popular Performer and Jovial Singing Host of Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue
Dateline: 5/11/2007
Popular performer entertained millions of Disneyland guests over span of 25 years with legendary Golden Horseshoe Revue. Fulton Burley, the wisecracking Irish tenor who entertained millions of Disneyland guests for 25 years as the popular star

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Heat Exhaustion Hits 2 Disneyland Performers
Dateline: 5/15/2007
Two girls in a youth music group that was performing at Disneyland's Magic Music Days were hospitalized Sunday for heat exhaustion, fire officials said. Authorities were called to the park about 11:45 a.m. after the group, consisting of about a

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Submarine Voyage Christened
Dateline: 5/16/2007
Navy Vice Admiral John G. Morgan and Disneyland Resort President Ed Grier pour water from the East Australian current into the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage lagoon. The move followed a ceremonial re-commissioning of the Disneyland submarine

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Live The Pirates Fantasy At Disneyland
Dateline: 5/18/2007
First came the ride. Then came the movie. Then the movie found its way into the ride. Now pirates will be taking over another part of Disneyland when Pirate's Lair at Tom Sawyer Island opens Friday. All those pirates - including Jack Sparrow,

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