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Monday, May 30th, 2011
On April 27, 2011, we reported that the large parachute from the photo set in front of the Toy Soldiers’ Parachute Drop in the Toy Story Playland (at the Walt Disney Studios) had been removed. It now turns out this was only the first step in a complete overhaul of the location which has now been finished.
As can be seen in the photo above by InsideDLParis the backdrop has been completely redone. Instead of the backdrop having a fully ”hand painted” look now a new CGI look has been put in place at least for parts of the backdrop (in particular the largest toy soldier to the left of the parachute for the guests). The new design with the border around the backdrop  is set to recreate the design of a toy packaging from which Andy could have cut out the backdrop. The large three dimensional parachute certainly is back as well – and also received some plussing: some extra lighting stripes were added under it to illuminate guests posing under the parachute.
The upgrade of the photo set are not the only changes to the Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop area. In addition the floor under the actual ride has been redone. The park had to learn during the past winter season that the chosen paint resulted in the floor turning extremly slippery when wet. Therefore black plastic mats had to be placed over it as a temporary solution during the winter season to allow for continued operation. According to InsideDLParis the floor was now redone (as seen in the photo on the left) and is supposed to be no longer as dangerously slippery when wet as in the past, so that the black mats could be taken out for good.
Photos by InsideDLParis
Tags: Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop, Toy Story Playland, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park
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Saturday, May 21st, 2011
As InsideDLParis lets us know the new “musical character experience” titled “Meet the Disney Stars” premiered today in the Backlot area of the Walt Disney Studios. While not formally announced as part of the Disney Magical Moments Festival it does fit into this year’s theme and helps bolster the entertainment offerings in the Studios which did not receive any other new show for the festival (different from the Disneyland Park next door). In fact the studios are even to loose a show as according to current reports the Stars’n'Cars is to be transformed into a “regular” Disney parade experience while the show on the Production Courtyard Stage (which was part of the streetacular so far) will be cut as the area could not provide enough good viewing spots for the ever growing number of guests that have arrived with the expansion of the park in the past years.
But back to the new addition on Backlot – “Meet the Disney Stars”. This interactive musical character experience features a number of selected characters, including Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Daisy, Stitch, as well as the stars of Toy Story, Ratatouille and The Incredibles according to a first report from the premiere by Characters Photos Blog on facebook. They are driven out onto the backlot by car several times daily to meet with guests, sign autographs and pose for photos. As InsideDLParis reports currently the experience is scheduled for 10.45, 12.15, 13.15, 15.30, and 16.45.
As can be seen in the photos posted by Characters Photos Blog on facebook the car used to bring the characters in is the same one that has been used in the past as pre-parade car for Donald during the original Wonderful World of Disney Parade in the Disneyland Park as well as as the first float of the Cinema Parade in the Studios holding the most recent characters featured in the park. For its new use the car got once again redecorated complete with a new logo for the experience – but fans will recognize it for sure…
Tags: Characters, Disney Magical Moments, Entertainment, Magical Moments, Magical Moments Festival, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Gibson Guitars is already one (of the dwindling numbers) of the official sponsors of Disneyland Paris – since 2010. But only now (that is even several weeks after April 12 – which usually is the big day of change for the sponsor list) it has also officially arrived as name sponsor for one of the resort’s attractions.
Gibson Guitars fittingly selected the Rock’n'Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith in the Walt Disney Studios. An according logo with the French only tag line “prĂ©sentĂ© par” was added to the facade recently and can be seen in the above photo.
Photo by InsideDLParis
Tags: Gibson, Rock 'n' Roller, Rock'n'Roller, Rock'n'Roller Coaster, Rock'n'Rollercoaster, Rock'n'Rollercoaster starring Aerosmith, sponsor, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
The Magical Moments Festival officially is taking place all over Disneyland Paris, including certainly both theme parks. However, the offerings under the festival in the Walt Disney Studios Park are rather limited. One of the very few offerings in the Studios and in fact the only consistently available one is the new photo location that went up in front of the Restaurants des Stars.
Located outside the restaurant along the park’s main road, right under the sign announcing Chef RĂ©my as the restaurants special guest (he appears regularly in real size on a cheese platter and entertains guests) the photo location can be seen in the photo of the right. guests can step behind the cheese and stick their heads out through the holes of the cheese.
Tags: Disney Magical Moments, Magical Moments, Magical Moments Festival, Ratatouille, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park
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Sunday, May 1st, 2011
With the expansion of the Walt Disney Studios in particular with the Tower of Terror, Crush’s Coaster and then Toy Story Playland in the summer of 2010 the “small” park has long grown into a full day experience for first time guests. With the popular attractions also the number of guests has significantly increased. This in turn resulted in rather long lines at the gates each morning.
Solution: adding more entrance gates to the Walt Disney Studios. Over the course of the past winter two more turnstiles were added to the right of the original entrance gates, where originally a planter (with a fence certainly) separated the entrance structure from the ticketing & guest services building. As can be seen in the photos the two new turnstiles are placed under a glass covered pergola. However, two turnstiles is good … but not good enough.
Therefore the construction crew earlier this year moved across the plaza to the other side of the current entrance structure and is adding more entrance gates / turnstiles there as well. Construction fences now for several weeks already block off the planter and fence that connected the original entrance structure on this side with the home of the Studio Store.
As a keen eye will be able to see in the photo of this construction on the right already the tops of at least two columns can be seen stretching just a bit over the top of the construction fence. So it seems safe to expect that on this side of the original entrance structure a similar or even identical pergola structure with two turnstiles will be added as already in use on the other end of the plaza. This would also keep the overall entrance structure symetric as it was before.
Tags: construction, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park
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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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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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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
When the Toy Story Playland opened in the late summer of 2011 a small-scale RC Racer on a piece of race track was found next to the queue building of the RC Racer attraction to function as a photo set. Guests could step inside and get their photo taken. However, after a few days the set-up was blocked off after children started climbing all over it and management identified the set-piece as a safety risk. Soon it was gone leaving a rather odd open space in the Toy Story Playland. The RC Racer car resurfaced earlier this year as decoration along the Studio Tram Tour track.
And now, finally, a replacement has made its way into the Toy Story Playland. The new photo location can be seen on the right. It has gone in the exact same spot as the original photo set. Guests can now step into the blister package of an RC Racer toy to get their photo taken as if they were part of the add-ons coming with the remote control car.
Tags: Pixar, RC Racer, Toy Story Playland, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park
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Monday, April 25th, 2011
With
April 12 not only did the resort get another year older – also, as usual, it was time for some sponsors’ contracts to be renewed or them being replaced. This year we can note the addition of MasterCard that already late last yeard had the replaced VISA as the official credit card of the resort (which therefore hadn’t been listed as a sponsor lately). However, there are also exits without replacement: Dole (who most recently sponsored the Blue Lagoon and the CafĂ© de la Brousse (both in Adventureland) has been scrapped off the list. Also gone are Ford (which had replaced Opel / Vauxhall as the resort’s official car sponsor) and Hasbro as well as IBM and Kellog’s.
Where still 15 sponsors were listed on the park maps at the beginning of the year now only 11 are left. This is certainly also reflected on the sign announcing sponsors on the walls of the City Hall. However, one important change among the sponsors and partners is only half-way reflected in these two lists. There is a new addition we haven’t mentioned so far: Segafredo Zanetti, an Italian coffee brand! (more…)
Tags: Café Cafés, Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, Disneyland Park, Restaurant, sponsor, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park
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Friday, March 25th, 2011
 Since its opening 9 years ago the Walt Disney Studios Park was lacking its own Annual Passport office. Instead guests were asked to obtain their Annual Passports at the central office located in the Disneyland Park. With the ongoing promotions of the APs in the last two to three years lines there have become more frequent and longer.
In light of these longer lines at the AP office in the Disneyland Park and the larger crowds attracted to  the Walt Disney Studios the second gate of the resort received its own AP office in time for the christmas season 2010. It is located in the overflow room of the Disney Blockbuster Café on the Backlot.
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Tags: Annual Passport, Annual Passport Bureau, Annual Passport Office, Backlot, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park
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The upgrade of the photo set are not the only changes to the Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop area. In addition the floor under the actual ride has been redone. The park had to learn during the past winter season that the chosen paint resulted in the floor turning extremly slippery when wet. Therefore black plastic mats had to be placed over it as a temporary solution during the winter season to allow for continued operation. According to InsideDLParis the floor was now redone (as seen in the photo on the left) and is supposed to be no longer as dangerously slippery when wet as in the past, so that the black mats could be taken out for good.
