It’s only July but it’s already looking like the COVID-19 pandemic is going to ruin Halloween as Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood have been forced to cancel their lucrative seasonal events that bring hordes of haunt-happy fans to the Southern California theme parks. The Oogie Boogie Bash separate-admission event at Disney California Adventure will not return this Halloween season as Disneyland awaits theme park guidelines that have yet to be released by the state, according to...

Lower than expected attendance has forced Knott’s Berry Farm’s sister parks across the United States to drop reservation requirements and cut back on weekly operating days after reopening following extended coronavirus closures. Ohio’s Cedar Point no longer requires reservations while Pennsylvania’s Dorney Park has announced plans to close on select weekdays during the typically busy summer season because of smaller than anticipated crowds. Kings Island and Worlds of Fun have done both —...

A trio of Star Wars seasonal events tied to a local Batuuan harvest festival, a delightfully bad 1970s Christmas television special and the film franchise’s unofficial May the Fourth holiday could be coming soon to the twin Galaxy’s Edge themed lands at Disneyland and Disney World. A new Star Wars book from Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Imagineering reveals new details about the Black Spire Day, Batuaan Harvest Festival and Life Day local holidays celebrated annually in Galaxy’s Edge. Wait? What?...

Disneyland has tightened requirements on COVID-19 face masks in Downtown Disney for the second time in less than a week with an eye toward strengthening health and safety protocols at the outdoor shopping mall next to Disney’s shuttered Anaheim theme parks. A trio of new bans seek to close loopholes in Downtown Disney’s mandatory mask-wearing policy and prevent visitors from skirting the mandate. Downtown Disney’s updated policy now prohibits face coverings that contain: Tjho vq gps pvs Qbsl...

The actress who voiced Tiana in Disney’s “Princess and the Frog” wants Disneyland to build a real-world version of the animated film’s New Orleans restaurant to go alongside the transformation of the Splash Mountain log flume ride. Actress Anika Noni Rose, who voiced Princess Tiana in the 2009 movie, told People magazine she wants to see Tiana’s Palace from the film realized as a real restaurant at Disneyland and Disney World. Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and...