September 2002 - a Trip report from Rosemary

Because the studios are not large, we were able to go to everything a few times, if we wanted to. This park was really not busy even at the weekend and is very different from the other as it concentrates mainly on film making. This is reflected in the parades featuring 101 Dalmatians, toy story, etc. By the way, at Disney studios and the main park our youngest daughter was picked out of the crowd to dance in the parade with the characters. According to our friend, they have not done this before. Anyway, back to the studios, it is a lovely entrance and everyday the main foyer had two or three characters signing autographs at the main entrance. Once in there are plenty of roaming bands, street artists and French comic sketches going on although we avoided the latter like the plague! All the while, the piped music is film themes such as bond music, Casablanca etc. The attractions are defiantly suited to the over 8’s with the best being the Rock and Roller Coaster featuring Aerosmith. In our opinion, this was better than Space Mountain. Our eldest children rode this repeatedly and never got tired of it. Armageddon is very impressive once you get past the introduction although very scary for small kids. Moteurs action is a brilliant live stunt show that cannot fail to impress. the studio tram tours is also great fun with a trip into "disaster Canyon" where a huge oil tanker explodes before slipping towards the tram............thank goodness for the 200 tons of water that bursts the damn just at that moment! Flying carpets is really the only fun ride for kids. Animagique is a cute show where Donald Duck encounters stars from Disney films and the kids loved that. Cinemagique is a brilliant interactive film starring Martin Short that pays tribute to the movies but involves the audience (you may get wet!) Very cleverly done and we really enjoyed it. The art of Disney animation is not really my cup of tea and although it has the best building, (a huge sorcerers apprentice hat), it just shows you should never judge a show by the building. It was twenty minutes I shall never get back. There is also something called a zapp zone but we were advised this was more to do with the making of a French TV programme so we never tried that. Overall, it is a fine sideline for a day although after the parade at 1:30 we went back to the main park only returning for the rock and roller coaster for an hour each evening. Bye for now Rosemary