After the enormous success of last year’s “Ratatouille” Preview Event Liveblog it is a great pleasure to announce that the Disneyland Paris Treasures blog will be liveblogging the full Space Mountain Reopening Event on 23 July 2015.
The agenda will include exclusive access to the reopening event of Space Mountain: Mission 2, which reopens after six months of rehabilitation, and a one hour presentation on Space Mountain’s history Space Mountain: yesterday to today held by Laurent Cayuela of Walt Disney Imagineering Paris at Discoveryland Theatre.
And here we go, the Liveblog of the “Space Mountain” Reopening Event happens right here, right now! Liveblog updates happen below and will refresh automatically. So just scroll down, sit back, and enjoy the event!
Liveblog of the “Space Mountain” Reopening Event:
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Thanks a lot to everyone for the Retweets, the shares and all the nice comments! I hope you enjoyed the Liveblog even though there were some problems because of bad 3G reception. If you did enjoy it and care to leave a nice comment below I will send you something special of course Space Mountain related! 😉
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The event has just ended. Thank you again Mathias & the whole team for a great event! Thank you for having us Disneyland Paris!!
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Mathias said he had only three weeks time to create this amazing set! He was kind enough to sign mine for me:
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Amazing:
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It’s wonderfully done and not for sale anywhere!!
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A wonderful package of Space Mountain brochures:
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Everyone was just given a great Collector’s Item as gift:
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One more:
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Here also lots of photos and artwork on display:
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Now there is a gathering with Soft-Cocktails and small snacks beings served
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The presentation was very interesting, especially because of all those rare artworks and old video clips.
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Presentation has just ended. Filmed it completely, will upload it to YouTube soon.
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concept art for La Voie Stellaire
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More great and rare artworks
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He is talking about Imagineer Tim Delaney’s original, not realized, vision for Discovery Mountain
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Great artworks are being shown during the presentation
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He is talking about Tony Baxter’s Discovery Bay concept
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Laurent is talking about the history of the Space Mountain attractions
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I am recording the whole presentation and will upload it later to Youtube, therefore I will now on only post a few select impressions and not transcribe the whole presentation.
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Laurent has entered the stage
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The presentation is about to start
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The presentation is being held at Discovery Theatre. Space Mountain artworks are put on display:
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Waiting in line in front of Discoveryland Theater for the presentation by Laurent Cayuela, designer and script writer of Walt Disney Imagineering Paris.
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The bubbles of the Nautilus are working!!
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Rode Space Mountain twice. The ride was pretty smooth (still very shaky but was much worse in the past). Effects have very bright projections and lights now, looks great.
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Have filmed the whole ride-through with the new effects, hope it turns out well (it’s still a very dark ride!). Will upload it to YouTube soon: Disneyland Paris Treasures on YouTube
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Space Mountain’s outside and queue line look great, but no changes or additions
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In the interior queue some new space image posters I think – not sure though, tbh
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Everything looks so clean!
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The attractions poster, crisp and clean:
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CMs are having a hard time checking the access badge and explaining to guests without one why they cant enter
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The doors just opened. Fans, Shareholders and unknowing regular guests are trying to get in
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Jonathan, Disneyland Paris Ambassador 2013-2014, is here as well!
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Meeting point: the green fence!
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Here it is! It looks great:
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3G reception is bad, as usual with so many people in the park.
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Passing the parade on the way, park is quite packed!
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We’re off to the park, off to Space Mountain
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Cool, Max from designingdisney.com (right) is also here!
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A cameraman from a French TV station is also here and will accompany the event
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We just received our event badges:
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Our kind host, Mathias Dugoujon (left)
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Quite some fans are already here:
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WELCOME HOME!
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Just arrived at the Disneyland Hotel to meet everyone!
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We’re almost there!! @DisneylandParis should really see to that these (20 year old?) motorway signs are renewed:
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The Disneyland Paris Treasures’s Liveblog of the Space Mountain Reopening Event is about to start!
6 Comments
Leave a CommentCan’t wait till Space Mountain has the new trains!
I love your work and I can’t wait to ride Space Mountain again, with the new trains in 2017
Just back off holiday and our visit to DLP. Lucky enough to attend on the 23rd as we were there already anyway. Really enjoyed your pics and run down of the event and always interesting to read some else take on proceedings. Would love to see what that camera man filmed – we were sitting in the last ‘carriage’ as he filmed us leave the loading area!
Last but not least, a “Single rider” line is now offered to guests who travel alone to the limits of space. Space Mountain will continue to be renovated in 2017, with new trains for an increasingly immersive adventure.
The Event was awesome… Thanks to all ! Nice live-Blog.
Can’t wait to ride it again.
Next Time wie have to shake hands. Disneyland Paris Treasures
Greatings Disney_Senza
Thank you for covering the event, Nicolai! I hope the Attraction looks fresher than before. The first thing I want to do when I get to DLP is to go through the Single Rider queue and straight under the Columbiad. Can’t wait to see the final result after the Phase Two of the refurbishment.