February 16th, 2010 by Andy de Maertelaere
The Sleeping Beauty’s Castle is getting some attention to keep the magnificent centerpiece a beautiful sight for all the guests entering the Disneyland Park. This time the main entrance is being looked after. Guest cannot enter the castle from the front bridge, as it has been completely blocked off, and will have to walk around it to enter Fantasyland. The Castle itself remains open to everybody, but can only be entered from the back entrance. Once inside you can walk all the way to the front gate. Both shops, La Boutique du Chateau” and Merlin L’Echanteur remain open for business during the rehab. Also the walk-through gallery is open for all guests.
The front pathways to the cave’s entrances to La Tanière du Dragon is blocked during the rehab. You can still visit the awesome dragon by entering one of the other open entrances. Don’t let the works discourage you visiting the cave and to gaze onto the powerful dragon.
The crew working on the castle has no easy task at the moment. The pictures where taken when nobody was working, most probably it’s the extreme low temperatures that has forced the crew to stay inside. One cannot blame them as working in these below zero weather isn’t going to be easy. For sure Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip wont mind that the crew is taking a break from the cold. Their gorgeous home will shine again soon enough, once the warmer weather is back.
You can see on the small picture (click on it to enlarge it) that the place was deserted at the time. You can recognize work being done on some of the edgings of the pathways. Please note that this picture was taken from a public place through an opening and we at DLP.Info discourage everybody to trespass to get a picture from closed off areas.
February 15th, 2010 by Andy de Maertelaere
The steel structure shown on the picture is not a Chameleon ride that has just changed color to fit in its environment, but a hangar that will function as the queue area for the new Toy Story Playland attraction “Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop”.
The structure has transformed from white to black and is now ready to get covered up. The two pictures shows you the “before and after” look of the structure.
The final and main color for the complete building will be green to match the attraction’s Tower. The models doesn’t show any camouflage colors as the attraction itself does, so the final paint job for the hangar might be the plain green as is used on the model. (you can see a picture of the Parachute Drop model here in our forum)
February 14th, 2010 by Andy de Maertelaere
It might be your last chance, but it’s a good one. A chance to buy some Disney merchandise for a nice 50% discount on the tag price.
You can find this massive discount throughout all of the Resort. Big red signs let you know about the last chance to get some steep discounts on the final lots of discontinued Disney articles.
Enjoy your magical shopping spree while saving some Euro for your next visit.
February 14th, 2010 by Andy de Maertelaere
The Toy Story Army Man are waiting anxiously to get to work and make their first Parachute jump. Looking at the work that is being done on their Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop attraction it wont be long anymore. The big metal arms that will hold the parachutes are put into place and are sticking out on the newly vertical erect tower. On the pictures you can see the Disney crew being lifted up to work on them and to make sure all is in place and ready for the next phase.
The tower is already turning into a real eye catcher and will be even more once it starts “dropping” screaming guests.
But not everybody might like the new eye catcher as, unfortunately, the Parachute drop will also be very visible from Frontierland. This is a real disadvantage for the atmosphere of Frontierland. This is an unfortunate problem with the Disneyland Park and the Studios being build so close together. While it makes it easy to park hop, guest will encounter the sometimes unfitting panoramic views.
This has been mentioned many times when the Tower of Terror was put in place, but with this new “tower” added could become another heated topic on many Disney Boards. What do you think about about the tower so far? Is the camouflage ride appealing to you or will the view from Frontierland be to disturbing to like the ride?
… and are you ready for your first drop?
February 12th, 2010 by Torsten Schneider
It is a rare sight: a frozen lake around a lonely mountain in the usually hot prairie.
- a sight that could be seen at Disneyland Paris today.
Big Thunder Mountain towers over partly frozen Rivers of the Far West today – and one could ask if the resort needs an Icebreaker tonight since the Steamer Mark Twain is planned to run on schedule again up from tomorrow, February 12.
The Mark Twain is not the only attraction that is planned to reopen on Saturday.
Casey Jr. und Le Pays des Contes de FĂ©es will also be open for the guests, again, starting tomorrow.
February 10th, 2010 by Andy de Maertelaere
 Euro Disney S.C.A has release the figures of the first quarter that ends December 31. As was to be expected during the economic environment we are in today, revenue has decreased drastically with a total of 11%.
Resort operation segment revenue has decreased by 10% to a total of 164,7 million Euro. In the previous year this was 323 million Euro, a decrease of almost 23 million Euro. Theme Park revenue was down 12%. While in the prior year it brought a total of 186,1 million Euro, this years quarters revenue was only 164,7 million Euro. The main reason for this was an decrease of 11% in attendance. Especially the United Kingdom and the France visitors guests stayed away. Average spending per guest remained the same.
Hotels and Disney Village revenue also lost 10% and dropped from 124,6 million Euro to 112,3 million Euro compared to the previous year. This due to 9,9% less occupancy in the Disney hotels. Average spending per room did see a small increase of 3%, but isn’t enough to help the massive drop in this quarter.
Euro Disney S.C.A Fiscal Year 2010 First Quarter announcement.
February 4th, 2010 by Dirk
Just one respectively two days ago we summed up the rumors regarding the entertainment offerings at the Disneyland Park and at the Walt Disney Studios Park coming to the conclusion that the range might be rather limited despite the “New Generation Festival” starting in April – in particular since one announced happening in the studios, “Monsters Inc. Scream Academy”, is rumored to have been cancelled prior to its premier (despite its cast having already been assigned) and the fact that it is still not confirmed whether the rumored show “Disney Showtime Spectacular” (replacing “It’s Party Time … with Mickey and Friends” on the Central Plaza Stage) in the Disneyland Park will be performed multiple times throughout the day or just once in the evening. However, now we learned that TODAY an open casting is conducted by Disneyland Paris for an all new show in a dance studio in Pantin! …[more] »
February 3rd, 2010 by Dirk
Disneytheque managed to get a photo of the latest progress of the construction for the Toy Story Playland in the Walt Disney Studios Park. Seen rising high above the construction walls is now the central metal tower of the Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop. Later on the arms will be added at the top of the metal column from which the “parachutes” / seats for guests will be suspended. However, the metal column with the “suttle” camouflage paint job the arms will remain free standing without any major changes, even so some planting (most probably bamboo) will at least cover the lower section of column from walkways outside the future Toy Story Playland. The metal column is the first element of the vertical construction that is visible and already sports its finalized look – all buildings currently under construction are still frames or bare concrete walls only and will receive their themeing at a later point. In the background of the photo the crane can be spotted that was used to errect the metal column. For a closer look check out the original full size photo at Disneytheque!
Photo by Disneytheque
February 3rd, 2010 by Dirk
After yesterday’s (in the meantime twice updated) look at the rumors regarding the entertainment in the Disneyland Park for the upcoming months, today it’s time to look at the second theme park at Disneyland Paris: the Walt Disney Studios Park. First the good news: all of the major entertainment offerings will continue – but then it was never doubted that Animagique, CinĂ©Magique, Playhouse Disney Live on Stage! (only added in 2009), Stitch Live! or Motors … Action! Stunt Show Spectacular would continue. Sure the number of performances are tweaked every now and then (in particular for the stunt show) depending on the season but those shows are among the landmark attractions of the theme park for certain groups of guests. However, the offering of additional entertainment on the streets of the park as well as on the Production Courtyard stage is something different … …[more] »
February 2nd, 2010 by Dirk
Over the years the various entertainment offerings in both theme parks at Disneyland Paris have been closely scrutinized by fans, a considerable group of whom in the recent years became more and more vocal. Subject of the criticism were in particular the limited amount of entertainment offered outside high season, the sometime as stale or not popular enough perceived offerings and what can only be seen as waste of money by the entertainment team in the form of ordering the construction of a major stage on Central Plaza, when other stages sit mostly unused.
With the “New Generation Festival” starting in April 2010 for both theme parks and the heavy emphasize that the resort itself put on the entertainment offerings the rumor mills started turning fast again and then jumping into overdrive when suddenly reports about the pre-opening cancellation of a small happening planned for the Walt Disney Studios Park surfaced during the past weekend. Unfortunately that is not the only bad report / rumor coming out of the resort for the entertainment offerings … time for a “rumor sum up”! …[more] »
The Sleeping Beauty’s Castle is getting some attention to keep the magnificent centerpiece a beautiful sight for all the guests entering the Disneyland Park. This time the main entrance is being looked after. Guest cannot enter the castle from the front bridge, as it has been completely blocked off, and will have to walk around it to enter Fantasyland. The Castle itself remains open to everybody, but can only be entered from the back entrance. Once inside you can walk all the way to the front gate. Both shops, La Boutique du Chateau” and Merlin L’Echanteur remain open for business during the rehab. Also the walk-through gallery is open for all guests.
The crew working on the castle has no easy task at the moment. The pictures where taken when nobody was working, most probably it’s the extreme low temperatures that has forced the crew to stay inside. One cannot blame them as working in these below zero weather isn’t going to be easy. For sure Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip wont mind that the crew is taking a break from the cold. Their gorgeous home will shine again soon enough, once the warmer weather is back.
