Saturday, March 31, 2012

Disneyland Paris 20th Anniversary Disney Dreams! Full Show Premiere HD Video and High-Res Pictures !



Here is the full Disney Dreams! show which was broadcast last night during DLP press and VIP Premiere event! The show will start tomorrow for every guest with the beginning of DLP 20th Anniversary celebration! Enjoy the show and let us know what you think of this great show which was directed by Steven Davison. Personally i think that Steven and his team did a great job and that DLP guests will love it!

Plenty of pictures below for those who don't want to watch the video to avoid too much spoilers ( DLP official pictures should arrive anytime soon ) but for all others you have the choice between two videos, the first one below is in HD - note that you must choose to watch it in high definition by changing the definition with the small icon on the bottom right of the video ( fourth icon from the right )...




...and on the next one the show filming is the same but you have sounds of applause of the people who watched it and most of all after the show ends you have two minutes more of projection effects on the castle.




And now, some great shots from the show! Below, the opening scene with "the second star on the right"...



Peter Pan meets Wendy, thanks to projection effects on fountains.





Peter Pan shadow escapes from Peter...



Peter's shadow hook at the second star...



The "Be our Guest" sequence...



Peter's shadow meets Remy who will free him...



The Aladdin Genie sequence...



Sleeping Beauty castle transformed in cathedral for the Hunchback of Notre-Dame sequence...







The Mary Poppins "Step in time" sequence...





The castle magically transform in Khmer temple for the Jungle Book sequence...



The Raiponce sequence...







The Villains sequence starting scene...



Peter's shadow is captured by Captain Hook...



...then try to escape from Ursula...



Hook is defeat thanks to Tinkerbell pixie dust!...



The final scenes are spectacular and beautiful...





...until the spectacular final fireworks!




It's DLP 20th Anniversary so it's the right time to order your copy of the collector's edition of the Disneyland Paris From Sketch to Reality book which will tell you all about the creation of the park with 320 pages and 750 pictures and WDI renderings! And during all April to celebrate DLP 20th Ann the book is at its pre-order price of 100 euros! Place your pre-order now for a collector's edition copy while you can get a special offer on this wonderful book! To know how to order and send your payment please go HERE.



Video: copyright Disney -TF1

Friday, March 30, 2012

DLP 20th Ann Disney Dreams Show - First Video !



A Disney Dreams! cast-member premiere happened last night and today Le Parisien has posted a video which will show you the very first (good) images of DLP 20th Anniversary show. It looks really good and comments from those who have seen it last night are excellent!

Now, if all goes fine you should be able to see the entire 19 minutes show tomorrow evening as DLP will broadcast LIVE the show press event premiere! I can't guarantee that the show will be available for all countries but you have nothing to loose to try. So, this saturday March 31 around 10.30 european time (9.30 U.K time) go either on DLP Youtube channel HERE or on the Mytf1 website HERE

Steve Davison who created the show wrote on his Facebook page: “Tonight we completed the final programming of DISNEY DREAMS! It was a lot of work and I can never thank the production team enough for all their efforts. This was a very diffucult show to create/produce, but everyone stuck with it and gave it their all! Thanks Team Dreams! Whew! We’re all very excited to premiere the show.“









Pictures: copyright Disney

Video: copyright Le Parisien - Disney

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Fantastic Egyptian Theming for Awaited B&M OzIris Coaster Opening April 7 at Parc Asterix



French theme park Parc Asterix will open its gates on April 7 for the new season and guests will find a whole new land as well as the awaited inverted B&M coaster. The new land is all about ancient Egypt and the new coaster is called OzIris and is supposed to have cost $26M with half of the ride’s budget in the theming. As usual with Parc Asterix the theming is done with plenty of humor and private jokes related to Asterix adventures, but not only. Asterix most famous Egyptian adventure is of course the best-seller and highly popular album "Asterix and Cleopatra" released at the end of the 1960's.

According to Screamscape B&M has designed a great inverted coaster which will be "40 meters tall (131 ft), have 1000 meters of track and feature 3 tunnels and 5 inversions, with no mid-course brake along the way to slow things down" and for sure this coaster looks great. But the theming looks even greater and knowing how Ancient Egypt has always been highly popular in France and Europe i predict a big success to this new Park Asterix ride. The ride was designed by 30 years old designer Julien Bertevas who began his career at Parc Astérix a few years ago by working on the park's decors. Let's have a closer look at OsIris, thanks to official pictures recently released by Parc Astérix, beginning by the outside decor and also two concept-arts.















Some pictures of the Egyptian temple interior and the queue decor theming...















The inverted coaster raedy for lift-off and outside pics of the track.









As you'll see on the Ad video below the coaster goes many times under ground and the plunge promises to be scary! Always according to Screamscape, the existing Zierer family coaster in the park called Periferix will be rethemed to fit the new Egypt area and be renamed “SOS Numerobis”.

Now, do i think that this new Parc Asterix attraction might hurt DLP attendance in its 20th anniversary year? Well, considering that the Parc Asterix is only at 45 minutes from Paris and even closer from others european countries like Belgium than DLP is - and that DLP will have a new show but no new ride this year - yes, i think it might have some effect. That said, when DLP have 14 Million visitors per year the Parc Asterix have 1.7 Millions only. Even if they have an exceptional year - which i wish to them - they won't "take" more than 3 or 500000 guests from DLP. But, with DLP marketing machine in this 20th anniversary year it's not even sure that the Parc Asterix ride will have an effect, although it will certainly have one on Parc Asterix results as it might help them to resist, precisely, to DLP 20th Ann and should succeed to attract visitors at Park Asterix.




Pictures and video: copyright Parc Asterix

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Great Goofini Posters



Disney Parks had the good idea to post these great posters which are part of the theming of the Great Goofini ride - previoulsy known as Barnstormer - at WDW Storybook Circus area in WDW Magic Kingdom. They're not only brilliantly design but they're also funny!













Pictures: copyright Disney