"3D Fly Over" At Last Available For Disneyland and Disney California Adventure " In Apple "Maps" App !

Two weeks after the "3D Fly Over" feature became available for Disneyland Paris on the Apple Maps App for iPhone - iPad - see my previous articles HERE and HERE - Disneyland  and Disney California Adventure receive the "3D Fly Over" treatment as Apple has updated its application with new South Cal HD satellite pictures!

It's a news that Disneyland and DCA fans who own an iDevice will probably happy to hear and the result, as you will see, is the ability to "soar" over the parks stunning that you can discover from any angle. All you have to do is to go on "Maps", and enter as keyword "Disneyland", choose the satellite view, and then the 3D view. Although this "3D Fly Over" still need to be improved and very probably will be in the future as long as you don't zoom too much in the pictures the view will be okay and the buildings will not look distorted.

Let's see how it looks with iPad screen captures, starting by the Disneyland Park, and of course click on each pictures to see them in big size. The first aerial view below shows the entrance of both parks.

An aerial view over Main Street U.S.A and the Jungle Cruise, with Tomorrowland on the bottom left.

A great bird eye view over Frontierland, The Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountain, and Big Thunder Mountain.

A closer look at Big Thunder Mountain and Frontierland river from another angle.

A closer shot to New Orleans Square, Haunted Mansion and Splash Mountain, as well as Tom Sawyer's Island.

These two other views also show Frontierland with Sleeping Beauty Castle and Central Plaza, and on the second shot you can see the huge parking lot outside the park on the top left.

A great view of Fantasyland, including Disneyland's Matterhorn and even Big Thunder on the top right.

A bird eye view of the park as seen from behind New Orleans Square. The building in the bottom right corner is the Indiana Jones Adventure show building.

From over Big Thunder, looking towards Tomorrowland.

A great view of Autopia, the submarine lagoon, the Matterhorn and on the top left Story Book land, Casey Jr, and It's a Small World.

A closer shot of Tomorrowland and the Matterhorn.

Let's fly over Disney California Adventure with this great bird eye view of the park!

A more vertical view over Grizzly River Run and the parks entrance.

Two other views of DCA showing Buena Vista Street, Hollywood Pictures Backlot, A Bug's Land and the Tower of Terror.

The App is also great to have a look at the Disneyland Resort Hotels and on this next view you have the three of them all together on the same shot!

We will end by a last bird eye view of DCA and this one is interesting as the big space / parking lot that you can see on the top is the location where very probably WDI will build the DL Anaheim third park when the WDC will decide it!

So, if you own an iPhone or iPad, go ahead, jump to the Apple Maps App and have a nice flight over Disneyland and DCA!

Pictures: copyright Apple Maps App

MORE Awesome Disneyland Paris Apple Maps App Aerial Pictures - Part Two

It seems that you enjoyed my previous article with the Disneyland Paris aerial pictures now available on the Apple iPhone iPad "Maps" App with the "3D fly over" feature, so here is more awesomeness and this time we will have also a look at the hotels of the resort. As usual, click on each to see the screen captures in big size. If you've missed the first part with aerial pictures of the parks you'll find it HERE.

The picture below is an interesting one as it shows how close DLM Magic Kingdom is from the french villages nearby.

On the picture below, the Disneyland Paris hotels around the Disney lake.

The next screen shot shows DLP Disney Village from above with the new World of Disney store at the bottom and the balloon on the lake, at the other end of the Disney Village.

Below, some shots showing the Disney Village and the hotels around lake Disney from a more vertical point, and on different angles. On the first picture below the Newport Bay Hotel is on the bottom left, the Sequoia Lodge Hotel on the center and bottom right and the New York Hotel on the top right.

The picture below shows the Newport Bay Hotel front facade.

The hotels around the lake are not the only one, you also have the Cheyenne and Santa Fe hotels which are close to the New York Hotel and it's the ones you can see on the top left or the left of the pictures below, near DLP main parking lot..

But there is also more affordable hotels located not that far from the Cheyenne and the Santa Fe and these are the ones you see on the pictures below.

The shot below is interesting as you cans ee on the same picture DLP Magic Kingdom and Walt Disney Studios, Disney Village and the lake with the hotels around it, the Cheyenne and Santa Fe hotels near DLP parking lot AND the others non-Disney hotels on the top right.

Let's go back at the parks entrance and on the pictures below you have the Disney Village on the center left, DLP Magic Kingdom on the bottom right and the WDS park on the center top.

We'll end with this great one showing the Disneyland Paris Hotel and Fantasia Gardens, and if you wonder what is this white structure just under it, on the right, it's the train station, located at 30 meters from the entrance. Very convenient when you stay in Paris and come to the park with the train.

Don't miss the $45 Discount on the Disneyland Paris book! English and French copies still available! 

I remind you that the Disneyland Paris, From Sketch to Reality book, in which you have the whole park in 320 pages with 750 photos including 250 WDI renderings is still available in its english or french edition. French collector signed copies are also always available. And we do a special price right now on it with a $45 / 40€ discount on the normal price, so order your collector copy while we still have copies available as we're really running low on the english copies. You'll find below a one click Paypal button as well as a video showing the whole book. And you can have more infos about this gorgeous 320 pages book HERE.

Choose between french or english edition -Price include shipping

1 copy ENGLISH edition Disneyland Paris book, include shipping €100.00 EUR 1 SIGNED copy FRENCH edition Disneyland Paris book, inc shipping €115.00 EUR 1 NON SIGNED copy FRENCH edition Disneyland Paris book +shipping €90.00 EUR

Pictures: copyright Apple Maps App - Tom Tom

Updated iPhone - iPad Apple "Maps" App Offer Stunning Aerial Views of Disneyland Paris !

Those of you who own an iPhone or iPad are in luck today as Apple has updated its Maps App with new HD satellite pictures of Paris AND Disneyland Paris, and the "fly over" function is working on both! The result, as we will see, is stunning views of the park that you can discover from any angle. All you have to do is to go on "Maps", and enter as keyword "Disneyland Paris", choose the satellite view, and then the 3D view.

Not only - picture above - you can have a full view of the park but also you can zoom wherever you want and the first picture below shows Disneyland Paris hotel and the Fantasia Gardens. By the way, definitely click on each of the screen shots below to see them in big size.

From there you'll have a great view of Main Street U.S.A from above...

...then of Sleeping Beauty Castle and Central Plaza...

Let's fly over Frontierland Thunder Mesa and the Rivers of the Far West!

From that point you can zoom on Big Thunder Mountain island and have a great view of it and Phantom Manor...

The great thing is that the multi touch function offer the possibility to "turn" around and change of angles as you want...

Let's fly over the jungles of Adventureland!

A great view of DLP Fantasyland...

...and over Discoveryland's Space Mountain and Autopia...

These great aerial views also allow to discover things that you can't see from the ground. For instance, how close the small cars of Autopia are from the "real" ones parked in the Disneyland Paris hotel parking lot...

Or, for someone who never came at the parks, how near the entrance of DLP Magic Kingdom is from the one of the Walt Disney Studios park.

And also how close the future Ratatouille ride - on the bottom, still in construction - will be from Frontierland river and  the geysers. Something you will never guess when you'll be in the parks.

The other thing, even more interesting, that the app allow to see, is where there is land still available for future expansions. For instance, flying over the WDS, you'll see this big piece of land in the back of the park that surely will be used in the future for new rides or mini lands that will be added to the WDS.

At the Disneyland Park you'll see between Indiana Jones Temple of Peril and POTC show building the land that DLP Imagineers are keeping to eventually build one day the long awaited Indiana Jones Adventure...

...or, behind Fantasyland train station the land they intend to use if the Little Mermaid ride is coming someday at DLP Fantasyland.

You will see also the land available behind Space Mountain and in the back of Discoveryland on which will be built the upcoming Star Wars land. Because this one, you can be sure that it's coming. May be not before 2016, but it's coming... The big white tent on the bottom right is the VIP tent used during DLP special events, which of course they can remove.

And, although there is the backstage road behind, you'll see that if they decide to go over it - which probably they won't do, at least at the start - they even have more land available.

So, is this Maps App perfect? Let's say that it is very good as long as you don't zoom too much inside a view, because if you do you'll reach a point where the buildings will start to  distort, which by the way is logical as the 3D view is probably done using an algorithm as the original view was obviously shot "flat". But if you respect this rule you'll be amazed and it's also a great way to prepare your next trip to DLP as thanks to the App you'll be able to see the distances between DLP hotels and different areas.

Of course, the bigger the screen is the better is the experience so if you have an iPad choose to watch the pics on the iPad. Also, to avoid any mistake, note that we're talking here of the iOs Apple Maps App, not the Google Maps App. The Apple Maps App is automatically embed in the latest version of iOs, all you have to do if you don't have it is to install the latest iPhone - iPad iOs version, which is free.

Let's end with a last view of the Disneyland park, right at the vertical of the Park!

The second part of the article with others awesome pictures showing DLP hotels and more is now on line HERE!

Don't miss the $45 Discount on the Disneyland Paris book! English and French copies still available! 

I remind you that the Disneyland Paris, From Sketch to Reality book, in which you have the whole park in 320 pages with 750 photos including 250 WDI renderings is still available in its english or french edition. French collector signed copies are also always available. And we do a special price right now on it with a $45 / 40€ discount on the normal price, so order your collector copy while we still have copies available as we're really running low on the english copies. You'll find below a one click Paypal button as well as a video showing the whole book. And you can have more infos about this gorgeous 320 pages book HERE.

Choose between french or english edition -Price include shipping

1 copy ENGLISH edition Disneyland Paris book, include shipping €100.00 EUR 1 SIGNED copy FRENCH edition Disneyland Paris book, inc shipping €115.00 EUR 1 NON SIGNED copy FRENCH edition Disneyland Paris book +shipping €90.00 EUR

Pictures: copyright Apple Maps - Tom Tom