Soarin' Over California Returns to Disneyland Next Month

February 10, 2022, 3:25 PM · Buh-bye, Leaning Tower of Eiffel. Soarin' Over California is coming back to Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort.

The original version of Disney's popular flying theater ride will return "for a limited time" during the Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival, which starts March 4.

Update: The festival runs through April 26 this year, so if want to see the original Soarin’, get to the park before then.

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Replies (7)

February 10, 2022 at 4:20 PM

Hopefully it will still be there when I visit mid-May.

February 10, 2022 at 6:28 PM

Really the best version. Wish it was staying for good.

February 11, 2022 at 4:03 AM

They have committed to a specific end date - as per the attractions page on the Disneyland website, ‘Glide above the Golden State’s natural and man-made wonders—available March 4 to April 26, 2022, as part of the 2022 Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival.’

February 11, 2022 at 11:54 AM

If you don't purchase Genie+ Soarin is now one of the worst lines in the park. They've given the theaters on the right over to Lightning Lane, so the entire standby line feeds into the two theaters on the left. Combined with the stop-start way the Soarin line moves, it's an unbearable wait.

February 11, 2022 at 12:32 PM

I still enjoy the original so nice to see a return.

February 14, 2022 at 8:21 AM

@thecolonel - Soarin' at DCA only has two (2) theaters, one to the left and one to the right, each with three boarding corrals, and each of those with 3 rows of guests. EPCOT's version of the ride added a 3rd theater/ride system in 2016 ago to increase its capacity (and to covert to Soarin' Around the World), but no such expansion has been performed in California.

February 14, 2022 at 6:15 PM

Ah, thanks Russell. Well then, the standby line now feeds the single theater on the left, and the theater on the right is reserved for LL folks, making the standby line particularly egregious.

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