Hi!
I´m just back again from DL(R)P! Was a wonderful time again!
A longer trip report will follow but first three short things:
The shameless ugly:
- Operating hours for attractions: I was really really really [think more reallys as stitch says very in Stitch Live] disapointed by this new attractions opening hours thing. It´s simply the most shameless thing a Disney Park could do. Some attractions opens very late (some at 3 PM!!!!!!) and close very early (some ate 6 PM!!!!). It´s horrible in the off season but it´s the hell on earth at the summer season. They simply cannot be serious! Should the visitors ask for a half price ticket if they have just some hours to visit and can´t get on the attraction they want??? It was really crazy! Even Phantom manor closed at 10 PM and that was the time it really was dark out there. Together with the closure of adventureland and fantasyland at 10 PM you really can´t do much after 10 PM.
I´m really disapointed, angry and sad about this operating times. How do you feel about this new system???
-The breakdown of rides. Some rides seems to have some problems other are closed for hours. If you take a look at the waiting times board you could really be shocked. On sunday space mountain, nautilus, Crush (as every day), and some of the small rides of fantasyland where all out of order. Together with this new operating hours system you really get a big problem!!! On the one hand rides are out of order on the other hand you can´t go on the rides because the open later or they have closed already :evil: :evil: :evil:
That makes guest angry and is not very kool guys!
-New Names and expierence. Sorry to say that. But they have really destroy backlot express. The whole sign is gone. The new sign show simply BLOCKBUSTER in really ugly white letters. The accommodation is horrible. One room totally black (the pirates props are still missing) the other room HSM. If you aren´t a very very very very very (think on stitch) very very very big fan of HSM you just can get grazy and run out of this HSM-Park. It´s all new but it´s totally dated. I think the HSM-wave is now on the way down. It´s ok to throw some merchandise on the market but destroy this wonderful backlot express (one of the real themed places at WDS) and put this money-making-thing inside isn´t really nice.
The money-making-thing seems to be a big one at the moment in DLRP. You can see it at every corner and in every shop they ask you if you want to buy this ugly MMP Photobook for 7,95 instead of 19,95. Seems nobody want the MMP-stuff. Cause the merchandise is just aimed to little children or very very sappy I came back with 50 € PLUS. I was willing to let them in DLRP but I simply haven´t found anything. So I bought cookies, some cups, sweets, sweets, cookies, chocolates,... but nothing real "interesting" I simply couldn´t spent my money right cause there was no merchandise for me (I´m the bit more classy, stylish guy, intersted in cool stuff). I even found no hat! I buy normaly one hat every year. This year I found no hat for me. There were such ugly MMP-hats and the old ones .... Then I would buy a really nice Hollywood Tower Shirt. But it was for girls not for men and it was from Disneyland Resort anaheim....
A name problem is also at café de la brousse. It´s called new COOL POST like the one at Discoveryland. It doesn´t really match the african theme.
Hmm. have I said Discoveryland? Well this was once my favorit land. This year I was just sad over there and doesn´t feel very "home". The music of the stitch razzle-dazzle doesn´t match the theme in any way. And the have PRE-music and POST-music where you don´t see anything of stitch and you are asking yourself why do they play this songs in this victorian theme??? It destroy complete any ambience. The stitch floor looks horrible. The rest of Discoveryland was fenced cause they make there a new floor.
All that made me avoid discoveryland this year. Ok one thing is good: The new floor is wonderful and the clear water of Discoveryland lagoon gives some hope...
MMP is absolutly not my cup of tea. It´s just big. Nothing more. It´s not nice or fun. Just big. I ask myself why they have widening the paths around central plaza. The people who want see MMP there were just a few. And nobody want´s to see this show four times a day. No crowds. They should move it to Castle Stage and ripe out this big central plaza stage.
The magical:
Toilet ghosts. Hurray for the water cast! They had done a good job. I found no ugly toilet there. And all the time the paperthing for the toilet seat where there and not missing.
Cast Members. The cast members where all!!! all!!! really nice and friendly. The´ve even said bonjour while passing you. Seems they had a "magic your guests" teaching seminar.
Food quality. The food quality seems to be better. You have more choices for the menus and the price is ok. :mrgreen:
Phantom Manor, Big Thunder Mountain and Pirates. All three are in a very good shape! All the effects where working, except the opossums at BTM. Great job! :D
Alice area. The whole area is really nice. They are on a good way there. Big parts of the labyrinth are already done and now they seem to refurb parts of the queen of the heart castle. =D>
Main Street ambiance. It´s nice to see they realized that gas lamps should be turned on! It do soooo much to the turn-of-the-century-feeling.
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Cause of my little time I must stop now! But I´ll start soon my real trip report!
Quote from: "Riebi"- Operating hours for attractions: I was really really really [think more reallys as stitch says very in Stitch Live] disapointed by this new attractions opening hours thing. It´s simply the most shameless thing a Disney Park could do. Some attractions opens very late (some at 3 PM!!!!!!) and close very early (some ate 6 PM!!!!). It´s horrible in the off season but it´s the hell on earth at the summer season. They simply cannot be serious! Should the visitors ask for a half price ticket if they have just some hours to visit and can´t get on the attraction they want??? It was really crazy! Even Phantom manor closed at 10 PM and that was the time it really was dark out there. Together with the closure of adventureland and fantasyland at 10 PM you really can´t do much after 10 PM.
oh no :shock:
do you know or asked somebody why there were those stupid openingtimes? and which attractions were involved?
And by the way, did you took pictures of this HSM area? i can't imagine how it looks like, i only saw the inside of the wildcats restaurant.
hope you had a great time, though, anyways! :)
thanks, i'm looking forward for the (even) more detailed report :D/
Welcome back Riebi!!
I'm really shocked at the opening times :shock: It's July, I'm sure the parks were packed, and they don't have all rides opened all day, nor even most of the day??? I mean, people pay a lot of money to go in July, this is very shocking, and I hope it's not the beginning of a new trend :(
Glad to hear that at least overall you had a wonderful time, I'm really looking forward to your full report :D
Welcome back Riebi!
Sorry to hear you where disappointed in a lot of things when you where there and the ride opening thing is awful and especially shocking since it is high season! I hope they have a good reason for it other than money saving!
Looking forward to hearing about the rest of your trip! :D
Hm I think this operating hours were on nearly every attraction.
Pinoccio, Snow white opened after 3 PM, Phantom Manor, Indiana Jones, Star Tours closed at 10 PM, HISTA, Alice and some others closed at 6 PM...as I remember. But that´s just the ones that I was directly affected. The other attraction had also this signs but I haven´t read them all cause they where open at the time I want visit them.
Quote from: "Mrs. Jennes"Quote from: "Riebi"- Operating hours for attractions: I was really really really [think more reallys as stitch says very in Stitch Live] disapointed by this new attractions opening hours thing. It´s simply the most shameless thing a Disney Park could do. Some attractions opens very late (some at 3 PM!!!!!!) and close very early (some ate 6 PM!!!!). It´s horrible in the off season but it´s the hell on earth at the summer season. They simply cannot be serious! Should the visitors ask for a half price ticket if they have just some hours to visit and can´t get on the attraction they want??? It was really crazy! Even Phantom manor closed at 10 PM and that was the time it really was dark out there. Together with the closure of adventureland and fantasyland at 10 PM you really can´t do much after 10 PM.
oh no :shock:
do you know or asked somebody why there were those stupid openingtimes? and which attractions were involved?
And by the way, did you took pictures of this HSM area? i can't imagine how it looks like, i only saw the inside of the wildcats restaurant.
hope you had a great time, though, anyways! :)
thanks, i'm looking forward for the (even) more detailed report :D/
The HSM area is inside "BLOCKBUSTER café". Outsite you have a ugly HSM car and every time you´re waiting for Tower of Terror (and while you are trying to get into the theme) the HSM-Show will pass and stop in front of the queue and destroy the twighlight show. But ok! I liked HSM once and I´m now nerved by HSM so often at WDS. it´s just a personal view and a hardcore HSM fan will be happy with it.
Quote from: "Riebi"The HSM area is inside "BLOCKBUSTER café". Outsite you have a ugly HSM car and every time you´re waiting for Tower of Terror (and while you are trying to get into the theme) the HSM-Show will pass and stop in front of the queue and destroy the twighlight show. But ok! I liked HSM once and I´m now nerved by HSM so often at WDS. it´s just a personal view and a hardcore HSM fan will be happy with it.
ah okay i wasn't there since TOT is open, hope you upload some pics soon or maybe i find some at photsmagiques.com :) thanks though :D/
Thanks for sharing Riebi. It sounds like your trip was like ours, some great stuff (the shape of BTM, PotC and PM; the Labrynth; as well as the cast), but the opening hours of attractions and MMP really let the place down (as well as the merchandise). When will they learn?
we had loads of ride breakdowns at the end of June - STT, POTC, SMM2 each after we had queued for 45 mins which was really annoying, we didnt experience any real problems with attraction opening hours although it was odd to find casey jr closed even though the parks were packed ( BTM was up to 120 mins wait everyday ). I can understand delaying by an hour or closing an hour earlier for operational reasons as guest flow is likely to be at its lowest at these times, but to open 2 of the most popular dark rides at 3pm seems odd, there must have been a good reason for this, one would hope.
I'm glad to hear about the good bits Riebi, but not so much about the bad bits :? It sounds like DLP needs to sort itself about about this mixed opening times situation :|
I hope you had a great time overall though Riebi :)
We also have just come back from Disneyland Paris, on the 13th. I must admit we did have some reservations. Snow White open in the morning and closing at 6pm. Pinocchio not opening until 3pm. We couldn't go on the Mark Twain after 9.30pm which would have been nice. We even had to wait for the Tree House to open at 11am. All the rides were available, but not all of them all day. We just had to plan around that. Clearly it's cost cutting. When your EuroDisney and not making any money at the moment and your in the middle of a terrible economic slowdown, how do you maintain high standards and avoid slippage, I'm not a businessman? The rides we went on all looked good, including the rides in the Studios. I did have some reservations about Stars n Cars. The parade of cars did look beautiful, but you can't see the parade and watch the show at the end. People stood around waiting for the cars but couldn't get close enough to see the show. I think I must get away from the idea it's a parade. The studios isn't really designed for a parade it seems, not enough room. A CM would pass and ask me to move out of the way of the on coming Cars. I would move back, then another CM would ask me to move back more which I would do, then another would ask me to move back again. It did get a bit wearing. The Cinema parade worked better for me.
Oh, and just to add I wouldn't want anyone to think we had a bad time because we had a good time. :D
It was magical, but maybe not as magical as in the past. I even liked MMP, but only for this year.
On the plus side we did get 40% of the price of the holiday, and they do have lots of sales in the shops. So if you're going you might find some bargains. Even if I had had a terrible time, Fantilusion and the Enchanted fireworks would make it all worthwhile for me.
And the CMs were good on the whole. Very nice and polite some of them. Not so much in the restaurants we went into though, I don't know why, I can't always put my finger on it. But there was one CM on the Tram tour I thought was a bit rude. Not to us, but I thought he was rude to other people. I noticed him pulling funny faces at them, waving his arms around and bossing guests about. Maybe he meant to be funny? Maybe it was just a cultural thing? But it didn't look very Disney or magical to me. I think I might of complained about it.
Thanks for the insight Riebi :) I must admit some of your info has intrigued (Perhaps worried would be a better word :? ) me and I will be looking at these with interest when my vacation comes in two weeks time :|
As N2O said earlier this is the summer and there should really be no time restrictions on rides and shows.......I was wondering if this indicates staff shortages or some silly H&S restrictions imposed by the government or regional government :x I really can't think of another reason, unless someone can enlighten me :wink:
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I think it´s a hard thing at the off season to make diffrent attraction opening hours but it´s shameless and simply the most unmagical thing they could do at the summer season...
but now I start the trip report:
Riebi´s Trip Report
=1. Day ==================
We started at 06:30 H cause the early bird catch the worm and cause we wanted to be early at DLRP. Nice car drive, nothing special then we saw the first signs of Disneyland.
At 10:00 H we arrived at Hotel New York and had a really quick check in. After the hotel CMs realized that we are packing our suitcases and bags out of the car the were really nice to take all this bags directly with them.
At the reception the guy at the desk seemed to know that we want to go into the parks. He hurtled trough his "welcome at disneyland resort" text, explaining where to go to the parks etc etc. He was so fast that we hadn´t the possibility to explain that we know the resort very well and that 2 of 4 in our group haven´t any glue what he was talking about cause he talk a very fast french. (Maybe they should first ask which language a guest speaks but ok, me an my brother were understanding and we told it the others later)
After this very french expirience we could unglue ourself from the reception desk and took the way to the parks. Me, my friend, my brother and his fiancée was on the road through disney village (for my brothers fiancée it was a first time trip), made a short stop inside the starbucks to buy a coffee and then on with the show direction: Disneyland Park
*Disneyland Park ***
Disneyland Park was in a really good shape. The cast members were extremly nice and you really could see what a bit paint at main street can do.
We took a realy early lunch (maybe a brunch.!) at casey´s corner, watch le petit train de personnnnage disney know called minnies party train and were trying to see the train through this big central plaza stage.
First, we visited the dragon under the castle.
----(the castle´s dragon review
Lot´s lot´s of smoke over there. The dragon looked greepy as ever. I think they made a bit refurb but without refurbing the whole dragon. The right eye has still a little problem but nothing you would realise if you wouldn´t know it.
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After the dragon we take a short stop in the castle shops and the castle itself. Then over to fantasyland. There we got our first problem. I was thinking that it could be a good idea to to some of the dark rides there cause my brothers financée has some fear of thrill rides. But...the dark rides were closed. I nuzzled at a big "THIS ATTRACTION IS OPERATING from 15:00 H". I was thinking that this must be the other side of the power....just a joke...a nightmare...everything but not Disneyland.
After being shoked like that I only could find my way to alice labyrinth. Thanks god the had refurb big parts of it.
----[Alice RevieWWonderland *
Nice to see that they seem to refurb this attraction time after time. The fountains are all refurbed and repainted, the props also, at the moment they seem to have the queen of the heart castle under refurb cause some parts of it were out of order with one of the famous refurb-signs on walls.
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The state of the art at alice put my anger about the diffrent opening hours of disneyland parks attractions a bit down. And so I was happy enough for a happy cruise around the world. It´s a small world was also in a good shape. No big problems inside.
Having a allknown song in my ear my anger was again a bit smaller and so we went over to Adventureland. Pirates was standing on our list.
% A Pirates Review }----------------
POTC are a wonderful expierence at the moment. all effects moving. The swinging pirate, duelling pirates, storm effect in the caves....all very nice to see and I can´t remember when I see this ride the last time in this great shape.
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Our way was then through the caves of adventure isle to get the direction to frontierland. But first we had to go on the isle. That was a little hard cause the bridge near pirates is under refurb (during the summer season with not really nice fences but ok, the person who decided that attraction neads diffrent opening hours seems to make the fences too)
After we find the way to adventure isle and after I heard enough about why there are refurb fences in summer time from my brother we were searching for the tresure inside the caves (we found it) and we could then take then finally the way to frontierland.
Over at frontierland we decided to take a tour at phantom manor. I was a bit frustrated that they have this ugly opening system for Phantom Manor too but the attraction seems to had a well done refurb
~~~~~~Phantom Manor Review~~~~~~~~~~
It´s nice to see that they made so much inside phantom manor. There are some new effects and it looked so lovely doomed. I just can say: Well done! Now the outside and the gardens/graves need a bit refurb
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After this spooky expierence we went over to frontierland station and took the train to discoveryland. There the post tunes of stitchs little dancing hmmm thing?show?razzle dazzle? was taking all magic out of the land. It was simply not fitting in any way. If you hear the high school musical soundtrack behind space mountain (inspired by jules verne) you know that something can´t be right. So we walked fast through this area, long waiting times at space mountain so fast fast rescue trip to buzz lightyear...we fight against high school musical in discoveryland and won cause after we saw again the light the music had changed again to normal discoveryland music. but about discoveryland later more. We took a fast coffee at videopolis and went then to the Parade.
Nice as ever. Cause we were a bit hungry we jumped over to disney village and get a great meal at rainforest café. Then again back to the park right to Disneys Fantillusion Parade.
~-~-**~-~**~Fantillusion Parade Review---
Ok...I know! Cast cost money. But please!!! More showstops! Please please please! It´s very disapointing for first timers if they just see one show stop or no show stop. They even don´t get that there could be transformation or something like this.
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Then finally: The enchanted Fireworks
*+*---__*-The Enchanted FIreworks Review *
Hm...that wasn´t the show that I knew. The have cut it. They have cut sometimes much parts and change others. It´s not the magical wonderful great enchanted fireworks we know. It was pall. I was thinking that they maybe took again the old fireworks company and let them try to do the same effects then the new one do for less money or something like this. Please make the enchanted fireworks again to the show it was. Don´t cut that much in summer season!
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So enough for today!
Pics are following!
Great report Riebi, you've pointed out some very big things here which need addressing asap (the late openings/early closings, less show stops in the Fantillusion parade, etc). I still can't get my head around how they can open the rides later and close them earlier, especially the ones in Fantastyland (imagine if the dark rides opened in the afternoon, and then the land has to close earlier for the fireworks too :| ), and in the Summer/Busy season!? :? :shock:
Thanks for that Riebi, I'm looking forward to the rest :wink:
Yes that was a bit tricky! Also you´re looking forward for the rest we should first do two things
Loooooking at some pics from the first day
and say THANK YOU for a special Cast Member.
After the firework we went back to Hotel New York to get our room. At the reception we had a wonderful expierence with a cast member. She was very very very nice to us, really extremly friendly and explained us everything we want in GERMAN! =D>
Just wanna say thank you for this nice expierence at hmm 00:30 h!
Now some pics from Day 1 (I must say that I made no pics by myself. That was a big wish for me! A Disneyland Trip without a digicam in front of my eyes :D so I could only share the pics that my brother made!)
Arrrrival at Hotel New York with me, my brother, his financée and my friend and the car of my brother...this white thing first picture.
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Look at the colooours at alice!! =D>
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Phantom Manor
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Quote from: "Riebi"Disneyland Hotel (Look at the lights :D/ )
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Very nice =D>
Thanks for sharing :)
Quote from: "Riebi"Disneyland Hotel (Look at the lights :D/ )
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Arghhhhhahahhghfhsdjg! My eyes, they burn !!! 8) Ah, that's better
My eyes burned too 8) I hadn´t seen so much intact lights for long time as here at fantasia gardens and Disneyland Hotel 8)
=2. Day ==================
Day 2 was our special ***Walt Disney Studios *** Day! But firstly we had to take a breakfast at Hotel New York. The breakfast was at the Convention Center. This isn´t really a nice place to start the day but they hadn´t other rooms for the start of our special ***Walt Disney Studios ***Day :roll: . But ok! We were hungry and needed some coffee to turn the short night into a real day.
So after our ***-breakfast we can really say that we were running through Disney Village cause I told the crew that we must be the early bird. Cause just the early bird can catch crush´s coaster. C´est domage...but we arrived late (cause some of us needed more coffee and breakfast then planned..noooo not me!) We entranced the studios at 10:05 and then my brothers fiancée had a headache problem. We went first to studio services then to first aid were they gave her something. But after that I was sure! Now we were all ready for our
***Walt Disney Studios ***Day
We jumped through studio 1 escaped as just stitch could do it and were unhappy to realize that the queue was about 90 minutes. So we decided to take a Fast Pass for the tower and we went then into the Tram Tour queue. The show was great as ever. Yes at the moment you see a lot of blue fences but catastrophe canyon was one of my brothers fiancées favorits. So if studio Tram Tour is a bit boring for you don´t forget the first timers! They are really impressed. After the Tram Tour we take a short walk and a CaféCafé at CaféCafé.
I´ve seen there something really interesting. They build somerthing round behind the fences and in front of the Walt Disney Television Studios Building. Could be a little shop or something like that. Should be interesting to see what it will be after "offfencing" (if that is a word)
´´´´Tower of Terror Review , , , ,
We made then our Tower of Terror tour. The tower was great as ever. Greepy and the Cast Members are really spooky inside. It´s nice to see that they made here so much acting. It´s a bit like a good tour through Phantom Manor
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After that we run into HSM Party Thing. This time I was happy to hear some HSM tunes. but that was changing very fast
*+* High School Musical Tour *+*
The HSM Party Thing is a good one if you just would see it one or two times a day. But they run - I´m willing to say ALL THE TIME!! through the park. You hear HSM during your queue at ToT, you hear it during your lunch, you hear it during your waiting times in front of cinemagique, stitch, rock n roller coaster....everywhere. After 3 times it´s just one thing: nerving. So please cut this tour a bit. Make something other at the open slots. Cinefollies, this crazy Cruella Show, a little calcavade...something! But not HSM ALL THE TIME!
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Horray for Hollywood and horray for Cinemagique. Cause that was the next stop for us. It´s such a nice attraction and I love it every time. My brother and his fiancée loved it tooooo.
After Cinemagique we had a tour Rock n Roller coaster, Armageddon and a lunch at Backlot hrrrrr....Blockbuster....(there was not more to read. Just BLOCKBUSTER in big white...hm plastic letters. Not a really nice look. But after this other pic at the forum here I have some hope again. this white letter thing looked sooo ugly and cheap...like the HSM inside! But ok. Maybe they simply killed HSM for me with there HSM Tour this time...)
~~~~~~Rock N Roller Coaster Review ****
Well the coaster itself is smoooth as ever. And they had really a lot smoke inside the building. Nice to see that the smoke seems to be back. But one thing is a little sad. There are sooo many lights broken that you hardly could see a light show.....please fix that WDS...please [-o<
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We watched then Moteurs Action and Animagique both great attractions! Then we took a tour through the Art of Disney Animation and another Tower of Terror Trip.
Then Stars n Cars:
The +Stars+n+cars+ Review ...0-0.......0-0......0+0
Stars n Cars is ok. the problem is that you don´t see much if you aren´t able to sit in the first line in front of the stage. Otherwise you see just some cars somewhere arrive and some heads moving around the stage.
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After stars n cars it was time for Buffalo Bills Wild West show. [spoiler:i114ayac]It was great fun and it was even better as my brother fiancée would take her hat on her head and the rodeo clowns make fun about her till she finally know that a hat is for the head.[/spoiler:i114ayac]
After Buffalo Bills Wild West show Disneyland Park was our aim again. You couldn´t do much there after 22 PM so we just made a tour at BTM and then we watched the parade and the firework again. This time we tried to catch a better place to get the show stops. But ok. we only saw one.
Theeeen back through the village which is now really a better place with all this threes and a starbucks toooo the hotel. 8)
Thank you very much for the nice and funny reports! I will go there on tuesday and can't wait to be there again. Great pictures! I am very excited to see Alice in fresh paint and the lights of Disneyland Hotel.
One question: where is the best place to see a parade stop for Fantillusion? (or where is a place where definetely no stop is? My favourite stop is the dragon one. What about castle stage area, where we are most of the times during parades? Are there any stops?
Thank you!
The best place should be at central plaza. At the castle stage you will only see the princess show stop. :|
Thanks for your report Riebi. :)
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Well the coaster itself is smoooth as ever. And they had really a lot smoke inside the building. Nice to see that the smoke seems to be back. But one thing is a little sad. There are sooo many lights broken that you hardly could see a light show.....please fix that WDS...please [-o<
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So great to hear about the smoke! It's a vital part of the attraction. I believe the main lightshow will be refurbed in September.
Real interesting Trip Report Riebi, seems like you've had a mixed bag there, a few ups and a few downs. One thing has me really appreciative, and that's not really going in the summer, especially after mentioning about the ride opening and closing times, worsened by the queues around this time of year, less time for everything really.. :roll:
Great pictures, looking forward to the rest of your report, awaiting with anticipation.. :mrgreen:
Hey Riebi,
thanks a lot for taking the time and writing this very interesting trip report!
You should become a journalist :P :P :P
For me it seems like you spend a lot money. HNY, so much eateries...
But it as well seems like you didn´t get the disney-experience you should!!!
Sad to hear all these things.
We wanted to make a short trip at the end of July. But we will cut it now, hoping, it will be better in october.
I´m really scared that the magic at DLP is getting less more and more :cry:
Thanks for a great update Riebi, I really enjoyed reading about your second day :)
BTW, I love that photo of the Disneyland Hotel lit up. Magical :wink:
I really enjoyed reading your trip report. Great pictures, especially the one with the DLH. Thanks for sharing it!!
Quote from: "MagicStar"Hey Riebi,
thanks a lot for taking the time and writing this very interesting trip report!
You should become a journalist :P :P :P
For me it seems like you spend a lot money. HNY, so much eateries...
But it as well seems like you didn´t get the disney-experience you should!!!
Sad to hear all these things.
We wanted to make a short trip at the end of July. But we will cut it now, hoping, it will be better in october.
I´m really scared that the magic at DLP is getting less more and more :cry:
Oh:-) Maybe if I have the time a try to learn some journalistic lessons :P :P :P
Noooo matter to cancel your trip tom! Should be ok. It was just not the as the years before cause of this silly opening hours...
buuut let´s now have a look at DAY 3:
==3. Day =============================
Day 3 was the day where everybody of our private team disney knew: The early bird catch the worm! Making this our most beloved sentences in the world for one day was our aim. And so we had a - for us - early waking time. Goofy told us to get up and we were running under the shower, running to the breakfast (this time at the radio city ball room which was more comfortable then the big ball room), then running to Walt Disney Studios Park. The early bird catch the worm had one big reason: Crushs coaster!
We arrived at WDS at 09:40. A good time for us!
***Walt Disney Studios ***
We run through the front lot (nice ambience there) through studio 1 to Crush´s coaster. There was a long queue in front of it. After waiting for 20 minutes and the happy welcome music-sing-along-hollywood-studio-line we were ready to take our tour through the sea....but....then god´s choler (he was angry about the opening hours of DLP) came over Walt Disney Studios Park.
God´s choler was a nice Cast Member. She told us that crush´s coaster has some technical difficults. And that it won´t open before 12:00 h. :( Seems the early bird catched nothing. But cause nothing is just nothing we went over to the tower to get a fast pass. Having SOMETHING. A fast pass! Yipieeee! After having a happy smile again on our face we made another tour at the studio tram tour cause my brother´s fiancée is now a big fan of it.
Aaafter this we took a ride at rock n roller coaster and then it was time to make brother´s fiancée second wish true: A stop at the Outlet Center of Val d´europe. So we took the RER A to val d´europe and had another dream of brother´s fiancée right before her eyes: A shopping maaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllll!
-Riebi´s big escape ---->
We took the long way. The way through the center. we saw much. But I think she saw even more. There seems to be a lot of shops for a girl. I think it takes one hour to find the sun at the toscany place. There I opened her the door to the other happy place outside the park: the outlet center. But she was such a poor little tired thing that we first had to take a coffee :mrgreen: and some tartes :mrgreen: Yummie for the tartes! Then we went into the outlet center and hmm....after another hour inside I and my friend decided to escape! Fast as Buzz Lighyear we wished the other a happy shopping and then we went back to the parks
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***Walt Disney Studios ***
Walt Disney Studios was now again our aim. We went through the gates ...not into this early bird mode but step by step... and arrived at place du stars. Over there we had a nice show at stitch live!
+stitch´s great escape--->stitch live review+++++++++++++
it was really great and the big galaxy gangster was a men from belgium...no not kristof....it was a old man with white hair which made it even better. The whole people inside the room attended the show. We had a great group, stitch was great, the cast member was great. everything fine! Nice little attraction!
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After stitch we had some time cause we were waiting for playhouse disney in english. RnRC had again a really short queue and so we took this ride again. The smoke was again great to see. Hope the lightshow will be again there after september :wink:
Then: Playhouse Disney live on stage. Fun was the Cast Member at the entrance. She was trying to explain that this show could be boring for us cause there were just some songs to sing etc. etc. but she wished us a wonderful show after we explained that we know what the show is and that we want to be a part of it :mrgreen:
~~~~~~~~~~~~°°Playhouse Disn°e°y Life °o°n Stage review~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hurray for Playhouse Disney! It was such fun to watch the show, see all the children happy and catch some of the leaves (we gave the most of them to a little girl that was to small to get much of them before the other children took them all). I can really say that I never sat under so much bubbles, leaves, streamers etc....it´s a wonderful show and if you aren´t "tooo adult" you should have much fun.
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Now it was time to meet my brother + F again. Cause we were such nice people the early bird came back and give us a hint: Crush´s coaster should be back in business after some minutes. So we took as fast as possible the queue and at the end we waited under 10 minutes. Crush wasn´t a attraction taht bro´s fiancée liked. Cause she don´t like roller coasters much she was very pale after crush. So she and my brother decided to make a short break and I and friend went on tower.
At the Tower boutique we could all saw a magical transformation: My brothers fiancée wasn´t my brothers fiancée any more she was ........... A PIN TRADER! She bought one of the starter kits and a winnie the poooooh set cause she really love winnie. Proud as a princess she went outsite the store to show us every pin she bought. We all said "Oh" and "AH!" and "WOW" and such thing, which you would say if a first timer become a pin trader.
To celebrate this new passion we take a tour through "the art of disney animation" and went then back to Disneyland Park to have a Traditional 3. evening.
.+~Trying to have a tradtional 3. evening at Disneyland Park ~+.
At Disneyland Park our first real stop was Casey jr. We had luck. It was open! So we took a fast trip cause we had the fear that they could close it before we reach the train. Casey jr. is in great shape but not the landscape. Esp. the castle of beauty and the beast need some work.
But I think they will fix it cause at the moment they seem to fix much.
After casey we decided to take another pirates round and there at the little shop we could see something other magical. The first trade of the pin trader. She gave a stitch pin and get a tinkerbell pin. All time happy with that. Then we hardly tried to get a picture with jack sparrrrow. But there were masses of people there and so we decided to take a tour at Indiana Jones (short waiting times, flames not turned on) Woohooo. Then over to frontierland to start that what should get our traditional 3. evening.
our traditional 3. evening starts normaly with a nice diner in one of our favorite table service restaurants. This time the SP Steakhouse should be our host. We had a really nice meal there and we took our time to enjoy every bite. My chocolate cake at the end was great and so we were happy enough to meet the haunting ghost of Phantom manor. It´s the tradition for us to take a tour through this dark mansion after dark on our 3. evening. But we were a little to late....the ghost went to bed alllllready. (They must now go to bed at 22 PM, I think. Ghost Labour Union (GLU) will, I think...why should someone close a mansion of ghosts after dark without REAL cause...)
So first time since years our traditional 3. evening had a problem. After moaning a bit around we decided to shoot something at the shooting galllery. And then we decided to make as much big thunder mountain as possible. One of our traditions is it to get the last train of Big Thunder Mountain. Happy that this was the only attraction in frontierland that wasn´t closed after 22 PM we tried our best aaaaand yes we catched it. Then we tried to get outside the park. We realised that the fireworks seems to have some problems. Cause it was after 23 PM and it hadn´t started.
Cause it start to rain we decided to go to the hotel. At Town square and about 15 minutes to late the fireworks started. We watched it a bit from town square and with the last tunes of enchanted we went through the park gates back to Hotel New York.
Great trip report and photos !! I love seeing photos of Hotel New York as I am staying here for the first time in September! :D
Another great update Riebi, I'm glad you liked Playhouse Disney Live on Stage! :P
Thanks Riebi for another instalment of your frantic escapade, well by the sounds of it.. :mrgreen:
I calmly wait for the next update.. :wink: :D
Thank you all for your nice comments!
Quote from: "Aveen2008"Great trip report and photos !! I love seeing photos of Hotel New York as I am staying here for the first time in September! :D
I´m sorry I hadn´t made much pictures of HNY. Maybe photosmagiques is the better source :oops: Hotel New York was similar to NPB AF. Just another design :wink:
Today I wanna share some pics from day 2! We hadn´t made much cause there was soooo much to do!
Day 2 Pictures: Remember: the walt Disney Studios day
What a nice entrance! but this cristo artwork at studio 1 has to go.
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Much people at WDS! =D>
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Me and brothers fiancée on the carpets. We made the "tilting" function while my brother made the up and downs and this picture. One day later known as THE PIN TRADER!
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Our shoes. Don´t know why we have a picture of our shoes but here it is!
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Studio Tram Tour
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The Tower of Terror
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Evening at Disneyland park
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Today: A short update with pics from day 3:
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Nice in the morning: the wds band
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very long queue at crush
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Me in front of Hollywood Bvd. I think they should refurb the big backdrops during the next year. The "plastic film" seems not to be the best quality and is peeling a bit. Could look worse next year at the same time if they don´t do something.
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3 big rats
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I helped the greenery department: They cutted the costs for tree trunks. But cause the guests couldn´t do much while nearly all attractions are closed they have a new MMP-event: Disney´s be a tree trunk (D-BATT). A fun for everyone.
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Phantom Manor
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Indy
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Bit pooh and little one at our bed.
Thanks for sharing some more photos Riebi, had a bit of a giggle with the tree trunk job.. :lol: :mrgreen:
Looking forward to the next instalment, with some more of those brilliant photos.. :wink: :D
Quote from: "Riebi"Oh:-) Maybe if I have the time a try to learn some journalistic lessons :P :P :P
Noooo matter to cancel your trip tom! Should be ok. It was just not the as the years before cause of this silly opening hours...
Ohhh - I´m sure you have the right requirements to be a good journalist. And if not - -maybe there is a little magic tie that can help you getting better *lol*
We did cancel our trip now. But more because of so little time we have at the moment.
But hey - I can´t take my fingers of Disney :P
We will go again in October :lol:
(Sorry, I must admit that my last login must be weeks away!!)
I just got to read your trip report and I love it, Riebi!! So funny :mrgreen:!! And I love your pics, they're really great and they make me wanna go back to DLRP! Do you have some more to tell and some more pics to show us? ;)
And I reckoned your countdown banner... wooow, so you're going to visit DLR?? I'm already looking forward to this report & pics, hehe! ;)
Thanks for sharing your fantastic photos Riebi, I love the tree shot :lol: =D>
Fantastic report and wonderful photos.
wow the studios looks so busy! :o :o :o
was this the queue for crush or it and the magic carpets..
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Great photos, thanks for sharing them all!! :D
Great pictures and lovely report Riebi!
Thx for sharing!!