Monthly Archive for January, 2009

3 Haunted Mansion and 1 Phantom Manor

A ghost house involves animated skeletons reaching out in the dark, fluorescent matter dropping on your face, taped laughter and of course the never ending rolling barrel. But all of those were replaced 40 years ago by a stretching room, a pepper ghost banquet, Mrs. Leota, and some carriages called Doom Buggies.
This article, is about the 4 Haunted Mansion attractions of the 5 Magic Kingdoms.

Moving to www.5kingdomsblog.com

[UPDATE] NEW SITE IS ON ! (if everything alright, you should already be on it) Thanks to numerous self-teaching blogs, I was able to smoothly move the entire content of the blog into a graphically and technically enhanced 5 Kingdoms. This will ease the writing and formating of the articles as well as give the [...]

The Canopy

or the marquee, or the covered passage, or that huge victorian Crystal Palace placed over Main Street. Let’s look how Tokyo Disneyland’s own World Bazaar is so unique that it stands among the greatest piece of Disney architecture. Contrary to the other Main Street which are one street with alleys giving the feeling of a [...]

Google Earth 3D coming to Disneyland Paris

It’s been officialy announced by DLRP Management, the same service provided by Walt Disney World through Google Earth 3D will be available for Disneyland Paris starting martch 28th. This is wonderful news for all those who couldn’t visit the European restort already. Parks, hotels and transportation, everything will be modelised and tagged just like for [...]

Only in Tokyo Disneyland – Grandma Sara’s Kitchen

Tokyo Disneyland holds many restaurant locations faithfully replicated from the American parks, but Only in Tokyo can you experience a meal in Grandma Sara’s Kitchen ! This counter service restaurant in the middle of Critter Country has two main entrances and a very small one on the side, perfectly matching Critter’s Country theme of scattered [...]

Maximum Capacity

The week-end before Christmas, Disneyland Paris, in an unprecedented move had to pull out the SOLD OUT sign three days in advance, warnning its upcoming guests that only visitors with a dated ticket would be allowed in. The rest either better cancel their trip, or settle for the resort’s second gate : Walt Disney Studios. [...]

The Arcades

When designing the blueprints of Euro Disneyland, Imagineers thought wise to add covered passage on each side of Main Street. It echoed the famous parisian passages and offered a warm shelter along side Main Street for the rainy/cold winter times of Saint Denis plane. In any weather you could still confortably walk up Main Street [...]

Here it comes

Many stuff happened during 2008, and new projects have been anounced even though nothing came to the Kingdoms. Always their “second, third of fourth gates” get the treats. But hey, that can also mean they’re close to perfection and few will disagree. Beside they did took all the attention up until the late 90′s. I [...]