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Disneyland Confirms Main Street Removal, New Look for Historic Theme Park Area

Mickey and Minnie Mouse greet guests in front of Disneyland’s iconic pink castle, adorned with sparkling blue rooftops and shimmering gold banners.
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After almost three weeks, the Main Street Cinema at Disneyland Park has reopened. The historic entertainment venue on Main Street, U.S.A., is no longer showing the Sherman Brothers Tribute, So Much That We Share, and has instead returned to showing older Mickey Mouse cartoons.

Main Street Cinema Reopens at Disneyland Park

A vintage-style movie theater marquee reads "Steamboat Willie" under "Cinema" with Disneyland theming, including Mickey Mouse images and a banner advertising "Six Great Walt Disney Cartoons.
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Main Street Cinema reopened on August 31 after closing alongside the end of Disneyland Resort‘s 70th anniversary celebration. As part of the milestone festivities, the theater was showing So Much That We Share, a tribute to the Sherman Brothers. Robert and Richard Sherman worked with Walt Disney to create some of the most iconic music in the company’s history, including the tune for “it’s a small world.” Before he died in 2024, Richard Sherman wrote a final verse to the song, which was added to the ride as part of the Disneyland70 festivities.

On Monday, Main Street Cinema reopened to guests and returned to showing Mickey Mouse shorts. However, instead of playing cartoons from different eras, the six-screen theater now exclusively shows shorts from the 2013 Mickey Mouse television series.

Take a Look

The Main Street Cinema marquee at Disneyland Park
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As visible in a photo shared by WDW News Today on Facebook, the marquee once again reads: “Now Showing Mickey Mouse – Star of the Silver Screen.” A yellow banner beneath features various depictions of Mickey Mouse and text that reads “Now Showing,” “It Was All Started By A Mouse,” and “Chock-Full Of Laughter And Fun!”.

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Other banners on the building feature drawings of Mickey Mouse’s face and text reading “Six Separate Screens,” “Six Separate Films,” “Come In and See Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse,” “Comedy! Adventure! Romance! Comedy!,” and “Thrills! Comedy! Pathos! Comedy!”.

Columns on either side of the main entrance to the building are wrapped in posters featuring artwork based on the 2013 animated Mickey Mouse shorts, and read:

“Main Street Cinema Proudly Presents

Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse 

Six Different Cartoons

Six Different Screens

Experience The Fun-Filled Antics Of The World’s Most Famous Mouse

Continuous And Simultaneous Showings 

See It Here!

Harmonic Mercuivision 

Exclusive Engagement!” 

Step Inside

Mickey Mouse scared, screenshot from the Mickey Mouse Shorts episode "Wish Upon a Coin"
Credit: Walt Disney Animation Studios

The iconic ticket-taker mannequin, Tilly, is in position inside the Main Street Cinema ticket booth, wearing a mask and spooky attire for the Halloween season. Posters for Mickey Mouse cartoons and theme park attractions line the walls, including The Band Concert (1935), Steamboat Willie (1928), Fantasia (1940), Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway, Mickey’s Philharmagic, and the defunct Mickey Mouse Revue, which preceded Mickey’s Philharmagic at Magic Kingdom Park through 1983 before moving to Tokyo Disneyland, where it performed until 2009.

Despite showing different films, the interior of the Main Street Cinema at Disneyland Park didn’t change much during the multi-week refurbishment. It still features several benches and a center platform where Disney Park guests can stand and watch the cartoons on six different screens.

What do you think about this change in Disneyland Park’s Main Street Cinema? Share your opinion with us in the comments! 

About Jess Colopy

Jess Colopy is a Disney College Program alum and kid-at-heart. When she’s not furiously typing in a coffee shop, you can find her on the hunt for the newest Stitch pin.

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