Summer of Enchantment

Hello everyone here is the new article of the week at the beginning of the summer season and holidays.

Welcome to Disneyland Park where new decorations for the 25th anniversary have appeared on Main Street station more 3 months after the begining of the festivities. The decorations are reminiscent of those of the 20th anniversary with under the station, some arches of the central access are in the colors of the birthday (blue and silver).

At Main Street USA, on Town Square, we can see the return of the musicians of Disneyland Paris at the level of the Gazebo. It is in a jazzy rhythm that visitors enter the park.

In these summer days, the sky is Radiant…

… for this reason, nothing better than watching the birthday Show “Mickey Presents: Happy Birthday Disneyland Paris”. It’s always a real pleasure to see so many characters in a show.

Small stopover in the Sleeping Beauty castle, which contains many mysteries … today we discover the cave!

The rehabilitation of the area Pirates of the Caribbean is completed. First observation, the whole area has been refurbished, the scenery cleaned, repainted and some modified to prevent visitors from going up on it. The floor is also paved. It’s like the opening of the park. Only negative note, music in this part of the land. It is sad and incomprehensible to note that the soundtrack of the land has been transformed. Indeed, with the original music created and recorded with instruments from the regions of the world where the land is inspired, to add excerpts from the soundtrack of the Pirates of the Caribbean films. So you can switch from African Tamtam to a Hollywood Philharmonic Orchestra. Musical integration is bad as it does not take back the instruments that contributed to the development of the original soundtrack of the land (BGM).

Another change, announced by The Walt Disney Company is the addition in the attraction of Jack Sparrow but also of Captain Barbossa a first for this attraction! Moreover, the mythical scene of the auction of women will be entirely replaced by the harvest of the loot. So visitors will discover a new scene with airs from the previous one. Why such a choice? The politically correct? It goes without saying that Disney no longer wants to show this type of scene to visitors but although designed by the creators.

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New :

The most noticeable changement is that of the restaurant associated with the attraction. The “Blue Lagoon” become “Captain Jack – The Pirate’s Restaurant” . Although the name of the restaurant is for the least, not original, but based on the use of the franchise, the latter could reserve a good surprise with the true Captain Jack to greet the guests on his island (restaurant) and salute the visitors in the boats (the attraction). The presence of Jack will make inevitably does increase the fares of the restaurant.

Don’t forget the first preview of the attraction for the annual pass Infinity on Friday July 14th, 2017, from 10 am to 2 pm and for the annual Pass dream, Magic Plus and infinity on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 July 2017, from 10 am to 2 pm.

One of the high moments of this summer is the return for its second and final year of the show “The Forest of Enchantment: A Disney musical Adventure”. More overall the show is better.

Watch our video of the first edition in 2016:

For this last season, there are many novelties in the choreography, especially due to the arrival of a giant screen making changes of scenery and animations more dynamic.

The show also evolves and for the public to understand the theme and the story, a voice-over was added during the introduction where only appear Waterlilo (water) and Lezardo (the Earth) .

When Enchantella offers the first words of ” believe ”, the musical theme of the show, the Ragina (Fire), and Lucile (The Wind) appeared with the main character. The discretion of the Regina and Lucille are the image of their presences in the show, much less put forward. Moreover, this first music is completely sung and stop, without transition effects, creating a slight sense of cut in the show, an artistic side, then the Disney side that arrives afterwards.

Pocahontas is the first Disney character to appear, and this year she is no longer accompanied by John Smith. It features the brand new costume created by The Walt Disney Company, and finally this performance on stage with the dancers is more striking. It will be regretted during the whole spectacle of the non-exploitation of the scenery (decorations of trees) which can be moved on stage and giving more volume and rhythm.

The Jungle book takes the step, always with Baloo and King Louis in a new choreography and special effects much more elaborate. This relatively bland part of the first edition springed up this year and it’s now one of the great moments!

Tarzan is back, the performance remains beautiful but the modification of the choreography of the singers revolving around the character loses Dynamism. It is finally the rhythm and the general satisfaction that takes a hit.

Rapunzel and Flynn rider continues the show. Here the screen shows its usefulness during the song “I see the light” and allows to offer this scene the romantic touch that the first edition could not transmit.

Finally, the last character, Enchantella makes Merida appear. This is the major change of this new season, since this rebellious Princess sings in live for the first time “Touch the Sky” while performing a demonstration of archery. This change is the more successful and makes sense to the previous performance view of the other characters.

Finally, the grand finale connects with Enchantella and his other singers take over the theme music of the show, surrounded by living creatures of the forest and Disney characters. It is under this canopy of leaves that the spectacle ends. Although this sequence is longer, we note that this is the only show on stage of the tourist destination that we see for one week with the most important clamor of visitors. The desire to mix the artistic part and the Disney universe allowed Disneyland Paris to create one of the most beautiful spectacle of the tourist destination, unfortunately this show will have been presented only 2 seasons, only 6 months in all show. One thing is for sure, if you come to Disneyland Paris until September 3rd, run to see the show that fills theater and of joie the audience!

Discover the video show in its new version 2017:

When you get out of the theatre, cool off you with the apple slush !

Did you read it?

Disneyland Paris offers since the launch of its 25th festivities, the book “Disneyland Paris from A to Z”. Written in French and English. It allows you to discover half hour by half hour the trades that take place every day to make live the park.

With more than 200 pages, it’s the perfect reading for your evenings.