Photos Magiques (//http://www.photosmagiques.com/) news report 7-9 August 2009
We visited Disneyland Paris once again past weekend. A few things we noticed:
Disneyland Park
Main Street Band
The Main Street Band was welcoming guests at the entrance of the park. The marching band was around as well, playing in Fantasia Gardens right before the park opened.
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Main Street Vehicles
The Main Street Vehicles (Fire Truck, Paddy Wagon and Omnibus) were operating all weekend long, even while [strike:3p6ngpj4]The Characters Express[/strike:3p6ngpj4] Minnie's Party Train waiting in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle.
A Horse Drawn Street Car was going up and down Main Street in the mornings.
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Discovery Arcade
The signs in the new Ferris Wheel window in Discovery Arcade were fixed.
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Good Morning Main Street, U.S.A.
Good Morning Main Street, U.S.A. is a new cavalcade on Main Street at 10.15 am which stars a few characters and two Main Street Vehicles (Fire Truck and Paddy Wagon). The cavalcade started 10 minutes too late on Saturday after the start of the wrong spiel (for Magic Music Days...)
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Halloween sticker
A few months ago we reported about a Christmas ribbon left in one of the Main Street trees. This trip we found an orange sticker left from last year's Halloween on the Disney Clothiers façade...
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Last Chance Café
Last Chance Café was completely fenced off.
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Café de la Brousse
The recently refurbished Café de la Brousse in Adventureland was operating this weekend, surprisingly selling fast food and soft drinks, despite being sponsored by Dole.
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Les Voyages de Pinocchio
Les Voyages de Pinocchio was operating this weekend from 10 am - 10 pm.
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La Rocher Qui Bascule
La Rocher Qui Bascule has sadly once again been permanently fixed with concrete.
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Walt Disney Studios Park
Walt Disney Studios Store
In the Walt Disney Studios Store has the large Walt Disney photo been covered up by a Princesses visual.
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La Terrasse
A weird Perrier shaped statue is placed in front of the Demille Studio sign.
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Recycling
Recycling bins for plastic bottles and cans are placed at selected locations at Walt Disney Studios Park as part of a test.
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Disney Blockbuster Café
The Pirates of the Caribbean room appears to be nearly finished. What appear to be real-movie-props have been placed in the mesh cabinet and a large glass showcase was installed on the other side of the room. More of these showcases can be found in the small High School Musical room.
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New merchandise
I'll conclude the news update with photos of some new Tower of Terror themed apparel, exclusively for sale at Tower Hotel Gifts.
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Great little tour as always. :mrgreen:
Yay for the High School Musical car disappearing!
Yay for recycling bins!
Yay for possible real props! (Let's hope they're labelled)
Boo for La Rocher qui ne bascule pas... it is quite dangerous (well, for stupid people) but nothing that couldn't be solved with that soft playground floor stuff.
Boooo booo BOOOOOOOO for Walt Disney being boarded up by Princesses! I don't think there's ever been such a perfect (perfectly horrible) symbol for the resort's dumbing down! Disgusting.
Thanks for sharing the report with us Kristoff!
That's awful that the walt pic was covered up by the princesses. I really am sick of the princesses being marketed together like that, it's too much of an overload the same as they did with winnie the pooh and friends..everywhere you go it's either that or princesses and I don't just mean in the disney parks or stores either! :roll:
I think the horse drawn street car is great to see! I have never seen it when I have been, it's really beautiful, especially the horse hehe! :P
Well done for spotting that halloween sticker!! :shock: =D> No point in them removing it now, it will soon be joined by all the other orange splats hehe!
I think the blockbuster cafe looks pretty good on the POTC side...still not sure about the HSM bit though...are those desks and chairs supposed to look like a classroom?? :?
Hope you had a good trip! :D
great trip once again i love seeing all the things that have changed
thanks a lot for the photo report =D>
Hope the Last Chance Café is open again for my trip. Fences always look bad.
The dark hoodie in the middle has just become Item Number One on my shopping list !
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Good to see the recycling bins - hopefully, they will be well used and extended throughout.
The Main Street band is great! I saw a video of them on Dailymotion - I actually prefer them to the marching band. It's fantastic to see the Main Street vehicles as well, particularly the horse-drawn streetcars. Just a shame they only operate in the mornings.
The princess picture in the WDS Store...... #-o
And finally, the new ToT clothes... well I actually thought the logo was a cross between the Aerosmith logo and HTH logo at first!
So pleased to see some recycling bins being tested! These should have been put in the park years ago, but still, better late than never!
I agree its very sad about La Rocher Qui Bascule. It was such a unique and exciting addition to DLP, and I'm sure there would have been better alternatives that to cover it in concrete :(
So that Ferris Wheel diorama is new? I was wondering why I'd never spotted it before... Anyway, it's very interesting.
Also good news about the recycling receptacles. I just hope they get some well-designed stickers! They have those lovely land-appropriate Jiminy Cricket designs at Disneyland, but this sort of thing isn't always done well in Paris.
Cool report once again. I really like the POTC part of the Blockbuster-café...
Another great report Kristof, thanks for posting :D
Quote from: "Anthony"Yay for the High School Musical car disappearing!
Yay for recycling bins!
Yay for possible real props! (Let's hope they're labelled)
Boo for La Rocher qui ne bascule pas... it is quite dangerous (well, for stupid people) but nothing that couldn't be solved with that soft playground floor stuff.
Boooo booo BOOOOOOOO for Walt Disney being boarded up by Princesses! I don't think there's ever been such a perfect (perfectly horrible) symbol for the resort's dumbing down! Disgusting.
Couldn't put it better myself. I'm shocked and angered the Walt Disney poster has been covered by a Princess one. There's enough princess stuff as there is, everywhere you look it always seems to be that or HSM :?
A great trip report Kristof!! :D :D Its always great to see whats new and whats changed!!
I love the POTC in the Blockbuster cafe, The High school musical side looks quite bare though!! Maybe more props are needed??
I absoultely love the idea of recycle bins every where!! its great to see DLP doing their bit for the environment!!
Has the POTC flag been fixed yet?? [-o<
Thanks for the updated report. Always such a mixed bag. Nothing to add to Antony's comments, but Main Street really made me smile!
great photo's yet again!
So wish I am you going to DLP all the time !! :(
I like that DLRP have introduced recyling.
Another great report Kristof :)
Another great update Kristof, as ever.. :mrgreen:
Like the idea of the recycling bottle bins mind.. :wink:
Also, have you any idea of the pricing of the TOT merchandise you pictured.. :?:
Thanks for the report!
Great things:
Main Street really seems to be up and running - lovely with the band and all the cars - it brings such a nice atmosphere and it almost make you forget about the MMP posters I will guess.
Your discovery of the missing Halloween sticker - I guess there's no need for them to pull it down now :P
The Pirates of the Caribbean room of Blockboster Café really seems to be kicking the High School Musical room in the ***. I really hope this is real props - that would just make the room even better.
Recycling - a great thing to have in the park, a great signal to send and a great development following the eco friendly Starbucks in Village. It is just many years too late, but better late than never as luke85 said.
Hmmm things:
La Rocher Qui Bascule - sad to see unique thing be concreted, but I guess it was to dangerous for some people :(
Really BAD things:
Walt being covered by Princesses! That is a shame - I would have accepted it if were in Disneyland Park, but the pictures of Walt fitted the studios so much than this Disney Storish Princess poster.
All in all it is still moving in a right direction in every update you give us - it is great to be updated, thanks :D/
i agree so nice to see DLP introducing recycling maybe this is a sign of things to come?
They could do with rolling this out to the main park and hotels and show their 'green' side
I know some airlines have already started trial's of recycling in-flight where airports have the facilities for this
Thanks for another great update Kristof :)
Pretty good news all round, and that new TOT jumper would go great with my TOT shirt (the one to the left of it :wink: ). The only really bad thing of course is the picture of Walt being covered up. Not good Disney, not good at all [-(
Thanks again Kristof, I hope you had a great trip :)
i'd like to say a big thank you not just for the news up dates but for all your photos.
it's going to be a while before we can go again but your photos make us feel like we are right there. =D> :D/
and a big well done to disney for the bins :D/