Direct Link: http://www.dldhistory.com/link2us.asp?ID=1030 Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters Opening day ceremonies. Ride Manufacturer Sansei Yusoki Co. Ltd.. Ride duration 5:00 minutes Complete video of Disneyland's Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters available at DLDHistory.com

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Direct Link: http://www.dldhistory.com/link2us.asp?ID=1012 Complete video of Disneyland's Peter Pans Flight available at DLDHistory.com

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Direct Link: http://www.dldhistory.com/link2us.asp?ID=1013 The dragon has an unofficial nickname given to it by the cast and crew of the show. Its nickname: Bucky. Original name for Fantasmic was Imagination but was changed since Disney could not copyright the name. This was the first show in the US to use the new French water screens. In addition to being used for back projection, they can completely hide Tom Sawyer Island for set changes. Film images are projected onto three massive mist screens which appear on the River. Each screen is 50 feet wide, 30 feet high, and 6 inches thick. Features include lasers, fog effects, water fountains, fireworks, and fiber-optics technology. Maleficent, the Sleeping Beauty sorceress, is transformed into a 45-foot dragon which breathes fire and ignites the surface of the River. Five water barges are the means by which a 20-foot-tall Ursula and a 25-foot-long Crocodile move about the river. Statistics: Length of Presentation: 22 minutes Stage: For the most part, Fantasmic! takes place on the water. The remainder of the production occurs on the new "rest area" in front of the Cider Mill on Tom Sawyer Island. While guests may visit here during the day, at night it is a performance space including a 20-foot by 20-foot trap door. Crew: 50 per performance Costumes: 341 costumes are necessary to operate seven nights a week. Complete video of Disneyland's Fantasmic at DLDHistory.com

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Direct Link: http://www.dldhistory.com/link2us.asp?ID=1014 It has been questioned why Walt Disney built the castle relatively small (it only rises 75 feet above the moat), but he actually had a very good reason. He recalled that the tyrants of Europe built huge, imposing castles in order to intimidate the peasents. Disney wanted his castle to be friendly, so it was built on a smaller scale. When you are walking through the castle away from the statue, and you pass under the Disney Family Seal and you walk a few more steps until you're almost out of the castle, look down and there's a gold spike (survey marker) in the ground. Complete video of Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty's Castle at DLDHistory.com

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Direct Link: http://www.dldhistory.com/link2us.asp?ID=1015 The old and new names of the subs are: 301-Nautilus/Nautilus, 302-Neptune/Triton, 303-Sea Star/Seawolf, 304-Explorer/Skate, 305-Seeker/Skipjack, 306-Argonaut/George Washington, 307-Triton/Patrick Henry, 308-Sea Wolf/Ethan Allen Each sub originally cost $80,000 (in 2006 dollars that would be over $538,000), and were built at Todd Shipyards in San Pedro. Walt refered to his Subs as the Eighth Largest Submarine Fleet in the World. All are diesel/electric except for 304 which runs Compressed Natural Gas as a conservation and environmental test. Subs are 52 feet long. Displacement of 94,000 pounds. Capacity 38 9 million gallons of water are in the Lagoon (6.5 million) and Caverns (2.5 million) areas. In 2004 a test bed was setup in the lagoon to test the possiblity of a Finding Nemo overlay Complete video of Disneyland's Submarine Voyage available at DLDHistory.com

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Direct Link: http://www.dldhistory.com/link2us.asp?ID=1016 The first ride of this kind to be built in the United States. The cable was 2,400 feet long with 44 gondolas. The Skyway stations were equiped with a large digital meter to gauge wind speed. It usually flutuated between zero and three knots. If the meter hit twelve knots employees shut the ride down. For dangerous situations, in the mid-1970s Disneyland installed speakers on the Skyway towers and microphones in the stations. By depressing the "All Ride" switch, operators could give announcements or warnings "from on high." Hosts were to use the device for emergencies only, since upon hearing a deep voice suddenly resounding from the sky, guests typically froze in terror. As such, the device became known as "the God Switch." The buckets reached a height of 60 feet. The drive mechanism was in the Fantasyland side with a 35 thousand pound ballast on the Tomorrowland side to keep the cable tight. Skyway was built by Von Roll Iron Works of Bern Switzerland. The first gondolas had fiberglass patio chairs bolted in them. During construction of the New Fantasyland in 1984 the Skyway ran roundtrip only. Complete video of Disneyland's Skyway at DLDHistory.com

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Accident Direct Link: http://www.dldhistory.com/link2us.asp?ID=1603 ==================================== Sailing Ship Columbia Direct Link: http://www.dldhistory.com/link2us.asp?ID=1602 On December 24, 1998 at 10:40am The Sailing Ship Columbia came into dock to load the first passengers of the day. An employee placed the docking rope on the cleat when the ship was approaching to fast to stop at the dock. Ride procedures call for the ship’s captain to reverse the ship if it overshoots the dock so that it may approach at correct speed. When the line became too taught it snapped the 8-pound cleat off of the ship like a rubber band sending it flying into the crowd of visitors causing two visitors critical injuries.

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Direct Link: http://www.dldhistory.com/link2us.asp?ID=1018 There is a shadow of Sherlock Holmes (Complete with pipe and cap) in the second-story window of the manor that houses Mr. Toads wild ride. Voices: Judge - Corey Burton Cop - Corey Burton Farmer - Corey Burton Complete video of Disneyland's Mr. Toads Wild Ride at DLDHistory.com

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Bridgehampton, Long Island-- Histoire de plage: d'enormes nuages gris foncés apparaissent tout a coup a l'horizon et envahissent une plage

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Direct Link: http://www.dldhistory.com/link2us.asp?ID=1009 There is a break room the size of a basketball court located in the top. Matterhorn is 147 feet tall, exactly 1/100th size replica of the real mountain in Switzerland. The attraction is based on the Disney film Third Man on the Mountain. The Matterhorn is made of wood and steel with a plaster coating over a layer of metal mesh. In 1978 an Adominable Snowman, ice caverns and glowing ice crystals were added. Matterhorn mountain, started as a 20-foot-high pile of dirt. When construction crews were digging up the Sleeping Beauty Castle moat, they piled the dirt up to the right of the Sleeping Beauty Castle, on the border of Fantasyland and Tomorrowland. Workers leveled off the top, added a few park benches and young trees, and created a sparse picnic area, called "Lookout Mountain." Walt wouldn't leave it just dirt for long. He put one of the Skyway pylons on top and considered tying it into the Alpine theme by calling it Snow Mountain. Then, after a trip to Switzerland, he had a better idea: he wanted his own Matterhorn. The Matterhorn was known during design as Snow Mountain, Mount Disneyland, Disneyland Mountain, Sorcer's Mountain, Magic Mountain, Fantasy Mountain, Echo Mountain. The Matterhorn cost $1.5 million ( in 2006 dollars it would cost over $10.1 million) to build. When you start up the computers for the Matterhorn the screen displays a messages which says, "Harold isn't going to like this." Complete video of Disneyland's Matterhorn Bobsleds available at DLDHistory.com

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