Let’s take a look at some of the various things going on through-out the Disneyland Resort from this week’s Dateline Disneyland on MiceAge:

Billboards around SoCal for Toy Story Mania have been changed to say “Take aim and ride” as opposed to “Opening June 17th”

Some ground work has been done at Goofy’s Gas in Toontown

Goofy’s car has returned outside Goofy’s House

From the OC Register:

Is Disney’s Aladdin - A Musical Spectacular closed after July 21st?

The question above was asked on a MiceChat discussion board by someone identified as “moncho.” He said that he checked the Disneyland calendar and that the show is not scheduled after July 20.

Disney Spokesman John McClintock said the Disney’s California Adventure show will be closed between late September and early December. McClintock said the show will be down for rehabilitation and system upgrades. The show will then reopen in early December, McClintock said.

Here’s a couple of rumors on the DCA expansion from Screamscape:

2011 - Walt Disney Plaza - Confirmed - (7/8/08) We’ve heard a bit more about the Walt Disney Plaza area, confirming that the Carthay Theater building will simply be an empty shell for the time being. However we have heard that the upstairs section may be used as another exclusive Club 33 style VIP Room. It was also mentioned that there may be some kind of Disneyland fireworks viewing area from here as well. We’ve also got a little more information about Hollywood Land, the new name likely to be used for the Hollywood Pictures Backlot. When the renovations are complete this area of the park is supposed to hold the majority of the track for the new Red Car Line trolley system, running guests from here to the new main gate area. The cars are said to hold only about 20 people each.

2012 - Cars Land - (7/8/08) We’ve got some new rumored details about the whole Cars Land area of the park, though keep in mind that as the last of the big projects set to go in, lots of changes can still be made before it opens. From what info is being leaked right now, there is a plan to make Flo’s V8 Café a functional quick service restaurant for the land and Fillmore’s Organic Fuels will likely end up being a drink and smoothie stand. While not much else has come to the front about the main Radiator Springs Racers ride, we did hear that Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree may be themed to fit the whole tractor tipping theme, so I’ve got to wonder if Frank will be involved somehow. I’m also not certain exactly what kind of ride this will be as some believe it will be another spinning flat ride while others thing it could be some kind of custom track ride.

2009/2010 - Goofy’s Sky School - In Development - (7/7/08) According to another source Disney will use the Goofy’s Sky School name and not “Flite School” as we had heard last week.

Screamscape has some details on the re-do’s of both Mullholand Madness & Orange Stinger:

2009/2010 - Silly Symphony Swings - In Development - (7/4/08) We’ve got a little more information to share today about the new Silly Symphony Swings restoration plans. According to our sources the remodeled attraction will have a Band Conductor Mickey on top of the tower who will move around to the music. The top will be remodeled to be more like a carousel to allow for the placement of scenes from the Silly Symphonies on the inside of each section.

2009/2010 - Goofy’s Flite School - In Development - (7/4/08) We’ve heard that plans for Goofy’s Flite School are moving forward, and yes that is the correct spelling. From the sound of things it may take on a similar look to Goofy’s Barnstormer in Florida as it will now look like an old giant barn has been converted by Goofy into a make-shift airplane hanger… while apparently leaving all the old chicken coops intact.

Let’s take a look at some various things going on through-out the Disneyland Resort from this week’s Dateline Disneyland on MiceAge:

All of Innoventions, including the new Innoventions Dream Home, is now finally open!

Would you believe that Innoventions actually has a line!?

Tom Morrow still greets guests on video & as an animatronic…

… Not sure how this will work with all the new stuff

From Tom, you apparently go on to a mini-game show about ABC TV shows (no prizes awarded, of course)

The inner walls are lined with various murals featuring past & present Tomorrowland icons

From there you finally enter the Innoventions Dream Home! Check the Dateline Disneyland article for a full photo guide of the new Dream home (way too many pictures to share here). The link is at the top of this post

You exit the Dream Home through the Elias Family Party Tent…

… And then you go up the stairs that take you to the Segway Experience on the 2nd floor

Here’s a look at the placing of the new Wall-E meet ‘n greet in Hollywood Pictures Backlot

These sponsor themed ads are apparently new

Be sure to check the Dateline Disneyland article for, as I said, many more pictures of the Innoventions Dream Home, as well as a look at Toy Story Midway Mania, the Grand Californian Expansion, & new posters inside the Disneyland Hotel! The link is at the top of the post.

Staff Photographer MintCrocodile is back with a look at the latest happenings around the Disneyland Resort:

A these 2 lines new?

New sign for the Art of Disney at the exit of Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years

The Dream banners are back

Monorail Red is finally taking guests

Speaking of stuff that finally happened… SPACE MOUNTAIN IS CLEAN!

This is where the tree in New Orleans Square that fell was a couple of days ago

Looks like Single Rider is now operating over at Toy Story Midway Mania

You can find more of Mint’s pictures from his latest visit to the Disneyland Resort here!

Last night I was watching Toy Story 2, & during the Woody’s Roundup TV show part of the movie, I noticed something I had seen before in Toy Story Midway Mania:

In case you didn’t realize, those are the virtual prizes that you can win in Toy Story Midway Mania

Just an interesting tidbit I thought I’d share with y’all!

From Screamscape:

Late 2010 or Early 2011 - Voyage of the Little Mermaid - Confirmed - (7/3/08) According to the latest rumors Little Mermaid may have been pushed up a bit to either open in mid to late 2010 now. Meanwhile full construction on The Little Mermaid ride is now expected to begin sometime this fall if all goes well.

If all this goes according to plan, they’ll most likely transfer Golden Dreams over to Golden Screams for one last time this Halloween, & then begin construction on Voyage of the Little Mermaid.

We’ve just been informed that the Sun Wheel’s re-theme/refurbishment will start on September 11th, 2008. The re-theme will include the new 1930’s style Mickey Mouse face, re-working of the queue, a re-paint, & the new name, Mickey’s Fun Wheel!

Also planned to take place during this time is the re-theming of the Games of the Boardwalk & California Screamin’s queue, but we don’t have any solid information on that just yet.

MouseInfo managed to get a shot of the new Wall-E display in Hollywood Pictures Backlot, where Wall-E should be appearing later this year:

If you head on over to the official Toy Story Mania website, you’ll now find four games you can play that are very similar to the games in the real Toy Story Midway Mania. While the four games feature different themes from the games in the attractions, they feature secret targets and ammunition multipliers, giving hints to the existence of similar targets in the ride-through version. You can also create your own midway game by using the game creator on the site. Now what are you waiting for, go play!!!

Here are 3 articles from the OC Register with information on the Innoventions Dream Home, Wall-E in the parks, & an incident in New Orleans Square:

The Innoventions Dream Home is still closed and will possibly open to the public next week, according to Disney Spokesman John McClintock.

Last week Disney pulled back the curtain on the new Innoventions Dream Home, but the attraction was only open for limited hours and only to annual passholders.

McClintock said today that Disney workers are “making sure that all the technology in the home is working perfectly” before opening the Dream Home to the public. He said that the goal is to open the home to the public next week.

Currently, the second floor of the Innoventions building is open. Just the first floor, the Dream Home level, is closed.

We’ll keep everyone updated on this blog about when the Dream Home will open to the public.

Disney’s Wall-E character debuted in theaters yesterday, but don’t expect the little robot in the Disneyland Resort any time soon.

A Disney Backstage Pass newsletter mailed to Disneyland Annual Passholders a few weeks ago included thata three-foot-tall Audio-Animatronic model of Wall-E would be visiting people in Disney’s California Adventure this summer

But, Disney Spokesman John McClintock said the robot is not expected to be in the park for a few months.

“We don’t expect Wall-E to be in the Disneyland Resort any time soon, especially during the summer,” McClintock said.

Update: New photo on the left sent in by someone who was in the park when the tree branch fell. Right click and click view image on either photo to see an enlarged image.

A tree branch broke and fell onto a pathway last night near the French Market restaurant in the New Orleans Square area of Disneyland.

A Disney spokeswoman said it was one branch and that it did not fall directly on anybody. She said that no more than five people were near the branch when it fell. She said those people had minor scrapes.

Irvine resident Vicki Munsell was at the park yesterday when the branch fell. She was there with her family celebrating her and her husband’s 14th wedding anniversary.

Munsell and her family were eating at the Cafe Orleans restaurant when they heard someone shout and she turned around in time to hear the branch cracking and see it fall on a pathway.

She said people ran over right away to help. While Disney said the tree did not fall on anyone, Munsell said people were pulled out from underneath the tree. Still, Munsell agreed that she did not see anyone injured with more than a few scratches.

Munsell took the photo that you see at right with her camera phone, and she sent it to The Orange County Register. After the branch fell, she said the area was blocked off by Disney cast members who removed the branch and checked on people nearby.

This is not the first time trees have fallen on people in theme parks. On Aug. 1, 1997, a large tree limb at Knott’s Berry Farm broke and fell onto four visitors near the Montezooma’s Revenge ride, causing minor injuries to three and leaving the fourth hospitalized. And on May 5, 2001, Jeanne Gill, 73 suffered a broken hip, and 27 others are injured when a 20-foot oak tree falls in Frontierland at Disneyland.

Staff Photographer MintCrocodile was also at the Disneyland Resort yesterday, & he managed to find a few things that I didn’t snap:

The golden apple is back at the entrance to Snow White’s Scary Adventures

The new menu at the French Market

A new wait time sign outside Pirates of the Caribbean

First High School Musical, now this!

More of Mint’s pictures from yesterday can be found here!

Now here’s the second part of my pictorial, covering Tuesday the 24th, through Thursday the 26th:

Here are a few more shots of the Innoventions Dream Home

Plaza Pavilion behind tarps

Now let’s take a look at the Indiana Jones Summer of Hidden Mysteries!

Here’s the pointless photo spot

The new, awesome, Secret of the Stone Tiger show in the Oasis

The theater for the show itself looks awesome (first time I’d been in the Oasis)

After the show, Indy battles a bad guy through-out Adventureland

Moving outside of Disneyland for a brief moment… The Anaheim GardenWalk is now somewhat open. Once it’s fully open, we’ll bring you coverage of this new mall that could affect the future of the Disneyland Resort!

Now going back over to Toy Story Midway Mania… Take a look at the difference in theming here! TSMM’s amazing theming makes Paradise Pier look even worse now!

Here’s a few more of the posters from in the TSMM queue

My score on my second ride (85,900 in case it’s too blurry to see)

I loved this shirt so much, that I bought it!

A couple of the posters from the queue are available for $35 each

This poster is behind the cash register in Midway Mercantile

The walls are down from the Grizzly River Run waterwheel, but the tarps are still up

Here’s another look at the new seating for Award Wieners

Apparently they were filming parts of the Pixar Play Parade

Later in the day (Wednesday) they were filming Mr. Potato Head

Midway Mania sure does look beautiful at night!

Moving on to my last day… When I entered Mickey & Friends, I was given an Adventure Roadmap!

The Roadmap gives you 8 extremely easy questions

The new billboards advertising Toy Story “Midway” Mania at the Mickey & Friends Tram Station

Green Army Men in the Esplanade letting guests know that TSMM is in DCA, not Disneyland

Wall-E & Eve from the movie Wall-E are available to purchase

The Haunted Mansion was closed all day yesterday for some reason

My score on my 3rd ride (I’m on the right, my father beat me!)

Another example of how great TSMM’s theming is compared to the rest of the Pier

For some reason, they’ve been sold out on the Mickey Mouse Pretzels for quite a while now

Bust Baby!

That’s going to do it for this DLR Pictorial. Stay tuned to the Image Galleries for more & bigger versions of these pictures (some are already up)!

I’m back from a wonderful 4 day trip to the Disneyland Resort, which included checking out the Indiana Jones Summer of Hidden Mysteries, & of course Toy Story Midway Mania. Let’s start this pictorial off with my pictures from Monday:

Sign for Toy Story “Midway” Mania in the Esplanade

The Adventure Roadmap was handed out at both Mickey & Friends as well as Timon (more on this tomorrow)

The latest DCA maps

Now on to my first ever ride on Toy Story Midway Mania!

The amazing Mr. Potato Head

He can remove his ear (if you didn’t already know)!

A few of the posters in the queue for TSMM, giving tips on game-play & the individual games

Here’s where you pick up your 3D glasses

The start of the ride

The ride vehicles

The back of Mr. Potato Head’s toy box

My score on my first ride… Contrary to what Tom Corless says, I don’t think it’s that bad of a score!

Top scores from Monday & the month

A lovely little display thingy at the exit of the attraction

The new seating for Award Wieners

The Honda Pilot display outside of the entrance to DCA

Over to Disneyland with the new Disneyland Park map cover

Still not much visible progress at Small World

Donald’s Boat has returned from its refurbishment

As of today (Thursday 6/26) the Innoventions Dream Home is still closed

The walls are down however, so I managed to snap a few pictures

Club Penguin has joined Toontown & Pirates of the Caribbean Online in Innoventions

The bungee rats are back in the Ratatouille float in the Pixar Play Parade

Also back is the back end of the a Bug’s Life float

Also worthy to note is that the Ratatouille & a Bug’s Life floats have switched around with each other

And the acrobats are back on the Toy Story float

The new, & amazingly themed Churro cart across from Toy Story Midway Mania

A look at the queue for Toy Story Midway Mania

The new Hot Dog Hut (also quite nicely themed)

Clever

Banners advertising Toy Story “Midway” Mania in Downtown Disney

And to end off Part 1 of my pictorial, me with Cinderella

Stay tuned tomorrow for the rest of my DLR Pictorial, covering Tuesday through Thursday. Also tomorrow, we’ll have bigger versions of the pictures from this post in the Image Galleries!