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Part One: Eight Ways to Play at Disney California Adventure® Park

The past five years has truly been a magical transformation for the Disneyland® Resort. The expansion project brought new attractions, entertainment and experiences to the parks as well as gave a refresh to a few of the favorites. Most of the work centered in Disney California Adventure® Park creating new adventures for guests of all ages. Young or old, thrill seeker or night owl – there really is something for everyone!

We have eight themed touring plans for you to try on your next visit! Whether you mix, match, add, or subtract, you are sure to have a great time at the new Disney California Adventure® Park. Be sure to check back tomorrow for the final 4 touring plans.

Thrill Seekers Adventure

Disney California Adventure® Park could be considered a thrill seeker’s paradise with 6 of the highest rated attractions at the Disneyland® Resort. This touring plan is packed with flying, spinning, screaming, soaring and racing fun that any thrill seeker would love.

Radiator Springs Racers
Soarin’ Over California
Twilight Zone™ Tower of Terror
Grizzly River Run
California Screamin’
Silly Symphony Swings
Goofy’s Sky School

The Night Cap

When the sun goes down, a magical nighttime experience is just beginning at Disney California Adventure® Park. Watch as Cars Land flips the switch from day to night and enjoy the illumination of Route 66 with its amazing neon signs. Don’t miss a twinkling view of the skyline from the top of Twilight Zone™ Tower of Terror and catch all the fun, music and games at Mad T Party.

Cars Land Neon Lighting
Dinner at Carthay Circle Restaurant or Golden Vine Winery, with reserved viewing for World of Color
Carthay Circle Lounge
Twilight Zone® Tower of Terror
Hot Chocolate at Ghirardelli Soda Fountain and Chocolate Shop
Mad T Party
World of Color

A Day with Character

Disney California Adventure® Park is the perfect place to get up close and personal with favorite characters! Enjoy being immersed in the stories of classic Disney characters and Pixar pals, plus there are many opportunities to greet favorite characters. Talk with Crush, sing along with Minnie, and go under the sea with Ariel on this character-filled itinerary.

Greet Lightning McQueen and Mater
Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree
The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel’s Undersea Adventure
Minnie’s Fly Girls Charter Airline
Toy Story Mania!
Pixar Play Parade
Redwood Creek Challenge Trail with Russell and Dug from Disney•Pixar’s Up
Turtle Talk with Crush at Disney Animation Building
The Beast’s Library, Sorcerer’s Workshop, at Disney Animation Building
Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!
Muppet*Vision 3D
Ariel’s Grotto Princess Character Dining

A Tour Full of Flavor

Sometimes you have to make FOOD the star of your vacation! With its new dining locations, Disney California Adventure® Park is a foodie’s paradise. Comfort food, gourmet meals, regional specialties, signature cocktails and even delectable vintages are all available on this tour through the park. From small bites to fine dining, your palates will be met with some of the best food and drink options from around the Disneyland® Resort.

Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Café
Trolley Treats
Wine Country Trattoria
Flo’s V8 Café
Cozy Cone Motel
Fillmore’s Taste-In
Pacific Wharf Café
Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta
Carthay Circle Restaurant
The Cove Bar
Ariel’s Grotto (character dining)
Ghirardelli Soda Fountain and Chocolate Shop
Corn Dog Castle
“World of Color” picnic dinners; includes reserved viewing for the show

Ride Along on Radiator Springs Racers

Start your engines and prepare for the ride of your life! This thrilling auto racing competition will send you rocketing through the desert landscape of Ornament Valley. You’ll run into some of your favorite characters from the Disney·Pixar movie Cars in some very familiar locations!

Take a ride on Disney California Adventure® Park’s new attraction, Radiator Springs Racers, with our exclusive Off to Neverland Travel® video. Ka-chow!

By Off to Neverland Travel|2017-06-27T10:22:42-05:00June 18th, 2012|Categories: Disney News, Disneyland News|Tags: California Adventure, Cars Land, Disney California Adventure, Disney California Adventure Cars Land, Disney California Adventure Expansion, Disney's California Adventure, Disneyland Cars, Radiator Springs Racers|0 Comments

Celebrities Starstruck by Cars Land

The Opening of Cars Land at Disney California Adventure® Park in Anaheim, CA was a star-studded affair to say the least. This VIP event brought many celebrities to the park to experience the new areas and walk the red carpet. As one would expect, no celebrity was bright enough to outshine the real star of the night, Cars Land!

Many of the celebrities took time to share their thoughts on this new immersive area of Disney California Adventure® Park. Here are some of our favorites:

Radiator Springs Racers is unbelievable. Cars Land is everything you want it to be. – Country music artist Brad Paisley

The expansion makes Disneyland even better, if that’s possible. – Actress Ariel Winter, star of ABC’s “Modern Family”

Luigi’s Flying Tires is the most original ride I’ve ever ridden. Cars Land is just amazing. – Actor Nolan Gould, star of ABC’s “Modern Family”

Mater’s awesome – I loved him when I first saw the cartoon and read the script. – Comedian Larry the Cable Guy

Cars Land is the place to be this summer. – Actor Rico Rodriguez, from ABC’s “Modern Family”

Cars Land is fantastic – the setting is quite unique. – Actor Andy Garcia

I can’t wait to share this with my family. – Tom Staggs, Chairman of Disney Parks & Resorts

This is unbelievably exciting. Walt Disney was right – there’s always more we can do. – Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Co.

To have a whole land based on the characters we created at Pixar is a dream come true. – John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studio, and Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering

By Off to Neverland Travel|2017-06-27T10:22:44-05:00June 15th, 2012|Categories: Disney News, Disneyland News|Tags: California Adventure, Cars Land, Disney California Adventure, Disney California Adventure Cars Land, Disney California Adventure Expansion, Disney's California Adventure, Disneyland Cars|0 Comments

Red Car Trolleys of Buena Vista Street

Guests will now enter the newly expanded Disney California Adventure® Park through a completely redesigned entrance. Like never before, the spirit of Walt Disney is present on Buena Vista Street. Immersed in a locale reminiscent of Los Angeles in the 1920s, when Disney first arrived in California, guests encounter the Red Car Trolley, one of four new attractions at Disney California Adventure® Park.

Inspired by Los Angeles’ historic Pacific Electric Red Cars from the 1920s and ’30s, two Red Car Trolley cars operate daily, traveling from Buena Vista Street to the Twilight Zone™ Tower of Terror through Hollywood Land. The trolleys make several stops along the way.

Inside the interiors showcase the soft green and cream colors of the time period. Vintage-looking ads hanging inside highlighting food locations and shops inside the park. The Red Car Trolleys are 26 feet long and seat 20 passengers with an additional space for a wheelchair.

Each of the Red Car Trolleys have a number. The 623 car, with “23″ as a nod to the year 1923 when Walt Disney arrived in California, is based on the 600 series of trolleys built by the St. Louis Car Company in 1922. The 717 car is inspired by the 700-750 series manufactured by the J.G. Brill Company in 1925. 7-17 also refers to the birthday of Disneyland® Park, July 17, 1955.

The trolleys are powered by onboard 12-volt batteries that fully recharge at night. The catenary lines running above the cars are just for authenticity – they provide no actual power. If necessary, the trolleys are able to recharge at one of the stops using inductive power transfer, the same technology used to charge your cell phone!

The Red Car Trolleys are rockin’ when the Red Car News Boys roll into town. Inspired by the spirit and style of Disney’s movie and stage musical Newsies, the group performs tunes authentic for the time period like “California, Here I come” and delivers the news from the Buena Vista Daily Bugle. Of course the show wouldn’t be complete without an appearance from Mickey Mouse, the cartoon star who got his start in that period!

More than just “another attraction” in “another land,” the Red Car Trolleys and Buena Vista Street pay tribute to the optimism and opportunity Walt felt when he first arrived to Los Angeles.

: Red Car Trolley

Red Car Trolley: Red Car Trolley

: Red Car News Boys

Red Car News Boys: Red Car News Boys

: Read all about it in the Buena Vista Daily Bugle

Read all about it in the Buena Vista Daily Bugle: Read all about it in the Buena Vista Daily Bugle

: Mickey joins the Red Car News Boys

Mickey joins the Red Car News Boys: Mickey joins the Red Car News Boys

: Oswald’s

Oswald's: Oswald’s

: Mortimer’s Fresh Fruit Market

Mortimer's Fresh Fruit Market: Mortimer’s Fresh Fruit Market

: Elias & Company Store

Elias & Company Store: Elias & Company Store

By Off to Neverland Travel|2017-06-27T10:22:44-05:00June 14th, 2012|Categories: Disney News, Disneyland News|Tags: Buena Vista Street, California Adventure, Disney California Adventure, Disney California Adventure Buena Vista Street, Disney California Adventure Expansion, Disney's California Adventure, Red Car Trolley|0 Comments

Disneyland® Resort: The Happiest Place on Earth Just Got Happier

On Oct. 17, 2007, Disneyland® Resort announced expansion plans for Disney California Adventure® Park that would bring more Disney magic and storytelling into the park. But, the plans didn’t exclude the rest of the Disneyland® Resort. This five-year journey has added magical innovation, new attractions, shows, parades and firework spectaculars at both theme parks. It also included stunning renovations at the three Disneyland® Resort Hotels and exciting experiences and locations in the Downtown Disney® District.

This week is a very special time for the Disneyland® Resort as it marks the completion of the majority of this five-year expansion with the opening of Cars Land and Buena Vista Street. To help celebrate this milestone, we will have agents at the Disneyland® Resort covering many of the additions as well as focusing most of our website updates to the California parks. Please be sure to follow along as we uncover how “The Happiest Place on Earth Just Got Happier.”

Our coverage will include:

Blog posts right here on our website, offtoneverland.com
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Tweets from our Twitter account – @neverlandtravel http://twitter.com/#!/neverlandtravel
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By Off to Neverland Travel|2017-06-27T10:22:45-05:00June 11th, 2012|Categories: Disney News, Disneyland News|Tags: California Adventure, Disney California Adventure, Disney California Adventure Buena Vista Street, Disney California Adventure Cars Land, Disney California Adventure Expansion, Disney's California Adventure, DLR Expansion|3 Comments

Disney California Adventure® Park’s Expansion Soon to be Complete

Disneyland® Resort has announced that both Cars Land and Buena Vista Street will open to the public on June 15th, bringing the five-year expansion of Disney California Adventure® Park to an end. This expansion brings a whole new look to Disney California Adventure® Park and gives its guests an opportunity to explore 8 different lands: “a bug’s land,” Buena Vista Street, Condor Flats, Grizzly Peak, Hollywood Land, Pacific Wharf, Paradise Pier, and the much anticipated Cars Land.

Buena Vista Street resembles what Walt would have seen when he first moved to Hollywood in 1923. Buena Vista Street will be the home of the new Carthay Circle Restaurant and Lounge as well as various shops and will feature red car trolleys traveling the length of it.

Cars Land will bring the town of Radiator Springs from the Disney·Pixar movie Cars to life. Cars Land will feature 3 new attractions – Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree, Luigi’s Flying Tires, and Radiator Springs Racers. Guests will be able to ‘fill up’ their empty stomachs at Flo’s V8 Café, Fillmore’s Taste-In, and the Cozy Cone Motel.

Disney California Adventure® Park will be closed to guests on June 14th so that final preparations can be made to the park. Disneyland® Park and the Downtown Disney® District will operate normally on that day.

Check out this video preview of Buena Vista Street and Cars Land:

By Off to Neverland Travel|2017-06-27T10:23:11-05:00March 9th, 2012|Categories: Disney News, Disneyland News|Tags: California Adventure, Cars Land, Disney California Adventure, Disney California Adventure Cars Land, Disney California Adventure Expansion, Disney's California Adventure|0 Comments

‘World of Color’ Water Spectacular Debuts June 11

Lights, water, fire, music and animation will come together like never before on June 11 when “World of Color” makes its dazzling debut at Disney’s California Adventure park. You will get to experience some of your favorite Disney stories, from the charming to the adventurous, in a magical, new way.

The show is brilliantly choreographed as it combines nearly 1,200 powerful fountains, popular Disney music, larger-than-life projections, lasers, fire, fog, surround sound and stunning images. On top of that, the magnificent, moving fountains are capable of reaching enormous heights — from 30 to 200 feet -– while maintaining their dazzling colors.

“World of Color” debuts this year as part of Summer Nightastic! –- a lineup of exciting, after-dark entertainment at the Disneyland Resort. Summer Nightastic! will run from June 11 through August 29, and you’ll be able to catch “World of Color” year-round at Paradise Bay.

Click here to book your Disneyland® Resort package and be a part of Summer Nightastic!

By Off to Neverland Travel|2017-06-27T10:24:43-05:00May 5th, 2010|Categories: Disney News, Disneyland News|Tags: California Adventure, Disneyland Summer 2010, Disneyland World of Color, Summer Nightastic, World of Color|0 Comments

Innovative Entertainment Technology Drives ‘World of Color’

Elaborate preparation is underway for “World of Color,” the spectacular nighttime water show that will astound guests with its magnitude and creativity when it debuts in 2010 as the next major milestone in the expansion of Disney’s California Adventure park. Surpassing all Disney water productions, “World of Color” will bring Disney animation to life with powerful fountains that become stars of the show as they create the world’s largest projected water screen.

Extensive testing of the fountains and special effects is now being conducted at Paradise Bay, where “World of Color” – a project in the making since 2004 – in nearly complete. Teams of Disney workers built nearly an acre of superstructure to support the complex production. Walt Disney Imagineering and Creative Entertainment installed the massive infrastructure and innovative technology that will create the stage for this extraordinary combination of music, animation and stunning water effects.

“World of Color” will combine hundreds of magnificent fountains, dazzling colors and an all-new kaleidoscope of audio and visual effects, to take water-infused entertainment to a new level of artistry. The production will flood the senses, taking audiences on an imaginative journey into the colorful worlds of animated Disney classics such as “Alice in Wonderland,” “The Lion King” and “Pocahontas,” along with Disney•Pixar films “Toy Story,” “WALL-E” and many more.

Disney’s newest production features an unprecedented infrastructure of water effects, larger-than-life projections, lasers, fire, fog, surround sound, and stunning images. This technical wizardry, combined with classic Disney film sequences, will create a breathtaking emotional experience for guests, as jaw-dropping effects sweep across the lagoon, soar into the sky, and rush toward the audience.

A newly designed 9,000-capacity viewing area will provide Disney’s California Adventure guests the best view in the park of this exciting nighttime extravaganza. The show lasts approximately 25 minutes.

Start Planning your Disneyland Resort Vacation today!

By Off to Neverland Travel|2017-06-27T10:25:00-05:00February 21st, 2010|Categories: Disney News, Disneyland News|Tags: California Adventure, Disneyland World of Color, World of Color|0 Comments