Disneyland's Diamond Celebration

60 years ago on July 17, 1955, Walt Disney welcomed the world to the Happiest Place on Earth; Disneyland. 

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That means this year will mark Disneyland's 60th anniversary and in true Disney fashion they are pulling out all the stops. At roughly 8 p.m. last night on Disneyland's Main St. USA some of the details were announced. Lets review!

World of Color Celebrate will be centered around Mr. Walt Disney and his journey to make his dreams (and mine) come true. If the show is all about the Man behind the vision, then it's only right that the show be hosted by the Mouse that started it all, Mickey! I'm hoping for a lot of vintage footage of Walt at the Park but whatever they come up with I sure will dazzle us all. 

Paint the Night will be the latest in a long line of wonderful parades that have graced Disneyland's Main St USA. As you can tell from the pictures the floats, characters and performers are covered in hi-tech led lights that will interact with the surrounding environments, including the guests. 

Disneyland Forever fireworks spectacular is going to be nothing short of amazing. The largest installment of projection mapping that any Disney park has ever seen will be incorporated throughout the show. Disneyland Forever will obviously include wonderful Disney fireworks, with the addition of projections running up and down Main St. USA and from the renderings it looks like they will be using different visuals on the rooftops of Main St as well. There are also two original songs during the show, including one titled "Kiss Goodnight", written by Richard Sherman himself! I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it!!

Both Sleeping Beauty's Castle and Carthay Circle in DCA will be receiving a blinged out make over. Both iconic buildings will be decked out in diamonds, topped off with a large diamond encrusted "D" on them. 

There are many many more surprises in store for us before May 22nd, which is the official start of the Disneyland's Diamond Celebration. For more updates follow along on Twitter and Instagram using the #Disneyland60. 

PS. look at the new popcorn buckets! I'll take one of each please!

Here is the YouTube Video that Disney Parks released.

** all photos are courtesy of the Disney Parks blog**