Welcome Everyone, Here is the news of the week in this Marvel summer at Disneyland Paris.
At Parc Disnyeland the end of the 25th anniversary festivities are for September and fortunately because the decorations are in a bad condition. Discolored, or for some burnt.
Still on Main Street USA, the Victoria counter now offers a whole new restaurant offer, say goodbye to the hot sandwich and soda and hello to the Milkshake and iced tea displayed “homemade.”
The idea is great, the location to land with a view of the castle is ideal. But in the application of this offer the visitor does not find it. €10 ($12) per Milkshake of 30cl it is very expensive for of milk. Fortunately the taste is there, but not the texture too liquid. More overall what is disappointing is the lack of training of the team them after several week of opening. We wait 10minutes to be placed, 10minutes to take the order and as much to serve us a single Milkshake… because yes with such a prohibitive price , we take only one glass and in more, the annual passport reductions have not applicable.
So despite the willingness to diversify the supply of catering, it is amazing to see all the difficulty that at the park in the implementation with a prohibitive price (This is unfortunately usual at Disneyland Paris). It would have been better for Disney to put a Milkshake 30cl to €5 ($5,75) to take out, and no to impose more staff, a glassware, a service, a way of consuming the product.
It’s a pity, because the product and the idea is there, but not the right application. Where for the price and the wait, we were almost leaving before being served several times.
In Frontierland good news, the scaffolds are gradually withdrawn while the gardens with the queue are still in the works. The reopening of the attraction initially planned in October was shifted in January 2019.
The puppet chalet Restaurant (Le chalet des marionnettes) now has Adventureland side a poster to attract visitors facing this discreet entrance.
Finally, the castle of the park gradually finds its golden arrows, 1/3 of them are back.
At the Walt Disney Studios Park, the Studio 1 building is renovating its façade on the tower of terror side.
Speaking of the Tower of Terror, the latter is also renovating its facades. The scaffolding covered the entire back of the tower and began to encompass the side of the hotel.
The total refurbishment of the facades of the Tower of Terror has begun since 3 May 2018.
A themed tarp will eventually cover the entire tower. It can be seen that the metal brackets are being positioned on the back of the tower for this themed tarp.
Nonetheless, we can only think of Disneyland in California when it changed its ride for the Guardians of the Galaxy.
The work of the terror tower its visible from whole the park, including Toy Story Playland which also has some touch-up in particular for REX who is now behind Palisades.
Not far from here, in the Parisian quarter, the chalets are well settled for the new edition of the “Rendez-vous Gourmand” (the french version of the “food and wine festival”) from 27 July until the 30 September. Everything is ready for the return of the tastings of our french regions!
Finally this summer is the moment to discover the Marvel season at the Walt Disney Studios Park! Do not look for meet and greet points, there are none, the characters are only visible in the three different shows offered daily in front of the Tower of Terror.
Marvel: The Alliance of Super Heroes: is the show of the season, it is built in two parts, the story of the Avengers and then the final fight against Thanos. If we end up with a very well executed first part, the second without its special effects and drones can very quickly seem long and ridiculous. Unfortunately since several weeks the main drones are no longer used since the flying saucer has slowly fallen on the visitors during one performance without hurting.
There is still a good contemplative show of season allowing to see many of our super heroes with visual effects of projections achieved if we close our eyes on the wires hanging Iron Man.
Video of the first Show of the season :
Stark Expo is the show to see the famous character, Loky . Although the show lasts only 10 minutes, the 5 minutes of fighting are dense and well made. It is the perfect show to see in the day if you are in a hurry and Marvel is not a the reason of your visit on the destination.
Finally we find Star Lord and Gamora of the Guardians of the Galaxy, in a participatory show where visitors are invited to dance with their heroes.
Finally Disney has announced a novelty on the parks from 24 July to 30 September, the “Access One”.
For €15/per day/ per people/per ride with FastPass, you have one fastpass access to this attraction. The purchase is accompanied by a small surprise (a black bracelet “Access one “).
What to say about this new product? Even the American parks have not dared to make such a product at such a price! Here again we see the need for Disneyland Paris to offer a product, not to propose a real offer for its visitors, but simply hope to make money with a low interesting product.
It is strange to find that Disneyland Paris does not create the MaxPass of Disneyland Resort in California. The MaxPass allows for $10 (€9) per person to benefit from all the attractions FastPass at will and benefit from the PhotoPass system for the photos taken in the attractions, the meet and greet characters, but also the twenty photographers scattered All day, by park, in the different points “Postcard”. MaxPass is a real offer, a plus during a day for a reasonable price allowing Disney to make benefices while being attractive. MaxPass allows days of very high affluence to have a FastPass attraction per hour and more if the park is less visited.
You will have understood, with €15 per person and especially by attractions that have a FastPass system…. Even with a “little surprise” (bracelet) We are far from the affordable service and new experience. Unless Disneyland Paris is technically and technologically ready not ready.
What comes out of this new product is simply the will of a life-size test, in the possible market and the price that visitors would be willing to pay to end up on a MaxPass offer. But it’s obvious that having a MaxPass at Disneyland Paris would be a great thing. Either a simple service 10 €($12) for attractions FastPass in unlimited per person, or €15 ($18) for FastPass and PhotoPass in unlimited per person. Allowing, despite a more expensive service than in California, to offer an experience accessible to visitors and therefore profitable in view of the number of passes sold per day.
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