Samstag, 25. August 2012

Disneyland Paris

The resort was on 12 April 1992 opened after four years of construction and now includes, among others, the two theme parks Disneyland Park (1992) and Walt Disney Studios Park (2002), as entertainers Disney Village , the golf course Golf Disneyland , several hotels and residential and business district.
The Department of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts of the Walt Disney Company , with nearly 40% of the capital of the Disneyland Resort Paris involved, the development and expansion of the object of the Euro Disney SCA is. This in turn has the Euro Disney SA and 82% of Euro Disney Associés SNC . The latter administer and manage the domain.

Contents


  • 1 leisure and sports facilities
    • 1.1 Disneyland Park
      • 1.1.1 Adventureland
      • 1.1.2 Frontierland
      • 1.1.3 Main Street USA
      • 1.1.4 Discoveryland
      • 1.1.5 Fantasyland
    • 1.2 Walt Disney Studios Park
    • 1.3 Disney Village entertainment center
    • 1.4 Golf Disneyland
  • 2 waiting times


Leisure and sports facilities

Disneyland Park

Der Disneyland Park (bis 1994 EuroDisney , bis dann 2002 Disneyland Paris ) Teil und das ist der alteste Kernstuck des Resorts. Nach dem Vorbild des Magic Kingdoms aus den amerikanischen Disneyland Parks entworfen-, er sich in unterteilt funf Themenbereiche, die sich um das Schloss Dornroschen- gruppieren, Wahrzeichen dient als das dem Park. Die verschiedenen Bereiche here:

Adventureland

In Adventureland , visitors go to the paths of famous explorers such as Indiana Jones or can explore the fairytale city of Agrabah. An adventure playground in pirate style by Pirates of the Caribbean (Pirates of the Caribbean) is also available for children.
Attractions of this region are among others the " Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril "(Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril), the" Adventure Isle "(Adventure Island), the tree house of the" Swiss Family Robinson "and" Pirates of the Caribbean " . The latter attraction was the basis for the film of the same series .

Frontierland

Frontierland
This area with the " Big Thunder Mountain "and the Haunted House" Phantom Manor "is modeled after a typical Wild West scenery. In addition, located in Frontierland other attractions such as the "Rustler Roundup Shootin 'Gallery" shooting gallery. Known Disney characters appear in "Pocahontas Indian Village" (playground for children), with "Tarzan - The Show" and "Mickey's Winter Wonderland" (Show). Additionally, it is a family roller coaster.
By 2006, the roller coaster Big Thunder Mountain roller coaster was the most visited in France, thus also in Disneyland.

Main Street USA

Main Street USA (main road in the U.S.) began after the entrance to the park and has mainly restaurants and shops. They will, like the other Disney parks, the so-called "hub" in front of the castle, from which the visitors have access to all the different subject areas of the park. The architectural style of the building leading visitors to the United States at the time of the turn of the century . The architecture is strongly in Marceline, Missouri , where Walt Disney inspired growing up. From here it is also possible to travel by steam around the Disneyland park in order to get an overall view. It will have a chance to do one's hair at a barber in the style of the turn of the century to the twentieth century, or to be shaved. Attractions on the main street are mainly the "Disneyland Railroad - Main Street Station" (Station of the Disneyland steam engine), the "Main Street Vehicles" (Vintage, guests transport), "Discovery Arcade" and "Liberty Arcade" (strolling and discovery miles). In addition to the main road to find the "Disney Parade" (the official Disney Parade), "Fantillusion" (a nightly Parade of Lights) and "Enchanted" instead (a fireworks Disney movie of the same name).

Discoveryland


Orbitron, Space Mountain
Discoveryland (country of discovery, Eng. Correspondence Tomorrowland ), the visitor experiences include the fictional future of Jules Verne . Since its opening in 1992, was aware of this topic in a future from the perspective of the 19th Century built - away from classic Star Wars - and sci-fi motifs - a future of classical visionaries. Focus of this theme is the " Space Mountain "(an indoor roller coaster), which was reopened in early 2005 after a reconstruction phase in" Mission 2 ".
Also there is a new show since 2005 in the so-called 'Videopolis' against the "Space Mountain". The show "The Legend of the Lion King" (The Legend of the Lion King) is structured just like a musical and takes about 30 minutes. Since 2010, there is a show program from an African "Drums show."
Other attractions in Discoveryland the "Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast" are (an interactive dark ride ), of the 360 ° cinema Visionarium replaced. "Star Tours" (Flight Simulator), "Orbitron" (carousel with missiles) and "Autopia" (a kind of go-kart track with gasoline vehicles) expand the program. More features of and after long break back into the program recorded 3D movie are Captain EO, the "Honey I shrunk the audience" (Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, 3D Effects Cinema) replaced, and screenings of classic Mickey Mouse cartoons (in Videopolis ).

Fantasyland

The topic of Fantasyland (fantasy land) is particularly aimed at younger visitors. The attractions are around known, from Disney -adapted tale designed. Particularly well known is the "Sleeping Beauty Castle", the Sleeping Beauty Castle in the center of the park with some shopping. In it is also "La Galerie de la Belle au Bois Dormant", a walk-gallery, where are stained glass windows and tapestries for the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. Under the castle there is a walk-Dragon Cave "La Taniere du Dragon".
Other attractions are also "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", which tells the story of Snow White, and contains elements of a haunted house. "Peter Pan's Flight" - Peter Pan's Flight is a gondola, with the one flies over the rooftops of London and into the Neverland. There is also the "Alice's Curious Labyrinth", which ends at the castle of the Queen of Hearts. "Pinocchio's Journey" tells the story of Pinocchio and the boat ride in "Le Pays de Contes de Fées" (The Wonderland) are fairy tales like Snow White, Peter and the Wolf and Aladdin represented. "Casey Jr." is a beautiful, "slow" family roller coaster, which is located behind the labyrinth.
" It's a small world "is a boat ride with singing children of different nationalities. This is one attraction that was originally designed for a world's fair and represents each country or region of the world: Europe, rainforest, Africa, Alaska, etc. The park steam locomotives put on their park tour at the "Fantasyland Station Disneyland Railroad" a one stopover. Also located in Fantasyland , "Le Theatre du Chateau" (for theater productions and shows) and "Fantasy Festival Stage".

Walt Disney Studios Park


Furthermore, since 2002, there are the "Walt Disney Studios", directly adjacent to the original park and the Disney Village. In this park, visitors will be able to see behind the scenes of movies.For example, with the so-called "Studio Tram Tour", a behind-the-scenes tour with special-effects -presentation, which is also present in Florida. Disney also puts much emphasis on shows and parades. In the show "Cinemagique" there are many small details, combined with a love story to see. Another show at Walt Disney Studios Park is the black light show Animagique shown packaged in what famous Disney tunes in an exciting story.
Furthermore, there is the stunt show "Moteurs ... Action!" With the vehicles, explosions, and all sorts of "Action" stunt effects are shown.
The rock band Aerosmith was also immortalized in the park by a roller coaster called " Rock 'n' Roller Coaster "was integrated, which in less than three seconds to accelerate from 0 to 92 km / h and highlighted the drive with a composed of Aerosmith rock soundtrack . Since 2006, she is the most visited attraction in the entire Disneyland Resort Paris, triggering Big Thunder Mountain on number one.
Other attractions in this section is the "Art of Disney Animation", the setting of "Singing In The Rain", Armageddon (effect simulator with preshow) and the Disney Studio 1
As part of the birthday celebrations of the resort's attractions at the Walt Disney Studios Park in 2007 and 2008 were supplemented by four new ones. In June 2007, opened the Spinning Coaster Crush's Coaster , on the Finding Nemo and is an attraction for teetassenähnliche movie Cars . Starting from 22 December 2007 came with the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror , add another major attraction. In March 2008, the building complex of the Disney Channel's "Stitch Live" (" Stitch Encounter "at Disneyland in Hong Kong) opened. In summer 2010 a new subject in the country attracted the Toon Studio Studios Park, and although "Toy Story Playland". This new area is equipped with 3 new attractions - a Parachute Ride (Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop) with the theme of the little plastic soldiers, a Halfpipe Coaster (RC Racer) with the subject of RC Racer and music express the theme of Slinky Dog (Slinky Dog Zigzag Spin). The park will be extended until 2020.

Disney Village entertainment center

The Disney Village with an area the size of 20 football fields and numerous attractions, shops, restaurants, a nightclub, shops and cinema complex is presented as a complete "city" that is open even after park closing. Adjacent there is also a bowling and video game center, and a private car park visitors in order to win the "non-park visitors" of the surrounding area as a visitor can. In the three existing Disney stores substantially all are also in the park to be purchased Merchandise find articles here.
The Disney Village is the hangar for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Dinner Show , a performance in the Western style with horses, acrobatics and stunts, with the visitor a dinner is served and he as one of four teams cheering on a contestant.Furthermore, in Disney Village is the 3D cinema the group "IMAX" is available. Many nightclubs and several restaurants such as the "Rainforest Cafe," the "Billy Bob", in which there is regular live music or the restaurant "Annette's", in which the visitors their food at rock and roll music from traveling with roller skates waiters get served, have settled here. A "McDonald's" is to be found there, as well as a branch of the chain "Starbucks".

Golf Disneyland

Few minutes away from the Disney parks, the Disneyland Resort Paris is located between the waterfalls, rocks, rivers and trees 27-hole golf course. The course is suitable for both beginners and professionals.
Next door, the Radisson Blu Hotel at Disneyland Paris is a four star.

Waiting times

Due to the increasing number of visitors and the size of the park, it is hardly possible to see all attractions in a day or to attend, as waiting times of 60 to 90 minutes or more for a trip are not uncommon. During the off season (eg in winter) but also waiting times of a few minutes are possible (mainly business days). To the most popular attractions was a system called FastPass introduced. These cards contain a special limited available time window within which visitors can enter the queue on an extra attraction. This enables the waiting time can be reduced significantly. In many similar parks have similar systems, but, unlike in the Disneyland Park, are usually charged.