Rise of the Resistance opened to insane crowds today and I heard the boarding passes filled up within 5 minutes.  With the new ride, we get a new map with the AT-AT encounter on the cover.  Looks nice!  Also, Lunar New Year Celebration started today in DCA and we FINALLY got maps that don’t have the same Mulan cartoon on the cover like the past several years.  We now get Mickey & Minnie in their Lunar New Year garb.  These maps should be out until February 9th so get them now.  The beginning of the year is always busy for us map collectors.

Codes are DLP-111720-ENG & DCA-011720-ENG

Inside Scans:  Disneyland & DCA

Estimated schedule of upcoming maps:

-Feb 10: Bridge Map between Lunar New Year and Food & Wine Festival (DCA)

-Feb 28: “Magic Happens” Parade (Disneyland)

Happy 2020 and welcome to a new decade of Disneyland Resort Guide Maps.  New maps came out on January 7th since the HolidayTime maps ended on January 6th.  Disneyland features a new Chewbacca in Galaxys Edge cover while DCA features a new Groot in front of Guardians of the Galaxy cover.  The Disneyland map contains the Rise of the Resistance logo in the Galaxys Edge section with the opening date noted.  These maps should be out until January 16th at which time we’ll get some sort of Rise of the Resistance Map for DL and a Lunar New Year map for DCA (please not Mulan again).  Happy Collecting!

Codes are DLP-110120-ENG & DCA-010720-ENG

Inside Scans:  Disneyland & DCA

 

Estimated schedule of upcoming maps:

-Jan 17: Rise of the Resistance Opens (Disneyland)

-Jan 17: Lunar New Year (DCA)

-Feb 10: Bridge Map between Lunar New Year and Food & Wine Festival (DCA)

-Feb 28: “Magic Happens” Parade (Disneyland)

Just a heads up, the decline of New Years Eve guide maps goes even further.  Back from the late 90s to 2012, the parks would actually produced a special one night guide map for New Years Eve.  After 2012, they declined down to just having the normal holiday maps out and then doing a special one night only entertainment guide.  Well, now just when you think they couldn’t sink any lower.  This year, they kept the normal holiday maps out, the normal entertainment guides out and now produced a one sided cheap tips paper (see picture).  When I tweeted Disneyland to ask if they released a special map or even a special entertainment guide, they replied with some long worded response of trying to get me to use the app instead.  Sadly, the days of Disneyland Guide Maps ending seems to be coming sooner and sooner which is sad because they are the only Disney Parks in the world that seems to hate producing them or puts the least amount of effort into designing them.  Happy New Year everyone and Happy Collecting!