Welcome to this week’s Round Up of MiceChat articles and Disney news. We continue our coverage of the news and trips from the Disneyland 60th Anniversary! We also have some new Rumors of a 3rd Park, Hotel Changes and New Parking Structure! Park Wise brings us their opinion of the best Disneyland Resort Hotel? We hope your week has been Fantasmic!

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Fab News: Juicy Rumors, 3rd Park, Hotel Changes and New Parking
Enjoying the calm before the storm, MiceChatters? Only a few weeks until the D23 Expo! While we wait, let’s see what’s going on in Disneyland news AND rumors. You asked for dirt and I dug some up for you! 3rd park, hotel changes, amazing new parking and a chance to win something really cool.

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Pick the Best Disneyland Resort Hotel
Over the past several columns, we’ve run down the many resorts Walt Disney World has to offer. While Disneyland features just three resorts, they’re not any less fun and Disney-infused than their East coast counterparts.

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We have lots of news about the 60th Birthday Celebration at Disneyland from last Friday, and we also have video of the new Disneyland Band. ~ Aladdin

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Full Disneyland 60th Re-Dedication Ceremony
Disneyland celebrated its 60th birthday with a special performance by a true Disney Songwriter and Legend along with Broadway’s original Mary Poppins. See the celebration here!

Disneyland’s 60th Birthday: 14 Years Of My Photos
RegionsBeyond
 brings us some of their favorite photos at the Disneyland Resort, since the beginning of the millennium. Several things in these photos have already disappeared!

Disneyland 60th Birthday Freebies and Photo Ops
Disneyland’s 60th Birthday brought special buttons, cupcakes, park maps, and special photo opportunities that were available for one day only. Here are photos of some of those things!

The New Disneyland Band
The new Disneyland Band premiered on July 17th, and performed in Town Square, near the Castle, and in Frontierland. Here are a few videos from their opening day.

Special 1955 Castmember Pre-parade
Disneyland paid tribute to Cast Members from 1955, with a special pre-parade, on Disneyland’s 60th Birthdays. Here’s a video!

TLT bands no longer come September
Some of the night time entertainment in Tomorrowland may be going away, at least temporarily. Could this signal a bigger update to Tomorrowland is on the way?

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Renie Bardeau’s decades of Disneyland photos
Some of Disneyland’s most iconic photographs were taken by Renie Bardeau, whose career spanned from the 1950’s through the 1990’s. Take a look here!

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If you enjoy the bands that play at Tomorrowland Terrace, you might want to go before the summer ends. ~ Trekkie Dad

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TLT bands no longer come September
Disneyland’s Tomorrowland Terrace has hosted bands during the evening hours for the last 50 years, and it appears that will end this fall, according to a petition started on change.org.

Mickey and the Magical Map: Frozen Scene
Mandog76 heard from a cast member who couldn’t “confirm or deny” that a Frozen scene would be added to the stage show at Disneyland.

Talking with Kermit the frog and friends
donaldduckfan#1 thinks that Disney California Adventure’s Muppet Vision 3D should be replaced with an attraction similar to Turtle Talk with Crush.

Jungle Cruise Halloween Overlay?
Gaston’sNotThatBad thinks the Jungle Cruise would be fun with a Halloween overlay. Some MiceChatters agree, others do not.

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This week we have a view of Epcot from an eighties perspective, a secret in the Haunted Mansion and new appearances in Fantasmic! DLandFansAZ

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Tangled and Frozen Makes a Brief Appearance in Fantasmic!
John69 share a video of the brief appearances in Fantasmic!

Come visit the EPCOT Center of 1982 – RARE 16mm Home Movie restored in HD
wdwms brings us another vintage 16mm home video, this time from Epcot circa 1982.

PHOTO: Haunted Mansion Secret Attic Door
There’s a secret door in the mansion and PlutoHasFleas brings us a photo.

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ALL NEW! MiceChat Podcast – 4 Amazing Theme Park Things to Celebrate! It’s a countdown to fun on the MiceChat Podcast as we celebrate the biggest Southern Californian attractions of summer 2015. Disneyland may be getting all the attention with its 60th anniversary, but the biggest attractions are to be found outside the borders of the Happiest Place On Earth. We take you with us to the parks as we explore the Iron Reef, a Twisted Colossus, Springfield USA and a Diamond Celebration. There’s a lot of competition for your theme park dollars this summer and the big winner is . . . you!

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Disney Avenue Podcast: As you all know, the Disney community is unlike any other. It’s filled with amazing people who love to help each other out and enjoy reveling in the magic together. Although we are all different, we all share and have experienced that feeling you get when you walk into a Disney Park. We all know that feeling of safety and escape it provides us. Someone who really appreciates that comfort is a wonderful man named Guy Spagnoli.

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Disafterdark: We Love the Letter “D” and we will tell you why!

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Mousetalgia! – An Unofficial Disneyland Podcast: Visit Disneyland on July 17, 2015 with Jeff and Kristen as they report from the park on its 60th birthday with location recordings as well as thoughts about the day. We listen in on Michael Colglazier’s speech, visit New Orleans Square to catch Queenie and the Royal Street Bachelors, and even catch the new Disneyland Band in one of its first day performances. Also – Kristen does a rain-soaked VIP Tour, Jeff attends a D23 panel with a host of Disney Legends to learn even more about Disneyland’s early days, and we discuss Fantasmic dining packages. Plus – a chance to win souvenir park maps and a July 17 “I was there!” button; a tiny Ant-sized movie review – and more!

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Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast: On this episode we invite Gary Goddard, the CEO of The Goddard Group to talk about the creation of the Jurassic Park River Adventure from conception to completion and everything in between, including some things that didn’t make it in to the final attraction.

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Disneyland’s Diamond Celebration continues through a warm summer
Disneyland continues through its big 60th Anniversary summer with hot temperatures and fairly moderate crowds. With the theme parks running at peak performance, there’s not much news as Disneyland gets ready to host big crowds arriving for the 2015 D23 Expo, which will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in mid-August. As Disneyland gears up for big crowds of Disney fans descending on the Resort Area later next month, projects Disney has released few details on continue in Tomorrowlandand Cars Land. Will we get a sneak preview of those new attractions at the Expo?

The MiceEars Crew puts a lot of time and effort into making the Disney News Round-Up happen.Our thanks to: Editor CakvalaSC and the MiceEars Crew: Aladdin, Trekkie Dad, DLandFansAZ, & Dustysage.
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