Disneyland Resort Paris - 30/03/09 - 03/04/09 Big PTR

[marc]

I just found some web pages that are very interesting.

http://land.allears.net/blogs/jackspenc ... nde_1.html

Great pictures btw, need to get over there again one day in the sun You are posting pictures of things I have not noticed before but I think thats mainly due to the fact its always raining when I go lol.

Was the Pizza place actually open? have yet to see any of that area open for food.

What Paris needs is a good show like Fantasmic

 

[peep]

I found a Phantom Manor fan site containing the story for PM. Read it here

Or there is This site which gives the whole story of the area.

 

[Crazycoaster]

Are you making a joke about it being called tree of life? You do realise that it is actually the Family Robinson treehouse? Confused :?

Yeah haha, I did realise this =P I think my humor is probably just lost on most people..

Great pictures btw, need to get over there again one day in the sun You are posting pictures of things I have not noticed before but I think thats mainly due to the fact its always raining when I go lol.

Was the Pizza place actually open? have yet to see any of that area open for food.

I did see the pizza place open at one point, though I think that Disneyland is a bit funny with its restaurant opening times. I found that they'd randomly shut a bunch of them down early and open some late. I suppose it all depends on the time of year you go maybe?

I stayed at the Resort for 5 days, and although we'd done all of the big rides by the second day it was really nice to be able to spend a day wondering the park exploring. Its crazy just how complex the park is. You should really try it, take a look at places such as Adventure Isle, its insane how intricate the cave system actually is.

 

[Ollie]

I'd love to go back to DLRP as I went there once for a few days on a school trip when they were building ToT in the studios park.
Even though we spend two days in the parks I felt that it wasn't enough to see everything. We missed some areas entirely and there's rides there that I want to ride again.
I don't know why but I don't have hardly any memories of the park which is sad as I want to remember what it was like and all I have are photos.


And I didn't know this about Phantom Manor

I was enjoying your pictures of the Phantom Manor when I realized I could not tell where the ride building was. Is it behind the mansion hidden by bushes or is it underground with the stretching room acting as an elevator?

Answer: Phantom Manor is similar to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. The stretch rooms are actually elevators that take you to a lower level. At Disneyland Paris, Phantom Manor is located high atop a hill and guests must be brought back down to the level of the “show building” which is hidden behind a berm and trees. At Disneyland, the show building is located outside of the park. When you’re walking through the Portrait Gallery, you’re actually walking underneath the tracks of the Disneyland Railroad.

The stretch rooms at Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland are not elevators. Only the ceiling rises. The show buildings are located at the same level as the entrance of the attractions.

 

[marc]

I only tend to go for 2 or 3 days as its just far to expensive thats the problem, I can near enough have 2 weeks in Orlando for what it costs for a week in DLP and I just dont think there enough to do for 5 days I am normally done after 2 days.

I have done that Island once but found it boring tbh, same as I find the Island boring in Orlando just does not interest me.

 

[Crazycoaster]

^ Yeah that is a problem I had with this park, everything is FAR too expensive. Especially at the minute with the Pound so weak against the Euro. I got a pretty good deal for the 5 days, but it was the food that sent the budget overboard. I was quite smart because we took food and drinks for lunch from home which lowered costs loads.

Overall Im glad I visited the park for so long as it let me take it all in, but I think I'd give a much larger time gap to go back, unlike florida which I could happily visit every year if I could afford it.

 

[Crazycoaster]

Part 5 – Fantasyland

Yaay! Welcome to Fantasyland.

This version of fantasyland is the most intricate and fantastical looking.

All the buildings have a ridiculous amount of detailing.

Lancelots Carrousel.

They have Snow white.. It’s the same as the other versions really..

But with added French.

The columns are cool.

Posho restaurant.

I see you castle!

Fantasyland is full of random castle-y bits

This was made out of a real pumpkin ya'know.

More perdee.

Cinderelly! Cinderelly!

I like the horse on top

Some ride about a puppet or summin..

The Mad Hatters tea party looks immensely better here.

SWAAAN!!!

Wheeeee!

Yaay for rodents!

The areas around the ride are preeeetty.

This rides basically the same.

Just with added water. Its weird, only in Disney would you be allowed 3 versions of the exact same ride.. Dumbo, Orbitron and Aladdin.. Cheapos.

Then it has peter pans flight. IT HURT MY HEAD >=(

And Toad Hall.

And Alices Bi-Curious maze yaay!

Signs and shizz

I WANT ONE OF THESE BIRDS. It can come with me on my adventures and hammer all my hammering needs.

Alice In Wonderland used to scare me as a kid.

I WANT ONE OF THESE TOO This picture kinda makes them look huuuuuge.

Weird Caterpillar guy.

Big ol’ cat.

The White Rabbit is here too.

It makes people go this way and that..

Then into more mazes. The queens maze isn’t BI-Curious though, she’s full on lesbo.

WE SEE YOU CASTLE.

Yay we made it!

Ta-daah!

At the top you get views of stuff.

suure do.

This used to be a ride apparently, but for some reason its closed and is just now an expensive piece of theming.

Theres a section at the back of the park that was hardly ever open. Infact it didn’t open till the last day we were there.

It has a boat ride!

See. Those are boats.

I think that means Fairy tale boat ride or summin..

It’s a bit slow..

But you get to see some Disney classics.. and some other random ones that Disney have never done..

Like Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel. I think they are making the first into a movie right now though..

Little mermaid..

Pierre and the wolf? Pierre?!

Night on Bald Mountain off of Fantasia..

OM NOM NOM NOM

Yaay then its time for the ride with the best soundtrack

Caseey Juniors coooming rooound the track! Coooming round the track!

I thiiiink I can I thiiink I can!

This is Beasts castle

The clock on the front of IASM is SO LOUD. You can hear it from Discoveryland..

Oh god no…

Your boat has to queue to get OFF the ride..

Random Pizzaria past It’s a Small World.

Its perddee.

Byee Fantasylaand!!


Next up, my favourite, Discoveryland!

 

[Ollie]

The only rides in this section I did was the maze and the teacups. I still remember it looked like the castle in the maze had a slide on it but when we got there it was just themeing and all you could do was walk up stairs up the middle.
Some good photos though.

 

[marc]

Fantasy Land is the one land in DLP I have never been that impressed with, I dont know why tbh. I just find it to small I guess. The theming is great but its just to crowed with massive queues that you dont get in Orlando or California, I think its due to the fact this area is made for kids and they let kids go free in Paris.

Also just about everything is in French.

The Story Book ride here is like the one in California, but sort of a a lot smaller but at least they built it. I Love the way Casey goes round it as well, just like California. I think its only this park and the original that have these 2 rides.

Again great pictures and I am really enjoying your reports btw.

 

[Ollie]

Also just about everything is in French.

That might have something to do with the park being in France.

 

[marc]

Yes Ollie I am fully aware of that but I dont speak French so I can not understand a word of what is being said. Its my fault for not knowing French but seeing that so many queue for the English versions of shows sort of sums up that they could have used English.

The language barrier is what actually stopped some attractions for being built from what I understand. I mean the cut down story on ToT is stupid its like half of it from what I remember. Again for people who dont speak French your lost and one of the main things on ToT is the story. I am not saying its not enjoyable but would be a lot better understanding it

Maybe I should learn French lol.

 

[Ollie]

When I went everything was in English and French. The signs where in both, the park maps were in both, the restaurants and food outlets spoke both languages.

But on the rides, the audio and speeches ect were all in English.
It may have changed now though as I haven't been there since (whatever year ToT was being built).

 

[marc]

Ollie Peter Pan, Snow White, Star Tours, ToT are never in English they have been French from day 1.

 

[Ben]

Tower is in both. I don't know how they decide it (I heard something about the operator working out how English or French the particular elevator is, but, I don't know how true that is, it does make sense) and then one language is selected and used. OR, I suppose it could be the case that different shafts are in different languages and you are assigned depending on your nationality, but, this I doubt.

It's bizarre. Over the six or seven rides I took on it we had about a 50/50 split.

Things like Star Tours, however - always French.

 

[Crazycoaster]

I don't think Peter Pan has any speaking in it anyway? And snow white isn't really that heavy on its audio either, they're more visual rides really. Star tours is just poo so don't bother going on it at all..

Tower of Terror on the other hand, the Ride attendants were checking what language most people were in our lift. On the second time, the majority of people spoke english, so the attendant put the english speaking guy on during the ride sequence.

I suppose they do their best to honour the country the parks built in, while also catering to its foreign visitors, but it does come across quite mismatched occasionally.

 

[Nemesis Inferno]

Star Tours sounds much better in French than in English...

Maybe it's the accent that amuses me so much...

I want to go back

 

[marc]

So is the pre show in both on ToT, I only heard French.

Yes good point about Peter Pan got that mixed up with the other dark ride that starts with P and I can not spell it lol.

Some shows are split 50/50 such as Stitch Live.

It has got better thats for sure, as when I 1st went when it was Euro Disney it was all French even checking into the hotel was hard work.

 

[Nemesis Inferno]

Actually the first time I went on Tower this year the pre-show was in English...

I think it's random... As all the other times it was in French...

 

[Ben]

Yeah, the pre-show doesn't seem to have a clue what language it wants to be in.

 

[peep]

With ToT the ride hosts choose the language. It's rare that the pre-show is in English as it has subtitles on the screen (so you always know whats going on in that room so can't complain there) I think it's also harder for the ride hosts to tell in that room.

The elevator shaft always seems easier for them to change it but I've found that it depends on the host at the time. Once I had the host do the speech in French, English, Spanish and German, took ages but was awesome I dunno what happened but the shaft also played the English reel once and then it went into French for the second stop, was odd.

I think it sounds more eerie in French but sometimes it is nice to hear it in English.


I really don't understand why you need a translation for the Fantasyland attractions as there is no speaking :?