Disneyland’s award-winning Napa Rose is booked solid for the month of February and deep into March even before the California wine country-themed restaurant reopens to the public following a 10-month renovation.
Napa Rose has no reservations available from when the fine dining restaurant in Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel returns on Friday, Feb. 6 through March 10, according to the Disneyland website.
Advance reservations are highly recommended for the main dining room and chef’s counter that will feature $188 to $250 fixed price seasonal menus with optional wine pairings at $150, $300 or $500.
Disneyland has hosted a series of media previews over the past week that have helped boost anticipation for the returning restaurant.
The Napa Rose bar and lounge during a media preview following a 10-month renovation at the fine dining restaurant in Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel. (Photo by Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register/SCNG)
It’s still possible to make a reservation for two or four on select weekdays a month from now: March 11, 16, 17, 19, 23 and 25 and April 2 and 6. But those are going fast.
Larger groups are completely out of luck. There are no reservations available for parties of six or eight through April 6 — the last date currently open for booking.
The refreshed Napa Rose menu at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Occasionally, a table pops open briefly due to a cancellation, but it disappears almost as quickly.
Curiously, the restaurant will be closed on Feb. 16 — just 10 days after the grand reopening.
The Napa Rose bar — offering small bites a la carte alongside wine, beer and cocktails — will not require reservations and will take walk-ins based on availability.
Foodies will be flocking to the Disneyland resort this weekend for the kickoff of the festival season and a chance to sample a dozen new food and drink items from the Lunar New Year menu with a Sip & Savor pass.
The 2026 Lunar New Year event will run on Friday, Jan. 23 through Feb. 22 at Disney California Adventure.
The Asian-inspired food festival pays tribute to Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean traditions with a lineup of multicultural live entertainment and Disney characters dressed in festive attire.
The six festival marketplace booths will once again include Bamboo Blessings, Wrapped in Love, Lucky 8 Lantern, Red Dragon Spice Traders, Prosperity Bao & Bun and Longevity Noodle Co.
Sip & Savor passes available during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
DCA restaurants offering new Sip & Savor menu items during the Lunar New Year festival will include Aunt Cass Cafe, Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta, Cozy Cone Motel, Hollywood Lounge, Lamplight Lounge, Lucky Fortune Cookery, Paradise Garden Grill, Smokejumpers Grill and Studio Catering Co.
The 2026 Sip and Savor pass with six digital coupons good for individual items at marketplace booths and select restaurants throughout the festival will cost $49 ($46 for Magic Keyholders).
Mulan’s Lunar New Year Procession during Lunar New Year at Disney California Adventure on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, in Anaheim, CA. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Let’s take a closer look at all the new food and drinks available with the Sip and Savor pass during Disney’s Lunar New Year festival.
Marketplace Booths
Sip & Savor passes can be used for most of the new and returning food and nonalcoholic beverages at the Lunar New Year festival marketplace booths along the DCA parade route.
This year’s festival marketplace menu lineup will be dominated mostly by returning favorites — with only two new food items and one new nonalcoholic drink.
Five-Spice Popcorn Chicken available at Bamboo Blessings marketplace booth during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Bamboo Blessings
Five-Spice Popcorn Chicken with sweet chile-garlic sauce
Guava Dragon Fruit Sparkler made with lemonade, sparkling mineral water, guava and dragon fruit syrups and a frozen dragon fruit garnish
Japchae Noodles available at Longevity Noodle Co. marketplace booth during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Longevity Noodle Co.
Japchae Noodles with kalbi short rib
DCA Restaurants
Festival-goers looking for something new to eat with their Sip & Savor passes will have to try the tasting-size portions at select restaurants and vending carts throughout DCA.
Crispy Fried Chicken Bao available at Cozy Cone Motel during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Cozy Cone Motel
Cars Land
Crispy Fried Chicken Bao coated in sweet chile sauce with cucumbers, carrots and sesame seeds served in a soft bao bun
Tteokbokki Rice Cakes available at Hollywood Lounge and Studio Catering Co. during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Hollywood Lounge and Studio Catering Co.
Hollywood Land
Tteokbokki rice cakes with gochujang sauce topped with cheese, sesame seeds and green onions
Grilled Lemongrass Pork Belly Skewers available at Paradise Garden Grill during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Paradise Garden Grill
Paradise Gardens Park
Grilled Lemongrass Pork Belly Skewers served with fried garlic rice, pickled carrots and daikon radish with a side salad
Bulgogi Fries with marinated beef, kimchi, cucumber, mozzarella cheese and gochujang aioli topped with sesame seeds and green onions
Bulgogi Fries available at Smokejumpers Grill and Paradise Garden Grill during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Smokejumpers Grill
Grizzly Peak
Bulgogi Fries with marinated beef, kimchi, cucumber, mozzarella cheese and gochujang aioli topped with sesame seeds and green onions
Pandan Cheesecake available at Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta
Paradise Gardens Park
Pandan Cheesecake with brown butter graham crust, coconut whipped topping and strawberry jam
Strawberry Green Tea Bread Pudding available at Aunt Cass Cafe during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Aunt Cass Cafe
San Fransokyo Square
Strawberry Green Tea Bread Pudding with green tea creme anglaise and whipped topping
Almond Cold Brew with orange cold foam
Mango Milk Tea available at Lucky Fortune Cookery during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Lucky Fortune Cookery
San Fransokyo Square
Mango Milk Tea with brown sugar tapioca spheres topped with pineapple cold foam
The Feng Li Su Churro available at the Hollywood Land Churro Cart during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Hollywood Land Churro Cart
Feng Li Su Churro rolled in shortbread sugar topped with pineapple jelly and cherry-flavored popping pearls
Spicy Pork Belly Grilled Cheese available at Studio Catering Co. during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
More New Food
A handful of new Lunar New Year food items will not be available with the Sip & Savor pass.
Chef’s Special with Mongolian Beef (Lamplight Lounge)
Coconut Pandan Donuts (Lamplight Lounge)
Vietnamese Coffee Roulade (Paradise Garden Grill)
Year of the Horse Bread (Aunt Cass Cafe, Cozy Cone Motel and Boudin Bread Cart)
Guava Cocktail available during the 2026 Lunar New Year food festival at Disney California Adventure. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Cocktails & Beer
The rest of the new items on the Lunar New Year menu will be filled out with several dozen cocktails, spiked coffees, beers and seltzers. Sip & Savor passes can’t be used on alcoholic drinks.
Disneyland is ready to start work on a new parking structure for the influx of visitors flocking to see the new Avatar themed land, Marvel attractions and Coco boat ride debuting at the Anaheim theme park resort over the next five years.
Disneyland has filed a pair of building permits with the city of Anaheim for new commercial construction of a 3.2 million-square foot, 8-level parking structure as part of the $1.9 billion DisneylandForward project.
The permits also call for the installation of electrical, plumbing and mechanical services in addition to 300 electrical vehicle chargers at the East Parking Structure.
The new 6,000-space Eastside parking structure and transportation hub would push the existing Disneyland bus drop off/pick up area along Harbor Boulevard to Disneyland’s Manchester employee parking lot that backs up to the I-5 Freeway.
A pedestrian bridge would connect visitors by foot between the existing Disneyland bus drop off/pick up area on the west side of Harbor Boulevard and Disneyland’s Manchester employee parking lot on the east side of Harbor Boulevard.
Concept art of the Disneyland pedestrian bridge over Harbor Boulevard set to begin construction in Fall 2026. (Courtesy of Disney)
Work is set to begin in fall 2026 on the multiyear construction project on the east side of the Disneyland theme park resort.
The new garage and bridge are an essential first step as Disneyland plans to build four new attractions at Disney California Adventure over the next five years as part of the DisneylandForward plan.
Concept art of the Avatar themed land proposed for the Disneyland resort. (Courtesy of Disney)
The Merc With a Mouth will return to Avengers Campus this fall to kick off the holidays at the Disneyland Resort, spreading holiday cheer and sassy jokes among the Deadpool faithful.
This year, the merry Marvel Studios feature at Disney California Adventure Park will be reimagined as The Story Time with Deadpool Holiday Special. With that nostalgic broadcast show twist, we’re expecting special guests will surely pop in and out of the multiverse to get in the hot seat for jolly ol’ DP. We’re thinking definitely Wolverine, as he was a fun co-star in the park’s initial run of the live entertainment show during the promo period for Deadpool & Wolverine.
Avengers Campus has had its fair share of fun festive shows, including a Hawkeye holiday action stunt-heavy performance and that short run of Rogers: The Musical. Hey, we’d be happy if that came back; the Hyperion theater is just sitting there!
There will be no shortage of Christmastime chaos from Deadpool, as Disney foodie fans will be delighted to hear about the chimichangas. That’s right, Pool’s fave food is making a debut at Pym’s Test Kitchen in Avengers Campus. And it looks so delicious. The Marvel-themed chimichanga is set to include seasoned beef, charred poblano, refried beans, and shredded cheese on a pool of Guajillo sauce with a pico de gallo side salad. All of that needs to get in our belly posthaste.
While it’s particularly exciting to see more of the MCU dig into the spirit of the season with characters and themed food, it’s so awesome to see the unique ways this year’s offerings are gearing up to be a blast at the Disneyland Resort. Even with the Disney icons, we’re interested in side-questing for the Mickey’s Christmas CarolFeast dining experience, where you can meet the version of Mickey and friends, including Goofy in Jacob Marley ghost form. You can book that Storyteller’s Cafe at the Grand Californian hotel.
The 2,000-pound Walt Disney animatronic at Disneyland weighs 10 times as much as the average American man and a thousand pounds more than the 9-foot-tall Frankenstein’s monster animatronic that just debuted at Florida’s Epic Universe theme park.
“It’s a lot of machinery,” according to Walt Disney Imagineering’s Jeff Shaver-Moskowitz. “It’s 2,000 pounds of an Audio-Animatronic figure that steps and rises during its performance.”
Shaver-Moskowitz revealed the new details about the “larger than life” Walt Disney Audio-Animatronic figure at Disneyland during “The Happiest Story on Earth” special on ABC’s “20/20” newsmagazine TV show.
The $5 million “Walt Disney — A Magical Life” animatronic show debuted in July in the Main Street Opera House as part of Disneyland’s 70th anniversary celebration.
Imagineering vowed to create the “most life-like animatronic ever” and succeeded with the world’s first robotic figure of Walt Disney.
“That was a huge feat for the team to accomplish,” said Shaver-Moskowitz, an Executive Creative Producer at Imagineering.
An Audio-Animatronics of Walt Disney greets visitors to the Main Street Opera House during “Walt Disney – A Magical Life” inside Disneyland on July 14, 2025, in Anaheim, CA. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The impressive Walt animatronic appears to walk toward the audience as he puts his hands on the edge of the desk, leans forward and takes a couple steps.
The Walt animatronic weighs more than five times as much the 375-pound Shaman of Songs animatronic in the Na’vi River Journey at Disney’s Animal Kingdom and more than twice as much as the 800-pound Frankenstein’s Monster animatronic in Universal’s new Monsters Unchained dark ride.
An Audio-Animatronics of Walt Disney greets visitors to the Main Street Opera House during “Walt Disney – A Magical Life” inside Disneyland on July 14, 2025, in Anaheim, CA. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The 2,000-pound robotic Walt is by no means the heaviest animatronic ever built.
The 8,000-pound Yeti animatronic in the Expedition Everest roller coaster stopped operating shortly after debuting in 2006 at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. At the time, the 25-foot-tall Abominable Snowman was the largest and most complex animatronic figure ever built by Disney, according to Orlando Park Stop.
The temperamental Maleficent animatronic dragon in Disneyland’s “Fantasmic” nighttime spectacular — mockingly nicknamed Murphy by fans after Murphy’s Law — weighed 18,000 pounds before it was destroyed in a spectacular fire in 2023.
The 55,000-pound King Kong animatronic made by Italy-based EOS Rides is the centerpiece of a 2018 spinning roller coaster at Carthageland in Tunisia, according to Blooloop.
The new “Walt Disney — A Magical Life” animatronic show will initially run solo before playing in rotation with “Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln.”
The original Abraham Lincoln animatronic created for the 1964 New York World’s Fair weighed 140 pounds, significantly lighter than the 180-pound U.S. President, according to a memo from WED Enterprises, the precursor to Imagineering.
Disneyland and Deadpool. Yes, you read that right! Wade Wilson has managed to make his way to the mouse house and Avengers Campus to play nice for the usually very naughty Marvel comics superhero. Starting today you can meet him at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort–with Wolverine along for the ride, to keep Deadpool on a tight leash.
Disney has shared more on their Deadpool and Wolverine offerings to celebrate this week’s release of the latest Marvel movie. The limited time interactions with Deadpool at Disneyland include “Story Time with Deadpool,” which will see a the merc with a mouth use said mouth to recount “family friendly tales” to “delight, charm, and inspire in the way only Deadpool can.” Which means, in all likeliness, not to expect Wade’s typically twisted tongue in the parks. Wolverine will also be participating in the show, as you can see below in a brief clip from a performance today:
Not gonna lie, that Splash Mountain gag as pretty good, at least! It’s a fun way to bring in Deadpool’s meta-humor. Beyond “Story Time,” Deadpool will also interact with the crowd throughout Avengers Campus, as well as crash various shows too, including “Avengers Assemble!” and “Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Dance Off!” as he attempts to coax his way onto Marvel’s various teams.
Beyond Deadpool and Wolverine themselves, it wouldn’t be Disney without some food: namely, chimichangas! Here’s a look at the new food item added to Pym’s Test Kitchen. The beefy creation even has Wolverine’s claw marks of approval.
Screenshot: Disneyland App
Deadpool and Wolverine will be appearing for a limited time at Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure, so if you want to get up close and personal with Marvel’s latest movie heroes, you’ll need to head down to the parks soon.
A group of Disney California Adventure guests may not have had the most incredible time on Sunday after they needed to be rescued from an “Incredibles”-themed roller coaster amid sweltering heat.
Park employees wearing safety harnesses made their way to the stranded guests and handed them umbrellas before they were escorted down from the ride. Temperatures in Anaheim reached 86 degrees on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
A Disneyland spokesperson said the ride was stalled for about 30 minutes and park employees followed their standard procedures to help the guests safely exit the ride.
A park guest who was staying at a nearby hotel with his family and said he had a front-row view of the ride from his room told KNBC-TV that the ride also stalled on Saturday.
“I thought maybe the ride was closed,” Vince Crandon said. “I was really concerned for the heat and obviously for the people. … It was not moving and was on top of the apex.”
It’s unclear what prompted the ride to stall or how long riders were stranded, but several videos shared on TikTok show that this is not the first time riders were forced to descend the ride after mechanical issues. Previous videos show riders descend several flights of stairs while being escorted by park employees.
The Incredicoaster, previously known as California Screaming, opened in June 2018 and stands 120 feet tall and has a top speed of 55 mph, according to the ride description.
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During Pixar Fest at the Disneyland Resort, the Turning Red crew have brought 4*Town into the spotlight for show-stopping moments that will get you on your feet. First, during the day, you can catch them featured on their own float in the Better Together: A Pixar Pals Celebration parade at Disney’s California Adventure. We get to finally see red panda Mei she performs “Nobody Like You” with 4*Town and her best friends—even Mei’s dad in the cardboard red panda costume gets in on the action. It’s exciting to see Disney lean into its own boy band fandom. Take a look below to see the Turning Red parade float in action!
Then at night, Turning Red is featured twice during Together Forever: A Pixar Nighttime Spectacular. The first segment features Mei’s introduction with friends and her red panda transformation practice set to fireworks; it’s so cool to see a kaiju-sized panda Mei on the Sleeping Beauty castle and a welcome addition to the show.
“Together Forever is a story about meeting new friends. It’s about taking those friends and setting out on adventures. And it’s about overcoming adversity together,” shared KC Wilkerson, the principal media designer for Disney Live Entertainment at the Disneyland Resort and show director for the return of Together Forever. He noted that Turning Red’s story was perfect for the parade’s theme and wraps it all up in the film’s second appearance in the show. “We’ve also changed what we call the walk-out of the show—we changed the song so we get to enjoy an instrumental version of ‘Nobody Like You’ from Turning Red,” Wilkerson said. And it’s such a sweet moment to close out on.
