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.
There is also no indication of the name change on the official Disneyland Resort Paris website (yet).
Disneyland Resort Paris has undergone many name changes since it opened in 1992. It opened under the Name Euro Disney Resort with the first gate being known as Euro Disneyland. A name that didn’t last long, although some people and even some online travel agents still use today. The name was changed in May 1994 to Euro Disneyland Paris for a short period of time until, in October of that same year, it changed to Disneyland Paris.
In 2002, with the opening of the second gate, the Disneyland Resort Paris title was born. The first park would now be called Disneyland Park, or Parc Disneyland in French, and the second gate opened its doors as the Walt Disney Studios Park. Now, according to some news and rumors that are floating around, as of this month the Resort name is being transformed back to Disneyland Paris. No official announcements have been made so far.
Picture logo EuroDisney: Copyrights Disney.
Perhaps once Blackpool Pleasure Beach started calling itself a resort they realised the word had become meaningless & there was no point carrying on.
“No indication on the website” is not entirely true… When you enter http://www.disneylandresortparis.com (which used to be the official URL) in your browser, you’ll be redirected to http://www.disneylandparis.com now. Also, the page where you choose your location (you can get to it here: http://www.disneylandparis.com/?c=0) has only “Disneyland Paris” on the top left logo. The various country-specific sites still display the additional word “Resort” there. Subtle, but I’d say the indications fore the name change are already there… ;-)
For me “EuroDisney Resort” is definetely the best name has ever had the Resort in MarneĂ© La Valle, Paris (France). Only saying “EuroDisney”, everybody knows from what Disney Park are you talking about and saying “Disneyland” is more common and confusing: which Disneyland? Tokio, Paris, Hong Kong, Anaheim…??
It’s like Walt Disney World: only saying it, everyone knows you’re going to the Resort in Orlando, Florida (U.SA.). Saying “EuroDisney”, easilly, everyone knows that you’re talking about the Euro(pean) park. So I think that was a perfect name.
I think that the directors of the “EuroDisney Resort” are so bored and they don’t know anything better to do than change repeatedly their Resort name.
These uncountables name’s changes have been causing lots of confussions to the citizens. Never a Disney Park has had so many name’s changes than the “EuroDisney” one: we are talking about more than 4 changes in a record of any Disney Park time, only 10 years (since the latest one): First it was “EuroDisney Resort”, then “Disneyland Paris”, then “Disneyland Resort Paris”, and it’s seems that they’re calling it now again “Disneyland Paris”!; but the most incredible thing is that not only the global Resort’s name has been changing, the park’s names inside the Resort too: FestivalDisney into DisneyVillage, EuroDisneyland into EuroDisneyland Paris and then into Disneyland Paris and now into Disneyland Park… Where are we going to go?
They’ve always defensed the marketing idea: euro is something negative, related to the “euro” currency. Please, come on, when you’re going to such incredible resort full of magic and fun, you, unconsciously, don’t care about the prefix “euro” , you don’t think about it, I’ve gone to EuroDisney when it was called “EuroDisney” and never runned inside my head that stupid idea of the currency… What’s more, I think that the prefix euro- is not realted with the currency, it’s related with Europe, with the fact that’s the only resort arround the whole Europe. So it was perfect that incredible name of “EuroDisney”-The European Disney Resort. People says that is related with the currency, thinking that’s more or less DollarDisney…NO. The fact is that’s a coincidence among Euro as currency and Euro as referring to all the european things (eurovision, eurodiputate, euroconnector…).
In Europe, when people go there, call it “EuroDisney” (it’s short, easy and cute) , almost nobody says, and especially kids, the pedantic and neverending name of “Disneyland Resort Paris”
We all knew EuroDisney and EuroDisneyland in 1992 and ,personally, I think that such amazing, perfect, magical and short name sitll lives in our hearts.
But the nice thing is that the “EuroDisney” name seems that have never died :), lots of pannels, china’s inscriptions, travel agencies, pole’s lights’ inscriptions, eurodisneyland railroad, have stillthe “EuroDisney” name.
EuroDisney, it’s accepted and known all arround the world! So, directors, why don’t you stop that big mountain of re-naming the Resort, and just call it again -and forever- “EuroDisney Resort” and “EuroDisneyland” instead of “Disneyland Resort Paris” and “Disneyland Parc”?