Last Wednesday evening I was given an incredible opportunity to be on the Red Carpet for the star studded premiere and Grand Opening Celebration of Cars Land!
Cars Land opened to the public on June 15th after over 5 years in the making! I was thrilled to be hanging out with not only Family bloggers, but also Latina bloggers and Travel bloggers as we took to the red carpet grabbing interviews, pictures, and of course live tweeting from the event!
Media frenzy #carsland @disneyland instagr.am/p/L1dk4FlSOD/
— Emily Knight (@FamilyNLifeLV) June 14, 2012
I stinking love Brad Paisley! #carslandinstagr.am/p/L1iJfQFSAv/
— Emily Knight (@FamilyNLifeLV) June 14, 2012
It was so great to see how many of the stars were excited to stop and talk with the Family bloggers! We were a hot stop spot on the red carpet!
Starting with Brad Paisley who was the first to stop and chat with us, the stars kept on coming! I personally was most excited to meet and talk to the stars behind the voices of the cars including, Larry the Cable Guy, Bonnie Hunt, Cheech Marin, and (my favorite) John Ratzenberger. Many of the stars from Modern Family were at the red carpet event, as well as the voice of Phineas, and the stars of Shake It Up!
Nolan Gould “Modern Family”
Andy Garcia and his son!
Brad Paisley
Jenifer Lewis (aka Flo from Cars)
John Ratzenberger (aka Mack from Cars and Cars 2)
Brad Garrett and Larry the Cable Guy
Larry the Cable Guy (aka Mater)
Rico Rodriguez “Modern Family”
Vincent Martella (aka voice of Phineas) “Phineas and Ferb”
Bella Thorne and Zendaya from “Shake It Up”
Even the elite Disney executives showed up to celebrate and officially open Cars Land! They were excited to see so many Family bloggers on the red carpet to share the excitement with their readers!
Robert Iger – Chairman and CEO The Walt Disney Co.
Tom Staggs – Chairman Walt Disney Parks & Resorts
Meg Crofton Disney President of Operations
Sara from MomEndeavors and I!
After the red carpet event we were treated to a fun pre-show for the Grand Opening of Cars Land including music, and an pretty fun speech by John Lasseter (Chief Creative Officer, Walt Disney & Pixar Animation Studio). You could really feel his passion for his work in how he spoke about the growth of Cars Land.
From upper left to right Tom Staggs and John Lasseter with Katherine Helmond (aka Lizzie from Cars), Cheech Marin (Ramone from Cars), Bonnie Hunt (Sally from Cars), and Randy Newman.
Finally the time had come, and after a lot of confetti, fireworks, and more I was among the very first people to step foot into and explore Cars Land walking right down Route 66.
I can’t wait to share all the amazing details and features this new Disney California Adventure land has to offer!
What celebrity would you have been most excited to see at the premiere? For me it was a toss up between John Ratzenberger, Brad Paisley, and Randy Newman!
Disclosure: Disney Public Relations provided me with my travel expenses and accommodations to cover the Disney California Adventures Grand Re-Opening, Cars Land, and Buena Vista Street as a member of the media. No compensation was given to write these posts. I love Disney, all my thoughts and opinions are 100% my own.
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LARRY THE CABLE GUY!!!!!!! and Andy Garcia WOW. how fun and loved all the photos thanks so much for sharing
Congrats on getting to go to this event! SUPER COOL!!!
Congrats on the awesome opportunity! 🙂
Wow! What a fun event. I would have been excited to see everyone. We were just at Disneyland in May. This makes me really want to go back soon!!!
Was so much fun to be there with you! Loving reliving it through everyone’s posts! And, totally love that picture of us! 🙂
Looks like such a fun time! So fun that you got to get so close and talk to the stars.
How fun!!! I am thinking one of these days we need to plan a HUGE Disneyland get together with a bunch of all of us bloggers and our families. Looks like you had lots of fun, and made a forever memory! Can’t wait till you can take the squish! and squishy II.
Im not jealous of lots—IM SOO JEALOUS OF THIS!!!
oh my gosh, how FUN! my boys will not stop asking to go to Cars Land, I just wish it would have been opened in Florida too! Looks awesome though, I saw the sneak peek on tv Friday night. FUN!!!
How fun! What an incredible experience. My kids would go CRAZY for Carsland. That might just convince us to go to Disneyland. Looks like you had a great time. Thanks for sharing!!
I’d like to take my family there.
So happy for you to be able to attend this event! I would have been star struck over any of the ones there but Brad Paisley would have topped them all.
Oh my gosh, so very fun! I can’t decide whose stardom would have struck me hardest! You looked adorable too. 🙂
Wow, really cool!
That looks like so much fun! I can’t wait to read the rest of your updates.
way too cool! that looks like so much fun! So happy you were able to attend and do some coverage of the event. SUPER jealous. I’m basically a disney freak 😉
Love Brad Paisley — I’ve seen him twice in concert!
How awesome! Looks like a great time and I can’t wait to hear more about Cars Land! I think I’d be most excited to see Cheech Marin, but that shouldn’t really surprise anyone 🙂
It was great seeing you again! You got some nice photos.
The only celebrity I wanted to talk to was Randy Newman. He stood right next to me at the opening ceremony, but I didn’t want to bug him.
What a fun experience! Your pictures are amazing!
Love all your pictures! All the stars really turned out for this event – how fun! I really love Brad Paisley – so cute! 🙂
So many great photos! Looks like such a star studded event! I would love to see, meet, hug….Andy Garcia! (swooning now…)
How fun is that! My youngest is just now getting introduced to Cars. He saw it for the first time last week, and thought it was great. I totally would have loved to meet Larry the Cable Guy. That man is hilarious.
Congrats!
Oh my goodness! Great pictures! Looks like you had so much fun ! =)
What a great time! Sounds like you really enjoyed yourself!
How FUN! I have friends who timed their big California vacation to coincide with the opening this week.