Archive for April, 2011
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
Last week Disney released the dates to their next pin event. This time it will take place on Saturday 16 July from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at Disney’s Hotel New York. Special pins will be on offer for those guests that are visiting the event. Those will be, as usual, very limited. The last pin event took place on Friday 29 April. This was one of the Pin Trading Night events. During this event the theme for the next Pin Trading day was revealed to the guest: Star Wars.
Collectors will have the opportunity to get some special Disney Star Wars pins during this event. Not only will they be very limited, but with a big Star Wars fan base world wide might become one of the most looked for pins coming from Paris.
This event will be a hard ticket event and the price will be around 40 Euro. Advance registration will be needed to be able to get a ticket and to make sure you will get your limited pin(s) on the day.
Tags: Disney, Disneyland, event, Events, Hotel, Limited, New York, Paris, pin, pins, Star Wars, Trade, Trader, Walt
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Saturday, April 30th, 2011
The Sleeping Beauty Castle might be most prominent refurbishment going on right now. But as already reported, there are numerous additional rehabs currently in Fantasyland and certainly the rehab of Walt’s on the Main Street. But that is not the end of the list – and certainly the rehabs are not limited to the Disneyland Park, as the scaffolding at the lake facade of Disney’s Sequoia Lodge shows. Another refurbishment is currently starting just a few meters further up on the shores of Lake Disney. As seen in the photo by InsideDLParis work has started on the light house in front of Disney’s Newport Bay Club – finally, as it has been awaited by fans for a rather long time as the state of it had been detoriating for quite a while now.
There is also a sort of a rehab going on in the Walt Disney Studios Park. As can be seen in the second photo from Friday, April 29, crews have started cleaning the tent structure roofs of Studio 2 and 3 housing Cinemagique and Animagique. While these roof structures are not as obvious as something like the light house on the shores of Lake Disney or Sleeping Beauty Castle in the Disneyland Park they are still visible from inside the Walt Disney Studios Park for all guests and need just the same attention as other buildings.
The final new refurbishment for this report is found inside the Disneyland Park once again, to be more specific inside Adventureland. Here scaffolding has gone up over the last days around Colonel Hathi’s Pizza Outpost.
All photos courtesy of InsideDLParis
Tags: Adventureland, Animagique, Cinemagique, Colonel Hathi's Pizza Outpost, Disney's Newport Bay Club, Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, Disneyland Park, Lake Disney, Newport Bay Club, Studio 2, Studio 3, Studio Theatre, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park
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Saturday, April 30th, 2011
Picking up where we left with yesterday’s CRPR (Castle Rehab Progress Report) thanks to InsideDLParis (aka Matthew Burggraeve) we can now present you with the latest developments of the most prominent current refurbishment project at Disneyland Paris: Sleeping Beauty Castle.
As a reminder we start out with a photo taken on Wednesday, April 27th – seen on the left. It shows the castle still with all tarps up at the front facade but already with a white roof on the highest turret and the roofs completely missing on the second turret to the left of it as well as (barely visible in the photo) on the second turret on the right half of the castle if coutning up from the top of the scaffolding.Â
As already reported yestereday the tarps at the front facade of the castle starting coming down yesterday … revealing that also some work was done to the rockwork at the base of the castle – including the picturesque waterfall to the left of the draw bridge, which can be seen in our next photo on the left.
The third and final photo of today’s CRPR courtesy of InsideDLParis shows the castle at (roughly) 10:30 am today, Saturday April 30th. As all the tarps have come down on the front facade of the actual castle the new colors cal already be seen through the remaining scaffolding. A look at the right border of the photo shows that the printed on tarps are still up on the scaffolding covering the archway leading from the castle to the right (so behind the Castle Stage).
Also note that the roof of the top turret, that had been stripped of the old colors on Wednesday now already received it’s paint job with the new color scheme selected. A comparison of the two photos of the castle from Wednesday (April 27) and today (April 30). Shows further progress – sure the roofs of on the two turrets mentioned above are still missing. But there are now three more roofs of turrets that are all wait, that means that have been prepared to receive their new paint job: the small side turret on the highest turret as well as the next two turrets to the right from it in the photo.
While the rehab of the castle will continue for a while longer with the scaffolding at its front facade coming down guests will soon be able to get their traditional souvenir photos once again in front of a shining, good-as-new castle!
All photos courtesy of InsideDLParis (aka Matthew Burggraeve)
Tags: Castle, Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, Disneyland Park, Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant, refurbishment, rehab, Sleeping Beauty Castle
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Friday, April 29th, 2011
The castle rehab project is gathering up speed … faster and faster. Take a look at the photos accompanying this report. They were taken last weekend and still show all of the tarps up on the front facade of the castle. As of yesterday, Thursday April 28, 2011, these tarps have started coming down on the front facade of the main part of the castle.
Already gone by yesterday evening was the tarp surrounding the facade around the actual gate into the castle. I.e. we are talking about the printed on tarps as seen in the photo on the right, not the white tarps covering the arcade leading from the main body of the castle to the right (behind the Castle Stage). Also visible again was the waterfall to the left of the castle, which received a rehab as well (but certainly was still turned off as the scaffolding was still in place.
While the scaffolding was still up after the tarps came down, expect the scaffolding to follow soon. Also the entrance walkway from Central Plaza to the Dragon’s cave under the castle has been blocked with a green construction wall to park a large crane behind that is used in the current phase of the construction.
However, the tarps on the front facade weren’t the only things that came down. Also down is the golden / blue color on selected roofs of the castle’s turrets. As of Wednesday the complete roof of the highest turret was all white as it was prepped to receive its new paint job.
To see photos of the latest progress, including the revealed, rehabed waterfalls, the tarps taken down and the turret’s white roof check out the tweets by InsideDLParis (Matthew Burggraeve) or head straight to his twitpic account!
Tags: Castle, construction, Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, Disneyland Park, Fantasyland, Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant, refubirshment, rehab, Sleeping Beauty Castle
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Friday, April 29th, 2011
It’s a non stop work in progress. When one area is done, the next one is prepared. Fantasyland (and in particular its walkways) is seeing a lot of work done in 2011 to prepare for next year’s 20th anniversary. As the repaving of the parade route in Fantasyland has been finished and work in front of the Castle stage is underway now new construction fences have gone up in front of the Fantasy Festival Stage. (more…)
Tags: construction, Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, Disneyland Park, Fantasy Festival Stage, Fantasyland, Old Mill, refurbishment, rehab
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
As brought to our attention by DLRPToday the often talked about joint-venture project of the Euro Disney and Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs adjacent to the current Disney’s Davy Crockett Ranch has taken the next step: Les Villages Nature de Val d’Europe (as the official current full name of the project is) has gone online with an extensive website in French, including artist impressions and a first map which also includes the current Disney’s Davy Croockett Ranch on the page CaractĂ©ristiques du projet.
On the Disney side the project is spearheaded by Imagineering which is already deply involved at the current point and has sent personnel over them USA. However, it should be noted that the project is still in the planning phase so any and all data might change. Nevertheless, the website gives a good impression about the first phase of the project that is supposed to include 1,730 new “rooms” (710 apartments around the central lagoon plus 1,020 cottages further south on the property), the (supposedly with 9,000 square meter) largest water park in Europe, restaurants, retail options and additional leisure facilities. (more…)
Tags: Center Parcs, Davy Crockett Ranch, Disney's Davy Crockett Ranch, Disneyland Paris, EuroDisney S.C.A., Hotel, Les Villages Nature, Les Villages Nature de Val d’Europe, Pierre & Vacances, Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs, Resort, Val d'Europe, water park
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
The ground that guest stand on during their Disneyland visit is mostly forgotten or overlooked by many but it is a solid part of the story and important to make sure that the magic keeps alive, even under your feet.
It’s nice to look up and see a wonderful and colorful castle, but if the path that you walk on doesn’t look good or isn’t maintained it would take away from the full picture, breaking the illusion of the magic. To make sure guest get nothing but the best, even for their feet that are feeling the pressure of strolling hours in the park, Disney is making sure the paths and the grounds around it are in perfect condition. At this time one of these projects is taking place in Fantasyland.
Leave the castle on your rights going to the left side walking into Fantasyland guests pass the beautiful, but unfortunately underused, Castle Stage. Right in front of the Castle Stage guest could brows around it or sit on one of the many benches that used to be full with guests visiting the great shows on the castle. At this time the whole area has been blocked of with the standard green fences including with the regular “for your future enjoyment” signs. The whole are is being repaved to make the area look new and freshed up again. This is a second phase in refurbishing this area as work in and around the Castle Stage area already took place a while ago.
During the refurbishment guest will also be unable to go to the wishing well that can be found just behind the castle stage area and that connects the side of the of the castle with the left hand path way to Fantasyland. A gray fence is looking the entrance from the castle onto the wishing well area. No chance to go and make a wish at this time, however who would need to make any wish when they are in Disneyland Paris.
UPDATE:
As a look behind the fence provided by InsideDLParis via twitpic reveals the repaving is making fast progress. Already the area between the actual stage and the Central Plaza seems to be finished. However, the bricks seem to be used not only to replace the concrete on this part of the parade route but also the floor of the former auditorium (from which the benches were removed several weeks ago).
Tags: Castle Stage, construction, Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, Disneyland Park, Fantasyland, Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant, Park, refurbishment, Sleeping Beauty Castle
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
As reported earlier on Easter Monday, April 25, 2011, five guests on board of one of the trains of Big Thunder Mountain were injured. After various versions of the original accident reports with partially contradicting details it seems the French daily Le Parisien has now published what – at this time – should be considered the definitive version of the facts (even so obviously not concerning the cause for the accident).
So this is what seems to have happened:
In the tunnel housing the coasters final lift hill (“lift C”) one of the set pieces fell off the walls or the ceiling (no details have been released concerning this). The cause for this is unknown. However, it has to be considered that the tunnel housing “lift C” is also home to the “earthquake scene” of Big Thunder Mountain. Once a train rolls up the lift hill  movement of rockwork on the walls and above the guests together with lighting and sound effects is supposed to simulate an earthquake with an explosion followed by the tunnel supposedly caving in on the train, revealing a vein of gold just as the train – normally – would escape at the last second onto the final section of the coaster track.
Original reports stated that the set piece, some fake rockwork consisting (as confirmed by Thierry Bonnet, deputy prefect of Seine-et-Marne) of fiberglass and wood fell onto the train injuring five of the 25 guests on board. However, it has now been determined that set piece did not actually fall on the guests. Instead it fell onto the track in front of the train. Once the train was pulled up the lift hill it hit the fake rockwork on the track resulting it in being flung upwards and then hitting 5 of the guests on board and injured them around 2:50 pm, April 25, 2011. (more…)
Tags: accident, Big Thunder Mountain, closure, Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, Disneyland Park, Frontierland
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
The Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop, the maybe most popular attraction of the Toy Story Playland with guests of all ages, is missing a parachute. Luckily it is none of the parachutes that double as ride vehicles (even so one row was closed earlier during the past weekend due to a technical problem). (more…)
Tags: Pixar, Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop, Toy Story Playland, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park
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Last week Disney released the dates to their next pin event. This time it will take place on Saturday 16 July from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at Disney’s Hotel New York. Special pins will be on offer for those guests that are visiting the event. Those will be, as usual, very limited. The last pin event took place on Friday 29 April. This was one of the Pin Trading Night events. During this event the theme for the next Pin Trading day was revealed to the guest: Star Wars.
