Thrillography: Thrillography Va a Disneyland Paris (Jour 1): L'histoire de MonAventure Magique a Paris

Bonjour!

-/:} <----- Me wearing a beret

Bienvenue dans L'histoire de Mon Aventure Magique a Paris!

(Welcome to My Magical Paris Adventure Trip Report!)

Following the culmination of the ACE UK 2015 Tour, the squad and I set off for Paris to explore the much-coveted environs of Disneyland Paris and Parc Asterix (and Paris itself, of course).

SQUAD: ASSEMBLE!

Train fix: check
Morning fuel: check
Sour Worm Duffel: check

Conference in the dining car!

Woo! After some time in the Chunnel, we're now in the French countryside!

The train station in Lille has pedal-powered wall outlets!

It's a good way to stay active in between train rides. :}

Sour Patch Kids doesn't make a lot of sense anyway. In France, they just get straight to the point. AND they have the flavors listed at the bottom! (Notice how they come in "cassis" flavor, which is black currant)

Almost there!

!!!

We made it! We're in Disneyland Paris!

Oh yes. My body is ready.

Walking through Disney Village to get to our hotel!

Lego Store Paris is extra magical.

Amazing.

It wouldn't be France without balloons.

Disney Springs from across the lake!

Home sweet home for the next few nights: It's the Sequoia Lodge!

Decompression while checking in! Mentally preparing ourselves for the magic ahead!

Sequoia Lodge rooms are Bambi-themed and therefore absurdly adorable.

Too. Cute.

Now that we're all checked in, it's time to start our adventure!

But first: a quick and delicious lunch!

This was my first Earl of Sandwich experience, and it's going to be hard to top!

They've got some serious organized chaos here in the back, but it seems pretty efficient.

Hot caprese sandwich! Simple and delicious! The quickest way to my heart is with fresh mozz.

Magic McDonalds!

Disney Village has one of the last Planet Hollywoods.

Of course I got my keychain!

Alright! Let's do this!

The entrance to Parc Disneyland wins best park entrance.

Building a prettier park entrance plaza than this is simply not plausible. :}

This is the Disneyland Paris Hotel. It's built in the style of the WDW Grand Floridian, with which it shares the distinction of being Disney's two fanciest accommodations.

Yeah, I'm like dying right now.

Lookin' a little rare there, Mickey.

Disneyland Paris became the first park to feature a hotel serving as main entry to a park. Tokyo DisneySea has a similar set up, except the entire hotel is actually inside the perimeter of the park.

The first floor of the Disneyland Paris Hotel is home to Parc Disneyland's ticket booths.

Needless to say, it puts all other theme park ticket sale facilities to shame.

On the other side of the Disneyland Paris Hotel is the Disneyland Paris Railroad Main Street Station, which of course serves as the main gate to the park. :}

AAAAAAAAAGGGHHH I'M SO EXCITED I COULD PEE!

Definitely worth breaking format for this view.

#sorrynotsorry

Main Street U.S.A.

En France.

Outstanding.

I am not crying.

I am not crying.

I am not crying.

*cries a lot*

I am so happy.

There's no marquee here, but I have a feeling this is Frontierland.

I SEE A THING.

IT'S A COASTER!

*___________*

Important first order of business!

Big Thunder Mountain is Parc Disneyland's most popular ride, so FastPass is a must!

As you can see, Disneyland Paris traded out Tom Sawyer's Island for Big Thunder. More on that later.

We had a unanimous agreement on what should be our first ride.

Phantom Manor!

At Disneyland, Haunted Mansion is in Orleans Square.

At Disney World, it's in Liberty Square.

At Tokyo Disney, it's in Fantasyland.

Here in Paris, it's in Frontierland!

(And Hong Kong's answer to Haunted Mansion is in Mystic Point, of course. :} )

Every Haunted Mansion's a little different. With this one being in Frontierland, it's of a bit more old-western persuasion.

Together, Phantom Manor and Big Thunder Mountain make for a very strong Frontierland.

I will always argue that Splash Mountain does not belong anywhere but Critter Country. ;}

Speaking of Splash Mountain, the lack of a water ride at Disneyland Paris is quite noticeable. The weather is perfect for water rides this time of year!

Photographing Thunder Mountain from the wrap-around porch of Phantom Manor like a boss.

Big Thunder just looks so excellent in the middle of Rivers of America!

Oh, and in Paris, Adventureland and Frontierland have switched places!

Taking a closer look to get better exposure on that lovely rock color. :}

Uh-oh! It's our turn in the Manor!

Well bonjouuuuuuur Monsieur Cast Member.

Pre-show time!

#phantommanorselfie

After the famous stretching room, everyone gets ushered into a Doom Buggy!

I don't have any more pictures from this particular journey on the Phantom Manor, but there might be some later. ;}

The only Haunted Mansion I'm missing now is Tokyo's.

I gotta say, of the three I've ridden, this one might be my favorite.

Shout-out to my mom! Haunted Mansion is her favorite!

Big Thunder just loves the camera.

It helps that a train goes by every 30 seconds.

Big Thunder Paris has LOUD anti-rollbacks. They're thunder-iffic!

Our next priority brings us back through the hub.

It's impossible to walk through here and not take pictures.

Onto Disneyland Paris's pièce de résistance: Discoveryland!

Paris ditched the black and white, space-race-oriented Tomorrowland in favor of the Victorian steam-punk dream of Jules Verne.

The retro bronze flare of Discoveryland inspired Disneyland's 1998 re-model of Tomorrowland, which led to some very mixed reviews (and the charming but ultimately disastrous Rocket Rods).

While the bulk of Tomorrowland Anaheim's bronze experimentation has been largely rectified (still waiting for the return of the Peoplemover though), Discoveryland is still a glistening testament to a turn-of-the-century futurescape.

Unique to Disneyland Paris and Tokyo DisneySea is the Nautilus, which is a great walk-thru attraction. The presence of submarine-themed attractions is nothing new to stateside Disney fans, of course, but this is an all together different experience from the Submarine Voyage. :}

In a world where Space Mountain was associated with family-friendly thrills and mild forces, Space Mountain Paris dared to be different.

In 1995, Disneyland Paris opened the most game-changing roller coaster of the year:

"Space Mountain - De le terra à la lune."

Faced with pretty much every developmental setback imaginable, Disneyland Paris (Euro Disney at the time) needed a Hail Mary pass to garner some positive attention and hopefully save the resort from total failure.

The Hail Mary pass came in the form of the world's first modern launch coaster, which was delivered by Vekoma (even though they were already extremely wrapped-up in peppering the globe with their hot new Suspended Looping Coaster).

In addition to being the first new launch coaster in 15 years, Space Mountain was the first roller coaster to feature onboard audio. The ride's theme was inspired by Jules Verne's "A Voyage to the Moon and a Trip Around it," in which astronauts are shot to the moon via cannon.

To differentiate it from the other Space Mountains, this particular installation was originally to be called "Discovery Mountain." However, only a few months before opening, the name was changed to Space Mountain. Evidence of the original moniker is still present around Discoveryland. :}

Discovery Mountain was originally conceptualized as a much larger project that included not only the coaster, but the Nautilus attraction, a restaurant, a clone of EPCOT's Horizons, and an Intamin Freefall themed to "Journey to the Center of the Earth."

The project was scaled back significantly after the abysmal performance of Euro Disney's first two years. The decision was made in 1994 to go forward with a coaster-only Discovery Mountain, whose magnitude of success would lead to the resort's first profits, ultimately delivering it from the threat of bankruptcy.

Since the opening of Space Mountain, Disneyland Paris (which dropped the "Euro" modifier in 1994 due to its unpopularity with locals) has continued to grow and strengthen with each passing year, eventually becoming Europe's top tourist destination by 2004.

I love happy endings, don't you? :}

Okay! Enough history for now. Time to ride!

What we're looking at is the most beautiful rolling stock ever produced by Vekoma.

Loading for Space Mountain is quite swift! I've never seen a Vekoma train loaded so quickly in my life.

Here's our ride!

So yeah. Space Mountain is top-notch. I love everything about it: the launch, the layout, the effects, the music. Everything.

It's so good that we hopped right back in line and did it again!

And we were lucky! Space Mountain had only just re-opened a few days prior from a 6 month rehab, during which all of its aesthetic elements (and probably some of its mechanical workings) were serviced.

Space Mountain's launch is powered by an electric winch. It ended up being the last launch coaster to use this technology; Premier Rides stormed onto the scene in 1996 with LIM-launch coasters that greatly outperformed the relatively weak winch launch.

This also happened to be the only coaster built by Vekoma to use a winch launch; the only others were Arrow's shuttle loop coasters. Even with Premier taking over the launched coaster market, Disney went back to Vekoma to develop a LIM coaster for WDW with the same thrill factor as Paris' Space Mountain.

Thus, Rock 'n' Roller Coaster was born!

Like Disneyland Anaheim, Disneyland Paris has a custom Autopia ride with four unique lanes. :}

I love Discoveryland's flags. For the first 8 months of operation, Disneyland Anaheim's Tomorrowland was adorned with the flags of all 48 U.S. states. They were replaced by the now ubiquitous Rocket Jets. :}

France seems to love flags almost as much as they love balloons. :}

Monkey puzzle!

Videopolis is Discoveryland's auditorium, which is currently showing the "Jedi Training Academy" show.

Constellations is home to the best shopping in Discoveryland (and possibly the entire galaxy).

TSUMS!

Aladdin Tsum Tsum had just been released on our visit. Aren't they precious? :}

BTW, "Space Mountain: Mission 2" is the sequel to "Space Mountain - De le terra à la lune." Mission 2 was the result of a 6-month rehab project for the ride's 10th anniversary, which saw a complete re-imagining of the ride experience.

A lot of new effects went into Mission 2: comets, asteroids, a supernova, and black hole, and more took the place of the original ride's mostly dark interior.

One last look around Discoveryland before we take a brief dive inside the Nautilus!

The Nautilus is classic Disney. It's a walk-thru Walt would have loved!

The undersea exploits of the Nautilus has yielded some amazing treasure discoveries!

Here are the sleeping quarters.

Here's the kitchen.

Here's the navigation room!

A porthole to the briny deep!

Kelpvision!

Musical decompression is important when navigating the sea. :}

Octopus!

Time to resurface!

Some of the clouds went away while we were in the ocean. :}

We'll be back in Discoveryland later today. :}

Time to visit the castle!

I love this pic. x}

Like in Disneyland Anaheim and Hong Kong Disneyland, the Disneyland Paris castle is that of Sleeping Beauty:

"Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant"

Also like Disneyland Anaheim, the inside of Sleeping Beauty Castle is a beautiful walk-thru attraction.

We'll be back to explore the castle later today. :}

Of all the Disney castles, this one is easily the most ornate. There's more to it than meets the eye. ;}

Every Disney castle debuted with a royal carousel. Disneyland's "King Arthur Carousel" is themed to The Sword in the Stone (which, like Sleeping Beauty, came out years after the opening of the Disneyland).

WDW, Tokyo Disney, and Hong Kong Disneyland have Cinderella-themed castles (Prince Charming Regal Carousel, Castle Carousel, and Cinderella Carousel, respectively.) Paris's Sir Lancelot Carousel is the only one of the 5 to lack association with a specific Disney film.

Before WDW's Fantasyland received its major expansion, Disneyland Paris boasted the largest Fantasyland. :}

With Hong Kong Disneyland taking a more quaint approach to Fantasyland, Disneyland Paris would end up being the 4th and final installation of the Pinocchio and Snow White dark rides.

Unique to Fantasyland Paris is its excess of grassy areas and water effects spacing out rides. It's a total change of pace from the cozy and crammed Fantasylands of Anaheim and Tokyo.

Before we can run around the rest of Fantasyland, we've got one last major mission to take care of!

The grand expanse of Adventureland Paris is hiding something.

We move past the bazaar and into the jungle. Screams in the air lead us to our destination!

Eureka! It's Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril!

This lavishly-themed Intamin coaster has been throwing adventurers for a loop since 1993.

While not to the scale of Disneyland's revolutionary Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril, the French coaster of the same name features a multitude of storytelling theme elements throughout the ride and around every bit of queue.

As usual with Indiana Jones adventures, things go awry when exploring the attraction's ancient ruins.

The mine cart coaster is based on Pinfari's space-effective TL-59 looping coaster model. It was the very first Disney ride to turn guests upside-down!

All is quiet at the campsite before calamity ensues.

Like Discovery Mountain, Indiana Jones was conceptualized as a much larger attraction that included multiple rides. A Disneyland-style Indiana Jones dark ride and a Jungle Cruise-style river ride were rumored, but the same setbacks that led to the downsizing of Discovery Mountain reduced the Indy to a coaster-only attraction.

After Euro Disney's rough opening year, Indy was a quick answer to the resort's lack of thrill rides. While many Disney purists consider the ride a copout for its cookie-cutter layout and complete lack of dark ride elements, steady improvements to the attraction over the years have lead to a progressively warmer reception from park-goers.

The spirited looping coaster might've led to a profitable 1993 season had it not suffered a brake malfunction resulted in minor injuries, a month of downtime, and bad press just weeks after its debut.

As you can see, the loop is cleverly disguised!

I'd heard mostly mixed opinions of the troubled coaster, but I kept an open mind.

In this picture I'm smiling, but in my head I'm like

"Not taking my earrings out was probably a mistake."

Much to our delight, the mouse-y looper gives a forceful (and surprisingly long!) ride with minimal roughness. :}

Better FastPass while we're here. :}

Huzzah! Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril is a pleasant surprise indeed!

Of course, there's another major to-do in Adventureland. Obviously it's not Jungle Cruise, which feels noticeably absent since its such an integral part of all other Adventurelands.

The lack of Jungle Cruise in Paris probably has something to do with the number of languages needed to accommodate Paris' high volume of non-French and non-English speaking guests.

With no Jungle Cruise and with Big Thunder Mountain in the middle of Rivers of the Far West, the huge space where Adventureland meets Frontierland became home to Adventure Isle, which is Paris's answer to Tom Sawyer's Island. Adventure Island is anchored by Captain Hook's Pirate Ship and the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse. :}

Work was being done on Adventure Isle during our visit, but it's so massive that construction is only noticeable in the immediate areas.

Yo ho, yo ho! Look what we found!

Where Fantasyland meets Adventureland is everyone's favorite Jolly Roger journey, Pirates of the Caribbean!

I'm used to Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion being right next to each other at Disneyland; in Paris, they're clear across the park from each other!

The queue for Paris Pirates is a lot more elaborate than the one in Anaheim. Very impressive!

Once you've completely lost all sense of direction in the queue, you eventually wind your way around to the amazing loading dock. I don't really recall what WDW's Pirates looks like (my only visit was in 1999), but I don't think it was this impressive!

The ride begins with the customary float past the Blue Bayou Restaurant.

I don't have a lot of pictures from this ride-thru of Pirates, but I've got the bedroom shot.

And the treasure room shot! Hooray for well-lit rooms!

Back outside, the weather just keeps getting lovelier.

Here, have a map of Adventure Isle! Pirates would be in the bottom right corner.

#classicdisney

Round 2 of Indiana Jones!

Disney's Goofy candy is manufactured by Haribo here! This place is amazing!

Dinner time!

The pizza from Colonel Hathi's Pizza Outpost is very good. :}

The scenery's nice too!

These toy guns are amazing. Do they still sell toy guns at U.S. Disney parks?

They even have rifles!

Ok! Time to use our Big Thunder FastPass!

Yes, in the time it took to reach our Big Thunder FastPass return time, we've ridden Pirates and Phantom Manor, Space Mountain and Indy twice, and walked the Nautilus, Fantasyland, and Adventure Isle, went shopping, had dinner, and stopped to take LOTS of pictures!

Yes, Big Thunder Paris is really that popular.

Because it's just that good.

Your ride on Big Thunder Paris starts with a dive under the Rivers of the Far West.

A majority of the experience isn't terribly different from other Big Thunders, although this one is particularly scenic.

But it's got a finale that'll knock your socks off!

I think it's time for a closer look at Fantasyland!

Sleeping Beauty's Castle hosts regular water shows. :}

The stained glass in Sleeping Beauty's Castle tells a slightly abridged version of the story.

The restaurant in WDW's Cinderella Castle is cool, but I think having a walk-thru attraction is better.

Aurora and Maleficent may be the stars of Sleeping Beauty, but everyone knows that the fairy godmothers were the best characters in the film. ;}

Speaking of which, here's the chienne du mal now!

Not a very well-tempered individual, is she?

Fantasyland from the balcony!

D'aww

So yeah…true love's kiss…yada yada.

The bedroom tapestry has one of the better uses for fiber optics I've seen.

Back on ground level, we noticed that it's already time for Christmas in one of the shops!

(remember, these pictures were taken in late July)

Time for Schneewittchen. :}

While the other version of this ride are know as "Snow White's Scary Adventures," the French version is known simply as "Blanche Neige et les Sept Nains."

With WDW's incarnation of the ride retired, only the Tokyo, Anaheim, and Paris versions remain.

Family portrait!

Car stacking = final scene photo ops!

I think this is supposed to be a sunset, but to me looks like a bad omen red glow.

We made it!

Now for the modern classic that made its debut in Tokyo: it's Pinocchio's Daring Journey!

(or simply "Pinocchio's Journey" in this case)

I apparently couldn't manage any decent pictures of Pinocchio's Journey, so here's one of Michael and Ron after their ride.

TSUMS!

PINS!

Pinocchio Restaurant. :}

Peter Pan will have to happen tomorrow when we get FastPasses in time!

TOADIEEEEEEE!

#moreclassicdisney

Who's that over there?

It's the Cheshire Cat! He's in a giant hedge maze!

We're all very excited for this unique-to-Paris attraction!

(It won't be unique to Paris for long, however; Shanghai Disneyland will open with the "Alice in Wonderland Maze" next year!)

And it's a big maze, so we're going to be here for a while.

Let's go under. :}

Some parts are especially fun for full-grown adults.

Jumping Fountains!

This little horn thing looks a bit apprehensive.

whhhoooooo…aaarre you?

Queen of Hearts castle in the distance!

There seems to be a Caucus race in progress.

I could really go for some oysters right now for some reason.

The Cheshire Cat supervises all goings-on inside Wonderland.

Painting the roses red, I see!

This curved wall with hearts on it is actually a slide! Sadly, it is out of service.

"DO NOT MENTION THE SLIDE.

WE DO NOT SPEAK OF THE SLIDE.

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"

"Don't worry about her. She does this a lot."

These playing cards are floating because Wonderland has no need for gravity or even physics in general.

We made it!

What a lovely view of Fantasyland. :}

I see some familiar troublemakers.

Breaking format again.

#sorrynotsorryagain

You can just barely see the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. :}

Here's a sneak peak of something we'll be visiting tomorrow. ;}

And here's the…uh…thing-that-shall-not-be-named, which has been concrete'd over. Apparently it didn't even make it through the first season. Too many hurt kids!

What's funny about this is I seem to recall the slide at Chip & Dale's Treehouse in Toon Town being short-lived as well (as was the McDonald's Playplace-esque "Acorn Crawl"). The takeaway here is that unsupervised two-story slides don't work at Disney parks.

EDIT: Ok, so I did some digging and it turns out that "Chip n' Dale's Tree Slide" (as the attraction was originally called) originally had TWO slides, and Donald's Boat originally had a slide too. Disney apparently had a thing for giant slides in the 90s and humanity just ruined everything.

Your visit to Wonderland ends with an unbirthday party!

Your unbirthday present is this teapot.

Party time!

The original Disney tea cup rides in California and Florida are called "Mad Tea Party."

The Tokyo incarnation of the ride is called "Alice's Tea Party," which may or may not have to do with ambiguous (and therefore harder to translate/understand) nature of the word "mad."

"Mad" returned to the name of the Paris attraction, but "party" was replaced with "cups." Hong Kong Disneyland's installation has almost the same name as the Paris one, though it lacks the "'s" after "Mad Hatter." :}

All but Anaheim's Tea Cups are enclosed, but Paris's is the only set under a glass roof. :}

Following the installation of Paris's Tea Cups, the cup designs were replicated for Hong Kong Disneyland. Tokyo Disney's Tea Cups also received this cup design during a remodel.

Shanghai Disneyland's tea cups won't be tea cups at all, but rather, honey pots! "Pooh's Honey Pot Spin" will bring the ubiquitous tea cup ride experience to Shanghai Fantasyland with some fresh 100-Acer style!

(this of course means that Mad Tea Party will no longer be featured at every Disney theme park resort, but that's actually going to be the case for several "all-5-ers")

Tea Party Selfie + photo bomb!

Hi boys! :}

Now here's an interesting relic: The Old Mill!

Here's all that remains of "Les Pirouettes du Vieux Moulin," a small Ferris Wheel attached to the back of the Old Mill (which is based on the 1937 Silly Symphony of the same name). While the ride never saw fruition until the opening of Disneyland Paris, the concept dates back 1954. Low capacity, maintenance issues, and safety concerns led to temporary closure in 1999 and permanent closure in 2002.

While "The Whirlings of the Old Mill" are no more, you can still visit the front of the Old Mill and purchase waffles. :}

A giant beanstalk! Consider this foreshadowing for something coming in 2018. :}

Psst…did you know there's something lurking under Sleeping Beauty's Castle?

The castle's basement leads to a murky cave with supernatural qualities.

The cavern echoes with the sounds of…….snoring?

!!!

Shhhh…we wouldn't want to wake the dragon. :}

Yep. Definitely best castle.

It's almost sunset time! :}

Back at the hub.

Here's the view back down Main Street. Amazing, right?

To help with spotty French weather and post-parade/post-firework crowds, Disneyland Paris was outfitted with two "arcades" that run adjacent to Main Street on both sides. They can be accessed from the hub, Town Square, and each of the Main Street Shops.

The arcade closer to Discoveryland is called "Discovery Arcade" and is themed to 19th Century inventions; the arcade closer to Frontierland is called "Liberty Arcade" and is themed to The Statue of Liberty and the long-standing friendship of France and the U.S. :}

Again with the balloons! :}

Like all Disney resorts, Disneyland Paris has great shopping on Main Street. While Hong Kong Disneyland really spoiled me with the nature and sheer volume of their merchandise, Disneyland Paris had some great offerings as well.

Resort and attraction pins!

There's a pin for each of Disneyland Paris's 7 hotels. Paris has always had 7 resorts, though Disney's Newport Bay Club (the 2nd fanciest resort on property) spent the winter of 1992-93 closed due to low occupancy.

I'm sure they'll build another hotel at some point, but frankly 7 seems like a lot to begin with.

This pin design makes for a very 90s-looking fridge magnet, which I bought. :}

Sunset on Main Street!

As usual, Disneyland Emporium and the other Frontierland side shops sell general park merchandise while the shops on the Discovery/Tomorrowland side offer premium merchandise. :}

Throwback to our amazing time in New Jersey last month! 8}

Alec got a new hat AND a new sweater! :}

Running around Main Street and shopping is so fun, but one must stop to take pictures when crossing the street at Disneyland. :}

Fancy things!

Hand-made gifts made out of cut glass, wood, crystal, precious metals, and more can be found here!

Whew! Look at that sun on the Disneyland Hotel!

I love silhouettes, don't you? :}

How about some more Tomorrowland time? :}

These windows in Videopolis weren't originally intended to stay windows forever. Glass tube walkways would have connected these portholes to Discovery Mountain. When the project was downsized, the windows were left alone.

Anyone here like Star Wars? :}

Star Tours is very close to my heart. Growing up, it was the most exciting ride at Disneyland (to me) until Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye opened in 1995.

I had forgotten how much I loved this ride until we got in line and I felt positively elated.

Right now, Disneyland Paris is the last place to ride the original Star Tours. This March, Star Tours Paris closes for its transition into "Star Tours - The Adventures Continue," which replaced the stateside Star Tours in 2011 and the Tokyo Star Tours in 2013.

"Hello, there! Do you speak English? I may be fluent in over 6 million forms of communication, but I still get excited when I hear another British accent!"

*beeps in French*

Hong Kong Disneyland lacks a Star Tours ride, but the technology here is being used to create The Iron Man Experience, which opens in 2016. :}

This is so classic.

It may be over 20 years old, but original Star Tours still delights. :}

Woo! Cosmic phenomena abound. :}

Who's ready for another intergalactic adventure??

OOooooooooooooooooh! It's time for "Buzz Lightyear Laser Blasters!"

Disney made quite a statement with "Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin" in 1998; suddenly every park wanted a shooting dark ride!

2004 saw the opening of Tokyo's "Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters," followed by Anaheim and Hong Kong rides in 2005 and Paris's in 2006. "Buzz Lightyear Planet Rescue" will open next year along with the rest of Shanghai Disneyland, making it one of the only rides featured in all 6 Disney theme park resorts.