Archive for April, 2009
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
According to some rumors on the web Disneyland Resort Paris is no more!…

Old Euro Disney Logo
The resort could face another name change, this time however, it could be a previous incarnation of an old name for the resort. If rumors are correct Disneyland Resort Paris will go back to Disneyland Paris. Some sources even say it already has gone back to the Disneyland Paris name!
There is no indication when the name would or has been change to Disneyland Paris. That is if the rumor is indeed correct. At this time, and with summer season coming up, all advertisement related to the park is still using the Disneyland Resort Paris logo. Also any new merchandise is still using the same name. One example of this is the new CD, Mickey’s Magical Party Time, that went on sale in the resort. You can see a picture of the CD, with the “old” DLRP logo on it, following the link to one of our previous news entries here on DLP.Info.
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Tags: Disneyland Paris, Disneyland Park, Disneyland Resort Paris, Parc Disneyland
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
The restaurant “Rendez-Vous des Stars” (on the building: Rendez-Vous des Stars Restaurant) in the Walt Disney Studios has become another opening day element of the theme park that was “adjusted”. While operations of the restaurnt continue in the recent weeks it was renamed to “RESTAURANT des STARS”. Signage on the building has been replaced and a new canopy in a warm color with a newly designed logo for the restaurant was added above the entrance. However, the menu signs are still referring to it as “Rendez-Vous des Stars” – but should be changed soon enough as well.
Besides the change in the name and according adjustments on the signage it is pretty much operation as usual for the restaurant – but then the restaurant already underwent changes in the past, when it switched from the original “cafeteria” concept to an all you can eat buffet with drinks served at the table. Speaking of “operation as usual”: despite reports from US websites that indicated that the miniature character of Remy (the small chef and star of Ratatouille) might have moved to EPCOT at Walt Disney World, he is still wheeled out into the dining room by a junior chef repeatedly throughout the day to make sure guests enjoy their food and entertain them even with a little dance. The small sized live character (the size of a real rat) had its world premier in the Walt Disney Studios – and it must be his twin who is now helping the chefs at Les Chefs de France in EPCOT. According signs announcing his residency at “Restaurant des Stars” were removed from the roof of the building, but are now adorning the walls in the direct sight lines of guests.
Tags: Ratatouille, Remy, Rendez-Vous des Stars, Restaurant des Stars
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
Disneyland Resort Paris released the theme song for “It’s Party Time … with Mickey and Friends” titled “Mickey’s Magical Party Time” on CD. The single is available already at shops throughout the resort as well as from the resort’s mail order service. The song is not only featured as theme song in the new show on Central Plaza but also functions as the theme for this year’s special celebration fittingly titled Mickey’s Magical Party.
The single is priced at EUR 5.50 and comes – as usual for singles from Disneyland Resort Paris - in a paper sleeve. For a change the front cover no longer uses the standard layout of past single-releases but features the drawing of Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Pluto leaning out of a large “hole” in the blue backdrop all over which floating Mickey-shaped balloons can be found. The drawing of the characters is similar to the design of the new marquee on the castle and is also used as “logo” for the celebration on various print materials. Interestingly the CD cover only includes the English song title but no reference to the show’s title (neither in French nor in English).
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Tags: Catch a Wave, CD, It's Party Time ... with Mickey and Friends, Lilo & Stitch, Mickey's Magical Party Time, Scott Erickson, single, Spirit of Aloha, Vasile Sirli
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
When the construction notice for a re-routing of the Tram Tour route went up outside the Walt Disney Studios park, just off a little side street in the back of the Rock’n'Roller Coaster, close to the police station, rumors picked up again about a new “mini-land” to be added behind the Disney Art of Animation and the Toon Studios. But Disneyland Resort Paris did not confirm anything. However, the rumors pretty soon narrowed it down to the new mini-land featuring a themeing based on the Disney Pixar Toy Story franchise and featuring 3 rides. Could that be correct?
Well, recent reports indicate: yes! Next to the construction notice for the re-routing of the Tram Tour a second construction notice has been put up (as is required by French law) for the “implantation de 3 manèges extĂ©rieurs” – or in English: the installation of three outdoor carousels / rides! So the Walt Disney Studios are definitely being expanded with three outdoor rides!
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Tags: construction, Toy Story, Toy Story Playland
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
TEA ERA has released their annual Attraction Attendance Report. The 2008 report shows the growth of Disneyland Resort Paris. In Europe Disneyland Resort Paris did very well. The Disneyland park got the first place with a total attendance of 12,688,000 guests, up 5,7% from the previous year. The Walt Disney Studios ended on the 9th place. It did this with a healthy increase of 4,5% and a total of 2,612,000 guests.
In the global top 25 Disneyland Park in Paris ended on the 4th place, behind the Magic Kingdom (1), Disneyland (Anaheim) (2), and Tokyo Disneyland (3), but in front of DisneySea (5), Epcot (6), Disney’ Hollywood Studios (7), Disney’s Animal Kingdom (8), Disney’s California Adventure (13) and Hong Kong Disneyland (18).
The Walt Disney Studios didn’t make it into the top 25.
For more on the other parks and places visit the Mousekingdom Blog and download the official Attraction Attendance Report (pdf).
Tags: Anaheim, Disneyland, DisneySea, Florida, France, Hong Kong, Orlando, Paris, Park, Resort, Studios, Tokyo, Walt Disney World
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Many believed that with the closure of the Buffalo Trading Company to replace it – according to the internet – with a Starbucks later this year the most visible change for 2009 in the Disney Village was “done”. However just early this month another change happened surprisingly: the carousel next to the Raiforest Cafe (opposite of Cafe Mickey) was removed!
The large carousel which required guests to actualy pay for each ride had been widely criticized by fans as looking tacky, not being Disney-themed and also being a rather blunt move to get money from guests since a more intricately themed classic carousel is an attraction inside the Disneyland Park which guests with a theme park passport can use without further costs.
However, that discussion seems to be a thing of the past now, as the carousel was removed without any traces left . Another step in the project of the Disneyland Resort Paris to streamline the look of the Disney Village and make it more inviting for guests to spend some time there (besides rushing throughout it on the way to the hotel, a quick meal and maybe some late hour shopping in the Disney boutiques). As part of the project the atmosphere of the Disney Village was already greatly improved by the removal of the former central stage between the Sports Bar and the Disney Store and later the addition of planters and trees and new outdoor seating (in early 2008) as well as a small stage (in late 2008). One needs to wonder: what is the next thing that has to give and what additions are in store in the near-term?
Tags: carousel, Disney Village
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Costumers of the Belgium Carrefour group, this includes the shops GB, GB Express and Carrefour, can collect Disneyland Resort Paris stickers. The stickers are given to clients spending 20 euro or more and after showing their Carrefour bonus card. For every 20 euros spend 1 pack of stickers are given with a limit of 15 packs per visit. The collection comes with an album that can be bought for 1,50 Euro. The stickers are produced by the Panini group, an Italian company well known for their collectable sticker books.
The first 50.000 costumers, to fill their book with all the stickers, can then bring it back to the shop where they can trade it for 1 free entry ticket to both the parks of Disneyland Resort Paris and will also have the option to buy up to 4 extra tickets at a discounted price of 30 Euro per ticket.
You can also win extra stickers by playing online games on the Carrefour website. The 10 highest scores of the week will get up to 15 stickers.
For more information visit the Carrefour website. The action will end on 30 June 2009.
Tags: Disneyland, Disneyland Resort Paris, DLRP, Panini, Stickers, Walt Disney Studios
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Animal activists for several years already campaign against “Foie Gras” – a French speciality created out of the goose and duck liver that has been specifically fattened. This fattening is frequently accomplished through force-feeding of the animal – considered cruelty against the animals by animal activists, who therefore campaign against this typical French delicacy.
In the recent days several blogs (including antikewldaily and cartoon brew) posted an animated short created on behalf of Wakker Dier (a Dutch activist group) attacking Disneyland Resort Paris over its offering Foie Gras, which is available in selected restaurants on property, such as The Steakhouse (in the Disney Village) and The California Grill (in the Disneyland Hotel). However, the short was actually already released on December 17, 2007 – so this is not a current or recent activity. Nevertheless, the recent posts on blogs has brought the topic back into at lest parts of the internet discussion.
Whatever one thinks about the campaign against Foie Gras and them singleing out the Disneyland Resort Paris – the animated short is technically well done and impressive. The short showcases the “production” of Fois Gras in cartoon style next to an stylized Sleeping Beauty Castle emplyoing characters clearly resembling famous Disney stars.
You can find the full animated short below the jump…
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Tags: food, Restaurant
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Two days ago, on April 1 around 11:20am, a fire broke out in the Walt Disney Studios attraction Rock’n'Roller Coaster. The fire started on top of the roof of the attraction. About 120 guest where evacuated and it took firefighters over 4 hours to extinguish the fire. Because of the incident the next door stunt show was cancelled too. There is no damage to the ride itself.
Some pictures taken during the incident can be found on following link
(Via Le Parisien)
Tags: Disney, Disneyland, fire, Paris, Resort, rollercoaster, Studios, Walt
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Just to wrap it up: the French Grand Prix of the Formula 1 is not going to move to the Disneyland Resort Paris. Since the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours was taken off the Formula 1 calendar various locations in particular in the vicinity of Paris had put themselves forward as possible locations for a new race cours for the Grand Prix. If one believed earlier reports – which were reported about here on DLP.info as well as on the Mousekingdom Blog – besides the idea of conducting the Grand Prix on the streets in the center of Paris one of the most promising proposals was to construct the new course on the property of the Disneyland Resort Paris … or at least that was what one could understand from the reports coming out of the Formula 1 circuit…
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Tags: F1, Formula 1, Grand Prix
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