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Resort News - (6/22/09) Good news for Coffee lovers, the new Starbucks at the Disney Village opened for business this past weekend.
  (5/30/09) Want to take a virtual spin through Disneyland Paris but just can’t afford the trip? Google has you covered now as a 3D renender Disneyland Paris environment has been added to the Google Earth experience. You can take a look around both of the theme parks as well as the seven hotels, as the first theme park in Europe to be given the 3D treatment. “In order to bring the theme park to life on the screen, two photographers worked for 20 days to shoot all the visible surfaces of Disneyland Paris, including every building façade.” They took 85,000 photos in all, which were used to create the 1,587 3D models used in the resort.
  (5/6/09) Longtime readers may recall a weird story from 2006 when an odd Swiss company went around making claims that they were going to make a buy-out offer for Disneyland Paris, but it was all just talk and they vanished a few months later as quickly as they arrived. Now according to the Wall St. Journal the director of that company (Ulf Wernerf of CenterTainment) has now been fined $1.33 million for the hoax as it unfairly manipulated stock prices of both companies.
  (4/30/09) EuroDisney SCA reports an increased loss due to a drop in the number of visitors from the UK and Spain. The resorts loss over the past six months was 71.9 million Euros, up from just 37.5 Euros the year before.
  (4/18/09) To me… EuroDisney has always been Disneyland Paris. The EuroDisney name stunk… and I can’t tell you when they decided to add the word Resort into the name, but those days are over again it seems. Locals sources tell me that the “Disneyland Resort Paris” is no more as the new CEO has announced to CM’s earlier this week that the resort is now officially to be called simply, “Disneyland Paris” once again.
  (4/2/09) I’ve got as few news updates and pictures for Disneyland Paris from our friends at Photos Magiques, who also sent along a few pictures to enjoy. For starters a new stage is being built in front of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle that will have a unique layout with a main stage and four smaller “satellite stages” branching off from it. Apparently this is for a new show called "It's Dance Time.... with Mickey and Friends", and you can see a preview video of it here.
  Over the off-season the park also rehabbed Phantom Manor, which included a complete rebuild of the Séance Room that is much darker than before and features a new Leota head. You can also find a video showing off the changes to the room on YouTube.
  Finally, we’ll end this with a note about a new change coming to the Disney Village. Currently the Buffalo Trading Company is being remodeled to become a Starbucks.(2/20/09) Disneyland Paris has launched a new website for Mickey’s Magical Party, a website about the new year-long celebration taking place at the resort starting in March. The event will feature new decorations around the parks, a new daily show with Mickey in the stage in front of the castle, dance lessons with Stitch in Discoveryland, Disney’s Star and Cars over at the Studios along with the Playhouse Disney show. A fun item to note is the Toonificator section of the website that allows you to upload a picture of yourself which will then be turned into a “toon”.

Ride Rehabs - The following information is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate.
Nothing is known at this point in time.

2010-2012 - Star Tours 2 - Rumor - (8/22/08) Whenever the US parks open the new Star Tours 2 ride, don’t expect Paris to open the new ride until a year or two later. At this point the ride is expected to possibly open in the US in late 2009 or mid 2010.

2012/2013 - Little Mermaid - Rumor - (5/29/09) An Interview with Tony Baxter about the Little Mermaid ride that was once planned for Disneyland Paris can be seen posted to the Disney and More Blog, which also shows off quit a bit of concept artwork. According to the article, once the new Little Mermaid ride opens in California, it seems very likely that it could arrive in Paris shortly after.
  (8/22/08) We know Florida is already eyeballing the new Little Mermaid ride going into California Adventure to make their own copy and apparently Disneyland Paris is also keeping a close eye on the proejct as well.

???? - Grizzly River Run - Concept Only - (4/22/09) While I haven’t heard anything about this plan being put into action, a piece of concept artwork showing off a copy of DCA’s Grizzly River Run attraction in Frontierland, placed on the site once earmarked for Splash Mountain, has been posted to the PhotosMagiques forum. Personally I would be surprised to see this ride come instead of something more like Splash Mountain. While GRR is a fun ride, the cooler weather in France has been one of the main reasons the park never got Splash Mountain in the first place, and you would get far more wet on GRR.

WALT DISNEY STUDIOS - PARIS
Outside Paris, France (Abbreviation: WDS)

Park News - (4/3/09) I’ve been sent a link to a news article (in German) that mentions a small fire broke out on the roof of the Rock ‘n Roller Coaster in Paris. According to a rough translation some kind of “grinding works on the roof” was likely the cause of the fire. For the time being the coaster is closed, though I’ve been told the damage was mainly contained on the roof of the building.
  (11/20/08) WDSfans.com reports to us that Disney has been given a development permit from the French department of agriculture that will allow them to develop property within the park that is currently occupied by a forest. Now this is Disney we’re talking about and while I’ve been told this gives them permission to do nearly whatever they want with the site, Disney will leave as much of the forest as intact as possible. This is rumored to be for the new Toy Story Land project in development and the permit is currently posted on display just outside the park.

Ride Rehabs - The following information is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate.
Nothing is known at this time.

2009 - Disney Stars & Motor Cars - Rumor – (2/29/08) The latest rumor is that the soon to be retired Disney Stars and Motorcars parade from Disney’s Hollywood Studios (formerly Disney/MGM Studios) will be coming for the 2009 season.
  (2/22/06) Just as rumors start for the Disney/MGM Studios in Orlando getting a parade from California, it seems that the park’s current parade, Disney Stars & Motor Cars will make it’s way to Walt Disney Studios Paris.

2009 - Playhouse Disney: Live - Rumor - (6/26/08) Photosmagiques has posted an update about the new Playhouse Disney: Live On Stage show. They’ve confirmed the plan is to turn three of the old Disney Channel soundstages into the new show attraction, which looks like it will also be next to the new Stitch Live attraction.
  (2/29/08) We’ve heard a new rumor claiming that a new version of the Playhouse Disney: Live show running at both of the US resorts will make it’s way to Paris. According to the rumor the new show may go into the same building at the new Stitch Live attraction in the former Disney Channel Studios.

2010-2012 - Toy Story Playland & Ratatouille - (5/16/09) It seems someone has leaked a copy of the new Toy Story Land plans for Walt Disney Studios Paris, showing off a new area with three new flat ride attractions. Thanks to NewsDLRP.com for the image and information about the rides, which they claim with feature a pair of Disk’O style half-pipe rides themed to the RC Racer car, a them ed kid friendly parachute drop which I assume will similar to the Jumpin Jellyfish ride at California Adventure but with a Green Army Men theme. The final ride in the center of the layout will be a Slinky Dog themed Music Express style flat ride.
  (5/14/09) We’ve been told by our friends at WDSFans that Disney/Pixar’s John Lasseter was speaking to reporters at the Cannes film festival that a new Toy Story land with three attractions should be ready to open at Walt Disney Studios Paris by sometime in 2010.
  (1/30/09) A reader has sent in a picture from the Walt Disney Studios Paris park taken from the loading area for the Backlot Tram Tour where it looks like ground work for something may have started.
  (1/15/09) Screamscape has been told some new details about the Toy Story Playland project from our friends at WDSfans. This is the working name for the Toon Studio expansion project and right now the design features three Toy Story themed attractions: a mini parachute drop tower themed to the Green Army Men, a half-pipe coaster ride themed to RC Racer and a music-express style flat-ride themed to Slinky Dog. “There will be photo locations as well as lots of references to other toys from the Toy Story movies and even the famous Pixar Ball will be a giant prop among the rides.” The new land will go into the grassy area behind the Art of Disney Animation building, taking up some of the current tram road space as well.
  (8/22/08) A couple of attraction ideas have been proposed for this general area for 2010 and 2012 at this point. In 2010 they are looking at making a Toy Story themed mini-land full of about four or five kiddie rides, similar in concept to the A Bug’s Land at California Adventure, that would be likely be themed to Woody’s Roundup. In 2012 the park would like to have a new dark ride that would use the same track-less ride system used previously on Tokyo’s Pooh ride. The rides would be themed to the film Ratatouille and placed in the empty space behind the Magic of Disney Animation building and could open by 2012. The tour however will have to be altered to accommodate these new additions. If these plans are approved, older plans to try and bring more film based attractions like Soarin and Philharmagic to the park previously proposed will be dropped
  (6/12/08) Screamscape has been informed that some balloon height check tests were done in the Studios in a grassy field behind the Art of Disney Animation building not long ago. According to WDS Fans (who provided us with an image of the site) this may be for a proposed expansion to the Toon Studio area.