Disneyland Resort is sure to be a top travel destination in 2020 as it unveils new attractions, a new land, a new parade and exciting guest experiences throughout the resort. Whether it’s living out Star Wars adventures aboard two attractions in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, teaming up with Super Heroes at the new Avengers Campus, celebrating magical moments in the all-new “Magic Happens” parade, or indulging in a Disney-themed treat, guests will discover more ways to have fun at the Happiest Place on Earth.
Throughout 2020, the Disneyland Resort will be the place for friends and families, little ones meeting Mickey Mouse for the first time, and experienced park-goers anticipating their next adventures. Anyone with a youthful imagination will enjoy new and classic attractions, magical entertainment, limited-time festivals, and themed food and merchandise. The year will kick off with the newest, and one of the most immersive attractions, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, launching in the new land of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland Park on Jan.17. Also at Disneyland, the “Magic Happens” parade debuts on Feb. 28 with multiple floats including one inspired by the blockbuster film, “Frozen 2,” and a “Moana” sequence that includes Moana on her voyager canoe, followed by her pet pig, Pua, and legendary demigod, Maui, on his own magical island.
At Disney California Adventure Park, the highly anticipated Avengers Campus opens in 2020, inviting guests of all ages into a new land where they will sling webs on the first Disney ride-through attraction to feature Spider-Man. The immersive land also presents multiple heroic encounters with Avengers like Iron Man, Black Widow and Black Panther. Avengers Campus will also feature Pym Test Kitchen, where guests will taste supersized and supershrunk foods from Pym Technologies. Festivals return to this park in 2020 with the Lunar New Year celebration and the Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival in the spring.
In addition to these new must-do experiences, guests will find plenty of Disney magic at the Hotels of the Disneyland Resort, along with shopping, dining and entertainment throughout the Downtown Disney District.
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Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance launches Jan. 17 in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland Park
The newest attraction inside Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, launches at Disneyland on Jan. 17, 2020. The attraction opened Dec. 5, 2019, at Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort. Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is one of the most ambitious, advanced and immersive experiences ever undertaken by Walt Disney Imagineering. The innovative attraction takes guests aboard a full-size transport shuttle before they are captured by a Star Destroyer and find themselves in the middle of a climactic battle between the dark side of the First Order and the light side of the Resistance, including BB-8 and Rey. The harrowing adventure blurs the lines between fantasy and reality on a scale never seen before in a Disney attraction.
Guests will join the Resistance and depart from Batuu in a transport ship to meet General Leia Organa at a secret rendezvous point. However, on their way to the hidden base, guests are intercepted and detained by the First Order when their ship is drawn into the hangar bay of a Star Destroyer. The action then ramps up as guests seek to escape the clutches of the dark side with Kylo Ren and the First Order.
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance brings guests face to face with some fan favorite Star Wars characters, including Resistance heroes Rey, BB-8, Poe and Finn, as well as Kylo Ren and General Hux of the First Order.
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opened at Disneyland on May 31, 2019. The epic new land made history as the largest single-land expansion ever at the Disneyland Resort, and is also the largest and most technologically advanced single-themed land expansion ever in a Disney park. Guests are transported to a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, to Black Spire Outpost on the planet Batuu, the newest location in a story that began in 1977 with the first Star Wars film. Guests become part of the story as they sample galactic food and beverages, enter an intriguing collection of merchant shops and take the controls of the most famous ship in the galaxy aboard another attraction in the land, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run.
New “Magic Happens” parade debuts at Disneyland Park, Feb. 28
The all-new “Magic Happens” parade will come to life for guests at Disneyland, beginning Feb. 28, 2020. “Magic Happens” will feature an energetic musical score and a new song, co-composed by singer-songwriter Todrick Hall. Celebrating awe-inspiring moments of magic that are at the heart of so many Disney stories, this new daytime parade will feature stunning floats, beautiful costumes, and beloved Disney characters from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen 2” and “Moana,” plus “Coco,” “Sleeping Beauty” and more, all led by Mickey Mouse and his pals.
Set to debut Feb. 28, 2020, at Disneyland Park in California, the new “Magic Happens” parade will come to life with an energetic musical score, stunning floats, beautiful costumes, and beloved Disney characters. Depicted in this image, from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen 2,” Anna and Elsa explore the mysteries of an enchanted forest protected by Nokk, the mystical water spirit, as their friends Kristoff, Sven and Olaf tag along. (Disney)
Traveling down Main Street, U.S.A., “Magic Happens” will remind guests they don’t need wings to fly, that shooting stars were made to wish upon, and that magic doesn’t stop at midnight. Highlights of the parade include:
- From “Frozen 2,” Anna and Elsa explore the mysteries of an enchanted forest protected by Nokk, the mystical water spirit, as their friends Kristoff, Sven and Olaf tag along.
- On her voyager canoe, Moana journeys forth on the crest of a towering wave, inspired by beautiful koa wood carvings, and inset with dazzling, animated glimpses into the magic the ocean holds.
- Guiding Moana on her journey is Maui, who travels along on his own magical piece of the islands with Moana’s adorable pet pig, Pua.
- Miguel appears in person for the first time, celebrating the magic that happens when he strums the guitar of Ernesto de la Cruz in the Disney and Pixar film “Coco.” This spectacular float bridges the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead with vibrant marigolds, and fantastical alebrije spirit animals join the procession, along with Miguel’s dog Danté.
- The regal grand finale of “Magic Happens” celebrates magical moments from several classic Disney stories, including the happily-ever-after scene from “Sleeping Beauty” with a trio of fairies and Princess Aurora’s gown shimmering between hues of pink and blue.
Highly-anticipated Avengers Campus opens at Disney California Adventure Park
In 2020, guests of all ages will team up with some favorite Super Heroes at the Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure. The campus is set up by the Avengers to recruit the next generation of Super Heroes.
Avengers Campus will open the first Disney ride-through attraction to feature Spider-Man. Guests will enter this attraction at the Worldwide Engineering Brigade – also known as WEB.
In 2020, guests of all ages will be invited to team up with some favorite Super Heroes at the Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure Park at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif. The campus is set up by the Avengers to recruit the next generation of Super Heroes and features Black Panther and his elite guards, the Dora Milaje, Thor, Iron Man, and more. (Disney/Marvel)
During an open house at WEB, aspiring inventors will invite guests along for a test drive of their latest invention: the Web-Slinger vehicle. This new adventure will allow guests to sling webs just like Spider-Man, as they help Spider-Man collect Spider-Bots that have run amok across the campus.
Avengers Campus will also feature Pym Test Kitchen. Here, Ant-Man and The Wasp are using their growing and shrinking technology, Pym Particles, to create big and little foods at this eatery.
Throughout the campus, guests will find themselves face-to-face with legendary Super Heroes, in heroic encounters with Ant-Man and The Wasp, Doctor Strange, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther and his elite guards, the Dora Milaje, Thor and Iron Man.
Additionally, guests will get caught up in the middle of incredible action around the Avengers Headquarters, as Super Heroes such as Black Widow and Black Panther battle intruders and save the day.
The iconic Avengers Headquarters building will become the entrance to a new attraction at a later date.
At a glance: Even more new and limited-time magic in 2020
Disneyland Park
- Disneyland After Dark special after-hours ticketed events (80s Nite on Jan. 29 and Sweethearts’ Nite on Feb. 12-13)
Disney California Adventure Park
- Lunar New Year celebrates the Year of the Mouse (Jan. 17 – Feb. 9)
- Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival (Feb. 28 – April 21)
- Disneyland After Dark special after-hours ticketed events (Pixar Nite on March 5 and Villains Nite on April 30)
- Oogie Boogie Bash – A Disney Halloween Party, a separate-ticket event on some nights during Halloween Time (Sept. – Oct. 2020)
General
- Halloween Time at the Disneyland Resort (Sept. 2020)
- Holiday entertainment, festivities, food and décor (Nov. 2020)
Upcoming anniversaries include:
- Indiana Jones Adventure, 25th anniversary (March 3)
- Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, 1st anniversary (May 31)
- “World of Color,” 10th anniversary (June 11)
- Disneyland Park, 65th anniversary, along with Disneyland’s opening day attractions, including Jungle Cruise (July 17)
- Disneyland Hotel, 65th anniversary (Oct. 5)
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