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    Hi everyone, here are the news of the week from Disneyland Paris.

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    But before start this article, we propose to (re-)discover the parade “Paint the Night” at Disneyland in California likeyou’ve never seen.

    16 September, Halloween arrive, but just a poster.

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    Once in the Park, we see of work on the store “Plaza West Boutique”.

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    The surprise of the day is the rehabilitation of Main Street station for several months causing the closure of the attraction “Disneyland Railroad”.

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    On Main Street USA the facade of the «Disney ClothiersLTD» in to been refreshed while the “Main Street Motors” starts to receive in turn of attention of the maintenance team

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    The sidewalk at the entrance to the restaurant “Walt’s” is beingremade to facilitate displacements.

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    Near of the terrace of the “Market House Delicatessen’, the buildings have also received the attention necessary for to have the impression of like-new. However two three detailsrest.

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    In Central Plaza we can notice the scaffoldings of “it’sa smallworld ”

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    Nothing changes at the entrance of Frontierland

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    The Restaurant ‘The Lucky Nugget Saloon» continuous itsrenovation of facade. We Note that the railings of the balconyare in new colors , only the logo of the saloon on the facadeare still not repaints. The provisional sign of the restaurant ismissing.

    We can see the change of the palette of color between the first (old) and second (new) floor.

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    The Mexican restaurant “Fuente Del Oro” is now in renovation. The touch-ups of paint were done on the upperportion of court with a bright yellow!

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    In the queue for the “Big Thunder Mountain”, nets installed to prevent that  the visitors throw their waste are not veryeffective.

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    For several months, facilities to empty Lake Frontierland are installed with the attraction Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landing which is closed today.

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    Frozen Summer Fun is over, but here are some figures of the season:

    -More than 29 km from tissues, frilly, velvet and satin were used for the traditional costumes of the show

    -Around 171 performances of “Frozen sing-along” were performing before more than 750,000 spectators during this first frozen summer season!

    -Around 58 kg of glitter will have been necessary for the scenery on stage.

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    The market place is now closed, as the station and the Chaparral Theater. The area is empty of any activity.

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    The sets and the giant screens its now protected under plastic for two months coming and wait the arrival of the winterseason to be operational again.

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    The Panel been installed upside at the entrance of CottonwoodCreek Ranch

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    Pocahontas The playground is closed …

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    … The “Hathi’s Pizza Outpost” restaurant also (adventureland).

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    The permanant stand “Café de la Brousse” came out of renovation, it is like new, but as three quarters of the year it isclosed.

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    “Pirates of the Caribbean” return to annual renovation.

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    In Fantasyland, the fences came around the sword of Merlin for installation of Halloween decor.

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    At the Carrousel, with the arrival of guardrails hedges wereremoved.

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    The Fantasyland basin is already  green in less than threemonths.

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    Le Pavillon des Princesses is closed for renovation untilOctober 2, but we can now see the princesses near the well  of the castle and facing the Plaza Garden restaurant from 10am to 3pm.

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    “It’s a small world” is now almost entirely invaded by the scaffolds on the façade. Scaffolds are also visible at the fountain at the entrance of the attraction.

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    The last touch-up of paint performed on the input side of fantasyland Castle Course to show its limits bypassing the frescoes already present before. The difference of pink isvisible .

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    Nothing to report in Discoveryland, but aside the suspiciouspackage at the entrance of land. A sniffer dog will make an intervention, false alarm.

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    Christmas Merchandise is come back in the shops …. But weare still waiting for Halloween products.

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    At Walt Disney Studios, Animagique little progress with a coat of paint in the interior of the rotating ribbons at the entrance and the first coat of paint above the entrance to the waiting area.

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    Crush’s Coaster is closed for the annual renovation.

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    Otherwise nothing to report in the park, nothing in PlaylandToy Story and in  Ratatouille.

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    The Stage in « Place des Stars » (place of Stars)is now totally demolished.

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    Let’s go to the hotel Newport Bay Club.

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    At the New York Hotel, several projects are underway at the Rockefeller Plaza. The first is the fountain at the entrance of the hotel with the renovation of the floor instead of the hotel. The second (shown in photo) is the replacement of the concrete floor by pavers along the New York shore side hotel.

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    This soil rehabilitation continues on the promenade of the lakeDisney from the Hotel New York to Sequoia Lodge.

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    Finally the renovation of the bridge joining the Sequoia Lodge in Newport Bay Club arrives coming to an end with the final touches of paint.

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    The renovation of the Newport Bay Club continues and it’seven touching virtually to an end after two years of continuouswork. On the east side, the scaffoldings has completelydisappeared while west side the central building, the installation of the new facade coating is almost complete but beware, only lake side is in the enf because for the clock towerand the lobby of the parking side is in progress.

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    Inside, the renovation of the main hall is over, there remainsonly the little retouchings.

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    And finally to end this article we propose to (re-)discover the parade “Paint the Night” at Disneyland in California likeyou’ve never seen.

    Thank you for your loyalty.

    See ya real soon.

    Max

    Max (aka Maxence P.) is the founder and director of "DLP Welcome," a media outlet where he also serves as manager and content creator. He brings over 15 years of expertise in the leisure industry—developed both professionally and personally—having visited more than 100 theme parks across three continents. Press FR/EN : contact@dlpwelcome.com
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