Snopes - Disneyland exiting California, moving to Texas?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Disneyland is moving from California to Texas.

Rating: False

A rumor that circulated online in late May 2025 claimed Disneyland was exiting California to make an official move to Texas. Searches for this rumor on Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google and Yahoo all featured at the top of their results an article from the Disney fan blog Inside the Magic. That story, published on May 28, displayed the headline, "Disneyland Exits California, Makes Official Move to Texas." Snopes then received a reader inquiry asking if Disneyland truly was moving to Texas.

However, the rumor of Disneyland leaving California for Texas was false. Despite the wording of the Inside the Magic headline, the story under the headline simply reported another matter. The article said that on May 27, as part of Disneyland's 70th anniversary festivities, some Disney fans and influencers participated in an event featuring a celebratory hot air balloon in Dallas, Texas. The story also reported that, according to an Instagram influencer, organizers planned to next show off the hot air balloon in Houston.

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Decades of untrue Disney rumors

The May 2025 rumor of Disneyland moving to Texas wasn't the first time the claim made the rounds. For example, as Snopes reported in 2020, the Uncle Walt's Insider website published an article showing the headline, "BREAKING: Disneyland is abandoning California, moving to Texas." Unlike Inside the Magic, the Uncle Walt's Insider website features a disclaimer about publishing "fictitious" content, as well as a "satire" tag for its stories.

Another rumor circulating in May 2025 claimed Disneyland's ownership planned to move to Las Vegas. That claim originated in a May 22 article and TikTok video from Mouse Trap News, which features an "About" page on its website describing its content as "the world's best satire and parody website." The headline of the article read, "BREAKING: Disneyland Is Moving to Las Vegas." The story's author reported Disneyland would close in October and move away from California, supposedly due to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's tax policies. Another Mouse Trap News article from May 26 read, "Disney World Removing All American Flags From Parks." These rumors about Disneyland and Walt Disney World were not true.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/disneyland-moving-california-texas/

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Some people will believe anything

Just a second or two of critical thinking would reveal the headline as utter nonsense.

[marble falls]

2. Why, because there is no market for thrills in Texas? The highest populations of kids in the US. Houston is the fourth..

... largest city in the US. Major highways and plenty of airports.

But in the end: who reallllly cares???

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Because dismantling and relocating an established theme park is preposterous nonsense

Why would Disney disrupt a dependable, significant source of revenue for years to dismantle, move, then reassemble its two SoCal theme parks- it makes zero sense business wise.

Followers of Disney know that the corporation just completed a several years long negotiation with the city of Anaheim for a major expansion of the parks (some suggest a third park may be in the offing), so why would they abandon that effort (construction has already broken ground on some of the expansion projects) and instead move everything to Texas?

[Jerry2144]

3. The Vegas thing has an element of truth to it

A movie studio complex is in planning here. It will support Disney and its various production houses. And there’s always a rumor going around that Disney will build a resort here. No park, just hotel complex

[SWBTATTReg]

4. These sorts of rumors have been around forever, it seems like. Disney moving to Branson, MO, Disney moving to the

Midwest, Disney moving to the Ozarks (to serve the central US population), etc. I would think that they wouldn't move the operations, but instead, open up a new 3rd major attraction.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Now I'm beginning to doubt the rumor about North Dakots.

[fargone]

7. The former governor was plying them with chocolate chip cookies

But then the current governor accidentally vetoed the $35 million enticement bonus

[usonian]

8. In a nutshell

[Aristus]

9. One would have to be one of the hillbillies, rednecks, yokels, clodhoppers, or swamp swimmers in order

to believe that Disney would spend any money at all moving closer to them, rather than requiring them to spend some of their meth money to travel to California or Florida.

Disney in Branson, Missouri? Sounds like the sort of thing one comes up with after frying one's defective brain with moonshine.

And Texas? Where would they build their Magic Kingdom that wasn't either an arid wasteland, or a humid, cockroach-infested nightmare?

Sorry, hicks from the sticks, if you want to visit the House of Mouse, you're still going to have to load up the truck, and putt-putt your way to Anaheim or Orlando.