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- Today heading to my 11th and final Disney park.. the Walt Disney Studios park.
- It has very short operating hours each day.
- Approaching the park the left side of the front gate is under renovation.
- Only a couple gates were open but they handled the crowd with now problem.
- Found this confusing. Signage and announcements all said you need your ticket and handstamp for re-admission and park hopping. But cast members said you did not. Guess this may be used during busy times only? Or a policy change?
- Studio 1 is the Main Street of the Studios. It contains some shops and food. Interesting to note it is in a single/large building.
- To the left the water tower and a gift shop.
- Straight ahead a construction wall around the courtyard in front of Studio 1.
- To the right the guest services and lost and found.
- Approaching the entrance. Thought the shadow of the water tower was interesting.
- Stepping inside Studio 1
- The facades are made to be movie sets.. low quality movie sets at that.
- Compare this to Hollywood Blvd at the Studios in Florida..
- Taken from about the mid point.
- A coffee shop/snack location. Behind it a counter service restaurant.
- A car parked in front of the service station set.
- Stepping out of Studio 1 and into the park. the Tower of Terror dominates the skyline. Notice the Partners statue and beyond it Hollywood Blvd.
- A closer look at the Partners Statue (the lighting was not very helpful)
- Hollywood Blvd is beyond Walt and Mickey.
- Looking to the left slightly.
- Looking further left toward the Place des Stars which is mostly behind walls for renovation.
- I turned right and entered the Toon Studio portion of the park.
- This hat marks the entrance to the Animation building.
- A snack cart not open yet.
- To the left as you walk through Toon Studio is the Cars Attraction. The rockwork here is much smaller in scale than Cars Land.
- Across the walkway is Crushs Coaster.
- The park had not opened yet. So a great time to get a couple pictures of the attraction with no guests.
- Lightning and Mater overlook the area.
- The set piece for the outdoor portion of the coaster.
- For all you trash can followers.. the Toon Studio design (I will do a full post on them at some point.)
- Photo meet and greets in the Toon Studio area.
- Mickey was out this morning.
- Another snack cart.
- More facade on the Cars Attraction queue building.
- The entrance for the Cars attraction.
- So is this where Quido and Luigi went on vacation to from Radiator Springs in Carsland?
- Passing Toy Story Land on my way to Ratatouille
- The queue for the Ratatouille attraction stretched almost to Toy Story Land. They had not opened it nor the queue yet.
- This area of the part is more on par with the level of detail and immersion you expect from a Disney park and really stands above the rest of the park.
- Opening the queue, it was a couple minutes to 10 and park opening.
- I grabbed a FastPass for later since they were turned on.
- Found my group in line.
- Lunch today will be at Remys, in the background of this picture.
- Made it into the outdoor queue area.
- Entering the building.
- A very short indoor queue wraps through the roof tops of Paris.
- A sign to indicate you need to pick up glasses
- It is a 3D attraction so glasses are required.
- Warnings...
- Just about to board my ratmobile..it was about 20 after 10 by this time.
- I enjoyed the attraction so only snapped this one picture as we drove through the refrigerator.
- And one of the finale to see if it would come out or look really blurred.. not that good.. but not miserable either.
- Exiting..
- As you exit you can look into the restaurant.
- Some pictures of the area as we exited.
- Entering Toy Story Land.
- Rex was behind a wall for renovation.
- Slinky was closed for renovation too.
- RC was open but I did not ride. The building/set looks similar to Hong Kong but not as impressive. I think because everything felt more cramped/tighter here.
- Since they only had walls up at the entrance/exit you could watch the crews working on the renovation. Note they did reopen during the weekend for a couple of days then closed again.
- The third attraction in the land is the Parachute drop.
- Back through Toon Studio
- There were quite a few of these trailer stands throughout the park.
- The Tram Tour only had a 10 min wait so we decided to give it a try.
- A car in the queue area
- Warnings...
- Plenty of queue space.. not used this morning.
- Did I mention it was cool this morning. Cast Members were bundled up.
- More unused queue near the load area.
- Movie posters in the queue. Not very recent...
- Our tram approaching.
- Onboard a screen in each car.
- Heading out.
- Our narrators. All pre-recorded in English and French.
- Cast members in the front car but they appear to be just safety observers.
- Looking back at the station.
- You drive for a couple of minutes through some trees.
- then you come upon some of the boneyard. Here is a plane from Pearl Harbor
- From Armageddon
- From a Hunchback production.
- Anyone remember this? Appears to be a Horizons sub.
- Passing a larger set.
- A random topiary.
- Approaching Catastrophe Canyon
- A tram parked out back.
- Pulling in.
- The set looks more or less the same as the now closed Orlando version.
- Except here they do not try to pass it off as a working set instead just a showcase of effects.
- Cars shaking.
- Fire...
- The flood is coming.
- Pulling around back to show how it is done.
- Video plays twice.. once in French and once in English explaining the effects as we drove.
- Drove back down the same road.
- Entering another set, this time London from Reign of Fire.
- A large fire effect as the tram pauses. It then pulled forward and ran again for those of us in the back.
- As we pull away more vehicles.
- Looking back into the set.
- You drive by more of the bone yard.
- Seems he should be in Toy Story Land
- Pulling back into the station to unload and end this trip. It was about 15 minutes from when we pulled out till we returned.
- Here are some video clips from most of the trip.
- Looking toward Studio 1 from the end of Hollywood Blvd where the Tram Tour is.
- to the right is stage 2 where Cinemagique is we will visit there later.
- Statues around the Art of Animation building.
- On the side of Studio 1 is a Monsters Inc photo spot.
- My next stop Stage 3 and Animagique.
- The queue area.
- They said no pictures but everyone pulled out cameras so I snapped one picture of the start of the show. Cast Members did go around asking to not take pictures.. so I only took the one. the show is a black-light show featuring Donald Duck going through various scenes. It starts off with Normal lighting and Mickey and Donald working. That is what this picture is of.
- Stopped by the Disney Animation Gallery next
- There is a store and this interactive area.
- An animation academy class in session.
- Learning to draw Olaf.
- The cars were calling me... no wait and had 20 minutes till lunch.
- Or do we go ride the carpets of Aladdin across the way.. it had a 15 minute wait so that was out.
- The coaster going by.
- The queue for Cars Quatre Roues Rallye
- How to properly sit/distribute weight.
- The cars are really really tight for adults.
- Here is some video of the Cars Quatre Roues Rallye in action and from my ride.
- Making my way to lunch at Remys now.