The familiar clip-clop sound of Disneyland’s beloved draft horses are once again echoing off the facades of the Victorian-style buildings lining Main Street U.S.A. as the Anaheim theme park prepares for an April reopening following a year-long coronavirus closure.

The Disneyland draft horses that are expected to ferry Disney characters along the entry promenade have been taking practice runs pulling the park’s vintage horse-drawn trolleys, according to MiceChat.

“The happiest horses on earth have been practicing their route a few days a week for a while now,” according to MiceChat. “We don’t know if the trolley will be returning with the park or not, but it’s still neat to see this little bit of Disneyland life that we all remember so well.”

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Disneyland and other California theme parks can reopen on April 1 provided the counties they reside in reach the red/substantial tier 2 risk status of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s updated Blueprint for a Safer Economy. Disney CEO Bob Chapek has said Disneyland will reopen in late April.

Disneyland’s horse-drawn trolleys and other Main Street vehicles are expected to be used to maintain a safe social distance between characters and visitors. Seemingly impromptu character cavalcades along Main Street U.S.A. are expected to replace parades that will be suspended when Disneyland reopens.

Walt Disney World has used the horse-drawn trolleys to transport characters during socially distanced cavalcades. Trolleys were deployed along Main Street U.S.A. at Florida’s Magic Kingdom to carry Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet during Halloween 2020 character cavalcades.

Before the coronavirus closure, Disneyland’s Mickey & Friends Band-Tastic Cavalcade dispatched characters aboard a double-decker bus along the parade route during inclement weather.

Horse-drawn trolleys have been a Disneyland tradition since the park opened in 1955. The trolleys typically transport visitors along a route that travels along Main Street U.S.A. between Sleeping Beauty Castle and the Disneyland train station.

Disneyland horses are considered cast members, Disney-speak for employees. Each of the horses has its own oversize cast member name tag in the tack room of Disneyland’s Circle D Ranch in Norco. The Home of the Happiest Horses on Earth offers spacious quarters for the working animals as well as storage space for stage coaches and carriages used in the theme park.

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Disneyland draft horses pull Main Street U.S.A. trolleys in preparation for reopening

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