Disneyland is celebrating 70 years as "The Happiest Place on Earth" with a new show featuring a lifelike animatronic of founder Walt Disney.

Disneyland marks the anniversary date of the park’s 1955 opening on July 17 followed by a celebration that runs through summer 2026.

Half of the stories that I tell that are not about Disneyland start with somebody went to Disneyland and then they came back home and they tried to build their own Disney,” said filmmaker and theme park historian Kevin Perjurer,