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Dateline Disneyland

Andy is a Southern California native, raised with Disneyland and a life-long fan of Disney theme parks and animation. Andy wrote the long-running weekly Dateline Disneyland photo, news and opinion blog here on MiceChat from 2007-2016. Andy continues to make occasional special guest contributions on MiceChat.

Food prices go up and Halloween Time creeps in as Disneyland...

Food prices jumped at many Disneyland Resort restaurants last week, raising some entree prices as much as $2 in some cases. The price...

Disneyland Half-Marathon races through Anaheim over the busy Labor Day Holiday...

Happy Labor Day! Officially marking the end of the summer season, the busy holiday weekend also brought along a weekend of RunDisney events to...

Halloween Time creeps in across the Disneyland Resort as summer comes...

Halloween Time has started to creep in across the Disneyland Resort as the summer season comes to a close. Meanwhile, refurbishments continue as...

Disneyland celebrates Haunted Mansion’s 45th Anniversary with new art and collectibles

Disneyland's summer season is starting to wind down as the park begins to gear up for the popular Halloween Time season. As...

Haunted Mansion celebrates 45 years as the first signs of Halloween...

Disneyland's classic Haunted Mansion celebrated its 45th Anniversary over the weekend as the theme parks entered the final stretch of the long summer season....

Adventure Trading Company brings “gnu” fun to Disneyland as summer continues

Disneyland's new pay-per-play Adventure Trading Company interactive game opened over the weekend, sending players on expeditions to find coveted Juju. The new game...

Adventure Trading Company gets ready to open at Disneyland as summer...

Disneyland is getting ready to debut another new interactive game later this week as the ongoing Legends of Frontierland game continues to draw a...

Disneyland celebrates 59 years and looks ahead to 60 as Club...

Disneyland celebrated its 59th anniversary last week and announced plans for a big celebration of 60 historic years that will start next spring. ...

Club 33 brings major change to Disneyland’s New Orleans Square as...

Disneyland's newly renovated and expanded Club 33 began testing for special guests over the weekend as more scaffolding and walls began to come down...

Disneyland celebrates the Fourth of July with new Wonders, Marvels and...

Disneyland celebrated the Fourth of July holiday with special fireworks and live entertainment but the holiday weekend brought some new magic and marvelous sneak...

Summer projects continue at Disneyland

Disneyland made headlines Sunday evening after a small fire broke out backstage. Luckily, the blaze was quickly put out by the local fire...

New Frozen pre-parade leads the way as Club 33 expansion continues...

Disneyland debuted its new Frozen-themed pre-parade Friday afternoon. The one-float offering features Princess Anna, Olaf and Queen Elsa on an icy, snow-covered parade float...

Changes continue in New Orleans Square as summer heats up at...

Construction continues on the major Club 33 expansion in Disneyland but most guests facing the project's significant impact on the streets of New Orleans...

Summer gets underway as refurbishments and construction continues at Disneyland

Disneyland is now in full summer mode with big crowds and late operating hours but refurbishments and construction projects continue in both theme parks....

Rock Your Disney Side 24 hour party kicks off busy summer...

Disneyland kicked off its busy summer season with another 24-hour party that encouraged guests to rock their "Disney Sides" by "Disney Bounding" and wearing...

Your Guide to Disneyland’s Rock Your Disney Side 24-Hour Party

Disneyland will officially kick off the summer season with another 24-hour party on Friday. Luckily it seems like Disney is taking the lessons...

Disneyland gets ready to Rock Your Disney Side with another 24...

Disneyland quietly rolled out new theme park admission price increases Sunday morning, raising prices across the board. The biggest price hikes were a...

The Little Mermaid gets a makeover as new Main Street, U.S.A....

Disney California Adventure's Little Mermaid dark ride reopened over the weekend with significant enhancements including a really great black-light re-imagining of the attraction's big...

High temperatures hit as crowds maneuver closures at Disneyland

Strong winds and high temperatures hit the parks over the last week as guests continued to maneuver the on-going construction and refurbishment projects around...

Springtime refurbishments and merchandise mishaps at Disneyland

Welcome back to Dateline Disneyland! This week we take a look at Disneyland's various springtime refurbishments as the parks continue through the busy...