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2024 Disneyland Refurbishment Calendar

This Disney California Adventure and Disneyland ride refurbishment calendar for 2024 lists temporary attraction closures so you know what won’t be operating before planning your vacation. Additionally, we offer info about reimagining projects that are underway to enhance experiences around the resort. ( Updated January 7, 2024 .)

While no one wants attraction closures during their visit, they are a necessary part of keeping Disneyland and Disney California Adventure in good condition, as routine maintenance, safety upgrades, and attraction improvements are all done during scheduled ride closures. Usually, there are only a handful of simultaneous closed rides, plus new attractions being built.

Having an idea of which attractions are closed at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure is important, but we recommend consulting our 2024 Disneyland Vacation Planning Guide for more comprehensive info. That covers everything from saving money on park tickets and hotels to where to eat, when to visit, and more.

In addition to scheduled attraction refurbs, unscheduled downtime can also occur during a visit. This usually only occurs for a few hours at a time, so if you find an attraction is closed during your visit to Disneyland Resort and it’s not listed below, it’s likely a temporary closure that will last a few hours. Check with nearby Cast Members to confirm.

Below is a schedule of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure refurbishments, when the closure starts, and when the refurbishment will conclude. To the extent that specific dates are not yet listed, those will be updated once Disneyland Resort provides precise start and/or end dates. The following day will be when the attraction is scheduled to reopen.

Here are the closure schedules for Disney California Adventure and Disneyland…

Disney California Adventure

• Beast’s Library in the Disney Animation Building – Permanently closed
• Better Together: A Pixar Pals Celebration! Parade – Debuts on April 26, 2024
• Grizzly River Run – Closed January 8, 2024 to TBD
• Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind – Closed January 22 to February 8, 2024
• Paint the Night Parade – Return Date Unknown
• Rogers: The Musical – Return Date Unknown
• World of Color ONE – Closed January 8-18, 2024

Several new refurbishments added to the calendar, as is common with the start of the winter off-season. In 2024, these are staggered slightly, which is likely a result of the Disneyland Half Marathon–Disney wants to maintain as much capacity as possible until after that runDisney weekend.

A few of these are water-based attractions, which typically close for refurbishment when the weather is cold and demand is low. The rest are mostly routine maintenance or the removal of seasonal overlays. Expect at least a few more closures to be added to the calendar for Winter 2024.

The biggest closure is World of Color – ONE, which will go down at the end of the holiday season and return around the start of the Disney California Food & Wine Festival on March 1, 2024. What’s not yet known is which  World of Color will return, or even if it’ll be an all-new show. Our guess is that it’ll be the original World of Color, potentially with an  Inside Out 2  pre-show.

For reasons unknown, the World of Color – ONE refurbishment was substantially shortened, reduced from multiple months to just 10 days. It’s possible this was partially a closure due to a lower off-season crowd forecast–and those expectations have changed with the SoCal ticket deal and Magic Key sales resuming. It’s also possible that it’s not possible to accomplish certain maintenance (labor? parts?) during this closure, so the can has been kicked down the road and World of Color will have another refurbishment in 2024.

Either way, World of Color – ONE (the Disney100 version of the nighttime spectacular, not the original version) will be returning in January 2024. Only a few days later, the exceptional ‘Hurry Home’ pre-show tag will return for the Lunar New Year celebration at Disney California Adventure . (Don’t miss Lunar New Year or Hurry Home–both are fantastic!)

Next, let’s take a look at the 2024 Disneyland attraction closure calendar…

• Adventureland Treehouse – Now open!
• Astro Orbitor – Reopening Date TBD
• Fantasmic – Returns May 24, 2024
• Haunted Mansion – Closed January 22, 2024 to TBD
• “it’s a small world” – Closed January 7-17, 2024
• Magic Happens Parade – Returns February 2, 2024
• Main Street Electrical Parade – Return Date Unknown
• Mark Twain Riverboat – Reopens February 2, 2024
• “Mickey’s Mix Magic” – Returns January 8 to March 21, 2024 and April 15-25, 2024
• Sailing Ship Columbia – Closed January 8-11, 2024
• Splash Mountain – Permanently closed
• Tale of the Lion King – Permanently closed
• Together Forever – A Pixar Nighttime Spectacular – Returns on April 26 to August 24, 2024
• Wondrous Journeys Fireworks – Returns March 22 to April 14, 2024

The big closure on the calendar for Disneyland is Haunted Mansion, which goes down on January 22, 2024. As discussed in  Haunted Mansion New Grounds & Store Coming in 2024 to Disneyland , this is a big project–much larger in scope and scale than the normal  Nightmare Before Christmas  overlay removal.

Don’t be surprised if the ride doesn’t reopen for several months–and if OG Haunted Mansion doesn’t return until 2025.

Additionally, Disneyland has officially released the entertainment schedule for 2024 , which includes a variety of fireworks shows and nighttime spectaculars. What changes that might be in store for a reimagined Fantasmic are unknown, but even when the nighttime spectacular does return, it’ll be in b-mode. Judging by the nature and extent of the fire damage, it’s likely that the Murphy Audio Animatronics figure of Maleficent will be missing for far longer.

That post also discusses why we’re expecting more than just a reimagined Fantasmic to make a splash next summer. With nothing else to celebrate and no new attractions to drive crowds, it’s likely that Disneyland leans on entertainment and builds out an ‘event’ that revolves around Fantasmic and other nighttime spectaculars. Our guess is that Paint the Night  finally  makes its return over at DCA in Summer 2024, too.

Finally, Splash Mountain is now officially closed to be reimagined into a new ride based on The Princess and the Frog . There are already visible signs of the transformation into Tiana’s Bayou Adventure .

It was a curious decision to close Splash Mountain right before the busy (and hotter) summer season, but it’s our understanding that the closure date had been pushed back a couple of times for various reasons and the team working on it needs as much time as they can get.

In Florida, Imagineers have already kicked that coast’s version of this project into high gear. Already, construction walls are up around Chick-A-Pin Hill and Imagineers have been observed on and around the attraction beginning work on the overhaul. The transformation timeline is an aggressive one, and we’re skeptical that Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will actually open in 2024. More likely, it’ll be delayed until 2025.

Now, a few notes about the above refurbishments. Disneyland is notorious for changing its refurbishment schedules, adding or canceling planned downtimes weeks or days in advance. While this practice is still relatively uncommon in the grand scheme of things, it’s worth pointing out because it does happen.

Now, here’s a bit of our philosophy concerning refurbishments, with the specific example of the recent multi-year Disneyland Railroad refurbishment used to illustrate…

Thoughts on Refurbishments

Nobody likes a favorite attraction to be refurbished during their vacation. It means missing out and potentially not being able to experience the ride for another year or longer, depending upon the frequency of your visits to Disneyland. A couple of years ago, the Disneyland Railroad closed for an extended refurbishment due to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge construction.

At first, we were really disappointed. This might seem like an odd attraction to lament the closure of, but as Southern Californians with Disneyland Annual Passes, this was an absolute favorite of ours. We rode regularly when we wanted to rest our feet, or simply a break from the crowds. With the exception of maybe ‘it’s a small world’, we did Disneyland Railroad more than any other attraction.

However, that initial disappointment pretty quickly gave way to excitement. We began thinking about ways Disneyland Railroad could be plussed, improving the experience for years to come. Disney had already announced that some changes would be made (as the track needed to be re-routed), and we were excited for the prospect of new show scenes or other visuals.

From my perspective, investing in the long-term quality of an attraction is far more important than the temporary satisfaction I’ll get out of riding it on my next visit. This is why it always perplexes me when regulars contend that their vacation will be ruined because their favorite attraction will be closed.

If it’s your favorite attraction and you’re active in the Disney fan community, that means you’ve been to Disneyland before and probably will visit again. It would thus stand to reason that you would want something you love to get the TLC it deserves, and continue to improve.

Disneyland Railroad works as a good example here…in large part because it did receive significant changes and enhancements. (Arguably, the Rivers of America suffered due to being condensed, but that’s another topic for another day–we cover all aspects of this in our New-Look Grand Circle Tour of Disneyland post.)

The point extends to other attractions that have seen similar plussings, but also have more of a problem with effects breaking. Take Indiana Jones Adventure, for example. This is a ride that seems to get a refurbishment about every other year (sometimes more frequently) and we’d argue that it could probably use more regular maintenance than that.

If you are a long-term fan, would you rather experience Indiana Jones Adventure every single visit with 75% of the effects working, or every single visit minus one or two with 95% of the effects working? For me, the answer to that is easy. I’ll take a superior long term experience every time.

Beyond that, there’s the much more compelling justification for regular refurbishments: they are essential for the safety of attractions. While we may think of these attractions as all fun and games that offer a safe sense of exhilaration, that’s when they are properly maintained.

It’s unpleasant to think about, but there have been several preventable deaths in the history of Disney’s parks. During a dark era of Disneyland history, improper maintenance was the cause of death on Big Thunder Mountain. Likewise, years of neglect at Disneyland Paris have led to incidents of injury that could be attributed to a lack of maintenance. In both cases, this has been addressed, and maintenance has improved considerably.

This is not meant to scare anyone or provoke an emotional reaction. Disney’s worldwide safety record is sterling as compared to other park operators. It’s still important to remember that these fun, ‘magical’ places also exist in the real world and use a lot of potentially dangerous elements if safety is not viewed as key. (Or, in Disney’s case, one of the Four Keys .)

When it comes to maintenance that is not essential to the safe operation of an attraction, we are left to contemplate what amount of show quality should be accepted. If following a strict Nunis-ian interpretation of the Four Keys, show is an important consideration, and it should always be 100%. This is a nice goal to strive for, but the practical reality is that 100% show quality is an unworkably high threshold sometimes.

In my estimation, this is a good example of balancing guest interests with show quality. Get the effects working that are easily fixable, and find other ways to address effects that are frequently breaking. We’re not talking about safety here, just random effects. Indiana Jones Adventure has had a number of effects disabled or replaced over the years because they were unreliable.

Guests are understandably concerned when it appears an inordinate number of attractions are closing during their vacation, especially out of state visitors. Trips to California are not cheap and are often once in a lifetime experiences; first-timers certainly do not want to miss out on experiences about which they’ve read extensive hype.

With that said, Disneyland and Disney California Adventure ought to be publishing their routine refurbishment schedules several months in advance, allowing guests to plan around closures. Disney plans maintenance well in advance, and this info should be passed along to guests. For the most part, it is.

Obviously, unplanned maintenance can occur, which takes rides out of commission for hours or even days at the last minute. This is an unavoidable part of sophisticated theme park attractions, and there’s no real way to “plan around” this. It just is what it is.

However, the problem with a “not during my vacation” attitude like this is that it’s always going to be someone’s (or tens of thousands of someones) vacation. If Disneyland and Disney California Adventure attractions with show quality issues aren’t close for refurbishments for fear of some guests during a time-limited window missing out, all guests in perpetuity are going to have a lesser experience.

The end result of that thinking is a duct-tapped approach to attraction maintenance, with whatever work that can be done overnight accomplished, and two parks full of attractions with half their effects broken. First-timers would be left wondering why there was so much hype about Disneyland in the first place, as so many components of rides simply don’t work. If you’re reading this as a lifelong fan, well…maybe you wouldn’t have become a lifelong fan if this were actually Disneyland’s modus operandi.

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Your Thoughts…

Any questions about the current refurbishments at Disneyland Resort? What do you think about refurbishments at the Disney Parks? Are you more concerned about an improved long-term experience, or do you think “not during my vacation!”? Any other factors you think are worth considering? As mentioned, we think this is a conversation, so please share your ‘refurbishment philosophy’, or any other thoughts or questions you have, in the comments!

Written by Tom Bricker

I’m bummed Small World will be closed during the runDisney weekend. I love that version since it’s the original and it boards outside.

I’m going to be at DL & DCA on my birthday the last week of January. My girlfriend and I are bummed that Splash Mountain will be closed as well as the haunted mansion are a lot of other closures expected to happen? I guess my main concern is is this a good time to go?

Just finished a trip to Disneyland and over the course of three days we had a ride go down while we were in queue or en route at least 6 times. Looking at the map on the app there were always several rides down at all times of the day and it seemed like no ride was safe from breakage. While we understand that this will happen, the frequency was jarring and became a running joke as the trip went on. It made it impossible to enter an area of a park and be able to do everything in that area. We found ourselves having to come back to areas we should have already “completed.” We’ve been to WDW many times and never experienced even a small fraction of the amount of ride closures we ran into at Disneyland. Are they starting to skimp on maintenance crews as part of their current cost cutting measures?

It appears Blue Bayou is closed January 7-12, any details on why? Will it mean that the Pirate ride will possibly be closed that week too? Thanks!

Am I misreading something when I look on the disneyland interactive map it says the train is being refurbished is that correct?

Disneyland needs ton of maintenance. We were there in June and in two days we hit 10 rides that were evacuated. Two of which we were. The ride stability for Spider-Man and for the incredicoaster was terrible. Indiana jones evacuated twice. Haunted mansion a few effects and on one ride we stopped 15 times. The magic was really not there that day.

Do you happen to have any idea what “The Heartbeat of New Orleans – A Living Mural” is? I noticed it appeared on the calendar with only night time hours (I’m looking at November 27th) – making me wonder if it’ll be a nighttime something or other on the Rivers of America. We saw lights & workers doing stuff on the Pirate ship every night while we were there last week.

And then I’m actually glad the Incredicoaster is getting some love – it’s my favorite ride but we didn’t have one single good ride on it last week b/c all of the coaster’s audio is messed up in one way or another. That + Indy being down is going to save us money on Genie+ for our next trip – no high height requirement rides means mom & dad don’t need it to quickly rider swap them without the kids, thanks Disneyland!

Congrats on Baby Bricker! From experience & with love – Rider swapping / trying to ride all the rides quickly with an under 40″ kid in tow will slow down / lower your ride counts IMMENSELY – I look forward to your updated Parental park ride strategies.

I heard that both the Incredicoaster and the Indiana Jones ride are going down for refurbishment on November 27th. But there is no word on how long they will be closed. I wonder what the chances are that the Indiana Jones ride will reopen before my trip in late January. I am surprised that the Indiana Jones ride is closing again after they just went through a 3 month refurbishment.

I just heard that the Indiana Jones ride will reopen on December 1st!! Yay!!!

Re: Fantasmic return

Once it returns in the spring, if it is used for a big marketing push, can we expect two showings a night on weekends in that coming fall?

I’m deciding how many park nights I need on a fall trip to see all the nighttime spectaculars. If they have two showings on a DL weekend night in September I can watch the halloween fireworks then catch the 10:30 Fantasmic, yes?

We were told on a recent Keys to the Kingdom tour by our guide, that Paint the Night would not ever come to MK as Mac the Truck was too big to make the turns on the parade route. Makes me sad as that is one of my favorite parades. I would love to see it come back in some form at DCA.

No offense to your guide, but whether Paint the Night will ever come to MK isn’t something they’d know.

It’s entirely possible that certain floats wouldn’t work in other parks–it was also the thought that Mack wouldn’t work at Disneyland back when Paint the Night was only in Hong Kong. But the solution to that is cutting those floats from the parade, just like they did with Frozen when PtN moved to DCA.

Tom, do you think there’s any chance that the current iteration of Rogers: The Musical is an audition or test run for something bigger (i.e., Broadway itself)? The current trend on Broadway right now is recycled nostalgia and from what I’ve heard about the Rogers musical, if it was able to be beefed out a bit more to pad its running time it would likely be as good as (and likely much better than) the average Broadway production.

It’s no secret that new iterations of the last two Hyperion Theater shows (Aladdin and Frozen) both became Broadway hits. While I realize those were new incarnations without a direct lineage tracing back to the Hyperion productions, if I were Disney brass I’d be thinking about ways to more directly monetize Rogers: The Musical vs. giving it away “for free” at DCA.

Wouldn’t surprise me if that’s the case, or if it’s a test for Disney Cruise Line.

Either way, I hope it’s not solely a test and that this version returns to DCA in 2024.

That would be fantastic. We’re huge fans of Rogers: The Musical and would love to see it return in any format!

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Disneyland Announces the Reopening Date of the Mark Twain Riverboat

Disneyland has just announced that the beloved Mark Twain Riverboat is set to make its grand return! After being closed for refurbishment since September, the iconic riverboat is finally ready to welcome guests aboard starting Saturday, February 3, 2024.

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For those who might not know, the Mark Twain Riverboat is a classic attraction at Disneyland Park. It’s a full-scale replica of the old steam-powered riverboats that were a big deal back in the 19th century. Guests can hop on and take a leisurely 12-minute journey around Pirate’s Lair on Tom Sawyer Island along the Rivers of America. As you glide along the water, you’ll see stunning views including:

• The north bank of the Columbia Gorge
• A frontier cabin 
• A Native American village 
• A variety of wildlife

Refurbishments are slated from time to time for all attractions to update effects, refresh paint, and ensure attractions remain in working order. During the Mark Twain Riverboat’s most recent attraction, the boat was docked over at Pelican’s Landing where it received a fresh coat of paint as well as some other much-needed TLC.

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Whether it’s your first visit or your hundredth, the Mark Twain Riverboat’s return is something not to be missed. So, gather your friends and family, and get ready to enjoy this classic piece of Disneyland once again!

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Mark Twain Riverboat

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Steam into the Past

Board an old-fashioned steam-powered vessel for a half-mile journey into the heart of the American frontier. 

During the charming, 14-minute trip around Pirate’s Lair on Tom Sawyer Island , spot delightful sights along the river’s edge, including: 

• The north bank of the Columbia Gorge, complete with a beautiful waterfront and 5 sparkling waterfalls 
• A rustic frontier cabin 
• An idyllic Native American village 
• A busy beaver at work chewing on the train trestle 
• Mountain lions relaxing in the sun 
• The Disneyland Railroad steaming into the wilderness 

Along the way, hear lively narration about a time gone by.

Along the Mississippi

The Mark Twain is an authentic reproduction of the historic vessels that ferried people up and down the mighty Mississippi River. A working steam engine converts the water from the Rivers of America into steam that in turn powers the large paddle that propels the boat. 

Featuring meticulously detailed wood craftsmanship, the 28-foot tall, 105-foot-long riverboat is comprised of 4 pristine decks: 

• Pilothouse , also known as the top deck, features the wheelhouse and Captain’s Quarters 
• Promenade Deck includes a salon and a collection of vintage photos and maps 
• Texas (or Sun) Deck is the perfect place to enjoy the outdoors as you float down the river 
• Main Deck includes the boiler and pistons that run the paddlewheel 

Limited seating is available.

A Tribute to America’s Writer

Walt Disney named the Mark Twain after the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. The famed author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn —and Walt’s personal hero—Clemens was also a riverboat pilot as a young man. 

That experience inspired his pen name: “mark twain” is a boating term that means a vessel is at a safe depth.

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Disneyland Refurbishment Schedule for 2024

by Heather Adams | Mar 20, 2024 | Disney California Adventure Park , Disneyland , Disneyland Parks , Disneyland Resorts , Downtown Disney

We’re sharing a full Disneyland refurbishment schedule for early 2024 at the theme parks, hotels, and Downtown Disney District.

Before you plan your next visit to Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, make sure to do your research – you don’t want to miss out on your favorite attractions, dining experiences, or even resort hotel because it’s currently under construction! A quick glance at the latest refurbishments happening across Disneyland Park, Disney California Adventure Park, and the resort at large can help you figure out what’s open, what’s closed, and what will be brand-new just in time for your vacation.

Below, we’re sharing the latest details for ongoing ride refurbishment, resort construction, and more with a look at the Disneyland refurbishment schedule for late 2023 and early 2024.

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Here’s everything you need to know about refurbishments at the theme parks, resorts, and Downtown Disney District during the first months of 2024.

Disneyland Park Closures and Refurbishments

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In 2024, the following attractions will be undergoing refurbishment at Disneyland :

• Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln  (closes April 16)
• Haunted Mansion / Haunted Mansion Holiday (closes January 22)
• Matterhorn Bobsleds (closes April 15-18, 22-25, and 29 until TBD)
• Sailing Ship Columbia (reopens March 29)
• Splash Mountain – permanently closed
• Star Wars Launch Bay
• Tarzan’s Treehouse  – permanently closed
• The Disney Gallery (closes April 16)

One of the biggest refurbishments happening in 2024 is taking place at the Haunted Mansion. While this attraction always closes for a few days or weeks in January for its annual refurbishment (and to remove the seasonal Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay ), this year’s closure will be much longer. With changes announced for both the ride queue and exit , it’s expected that the Haunted Mansion will likely be closed until summer or fall, depending on how extensive the work is.

Tarzan’s Treehouse is an Adventureland staple that’s been closed since September 2022. This closure is permanent; it’s been reimagined with different theming into the Adventureland Treehouse . 

Splash Mountain, a staple of Critter Country, has also officially closed for good. The ride is being reimagined into Tiana’s Bayou Adventure , which is expected to open in late 2024. 

Additionally, Star Wars Launch Bay in Tomorrowland remains closed. It’s unclear when this attraction might reopen, or if Disneyland ultimately has other plans for this attraction.

Disney California Adventure Park Closures and Refurbishments

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Throughout the final months of 2023 and the first months of 2024, the following attractions will be closed for refurbishment at California Adventure:

• Beast’s Library in the Sorcerer’s Workshop inside Disney Animation –  permanently closed
• Incredicoaster (closes March 4-14 and April 8-18)
• Redwood Creek Challenge Trail (closes March 4)
• Walt Disney Imagineering Blue Sky Cellar

While there’s not a reopening date available for most of the above attractions just yet, it’s assumed they’re each undergoing a seasonal refurbishment. These may be longer closures, but all are scheduled to fully reopen sometime in 2024.

Beast’s Library, which was located inside the Sorcerer’s Workshop in the Disney Animation building, is the only permanent closure so far for 2024. This former attraction is being reimagined into a new location for the Walt Disney Imagineering Blue Sky Cellar, which as of now has no anticipated opening date.

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The Downtown Disney District at Disneyland Resort is currently undergoing a lengthy renovation that will ultimately transform the selection of entertainment, restaurants, and shopping available here. Here’s a look at the current Downtown Disney closures and refurbishments for late 2023 and early 2024:

• Catal Restaurant – permanently closed
• Uva Bar – permanently closed

Both Catal Restaurant and Uva Bar are permanently closed, and their former locations are currently under construction as they transform into two new dining destinations: Paseo and Centrico . These two new restaurants will feature menus created by Michelin-starred Chef Carlos Gaytan.

While much of the refurbishment work on existing – and open – restaurants beyond the future Paseo and Centrico is complete, you may still find construction work taking place throughout the Downtown Disney District. That’s because permanently closed spots like the old AMC Theaters are being transformed into new dining and entertainment offerings. As you head towards the old Rainforest Cafe (now Star Wars Trading Post) and ESPN Zone (now a pop-up shop), you’ll likely encounter ongoing construction.

Disneyland Resort Hotel Closures and Refurbishments

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Currently, there’s some construction taking place at two of the hotels at the Disneyland Resort. Here’s a look at the closures or ongoing refurbishments you’ll encounter if you visit during late fall 2023 or early 2024.

Disneyland Hotel

At the Disneyland Hotel, a space that’s sat closed and empty since 2021 is about to undergo refurbishment. Steakhouse 55 , the former fine dining restaurant inside the hotel’s Convention Center building, will be transformed into a lounge. 

Currently, both the former Steakhouse 55 lounge and the restaurant itself are closed. However, as work begins to reimagine both spaces, Guests can expect some construction walls to go up near Goofy’s Kitchen at the Disneyland Hotel. It’s uncertain when, exactly, work will begin, but the closures are currently already in effect.

Paradise Pier Hotel (Pixar Place Hotel)

Pixar Place Hotel has opened , but a few floors of the hotel are still under construction. However, this is reserved only to unused guest rooms, so there shouldn’t be any larger closures that affect the hotel’s amenities.

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Disneyland Paris had a few attractions closed today for refurbishment. Both Disneyland Park and Walt Disney World Studios Park are currently undergoing some big changes. The 30th anniversary is around the corner for Disneyland Paris Resort, which is why so many of the attractions, the classic Disneyland Hotel, and full-on lands such as Fantasyland are being updated. Even Sleeping Beauty Castle has seen a big change.

At the moment, these are the attractions that are currently closed down at Disneyland Park.

• Les Mystères du Nautilus
• Alice’s Curious Labyrinth
• La Tanière du Dragon
• “it’s a small world”
• Rustler Roundup Shootin’ Gallery
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Le Carrousel de Lancelot
• Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landing

As well as the shows and parades currently not performing:

• Disney Illuminations
• Lion King Rhythms of the Pride Lands
• Disney Junior Dream Factory
• Frozen:  A Musical Invitation

The Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landing will see the biggest shutdown, and although we do not yet know when the riverboats will set sail with Guests once again, we can see that the closure will last through to March at the earliest. Disneyland Paris has not updated their calendar past then at this time.

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Now, thanks to DLP Report (@DLPReport) we can see that the Mark Twain Riverboat from Frontierland has finally left the dry down as the Molly Brown will head in for refurbishment. Now, Guests can look at a tarp-covered Mark Twain boat. It is not certain where the boat will go and if Disney plans to leave it exposed to Guests during the entire refurbishment.

And here is the Mark Twain from Frontierland, temporarily out of dry dock to leave room for the Molly Brown refurbishment

🔧 And here is the Mark Twain from Frontierland, temporarily out of dry dock to leave room for the Molly Brown refurbishment: pic.twitter.com/U0Ba1Ibi8Q — DLP Report (@DLPReport) January 17, 2022

From the looks of it, we cannot tell if the Mark Twain has had any major changes made to it just yet.

Disney describes the attraction as:

Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landing: A New Perspective on Frontierland Take to the water in one of two majestic 19th Century-style paddleboats, Mark Twain and Molly Brown, and navigate Rivers of the Far West at Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landing. On your journey you’ll take in a whole new view of Big Thunder Mountain and Wilderness Island, witnessing cascading waterfalls along the way. Plus you may even spy some smugglers’ caves. Credit: Disney

At Disneyland Paris,  lots of changes are coming to Walt Disney Studios and their Disneyland Park, with the 30th anniversary just months away.  Walt Disney Studios  is adding a massive addition that will include  Star Wars , Marvel, and  Frozen,  as well as their very own Avengers Campus, which will be the first section to open in the Park.

We have recently seen Disney’s Sequoia Lodge reopen while the Disneyland Paris Resort continues to undergo a refurbishment. On top of that, we have seen  price increases for pins  and stunning snowfalls! The Disneyland Paris app has also changed; read  more on that here . Disney Stars on Parade is also back at Disneyland Park now that the holidays are over! Guests looking to skip the line can also purchase Premier Access which is a pay-per-ride system that allows Guests to skip the standby line.

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Disneyland | disneyland closes 6 attractions after busy christmas season, it’s a small world, grizzly river run, sailing ship columbia and the ‘world of color’ water show will temporarily close jan. 7 or 8 as part of disneyland’s standard refurbishment schedule..

Disneyland will close six attractions for seasonal refurbishments just days after the busy Christmas holiday season comes to an end and blocked out Magic Key annual passholders flood back into the Anaheim theme parks.

It’s a Small World, Grizzly River Run, Sailing Ship Columbia and the “World of Color” water show will temporarily close Jan. 7 or 8 as part of Disneyland’s standard refurbishment schedule.

The four new attraction closures join the Astro Orbitor and Mark Twain Riverboat that were already shuttered for refurbishment.

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The timing of the attraction closures coincides with the end of the Christmas holiday season at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure on Sunday, Jan. 7.

It’s a Small World will be closed Jan. 7-18 to remove the annual seasonal holiday overlay.

Crowds are expected to be thick for Small World during the final few days of the holiday overlay as tourists disappear and passholders return after a two-week blockout.

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The Grizzly River Run will close during the coldest part of the year in typically sunny Southern California when fewer visitors want to get soaked on the water ride.

Grizzly River Run will be out of commission starting Monday, Jan. 8 for a temporary refurbishment that will stretch at least through mid-February.

The new “ World of Color — One ” debuted in January 2023 as part of the Disney100 celebration.

The DCA nighttime spectacular will go down for an extended 8-week refurbishment from Jan. 8 through Feb. 29.

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The temporary closure of the Sailing Ship Columbia will be short-lived on Jan. 8-11 — and briefly sideline both big ships that ply the Rivers of America.

The Mark Twain Riverboat has been closed for refurbishment since mid-September and will return Feb. 3, according to the Disneyland website.

Scaffolding has surrounded the paddlewheeler docked at Pelican Landing while the riverboat that plays a key role in “Fantasmic” gets a heavy dose of TLC during the nighttime spectacular’s extended downtime.

“ Fantasmic ” will return on May 24 after a yearlong hiatus following an inferno that engulfed the show’s audio-animatronic fire-breathing dragon.

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Astro Orbitor closed in late November and will undergo refurbishment through Winter 2024.

The rocket spinner ride at the entrance to Tomorrowland in Disneyland is expected to return between mid-February and mid-March.

The latest temporary closures don’t include Splash Mountain — which is undergoing an extensive conversion into Tiana’s Bayou Adventure . The Critter Country log flume ride is scheduled to reopen with a new “Princess and the Frog” theme late this year.

Also not on the temporarily “out of order” list are several attractions that never returned following the year-long pandemic closure that shuttered Disneyland and DCA.

Disneyland’s Star Wars Launch Bay and DCA’s Blue Sky Cellar are being used for Imagination Campus — an educational travel workshop that teaches students about the arts and sciences used in Disney theme parks.

The Magic Eye Theater in Tomorrowland remains dark with no upcoming show in the works. The Hyperion Theater in Hollywood Land briefly returned for a summertime run of “ Rogers: The Musical ” before closing again with nothing planned for the 2,000-seat Broadway caliber venue.

The Fantasyland Theatre will soon shutter when “ Tale of the Lion King ” ends its run on Jan. 7.

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PHOTOS: Disneyland’s Mark Twain Riverboat is Down for Refurbishment!

by Cassie Agundes · October 18, 2023

What are your “must-dos” when visiting Disneyland Park? We have several!

Each time we visit, we have  to spin on King Arthur’s Carrousel, toboggan down Matterhorn mountain, attempt to be the rebel spy on Star Tours, and cruise down the Rivers of America. If you also have a boat ride on your must-do list, you’ll want to check out the new refurbishment in the park. 

Mark Twain Riverboat

The Mark Twain Riverboat is currently down for refurbishment! If you’ve visited the park recently, you probably noticed the giant, blocked-off project…

Mark Twain with Scrims

…sitting on the Rivers of America.

But the scrims have come down, revealing tons of scaffolding!

Mark Twain with Scaffolding

The beloved riverboat deserves some TLC and now is the perfect time to do that, considering the boat is no longer needed for the Fantasmic! show. ( The show is set to return in Spring 2024 .)

Photo: Paul Hiffmeyer/Disneyland

While Disney has yet to share how long the refurbishment will last, we know it will still be ongoing through November 29th–which is as far out as Disneyland’s calendar goes. 

Photo: Disney

We’ll update you when the Mark Twain Riverboat is cruising the Rivers of America once again! And we’ll keep you updated with the latest happening all around the resort, so stay tuned to MickeyBlog.com!

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Everything That Will Be CLOSED in Disneyland in 2023

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Are you planning to visit Disneyland in 2023? Then you’ll need to know about a few major CLOSURES happening in the parks!

Snow-topped Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland

From popular rides to fan-favorite restaurants, there are several closures happening at both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. Never fear — we’ve got a full list of everything that’ll be closed in the parks and Downtown Disney in 2023 so that you can find all the information you’ll need for your upcoming trip.

Looking for 2024 Disneyland Resort closures? Click HERE!

Disneyland resort, disneyland park, fantasmic nighttime spectacular — currently closed.

During a spring performance of Fantasmic! in Disneyland, the Maleficent dragon (who is supposed to breathe fire during the show) caught on fire. After the incident, the show was suspended indefinitely and Disney released a statement that it would temporarily suspend fire effects at select shows GLOBALLY “out of an abundance of caution.”

Fantasmic! at Disneyland Resort

The nighttime spectacular will return on May 24th, 2024 . When the show returns,  it will not include the Maleficent dragon figure  but will “feature  new special effects  and  a thrilling new battle scene  between Sorcerer Mickey and Maleficent.”

Disneyland officials said, “Our goal is to always deliver the best possible show for our guests. With that in mind, we are planning the return of ‘Fantasmic!’ with exciting new magic in spring 2024. As teams continue work on the show,  we have launched nightly entertainment on the Rivers of America .”

Rivers of America

So although you can’t see Fantasmic! right now in Disneyland, you will have a chance to see Queenie and the Jambalaya Jazz Band every evening. The band performs every night on a New Orleans-themed raft  as they float down the Rivers of America. You can expect “high-energy New Orleans tunes, plus other Disney favorites.”

There are three performances each evening, beginning at 7:35PM — all performance times are listed in the Disneyland app.

Additionally, a new show is  now showing on the Rivers of America .   It’s called “ The Heartbeat of New Orleans  —  A Living Mural .”  The show is “set to a dynamic jazz score” and features projections on the Rivers of America following the story of a “mischievous little frog from the bayou that leaps into the lively heartbeat of New Orleans when he is lured by the jazzy sounds he hears in the distance.”

The Heartbeat of New Orleans

This nighttime show, along with the previously announced Queenie and the Jambalaya Jazz Band,  will both appear on the Rivers of America on select nights throughout the fall . Both shows will also run during the holiday season.

Mark Twain Riverboat — Current Closure

The Mark Twain Riverboat closed on September 17th, 2023. 

Mark Twain Riverboat

It is slated to reopen on February 3rd, 2024. 

Astro Orbitor — Current Closure

Tomorrowland’s Astro Orbitor closed on November 27th, 2023. 

Astro Orbitor

A reopening date is not yet known.

Splash Mountain — Permanently Closed

Splash Mountain closed permanently on May 31st to be transformed into a  Princess and the Frog -themed attraction.

Disneyland Splash Mountain on Final Day of Operation

Get ready for  Tiana’s Bayou Adventure  to open  in late 2024 ! Disney has shared that the reimagined attraction  will pick up the story of  The Princess and the Frog  “ after the final kiss, and join Princess Tiana and Louis on a musical adventure – featuring some of the powerful music from the film – as they prepare for their first-ever Mardi Gras performance.”

Read all about the Tiana’s Bayou Adventure HERE!

French market restaurant — permanently closed.

This Disneyland restaurant closed permanently on February 17th, 2023 , in order to make way for the NEW Tiana’s Palace restaurant .

French Market

The new spot features, of course, a setting and food inspired by Disney’s The Princess and the Frog!

Tiana’s Palace

We’re thrilled to say that Tiana’s Palace is NOW OPEN !

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Downtown disney district, catal and uva bar — permanently closed.

Catal Restaurant  and its outdoor bar  Uva Bar & Cafe both closed on April 15th, 2023. 

Disney has shared that the closures took place in order “to make way for an exciting new addition to the Downtown Disney District” in Disneyland.

Sprinkles — Permanently Closed

Cupcake lovers (like us!) should be aware that Sprinkles Cupcakes has permanently closed in Downtown Disney .

Sprinkles in Downtown Disney

We’ll be keeping you posted on what replaces Sprinkles Cupcakes at Downtown Disney in the future!

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February 5, 2023 at 5:39 pm

I thought I saw something that said May 23 closure? Can you confirm? I don’t want to book anything unless I know for sure that I book before Splash Mount closes

February 6, 2023 at 11:18 am

Hi Loraine. Unfortunately, Disney has not yet released a closure date for Splash Mountain in Disneyland.

April 16, 2023 at 1:15 pm

Hi! We are planning a trip to Disneyland at the end of August, but is that when the Haunted Mansion closes to change to Nightmare before Christmas? Do you know when it will be closing this year to make that change….or for how long it will be closed? Thanks!!

April 17, 2023 at 11:16 am

Hi Beth! Last year Haunted Mansion closed on August 15th for the holiday overlay and stayed closed for about 2 and a half weeks. Disneyland has not announced the closure dates for this year, but we expect to hear about that around July, most likely.

April 25, 2023 at 3:14 pm

My big question is, IS there a schedule for the Sailing Ship Columbia? I have been to Disneyland too many times to count, beginning in 1964 and in all that time NEVER has this ship been operating when I was there! This year may very well be my last year to ride that beauty and I am planning on attending in November as the Christmas holiday extravaganza begins. Have you any inside knowledge on this particular attraction? Greatly appreciate any insight you may be able to give!

May 3, 2023 at 12:42 am

Are you guys closing Disneyland forever?

May 3, 2023 at 11:18 am

Hi Isamar! Disneyland isn’t closing.

July 4, 2023 at 8:43 am

Disneyland Soarin….are there 2 different rides? Will one or both be open in August 2023? Is it better to go to Adventure Park before Disneyland Park ? Or vice-versa?

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In 1936, John Gunther predicted the next nine years’ darkness.

A few days after war was declared in September 1939, Winston Churchill sat listening with interest to the much-traveled American journalist John Gunther. Hitler was on the march and Churchill must have had a lot on his mind, but Gunther’s book Inside Europe , first published in 1936, had made him an instant authority on European affairs. Since he had been in Moscow on the very day the Nazi-Soviet pact was announced, August 24, 1939, Churchill was keen to get Gunther’s impression of how this stunning, globe-shaking maneuver had been received on the streets of Moscow.

What exactly Gunther told Churchill is not known, but what Churchill said to Gunther was memorable. “Russia”, he declared, brooding aloud about the Soviet Union, and rehearsing lines that would later become famous in a more polished form, was “a mystery in a mystery in a mystery.”

Gunther’s audience with Churchill was no fluke, no one-off. During the 1930s and 1940s John Gunther, reporter extraordinary, was probably the most famous American newsman of them all. He was proud to be numbered on the death list kept by Hitler’s Gestapo in Germany, and even more proud of the illustrious company he kept back in the United States. Gunther was a friend of both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.

Gunther made his name with Inside Europe , the huge eve-of-war success that won him his talk with Churchill. But he followed it by assiduously anatomizing the globe, continent by continent, with Inside Asia (1939), Inside Latin America (1941), Inside Africa (1955) and Inside Russia Today (1957). While the later works show signs of being rushed when set beside Inside Europe , they were packed with information and good writing, if not with comparable insight. Gunther remained at least a minor celebrity up until his death at age 68 in May 1970.

Gunther was, after all, one of modern America’s first journalist stars. In his heyday in New York he threw parties at his home for the likes of John Steinbeck, Salvador Dali, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Inside Russia was dedicated to his good friend Greta Garbo. He spent perhaps more time than was sensible with gossip columnists Walter Winchell and Elsa Maxwell in places like the Stork Club and 21. Even so, his books were translated into ninety languages and sold millions of copies around the world.

F or all his continuing fame, nothing Gunther wrote after World War II (except perhaps Death Be Not Proud , a memoir about his teenage son’s struggle with a fatal cancer) achieved the success of Inside Europe , a remarkably prescient early warning of what the Nazis had in store for Germany, Europe and the world. Just as a writer like Robert D. Kaplan has in our own day played the role of a modern Cassandra by pointing to the tribalization of politics and the descent of entire Third World regions into anarchy, in his day Gunther warned of the ugly European forces that were leading step by perilous step to World War II.

April 14, 1958 [credit: Getty Images]

Inside Europe wasn’t a paperback, but it sold briskly all the same. It was particularly popular in Great Britain, especially when it first appeared in 1936. At the cheaper end of the British market in the 1930s books were selling for sixpence, but this was a thumping 500-page hardback retailing at thirty shillings, or sixty times that price. That didn’t slow sales one bit. According to a recent account of its history, in its first year Inside Europe sold 65,000 copies at about a thousand copies per week and continued to sell during 1937 at the same rate. By 1939 it had sold nearly 120,000 copies and continued to turn over throughout World War II. John Gunther was the best-selling American author of non-fiction in Britain since Mark Twain.

There were three reasons for this success. The first was timing. Appearing in January 1936 in London published by Hamish Hamilton, and later by Harper & Brothers in the United States, Inside Europe provided a close literary echo, scene by scene and act by fateful act, of the international drama of the times. Running steadily through thirty regularly updated impressions and several editions, its publishing history climaxed in the “Peace Edition” of October 1938—the month when German troops marched into Czechoslovakia.

In the words of historian John Lukacs, “1938 was Hitler’s year.” It saw the annexation of Austria, Neville Chamberlain’s capitulation at Munich and the occupation of Czechoslovakia. Readers of the October 1938 “Peace Edition” were able to follow these developments almost as they happened. Not only were they given brilliant thumbnail sketches of the Nazis in Germany (along with a matchless photograph of Herman Göring at a reception, an enormous thug draped with braids and medals confronting a demurely gowned lady from Japan), but there were also incisive studies, accompanied by two dozen photographs, of the whole tragicomic gallery in Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Spain, Italy, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Gunther managed also to nail the United Kingdom itself, where, through May 1940, the struggle between Churchill and his domestic opponents had yet to play out.

As far as the photographs are concerned, the one striking exception to their high illustrative quality overall is the shot of Josef Stalin. This is a typical blurry Soviet retouch job, where the crude hand of some studio helot can be seen brushing the hair, brightening the eyes and putting a smile on the despot’s face. All too lamentably, this pictorial failing extends to the text in Gunther’s last chapters about Stalin and the USSR—a fact to which we will return in due course.

The second reason for the book’s success was that its content had real depth. Though Gunther’s later work was often based on visits of only days or weeks, Inside Europe drew on a dozen years of research and reporting from every European capital; on personally investigating Hitler’s Austrian background and personally witnessing events like the Reichstag fire trial; on continually sharing information with journalist colleagues such as Dorothy Thompson, Vincent Sheean, H.R. Knickerbocker and William Shirer; and on meetings with literary acquaintances like Sinclair Lewis and Rebecca West.

The third reason for the book’s success was its style and tone. Gunther was a master of muckraking American journalism, having grown up in Chicago and having cut his journalistic teeth at the old Chicago Daily News before going off to Europe in 1924. At the end of the 1920s, during a brief visit home to America, he collaborated with James Mulroy at the News on an article titled “The High Cost of Hoodlums”, which appeared in the October 1929 issue of Harper’s . It described how on the streets of Chicago you could have an enemy “bumped off” for as little as $50, though the rate for a newspaper man like himself might be as high as $1,000. In Inside: The Biography of John Gunther (1992), Ken Cuthbertson wrote:

Despite the fact that “The High Cost of Hoodlums” was written sixty years ago, it retains its vitality as a superb historical snapshot of the Chicago of 1929. . . . It provided a highly readable behind-the-scenes look at how 600 hoodlums had succeeded in terrorizing Chicago’s three million citizens.

The era of Chicago gangsterism turned out to be perfect preparation for understanding European fascism. Indeed, one way to look at Inside Europe is to see it as “a highly readable behind-the-scenes look” at how another, somewhat larger—but not proportionally larger—bunch of hoodlums was terrorizing Germany and, before long, the entire continent of Europe. As BBC producer Brian Miller described it in 2001, the “racy mixture of politics and Capitol Hill gossip” put together by Drew Pearson and Robert Allen in 1931 for their book, Washington Merry Go Round , successfully pioneered muckraking book journalism in the United States. Cass Canfield, president of Harper & Brothers in New York, thought the same approach might usefully be tried on Europe’s dictators. He chose Gunther to write the book, and a fortunate choice it was. Gunther’s powerful style ensured that Inside Europe broke through the suffocating British climate of active censorship and intimidation—“this fog of untruth, or else of censorship, which was really a kind of self-censorship”, as Miller put it—that was depriving British readers of the facts about Hitler and the drift toward war.

Gunther had been in Vienna since 1930 and had several things going for him. In the first place, he was fast and could meet deadlines. Second, according to Miller, “he was not subject to conservative proprietorial censorship because both his publishers . . . were liberally minded and inclined to let him write whatever he liked, provided it ‘took the lid off’ something .” Third, “he was not subject to censorship and intimidation by dictators themselves because he made quick raids into their territories and only wrote when safely back in England or the USA.”

Inside Europe was both a huge commercial success, finally selling more than half a million copies, and a book that gave him political access everywhere. Not only Churchill welcomed him. In 1941, after returning from Latin America, Gunther was called in by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles to brief President Roosevelt on the region. Welles had provided Gunther letters of introduction to a dozen national leaders, and now Gunther was supposed to report what he had found: Hitler had boasted of building “a new Germany” in Brazil, and Nazi sympathizers were everywhere.

As it happened, Roosevelt was less receptive than Churchill, and Gunther hardly got a word in edgewise. Instead he was treated to a rambling 45-minute lecture on foreign affairs during which, Gunther later wrote, “I kept thinking that FDR looked like a caricature of himself, with the long jaw tilting upward, the V-shaped opening of the mouth when he laughed, the two long deep parentheses that closed the ends of his lips.” Seizing his chance when the President paused for breath, Gunther reminded FDR that he was just back from a visit to every country south of the border. “What?” said Roosevelt with a laugh “Even Paraguay?” Gunther had indeed been to Paraguay and had an entertaining tale to tell, but neither Roosevelt nor Welles took much interest in it.

Then Came Duranty

W hen John Gunther headed for Europe in 1924, it was after a two-year spell with the Chicago Daily News working alongside Ben Hecht and Carl Sandburg. In London, Gunther met Dorothy Thompson, a strong influence and lifelong friend, and had an affair with Rebecca West, nine years his senior, who opened both his mind and doors into British literary circles. In London, too, Gunther married his first wife, Frances—the beginning of a stressful relationship that ended in 1944. During those years he reported from Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Istanbul and Moscow. It was in Moscow in 1928 that Gunther first met the New York Times representative Walter Duranty, an influence on him, unlike that of Hecht, Sandburg, Thompson and West, that proved less than entirely helpful.

Every American who went to Moscow in those days, it seems, met Walter Duranty. Visiting Duranty’s apartment Gunther reported,

When one dines with him in Moscow, an extremely pretty girl, smart in semi-evening frock, opens the door, shaking hands. She then disappears again, and late in the evening, asks Walter if he wants to get to work, she has finished the Izvestia proofs. Then they go to bed together. In the morning, she shines the shoes. Mistress, secretary, servant. An unholy trinity for you! Of course, by Moscow law, since they share the same residence, she’s his wife, too.

The pretty girl’s name was Katya, by whom Duranty later had a son. The mild irregularity of this arrangement he witnessed was merely the tip of an iceberg. In Paris in the years before 1914, Duranty was a close friend of Aleister Crowley, a genuine madman fascinated by excretory functions, sexually aroused by blood and torture, and a “master” of the occult. Duranty and Crowley shared the same woman, Jane Cheron, and all three of them were heavily into opium, sex and black magic. Indeed, when Duranty was escorting Gunther around Moscow in 1928, he remained in some sort of marital relation with Cheron, who was still in France. Did Gunther know any of this?

Perhaps he did, and perhaps he didn’t care, for Duranty was a famous raconteur, and the pleasure of his company seems to have swept all doubts aside. In Stalin’s Apologist (1990), Sally J. Taylor tells how forty years later Gunther and his second wife Jane visited Duranty where he was living in Orlando, Florida. He came over to the motel where the Gunthers were staying, and, according to Jane, Duranty was “enchanting, in his very best form.” They all stayed up until four o’clock in the morning, with Walter being “terribly funny, and very very wicked.” After Duranty left their motel, John turned to his wife and said, “Walter is just a scamp !”

But Duranty was not, alas, just a scamp. He was also a man many regarded then and now as a scoundrel. Not for nothing did Malcolm Muggeridge call him “the greatest liar of any journalist I have met in fifty years of journalism”, or Joseph Alsop describe him as a “fashionable prostitute”, or Robert Conquest, later, call for every word he ever wrote about the Soviets and collectivization to be challenged again and again. It’s possible that Duranty was in the pay of the Soviets, though another long-term New York Times correspondent, Harrison Salisbury, who looked into such things during his own stay in Moscow, denied that Duranty was ever in the pay of anybody except the New York Times .

Perhaps. Yet it is inescapable that Duranty’s immediate reward for faithfully covering up mass murder in the Ukraine was the indulgence of the regime, the tumultuous applause he received in the Waldorf-Astoria in 1933 for assisting the process of American diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union, and a call from Stalin himself four weeks after Duranty’s return to Moscow offering the unprecedented privilege of a second interview. Stalin’s words at the time, however accurately or inaccurately rendered by Duranty afterwards, were something Duranty quoted with pride for the rest of his life:

You have done a good job in your reporting the USSR, though you are not a Marxist, because you try to tell the truth about our country and to understand it and to explain it to your readers. I might say that you bet on our horse to win when others thought it had no chance and I am sure you have not lost by it.

All of this raises questions about the journalistic and literary culture of the time. How did it come to be that someone from the world of Aleister Crowley and the Parisian bohemian demimonde was the New York Times’ resident commentator in Moscow on Russia under Bolshevik rule? How did such a man become the best-read authority in the United States on how Stalin was implementing a planned economy? Why was such a man invited to Washington in July 1932 to advise Roosevelt about Soviet gold production?

W hatever the answers to those questions, it is plain that Duranty rubbed off on Gunther. The reason seems to have had something to do with the fact that both Gunther and Duranty were the sort of men who would rather write anything than not write at all. More, I suspect, than is the case today, many journalists of Gunther’s time were novelists manqué . Only fiction was prestigious, and readable fiction was not about economic trends, voting patterns or industrial production. Duranty tried to write both novels and short stories, and in Hollywood, in the years of his decline in the 1940s, he teamed up with Mary Loos, a niece of the screenwriter Anita Loos, to crank out stories and scripts.

The same literary interests drove Gunther. He never stopped writing novels— The Red Pavilion (1926), The Golden Fleece (1963), The Lost City (1964). Most of them sank without trace. Through Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson, he knew dozens of novelists and yearned for literary recognition. When success first came to him, however, it was not for fiction but for his reportorial colossus Inside Europe (though he must have enjoyed a Popular Front gathering of the League of American Writers in 1938 when he was invited on stage and dined beforehand with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald).

Indeed, when Cass Canfield approached him in 1935 to write Inside Europe , Gunther turned him down—twice. “In those days I was more interested in fiction than in journalism and my dreams were tied up in a long novel about Vienna that I hoped to write.” Only when offered the then huge sum of $5,000 did Gunther reluctantly accept. Yet when he finally sat down to write, his approach was personal and novelistic almost as much as analytic and interpretive. Events in Europe were being shaped by a cast of extraordinary characters, Gunther believed, and Inside Europe was to be about their beliefs, motives and charisma.

To get under way, he agreed to produce three articles, and “the three articles”, wrote Gunther years later, “turned out to be the three chief personality chapters in the book—Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin.” What drove him was the need to show the force of their personalities and how they wielded power over other men. In a letter to Canfield he said that this approach “derives from something deeper in me than political conviction; it comes from the fact, for good or ill, I instinctively think of myself as a novelist.”

Such an honest man. We have still today, particularly in America, journalists who aspire to be literary stars, who write books ostensibly of reporting but without the sources required of the journalists’ canon. Gunther admitted his penchant for fiction. Not everyone does.

I nside Europe is still riveting more than seventy years after it was published. His descriptions of Hitler, Léon Blum and so many others strike us today, perhaps, as elegant and as of unerring fidelity. But at the time these descriptions were close to a form of prophecy.

Beyond getting the essence of the major players in the coming war, Gunther had also spent time in Bucharest and knew the ominous mixture of Ruritanian farce and fascist menace to be found in what was then usually spelled Rumania. Only two streets away from King Carol’s palace, one could see well-dressed members of the Iron Guard lounging in a café, sipping Turkish coffee and talking about revolution. Founded in 1927, the program of the Iron Guard, as Gunther perfectly described it, “was a fanatic, obstreperous sub-Fascism on a strong nationalist and anti-Semitic basis. Its members trooped through the countryside, wore white costumes, carried burning crosses, impressed the ignorant peasantry, aroused the students in the towns.”

So far so good, and it continues like that for hundreds of pages. But then one comes to Stalin—and it’s pure, undiluted Walter Duranty. Stalin has, we are told,

Guts. Durability. Physique. Patience. Tenacity. Concentration. If he has nerves, they are veins in rock. His perseverance, as Walter Duranty says, is ‘inhuman.’ When candour suits his purpose, no man can be more candid. He has the courage to admit his errors, something few other dictators dare do. In his article ‘Dizzy from Success’ he was quite frank to admit that the collectivization of the peasants had progressed too quickly.

Now this is a gem. The magnanimity of Stalin is shown by his “frankness” in “admitting” that collectivization had “progressed too quickly.” Gunther sums up the desperate suicidal resistance of the peasants in the following four sentences: “The peasants tried to revolt. The revolt might have brought the Soviet Union down. But it collapsed on the iron will of Stalin. The peasants killed their animals, then they killed themselves.”

Yes, John Gunther actually wrote that it wasn’t Stalin, or the Communist Party, or the NKVD, or the Red Army troops who seized their grain, herded them without food or water onto railway wagons, and shot them if they resisted; they “killed themselves.”

Even so, Inside Europe was a major achievement. It brought to public notice the Empire of Evil that was about to expand and take over the whole of central Europe. It powerfully confirmed the Nazi menace Churchill had toiled for years to publicize. And Gunther’s Inside Europe played no small part in bringing American elite opinion out of the dangerous miasma of isolationism into which much of it had fallen. That such a perceptive—and persuasive—journalistic observer could be drawn into Duranty’s deceptions about Stalin admits of no simple explanation. It may however be because one of Gunther’s greatest personal virtues, loyalty, here became also a vice. He could never bring himself to believe (or even imagine) that, however entertaining Duranty may have been down through the years, and however firmly supportive during the painfully protracted death of Gunther’s son, his old friend from the 1920s was also a thorough scoundrel whose writings about Stalin were full of lies.

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Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.

There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love. That you and I and all of us are incredible. I mean, we really are remarkable things. That we are, as a matter of fact, made for goodness.

But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction.

Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.

I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.

Many of us have caught a glimpse of our life's greatness - a grander vision that calls us to release our false 'security' and re-engage life. We begin to see life as a heart-beating, truth-telling, sweat-pouring, straight-from-the-gut adventure that makes us, and everyone around us, feel fully alive.

What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.

I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so noisy, I can't sleep.

No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

I love you. You are my heart beating outside of my chest.

When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you," he said, and straightened, and turned to walk toward the door. The parchment robes of the Silent Brothers moved around him as he moved, and Tessa watched him, paralyzed, every pulse of her heart beating out the words she could not say: Good-bye. Good-bye. Good-bye.

And you still love Marc?" "More than I can even explain. He's my rock—strong and steady, and ready for anything. He knows what I need before I know it, and he pushes me to work harder, and look deeper, and be better. He challenges me, and infuriates me, and he lights me on fire, deep in my soul. And he has never, ever let me down. Sometimes it feels like he's the only thing keeping my heart beating. I love him so much that it feels like I'm dying a little bit every day that he won't smile at me. Or touch me.

We're out of time, Payton. You said it yourself: the only way we'll make it is for us to go into this together. I know we can do this. But I need you to believe it. You need to believe... in us." Peyton didn't say anything for a long moment, and J.D. could literally hear his heart beating. Then she finally answered. "It would have to be called Kendall and Jameson." It took J.D a moment to catch on. Then he grinned. "No way. Jameson and Kendall. It's alphabetical." "You told our boss that you banged me on top of your desk." "Kendall and Jameson sounds great

I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.

As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.

Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.

You're insane!" she shouted. "Pretty cool, huh?" "No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?" Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?" "More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy. "Well, kind of. But you suck!

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn't.

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