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Exploring Disneyland® Paris
Discoveryland
The resort consists of two large entertainment areas, Science fiction and the future
Disneyland® Park and the Walt Disney Studios® Park. The are the themes here. The multi-
former celebrates Hollywood folklore and fantasies, while the loop ride Space Mountain®:
latter highlights the ingenuity involved in cinema, animation Mission 2 draws crowds from
and television production. In the run-up to the resort’s 25th the outset, but at the end of the
day, you can often walk straight
anniversary, in 2017, many attractions are being enhanced. on. Les Mystères du Nautilus takes
As a result, some rides may be closed during this time. you right into the submarine
from 20,000 Leagues Under the
Sea. At Autopia, kids can drive
Disneyland® Park a real car, while Orbitron®
Adventureland®
features spaceships. Star Tours
Main Street, USA® Enjoy the wild rides and Audio- takes you on a breathtaking
Animatronicsof Adventureland®. journey in a star shuttle. Buzz

Main Street represents a fantasy Indiana Jones and the Temple Lightyear Laser Blast takes you
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small-town America, right down of Peril hurtles you through a into the world of toys.
to the traffic, which includes derelict mine. The ride has Videopolis has the best shows.
horse-drawn rail cars, a paddy torches, steep drops and tight Captain EO is a master piece of
wagon and other vintage 360º loops. total sensory stimulation. The
transport in a system that runs Pirates of the Caribbean Jedi Training Academy welcomes
between Town Square and is a great boat ride through aspiring Padawans to learn to
Central Plaza. The Victorian underground prisons and past use the Force. Register early.
façades offer a wealth of detail, fighting galleons. La Cabane des
and front interesting stores. The Robinson, based on Jonathan Walt Disney
Emporium is the place for gifts. Wyss’s Swiss Family Robinson,
Further along, you can snack at starts with a shaky climb up a Studios® Park
Casey’s Corner or succumb to 27-m (88-ft) Banyan Tree. From
the aromas from Cookie Kitchen here, you explore the rest of the Front Lot
or the Cable Car Bake Shop. island, including the caves of
Either side of the shops are the Ben Gunn from Treasure Island Inside the giant studio gates,
Discovery and Liberty Arcades, and the awe-inspiring suspen- you can’t miss Mickey Mouse
offering a covered route to the sion bridge near Spyglass as he appears in The Sorcerer’s
Central Plaza and hosting Hill. The children’s playground, Apprentice. Also hard to miss
displays and small stalls. Pirates’ Beach, and Aladdin’s is the “Earful Tower”, a massive
On certain nights, thousands Enchanted Passage are also studio icon based on the water
of lights set Main Street’s paving well worth a visit. tower at the Disney Studios in
aglow. Disney’s Fantillusion, California. Disney Studio 1 houses
a fantasy of music, live action Fantasyland® a film set boulevard, complete
and illuminated floats, begins at with stylised street façades and
Town Square. From Main Street The buildings here are modelled venues such as the 1930s-style
you can ride a 19th-century on those in animated movies. Club Swankedero, the Liki Tiki
“steam” engine. Do note that Many attractions are for younger tropical bar and the ultra cool
boarding elsewhere than Main children, such as Snow White rat-packesque Hep Cat Club.
Street is not always possible and the Seven Dwarfs, and Also behind the façades is the
before noon. Pinocchio’s Fantastic Journey. Legends of Hollywood store.
The very young will love Dumbo
Frontierland® the Flying Elephant. Peter Pan’s Toon Studio®
Flight is a triumph of imagina-
This homage to America’s Wild tion and technology, flying you A huge Sorcerer’s Apprentice
West hosts some of the Park’s high over the streets of London. hat marks the entrance to the
most popular attractions. Big A popular diversion is Alice’s Art of Disney Animation®, an
Thunder Mountain, a rollercoaster Curious Labyrinth. interactive attraction tracing
ride, is circled by the Thunder Hourly, there’s a musical the history of moving imagery.
Mesa river boat that takes a parade of clockwork figures at Animagique® brings together
musical cruise around America’s “It’s a small world”. Aboard a some of the greatest moments
finest natural monuments. boat, you meander through lands from the Disney corpus. In
Phantom Manor is an excellent of animated models to the Flying Carpets over Agrabah®,
ghost ride with realistic special strains of the eponymous song. the genie from Aladdin invites
effects. Pocahontas Indian Le Pays des Contes de Fées spectators to take part in an
Village and Legends of the (Storybook Land) is another boat astonishing magic carpet ride.
Wild West are both popular ride. Next, hop aboard Casey Jr Crush’s Coaster® takes you
with younger children. for a train ride circling the boats. into the underwater animated

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