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The parking garage exit sign.
The tram stop signs have been switched to Christmas too.
The Downtown Disney banners.
Some holiday cheer on the new DCA entrance.
They even have wreathes on the construction walls.
The framing is moving along slowly on Buena Vista Street
A couple of trees outside of Guest Relations trailer.
GRR is down for some work.
There was some water in the flume
The concrete for the new rock face is moving along. Looks like only one more section to go.
The photo location for Duffy has been decked out for the season.
Santa as well as the tree are back in the same location as last year.
Duffy
The view from the Fun Wheel
The rock face is looking great.
Still no paint but looks to be ready.
The scaffolding is almost all gone.
Flos is moving along.
The outdoor seating area for Flos is moving really taking shape.
Looks like they are working on the signage for the store.
The foundations for the last two cones looks to be poured and covered for protection from the rain.
Wires up on Maters
A wide shot of the racers
Scaffolding is up on the base of the radiator cap.
The court house has its first exterior coat on.
Some workers out by the Flying Tires. No signs of the test tire though.
The Carthay is looking great.
A closer look at the new rock face
This fence looked new to me.. I do not remember seeing it.
The Mermaid Building has some Christmas decorations.
One last shot of the cylinder head and spark plugs
The entrances to Paradise Gardens have some decorations too.
The fountain was on today.
A closer look at the Mermaid Building.
Some repainting going on in the Wharf
The corner over the Wharf.
Some Christmas lights in the Wharf
Some shots from the Blue Sky Cellar patio area.
The tower of tires is up
Looking down Route 66
Flos from ground level.
Maters is looking great.
The walls are down around the pump house. This will be an information area as well as Red Car stop for Buena Vista Street.
The steel just keeps growing.
Looks like this facade is staying. Just will be rebranded.
The area in front of the pump house looks great. Weird to see curbs and trees...
A couple of guest relations CMs out to answer questions
The Castmembers working the gates and bag check now have new costumes.
The Grand California is not decorated yet.
Muppet banners out by AMC.
Goofy, Chip and Dale out by the Disneyland Hotel for pictures.
Cabanas around the pool.
Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto hanging out by the pool
All the walls are down, just barriers up now.
Plenty of signs everywhere now.
The pool is filled and ready to go.
The elevators look to be done now.
The new front desk area is now done and looks much more open.
The new front desk. What a different feel.
The painting seems a little small to me.
No signage on the gift shop yet.
The walls around the fountain area are down.
They are still working on the front entrance area.
You can now walk this way and go over the bridge to Trader Sams
The coffee shop looks ready to open. Just needs its signage.
Wow what a difference!
Heading toward the bridge
Looking back.
The new E-Ticket Pool
Interesting green turf under the chairs. (assuming that is not real grass)
The tower signs were going up Friday.
As I mentioned before there are signs everywhere now.
The crew was working on the Adventure Tower sign
Working on the lighting for the sign.
Where the Fantasy Tower sign will go.
An event going on this weekend
Some holiday treats.
World of Disney has Christmas stuff in the windows now.
An interesting comparison.. here is DCA..
Then over to Disneyland.
A couple shots of the new costumes
The tunnel poster has been updated for the holidays already.
Soundsational is running through Sunday then Christmas Fantasy starts on Monday.
Setting up a camera for the Flag Retreat
The wait times around 4:15pm
The sign is down now.
Heading into Adventureland
Most of the tarps and scaffolding are down around Pirates.
A walk through New Orleans Square.
The train was closed temporarily.
The Golden Horseshoe tree
Even with the garland the new railings still look off to me.
The former Halloween tree is looking rather bare.
Some of the other Frontierland decorations.
A busy day at Plaza Gardens
The Castle is ready for the season (I really like the cardinal and gold.. Fight On!)
For Veterans day they had an expanded Flag Retreat.
A color guard led the way.
The Disneyland security detail entered from the other way.
Disneyland Resort Cast Member Veterans followed.
The Marine Band came in from the other side too.
The Cast Members lined up on either side of the Train Station
The Dapper Dans in their patriotic outfits.
As each branches anthem was played the Cast Members paraded in
The flags were lowered during the Star Spangled Banner
Folding the flags
The band did a great drill to turn around.
A video of the entire ceremony.
Small World Holiday is open for the season.
Some lights were out in Toontown
New trees in Toontown (I read they came from Florida). I was not impressed by them I thought the old ones were better.
Oops.. one of the Os are gone.
Some random Toontown shots.
The Marine band was also doing a pre-parade set.
Looks like the floor in the Toy Store was redone
Elvis is back.
There is a new Snowman in the finale
A video of the finale room
Main Street is looking rather dark without the garlands overhead (assuming those will be up after Soundsational ends its run)
The gallery was closed preparing for a new exhibit that opens Saturday.
The garland on the entrance was not lit up.
Nor the wreaths
Walked by the pumphouse to see the lighting.
The Mermaid decorations were lit up.
Waiting for World of Color.
The Prep and Landing introduction to World of Color (from the Blue Section)
Some pictures of the new intro.
I was surprised these were not lit up.
A second pass at Prep and Landing.. this time from Yellow.
Went for a quick ride on Little Mermaid and was seated right behind the handicap accessible car.
A random Mermaid shot to end on.