If you’re leaving Disneyland while it’s light, you’re doing it wrong

The world’s best-known theme park inspires awe and delight during the day, but after dark Walt’s $280 billion vision truly comes to life.

Lucy DeanWealth reporter

Sep 4, 2024 – 5.00am

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o friendship, and beyond! It’s 9.30pm in Anaheim, California, and Tim Allen’s voice rings out loud and clear. I’m standing, along with approximately a million other people, on Main Street – the iconic drag of Disneyland. We look up as fireworks explode from the castle ahead. Gold, white, red, blue! Trumpets blast, and – wait, what?

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Lucy DeanWealth reporterLucy Dean writes about wealth management, personal finance, lifestyle and leisure, based in The Australian Financial Review's Sydney newsroom.