Disneyland has introduced return dates for Magic Occurs parade, Mickey’s Combine Magic and Magical Journeys fireworks, in addition to different leisure and nighttime spectaculars within the first half of 2024. This publish covers the complete particulars, plus our commentary about how this may impression crowds and extra. Let’s begin with the press launch from Disneyland Resort:
Visitors of all ages can get pleasure from a wide range of performances, and plenty of kids get their first style of dwell leisure at Disneyland Resort. In 2024, family and friends can uncover new favorites, in addition to create new recollections with many returning and reimagined choices – including to the sturdy slate of leisure accessible all 12 months lengthy.
From character encounters and dance events to parades and nighttime spectaculars, a visitor might spend a full day and evening having fun with the leisure choices throughout the resort. A full checklist of leisure and the newest efficiency schedules can be found on Disneyland.com and the Disneyland app. Listed here are a number of spectacular highlights:
Disneyland Leisure in 2024
- “Mickey’s Combine Magic” – returns January 8 to March 21, 2024 and April 15-25, 2024: Projections, lighting results, lasers and catchy Disney tunes create a family-friendly dance occasion environment all through Disneyland. The high-energy nighttime spectacular is enhanced with the addition of fireworks on choose evenings.
- “Magic Occurs” parade – returns February 2, 2024: Moments of magic from Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios movies are dropped at life on a grand scale with beautiful floats, inventive costumes and an brisk musical rating.
- “Wondrous Journeys” – returns March 22 to April 14, 2024: Initially created as a tribute to the a centesimal anniversary of The Walt Disney Firm, the nighttime spectacular contains nods to Walt Disney Animation Studios movies over the previous century. Predominant Avenue, U.S.A., Sleeping Magnificence Citadel, the façade of “it’s a small world” and the Rivers of America turn out to be an artist’s canvas with lighting results, personalized projections, glowing fireworks and extra.
- “Collectively Endlessly – A Pixar Nighttime Spectacular” – returns April 26 to August 4, 2024: A tribute to the journey of friendship, this heartwarming present returns with some all-new scenes as a part of the limited-time Pixar Fest. On choose nights, fireworks take the celebration sky excessive.
- “Fantasmic!” – returns Might 24, 2024: Hovering music, dozens of dwell performers, character appearances and projections will as soon as once more illuminate the Rivers of America. In 2024, the nighttime specular returns in modified kind with new particular results, and a reworked battle scene between Sorcerer Mickey and Maleficent (with out the Murphy Dragon AA), plus the return of the enduring “Peter Pan” scene.
- Storytelling on the Royal Theatre: Renaissance males Messieurs Smythe and Jones, with the help of some fellow villagers and the viewers, convey the tales of “Magnificence and the Beast” and “Tangled” to life with music, whimsy and humor.
- Reside music: The melodic sounds of the Disneyland Band, the Dapper Dans quartet, and the Straw Hatters are all on show on Predominant Avenue, S.A. In New Orleans Sq., the toe-tapping performances star the Bootstrappers and the Jambalaya Jazz Band.
- Particular and seasonal nighttime spectaculars: Throughout seasonal celebrations and particular occasions, friends can expertise specifically themed nighttime spectaculars, resembling “Halloween Screams” and “Imagine… in Vacation Magic.”
Disney California Journey Leisure in 2024
- “Higher Collectively – A Pixar Friends Celebration!” – debuts April 26, 2024: The brand new daytime parade at Disney California Journey debuts throughout Pixar Fest, that includes favourite associates and new characters from the newest Pixar movies, together with “Turning Crimson.”
- “Disney Junior Dance Occasion!”: Mickey Mouse is joined by favourite Disney Junior characters, together with Doc McStuffins and Vampirina.
- “The Superb Spider-Man!”: All through the day, friends have the possibility to witness Spider-Man swing into motion excessive above Avengers Campus with gravity-defying, acrobatic feats.
- “Warriors of Wakanda: The Disciplines of the Dora Milaje”: Recruits at Avengers Campus are invited to affix Black Panther’s loyal bodyguards, the Dora Milaje, in coaching classes within the courtyard close to Avengers Headquarters.
- “Physician Unusual: Mysteries of the Mystic Arts”: Physician Unusual steps forth via an inter-dimensional portal to have interaction friends with illusions, sorcery and tales to astonish from his assortment of mysterious relics.
- “Guardians of the Galaxy: Superior Dance Off!”: Star Lord and Gamora lead a fab dance occasion set to rock and roll classics from Peter Quill’s beloved increase field.
- Reside music: The swinging jazz combo 5 & Dime delivers pizzazz and razzmatazz to Buena Vista Avenue. Throughout “Operation: Playtime!”, the Inexperienced Military Patrol from Pixar’s “Toy Story” convoy the park. Plus, the Hollywood Backlot Stage and Paradise Backyard Bandstand usually host dwell musical acts.
- Particular seasonal leisure: Disney California Journey provides a wide range of particular leisure throughout seasonal festivals, together with Lunar New 12 months, the Disney California Journey Meals & Wine Pageant and Disney Pageant of Holidays.
The dwell leisure experiences at Disneyland Resort lengthen past the theme parks, with a rotating lineup of nighttime musical leisure on the newly opened Downtown Disney LIVE! stage and seasonally on the Resorts of the Disneyland Resort, with proficient entertainers making appearances all year long.
Disney has additionally launched the Full 2024 Calendar of Occasions at Disneyland, which covers dates and different particulars for the varied seasonal choices at Disney California Journey and Disneyland.
Turning to commentary, this schedule is, uhhh, one thing. If I didn’t know any higher, I’d suppose Disney doesn’t need anybody to go to Disneyland or DCA this winter.
Along with the dates and leisure talked about, there’s additionally the World of Colour closure, which runs from January 8 via February 29, 2024. (There are additionally a number of attraction closures on the 2024 Disneyland Refurbishment Calendar; we’d actually advocate consulting that earlier than locking-in dates this winter.)
Suffice to say, if you happen to’re visiting within the first two months of 2024 after the Christmas season ends, the nighttime spectacular you’ll get is…Mickey’s Combine Magic. That’s it. No evening parade. No World of Colour. No Fantasmic. And on weeknights, no fireworks. Simply Mickey’s Combine Magic with projections.
I’ll admit that Mickey’s Combine Magic has grown on me a little bit bit. I hated it when it debuted, however got here to understand its chaotic vitality a little bit. Like a brain-eating amoeba, the soundtrack worms its method into your head–whether or not you need it to or not. It may be an unexpectedly enjoyable present.
Nonetheless, if we’re doing the entire Survivor factor and I needed to choose one nighttime spectacular to by no means see once more, it will be Mickey’s Combine Magic. I’m fairly certain I’m not alone on this, and can’t think about anybody can be dashing to e book park reservations at this time to see the triumphant return of Mickey’s Combine Magic. At most, I feel most locals and Annual Passholders tolerate it.
With that mentioned, I’m not completely stunned Mickey’s Combine Magic is coming again. We speculated a number of weeks in the past that this may occur. Disneyland is changing into more and more savvy about utilizing a ‘vault system’ to generate curiosity in its leisure choices, so not bringing again Wondrous Journeys so quickly is smart. (Though just for the height of Easter and Spring Break…not even a month-long run?! Oof.)
Nonetheless, the encircling circumstances I envisioned had been a bit completely different. I didn’t know World of Colour could be down or that nothing else could be introduced again as counterprogramming to Mickey’s Combine Magic. I don’t know what I used to be anticipating, however actually not this. Mickey’s Combine Magic can’t conceivably be the ‘anchor’ leisure to get locals to the parks throughout what’s traditionally the winter low season for Southern California tourism.
I suppose if I knew the entire different items of the puzzle on the time, I in all probability would’ve predicted that “Keep in mind… Goals Come True” would’ve returned for January and February. That nighttime spectacular is beloved amongst Disneyland diehards, because it’s a love letter to the park and Walt Disney. It’s additionally been on hiatus for some time, so it will’ve been one thing to attract locals to the park at a time after they’re wanted resulting from a scarcity of vacation-goers. Alternatively, Disneyland Endlessly would’ve been a compromise draw with enchantment to locals and vacationers.
With that mentioned, the excellent news is from a crowds and planning perspective. After winter break ends and Los Angeles and Orange County colleges return into session, January and February would be the two slowest months of 2024. That’s probably not a daring prediction. For one factor, the weeks between January 15 and February 12 had been among the many slowest of this 12 months.
For one more factor, Halloween is beginning early in 2024. Because of this the one critical competitors to January and February because the slowest stretch of the 12 months–mid-August via mid-September–will probably be busier subsequent 12 months. Even earlier than this information, I’d’ve predicted that the early begin of Halloween can be sufficient to tip the scales in favor of the winter low season being the higher time to go to. (Objectively talking–positively not subjectively. I’d take care of the marginally heavier crowds to go throughout the most effective dates of Halloween or Christmas.)
This announcement just about cements that prediction. That’s even with the Southern California resident (and different) ticket offers through the winter timeframe, in addition to the probability that pent-up demand will exhaust itself over the course of 2024. (Which means it would fizzle out over time, quite than initially of the 12 months.)
Maybe I’m improper and actually underestimating the recognition of Mickey’s Combine Magic with locals. Possibly I missed a memo, and it grew to become a beloved Disneyland establishment whereas I wasn’t wanting. I actually don’t suppose so. I’ve but to satisfy anybody who loves Mickey’s Combine Magic unironically. Maybe it’s big with the TikTokers, who is aware of.
In the end, I nearly really feel badly for anybody with a Disneyland journey deliberate in Winter 2024, particularly through the January dates that don’t even have Magic Occurs parade. Leisure is (normally) the essence of what makes Disneyland a particular place–and really completely different from Walt Disney World. You’re not going to get the complete really feel of that, sadly. At the very least it’s best to get actually nice crowd ranges and comfy (as long as it doesn’t rain) coat-season climate.
I additionally should admit that, selfishly, I’m barely excited for this. As new mother and father who wouldn’t watch fireworks or nighttime spectaculars regardless, we’ve been attempting to pinpoint occasions when crowds can be low to focus on our future visits to Disneyland with Megatron. This announcement simply added a number of weeks’ price of dates to our calendar!
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