Introduction to Disney's California Adventure - Part Two
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Sunrise at Disney's California Adventure

Counting Down
For people like myself who've watched this expansion take place over the past four years, this is an interesting time. Most of the major outdoor work is completed. All the buildings are up and most of the changes are happening inside buildings and out of eyesight. On the other hand, more and more walls are coming down or being moved back allowing an up close view of what's to come. And even though the three centerpieces - DCA, Downtown Disney and the Grand Californian - have yet to open, the changes that have debuted - the new esplanade, the Disneyland Hotel landscaping - have already had an impact. Walking outside Disneyland and around the hotels, it already feels very different than it did four years ago.

While we wait for the centerpiece of the expansion, DCA, to open, it becomes more and more apparent that the real transformation here wasn't turning a parking lot into a theme park. The real transformation was turning the greatest theme park in the world, Disneyland, into a resort - The Disneyland Resort.

76 days and counting ...

Related Links

• LaughingPlace.com Guide to Disney's California Adventure
  Includes a complete attraction list, information on Downtown Disney and the Grand California Hotel, preview information and links to several other DCA sites.
• Announcement of First Downtown Disney Tenants
  October 1999 article includes information and interviews with the major Downtown Disney tenants.

-- Posted November 24 2000
-- Story by Doobie Moseley
-- Pictures by Rebekah Moseley, John Frost, Dave Mastanich, Bob Barber, Doobie Moseley
-- All concept art, logos and publicity pictures are (c) The Walt Disney Company