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World of Color is a nighttime water show at Disney California Adventure at Disneyland Resort. World of Color is held one or more times per night in Paradise Bay, and features colorful water jets, projections of classic Disney animated films (and Pirates of the Caribbean) onto “screens” of water, and various other water and special
Yesterday I shared a photo of how Paradise Pier’s midway would appear to a guest visiting Disney California Adventure in 2001, so it’s only fitting to share how that same midway would look today. It’s all very familiar, yet very different at the same time. While I think the current Paradise Pier looks much better
When Disney’s California Adventure opened on February 8, 2001, this is more or less what guests would have seen when they gazed across Paradise Bay towards the Paradise Pier midway. This is a sight that looks different, yet still very familiar today. California Screamin’ no longer has its Mickey Mouse ears, the Sun Wheel is
Disney California Adventure has been the most troubled theme park ever built by Disney. The park first opened in 2001 and was immediately the subject of controversy and scorn amongst fans who felt that it was cynical and tacky. Some even proclaimed that the original Disney’s California Adventure was inferior to the parking lot that
The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel’s Undersea Adventure is a dark ride attraction at Disney California Adventure at Disneyland Resort (a substantively identical attraction exists in the Magic Kingdom’s New Fantasyland at Walt Disney World). The attraction was added to the park as part of Disney California Adventure’s $1.5+ billion expansion. Since opening on June 3,
With the exception of the somewhat out of place (but totally awesome) Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides segment, my favorite part of World of Color is the very end, when the original music is played, these little (and much more photogenic) fountains cycle, and the female narrator reminds the guests to have a
We spent less than a day at Epcot’s Flower & Garden Festival last year, and I (somehow) completely neglected to take any photos of this beautiful flower tapestry between Future World and World Showcase. On our May 2012 Walt Disney World trip, I made up for this, taking dozens of photos of the tapestry, most
During our May 2012 Walt Disney World trip, we stayed at the Beach Club Villas on Disney Vacation Club points for the first time. This was actually the last resort to check off our “list” of Disney Vacation Club Resorts at Walt Disney World, and it turned out to be my favorite. Unsurprisingly, this was
This scene of two ‘racing’ monorails, Spaceship Earth, and the flower bed at Epcot has become one of my Walt Disney World “Signature Shots.” The original from 2009 is one of my most popular Flickr photos of all time, and that photo (which was inspired itself by a Walt Disney World press photo from the
My favorite place to watch the Main Street Electrical Parade or SpectroMagic is Liberty Square right at the edge of the bridge pictured in this photo. It offers a few advantages: you get Cinderella Castle in the background, you get a lot of opportunities to photograph the characters and floats as they come straight at
Ahhh, Cinderella Castle. Although I spend so much time simply gazing at Cinderella Castle on each of our Walt Disney World trips, I have to make a conscious effort to photograph it. I seem to be so entranced by it that I forget to put the camera to my eye to snap photos of it!