When the Walt Disney Studios Park opened in 2002, Toon Studio was known as Animation Courtyard. The area was uninspired and building exteriors lacked magic. In January 2005, Disney announced that Animation Courtyard would receive a makeover and expand....
Posted by Jack Spence on April 21, 2009 5:00 AM
Armageddon - Les Effets Speciaux (Special Effects) As you might have guessed from the title, this attraction is about movie special effects in general and specifically about the 1998 Touchstone movie Armageddon. On display outside the attraction is the...
Posted by Jack Spence on April 18, 2009 5:00 AM
Peppered throughout the Walt Disney Studios Park are street signs with the names of famous American and French film makers. In addition, an informational plaque mounted on the pole gives a brief description of the honoree’s accomplishments in both...
Posted by Jack Spence on April 16, 2009 5:00 AM
In an earlier blog I wrote that when the Walt Disney Studios Park opened, it lacked soul. Much of this was due to the fact that many of the buildings either looked like soundstages or office buildings. And most...
Posted by Jack Spence on April 12, 2009 5:00 AM
Walt Disney Television Studios When the Walt Disney Studios Park opened, the “Walt Disney Television Studios” offered guests a backstage tour of the Disney Channel’s French headquarters. When I took this tour in September, 2005, I was never so...
Posted by Jack Spence on April 9, 2009 5:00 AM
Production Courtyard is the first “land” you come to when exiting Studio 1. One of the first things you’ll notice is a large film-strip etched in the concrete. This is a pathway of sorts that leads from one end...
Posted by Jack Spence on April 6, 2009 5:00 AM
If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries tagged 'Walt Disney Studios Park Paris'. [What is this?]
Other tags used on this blog: