TheThemeParkGuy

Disneyland Paris has made the news mainly for its financial lack of success and near-bankruptcies. However, there is nothing wrong with the park itself. This 1992-opened venture is the most beautiful and romantic ‘Magic Kingdom’ Disney has ever built. Instead of copying the structures and buildings of California's Disneyland, Florida's Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland, the Disney Imagineers frolicked and created a refreshingly new and inspired design for...

Walt Disney Studios is Disney's thrill ride theme park adjacent to its more family-orientated sister park. It's small and not that inspiring design-wise, but don’t ignore it for the following reasons:
'Rock ’n' Roller Coaster' is the most thrilling Disney roller coaster ever. It accelerates from 0 to 100km/h in just a few seconds right at the beginning, zooming you into loops and spirals. The smooth tracks make you feel like you are flying and your...

The pride of France's home-grown leisure industry, 300 kilometers south-east of Disneyland Paris, offers less than one would expect, unfortunately! I believe the future of mankind won't consist of cold glass-and-steel buildings with isolated individuals wandering lost between them. The creators of Futuroscope, inspired by Disney's then newly-opened Epcot theme park, obviously didn't share my view when the project was being planned in the 80s. Futuroscope's many crystal,...