There’s nothing fairly like a Disneyland Resort celebration. I as soon as interviewed Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt on my birthday at Disneyland, and it’s laborious to high that, however plenty of individuals know Disneyland and anniversaries go collectively. Disneyland’s personal birthday is all the time a giant deal, and 2025, the seventieth anniversary of the Disneyland Resort, is definitely no exception.
I’ve been wanting ahead to the seventieth Anniversary of Disneyland Resort for fairly a while. The occasion was set to see the return of many standard sights from the final decade of leisure, however there have been additionally some new additions. Going into the preview Disneyland 70, I felt fairly certain which a part of the present I’d love essentially the most, however issues didn’t go fairly the best way I believed they’d.
Disneyland’s seventieth Anniversary Is The Biggest Hits Of Trendy Disneyland
Anniversaries are all about celebrating milestones and, in doing so, wanting again at how far you’ve come. Disneyland is doing that in a giant approach, as a lot of the particular leisure on faucet for the celebration consists of a number of the hottest exhibits from earlier years.
Disneyland debuted Wonderous Journeys for the Disney 100 celebration. Followers immediately embraced the fireworks spectacular. Final 12 months’s Higher Collectively: A Pixar Buddies Celebration introduced a daytime parade to Disney California Journey for the primary time in a few years. It solely had a short run as a part of final 12 months’s Pixar Fest, however now it’s again and can run all through the seventieth celebration.
However there’s one returning present that I used to be particularly wanting ahead to as a part of the seventieth anniversary celebration, that I anticipated to be the spotlight of any evening.
The Paint The Evening Parade Is An All-Time Disneyland Basic
10 years in the past, when Disneyland Resort celebrated its sixtieth anniversary, it debuted a brand new parade and fully blew me away. Paint The Evening was probably the most unimaginable issues I’d ever seen. The lights and foats, set to an association of Owl Metropolis’s “When Can I See You Once more” from Wreck-It Ralph, match completely. It lit up the evening and linked to me in a approach that solely the very best theme park experiences have.
It’s been almost a decade since we final noticed the parade at Disneyland Resort. I had been advocating for the return of Paint the Evening to the parks, and so I used to be thrilled when Disneyland introduced that Paint the Evening can be a part of the seventieth anniversary celebration.
And to make sure, its return was every thing I hoped it will be. From the second the lights at Disneyland dimmed and the primary notes of that digital music started to play, I used to be the person I used to be 10 years in the past, standing in the identical park seeing that very same parade, and simply being wowed by what I noticed.
As a pure magical spectacle, it’s nonetheless fairly laborious to high Paint the Evening. Nevertheless, whereas there will not be something greater at Disneyland’s seventieth, there could also be one thing much more lovely.
Disneyland’s Tapestry Of Happiness Is Stunning in Its Simplicity
I got here to Disneyland’s seventieth Anniversary Preview Occasion with all my give attention to Paint the Evening. It was what I used to be most excited to see. It’s what I used to be right here for. It was every thing I hoped for, however what got here earlier than it’s what shocked me.
Tapestry of Happiness is an easy present projected onto the facade of It’s A Small World. It’s only some minutes lengthy, a lot shorter than any parade or fireworks present, however it packs all the 70 12 months historical past of Disneyland in these jiffy, and in order a fan who not solely loves every thing Disneyland is, however every thing it was once, the present was every thing I may have wished.
Almost each Disneyland attraction in historical past is featured. Not simply those that presently exist, however even closed rides and exhibits get moments to shine. The Sherman Brothers’ “It’s a Nice Huge Stunning Tomorrow,” the theme tune of the enduring Carousel of Progress, will be heard. The Peoplemover has been lacking from Disneyland’s Tomorrowland for many years, however it’s right here.
All the factor is completed in an artwork type that harkens again to the incomparable Mary Blair. The veteran of each Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering designed the look of It’s A Small World. Seeing primarily all of Disneyland via an identical creative lens is a factor of true magnificence. Yeah, I may need cried slightly.
And naturally, Walt’s voice will also be heard right here. It wouldn’t be a correct celebration within the one park Walt truly stood inside with out him. After all, in a few months, Walt will take the stage himself within the type of an audio-animatronic present. Will probably be one of many greatest swings we’ve ever seen at Disney Parks.
The present isn’t pure nostalgia, nonetheless, it additionally contains “Have fun Joyful,” the official theme tune of the Disneyland seventieth Anniversary. The tune is carried out by the Jonas Brothers, and be forewarned, the tune is an earworm of the very best order. It will get caught in your head. I heard at the least one particular person buzzing it in a toilet.
Disneyland’s seventieth Anniversary Is The Good Mix Of Outdated And New
Paint the Evening was nonetheless unimaginable. Possibly it was extra unimaginable as a result of I used to be already considerably emotional because of Tapestry of Happiness. The 2 exhibits occurred with virtually no break between them. Paint the Evening felt like a finale to the Tapestry of Happiness, which was possibly precisely the purpose.
Alongside the brand new Tapestry of Happiness at Disneyland is the brand new World of Coloration: Happiness at Disney California Journey. Together with the return of Paint the Evening, we get the return of the fan favourite, Wonderous Journeys nighttime spectacular.
And that’s Disneyland, summarized. A mix of the brand new and the outdated. The nice nostalgia blended with the thrill that comes with experiencing one thing for the primary time. If the purpose of an anniversary is to have fun not solely all that got here earlier than, but in addition the place issues are going, I can’t consider a greater approach for Disneyland to have fun than this.