Disneyland Resort, Bursting with More Live Entertainment, Kicks Off Summer with Lineup of New Shows and Thrills

New Stage Show ‘Mickey and the Magical Map’ Joins Fantasy Faire, Disney Princesses and Cars Land for the Family Vacation Season

The Disneyland Resort, now bursting with even more live entertainment, has a lineup of unforgettable thrills and enchantment to welcome guests for a summer of fun. Well-known as the Happiest Place on Earth, the Disneyland Resort Just Gets Happier with the spectacular, new stage show “Mickey and the Magical Map” and Fantasy Faire, a new storybook village with Disney Princesses and two Princess-themed shows at the Royal Theatre, all at Disneyland Park.
The new, live shows extend the resort’s legacy as a magical stage for live entertainment, a place where children often enjoy their first experience with live performers and theatrical storytelling.  In addition, Cars Land is going full throttle with excitement for the whole family, and Buena Vista Street creates an entertaining new vibe at the reimagined Disney California Adventure Park. Guests also are enjoying Limited Time Magic, experiences that surprise and delight guests in fanciful ways throughout 2013.
Summer kicks off May 24 with a 24-hour all-nighter* at Disney California Adventure Park and Disneyland Park in California, as well as the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney WorldResort in Florida. The three parks will stay open from 6 a.m., May 24 to 6 a.m., May 25, 2013, local time* launching a season of fun inspired by the upcoming Disney•Pixar comedy adventure, “Monsters University.”  Screams and giggles are in store during this action-packed all-nighter as guests discover monstrous surprises in the parks, including Mike and Sulley scaring up some school spirit.
The all-nighter is just the beginning of the fun at the Disneyland Resort, a world-class, multi-day vacation destination with three hotels, the Downtown Disney shopping, dining and entertainment district, and two world-class theme parks.

At Disneyland Park
New ‘Mickey and the Magical Map’
“Mickey and the Magical Map” is a spectacular, live stage show presented at the Fantasyland Theatre, beginning May 25 in Disneyland Park. It takes guests on a musical adventure with a mischievous Mickey Mouse and the biggest character on stage, the Map. It spans the entire stage and has magical powers that come to life through amazing theatrical wizardry, colorful visuals and wonderful music. The journey includes encounters with such classic Disney characters as Pocahontas, Mulan, King Louie from “The Jungle Book,” Tiana from “The Princess and the Frog” and others. “Mickey and the Magical Map” is designed for Disneyland guests of all ages and represents Disney storytelling at its most thrilling.

Mickey and the Magical Map - courtesy of Disney

New Fantasy Faire
Fantasy Faire, a new storybook village near Sleeping Beauty Castle, immerses guests in timeless Disney tales. They can meet several Disney Princesses as they stroll through the beautiful Royal Hall, and then enjoy two Princess-themed shows at the Royal Theatre. The musical shows tell the tales of Rapunzel (“Tangled”) and Belle (“Beauty and the Beast”) as presented by Mr. Smythe and Mr. Jones, a pair of vaudeville-style Renaissance storytellers full of good humor. The princess heroine, Rapunzel or Belle, joins in the fun and remains with the audience to greet guests following the story.

At Disney California Adventure Park
Cars Land and Buena Vista Street
The newly expanded Disney California Adventure continues to be a popular vacation destination, with guests enjoying Cars Land, based on the popular Disney•Pixar animated feature “Cars,” and Buena Vista Street, an area themed to 1920s-1930s Los Angeles that adds more stories and entertainment experiences. Cars Land re-creates the town of Radiator Springs, along Route 66, and the highlight of the fuel-driven fun is Radiator Springs Racers. Racers never know which car will win as they go for the Piston Cup. On Buena Vista Street, entertainers such as “Five and Dime” and the Carthay Circle Theatre Restaurant offer guests more to do, day and night.

“Disney Junior – Live on Stage!”
Fans of the Disney Junior television hits “Sofia the First” and “Doc McStuffins” will enjoy interacting with these characters at “Disney Junior – Live on Stage!”  They join the gang from “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” and “Jake and the Never Land Pirates” in a show that invites preschoolers to sing, dance and play with enchanting puppets, fanciful scenery and lively music.  Sofia the First, Disney’s first little girl princess, and other characters in the show share ideas with guests, encouraging them to become part of the stories. Doc McStuffins consults her Big Book of Boo Boos to help diagnose and mend her toy friends.

Disney Junior - Live on Stage! courtesy of Disney

* Hours of operation 6:00 a.m. on 5/24/13 to 6:00 a.m. on 5/25/13; subject to capacity restrictions. Only select attractions, entertainment and services will be available. Valid theme park admission required. Subject to restrictions and change without notice.

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!

Magical Mystery Mondays! - Where Are We?

It's Monday again!  One of our favorite days of the week for posting because we get to offer you a challenge and hopefully get some interaction going!

Each and every week we spend at least one day out at the Disneyland Resort, and each and every week we find at least one spot we like to share with our readers and offer you the chance to guess where we took the picture.  Some of them are easy, some of them are hard, but based on the number of people we have guessing on a weekly basis, people love playing guessing games.  It's a great way for us to get you involved and commenting on our blog more.

We also offer up a chance for you to submit your own pictures for us to use each and every week, and this past week, someone finally took us up on it!  One of our Twitter followers Michelle, aka "Harvickfan005", submitted a picture to us to challenge you guys with.  Many thanks to her for taking that extra step and participating with a picture of her own!

So, do you know where she took this picture?

If you think you know where it is, let us know!  Leave us a comment here (probably the best way to do it), send us a Direct Message on our Twitter account @DaysInThePark, or drop us an email at daysinthepark@daysinthepark.com; that way your answer sort of remains hidden and more people get a chance to guess.  We like to keep it going as long as we can and give everyone a shot!

We'll be back tomorrow morning to post up all the people who guessed correctly and give you the spot where this was taken.  Have fun, don't take it too seriously, and let the guesses fly!

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We're back with the solution to yesterday's challenge!

We had a few guesses from people yesterday, but not as many as we have been getting.  We're going to assume based on that fact that this was a pretty challenging picture to take a stab at!  Most people guessed Autopia in Tomorrowland, which makes complete sense based on the signs in the picture, but alas, this just wasn't correct.

This week's shot can be found inside Mickey's Toontown in one of the windows of the Five and Dime gift shop, which is right next to Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin.  There are lots of great items for purchase in there, and it's one of our favorite places to hang out whenever we get inside Toontown.

We always like to throw a little shout-out to those who actually did get the correct answer.  We only had one person guess the exact* spot this week, but we're including everyone who got close.  You have to get them something for their sense of determination!  They were, in order of correct guess and by Twitter name:

• Chilebob*
• ChevyBurnz
• Robinpoppins

Some good guesses this week!  We'll be back next week with another picture for you guys to take a crack at.  In the meantime, if you have any spots that you know of that you would like for us to use, let us know!  You can contact us and have us take a picture of your spot ourselves (and credit you with the idea, of course!), or feel free to drop us a line at daysinthepark@daysinthepark.com if you have a picture yourself you'd like for us to use.  Many thanks again to Harvickfan005 for her submission this week.  We were only too happy to use it.

Thanks for playing along with us!  And always keep your peepers open for those "little details"; you never know what you might see.