Both the Main Street Transportation Building and Boardwalk Candy Palace are currently being refurbished. Recently a themed scrim was placed over the scaffolding so that it blends in with the rest of the Main Street, U.S.A. buildings.
Fans praised Disneyland Paris for doing this, but did you know this isn’t the first themed scaffolding at the resort? There have been quite a few the past years. Check out these photos from our archives:
Mark Twain, one of the riverboats that circles the rivers of Frontierland in almost every other Magic Kingdom style park, has been out of service in Disneyland Paris since 2011. Right after the refurbishment of the Molly Brown was finished, Mark Twain immediately went to the dry dock and is still remaining there.
Disney Central Plaza forum broke news today that Mark Twain currently is not begin refurbished, instead, according to them, it’s sitting in a corner of Frontierland deterring away.
Therefore, an ode to Mark Twain, captain of the Rivers of the Far West!
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Riverboat Landing
The Disneyland Paris ships were not in a good condition, and that’s an understatement. But this all changed last year when the Molly Brown was reintroduced to the park. The ship was complete stripped down to its bare bones and beyond, and then completely rebuild from the ground up. The Queen of the River was dedicated in front of a crowd full of Disneyland Paris fans on 25 March 2011. That was also the day when the refurbishment of Captain Hook’s Pirate Ship was announced and previewed. The ship was in fact in such a bad condition, it was decided she had to be stripped down and completely rebuild as well, but this time out of special materials that would stand the harsh Marne-la-Vallée weather.
The scaffolding that hid the construction came down only a few days before the launch of the 20th Anniversary. It revealed not only a brand new ship, but a new colour palette as well. The colours were chosen in such a way they could be associated with Peter Pan, but also with Pirates of the Caribbean.
Moving on to Disney’s other ship that was in need of a refurbishment: Nautilus in the Discoveryland lagoon. Although a rebuild was not needed, some cleaning, repainting and fixing the bubblers that surround the submarine for once and for all was long overdue. The walk-through attraction “Les Mystères du Nautilus” was refurbished a few months before.
And finally, work has started on the refurbishment of Mark Twain, which will undergo the same as Molly Brown went through last year. This time however a huge temporary tent has been resurrected over the dry dock, themed to an old barn, complete with a reference to two great Walt Disney Imagineers: Jeff Burke and Pat Burke.
Take a look at the marvellous work done by Walt Disney Imagineering Paris and the maintenance teams:
La Tanière du Dragon located under Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant closed unannounced before the summer season of 2011. All entrances were fenced off and some fans even speculated it was over and out for what once was the largest Audio-Animatronic ever build. Too expensive to maintain, security and safety issues were rumoured on online boards.
But then all construction fences were removed early December and guests were once again able to explore the dark dungeon under the Castle. It turned out the lighting and the animatronic received an extensive refurbishment, bringing the smooth movements of the dragon back to its original glory as it was in 1992.
We captured a multi-angle video last week:
The photo album has been updated with brand new photos as well:
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