Welcome to another edition of In the Loop, the L.A. Times' theme park newsletter. I’m Funland theme park blogger Brady MacDonald, and this week we take a look at Disneyland's 60th-anniversary celebration, Universal Orlando's new King Kong dark ride and the removal of two embarrassing symbols at Disney World.
Diamond jubilee
The Times Travel section pays tribute to Disneyland's 60th anniversary with a rundown of 60 things you might not know about the Anaheim theme park.
Also in the section, I take readers back to July 17, 1955, and the chaos that was Disneyland's opening day; Times travel writer Christopher Reynolds visits Marceline, Mo.