Disneyland Resort celebrates the New Year

Disneyland Park FireworksNo New Yearโ€™s parties planned this year? ย You might consider celebrating at theย Disneylandยฎ Resortย on New Yearโ€™s Eve. This year, there will be special entertainment added to the traditional holiday fireworks in Disneylandยฎ park and the spectacular newย โ€œWorld of Colorโ€ show in Disney California Adventureยฎ park.

In Disneylandยฎ park, hours are extended to 2 a.m., and stages will be set up around the park for countdown festivities. DJs will encourage guests to dance into the new year at Sleeping Beauty Castle and “it’s small world” Promenade while live bands will liven up Tomorrowland Terrace, Carnation Plaza Gardens andย New Orleans Square, which will also be the site of three performances ofย โ€œFantasmic!โ€ at 9 and 10:15 p.m. and immediately following the midnight โ€œFantasy in the Skyโ€ New Yearโ€™s fireworks show.

At Disney California Adventureยฎ, where park hours are extended to 1 a.m., there will be special entertainment along the Paradise Pier boardwalk and a โ€œfountains and fireworksโ€ countdown to midnight in Paradise Park, immediately followed by the first โ€œWorld of Colorโ€ show of 2011. (Earlier New Yearโ€™s Eve performances of โ€œWorld of Colorโ€ will take place at 8 and 9:15 p.m.) In Hollywood Pictures Backlot, revelers on the grid inย โ€œElecTRONicaโ€will heat up throughout the night and into the new year.

Beginning at 6 p.m. New Yearโ€™s Eve, party hats and noisemakers will be available while supplies last in both Disneylandยฎ park, at the Festival Arena near Big Thunder Ranch, and Disney California Adventureยฎ park, in Condor Flats near the vintage airplane just west of the entrance toย Soarinโ€™ Over California.

Theย Downtown Disneyยฎ District and the Disneylandยฎ Resort hotels will join in the merriment with twinkling lights and ornaments, special entertainment and holiday dining.