Disneyland 70th speculations and news

[LKing]

Better Together Parade Dessert Party reservations are available now today April 23.

The times available are 1:45 and 4:15. Do we think the parades will be at 2 pm and 4:30 pm?

 

[joseph821]

The times available are 1:45 and 4:15. Do we think the parades will be at 2 pm and 4:30 pm?

According to the confirmation, you can do online mobile check-in 2 hours before or in person at Sonoma Terrace.
From the confirmation email:

The Better Together: A Pixar Pals Celebration! parade takes place twice per day. When you make a reservation for the Better Together: A Pixar Pals Celebration! Parade Dessert Party, the parade you will be viewing may be the first or second parade of the day. The parade starts about 45 minutes after your dessert party reservation time. View the entertainment schedule or this app for showtimes.

2:30PM and 5pm

 

[LKing]

The parade starts about 45 minutes after your dessert party reservation time. View the entertainment schedule or this app for showtimes.

2:30PM and 5pm

Interesting because there is nothing on the entertainment schedule or the app yet.

 

[joseph821]

Interesting because there is nothing on the entertainment schedule or the app yet.

The confirmation email says: The parade starts about 45 minutes after your dessert party reservation time. View the entertainment schedule or this app for showtimes.

230 and 5 work for parade times. If the reservation is for 145 or 415, check-in, seating guests, distributing food, taking drink orders etc should take 30 minutes or so. WofC dessert party reservation times are 60 minutes before showtime. So 45 minutes before a parade works.

 

[LKing]

So this is what we think the entertainment schedule will look like. Is this correct? Blue is DL, purple is DCA.

1:30 pm Celebrate Happy Cavalcade - Small World -> Town Square
2:30 pm Better Together - A Pixar Pals Celebration! (DCA) - Guardians -> Boardwalk Pizza
2:45 pm Celebrate Happy Cavalcade - Town Square -> Small World
5:00 pm Better Together - A Pixar Pals Celebration! (DCA) - Boardwalk Pizza -> Guardians
8:45 pm Paint The Night - Small World -> Town Square
8:45 pm Shadows of Memory
9:00 pm Fantasmic
9:00 pm World of Color Happiness! (DCA)
9:30 pm Wondrous Journeys Fireworks
9:30 pm Fire of the Rising Moon
10:15 pm Shadows of Memory
10:15 pm World of Color Happiness! (DCA)
10:30 pm Fantasmic
10:45 pm Paint the Night - Town Square -> Small World

 

[disneychrista]

2:30 pm Better Together - A Pixar Pals Celebration! (DCA) - Guardians -> Boardwalk Pizza

5:00 pm Better Together - A Pixar Pals Celebration! (DCA) - Boardwalk Pizza -> Guardians

Do they reverse direction of the parade at DCA? I have only ever seen it go from Guardians to Boardwalk Pizza.

I know Disneyland does and I have seen parades from both directions but never at DCA.

 

[LKing]

Do they reverse direction of the parade at DCA? I have only ever seen it go from Guardians to Boardwalk Pizza.

I know Disneyland does and I have seen parades from both directions but never at DCA.

I'm pretty sure I've seen it go in both directions. Can anyone else confirm? Will the Avengers Campus construction impact how the floats move backstage?

 

[joseph821]

I'm pretty sure I've seen it go in both directions. Can anyone else confirm? Will the Avengers Campus construction impact how the floats move backstage?

Yes the Halloween Parade reverses directions. Not sure about impact of construction on float movement backstage.

 

[LKing]

Also interested in speculation about when the holiday hiatus will be and for which events. We're going Halloween weekend.

The Plaza Inn Dining Package includes reserved viewing for Paint the Night. On the app, it says that the dining package runs from May 16 - August 21. Halloween Time starts on August 22.

I assume they will pause Wondrous Journeys for Halloween and Christmas fireworks. The fact that the aren't going to offer the PTN parade dining package after August 21 makes me think that they will pause PTN as well.

 

[joseph821]

The Plaza Inn Dining Package includes reserved viewing for Paint the Night. On the app, it says that the dining package runs from May 16 - August 21. Halloween Time starts on August 22.

I assume they will pause Wondrous Journeys for Halloween and Christmas fireworks. The fact that the aren't going to offer the PTN parade dining package after August 21 makes me think that they will pause PTN as well.

I do not think PTN will return until Spring 2026. Plaza Inn will have the dining package for the Christmas parade starting in mid-November.

 

[sgrap]

Do they reverse direction of the parade at DCA? I have only ever seen it go from Guardians to Boardwalk Pizza.

I know Disneyland does and I have seen parades from both directions but never at DCA.

Last May, we saw it start from Pixar Pier and go toward Avengers. We did the dessert party in front of Wine Country Trattoria.

 

[DianaMB333]

Hi
Do you know at what time the 70th anniversary tour will open for reservations today pls?
Thanks

 

[sgrap]

Hi
Do you know at what time the 70th anniversary tour will open for reservations today pls?
Thanks

In theory, 6am PDT today.

 

[joseph821]

Hi
Do you know at what time the 70th anniversary tour will open for reservations today pls?
Thanks

Reservations have not opened as of 6AM PST (9AM EST). I will keep checking. I expect them to drop around 9AM/10AM PST (12Noon/1PM EST.)

 

[PaladinButters]

The Plaza Inn Dining Package includes reserved viewing for Paint the Night. On the app, it says that the dining package runs from May 16 - August 21. Halloween Time starts on August 22.

I assume they will pause Wondrous Journeys for Halloween and Christmas fireworks. The fact that the aren't going to offer the PTN parade dining package after August 21 makes me think that they will pause PTN as well.

This is crushing me as a non-local. We saw it during Halloween time for the 60th and just kind of assumed we could this time as well.
They sold me a hotel deal to "celebrate the 70th" that runs through September 26th so that wasn't very nice of them.

 

[Pluto468]

Last May, we saw it start from Pixar Pier and go toward Avengers. We did the dessert party in front of Wine Country Trattoria.

How did you like like dessert party? I've been considering it for our June trip. It would be that or WOC. I love WOC but have done the dessert party a couple times so I was thinking it might be neat to do the parade package this time. If only I could do both!

 

[sgrap]

How did you like like dessert party? I've been considering it for our June trip. It would be that or WOC. I love WOC but have done the dessert party a couple times so I was thinking it might be neat to do the parade package this time. If only I could do both!

Honestly, the dessert part was fine, but the parade was a let down. It was so short and didn't have any of the cool acrobatic feature that the Pixar parade used to have.

 

[DianaMB333]

Nothing yet…

 

[maleficent55]

Do they reverse direction of the parade at DCA? I have only ever seen it go from Guardians to Boardwalk Pizza.

I know Disneyland does and I have seen parades from both directions but never at DCA.

Yes

In 2018 we saw Paint the Night in DCA going from Boardwalk Pizza to Guardians

 

[disneychrista]

Yes the Halloween Parade reverses directions. Not sure about impact of construction on float movement backstage.

Last May, we saw it start from Pixar Pier and go toward Avengers. We did the dessert party in front of Wine Country Trattoria.

Yes

In 2018 we saw Paint the Night in DCA going from Boardwalk Pizza to Guardians

It makes total sense that they would, just like they do at Disneyland. I guess I have always only seen the first/only parade of the day.