Five Reasons to Celebrate Return of Main Street Electrical Parade During After-Hours Premiere Event at Disneyland Park on Jan. 19.2017 #91

The Main Street Electrical Parade returns to the place it began for a limited engagement beginning Jan. 20, and you can be among the very first in decades to see this iconic parade light up in the Disneyland park during a special after-hours premiere event on Jan. 19! There are many reasons to attend this exciting event – and here just five of them!

1. Exclusive access to Disneyland park – Tickets for this event are extremely limited, so you will be among an exclusive group of guests to enjoy most Disneyland park attractions and select restaurants. See the parade and then spend the rest of the night riding some of your favorites over and over!


2. Take photos with the floats – Ever wished you could walk right up and take your photo next to one of the parade floats? At this premiere event, you can!


3. Dance the night away – Party like it’s 1972 during a special 70s dance party at Tomorrowland Terrace!


4. Complimentary parking – Premiere event ticket holders will enjoy complimentary parking at Mickey & Friends parking structure after 6 p.m.


5. First! – Did I mention you will be among the first guests to see the Main Street Electrical Parade return home to Disneyland park? Well, you will.

This sounds great to me.
I want to thank Erin Glover for posting this at the Disney Parks Blog.
 

DISNEYLAND REMINISCING THOSE OLDER DAYS. A SEVEN PART SERIES #85

A while back I put up a poll on what you wanted to see more of, Many of you asked for pictures from the past of Disneyland.
I went to Disneyland at least twice a year when I was a kid, Our parents would take all five of us brothers. We would enter the park via the Monorail at the Monorail Café during the winter. As my dad would go to the NAMM show in January. and send my mom and us to Disneyland.
My dad would then join us around 6pm , so he could watch the live bands play at Carnation Plaza, and under Space Mountain stage (sorry I cannot remember the name). and over at the Mint Julep Bar in New Orleans Square.

And we would go in the summer close to my birthday in August. We would then see the bands that played at Tomorrowland Terrace and the Parades and a Must see Fantasy in the Sky Fireworks.
I will take you on a tour from the past and then bring you up to speed in the future, Well 1980's.
Unfortunately I will be using other peoples pictures as all the family photos were split up between my 4 other brothers, for some reason I didn't end up with Disneyland pictures, I got the Knott's Berry Farm pictures.
So I would like to thank these people now. Gorillasdontblog, Davesblogland, Yesterland, DisneyGoblog, Disneylandblog, and Google Images. But most of all I want to thank Walt Disney for creating the Park for his daughters and us.

 

So lets start at the Main Street Station. Travel back in time . There are a lot of pictures, which means there will be seven blogs, not including this one.
We will visit rides from the past, rides that have been revamped or taken out of the park.
I will also try to find pictures of classic Mickey Mouse Balloons, Parades, Places to eat, Bands, Stages merchandise.
I thought I would just give you a small preview of what is in store.

 

 

 

Remember, you can always just click on the picture to make them larger.
Stay tuned for Part one of this Adventure through time.
 

STAR WARS FANS VISIT DISNEYLAND TO SEE MOVIE PROPS IN TOMORROWLAND #82

If you are visiting Disneyland for the first time, or the 1000th time, There is always something new to see.
The last time I was in Tomorrowland, This was not there. It was just Marvel.
Me being a Star Wars Fan had to see what the hype was.
I am glad I went in as There are Movie props from 1977 - 2015 Star Wars Franchise.

You can see Rey's Speeder from Jakku Back to the Fastest Hunk of Junk in the Galaxy. Millennium Falcon.

Life size costumes such as Darth Vader, With or without his Helmut.

Maybe you are into robots,  you can see BB8 and R2-D2.

And a meet n greet of a hero or a villain.   Chewbacca & Kylo Ren.

Kylo was off fighting a battle, so his second in command was there.

X- Wing Fight ships and Star Destroyers, Rebel ships, Tie Fighters and various other star ships were on display,

 

Well worth a trip to the new Star Wars Seasons of the Force area in Tomorrowland. 

Sorry about the blurry photos, remember to click on the pictures to make them bigger.

Newer updates added Mad Imaginear on the loose!! Building my own Disneyland Theme park. #56

Hello Friends...
Many have asked me lately, why have we not seen any posts about Disneyland or even the Shanghai Disneyland?
Well, I have been busy working at a new job.

I have not had time to get to the parks in Anaheim, CA.

But since I cannot go at the moment, I've decided to build my own Disneyland.
I have always wanted to work for the theme parks, as a Imaginear. But since I haven't achieved that yet.
I will build my own park with a working railroad.
I will post pictures of the progress.
I have decided to build it in the scales of Z and N.
The layout is 44" X 36" so you can see I don't have much room to work with.

Please be sure to check out the video at the end of the blog.



Started with a drawing

Bought a board, but then found out it was too small, so I added more.

Wired the track to run two trains at the same time. 

built the loop with 2 power packs to run two engines at the same time.

I was not happy with the way Main Street Station came out.

Added hedges and grass.

Added brick walkways



put in some Ballast



Side view of Station.

Bachmann 4-4-0 N scale engine, Turned into the #1 Disneyland Engine

cut out overlay of the Flowered Mickey Mouse

Drew it in so I could glue in the color flowers.

Atlas 4-4-0 Engine  Excursion passenger car and what will be converted into the Lilly Belle car.

Some of the paper models of Main Street USA

A overhead picture, still adding black foam board.

You can make all pictures larger by clicking on them.

Yes those are Subs from the Battleship board game.

IHC N Scale Working Carrousel, Painted to look like the King Arthur one.

a Closer look.

Removed the paper Main St. put in N scale ceramic village buildings. 

Was not happy, so remade Main St. in a smaller size.

 

 

Found a website, that has G scale paper models, of Disneyland I scaled them down.

I will be adding the Sleeping Beauty Castle and Space Mountain.
Just added a mash up of two rides. Disneyland Sub Lagoon and Memo Sub's.
Please remember You can click on the pictures to see them bigger.
This is a scratch built Model layout in N scale of Disneyland.
I hope you have enjoyed the pictures, and I will add more later.
Thanks for looking, and please share this blog. 
So Time to add a behind but newer update. marching forward to the year 2016-2018. I have built the Sleeping Beauty Castle. And The Skyway ride (which was short lived. Thanks to my cat) it ran through the Matterhorn Mountain. From Fantasyland to Tomorrowland over the Sub Lagoon. I made some of the subs ,the original grey and some yellow just like Finding Nemo. I used the submarines from many garage sale Battle ship games.
Here are some of those pictures.

             As the white water drys, It becomes clear and the you can sea the bottom of the lagoon.

                                 Laying in the water on top of the bluish green seafloor of the lagoon.

                                              A front view as the sub enter and exit the waterfalls.                                                                                         

                                                 The underside of the polar ice caps

        

Once the wet water effect dries, you can see the colorful lagoon bottom and the water turns clear.

We are now in the year 2017, You can see pieces of the castle being built. a G scale paper model that I shrank down to a size close to N scale. As we all know Disneyland is all out of scale.

Oops Did you catch a glimpse of the new MARK IIV Monorail? and Space Mountain. Those are both  Metal Earth models, But I painted them.

                           Here is a Metal Earth model I built of the Haunted Mansion Hearse.

        As you can see by the size of my hand, The castle is very small (And might I add hard to build)

      After building all the towers and turrets I had to glue the top half of the castle all together.

                                       Finally after 3 weeks the castle emerges from the paper.

    

                                         Now to build the bridge and add real working lights.

Wow 26 pictures that was a lot of work. I then sprayed the whole model with a clear coat  to preserve it.

Next came inserting the castle into the train board, good thing I had glued down the thin black foam.

I drew out the moat, carved it out, Glued the castle and the bridge in.

             The Moat got that Disneyland Green water bottom, before adding the water effects.

                                  Time to make it shine at night with 4 real working lanterns.

                                           You can click on the pictures to make them bigger.

Speaking of bigger,, Time to build the Matterhorn Mountain with Bobsleds and Skyway tunnels.

I used McDonald's straws to build the bobsleds. Then I cut off the people at their waists, so they would be sitting down.

The Matterhorn was slimmed down, due to the limited space i had on the board. It was made out of cardboard, Plaster cast and N scale train track. I decided to paint it to match the modern day finish.

       I glued it in, the same way I did with the castle, and cut out places for water at the bottom. 

                           In the picture above, you can see the Skyway lines before my cat ate it.

As you can see, I have put much details into my N scale Disneyland.

I am now working on the Jungle cruise in Adventureland, and will continue to build the Rivers of America and the Grand Canyon Diorama.

Thanks for looking. I will continue to post new blogs on the progress.

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