Yay, booked!

kristen · Post by **kristen** » May Fri 04, 2007 2:07 pm

+ inside your room at the Santa Fe
+ the grounds and common areas of the Santa Fe & other resorts & maybe if you could take a peek in a room at any other resorts (maid happens to leave a door open or whatever)
+ Discoveryland in general
+ Fantasyland in general
+ it's a small world
+ Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant

...that's all I can think of for now.

Cheshire Cat · Post by **Cheshire Cat** » May Fri 04, 2007 2:46 pm

If you can get some pics of anything unique for the 15th anniversary, that would be cool. Especially close-ups of the caharcters on the castle. I loved when they did that at WDW and I'm interested to see what characters they picked for Disneyland Paris.

Distech · Post by **Distech** » May Wed 16, 2007 5:26 pm

I would like some pictures of the parade lighting towers. If you can lighting for the castle. A picture of the hub stage. A few of the units in the parade. A nice front shot of the castle, and one close up of the 15th sign on the castle.

That shall do.

Post by **acp** » May Sun 27, 2007 1:20 pm

Well, the wait is just about over now

Tomorrow (very early) I set off for Disneyland Resort Paris!

I'll be back very late on Friday evening.. I'll see what I can do with your photo requests, etc

Andy.

Esmeralda · Post by **Esmeralda** » May Sun 27, 2007 2:07 pm

Have a fabulous trip acp, I'm so jealous!

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » May Sun 27, 2007 8:07 pm

Good Luck and Enjoy (as I know you will) acp! I hope that all goes well and you meet a real nice French bird.

Post by **acp** » Jun Fri 01, 2007 6:30 pm

Well.. I'm back

I'm in the process of sorting the almost 1000 photos I took out to put on my website. In the meantime, here's a few "teaser" type things:

http://www.andrewpoole.org.uk/stuff/mainstreet.jpg
http://www.andrewpoole.org.uk/stuff/mickey-minnie.jpg
http://www.andrewpoole.org.uk/stuff/mickey-minnie2.jpg
http://www.andrewpoole.org.uk/stuff/dragon.jpg
http://www.andrewpoole.org.uk/stuff/dragon2.jpg

I must confess, I forgot to take the list of requests from this thread with me, so it was from memory that I did them. I think I got the majority of them, though.

Andy

Post by **acp** » Jun Sat 02, 2007 8:06 am

(sorry to reply to myself, but this probably needs its own post. I also apologise for the length of this...)

OK, the photos are all up here:
http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/

As for the requests in this thread...

josh: Parade stops
I tried.. The best I could catch of the streamers being shot from a float was this one:
http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... 68&pos=172
(Mickey and Minnie's float stoped *right* in front of me, and I forgot to take a photo of the streamers)

Dr Ravenscroft:
Napkins: http://www.andrewpoole.org.uk/stuff/dlrp-napkin.jpg
Trashcan: I thought I'd taken one, but I can't find it

Maybe I didn't..
Train: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... =64&pos=20
Store front: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... m=62&pos=7
Strollers: Something I didn't photo.
Ticket booths: are under here.. I didn't take a photo in here for some reason, it seems: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... m=61&pos=3
Hats and Shirts I forgot, although if I get round to it I'll photo the shirts I bought at some point...
CM Socks/brooms: Err.. Whoops

Main Street Station: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... m=62&pos=0 and http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... m=62&pos=1
Horses: Didn't see any!
Autopia license plates: Didn't have any, although they did have this: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... =64&pos=35
Phantom Mannor: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... =67&pos=31

Esmeralda: Hotels: See these two albums:
Hotel Santa Fe: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/thumb ... p?album=59
Other resort hotels: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/thumb ... p?album=60

Dr Ravenscroft: Blue water: How about green? http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... =60&pos=12

thsawrp: Dragon under the castle: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... m=63&pos=4 and http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... m=63&pos=6

Maelstrom:
Hotel Santa Fe: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/thumb ... p?album=59
Discoveryland: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/thumb ... p?album=64
Fantasyland: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/thumb ... p?album=65
it's a small world photos are in the Fantasyland album above.
Sleeping Beauty Castle: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/thumb ... p?album=63

Cheshire Cat: 15th stuff: See the Castle album above, and also Main Street, here: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/thumb ... p?album=62

Distech: Parade lighting towers: They're not really anything special.. You can see one in the background here: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... =68&pos=10

Distech: Hub stage: See Candleabration: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/thumb ... p?album=69

Distech: Front shot of castle: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... =63&pos=44

Distech: Castle 15th sign: http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... =63&pos=37

Some observations I made follow..

Smoking is allowed anywhere in the park except inside attractions. It's kind of annoying.

When characters come out, there's a huge huddle to try and get photos/autographs instead of queues as at most of WDW.

Space Mountain Mission 2 is fantastic

Pirates of the Caribbean is longer than the WDW one and has a lift hill and two drops. Jack Sparrow has not been added to the attraction as recently rumoured around various sites.

You can see the Tower of Terror from various places in Disneyland Park.. Including Fantasyland.. Not sure it fits in the view from there, but.. http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/displ ... =65&pos=31

Extra Magic Hours are really quiet. Some places you could look 360 degrees aroudn you and not see *anyone*. Also we managed to walk right on to Space Mountain Mission 2 without waiting at all.. Straight through the queue and onto the ride.

The new parade floats are scented. As they go past, you can smell them. For example, you can smell the roses on the Princess' float.

During the parade stops, streamers are shot from the floats at the end of the song. This seems to cause slight problems with children running into the street to collect the streamers. As a result of this, the cast members aroudn the parade run very quickly to grab them before the children do, and keep the children on the sidelines.. The cast then distribute the streamers among the crowds. Several trees along the parade route have streamers stuck in them, and guests can be seen just after the parade/candleabration trying to climb/reach them. Often being told off by the cast.

The studios are more construction walls than anything else at the moment. Cars Race Rally and Crush's Coaster aren't open yet, although I did get on a soft opening of Cars Race Rally. The Tower is coming along nicely, and framing is up for the buildings surrounding it. You have to go all the way around through Toon Studios area to get to the Tram Tour right now due to this construction. The Disney Channel Studio is now closed and the parade route shortened due to construction. I can't see any way of spending a full day in that park right now. We did the park in half a day and went back to Disneyland Park.

The longest line belonged to Autopia.

The shortest line was Space Mountain on the Extra Magic Hours. Even during normal hours, Space Mountain barely reached 15 minute waits.

Star Tours is identical to the one at Disney-MGM Studios, both the queue area and attraction itself. The droid driving your starspeeder speaks in French, but the film's voices (such as the X-Wing pilots) still speak in English. I felt the ride was a little more violent in its movements than the WDW one.. Might just me me, though. I thought it seemed to more slightly more.

Legend of the Lion King is very popular. You have to get (free) tickets from near Discoveryland Station to watch it in the theatre. We managed to catch a performance (albeit a French one - they do French and English performances alternately) when eating in the Hyperion. It looks a very good show. We didn't catch an English performance.

That's all I can think of right now. No doubt I'll think of more later. Any questions etc, post here and I'll answer them

Andy.

josh · Post by **josh** » Jun Sat 02, 2007 1:27 pm

WOW!! VERY NICE PICTURES!!!

love them all

the horses are only during the summer magic seasons, when it is not too cold and not too hot for them horses.
and Parade lighting towers also comes out of the little popcornhouses when candleabration or fantillusion will be performed. you can't see these lighting towers, they appear 5/10 minutes before the show or parade begins.
but these "special" lightning towers are almost only used on night time shows and parades like Fantillusion, Candleabration in night or The Enchanted Fairytale Ceremony during Christmas. they actually pop-out of the little houses

really cool pictures

me

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » Jun Tue 05, 2007 2:36 pm

HAHAHA I love it acp!!!!! I knew you wouldn't be able to find blue water, Disney doesn't believe in it. I suppose you enjoyed yourself.......Bah I know you did. I will see you in the chat later but right now I'm just trying to get through all of the posts I missed while I was on Vacation, I bet you had a lot to go through too.

Esmeralda · Post by **Esmeralda** » Jun Tue 05, 2007 2:46 pm

Just started to go through the pics acp and I love them. Thanks for the hotel photos - I just went to Santa Fe and the theming looks perfect! In comparison to a WDW hotel, where would you rate this one (All Star, Moderate?)?

Post by **acp** » Jun Tue 05, 2007 3:51 pm

Esmeralda wrote:Just started to go through the pics acp and I love them. Thanks for the hotel photos - I just went to Santa Fe and the theming looks perfect! In comparison to a WDW hotel, where would you rate this one (All Star, Moderate?)?

To be honest, I don't know. I've never been to any of the WDW hotels, so can't really do a comparison. The Hotel Santa Fe is the most basic value hotel at DLRP, so I guess you'd compare it to whatever the most basic value hotel at WDW is..

Andy.

ldzny · Post by **ldzny** » Jun Tue 05, 2007 3:58 pm

acp wrote:
OK, the photos are all up here:
http://gallery.andrewpoole.org.uk/

Great pictures! Now I want to go!

Cheshire Cat · Post by **Cheshire Cat** » Jun Tue 05, 2007 5:16 pm

Thank acp, awesome pics. I definitley need to visit Disneyland Paris someday, it's definitley the nicest looking. Especially dlrp's fantasyland. It makes wdw's look like a carnival. The banners on main street are really cool also.

Esmeralda · Post by **Esmeralda** » Jun Wed 06, 2007 9:02 am

acp wrote: To be honest, I don't know. I've never been to any of the WDW hotels, so can't really do a comparison. The Hotel Santa Fe is the most basic value hotel at DLRP, so I guess you'd compare it to whatever the most basic value hotel at WDW is..

Andy.

Value resort! Sorry, couldn't remember the official term yesterday, so I just came up with All Star. Good to know for my someday trip to Paris.

Edit: Say Andy, would it be alright if I stole a picture for my desktop? Some of them are just too good to pass up! I'll be sure to give you credit to anyone who asks, but I totally undertand if you want to keep them for yourself.