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Ok, horribly long load time and server error shoudn’t happen anymore. The blog’s never been this fast. Not much improvement elsewhere unless the Only In categories are now accessible from the main menu. The tiny features and thingies of the blog will come along in the coming hours. Thanks for your understanding and enjoy your [...]

China Voyager

There are only two Chinese restaurants in the 5 Kingdoms (and not so many more in the whole Disney world). The first one is Hong Kong Disneyland’s Plaza Inn whose only uniqueness is its Chinese servings. Only in Tokyo can you eat in a unique Chinese restaurant. The story of this humble counter service, all [...]

4 Kingdoms

That’s it. In an unexpected move the The Hong Kong government decided to buy back Disney’s share in its theme park Chinese venture. They must have felt fooled by the competing Shanghai negociations. But the 1998 deal between Disney and Hong Kong stated they would not be able to use Disney’s name shall they choose [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

5 Christmas Trees

On the most wonderful time of the year, any Disney Kingdom around the world dresses up it’s most remote detail to share the Christmas spirit. The centerpiece of this advent celebration has always been its highest and most noticeable one. This modest article is about the 5 Christmas Trees of the 5 Magic Kingdoms ! [...]