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TravelPulse on MSNAttraction Debut, New Show Finale Highlight Disneyland's 70th Anniversary CelebrationOn Disneyland's 70th anniversary, two major tributes debuted: an advanced Audio-Animatronics figure of Walt Disney and a tribute to the Sherman Brothers, including a new verse for "it's a small world;
Disneyland is marking its 70th anniversary with a slate of new additions including an enhanced “It’s A Small World” attraction and new experiences at the Main Street Opera House. Walt Disney
Disneyland quietly pushed back the debut of “Walt Disney — A Magical Life” by two months from May 16 to July 17 as Walt Disney Imagineering continued to work on the Audio-Animatronic figure of the park’s visionary founder. The original date coincided with the kickoff of Disneyland’s 70th anniversary celebration.
The cranberry glass lamp, a favorite of Lillian Disney from the family apartment at Disneyland, was once the signal to park employees that Walt Disney was in the park. It is slated to be on display inside the Main Street Opera House at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Calif.
The audio animatronics on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World, have already built up a reputation as unreliable. It’s far from uncommon to be on the ride and have one of them not working. It’s just a bit wild that this POV was put up if that was the case.
Since Disney opened 70 years ago, its influence on the world has profoundly changed everything about the way we think about storytelling.
Within a decade of Disneyland’s opening, Walt Disney already knew Tomorrowland had a problem. “The tomorrows of 1955 had become yesterdays,” a park official said in 1967, quoting Walt’s realization that the future would always arrive faster than Tomorrowland could keep up with.
A Magical Life” opens on Thursday and is based on the life of Walt Disney and features an animatronic Walt to tell his story using his own words through historical footage and audio.
As a result, when the audio-animatronic Disney surveys the crowd, it feels like he's really looking at you. When Kirsten Komoroske, executive director of The Walt Disney Family Museum, saw it for the first time, she said she "felt the impulse to smile back at him."