It's going to be a big year at Disneyland in 2025. The park will celebrate its 70th anniversary with this year with two returning nighttime spectaculars and a new show featuring the first Audio Animatronic of Walt Disney himself.
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Disneyland opened July 17, 1955 and last year welcomed more than 17 million visitors, making it the second-most-visited theme park in the world, following its younger sibling, Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. For its 70th birthday this year, Disneyland will celebrate with an open-ended anniversary event starting May 16.
Disneyland's 70th Anniversary will feature a daily Mickey and Friends Celebrate Happy! character cavalcade as well as a new projection show on the It's a Small World facade, in addition to the returning nighttime spectaculars, the Paint the Night parade and the Wondrous Journeys projection/fireworks show.
In addition to the 70th anniversary, Disneyland will offer the following events this year:
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Coco and Avatar were also announced and supposed to be in the next 5 years. But that is all at DCA, not Disneyland.
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It's great to see Paint the Night back at Disneyland, but it's a parade that should have been running at the park since Disneyland reopened following the Pandemic. It's pretty disappointing that Disney is leveraging the parade's return as the biggest addition for a "big" anniversary celebration. I get that they can't just make a new attraction appear out of thin air, but they could at least put together big shows/productions for the vacant Hyperion and Fantasyland Theaters to give guests at least something new for the anniversary. As it stands right now, the only reason to visit Disneyland Resort in 2025 is for the overpriced anniversary merch. Frankly, I'm starting to get concerned that Disney will still be working on Disneyland Forward when the 75th Anniversary comes around 5 years from now because of how long it takes to get something built in California. The expansion to Avengers CAMPUS might be the only thing new at the resort when they're marketing the next big anniversary.