WDS Toon Studio opening press event

There was another event at the WDS Toon Studio yesterday, for the european press this time, and a big Toon studio arch and red carpet were standing at the entrance of the land.



Most of the VIP guests were french actors or anchor men/women, so you don’t know them in the U.S, so this topic will interest more the french readers.

And there is one VIP , so famous worldwide that you probably know him, it’s the legendary Soccer player Zinedine Zidane who was there with his charming wife.




Ricky Martin was there...



Most of the other actors or VIP below are known only in Europe, beginning by actor André Dussolier, here with Pascal Elbé



Actor Clovis Cornillac



Soccer player David Trezeguet and his really lovely wife in one of the Crush coaster vehicle



Zoe Felix with Donald



Comedian Bruno Solo and Maureen Dor on Lighting Mc Queen



The lovely Julie Gayet



Television Anchor man Nagui



The handsome Gregory Coupet



The also charming Audrey Marnay



Actress Emma de Caunes



Comedian Frank Dubosq



And the very good actor François Cluzet



All photos: copyright Disney

A Tokyo Disney Sea artwork tribute - Part three

And here is the last part of this three part article about the Tokyo Disney Sea artwork.
This one is about Port Discovery, Mediterranean Harbour and American Waterfront.
We will talk again about Tokyo Disney Sea soon with documents that haver been published anywhere, but i keep the surprise...

From the top:
Bird view rendering of Port Discovery
Rendering of the restaurant area and Tram station of Port Discovery
Rendering of the entrance of Storm rider
Rendering of the Mediterranean Harbour
Sketch for the Venitian gondolas
Rendering of American Waterfront
Rendering of the "Encore" show in the Broadway theatre
Rendering of the Tower of Terror
Sketch of Cape Cod Waterfront
Rendering of the New York harbour
Rendering of the s.s Columbia

As always, click on each picture to see them in bigger size.

All artwork: copyright Disney

A Tokyo Disney Sea artwork tribute - Part two

So, here is the part two of this Tokyo Disney Sea artwork tribute, and this time the artwork is about the Little Mermaid lagoon, Arabian coast and Lost river delta, including the Indiana Jones adventure.

From the top:
Rendering of the outside coaster of the Little Mermaid lagoon
Rendering of the inside of the Little Mermaid lagoon
Rendering of the outside decor of the Little Mermaid lagoon
Rendering of the Little Mermaid lagoon's restaurant
Rendering of the Arabian coast
Rendering of the inside decor of the Arabian coast
Rendering of the preshow area of Arabian coast magic show
Rendering of the Arabian coast magic show
Rendering of the Indiana Jones adventure pyramid
Rendering of the Lost river delta entrance
Rendering of a scene of the Indiana Jones adventure attraction
Rendering of the Raging spirits attraction
Rendering of annother area of Lost river delta

As always, click on each picture to see them in bigger size.

All artwork : copyright Disney

A Tokyo Disney Sea artwork tribute - Part one

This is the one that all of you fans of WDI artwork are waiting for! A big artwork tribute to the most beautiful Disney park WDI have ever built. For those of you who may have seen the article on Mice age i did some weeks ago, this is an "extended" version with much more artwork, so don't go away!

From the opening day, the park has been acclaimed, and for a lot of good reasons: the theming was stunning, the story line and the E Ticket were perfect and it seems that, for once, the WDI Imagineers were asked to add more details and that no major budget cuts were done.

I was invited at the grand opening and i still remember a person from the press office telling me : "you know, Alain i don't think we will see again a park like this one before a loooong time". Unfortunately, until now, he was pretty right.
But i think that the new Disney management have now understood the mistakes of the end of the Eisner's era, so hopefully, may be we will see another park as beautiful as this one in the future.

Anyway, all along this week-end you will see a three part TDS artwork article, and this first one shows the renderings of the entrance and Mysterious Island, a pure dream come true for any Jules Verne lover.

As usual, i've tried to find for you the best definition possible for the images, but it depends of the source, so, some time it will be just "good", sometime it will be "great". As always, click on each picture to see them in bigger size.

From the top:
Rendering of the big ocean ball at the entrance
A bird view rendering of the whole park
Rendering of Renaissance fortress and Mysterious island
Rendering of the inside of Mysterious island
A close shot of the inside of Mysterious island
A rendering of the boarding room of the 20000 leagues under the sea attraction
A scene of the 20000 leagues under the sea attraction
Another scene of the 20000 leagues under the sea attraction
A concept-art for the submarines vehicles of the 20000 leagues under the sea attraction
Another concept art for the inside of the submarines vehicles of the 20000 leagues under the sea attraction
A concept art for the steamer boats of the park
A rendering for a scene of the Journey to the center of the earth attraction

All artwork: copyright Disney