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Casting (and unveiling) the dream

Recap article: News from 12th September 2006.
The Monday 11th September 2006 edition of French daily free newspaper 20 Minutes featured an advertisement by Disneyland Resort Paris for two casting calls for the upcoming Disney’s Once Upon a Dream Parade. The colourful announcement doesn’t just give details of the performers required for the cast though, it also features a silhouette of the full line-up of new parade floats!

Another enchanted Christmas on the horizon

We’ve still got two months to go to Disney’s Christmas Season, and then another two months still until Christmas itself, but already the hotels are becoming booked up, details are spilling out and advertising has kicked off with a new key visual (see right), so let’s recap what we know so far about the 2006/07 season.

Parade changes

The Wonderful World of Disney Parade recently changed name once again to Princess Parade. The order of the floats has been changed the past few days as well.

The current line-up is:
- Cinderella
- Snow White
- Sleeping Beauty
- Mary Poppins
- The Little Mermaid
- Beauty and the Beast
- Aladdin
- Steamboat Willie

Tow me at once, the way you did once…

The 7.15pm royal procession of the Disney Princess Parade experienced some problems yesterday, as Sleeping Beauty’s float broke down as it rounded the corner onto Central Plaza. Aurora and Prince Phillip were forced to continue waving to the amused crowds as “Dancin’ (A Catchy Rhythm)” continued playing…

At the end of the rainbow

The new Winnie the Pooh and Friends, Too show at Fantasy Festival Stage appears to have become a surprise new must-see attraction for 2006. A new storyline (an adventure to the end of the rainbow), musical numbers, stage scenery, lighting design and fibre optic effects combine to present an almost entirely brand new show that will surely be a bit hit this summer.

Always remember this as the day…

…you DID catch Captain Jack Sparrow!
The infamous pirate captain from the record-breaking blockbuster movies is now parading the shores of Adventureland each and every day of Summer Magic season. With a joyful swagger and a eye for treasure, this is your chance to help solve the eternal question: Why is the rum gone?!

I wish it may, I wish it might

As Disneyland Park’s Wishes Nighttime Spectacular prepared to return for a second season, there was no shortage of wishes for improvements and alterations to this controversial “light and sound spectacular”. After its launch in 2005 for The Happiest Celebration On Earth, despite an overall positive reaction, some fans just wished for more fireworks to be added to the show… This year, their wish has come true!

Storming of the Bastille (part 2)

This year’s Bastille celebrations are still a hot topic amongst resort fans, with more reports coming in from the problematic night and the causes behind the technical glitches. As we reported two days ago, Karl Holz was watching the events himself in Disneyland Park, and Raptor1982 from Photos Magiques, who was stood nearby, gives this report of the night’s complications:

Storming of the Bastille

July 14th. The biggest French national holiday and one of the best days of the year for Disneyland Resort Paris. Unfortunately, the evening celebrations of 2006 were hampered by technical problems across the board…

The silly old bear finds a new home

Deep in the hundred acre wood, a whole new enchanted neighbourhood has just been created. The new adapted version of Winnie the Pooh and Friends, Too opened for previews at the Fantasy Festival Stage yesterday, with a totally reworked show placing more emphasis on musical numbers, scenery and effects.

Long Summer days begin tomorrow!

Tomorrow sees the long-awaited return of the Summer Magic season in Disneyland Resort Paris, with the parks’ largest ever entertainment offering and late-night Disneyland Park opening presented along with a few special new treats for 2006.

An impromptu Summer “Fantasy in the Sky”

Disneyland Resort Paris did something quite remarkable this year. For the first time in over five years, Disneyland Park remained open until 11pm on Saturdays in June, with a special fireworks show to entertain the crowds at park closure.

Lights! Camera! Diversion!

The rumoured diversion of Disney Cinema Parade in Walt Disney Studios Park has now begun. Due to extensive construction work in Animation Courtyard as part of a large “place-making” project to spruce up the land and give it more Disney theme, detail and beauty, the parade now travels solely through Production Courtyard and Backlot.

Disney’s Once Upon a Dream Parade creative text

Another day brings more 15th Anniversary Celebration goodies, again from the resort’s marketing tools website Extraordinet and today in the form of “creative text” for the new Disney’s Once Upon a Dream Parade at Disneyland Park. Raptor1982 from the Photos Magiques forum shares it with us:

Jack Sparrow drops anchor in Adventureland!

Captain Jack Sparrow isn’t due to offically drop anchor in Adventureland at Disneyland Park until 14th July 2006, for the start of the Summer Magic season and the worldwide release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, but already a selection of official preview photos have been released, showing this new “face character” in action outside the Paris attraction.