What's Coming at Disneyland in 2017

What's Coming to Disneyland in 2018

Coming to Disneyland in 2019: Star Wars Land (Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge)

Coming: More Hotel Options

What Was New at Disneyland - New Rides in 2016

• The film Star Wars: Path of the Jedi replaced Captain EO.
• Jedi Training Academy got a new look. Jedi wannabes need to register to participate.
• The lower level of the old Innoventions building becae the Star Wars Launch Bay and the building was renamed Tomorrowland Expo Center.
• Space Mountain became Hyperspace Mountain with some new Star Wars-related theming.
• Star Tours became Star Tours the Adventure Continues. Characters from the latest film showed up in some of its story lines.

• Davy Crockett Explorer Canoes
• Pirates Lair on Tom Sawyer Island
• Sailing Ship Columbia
• Mark Twain Riverboat: Check out the limited-time experiences on board Fantasmic!
• Disneyland Railroad: At the Main Street and New Orleans Square Train Stations, you can get up close to the historic steam engines and talk with the engineers that run them.

What Was New at California Adventure in 2016

What Was New at Disneyland in 2015

• Disneyland Forever: The fireworks show is dazzling, but the real stars of this show are the projections, which transform the storefronts of Main Street USA into a constantly-moving video montage. Besides scenes from beloved Disney films and an effect that makes the buildings look like they're dancing, there's also a magical snowfall.
• Paint the Night: If you remember the iconic Main Street Electrical Parade, this is its precious offspring, a colorful, sparkling show that uses more than 1.5 million LED lights.
• World of Color: The new show has more of a story line, but less of an "I want to sing along" feel. It still uses the same eye-popping light and water effects
• Mad T Party: At California Adventure, the popular night time dance party got a new look.

New at Disneyland in 2014

New Disneyland Rides in 2013

New Disneyland Rides in 2012

• Cars Land in California Adventure opened in 2012
• Also at California Adventure, San Francisco chocolate maker Ghirardelli opened a new soda fountain and chocolate shop
• For the first time in 20 years, new music was playing as you enter Main Street U.S.A.
• Matterhorn Bobsleds got new cars, with three seats per car, two of them linked together to accommodate 6 guests. And after a long hiatus, the mountain climbers came back.

New Disneyland Rides in 2011

• Star Tours converted to 3-D and set in the period between the two Star Wars trilogies
• Mickey's Soundsational parade premiered in June 2011
• New at California Adventure: Ariel's Undersea Adventure
• Old and New at California Adventure: Goofy's Sky School, the classic "mad mouse" roller coaster that opened as Mulholland Madness took on a flying academy theme with Goofy as the instructor.

New Disneyland Rides in 2010

• Orange Stinger (California Adventure) converted to Silly Symphony Swings
• World of Color at California Adventure, a nighttime water show
• Captain EO starring Michael Jackson returned, replacing Honey I Shrunk the Audience 

New Disneyland Rides in 2009

• it's a small world renovated
• New fireworks show at Disneyland
• Cinderella's Castle opened a new walk-through attraction
• California Adventure's Sun Wheel got a new Mickey face and a new name: Mickey's Fun Wheel, but was otherwise unchanged
• The Disney Gallery reopened in the Former Bank of Main Street building
• Space Mountain premiered a new holiday light show
• Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln returned to the Opera House in a newly refurbished version as part of The Disneyland Story

New Disneyland Rides in 2008

• Toy Story Mania!, California Adventure
• House of the Future at Innoventions
• Walk-through attraction at Sleeping Beauty Castle, Disneyland

Disneyland has almost 60 rides and a host of other attractions. It's easy to get overwhelmed when trying to decide which ones you want to do the most. And unfortunately, someone else's list of top rides or must-dos reflects their preferences, not yours. I'm here to help you figure out which things are best for you.

If you're the do-it-yourself type who would rather decide for yourself than let someone else do it for you, you can get a summary of height restrictions, FASTPASS rides and more, all on one page.All you have to do is go straight to the Disneyland Rides List Page.

It isn't open yet - and may not until 2019 - but you can keep up with the latest news about Disneyland's new Star Wars Land in this preview guide.

Best Disneyland Rides for You

If you need some help picking and choosing, that's what I'm here for. If you think I have a bad case of Listmania, you might be right. I created lists based on some of the most common interests that can help you plan your perfect Disneyland day.

These lists sort out all the rides and attractions into groups that will meet your needs.

• Best Disneyland Rides: These are the ones everybody loves, you could call this the "must-do" list.
• Disneyland Rides for Kids: We've sorted them out into the very gentle, the slightly scary, ways to have fun while sitting still and thrown in cautions for specific rides that may help
• New Disneyland Rides: If you've been to Disneyland before and want to know what's new, this list will tell you all the new developments in the past five years

• Most Popular Disneyland Rides: You could also call this one "Rides With the Longest Lines." You're probably not going to go out looking to ride them all, but you might want to know which ones they are.
• Disneyland Roller Coasters: Coaster and only coasters
• Best Rides at Night: These rides are either more fun in the dark or worth a second visit after the sun goes down. Some rides close at night (or early), and they're also listed here
• Disneyland Shows and Entertainment: They're not rides, but they're things to do that you might enjoy in between all the riding.
• Walk Through Attractions at Disneyland: You can have a lot of fun at Disneyland without ever getting on a ride. All of these attractions are things you can walk through and enojy at your own pace.

How to Have More Fun

These resources are useful for managing a day at Disneyland, with ways to stand in line as little as possible.
• Enjoy more with these strategies to avoid standing in line for Disneyland rides.
• Learn to how a FASTPASS can make your wait shorter, find out how to get one and how to use it
• Find out why you might want to use Ridemax to shorten your wait
• How to make the most out of Magic Mornings
• Check out these mobile websites and apps. They can help you save time, and some of them can keep you entertained between rides, too
• Check which rides and attractions will be closed during your visit

Height Restrictions

These are all the rides that have height restrictions:
• 35 in (89 cm): Gadget's Go Coaster, Matterhorn Bobsleds
• 40 in (102 cm): Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Star Tours
• 46 in (117 cm): Indiana Jones Adventure
• 54 in (137 cm): Autopia (to drive alone)

  Accessibility

  Most Disneyland rides are accessible even if you have mobility challenges. However, many of them require you to transfer into the ride vehicle by yourself or with assistance from your traveling companions. Only a few have steps you can't bypass, including Tarzan's Treehouse, the railroad station at Main Street, U.S.A. , and the Columbia Sailing Ship.
  If you have a hearing impairment, stop at Guest Relations (in City Hall, on your left as you enter Disneyland) to pick up assistive listening devices and handheld caption controls used for some rides.
  You can also stop at City Hall to get a pass that lets you bypass the long lines if you can't stand in them. You don't need a doctor's note, but you will be asked to explain what you need

Flik's Flyers at Disney California Adventure

Flik's Flyers is one of the cute little rides in Bug's Land that are tame enough for very small children and so huggably darling that you won't be able to resist taking pictures of them.

What would happen if a bunch of enterprising insects decided to build a carnival ride? It might look a lot like Flik's Flyers. Suspended baskets attached to balloons rotate around a central column. Leaves are stitched together to make "balloons," and twigs attach them to ride vehicles made from empty boxes of cookies, raisins, apple sauce, and carry-out Chinese food.

Even the wait time sign looks like a big silver button. A spinning pie pan on top of an ice cream container in the middle hides the mechanism that makes it turn. It's so all cute that it's worth a look even if you don't want to ride.

All of Flik's Fun Fair is geared toward small children. The rides are gentle and cute, with no pesky height limits. Your little ones will love it, but kids who are over "baby rides" may turn up their...

How to Have More Fun on Flik's Flyers

• Flik's ride is similar to Dumbo and Autopia in Disneyland. Riders control the vertical motion of their vehicle and you can stay close to the ground if you want.
• If your child wants to ride in the animal crackers box, don't make them get into the raisin box instead. If that box is occupied, ask the Cast Member if you can wait until next time and get into the seat of their dreams.
• In case the wait is making your kids anxious, you can play a fun game of "I spy" with all the cute things around you.
• Look for the one four-leaf clover among the 74 three-leafed ones
• Very small riders may not be able to see out over the sides of the ride vehicles and lap sitting is not allowed for safety reasons. You can watch for a minute to see whether you think it's too high or not.
• People give Flik's Flyers higher ratings than I would have expected on Yelp. You can read some of them here.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Next Five Years of Disney Parks

Star Wars land is coming and it will be awesome.

Toy Story land will make you feel like a kid again.

And don’t forget about AVATAR Land, Disney’s own Pandora:

If you’re going to Walt Disney World later this year, consider skipping Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

Travel to Disney and visit the entire world.

Frozen’s Anna and Elsa aren’t going anywhere.

You’ll be spending more on souvenirs, but will save more on checked bags.

Get ready to spend day—night—at Animal Kingdom.

Prepare to ride Star Tours II over and over...and over. 

Don’t plan on seeing most—or any—of this before your next trip.

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Mark Duggan inquest: Police warn of possible disorder at vigil in London today

Police have warned that some protesters plan to “provoke disorder” at a vigil for Mark Duggan in London this afternoon.

The warning from the Metropolitan Police Service came this morning, saying it will be “busy day” in the capital and that the force will have “additional officers on standby” to respond to trouble.

Relatives and supporters of the 29-year-old, whose death sparked protests that exploded into riots and looting across the country in 2011, are set to gather outside Tottenham Police Station in north London from 2pm and have appealed for the event to remain peaceful.

The vigil will take place in protest against what his family have branded a "perverse" inquest finding that he was lawfully killed by police in an event which helped spark riots across the country in 2011.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said, “We are aware of a limited amount of information that indicates a small number of people are expressing their desire to use this vigil as an opportunity. This information includes the intention of protest groups to attend and of people looking to provoke disorder. We will be ready to intervene immediately if required.

The head of Police in Haringey, where the vigil is taking place, has admitted he has “a certain level of anxiousness” as to whether the planned vigil will pass without violence or unrest later today.

Ch Supt Victor Olisa told the Tottenham Journal that he expected the event to go off peacefully but that “unpredictable elements” could still provoke disorder.

On Thursday Britain's most senior police officer and Prime Minister David Cameron both urged supporters to remain calm at the vigil.

The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, thanked the Duggan family for their public calls for peace, and said: "A vigil is to commemorate Mark Duggan's death, that's what the vigil is about.

"It's a terrible tragedy that someone's lost a life in this case, and clearly the family want to register, I believe, their protest about the outcome of the inquest.

"They've got every right to do that, and we as the police have got every opportunity to facilitate that so that's exactly what we will do.

"We will continue to talk to the family and others to keep our communications alive, and also to make sure, as I believe, that the protest will happen and that there won't be disorder."

Mr Duggan's aunt Carole said that she wanted "no more violence". In an interview with ITV News yesterday dismissed accusations that her nephew was a “gangster” saying that he did not live “a gangster lifestyle and was “just an ordinary man” who struggled like any other working class person.”

The planned vigil follows ugly scenes at the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday, when an inquest jury found that Mark Duggan was lawfully killed despite being unarmed at the time of the shooting by police firearms officers.

They said it was most likely that he had a gun with him in the minicab, but had thrown it onto a nearby grass verge before he was shot.

Family and friends of the father-of-six rushed from the public gallery, shouted and swore, and his brother Marlon had to be physically restrained as the conclusions were read.

Outside the court, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley was drowned out by protesters shouting "murderers" and "scum" as he tried to make a statement on Scotland Yard's behalf.

It has since been reported in the Times that the jurors who heard the case are now being given special protection and indefinite anonymity. 

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