Disneyland Paris Decorates Castle for 15th

They're at it again! To help celebrate Disneyland Paris' 15th anniversary, the folks over in France have decorated the park's beautiful castle with some Disney characters. The characters include Chip & Dale, Donald, Jiminy Cricket, Goofy, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Pluto, and Daisy, each of which are working on placing a birthday candle on the castle. I'm not sure if there are more to come, as I would think there should be 15 characters with 15 candles.

You can see plenty of close up photos and more over at DLRP, which, I must say, is an amazing, up-to-date site for the whole Disneyland Paris resort.

Knott's Great America

Looks like Dorney Park accidentally spilled the beans on this one, this is from their season pass page:
I wonder when the official announcement will be? Anyone heard anything?

Great America 2007 Map / Knott's?

Great America's new 2007 map has been posted to their website. It features the new wave pool, Great Barrier Reef. Oddly, this attraction has not even been formally announced yet. Not sure what is going on with the park in that regard.

Perhaps it has something to do with this:

http://www.knottsgreatamerica.com/

I guess they are changing their name. It makes sense as far as Knott's recognition goes in California. I suppose we will have to play wait and see.

New Dorney Logo / Rider Guide

I finally came across a version of Dorney's 'new' logo - the Cedar Fair standard one. I mean we all knew what to expect, but I'm still not in love with it.

It came from the 2007 Rider Safety Guide, which is now on Dorney's site. You can download the PDF file here.

There's no real surprises that I found in there, other than the name of the shows this year are Boogie Down Band!, Rewind!, and Pulse!. What's with all the exclamation points?! Oh and the Camp Snoopy show as well. And it can be confirmed (like we needed it) that Halloweekends will not expand at all this year, again.

Dorney Park Fun Facts #6

Here are some older pictures of Laser before it got new trains and a new paint job to it's current green and purple.


Sorry this one is much darker than I wanted. I tried to lighten it up but it just looked weird that way. I loved those fair-style light fixtures that were on the ride back in the day.


Sorry this one is blurry, but it was like that from when I took it. Don't get me wrong, I like the flood lights the ride has now but wasn't the lighting on the loops awesome?!

I found some more older pics of the ride that'll show up on here later.

Kings Island 2007 Brochure

I haven't seen this on the web yet, it may be but not to my knowledge, so I thought I'd add it.

That's a much more 'complete' Firehawk logo than I've seen thus far.





I really like that they are celebrating the park's 35th in some small way on the brochure. Another nice brochure, I think!