Happy 15th Birthday, Disneyland Resort Paris!

"To all who come to this happy place, welcome. Once upon a time... a master storyteller, Walt Disney, inspired by Europe's best loved tales, used his own special gifts to share them with the world. He envisioned a Magic Kingdom where these stories would come to life, and called it Disneyland.

Now his dream returns to the land that inspired it. Euro Disneyland is dedicated to the young and the young at heart... with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration for all the world."

- Michael Eisner's dedication of EuroDisney. 1 April, 1992

Once Upon a Dream...

...in a Disneyland not so far away...

Disneyland Resort Paris did a suprise "soft-opening" of its new parade this weekend. Officially supposed to start on April 1st, the Disney's Once Upon a Dream Parade made its way through the park despite the wet and rainy weather in its first public outings.

Quick off the mark, Photos Magiques quickly got some photos online, followed by DLRP.fr, who also now have a video of the parade available for those of you who either can't wait to visit the park and see it for yourself, or are unable to visit.

Various rumours had been circling recently that the parade and its floats wouldn't be ready in time, but the parade was performed with all of its brand new floats completed. According to Photos Magiques, the floats are named: The Dream of Imagination, The Dream of Laughter and Fun, Dreams of Friendship, Dreams of Fantasy, Dreams of Power, Dreams of Adventure and Dreams of Romance.

Links:
- Once Upon a Dream Parade - Photos Magiques
- Parade Photos - DLRP.fr
- More parade photos and video - DLRP.fr

Disneyland Resort Paris is (nearly) 15! [Updated]

As the 15th anniversary of Disneyland Resort Paris draws nearer, the decorations are all going up. As pointed out on Subsonic's forums, the castle decorations are being put into place, including characters atop the turrets, and including the return of the Christmas lights.

No, it's not quite Christmas again yet (I'll let you decide if that's a good thing or not!), but they're most likely going to be used as a part of the special 15th anniversary Castle Lighting ceremony, which will be called Candleabration.

You can see the pictures in this thread on the forum.

Disneyland Resort Paris opened on the 12th of April 1992, and will start its 15th anniversary celebrations on the 1st of April (and no, that's not an April Fool!). Details of all the celebration are availble on the official website.

UPDATE: DLRP.fr has put up a lot of pictures of the castle decorations. The page is in French, but hey.. A picture speaks a thousand words, right?

Just like we dreamed it - 15 years of magic

This year, Disneyland Resort Paris has a very special celebration going on. On 12 April 1992, what was at the time called The Euro Disney Resort officially opened its gates to the world. This year, on 1 April 2007 the resort will start its celebrations for its 15th anniversary.

Several websites have already been starting to release pictures and information about some of the things that will be happening around the resort during the celebration, and it looks like there's going to be a lot of fun things happening for visitors to the resort during the festivities. Ranging from a brand new parade to new attractions and shows.

The Walt Disney Studios Park will be introducing the new attractions, which include the Tower of Terror (which is based on the Anaheim version of the ride) as well as two new attractions based on Pixar's Finding Nemo and Cars films. The Disneyland Park will introduce Disney's Once Upon a Dream Parade along with a special celebration show in front of Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant. During a Shareholders Meeting recently, the resort revealed the characters with their new costumes for the anniversary celebrations along with a special 15th anniversary song called "Just like we dreamed it". Photos of the costumes and a MP3 file of the song are available on DLRPMagic's DLRPToday website.

The resort also opened up it's special Disneyland 15 website to coincide with the Shareholders Meeting, which contains lots of information about the celebration (although some sections aren't live yet) and some special trailer videos. There's also a special "Behind the Scenes" video, which features some of Disneyland Resort Paris' creative team talking about what's going on during the celebration. It's very likely that more and more details about the celebration will be announced or otherwise revealed over the next month as the resort prepares to start what is sure to be a fantastic celebration of 15 years of magic that only Disney can create.

Links:
- Disneyland Resort Paris' official 15th Anniversary site
- Disneyland Resort Paris' official website