Weekend Update: Knotts Berry Farm Ghost Town

Categories: Uncategorized

For all its faults, Knotts Berry Farm, still maintains an amazing Ghost Town.  This week's Weekend Update features photos from Walt Disney World, Knotts Berry Farm, and vintage postcards. Don't miss the weekend update of photos from Disney, Theme Parks, and family vacation locations world wide HERE Read More

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In The Parks: Disney Green, Universal Red, and Lots of News

Categories: Disneyland, So. Cal. Attractions

David Michael is back with the Friday Disney and Southern California Theme Park News Roundup.  It's an interesting update this week with news on why riding the Disneyland Railroad may make you hungry, the sad passing of a Disneyland accident victim, operating losses at Universal, and lots of photo updates. Read the entire In The Parks Disney and Theme Park Blog HERE Read More

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Weekly Disney and Theme Park News Roundup

Categories: Weekly Roundup

So much information about Disney, Theme Parks, Movies, and more, but too little time to read it all.  Luckily for us, the MiceChat Roundup Crew digests all the news for us and presents it every Wednesday.  This week we celebrate 4 years of MiceChat with a weekend long event at the Disneyland Resort in California.  We see creative photoshopped pictures from the Disney parks.  The Dapper Dans (Barbershop quartet from Disneyland) perform at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood.  Fantastic and entertaining ... Read More

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MiceChat 4 Year Anniversary Weekend - January 31st and February 2nd

Categories: Disneyland, MiceChat News

MiceChat is turning a year older.  What will you celebrate January 31 through Feb 1st 2009? MiceChat's 4th anniversary of course! Happy 4th Anniversary MiceChat! You may just be 4 years old, but you have given us so much to celebrate. In the past year, MiceChatters have met and fallen in love, been married, had babies, countless friendships have been made, trips have been planned, endless hours have been spent discussing topics of every sort, and we have mourned the passing ... Read More

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Dateline Disneyland: Celebrate Construction

Categories: Dateline Disneyland

The Dateline Disneyland theme park blog always keeps us up to date on what's going on at Disneyland Resort in California.  This week, we track the progress of construction around Paradise Pier at Disney's California Adventure Park and work going on throughout Disneyland. Don't miss any of the wonderful pictures and information brought to us by Andy Castro of the Dateline Disneyland Blog - Read the entire Disneyland update HERE Read More

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Weekend Update: The World Goes Round

Categories: Weekend Update

Each week, the weekend update takes you on a mini vacation around the world.  This week, we have shots of the brand new parade at Disney's Magic Kingdom in Florida, a fascinating report from Germany, St. Augustine, Florida, behind the scenes with the penguin at Sea World San Diego, and Disneyland from the vantage of a fish-eye lens.  We finish off the update with more vintage postcards including the now defunct California Alligator Farm. Read the entire Weekend Update photo tour of Disney, ... Read More

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In The Parks: Construction at Disneyland, Changes at Knotts - Do You Measure Up?

Categories: Disneyland, So. Cal. Attractions

Disneyland has become a maze of construction walls.  Thankfully we have David "Darkbeer" Michael to sort it all out for us.  Along the way he also fills us in on the new Disneyland street parade, ride refurbishments, and what's coming to the Celebration Station.  Over at Knott's Berry Farm, they have done away with "Child" tickets in favor of something very interesting . . . height based tickets.  It doesn't matter how old the child is, but rather, how tall they are. Read ... Read More

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Weekly Disney Roundup - Anniversary, Photoshop, News and more

Categories: Weekly Roundup

First up on today's roundup -  MiceChat celebrates its 4th anniversary with a weekend long celebration at Disneyland January 30th through February 1st.  Don't miss out on the festivities. You'll find a fantastic group of discussions today that you won't want to miss.  Among these is an ongoing series of Photoshop competitions that provide tons of fun wether you are a participant or just a viewer. Other items include interesting photo reports of the hanging floral baskets of Disneyland, the Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary, and ... Read More

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Dateline Disneyland - Time to “Celebrate”

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The "What Will You Celebrate" campaign is off and running at the Disneyland Resort.  Banners, details, merchandise, floral, and activities are all being feverishly prepared for the year long celebration of . . . whatever you want. Andy Castro once again delivers a phenomenal round up of news and photos from the Disneyland Resort in California. Read the entire Dateline Disneyland theme park blog HERE Read More

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Weekend Update - Disney World’s American Idol

Categories: Weekend Update

No one can beat a franchise into the ground like Disney.  Luckily, one of our Weekend Update spies has pictures of Disney World's brand new "American Idol Experience." From there, we visit the theme park-esque, real life ghost town of  Pollardville. What does the Monster Truck Jam and the Ronald Reagan presidential library have in common?  Nothing.  But they are both featured in this weekend's update.   And we finish up this week's Update with some more vintage postcard images from darkfairycthulu. Weekend Update ... Read More

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In The Parks: Huge Crowds For MLK Weekend

Categories: Disneyland, So. Cal. Attractions

Martin Luther King holiday weekend and 85,000 conventioneers at the Anaheim convention center for the NAMM trade show equal a packed Disneyland Resort area.  If you are headed to the parks, use the Harbor Exit off the 5 freeway and expect delays.  Get to the parks early to ensure parking. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Restaurant Construction at DCA"][/caption] The In The Parks blog also fills us in on changes coming to the Disneyland resort, including the expansion of a restaurant at Disney's California Adventure, ... Read More

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Disney and Theme Park News Roundup

Categories: Weekly Roundup

Busy parks, even busier annual passport processing lines, it's another week and another weekly roundup of top Disney, Theme Park, and Family Travel news.  This week, we feature information about MiceChat's upcoming 4 year anniversary mega-meet spectacular, reports from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, pictures of the beautiful murals at the Tokyo Disneyland Resort, and more trip reports, information, and news than you can shake a stick at. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="599" caption="Tokyo Disney Sea Mural"][/caption] Read the entire MiceChat weekly roundup ... Read More

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