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Welcome to Tokyo Disney! Where dreams come true in Japanese.
This is where you can post and discuss all things related to the culture of Disney and how it uniquely relates to the culture of Japan. Everything from official announcements about the Tokyo Disney Resort parks to your personal photos of Fantasy Springs.
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A cast member holding Disney Easter & Duffy balloons at the entrance of Tokyo DisneySea, possibly wondering how many balloons she could hold before she flew away.
Picture taken by me in 2019.
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Miguel's El Dorado Cantina, a restaurant in Lost River Delta, and the surrounding area will be decorated with a Duffy & Friends motif! Enjoy your meal while being immersed in the world of Duffy and friends. Enjoy character greetings for the first time and merchandise for sale.
https://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/treasure/duffy/special/wonderfulkitchen/
The event runs from January 15th through March 31st @ Tokyo DisneySea.
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In "It's a Small World with Groot," Groot, a familiar character from the Guardians of the Galaxy film series , comes to Earth for a vacation with his friends from Marvel Studios films .
https://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/treasure/smallworldwithgroot/
The event runs from January 15th through June 30th @ Tokyo Disneyland.
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(news) Tokyo Disneyland Special Event "Disney Palpalooza 'Vanellope's Sweets Pop World'"
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Welcome to Vanellope's Sweets Pop World! This is the candy world imagined by Vanellope. Enjoy a wonderful time in the park, which has been transformed into a colorful, cute and delicious place.
https://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/treasure/vanellopessweetpopworld/
The event runs from January 15th through March 16th @ Tokyo Disneyland.
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The view down the main street of the World Bazaar @ Tokyo Disneyland at night, Disney Christmas 2024.
Picture taken by me in 2024.
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I was able to get some pictures of the ongoing demolition of Space Mountain, which had stood largely unchanged since the park opened in 1983.
Top photo & this photo taken from Pan Galactic Pizza Port.
As you can see, they are simultaneously renovating the space that used to be Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters. So access is completely cut off between Showbase Theater and Stitch’s Encounter. You have to detour to the main parade route to go around the construction.
Taken from Crystal Palace.
Good shot of the cranes that are now a permanent fixture of the park’s horizon.
Funny enough, Crystal Palace was also completely covered with a facade of a painting of itself and undergoing renovations at the time.
Taken from Le Tavern de Gaston.
“Look how they massacred my boy.”
Pictures taken by me in 2024.
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The Bicycle Piano, all decked out for Christmas and rolling down the parade route @ Tokyo Disneyland during Christmas Fantasy 2013.
Picture taken by me in 2013.
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The Tokyo Disneyland Band playing underneath the Christmas tree in World Bazaar @ Tokyo Disneyland during Christmas Fantasy 2016.
Picture taken by me in 2016.
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Intricate metalwork of Mickey and Minnie catching snowflakes near the SS Anne in American Waterfront @ Tokyo DisneySea, Christmas Wishes 2015.
Picture taken by me in 2015.
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Above: The billboard for Captain Eo, presented by JCB @ Tokyo Disneyland, just prior to the attraction's permanent closure.
After 14 years, Captain Eo reopened in Tomorrowland @ Tokyo Disneyland in 2010 and played until 2014 when it was replaced by Stitch's Encounter. Captain Eo originally ran in Tokyo Disneyland from 1987, replacing Magic Journeys, until 1996, when it was replaced by Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.
Unlike the American parks, the revival of Captain Eo wasn't billed as a "revival", rather it simply came back in its original form minus some of the special effects for which the hardware has since been removed from the theater.
Picture taken by me in 2013.
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A giant Jack-o-Lantern Mickey hanging in a shopping arcade in Suginami in 2013.
(A little late to the party, I know.)
Picture taken by me.
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Hoot & Holler Hideout Inside Splash Mountain @ Tokyo Disneyland to Permenantly Close
(www.tokyodisneyresort.jp)
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Above: The classic Starjets ride at Tokyo Disneyland as it stood in mid-2017 just prior to its closure. Tokyo Disneyland was the last park to feature the space shuttle variation of the ride.
Back in 2017, when construction on the Beauty & the Beast area began, Starjets was one of Tomorrowland's attractions that had to be removed to make way for it. That and the one churro stand that served the "blue"-flavored churros. I still haven't forgiven OLC for that.
That year, Tokyo Disneyland held a "sayonara" campaign for Starjets so guests could say farewell and ride one last time. These are the pictures I took a couple of months before it was closed:
Pretty sure I only waited for about 15 minutes.
Standing on the platform, and even more so when you raised your car to the highest setting, you were given a great view of the initial construction of Beast's Castle (As well as the rest of the park).
The snack stand that was built into the base of Starjets served a special sundae that commemorated the end of the ride.
Hilariously, the land that Starjets occupied was used for a building that houses the FastPass ticket machines for the Beauty & the Beast ride... ticket machines that were never used because COVID ended FastPass throughout the resort just before that area was suppose to open to the public. Now express ticketing is done exclusively through the TDR app, so those machines have been abandoned in place for half a decade now. The building is designed to look like Maurice's workshop from the animated movie, which is nice... I guess. It has a moving watermill.
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