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Virtually every Disneyland ride and attraction will change in some way to accommodate the new normal of COVID-19 health and safety protocols when the Anaheim theme parks reopen following an extended coronavirus closure.

Visitors returning to Disneyland will find social distancing measures stretching from attraction queues to the rides themselves with extensive sanitization measures throughout the park.

Disneys Anaheim theme parks remain closed until further notice while they await still-unreleased reopening guidelines from the state amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Disneyland and Disney California Adventure are expected to follow the lead of Disneys recently reopened Florida parks and implement many of the same changes with some variations due to unique circumstances in Anaheim. In some cases, the changes to Disneyland attractions will be striking while in others they will be nearly invisible.

Disney World visitors returned in mid-July to find social distancing markers on the ground of virtually every attraction queue and 4,000 hand sanitizing stations located throughout the 47-square-mile theme park resort. Social distancing concerns have forced Disney World to keep parades, nighttime spectaculars, shows and even a few attractions closed.

Weve compiled a comprehensive list of changes expected to come to 56 Disneyland and Disney California Adventure rides, attractions and shows based on health and safety measures instituted at the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disneys Animal Kingdom and Disneys Hollywood Studios theme parks in Florida.

1) Rise of the Resistance Plexiglass dividers have been installed in the queue with the line for the attraction stretching into backstage areas of Disneys Hollywood Studios. Numbered markers on the ground indicate where riders should stand in the pre-show segments of the attraction. Only one family or party is allowed in each vehicle during the dark ride portion of the Rise of the Resistance attraction.

2) Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run Riders no longer stop and gather to watch the Hondo Ohnaka audio-animatronic pre-show for the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction. Cast members no longer hand out boarding cards indicating whether riders are pilots, gunners or engineers. Only one family or party is allowed in each Millennium Falcon cockpit.

3) Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters Every other clamshell-style ride vehicle is left empty to maintain social distancing within the Space Ranger Spin attraction at the Magic Kingdom.

4) Star Tours Every other row is blocked on the Star Tours motion simulator. Plexiglass dividers mounted to repurposed child car seats and secured to some seats inside the StarSpeeder 3000 help maintain separation between riders.

5) Astro Orbitor Hand sanitizer stations are available after using the high-touch up and down levers inside the spaceship cockpits.

6) Space Mountain Plexiglass dividers are used throughout the queue.

7) Autopia Hand sanitizer stations await drivers at the end of the Tomorrowland Speedway queue at the Magic Kingdom. Disneylands Autopia cars feature the same high-touch steering wheels. To promote social distancing, Speedway riders are prevented from approaching their vehicles until the previous drivers exit.

8) Disneyland Monorail Vinyl partitions hang between seating sections to keep parties separated.

9) Dumbo the Flying Elephant Hand sanitizer stations can be found at the end of the queue for the high-touch spinning ride that employs up and down levers to make the pachyderms fly.

10) Mad Tea Party Riders using the high-touch spinning plate to turn the teacups will find hand sanitizer stations at the entrance and exit to the ride.

11) Its a Small World Rows are left empty to promote social distancing on the boat journey. Cast members regularly use sanitizer sprayers to clean the bench seats.

12) King Arthur Carrousel Each row of horses is now numbered with cast members escorting riders to their designated section on Prince Charming Regal Carrousel at the Magic Kingdom. The Fantasyland carousel in Disneyland was undergoing a seasonal overhaul when the park closed.

13) Snow Whites Scary Adventures The classic Fantasyland dark ride was undergoing a major renovation when Disneyland closed.

14) Big Thunder Mountain Only one family or party is permitted per coaster car to maintain social distancing.

15) Mark Twain Riverboat Social distancing spots on the deck of the riverboat known as the Liberty Belle at the Magic Kingdom indicate where individual families or groups can stand during the journey around the Rivers of America.

16) Tom Sawyer Island Only three parties are allowed at a time on the raft to and from the island. Families and parties are asked to stand on socially distanced spots while on the raft. Exit only signs mark caves and bridges and some pathways are blocked off. High-touch play areas on the island are closed.

17) Jungle Cruise Plexiglass dividers have been installed to separate riders sitting on the bench seats of the boats (and possibly to shield them from bad jokes delivered by the skippers).

18) Indiana Jones Adventure The middle row is not in use on the three-row Dinosaur ride vehicle at Disneys Animal Kingdom which uses the same ride system as Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland. Plexiglass dividers between seats in the front and rear rows help maintain separation between riders. Disneylands Indiana Jones Adventure attraction was expected to undergo a renovation in 2020.

19) Enchanted Tiki Room Some rows are closed and select bench areas are blocked.

20) Tarzans Treehouse Social distancing signs remind visitors to remain six feet apart on the Swiss Family Treehouse at the Magic Kingdom.

21) Haunted Mansion The stretching room which is only a visual illusion and not an elevator at the Magic Kingdom is deactivated and a walk-through only experience. Disneylands haunted house was undergoing a seasonal overhaul when the park closed.

22) Pirates of the Caribbean Rows are left empty between riders to promote social distancing with only one to two parties permitted per boat.

23) Splash Mountain Only one party is permitted per log. The splashdown finale has been turned off. The classic log ride is drawing long lines at the Magic Kingdom ahead of a Princess and the Frog makeover.

24) Gadget Go Coaster The kiddie coaster is listed as closed for refurbishment on the Disneyland website.

25) Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln The Hall of Presidents at the Magic Kingdom plays much the same role as the Disneyland attraction, just with a lot more presidents. Every other row is closed and seats are left empty throughout the theater to keep parties separated.

26) Disneyland Railroad The Disney World Railroad is listed as closed for refurbishment and temporarily unavailable at the Magic Kingdom.

27) Main Street Vehicles Daily character cavalcades in lieu of a parade likely explain why the classic vehicles are temporarily unavailable for visitors at the Magic Kingdom.

28) Radiator Springs Racers Only one party is allowed per 6-seat car on Epcots Test Track which uses the same ride system as Radiator Springs Racers in Disney California Adventure.

29) Maters Junkyard Jamboree Families or groups stand on circle markers on the ground in the pre-loading area on Alien Swirling Saucers at Disneys Hollywood Studios which uses a similar ride system as the Cars Land attraction at DCA.

30) Toy Story Midway Mania Plexiglass dividers in the queue of Disneys Hollywood Studios interactive dark ride help keep riders separated as they wait in line. Ride vehicles and the high-touch spring-action shooter are sanitized intermittently but not after each ride cycle. Hand sanitizer stations are available at the exit to the ride.

31) Incredicoaster The Rock n Roller Coaster is similar to the DCA ride with inversions and over-the-shoulder safety restraints. At Disneys Hollywood Studios, the rows in the load area are separated by plexiglass dividers. Cast members periodically clean the train seats and restraints with sanitizer sprayers.

32) Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout Riders no longer stop in the pre-show room and watch the ride backstory on Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror the precursor to the Guardians indoor drop tower ride at Disney California Adventure. Select rows are left empty inside each elevator ride vehicle to foster social distancing.

33) Mickeys Philharmagic Rows are blocked and signs block individual seats in open rows to maintain social distancing in the 4-D theater.

34) Soarin Around the World The flight simulator uses car seat-mounted plexiglass dividers in some seats to maintain separation between riders. The aromatic scent effects that accompany the hang gliding flight have been disabled.

35) Grizzly River Run Every other pair of seats is left empty to maintain social distancing on the rafts of the roaring rapids water ride. Water effects along the river journey are turned off. Cast members regularly use sanitizer sprayers to clean seats and high-touch points on the Kali River Rapids rafts at Disneys Animal Kingdom.

A few Disney World dark rides have changed little except for the social distancing markers in the queue and the hand sanitizer stations at the entrances and exits. The Disneyland versions include:

36) Peter Pans Flight

37) Little Mermaid: Ariels Undersea Adventure

38) Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Several other Disney World attractions are listed as temporarily unavailable on the parks website. The Disneyland versions include:

39) Star Wars Launch Bay

40) Turtle Talk with Crush

41) Frontierland Shootin Exposition

Live entertainment that draws large crowds is expected to be temporarily canceled when Disneys Anaheim theme parks reopen. Those attractions include:

42) Magic Happens parade

43) Mickeys Mix Magic fireworks

44) Fantasmic nighttime spectacular

45) World of Color nighttime spectacular

46) Frozen Live at the Hyperion stage show

47) Mickey & the Magical Map stage show

Character meet-and-greet locations are also expected to remain closed when Disneyland and DCA reopen. They include:

48) Mickeys House

49) Minnies House

50) Anna & Elsas Royal Welcome

51) Fantasy Faire Royal Hall

52) Marvel Heroic Encounters

53) Pixie Hollow

High-touch play areas are expected to also be unavailable once the parks reopen. They include:

54) Chip n Dale Treehouse

55) Donalds Boat

56) Goofys Playhouse

Not every ride at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure is included in this list largely because identical attractions cant be found at Disneys four Florida parks.

Disneyland-only rides like Matterhorn Bobsleds and Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage will require their own unique health and safety protocols.

Disney World lacks many of the classic Fantasyland dark rides found at Disneyland including Snow Whites Scary Adventures, Alice in Wonderland, Mr. Toads Wild Ride and Pinnochios Daring Journey. Those Disneyland dark rides could naturally facilitate social distancing with a single family or party limited to each ride vehicle.

Disney never brought many of DCAs off-the-shelf carnival rides to Disney World including Golden Zephyr, Goofys Sky School, Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind, Jessies Critter Carousel, Jumping Jellyfish and Pixar Pal-A-Round. Each of those rides will require its own social distancing and sanitization measures some trickier than others.

That still leaves big question marks for a number of Anaheim attractions such as Davy Crocketts Explorer Canoes, Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, Roger Rabbit Car Toon Spin and Casey Jr. Circus Train. How Disneyland plans to handle health and safety protocols on those unique attractions remains to be seen.

This exhaustive list would have been impossible to compile without the tireless work of WDW News Today reporters who visited most of the Disney World attractions and documented all the COVID-19 changes since the parks reopened in mid-July.

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Addison Rae and Kourtney Kardashian are truly out here doing the absolute and complete MOST. The unexpected besties have been hanging out/TikToking together non-stop in recent weeks and now they've taken their newfound friendship to a whole other level the "we wear matching outfits in public" level, to be specific.

Addney a name that I am now trademarking on their behalf is blowing up your feeds, once more, to show off their coordinating ensembles. The duo wore the same silky pajama set (one in baby blue and one in hot pink), paired with a matching head scarf to attend a makeshift Beauty and the Beast-inspired tea party.

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If that weren't extra enough, they then posted matching photos of the matching outfits on their Instagrams. Courtney confusingly captioned her pic, "my husband's girlfriend and I exchanging stories," while Addison wrote, "that's what she said."

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This is one tea party that I'm both baffled by and a little jealous of.

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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Plato, Motto Tea Party Alliance

The Boston Tea Party in 1773 was more than a mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty targeting the abusive Tea Act and Townshend Act. Although America strongly opposed the Townshend Act, their rebellion was in response to the continued violation of their rights by the English. As patriots destroyed an entire shipment of East Indian tea that night, they sent a message to the British: They were mad as hell and refused any future abuse of their natural and God-given rights as free men.

The Boston Tea Party was one of the most significant events in world history. It was an American resistance movement against the violation of the right to representation during the historic Age of Enlightenment. Enlightenment thinking undermined the authority of the monarchy to exercise total control over the people. It provided the impetus for the revolutions of the 18th century that fostered the principle of the inherent rights of man to self rule. And those rights cant be violated by anyone.

On Feb. 19, 2009, in the wake of numerous government attempts to repair an economy that it broke itself, CNBC radio show annotator Rick Santelli set off a powder a keg of protests when he told viewers, "We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July! All you capitalists that want to show up at Lake Michigan, I'm going to start organizing!" Within a week, average Americans began forming Tea Party groups around the nation as a result of Santelli's rant. Within months, Tea Party protests consumed America.

Challenging our leaders is as American as it gets.

Rick Santelli

As the President Barack Obama and his liberal Congress continued their assault on the Constitutional and natural God-given rights of average Americans, within two years the Tea Party movement had shifted the entire political equation. Considering Obama had been swept into office with a mandate driven by Black voters to fundamentally change America. and given a massive majority in Congress to do it; this proved again that Americans were as mad as hell and were not going to take abuse any longer.

The Tea Party movement was a grassroots effort to shrink the federal government to its original Constitutional size. The movement was comprised of groups of concerned citizens who believed America was moving away from its core principles of limited government and democracy. Mark Williams, president of The Tea Party Express, spearheaded opposition to government-run health care and helped Republicans take back the Congress after the passage of Obamacare in 2010.

Tea Partiers were patriotic, religious middle class conservatives. But the left attacked them as right wing extremists. They viewed them as a resistance movement against Obamas change campaign.

The left and their media condemned them as a race-based patriarchy, angered and outraged over Obamas ethnicity? Yet over 30 percent of its members were non-white. The left had union members and professional paid agitators disrupt peaceful Tea Party protests against the passage of Obamacare.

Yet after Obamas second election, the steam quit flowing from the partys tea pots. They viewed the GOP's Mitt Romney as a booby prize, but felt people would be mad as hell again since they lost their health insurance and premiums doubled under Obamacare. But Romney was a wimp compared to media mega messiah Obama, and the Tea Party was left standing at the altar. And membership dwindled as they put their tea pots back in storage. Today, there are few active Tea Party groups in America.

Although many tea partiers came out of hiding claiming responsibility for Trumps victory, they were most likely drinking cannabis tea. President Trump was elected by the average American who was mad as hell again after watching the economy flounder in limbo for four years. They were fed up living under a regime that catered only to identity groups and did nothing for the average American.

From the time Trump threw his hat in the ring, he was castigated by the media and the far left. He is the first president to be impeached before even being elected. He restored America as the leader of the free world. Until the COVID-19 crisis, he had the highest sustained economic growth in history. No other president has had higher minority employment numbers. Yet Trump is tarred and feathered by liberal media and leftists everyday. Why is the Tea Party in hiding when our president needs help the most?

"No matter how good my numbers are, I cant anything right.

Donald Trump

Ten years after the Tea Party movement began, the House Tea Party Caucus is long gone. So too are almost of all the 87 House Republicans elected in the biggest GOP wave since the 1920s. In a recent telephone survey, Rasmussen found only 8 percent of all voters identify with the Tea Party, and just 10 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of it. Back in 2010, this polling organization found that 39percent of voters surveyed identified as Tea Party members and 41percent had a positive opinion of them.

During Trump's first two years, the lack of support from the Tea Party groups cost the GOP control of the House. There was little support from conservative organizations to force House members to actively pursue putting Obamacare out of its misery. There was even less to build a wall to protect America from illegal immigration. Then the GOP lost the House to the socialist left.

Weve got lots of lobbyists here. But where's labor, activists, community leaders and voters?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The Tea Party was the only faction in the Republican Party that was actually concerned about civil liberties, evidenced by Sen. Rand Paul's efforts to safeguard the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. While the Tea Partiers had a fetish for intransigence over compromise, that would have raised the bar on eventual compromises on policies for the moderates and conservatives. Today, the socialist left is garishly demanding and wont compromise on anything that doesnt benefit socialist causes.

Billie Jean King told us, Victory is fleeting. Average Americans, not patriotic organizations or Tea Party groups, elected Donald Trump. And most average Americans are not activists or members of organized political groups. They depend on citizen-led political groups to inform and mobilize them when Congress and the president need help with policy and legislation. Yet Tea Parties fell asleep at the wheel of liberty before Trump was elected and cant be found when he needs their help now.

Obama was chosen by the far left to usher in the era of Democratic Socialism and ration our liberty one new law at a time. They were set to finish the job with Hillary Clinton when Donald Trump flew into Washington on a Leerjet to save us from total self destruction. Yet the Tea Party failed to help him.

Nobody should ignore the fires around you after a victory, while they still burn.

Rick Santelli

The left is mad as hell and the media has helped them beat up Trump and the GOP since he was elected. They are well financed and organized, raging war in precincts and the streets with paid leftist mobs to win the next election. Where is the Tea Party now? If they dont come out of hiding soon and brew up a potion to rekindle the fires of patriotism, theyll be nothing more than a line in the first new left history book after next election.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

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Vehicles assaults on protests are rising. A Tennessee bill helped fan the flames, researcher says, as trio of Memphis cases hit court. Memphis Commercial Appeal

G.A. Hardaway is no stranger to being delayed by a crowd.

The Democratic representative from Memphis said that in 2017, when he and other Tennessee lawmakers were meeting on the issue of removing Confederate statues from Memphis parks, Neo-Confederates blocked his way as he was trying to getto another meeting.

They were 30, 40, 50 deep, and they came out to confront me, Hardaway recalled. One got in my face and told me that I should be grateful, because if it wasnt for slavery, Id be back in Africa on the jungle trail

I couldnt do anything but stare him down.

Hardaway could have done something, though.

He could have risked injuring that racist by punching him or shoving him out of his way, and then try to cobble together a bill that would absolve him or anyone else of incurring penalties if they hurt an objector who blocked their path.

But he didnt.

Thats because Hardaway understands that in America, people are entitled to express themselves even though sometimes, they can offend or inconvenience others.

But in the age of Trump, it seems that idea has been forgotten if they ever understood it at all by people who believe they have the right to injure or even kill people who get in their way.

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Demonstrators block a truck that allegedly hit a member of their group when the driver refused to stop as on Young near Cooper on June 5, 2020.(Photo: John Beifuss/The Commercial Appeal)

According to a recent investigation by The CA, Republican lawmakers have been laying the groundwork for years to absolve people who drive into protesters of any real accountability.

In Tennessee, a few months before 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed when James Alex Fields Jr. rammed his car into her and other protesters in Charlottesville in 2017, Rep. Matthew Hill, R-Jonesborough, co-sponsored a bill that would grant civil immunity to drivers who unintentionally run into protesters.

The bill died in subcommittee, but the atmosphere it and similar legislation around the nation stirred up Hardaway read responses during hearings on the 2017 bill from people who thought it would allow them to legally run into protesters remains.

Shiloh Barnat Goodman got caught in the winds of that atmospherein June,when 18-year-old Anthony Marcuzzo injured her, her16-year-old daughter and two college students when he drove his SUV into a Black Lives Matter protest in Memphis, according to a police detective's review of surveillance video.

Another driver, 26-year-old Beau Albauer, also allegedly drove his car toward protesters that day but didnt hit anyone.

Marcuzzo has been charged with misdemeanor offenses, while Albauerwas charged with a felony.Their social media activity indicate that they bore some animus toward the protesters.

Yet Republican lawmakers who have energized an atmosphere in which some drivers believe inconvenience is a reason to injure protesters had no problems with protesters disrupting Affordable Care Act town hall meetings back in 2009.

They also had no problems with Neo-Confederates inconveniencing people like Hardaway to express their objections sometimes threateningly over the removal of Confederate monuments.

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen remembers dealing withTea Party protesters at his ACA meetings.

While those protesterswerent holding up traffic to make their point, they did hold their fellow citizens hostage from asking legitimate questions about the proposed law by jeering them down, and by employing other tactics to disrupt and threaten, he said.

They were obstreperous, and disruptive, and accusatory and pugnacious, Cohen said. "They came for the purpose of being disruptive, and it was like that all over the country. It drowned out the opportunity for a lot of people to talk.

While Cohen and other congressmen had to be wary of Tea Party protesters whose actions might point to them being a possible security threat, what they didnt do was focus on passing laws that would let people get away with hurtingthose protesters.

They still had the right to speak those kinds of laws were never considered, Cohen said.

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So, what does this current situation reveal?

It reveals that for some, protest is only legitimate if the protest is about protecting the status quo; the status quo being Confederate monuments and abusive police not having to face consequences for killing unarmed Black people.

It reveals how somein power are so invested in that status quo, and so threatened by change, that they will legitimize those who would resort to injuring or killing people who dare to challenge that status quo.

And its awful that instead of proposing legislation to deal with the crisis that has brought protesters into the streets Black people who die at the hands of police are more than twice the rate of white people some Republican lawmakers and law enforcement officials would rather gin up or abet an atmosphere that puts more people at risk for dying after being hit by drivers who believe that peoples right to free expression should take a back seat to them being inconvenienced.

People are late to work, or late to appointments, because of an accident, or because there's work being done on the street, all the time, said Hardaway, who said the Tennessee Legislative Black Caucus plans to research a domestic terrorism bill to bolster investigations on the intent of drivers who plow into protesters.

The reason such inconvenience is being viewed as justifying assault is simple, Cohen said.

This is happening because of Trump, he said. Hes encouraging it. Its very disturbing and its very un-American.

You can reachTonyaa Weathersbee at 901-568-3281, tonyaa.weathersbee@commercialappeal.com or follow her on Twitter: @tonyaajw.

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Where are the NRA, the Tea Party and constitutional conservatives?

For 50 years the NRA warned Americans of federal troops marching in U.S. cities, arbitrarily seizing citizens.

Twelve years ago the Tea Party was formed, claiming they would defend Americans 10th Amendment (states rights) in response to the tyranny of federal government overreach. All argued the public needed Second Amendment remedies in case it was necessary to bring down an out-of-control federal government.

In response, terrified Americans bought millions of weapons and billions of rounds of ammunition.

Where are these patriots now with their pocket Constitutions?

Badge-less federal agents are violating First Amendment (freedom of speech) rights by assaulting peaceful protesters, gassing moms and assaulting veterans. Federal officers are violating Fourth Amendment (unreasonable search and seizure), randomly forcing demonstrators into unmarked vans without due process.

President Trump is now threatening more cities with his secret police not because of lawlessness, but because the cities are run by his political opponents.

Answer this: What if Barack Obama sent federal troops to Raleigh and Greensboro because we had a GOP governor and mayor?

Thats what I thought! It was never patriotism, just politics.

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