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Disneyland Park, known as Disneyland Paris within France, is the main attraction of Disneyland Resort Paris. Owned by Euro Disney SCA, it is one of two theme parks in the resort just outside of Paris, in Marne-la-Vallée.

Built using the same formula as Disneyland in California, the Magic Kingdom in Florida and the Tokyo Disneyland in Japan, the park opened as Euro Disneyland on 12 April 1992, changing its name to Disneyland Paris on 1 October 1994. Its name changed again to "Disneyland Park" when the Walt Disney Studios opened on 16 March 2002.

The fourth Disneyland has several differences compared to the original Disneyland. The biggest change was replacement of Tomorrowland with Discoveryland, which takes a more nostalgic look at the way people in the past viewed the future instead of a modern look at the future. The Haunted Mansion is in Frontierland instead of Disneyland's New Orleans Square, and is instead known as the Phantom Manor.

Disneyland Park's versions of Space Mountain and Sleeping Beauty Castle are quite different from their American and Asian equivalents. The French version of the classic Disney castle is based on a more fantastic, less realistic design, which is said to have been chosen to stand out in a land where real castles abound.

Since its opening, the park has not met financial expectations. Some critics have pointed to cultural differences as part of the problem. For example, for the first few years the park refused to serve wine — standard practice in all the other Disney parks, but completely contrary to French culture. Eventually, Disney altered this policy for the French park.

Dedication

"To all who come to this happy place, welcome. Once upon a time... a master storyteller, Walt Disney, inspired by Europe's best loved tales, used his own special gifts to share them with the world. He envisioned a Magic Kingdom where these stories would come to life, and called it Disneyland.

Now his dream returns to the land that inspired it. Euro Disneyland is dedicated to the young and the young at heart... with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration for all the world." - Michael Eisner, April 1, 1992

Lands

Main Street, U.S.A. Attractions

  • Main Street Train Station
  • Horse-Drawn Streetcars
  • Main Street Vehicles
  • Liberty Arcade
  • Discovery Arcade
  • Dapper Dan's Hair Cuts
  • City Hall

Adventureland Attractions

  • Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Indiana Jones Temple of Peril
  • Adventure Island
  • Swiss Family Treehouse
  • La Passage Enchanté d'Aladdin
  • Adventure Isle
  • La Cabane des Robinson
  • Le Passage Enchanté d'Aladdin (walk-through exhibition)
  • Pirates' Beach (children's play area)

Frontierland Attractions

  • Phantom Manor
  • Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
  • Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landing (Mark Twain riverboat)
  • Rustler Roundup Shootin' Gallery
  • Legends of the Wild West (walk-through fort)
  • River Rogue Keelboats (Coyote and Raccoon, Seasonal operation)
  • Pocahontas Indiana Village (children's play area)
  • Critter Corral (petting farm)
  • Disneyland Railroad Station

Fantasyland Attractions

Discoveryland Attractions

Seasonal

Disneyland Park is host to several seasonal changes. During the summer, the Wishes nighttime spectacular fireworks from the Magic Kingdom are performed nightly instead of the usual Fantasy in the Sky fireworks, and from October "it's a small world" receives a Christmas-themed overlay, an idea cloned from Disneyland in California.

External links

Disneyland Resort Paris | Disney parks and attractions | 1992 establishments

Disneyland Park Parigi | יורודיסני | Disneyland Park | ディズニーランド・パリ

 

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