Stan Freese

Show Notes for Episode 273

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In this episode we welcome Stan Freese to the show. Stan has been responsible for hiring entertainment at Disneyland for the past 45 years, and many other things. If you have enjoyed music at Disneyland over the past 4 decades Stan has played a role in that. Plus the latest in the Disneyland Resort Current Events. ​


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​Disneyland Resort Current Event


Disneyland takes first step toward building 12-story Disney Vacation Club timeshare tower

Disneyland submitted an application on Friday, Nov. 22, to the city of Anaheim for a conceptual development review of a new 350-room Disney Vacation Club tower.

By Brady MacDonald

PUBLISHED: November 22, 2019 at 12:00 pm | UPDATED: November 22, 2019 at 3:42 pm

"Disney has proposed a new 12-story timeshare tower next to the Disneyland Hotel after pulling the plug last year on a planned 700-room luxury hotel at the western end of the Downtown Disney shopping center in Anaheim.

"Disneyland submitted an application on Friday, Nov. 22 to the city of Anaheim for a conceptual development review of a new 350-room Disney Vacation Club tower.

"While Disney has not yet set an opening date, the new Disney Vacation Club project is not expected to be completed before 2022. The look and theme of the new tower will complement the classic 1955 Disneyland Hotel.

"The DVC tower project area is located on a grassy area between South Walnut Street and the Disneyland Hotel’s Frontier Tower, swimming pool and convention center. Construction would remove an existing laundry facility."

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"A Disney Vacation Club membership costs a minimum of $18,800 plus closing costs starting at $556 and annual dues that start at $66 a month or $792 annually."

Orange County Register


Disneyland Files Proposal with City of Anaheim for Disney Vacation Club Tower Near Disneyland Hotel

Nov 22, 2019

"Aficionados of the Disneyland Hotel will remember this area as the site of Fantasy Waters, a free fountain show that played to hotel guests, and now known as the Magic Kingdom Lawn, hosting weddings, receptions, and other events."

Laughing Place


Disneyland’s new Tomorrowland entrance will be inspired by Space Age architecture of the past

Work on the project is expected to be completed in 2020.


By Brady MacDonald

PUBLISHED: November 22, 2019


"The Tomorrowland entrance enhancements are the latest changes to Disneyland as part of the Project Stardust initiative that has seen the Anaheim theme park widen walkways and trim planters in hopes of easing traffic flow.

"A rendering of the new Tomorrowland entrance shows wider pathways lined with elliptical planters filled with radiating bands of blue and gold flowers. Space Age spires inspired by the Googie architecture of the “New Tomorrowland” in 1967 will flank the entrance."

Orange County Register


Fri, November 22, 2019

A Great, Big, Beautiful Tomorrowland Entrance Coming Soon to Disneyland Park

by Michael Ramirez, Editorial Content Director, Disneyland Resort

"When planning, Imagineers wanted to open up the space and improve access into the land. However, it was important to maintain its overall complexion—with trees and beautiful planters. As shown in this rendering, guests will soon be entering Tomorrowland on a widened pathway lined with elliptical planters that are filled with swirls of colorful flowers.

"You may recognize that this new threshold into the future pays homage to Tomorrowland entrances of yesterday. Disney Imagineer Kim Irvine noted, 'Tomorrowland has always represented a feeling of optimism. [Imagineer] John Hench originally designed the land with this notion of being wide open to innovative ideas and technology. When we started looking at the different Tomorrowland entrances through the years, both the 1955 and 1967 versions had a very optimistic appeal which resonated with us.'"

Disney Parks Blog


Concept Art Released for New Tomorrowland Entrance Coming to Disneyland

Nov 22, 2019

Laughing Place


New Disneyland president Rebecca Campbell hosts 1,700 cast members during service party at Disney California Adventure

The honorees were feted with lobster corn dogs, shrimp scampi pizza and unlimited food, drink and rides at the Anaheim theme park.

By Brady MacDonald

PUBLISHED: November 22, 2019

"New Disneyland president Rebecca Campbell thanked 1,700 of the Anaheim theme park’s cast members for their 10 to 55 years of service during a soiree Thursday night, Nov. 21 at Disney California Adventure that included a seemingly endless buffet of food, cocktails and rides." ...

"Disney’s Celebrate You service celebration shut down California Adventure at 5 p.m. for a party that went until midnight.

"The 1,700 honorees were feted with lobster corn dogs, shrimp scampi pizza and free food and drink at the Festival of Holidays booths lining the park’s main promenade. There was even a special presentation of the “World of Color” nighttime spectacular with the cast members’ faces projected on the water show’s mist screens.

"Mike Larson of custodial guest services was the longest-serving employee in attendance with 55 years working at the parks. Five other employees celebrated 50 years of service: Helen Burkert (parking), Bob Sendzik (entertainment), John Lawson (sound), Ginny Bullock (kennel) and Kathe Lovegren (recently retired)."

Orange County Register


Disneyland’s first Rise of the Resistance commercial reveals new details about Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge ride

The ground-breaking new Rise of the Resistance attraction will combine four ride experiences into one.

By Brady MacDonald

PUBLISHED: November 20, 2019

"Disneyland’s first Rise of the Resistance television commercial shows scenes inside a detention cell that reveal new details about the highly anticipated attraction coming to the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge themed land at the Anaheim theme park."

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"The ground-breaking new Rise of the Resistance attraction will combine four ride experiences."

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"The Rise of the Resistance attraction will debut on Dec. 5 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida and on Jan. 17 Disneyland."


Orange County Register


Disneyland reopening second track on Matterhorn Bobsleds coaster after extensive rockwork rehab

Disneyland officials confirmed that both sides of the Matterhorn Bobsled attraction will be in operation again beginning on Thursday, Nov. 21.

By Brady MacDonald

PUBLISHED: November 21, 2019

"Disneyland will begin operating the second track on the Matterhorn roller coaster today after crews repaired a section of rockwork plaster that broke off from the faux mountainside in August.



"A bedroom door-sized chunk of rockwork plaster broke off from the faux mountainside of the Matterhorn Bobsleds roller coaster in August and forced the closure of one side of the attraction.

"The rockwork broke loose during overnight maintenance while the Anaheim theme park was closed.

"A graveyard shift maintenance crew discovered the fallen rockwork. Nobody was injured. The plaster chunk did not fall on the coaster track."

Orange County Register


Disneyland’s new dueling piano show set to debut in Frontierland’s Golden Horseshoe Saloon

The new show will combine musical theater, improv and storytelling with songs in classical, ragtime and country & western musical styles.

By Brady MacDonald

PUBLISHED: November 21, 2019

"The dueling piano players will “challenge one another in a good ol’ fashioned showdown” on the Golden Horseshoe stage. The pianists will play Old West tunes and take requests from the audience. The new show will combine musical theater, improv and storytelling with songs in classical, ragtime and country & western musical styles."

Orange County Register


Disneyland to give Indiana Jones Adventure thrill ride a $300,000 overhaul in 2020

Disneyland filed a building permit with the city of Anaheim for an overhaul of Indiana Jones Adventure, according to city records.

By Brady MacDonald

UPDATED: November 18, 2019

"Disneyland filed a building permit with the city of Anaheim for a $300,000 overhaul of Indiana Jones Adventure, according to city records.

"Disneyland crews will replace a plank bridge and its steel structure in the show set of the Indiana Jones Adventure attraction and refurbish rockwork, according to the building permit."

Orange County Register


Disneyland’s Indiana Jones Adventure to Undergo Refurbishment in 2020

Nov 13, 2019

Laughing Place


Go inside the Disney Archives in exhibit coming to the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana 

By Marla Jo Fisher

PUBLISHED: November 15, 2019

"Disney fans, listen up. You’ll be wanting to head to the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana next year, when it’s scheduled to mount a major exhibition on the history of the Walt Disney Co. opening on March 7.

“'Inside the Walt Disney Archives: 50 Years of Preserving the Magic' is slated to include more than 400 objects from the archives, including the set of Walt Disney’s office used in the movie 'Saving Mr. Banks', never-before-seen-in-public sketches from “Fantasia” and of ghouls from the Haunted Mansion ride."

Orange County Register


Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway attraction poster reveals new details about Disneyland dark ride

The promotional poster references a waterfall scene expected to take place in the middle of the dark ride currently under construction at the Anaheim theme park.

By Brady MacDonald

PUBLISHED: November 21, 2019

"The new poster features Mickey and Minnie holding their breath while wearing scuba masks and diving fins as conductor Goofy navigates a train through an underwater scene filled with animated sea creatures."

Orange County Register


Aerial photos show Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway dark ride construction at Disneyland

The aerial photos shot by helicopter show a bird’s eye view of ground clearing in a backstage area of the Anaheim theme park behind Mickey’s Toontown.

By Brady MacDonald

PUBLISHED: November 15, 2019

"New aerial photos of Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway trackless dark ride show the initial phase of construction underway on Disney’s first theme park attraction ever dedicated to Mickey Mouse.

"The Runaway Railway photos were taken Thursday, Nov. 14 by Bioreconstruct aerial photography from 3,000 feet with permission from air traffic control."

Orange County Register


Aerial photos show Avengers Campus construction as Marvel land takes shape at Disney California Adventure

The aerial photos shot by helicopter show a bird’s eye view of the 5-acre Marvel land located between Cars Land and Hollywood Land.

By Brady MacDonald

PUBLISHED: November 16, 2019

"The aerial photos shot by helicopter show a bird’s eye view of the 5-acre Marvel land located between Cars Land and Hollywood Land. Avengers Campus replaces the former A Bug’s Land and Bountiful Valley Farm.

"The new land’s marquee Spider-Man attraction will take over the former It’s Tough To Be a Bug attraction building, which is being expanded to house the web-slinger’s dark ride attraction. Riders on the new Spider-Man attraction will sling virtual webs at escaped spider-bots that have run amok. The W.E.B. Suppliers gift shop will be located across from the Spider-Man attraction."

Orange County Register


Breaking News – Tarzan’s Treehouse Emergency Closes at Disneyland

November 10, 2019

​MiceChat


Disneyland closes Tarzan’s Treehouse after slat breaks on rope suspension bridge

Nobody was injured on the attraction, according to Disneyland officials.

By Brady MacDonald

PUBLISHED: November 10, 2019 at 10:00 pm

"Disneyland closed Tarzan’s Treehouse on Sunday afternoon after a wooden slat broke on one of the Adventureland attraction’s rope bridges suspended three stories above the ground."

Orange County Register



Tarzan’s Treehouse reopens after Disneyland visitor reportedly snaps plank on bridge 

By Hannah FryStaff Writer 

Nov. 11, 2019

"No one was injured, but a handful of visitors had to be ushered off the attraction. The treehouse was closed for the night while crews repaired the bridge. It reopened Monday morning, according to Disneyland officials."

Los Angeles Times



Festival of Holidays 2019 Merchandise Debuts at California Adventure

Natalie Kipper - November 10, 2019

​MiceChat


Disneyland Update: Treehouse Troubles, Christmas Crush & Cast Member Cheap-out

Dusty Sage - November 11, 2019

​MiceChat


Tomorrowland: New Entry Revealed, Theater Troubles, Synergy Strikes

By Nathan Villamor - November 13, 2019

​MiceChat


Disneyland Update: Holiday Presto Chango – Everything New is Old Again

By Nathan Villamor - November 18, 2019

​MiceChat


Disneyland Friday Surprise – Tomorrowland Concept, New Hotel Tower, Frontierland, Frozen

By Dusty Sage - November 22, 2019


MiceChat

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