Four Stores Close in Downtown Disney

According to the OC Register’s Around Disney blog: Downtown Disney is quickly losing tenants. Club Libby Lu – a store for girls to dress up, shop and have a makeover – has closed.  Owned by Saks Inc., all 78 of the Club Libby Lu stores around the nation are closing. Department 56 and Starabillas have closed as well. The Register’s … Read more

Illuminations: Reflections of Cutbacks

It seems that along with the closing of Department 56 and Club Libby Lu, we will also be losing another Downtown Disney store, Illuminations. This comes with big cutbacks to the store’s parent company, Yankee Candle: Yankee Holding Corp. and its subsidiary The Yankee Candle Co. said Tuesday that the company is slashing 330 jobs … Read more

Department 56 Closing

Along with the upcoming closure of Club Libby Lu, Department 56 in Downtown Disney will be closing after the holiday season. The closing is due to the filing for bankruptcy of the store’s parent company, Lenox Group. This comes after the store recently cut itself in half, now creating space for 2 new tenants. Due to … Read more

Dateline Disneyland Construction Update

The latest Dateline Disneyland article on MiceAge has a fine update on construction through-out the Disneyland Resort. Let’s take a look at some of the latest happenings: The King Triton & Ariel statues have been removed, as well as most of the current theming in Ariel’s Grotto. This is what has become of the turntable … Read more

Monday in the Parks Picture Update

Let’s take a look at some of the various things going on through-out the Disneyland Resort from this week’s Monday in the Parks column on MiceAge: The new ticket prices went into effect yesterday In addition to the water playground in the Bountiful Valley Farm that we reported was closed last Friday (and it still … Read more

Dateline Disneyland Picture Update

Let’s take a look at some of the various things going on through-out the Disneyland Resort from this week’s Dateline Disneyland on MiceAge: The information sign that’s been missing for well over a year now has returned to the security tents, with the only change being the “new DCA logo” While New Century Timepieces is … Read more