Big Refurb News !!!

First Sequia Lodge Hotel

Disney's Hotel Sequoia Lodge:
2011: 556 rooms wil be redone (lodges and floor 1 and 2)
2012: 445 rooms wil be redone

In 2015 more and better rooms for Wheelshair users
new dining room and breakfast room
More 'green' material and servie
An example is new LED lamps
Refubrs restaurants

New Port Bay :
- The Newport Bay Club lighthouse will get some well deserved attention from 29 April - 15 June 2011.

Davy Crocket Ranch :
These are rumors that it wil be Completly Rebuld

Walt Disney Studio's :
The floor outside the park gets a major refurb !!

Disneyland Park :
 Big Thunder Mountain and Rainbow Arch. Both will be cleaned and repainted, in a more vivid red.
- Orbitron is undergoing some work (not detailed)
- The roofs of March Hare Refreshments, Cool Post and The Old Mill will be redone.
- The façade of Colonel Hathi's Pizza Outpost will (finally) be refurbished.
- More Fantasyland floors will be redone, notably in front of Fantasy Festival Stage.
- New flooring in front of the Walt Disney Studios Park ticketing windows (no date yet).
- The Newport Bay Club lighthouse will get some well deserved attention from 29 April - 15 June 2011.

Someone asked why paving stones were chosen over concrete. Thomas explained this was done for faster intervention when needed. Replacing a couple of stones will never result in closing of parts of the parade route. Peggie mentioned she loves new floors at the resort, clearly indicating this is an issue for WDI Paris.

Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant
We all know the Château is being refurbished, but what we didn't know was the decision to go back to the original colours of the Castle.
- Nearly all the rooftops will be painted blue, instead of green/blue and will loose their golden gradient.
- The two roofs with the snails on will be painted once again entirely in gold.
- There will be different shades of pink, darker on the bottom part of the Castle, lighter on the upper part.
- Katie Olsen from WDI Glendale used the original Château scale model to test out the new colours.
- Thomas explained there will be lots of painting during the day, because they need sunlight to check of the gradients and layers of paint are done right. The refurb is scheduled to end late August.
- No work will be done on the interior.

Fantasyland Parade Route
- Will reopen next week, in time for the press event.
- The benches at Royal Castle Stage will not return on demand by the Entertainment Department. The few benches that are still left will remain though.
- The stage is not going away, though nothing is planned for it according to Peggie.
- The repaving is being done by a German company.

Captain Hook's Pirate Ship
- The current ship will be demolished entirely and replaced by a brand new (similar in shape) ship in new materials that are better weather resident.
- The colours will be more dramatic, much closer to the original colour scheme.
- Someone asked if they were dropping the Peter Pan story, to which Peggie responded they were not. However, she said there's a story opening for Jack Sparrow (but she didn't confirm a POTC make-over at all).
- Colours will be black and red, with lots of golden touches.
- Work is expected to start early April and will end late September.
- The lake will be drained and a themed scaffolding resembling a run-down sail will enclose the construction site.

Main Street, U.S.A.
- Walt's - An American Restaurant and Gibson Girl will be repainted, in a slightly different colour palette, but no major changes.
- The colours for Gibson Girl are inspired by those of ice cream, notably creamy vanilla.
- Over at Disney & Co. there will be some major changes. The organ will be history and moved to the new Storybook Circus area of the new Fantasyland in Florida. In return, we're getting lots of visuals and posters from the same project that will adorn the new shelves in the Disney & Co. shop.

Molly Brown:
- WDI made the decision to rebuild, recolour and change the ride story.
- The story has been shifted from the Mid-West to the West.
- Three new flags appear on th eship: the 1885 USA flag with 38 stars, the early California flag (made Peggie proud as a California resident) and the Jack flag.
- The spiel was newly recorded. The captain remains French, but Molly Brown is now performed by an American actress, casted and recorded by WDI Glendale


This is the Disneyland Paris planning !

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