Good morning and welcome to the TimesOC newsletter.
It’s Friday, April 16. I’m Ben Brazil on rotation with my colleagues, editors John Canalis and Carol Cormaci, to bring you the latest roundup of Orange County news and events.
While some people have been worried about surviving the pandemic, others have been agonizing over the reopening of Disneyland.
The long wait will soon be over for Disney fanatics.
On Thursday, tickets to the theme park went on sale for all California residents. Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, which have been closed since March 2020, will reopen on April 30 with limited capacity, various safety protocols and minimized hours of operation from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Here s Where to Eat at Disneyland When It Reopens
April 16, 2021, 1:35 PM ·
The Disneyland Resort has announced which restaurants will be open - and therefore, which will be closed - when its theme parks return on April 30.
Limited capacity means that not all food service locations will be required to feed guests who visit the parks while they are limited to 25 percent capacity. State limits on indoor dining also affect which locations Disney has chosen to reopen along with the parks.
Locations marked with an asterisk ( ) will offer mobile order. Mobile check-in for dining reservations, as well as mobile stand-by walk-up lists, will be available at table service restaurants, including Lamplight Lounge and Cafe Orleans.
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When Star Wars: Galaxy s Edge was first announced, it was a huge deal. It was an entire land dedicated to
Star Wars. It was one of the largest expansions that a Disney theme park had ever seen, and even more, both Disneyland Resort in California and Walt Disney World in Florida were getting the new land, making it that much easier for guests to explore the galaxy far, far, away. We were told that the two lands would have all the same stuff, so everybody could visit whichever land was easiest for them. And yet.
While it s certainly true that both versions of Star Wars: Galaxy s Edge have Millennium Falcon: Smuggler s Run and Rise of the Resistance, and each one has a place to build a lightsaber or a droid, the truth is that these two lands aren t exactly identical. To be sure, the differences are minor and aren t likely to drastically impact your trip, but there