Disney Parks announces nostalgic-centered upgrades | CNN

Hunched over small tables, thousands of fans who recently gathered at the D23 convention, the latest in Disney’s biennial expos, wrote down their most cherished memories of Disneyland on index cards. Disney plans to bury those cards at the root of trees planted at the new “Coco” attraction currently under construction. Disney was not-so-subtly tapping into this kind of nostalgia as it unveiled a series of new projects on Saturday night, to a crowd of 12,000 people attending the expo’s headliner event at the Honda Center in Anaheim. They had waited two years for the newest round of Disney announcements about the future of its parks and cruises. And while some bemoaned the lack of concrete project timelines, the moments that evoked huge cheers and applause were details true Disney nerds care about: retheming classic attractions, fixing a long-broken Audio-Animatronic figure, and redesigning a land at the heart of Walt Disney’s first theme park. Disneyland will be getting a transformed Tomorrowland, with multiple new attractions, “more open spaces and new places for Disneyland guests to dream about the future,” Disney Experiences Chairman Thomas Mazloum told the crowd Sa