The entrance of the park is through a big studio building of shops and restaurants. You emerge on the other side to see this statue of Walt and Mickey, very similar to the WDW one.
In the background of that photo, you can see the Tower of Terror. This is one of my favorite rides in WDW, and it was pretty good here, too. As with many of the attractions, it was half in French, half English, but in an odd way. As the ride has several sets of rooms and cars running in parallel, half were in French, half in English. This version of the ride has the show elements and the drop ride in the same shaft, which means no "Through the 4th Dimension" part. The other quite interesting change is that the loading area is on two floors, giving the opportunity for some large set dressing, like this furnace.
The Rock'n'Roller Coaster with Aerosmith is also in this corner of the park. It's very similar to the version in WDW, but instead of road signs, it's just got blink lights. I feel like the cars are a little less comfy, too. This photo op outside the ride must be from an Aerosmith album cover? I googled for such a cover, but didn't find it...
The Aerosmith tie-in continues with the Armageddon Special Effects show, which sort of dates the park. Here's me with a replica space vehicle.
Next, Ross and Buzz outside the Toy Story Playland area. The rides there were a little on the kiddie side, but fun and well-themed.
There's a small launched shuttle coaster, themed after the RC Car from Toy Story. You can see the really adorable cue area on either side of this ride view. Ross and I did pretend to be slot cars on the track!
There's the Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop, a fun, not too tall, jump ride. Here's Ross posing as a toy soldier.
Slink Dog also has his own simple caterpillar-style ride that is cute.
And there's also Crush's Coaster, a Nemo themed roller coaster with dark ride scenes. Here's the load area Seagulls!
This was by far the best unique attraction at the whole of Disneyland Paris. The few dark ride scenes of Nemo and Squirt, Jellyfish, and Bruce the Shark were a nice add on to the coaster part. The cars hold four people in a two and two back to back configuration. Once you are on to the coaster part, the vehicle is free to spin. Since it's not actuated to spin, this part is not overwhelming. The motion is smooth, and the spinning motion ends up being more like gentle random reorientation. It's pleasantly exhilarating!
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