Disneyland Paris Update : Halloween 2012

After a whole week at Epcot we're back today in Europe, at Disneyland Paris for a great pictorial update of DLP Halloween season!

Good news - very good news in fact - the pumpkin men which appeared each Halloween season since almost ten years are not back this year, and DLP Halloween team came with a new concept which i think is a really good one. This year, some friendly ghosts appeared all along Main Street U.S.A. Their look is not-too-scary and even not scary at all but the genius idea is that the look of each of them is linked to Main Street buildings/shops as the ghosts are supposed to be the one of previous inhabitants/owners of Main Street shops, restaurants, etc... 


For instance you'll find a ghost that looks like a mayor over the City Hall, another one which looks like a cook over Walt's restaurant, others ghosts are those of a marching band orchestra, while another one ( picture below ) looks like a patient just coming out from the dentist office, etc... 

Real good idea, and i think it works well with Main Street theme. So,congrats to those at DLP who came with the idea. What i like too is that, for once, DLP obviously didn't choose the cheap concept. Considering that each ghost is different it means that there have done as many sculptures as there is different ghosts. May be not for all the parts of them but, still, it was done intelligently, just like it should be done. 

Thanks to Max Fan of DLRP Welcome, D&M contributor, i have plenty of great pictures to show you, and in fact this DLP halloween update will be in three parts, this first one being only about Main Street, more coming soon. There we go, an dew begin by the ghosts on Town Square.

Always on Town Square , a new photo location with Goofy and his amazing machine...

Let's have a look at all the others ghosts of Main Street inhabitants, and if you know

DLP i let you find which "ghost" is going with which "shop".

    

Next stop: Halloween on Central Plaza, and more! Don't miss next article coming soon! In the meantime i have  a good news for you: the special offer on my DLP book is supposed to be over since three days but as i didn't had the time to change the prices on the Paypal direct link the special offer price is still available until i change it! Go ahead and order your copy of the acclaimed Disneyland Paris, From Sketch to Reality book as you can still save $45 including Free Shipping! You'll find all infos to order an ENGLISH edition HERE and for the FRENCH edition it's HERE. Watch below the video showing the whole book!

Choose quantity and enjoy an additional discount !

One DLP Book Collector Copy with Free shipping €100.00 EUR Two DLP Book Collector Copies with Free shipping €185.00 EUR Three DLP Book Collector Copies with Free shipping €275.00 EUR

Pictures and videos: copyright Max Fan - DRLP Welcome

The Lone Ranger First Trailer !

The first trailer of The Lone Ranger has been released and it looks good! Really good, in fact. I am now expecting it more than ever, and they got me thanks to the Monument Valley scenes as well as the train sequences and of course Johnny Depp and his Indian "sorcerer" make-up. This is just a 1.38 min teaser trailer so it may be not enough to know if the whole thing will be exciting but so far i have a good feeling with this one.

 Now, will they succeed to do a runway train scene as good as was the legendary one of the final part of How the West Was Won in the 1960's, that's another problem, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt! Below, this first trailer and some production shots.


 

Pictures and trailer: copyright Disney - Jerry Bruckheimer

EPCOT 30TH ANNIVERSARY - a special celebration - World Showcase original artwork

This is the last article in tribute to Epcot 30th Ann and about Epcot's original artwork, and we will have a look today to the artwork for World Showcase, beginning by the one above of the Mexican pavilion.

The next one below is about the China pavilion.



Let's have a look to the Germany pavilion with these two renderings




A small one about the facade of American Adventure



Let's travel to Japan with this rendering of the Japan pavilion



Here is the one about France



And three renderings about the United Kingdom area





Now, as you know, other countries were envisioned but not built. Here is a concept-art of a Swiss pavilion, with the famous Matterhorn.



An Equatorial Africa area was also envisioned. Below two of the renderings, and you can know more about it in the Jeff Lange aticle HERE




Russia would have been beautiful, with the onion domes of St. Basil's Cathedral, and two great attractions, a theatrical one with Audio-animatronics, and a ride that Jim Hill described well in his article HERE





Hope you enjoyed this series of Epcot articles and tomorrow i will back to fresh news about Disney theme parks with some about Disneyland Paris!

All artwork: copyright Disney Enterprises Inc