Tokyo Disney Resort announced the Annual Schedule in 2016 - 2017
東京迪士尼度假區（Tokyo Disney Resort）以及其營運公司「Oriental Land Co., Ltd」於今天正式公佈2016至2017年的多項全新遊樂設施及主題活動安排，詳情如下（英文原文內容）：
~ 東京迪士尼樂園（Tokyo Disneyland） ~
1. ‘‘Disney’s Easter (March 25 – June 15, 2016)
This regular springtime event is back again this year at Tokyo Disneyland. At the secret Easter garden, Guests can enjoy a whimsical atmosphere full of flowers and plants, where Mickey Mouse and his Disney friends along with the Easter bunnies take part in an ‘egg race.’ Guests will be able to celebrate the springtime season in a colorful way in the main entertainment, a parade featuring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and the Disney friends wearing bunny ears and new costumes. In various places around the Park, Guests will find decorations, merchandise themed to the ‘egg race.’ Also, the popular ‘Egg Hunt’ program can be enjoyed again this year.
2. ‘‘Disney Tanabata Days (June 16 – July 7, 2016)
The Japanese star festival known as ‘Tanabata’ will be celebrated with a special program in a manner unique to the Disney theme parks. Offered from June 16, which is eight days earlier than it started last year,’Disney Tanabata Days’ will feature traditional decorations in World Bazaar. Guests can write their wishes on ‘Wishing Cards’ to be hung from the grand centerpiece. Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, dressed as Hikoboshi and Orihime, the two star-crossed lovers of this festival, will greet Guests along the parade route.
3. ‘‘Disney Natsu Matsuri’’ (July 9 – August 31, 2016)
Natsu matsuri means summer festival’ in Japanese and Guests will be able to enjoy the hot summer with the Disney characters in this energizing special event. In the show presented at the Plaza in front of Cinderella Castle, everyone will get soaking wet as they enjoy the group dancing and the summertime heat. Guests can find Japanese banners as well as photo locations that enhance the festive atmosphere even more.
4. ‘‘Disney’s Halloween’’ (September 9 – October 31, 2016)
The special event, ‘Disney’s Halloween,’ will take place with a new theme featuring the Disney characters and mischievous ghosts. Guests can join the Halloween ghosts and the Disney characters in an exciting Halloween.
5. ‘‘Christmas Fantasy’’ (November 8 – December 25, 2016)
Guests will be able to enjoy the special event ‘Christmas Fantasy’ with the theme of ‘Christmas Storybooks.’ Guests will find happy Christmas scenes with their favorite Disney characters that have come right out of a storybook world. The main parade will bring to life pages from storybooks showing the Disney characters having fun at Christmastime. Guests will find a 15-meter-tall Christmas tree at the center of World Bazaar, as well as holiday photo locations, garlands and other decorations in each themed land.
6. New Facility for Disney Character Greetings and New Restaurant (Starting from Autumn to Winter 2016)
7. New Year’s Programs (January 1 – 5, 2017)
The Park will celebrate the start of the year with colorful Japanese-style New Year’s decorations at the entrance, as well as merchandise and menus featuring the 2017 zodiac animal, the rooster. The Disney characters will be dressed up in kimono to welcome Guests in Japanese style.
8. ‘‘Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Fantasy’’ (January 13 – March 17, 2017)
This special event will be themed to the Disney film Frozen. In addition to entertainment programs, Guests will find decorations of ice and snowflakes that help transform the Park into a world inspired by the film.
This regular springtime event is back again this year at Tokyo Disneyland. At the secret Easter garden, Guests can enjoy a whimsical atmosphere full of flowers and plants, where Mickey Mouse and his Disney friends along with the Easter bunnies take part in an ‘egg race.’ Guests will be able to celebrate the springtime season in a colorful way in the main entertainment, a parade featuring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and the Disney friends wearing bunny ears and new costumes. In various places around the Park, Guests will find decorations, merchandise themed to the ‘egg race.’ Also, the popular ‘Egg Hunt’ program can be enjoyed again this year.
2. ‘‘Disney Tanabata Days (June 16 – July 7, 2016)
The Japanese star festival known as ‘Tanabata’ will be celebrated with a special program in a manner unique to the Disney theme parks. Offered from June 16, which is eight days earlier than it started last year,’Disney Tanabata Days’ will feature traditional decorations in World Bazaar. Guests can write their wishes on ‘Wishing Cards’ to be hung from the grand centerpiece. Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, dressed as Hikoboshi and Orihime, the two star-crossed lovers of this festival, will greet Guests along the parade route.
3. ‘‘Disney Natsu Matsuri’’ (July 9 – August 31, 2016)
Natsu matsuri means summer festival’ in Japanese and Guests will be able to enjoy the hot summer with the Disney characters in this energizing special event. In the show presented at the Plaza in front of Cinderella Castle, everyone will get soaking wet as they enjoy the group dancing and the summertime heat. Guests can find Japanese banners as well as photo locations that enhance the festive atmosphere even more.
4. ‘‘Disney’s Halloween’’ (September 9 – October 31, 2016)
The special event, ‘Disney’s Halloween,’ will take place with a new theme featuring the Disney characters and mischievous ghosts. Guests can join the Halloween ghosts and the Disney characters in an exciting Halloween.
5. ‘‘Christmas Fantasy’’ (November 8 – December 25, 2016)
Guests will be able to enjoy the special event ‘Christmas Fantasy’ with the theme of ‘Christmas Storybooks.’ Guests will find happy Christmas scenes with their favorite Disney characters that have come right out of a storybook world. The main parade will bring to life pages from storybooks showing the Disney characters having fun at Christmastime. Guests will find a 15-meter-tall Christmas tree at the center of World Bazaar, as well as holiday photo locations, garlands and other decorations in each themed land.
6. New Facility for Disney Character Greetings and New Restaurant (Starting from Autumn to Winter 2016)
A brand new facility for Disney character greetings and a new restaurant will be built in Westernland. These facilities will be themed to the world of the ‘Junior Woodchucks’ series as shown in Disney comics and animated short films. The new Disney character greeting facility will be the second dedicated greeting facility to open at Tokyo Disneyland since Mickey’s House and Meet Mickey opened about 20 years ago in 1996. The new restaurant will be located in a new two-story facility with an indoor dining area on the second floor and an outdoor dining area with a campfire setting. Guests will be able to relax and enjoy a meal while taking in the scenery of the Rivers of America.
7. New Year’s Programs (January 1 – 5, 2017)
The Park will celebrate the start of the year with colorful Japanese-style New Year’s decorations at the entrance, as well as merchandise and menus featuring the 2017 zodiac animal, the rooster. The Disney characters will be dressed up in kimono to welcome Guests in Japanese style.
8. ‘‘Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Fantasy’’ (January 13 – March 17, 2017)
This special event will be themed to the Disney film Frozen. In addition to entertainment programs, Guests will find decorations of ice and snowflakes that help transform the Park into a world inspired by the film.
~ 東京迪士尼海洋（Tokyo DisneySEA） ~
1. ‘‘Tokyo DisneySEA 15th Anniversary: The Year of Wishes’’ (April 15, 2016 - March 17, 2017)
The theme of the 15th Anniversary is “wishes.” “Wishes” are people’s dreams for the future and give a feeling of hope and excitement. Through a variety of new experiences this anniversary year, Guests will find that their wishes shine even brighter with the help of their navigators – Mickey Mouse and his Disney friends – as well as all of the Tokyo DisneySEA Cast Members during the 15th anniversary year.
For this anniversary, colorful crystals will symbolize everyone’s wishes. The Disney characters will wear crystals, each having a different color of crystal, representing their wishes. Decorations around the Park will feature crystal motifs and merchandise will sparkle with crystals as well. Special menus will be offered just for the 15th Anniversary.
2. New Show on the Harbor - ‘‘Crystal Wishes Journey’’ (April 15, 2016 – March 17, 2017)
3. Revamped Entertainment - ‘‘Big Band Beat’’ at Broadway Music Theatre (Starting from April 15, 2016)
This popular show presented at the Broadway Music Theatre in American Waterfront features swing jazz, which was the dominant form of popular music from the 1920s through the 1940s. ‘Big Band Beat’ will debut in a new version, with new music, costumes and scenes. This will be the first time that the show has been changed since it opened in July 2006. This revue with swing jazz by a live big band will continue to dazzle with stunning vocals, energetic tap dancing and the climactic drum performance by Mickey Mouse. New scenes such as a jazz number with Goofy dancing and singing, as well as Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse in new costumes performing a rhythmical dance, will enhance the appeal even further.
4. New Musical Show - ‘‘Out of Shadowland’’ at Hangar Stage (Starting from July 9, 2016)
5. ‘‘Disney Tanabata Days’’ (June 16 – July 7, 2016)
The Japanese star festival known as ‘Tanabata’ will be celebrated with a special program in a manner unique to the Disney theme parks in Japan from June 16, which is eight days earlier than last year. ‘Disney Tanabata Days’ will feature traditional Tanabata decorations in the New York area of American Waterfront where Guests can write their hopes and wishes on Wishing Cards and tie them onto the Wishing Place, which will be set up for this occasion. In Mediterranean Harbor, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse will appear in a greeting show dressed as Hikoboshi and Orihime, the festival’s two star-crossed lovers. In addition, special menus themed to Tanabata will be offered.
6. ‘‘Disney Summer Festival’’ (July 9 – August 31, 2016)
This summertime festival of tropical fruit and Latin rhythms will be presented with the main venue of Mediterranean Harbor wrapped in a celebratory mood for the 15th anniversary. While volumes of water spray around the area, everyone can join the Disney characters in singing and dancing to the rhythmical music of the tropical summer carnival led by Minnie Mouse.
7. ‘‘Disney’s Halloween’’ (September 9 – October 31, 2016)
This 15th anniversary year, Tokyo DisneySea will offer a ‘cool’ but ominous Halloween with the Disney villains. The Park will be transfigured into an eerie, other-worldly place where Mickey Mouse and his Disney friends along with the villains put on a gorgeous and stylish Halloween. Guests can enjoy a show on the waters of Mediterranean Harbor that creates a frightfully cool Halloween from the world of the villains.
8. ‘‘Christmas Wishes’’ (November 8 – December 25, 2016)
In each of the themed ports, Christmas trees and other monuments put up by the Disney friends with their Christmas wishes will create a heartwarming and romantic atmosphere in the Park. Besides a daytime show presented at Mediterranean Harbor, a nighttime show will feature colorful Christmas trees for the 15th anniversary on the waters of Mediterranean Harbor creating a fantastic atmosphere. Guests are sure to enjoy a Christmas event full of variety.
9. New Year’s Program (January 1 – 5, 2017)
The Park will celebrate the start of the year with colorful Japanese-style New Year’s decorations at the entrance and merchandise featuring roosters, the zodiac animal for 2017. The Disney characters will be dressed up in kimono to welcome Guests in Japanese style and special New Year’s menus will be offered.
10. ‘‘Sweet Duffy’’ (January 13 – March 17, 2017)
Guests can enjoy the gentle and heartwarming world of Duffy in this program that offers merchandise with cute designs, tempting sweets and photo spots where delightful keepsake photos can be taken.
**Note: Event titles, contents, and dates are subject to change.
Kicking off the ‘Tokyo DisneySea 15th Anniversary: The Year of Wishes’ event will be ‘Crystal Wishes Journey,’ a brand new show to be presented at Mediterranean Harbor during the special event period only. Appearing before the Guests who anticipate going on adventures that will make their wishes sparkle, the Disney characters, each with their own wish, will appear in this show that celebrates the start of the 15th anniversary journey of adventure guided by shining crystals.
3. Revamped Entertainment - ‘‘Big Band Beat’’ at Broadway Music Theatre (Starting from April 15, 2016)
This popular show presented at the Broadway Music Theatre in American Waterfront features swing jazz, which was the dominant form of popular music from the 1920s through the 1940s. ‘Big Band Beat’ will debut in a new version, with new music, costumes and scenes. This will be the first time that the show has been changed since it opened in July 2006. This revue with swing jazz by a live big band will continue to dazzle with stunning vocals, energetic tap dancing and the climactic drum performance by Mickey Mouse. New scenes such as a jazz number with Goofy dancing and singing, as well as Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse in new costumes performing a rhythmical dance, will enhance the appeal even further.
4. New Musical Show - ‘‘Out of Shadowland’’ at Hangar Stage (Starting from July 9, 2016)
Based on an original story by Disney expressly for the Hangar Stage in Lost River Delta, this brand new musical show is brought to life through colorful images and powerful live performances. ‘Out of Shadowland’ tells the story of Mei, a timid young girl lost in a world of shadows who finds confidence and strength through her sojourn there.
Mei has lost her way and finds herself in Shadowland where the evil Kagetori has taken control. She meets a boy named Yu who leads her to discover within herself a mysterious power that she was unaware of. Mei’s power brings light and life back to Shadowland. Fighting against her own fear and insecurity, Mei is able to bring down Kagetori. At the end she realizes that Yu and Shadowland have helped her gain the confidence she now feels.
Through the moving live performances, vivid images and other elements that create colorful, dynamic scenes, Guests will experience a world unlike any seen before.
Hangar Stage is hosted by Bridgestone Corporation.
5. ‘‘Disney Tanabata Days’’ (June 16 – July 7, 2016)
The Japanese star festival known as ‘Tanabata’ will be celebrated with a special program in a manner unique to the Disney theme parks in Japan from June 16, which is eight days earlier than last year. ‘Disney Tanabata Days’ will feature traditional Tanabata decorations in the New York area of American Waterfront where Guests can write their hopes and wishes on Wishing Cards and tie them onto the Wishing Place, which will be set up for this occasion. In Mediterranean Harbor, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse will appear in a greeting show dressed as Hikoboshi and Orihime, the festival’s two star-crossed lovers. In addition, special menus themed to Tanabata will be offered.
6. ‘‘Disney Summer Festival’’ (July 9 – August 31, 2016)
This summertime festival of tropical fruit and Latin rhythms will be presented with the main venue of Mediterranean Harbor wrapped in a celebratory mood for the 15th anniversary. While volumes of water spray around the area, everyone can join the Disney characters in singing and dancing to the rhythmical music of the tropical summer carnival led by Minnie Mouse.
7. ‘‘Disney’s Halloween’’ (September 9 – October 31, 2016)
This 15th anniversary year, Tokyo DisneySea will offer a ‘cool’ but ominous Halloween with the Disney villains. The Park will be transfigured into an eerie, other-worldly place where Mickey Mouse and his Disney friends along with the villains put on a gorgeous and stylish Halloween. Guests can enjoy a show on the waters of Mediterranean Harbor that creates a frightfully cool Halloween from the world of the villains.
8. ‘‘Christmas Wishes’’ (November 8 – December 25, 2016)
In each of the themed ports, Christmas trees and other monuments put up by the Disney friends with their Christmas wishes will create a heartwarming and romantic atmosphere in the Park. Besides a daytime show presented at Mediterranean Harbor, a nighttime show will feature colorful Christmas trees for the 15th anniversary on the waters of Mediterranean Harbor creating a fantastic atmosphere. Guests are sure to enjoy a Christmas event full of variety.
9. New Year’s Program (January 1 – 5, 2017)
The Park will celebrate the start of the year with colorful Japanese-style New Year’s decorations at the entrance and merchandise featuring roosters, the zodiac animal for 2017. The Disney characters will be dressed up in kimono to welcome Guests in Japanese style and special New Year’s menus will be offered.
10. ‘‘Sweet Duffy’’ (January 13 – March 17, 2017)
Guests can enjoy the gentle and heartwarming world of Duffy in this program that offers merchandise with cute designs, tempting sweets and photo spots where delightful keepsake photos can be taken.
**Note: Event titles, contents, and dates are subject to change.
資料來源（Source）：Tokyo Disney Resort & Oriental Land Co., Ltd
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