Emile Kuri set designer for Club 33, Plaza Inn and Sailing Ship Columbia dies at age 93

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One Day Adult Ticket Prices increase from $39 to $41

January 12--Animator Marc Davis with Disney since 1935 dies. Marc played an active roll in the planning of Disneyland. He developed story and character concepts for many Disneyland attractions, including Pirates of the Caribbean, the Haunted Mansion, It's A Small World.

The Disneyland Kennel closes

Wathel Rogers helped create Audio Animatronics for Disneyland including Mr Lincoln dies in Arizona at age 81

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April--$41 adult ticket price now applies to visitors ages 10 and older. The price previously started at age 12. Children ages 3 to 9 can still get into the theme park for $31

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November--One Day Adult Ticket Prices increase from $41 to $43

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Fired Disney Workers Angry
Dateline: 2/29/2000
Several former Disneyland employees are crying foul after being fired late last year for allegedly stealing complimentary passes to the theme park. One worker, Jacqueline Madory, filed a lawsuit against Disneyland on Feb. 18 in Orange County

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Frontierlands Keel Boat Ride
Dateline: 3/1/2000
Well, howdy there, pioneers and sod-busters ... welcome aboard the ol' Gullywhumper ... Ya know, this here's the boat that ol' Mike Fink used a while back when he took on Davy Crockett for the wildest keel boat race this river has ever seen ...

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Disneyland's Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship Resturant
Dateline: 3/1/2000
Walt Disney's first Fantasyland was designed to give the impression that Sleeping Beauty Castle (with its rockwork turrets and extended walls of stone) was the single permanent structure in the area. Fantasyland's rides and concessions were arranged

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Disneyland In One Day
Dateline: 3/1/2000
The First Hint that my mission will be daunting: I tell the cast member in Guest Relations the title of the article I'm researching, and she starts to giggle. Disneyland in a day? Who am I kidding? "It might be a little hard," she says, handing me

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Celebrating a Disneyland Milestone
Dateline: 3/1/2000
On paper, the new 45 Years of Magic procession at Disneyland might look like just another gala parade. The real thing, however, is closer to kinetic art. That, at least, is the vision of Jean-Luc Choplin, the creator of an extravaganza opening on

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Autopia ( Opened )

Rocket Rods ( Closed )

Special Preview Disney's California Adventure ( Opened )

Woodys Roundup ( Opened / Closed )

13-Year-Old Girl Leg Became Lodged Under Ride
Injury
Date: April 18, 2000
A Lake Forest teenager whose leg was caught beneath Roger Rabbit's Cartoon Spin ride is being described as a "lucky little girl" by hospital officials and paramedics, who said that she suffered no broken bones or »

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Jonathan Woodcock Injured When Ride Suddenly Stops
Injury
Date: July 31, 2000
A car on the Space Mountain coaster stopped suddenly when a wheel support arm came loose. The safety system on the ride, which reaches a maximum speed of about 30 mph as it winds its way through a half-mile course, »

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Brandon Zucker Falls And Became Lodged Under Ride
Injury
Date: September 22, 2000
Brandon Zucker, 4, did not have a pulse when paramedics arrived after he fell off the Roger Rabbit Car Toon Spin Ride. "With a resuscitative efforts his vital signs improved," Dr. Marianne Cinat "His injuries include a »

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Blake Borbeck Foot Injured
Injury
Date: December 21, 2000
Blake Borbeck a 15-year-old Mesa Arizona boy's foot apparently became stuck between the ride's caterpillar-shaped car and a 3-inch- high horizontal bar that keeps the cars on the track, on Alice in Wonderland ride. The »

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Yvonne Traina Falls On Ride
Injury
Date: August 08, 2000
An operator dispatches a log on Splash Mountain before Yvonne Traina, 67, was seated, causing her to be thrown "rapidly backward" in her seat. When she screamed and he stopped the ride, she was thrown forward. After »

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