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Hello Mickey!

This is the first Disneyland Paris experience.

Restaurant storefronts and an ornate facade make the commercial complex feel like a prologue [1]. Then the Disneyland Paris entrance supplies the formal beginning [2], followed by a broad paved gate plaza filled with visitors [3]. Deeper inside, a clock tower frames yet another opening in a themed square [4]. Arrival keeps restarting.

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disneyland paris entrance

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The entrance gate of an amusement park with a paved plaza and visitors.

[3]

a clock tower entrance in a themed outdoor public square with visitors

Daylight gives way to permanent evening

Inside, the scale begins to slide. A children’s car-themed ride keeps the action small and outdoors [5], while hanging lanterns make a teacup-style boat ride feel more theatrical [7]. The sharpest shift comes in a crowded indoor plaza dressed as a street at night [6]: daylight outside, permanent evening within.

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a crowded indoor plaza styled as a night street

[5]

an amusement park teacup-style boat ride with hanging lanterns

The scenery finally slows down

It is all interesting but not all fun, queues and systematic way to get ahead is the way to go around the best shows. Do your research.

Three days later, the last image leaves the plazas behind. A boat follows a landscaped canal past greenery and rock formations [8]. After so many entrances and staged streets, there is finally nothing else to cross.

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a boat ride on a canal in a park with landscaping and rock formations