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Disneyland Resort
How Disneyland Resort works today is different from how returning guests remember it — the change took effect april 30, 2021.
- Beyond the parks
- April 30, 2021
Then / Now / Next
How it changed
Then
Closed since March 14, 2020 — a 412-day shutdown
Now
Both parks reopened with capacity limits and reservations; restrictions eased through 2021.
Next
Nothing further announced for this one.
Why it matters
Why returning visitors care
After the longest closure in Disney parks history, Disneyland and California Adventure finally reopened on April 30, 2021.
Context · 2021
What else changed that year
Beyond the parks
Magic Key replaced the annual pass program
Disneyland ended its decades-old annual pass program and replaced it with tiered Magic Key passes, which use reservations and are periodically unavailable for new sales.
Disney California Adventure
Avengers Campus opened
A bug's land closed in 2018 and was replaced by Avengers Campus, Disneyland Resort's first Marvel land.
Beyond the parks
Disney Genie+ replaced FASTPASS and MaxPass
Free line-skipping at Disneyland ended: Genie+ now costs $25–35+ per person per day, and Rise of the Resistance and Radiator Springs Racers are sold separately.
Disney California Adventure
WEB SLINGERS: A Spider-Man Adventure opened
The anchor ride of Avengers Campus uses gesture recognition so riders fire webs with no blasters or 3D glasses.
Sources
Where this comes from
- ThemeParks.wiki — Parkstalgia research, no public source link on file.
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