{"id":385753,"date":"2026-07-04T03:31:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385753\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:31:34","slug":"disneyland-resort-welcomes-its-1-billionth-guest-robles-family-from-arizona-treated-to-vip-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385753\/","title":{"rendered":"Disneyland Resort welcomes its 1 billionth guest; Robles family from Arizona treated to VIP tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Nearly 71 years after Walt Disney opened Disneyland Resort in Southern California, the Happiest Place on Earth welcomed its 1 billionth guest on Friday!<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Andres Robles, 8, and his parents, Alejandra and Jose Robles, are from Arizona. They arrived on Thursday to celebrate Andres&#8217; birthday and were surprised to be selected as the honorary 1 billionth guest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The family was escorted to the Main Street Train Station, where Mickey Mouse joined them to unveil an updated Disneyland population sign, now displaying &#8220;Population 1,000,000,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Robles family got a VIP tour guide for the day, including a tour of Walt Disney&#8217;s private apartment, the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/disneyland-resorts-soarin-america-debuts-new-scenes-americas-250th-anniversary\/19436701\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newly opened Soarin&#8217; Across America attraction<\/a> and other special experiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Walt Disney Company is the parent company of Disney Parks and this ABC station.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Nearly 71 years after Walt Disney opened Disneyland Resort in Southern California, the Happiest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[155653,163,165,164],"class_list":["post-385753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-155653","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}