Your Disneyland Daily - Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Today's posted Park information:

Park Times:

Disneyland Park - 8:00am to 12:00am

Disney California Adventure Park - 8:00am to 10:00pm

Annual Passholder Information:

So Cal Select - BLOCKED

So Cal - BLOCKED

Deluxe - VALID

Featured Events/Shows:
Disneyland Park:
Fantasmic! - 9:00, 10:30pm
"Magical" (Disneyland Nighttime Fireworks) - 9:25pm
Mickey's Soundsational Parade - 4:00, 6:30pm

Disney California Adventure Park:
World of Color - 9:45pm
Pixar Play Parade - 5:15pm
Disney's Aladdin (A Musical Spectacular) - 12:40, 2:20, 4:45, 6:20pm
Mad T Party - 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00pm

Attractions Under Refurbishment:

Disneyland Park - Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage

Disney California Adventure Park -Blue Sky Cellar  

For more complete information on all of the shows and attractions on any given day, please check out the official site at Disneyland.com, or pick up one of the handy-dandy show schedules along with your maps as you enter The Parks!

Have a magical day!

Your Disneyland Daily - Tuesday, July 15, 2014

If you haven't already noticed, one of the first things to assault your eyeballs when you get to the Disneyland Resort is information; namely, what time both Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park remain open, what Annual Passes are valid that day (okay, that one isn't really there but man, would it be helpful?), and what attractions are currently under refurbishment. 

But what if you don't want to wait until you get to The Park for said information? Consider me a quick, one-stop shop if you're coming here anyways. 

Today's posted Park information:

Park Times:

Disneyland Park - 8:00am to 12:00am

Disney California Adventure Park - 8:00am to 10:00pm

Annual Passholder Information:

So Cal Select - BLOCKED

So Cal - BLOCKED

Deluxe - VALID

Featured Events/Shows:
Disneyland Park:
Fantasmic! - 9:00, 10:30pm
"Magical" (Disneyland Nighttime Fireworks) - 9:25pm
Mickey's Soundsational Parade - 4:00, 6:30pm

Disney California Adventure Park:
World of Color - 9:45pm
Pixar Play Parade - 5:15pm
Disney's Aladdin (A Musical Spectacular) - 12:40, 2:20, 4:45, 6:20pm
Mad T Party - 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00pm

Attractions Under Refurbishment:

Disneyland Park - Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage

Disney California Adventure Park -Blue Sky Cellar  

For more complete information on all of the shows and attractions on any given day, please check out the official site at Disneyland.com, or pick up one of the handy-dandy show schedules along with your maps as you enter The Parks!

Have a magical day!

Days In The Park Week In Review: (8/8 - 8/14)

Had a lot of fun writing our articles for this week!  We didn't hit every day of the week, but we sort of made up for it with a double posting on Friday.  So that works, right?  Just to recap:

On Monday, we challenged you with our weekly "Magical Mystery Mondays" to guess where in The Parks we were when we took a particular picture.  This week's came courtesy of the Five and Dime store in Mickey's Toontown in Disneyland Park.  We have a lot of fun with these every week, so make sure you stop by each and every Monday to participate with us.  Guess correctly, and you'll find your name posted on our blog come Tuesday morning!

Wednesday,we posted up some photos we took on a recent Friday night excursion into Disney California Adventure Park for our Almost Wordless Wednesday

And lastly, on Friday, we offered up twice the goodness with not one but two different articles.  We were blog hopping with our friend at Magical Days With The Mouse for Disney Flashback Friday, with a look at the old Playhouse Disney show from Disney California Adventure Park.  We were also riding the rails with the Magical Blogorail Blue Line, where we shared our "Top Ten Tips" for enjoying your vacation in the Disney Theme Parks

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It should be a really great, but busy, week at Days In The Park!  We'll be recording Episode 8 of our Days In The Park podcast; always a great time!  Our show is doing really well still, and we're truly thankful for that, and for all of you who are listening to us.  We'll be recording and editing this week so we can get it out as quickly as possible, so be looking for that.  And it's going to be a huge weekend upcoming as the D23 Expo rolls into town at the Anaheim Convention Center.  We'll be attending on Saturday and Sunday, and we're looking over our schedules right now to decide what we most want to do and see, so when we come back, we should have loads to talk about here and on our podcast.  We can't wait to get out there and get knee-deep in the festivities.  If you plan on coming out for the Expo yourself, shoot us off a message and let us know; we'd love to run into as many of you as we can!

It's going to be a great week, so come on back.  We love having you around!

Disney Flashback Friday: Playhouse Disney

My kids and I were walking to school this morning, and we somehow or other got on the topic of old Disney Channel cartoons, and shows that they used to watch every morning during Playhouse Disney (now Disney Junior).  Many were the mornings (since I'm a Stay-At-Home-Dad) where we would cuddle up in blankets on the floor and watch such greats as 'Rolie Polie Olie', 'Out of the Box', 'Stanley', 'JoJo's Circus', and the words "Fruit Salad" (yummy yummy) still make me break out in cold sweats.  It was funny though, that the further back we went the less they were able to remember about the shows, and these were shows they watched every day.

Being the little Playhouse Disney addicts that they were, one of their favorite places to stop at Disneyland was inside Disney California Adventure Park, at the Playhouse Disney theater, in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot.  Now the home of the Disney Junior show, the theater (before they got too big to want to go anymore) was the home to a live action/puppet show highlighting many of the favorite shows at that time that were showing on the Disney Channel each and every day.  It only made sense that they would gravitate towards it and want to go each and every time we went to The Park.  My wife and I have loads of memories of sitting on the floor in the theater with our two oldest watching their faces light up as they laughed, clapped, and yelled along with their favorite characters from their favorite shows.  Things seemed so much simpler back then, and it was a jolt to me with the realization of how big they are getting now, but it also it brings a smile to my face even to this day when I go back and think about, and look at, some of those memories.

"Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Big Blue House..."

JoJo's Circus

Stanley

Winnie the Pooh

And although it was never a part of the Playhouse Disney show (at least, not that I can recall), no memories of those days would be complete without a little 'PB&J Otter'.  Although the boys tell me they don't remember this show at all, Daddy remembers it, and we watched it a lot.  It's always good to go back and remember things, isn't it?