Some of you may have been my Disneyland Paris photos from a few months back! I've finally finished the building instructions if you want to have a go!

The instructions are now available on Rebrickable, so if you've ever wanted to recreate a little piece of Disneyland Paris at home, you can have a go yourself.

I've also made a video explaining the instructions and covering a few things that might be useful during the build, including substitutes for rare pieces and how to build the model on a lower budget.

I'd genuinely love to see other Disneyland Paris fans build this model! 🥹

Instructions on Rebrickable: LEGO MOC-274783 Sleeping Beauty Castle - Paris Theme Park by CraftyThrills | Rebrickable - Build with LEGO

Instructions guide: https://youtu.be/XNThkSL93rM?si=uiqdQpsHHnUrCg8V

Hope you enjoy building it as much as I enjoyed designing it! ✨

Ian x

I'm planning a trip to Japan and have two days to spend at Disney. I've been to both Disneyland California and Paris. I'm wondering if it makes sense so spend a day at each park or to spend them both at DisneySea? I only want to go to Disneyland Japan if it offers something unique.

Trying to plan a vacation for me and my boyfriend and was wondering how busy the parks are the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday after Thanksgiving. I would choose a different week because I’ve seen that it can get busy, but it’s my birthday and I have off for school. Is it as bad as everyone says it is???

She’s wanted to go to the Oogie boogie bash for years and we are finally doing it! Lost my job a few months ago and have scrounged everything together for tickets (2 days), hotel room for 3 nights, and rental car. I’m working on super limited funds. Embarrassing I know 🤦‍♂️ but I want to make this the best trip for her! Is there anything in particular that I should try to get her as a gift inside the park or at downtown Disney? If I come back from this trip at $0. It’ll be worth it if this birthday is her best ever.

This is a poll.

Which of these six stories that I should write first based on a DisneyWorld ride or attraction?. (If Jungle Cruise, Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean could become movies those rides can become some sort of story or film too.) 

1. Ratatouille in Italy: With an opening based upon “Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure” from Epcot, DisneyWorld, Remy, Alfredo Linguini and Colette plan to impress a human famous Italian chef named Mama Maria from Florence, Italy visiting La Ratatouille (She loves small animals especially rats) for a dish made there to get La Ratatouille extended into a chain across the rest of France and Italy so that La Ratatouille can become a chain restaurant so the people of the world could enjoy Remy’s freshly made food after it was only served in a local restaurant in Paris. (Remy had skepticism over making and selling the foods he makes as the microwave or oven heated variant as he believes that food is better freshly prepared.) 

But since La Ratatouille runs out of ingredients to make its dishes with since the Restaurant was bustling with customers and a new shipment of ingredients to the store would take weeks, Remy reluctantly chooses to have him, Emile and the rat colony heist ingredients from the newly opened Restaurant and microwave food selling business “Fresh Cooked Goods” of their old enemy, Chef Skinner (Some of the former chefs and staff for Gusteau’s took jobs there as they lost faith in Linguini after the reveal over him not being a real chef and reinstated their faith to Skinner.) to create new dishes for La Ratatouille to serve the customers and impress Maria, with Linguini, Anton Ego and Colette helping out, and they succeed and narrowly escape Skinner. (Who held a personal grudge towards Remy for getting Gusteau’s shut down.) Remy manages to impress Mama Maria with a dish of Ratatouille and a side of spaghetti and meatballs and Maria finds it delicious enough to the point where she agrees to help Remy and Linguini out with their chain Resturant. The story’s overall plot other than the one I said focuses on Linguini finally learning how to cook from Mama Maria to finally become a real chef like his late father Gusteau supported by Colette while Remy learns that he can’t be in several different places at once sometimes he needs to become obliged to the place where his friends and family need him the most and see the good in microwave and oven cooked food and dishes and having others cook his invented meals for him so they could enjoy them without him always having to make them for them, gain help and mentorship for his cooking especially when it came to cooking Italian food making especially from the pet Siamese cat of Colette or Mama Marie Ava who forms a crush on Remy and reveals that she was secretly a chef with a talent or cooking too, and he helped Remy and Emile and their father get over their biases towards cats since Remy and Emile’s mother and most of their siblings were eaten by cats. (And see that cats cannot always take orders from humans to eat mice and rats and actually love them.) 

1. “Twilight Zone Tower of Terror”: A story based upon the ride of the same name and a classic supernatural story set in 2015 over humans going missing at the recently reopened and being renovated 1930s Hollywood Tower Hotel it becomes rumored to be haunted by ghosts and it’s elevator turns into a portal to a different dimension (Twilight Zone) that ghosts also the spirits of the former hotel guests come out of and the new owners of the hotel a rich family of humans and their bird or cat and dog campions try to investigate the mystery behind these ghosts in a Scooby Do or GhostBusters type story and learn the dark story behind everything and whether the ghosts are real or not.  

2. Marvel Animal Superheroes/Star Wars: Batuu Bandits Version One: Set three years after Zootopia 2, it focuses on Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps now an official married couple and Gary De’ Snake and Nibbles the Beaver now cops and lead officers working at the ZPD solving different crimes and cases across Zootopia and beyond with aid from their animal friends new and old but the magic uncovered by a cosmic cube from another universe by ring-tailed lemur Abraham Ringtail and Nick’s childhood friend and Sam from Zootopia+ causes our heroes and the criminals or villains they were trying to stop to body swap with their animal superhero and animal supervillain counterparts in the Marvel Animal Superhero Universe, a parallel universe version of the Marvel Universe inhabited by anthropomorphic animals and animal-like aliens not humans and hominids and there are anthropomorphic animal superheroes, supervillains and vigilantes (But with the same architecture and biomes as Zootopia and the regular animal world but replacing the titular city with Extropolis.) and Nick and Judy and their friends now as animal superheroes had to stop the evil plans and schemes of their criminal enemies now as animal supervillains so they could body swap back into their original bodies in the Regular Animal World and kill or arrest their enemies. But the second Chapter has the characters both swap with their animal Jedi, Sith, etc. counterparts in the Animal Star Wars Galaxy and you get the idea. The subplots focus on Nick now a lot more heroic and idealistic than he once was confronting his past (His family is introduced) and resolving his guilt over what a bad hero/partner to Judy and Judy learning that heroism isn’t restricted to police work and law enforcement and resolve her unhealthy bunny hero complex, Gazelle and Clawhauser getting a character arc too and Nick and Judy mending their fractured relationships with Leonardo Lionheart, Brian Winddancer, Bloats, Higgins and the Zebros plus PawBert Lynxley and Dawn Bellwether both revealed to have never been true villains but PawBert was rather possessed by the ghost of Ebenezer Lynxley and Bellwether was brainwashed via an inhibitor chip by her adoptive mother Mayor Swinton the pig and tragic villain from the Extropolis in the Regular Animal World and PawBert and Bellwether both help free each other from their mind control and fall in love with each other in the process and Nick and Judy also learn a shocking truth behind Gary and his family like Agnes once being the former pawns to a an evil religious family of Asian birds and mammals connecting to the dark truth why birds don’t live in Zootopia expect in hidden populations and Ebenezer and the Lynxleys minus PawBert acting as anti-villains to protect Zootopia and the world from their wrath and Chief Bogo his family, Officer Rhinowitz, Captain HogBottom, Truffler, Major Fredkin, Officers Chèvre and Bucheron (Brumby, Otto, Izzy, Trickle, Loo, the PyramidHeads) being far more dangerous laughably evil or chaotically evil villains with Bill Cipher vibes actually shapeshifting play-dough humanoids and creatures a.k.a. The ClayZones inspired by Gumby, Pokey, Tara, the Blockheads, Prickle and Goo also half imaginary friends exiled to the world of Zootopia from the world of IF (2024) who secretly killed and impostered the real Bogo, HogBottom, Chevre, Bucheron, etc. since the 1970s who plan to use the Marvel Animal Superhero Realm to their advantage for their evil plans for world domination and reality warping magic to create their ideal world for creepy imaginary enemies.

The second Chapter is based off both “Zootopia: Hot Pursuit” and “Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance” in terms of Bellwether and her fellow sheep (Brainwashed at the time) and the Lynxleys (PawBert was still possessed by Ebenezer) after being liberated from prison during Zootopia Day with aid from Swinton and some winged unicorn villains or the Asian bird and mammal villains kidnapping Gazelle and Clawhauser before Gazelle’s big concert and making Nick, Judy, Flash, Fru Fru and their friends Chase them through Zootopia and its various districts like TundraTown, Sahara Square, Rainforest District, etc. and into a portal powered by the cosmic cube in Gnu York, Savannah Central causing everyone to body swap with their animal Jedi, Sith, and imperial, Rebel and smuggler counterparts in the Animal Star Wars Galaxy between the Tovo Rebellion and Alicorn Empire so the villains could achieve their evil plans there with the World Between Worlds and have revenge on their hero enemies. “Rise of the Resistance” becomes adapted into a fight between the Tovo Rebellion and Alicorn Empire over Batuu. 

“Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run” “Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind”, “Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout” Spider-Man: Web-Adventure” and “Avengers Assemble: Flight Force” even becomes Adapted into “Aluminum Hawk: Smuggler’s Run” and “Wonder Animals of the Galaxy” plus “The Spectacular Spider-Fox Family and Incredible Butterfly-Gazelle Family” and “Animal Avengers” 

1. Version 2: It uses the same story as version one set three years after Zootopia 2 but instead of having each Chapter with the body swapping happening between the Marvel Animal Superhero Universe and Regular Animal World at different times in the first half and then second half, it instead focuses on the Zootopia characters becoming animal superheroes and animal supervillains in the Marvel Animal Superhero Universe right away in terms of The ClayZones and Swinton and the Asian bird and mammal villains after liberating the Lynxleys, Bellwether, her sheep, Duke Weaselton and Antony Snootley from prison and robbing the cosmic cube from Abraham built a special device to implant into to and during Zoogether Day, (This is now based off “Zootopia: Better Zoogether!” from DisneyWorld) PawBert, (Still possessed by Ebenezer) and Bellwether (Still brainwashed by Swinton) and her rams also Swinton’s henchmen create a diversion//Batman Gambit (Or Bat-Deer Gambit) in terms of Bellwether and PawBert disguising themselves as the hosts for the Zoogether Day Heidi Howler and Steven the gray wolves by creating the right identical wolf costumes needed for the occasion and delaying the real Heidi and Steven’s arrivals to pass off as them and having Swinton's sheep sabotage the Zoogether Day events one by one to lure Nick and Judy plus Gary and Nibbles away from the Tree of Life theater to investigate (And trick them into assuming it was part of a scheme done by Bellwether and PawBert to make wolves look evil in the public’s eyes by framing them on the sabotage and then in new disguises with the other Lynxleys when the real Steven and Heidi show up make themselves look like heroes by saving Zootopia from those wolves to get their fame and respect back.) so that the villains could construct the cosmos cube powered device in the Tree of Life theater unnoticed to get the Zootopia heroes to enter the right time and space in the “We Are Zoonited” finale to have the villains use the device to make them body swap with their animal superhero, animal supervillain and animal agent counterparts in the Marvel Animal Superhero Universe and the rest of the stories until the finale continue in that universe without using the Star Wars: Batuu Bandits segment in the Animal Star Wars Galaxy. 
   Note: Both versions will be more Pixar-like, and less Disney Princess-like have Nick as the main protagonist and Judy as the deuteragonist and crossover with the Sing, Elemental, Kung Fu Panda, The Bad Guys and GOAT franchises. (Its characters also body swap with their animal superhero and animal supervillain counterparts in the Marvel Animal Superhero Universe.)  

2. Space Mountain: Either a story about some human space travelers (Spiritual successor to Wall-E or Project Hail Mary.) in the distant discovering an alien civilization in a mountain shaped Universe or part of the Star Wars: Batuu Bandits spin-off series in the Animal Star Wars Galaxy with African wild dog stormtrooper/Jedi protagonists. 

3. Nemo’s Long Lost Family: Based on Seas With Nemo and Friends from Epcot, set not long after Finding Dory (A year or two, the Tank Gang were rehabilitated at the Marine Life Institute released into the Great Barrier Reef and reunited with Nemo and co.) a recent field trip done by Nemo and his class leads to Nemo reuniting with his long-lost Brother Remy and his adoptive clownfish mother Ava and finding out that some of his siblings survived the barracuda attack at the start of the first movie but Nemo, Remy, Ava, Dory and their friends end up having to embark on their own overseas odyssey to save Marlin when he is caught by a new character and sent to the Arctic where he is confronted by memories of his past with his wife Coral before she died. 

We are Australian and have three children ages 9, 7 and 4. We want to have a Disney experience in November.

We could go to Anaheim but the flight is incredibly long and it is quite expensive. I've been there before I had kids so I know it and I love the original

We can do Hong Kong which will be easier and cheaper but I've heard that HK doesn't have as much as other Parks. But I love the idea that there will be very little lines

We can do Singapore and go on a cruise, but I'm not sure I just want to do the cruise and if I want rides but we could go to Universal. I'm also worried it'll be too hot. But I've always wanted to do a Disney cruise

We can do Japan, which I've heard great things about. But I don't want it to be too cold and it'll really cool down by November.

My main requirements are that it's easy with three children, not cold (20 degrees Celsius and higher preferably) and if it's hot, easy to escape from the heat

Out of these options, which would you choose? Why? They're all so different but I'm interested to hear about people's experiences with these options. What did you personally enjoy about any of these Parks/cruise?

If you had to create the ULTIMATE DISNEY CASTLE PARK from lands that already exist in the current Disney Castle parks, what would that look like?

For me:

Main Street and Castle: Disneyland Paris

Easily the most detailed, full-scale Main Street in all the parks, with the best castle.

Tomorrowland: Magic Kingdom

Humongous, best at night and the TTA- what isn’t there to love?

Frontierland: Disneyland Paris

Hands down the best Big Thunder and I love the connection between it and Phantom Manor.

Fantasyland: Tokyo Disneyland

Loads of space, Pooh’s Hunny Hunt, one of the best Small Worlds AND the haunted mansion?! No brainer.

Adventureland: Hong Kong Disneyland

The most picturesque in any of the parks, with an epic version of Jungle Cruise and vistas for miles.

New Orleans Square: Disneyland California (obviously the only one but still…)
EDIT: Just been reminded that Tokyo has it too, what an idiot 🙈

Bonus Round:

Fireworks/end of night show: HK Disney’s ‘Momentous’ or MK’s ‘Happily Ever After’ (tie)

Always thought that HEA would be my choice until I got a front row viewing spot for Momentous and I genuinely can’t decide.

What would you pick and why?? I

I've never had an opportunity to see how DCA employees handle a crisis/issue since I've been a frequent Disney World goer and usually if their are issues for security its mostly behind the scenes or they use the tunnels.

This was my first time yesterday going to the Oogie Boogie Bash and through the main thoroughfare near the DVC booth was a woman being escorted, crying through the street. She was accompanied/pushed through by 3 non-Disney police officers and further escorted by approximately 10 Disney Security members and what looked like 2 Disney Managers. Repeatedly the woman attempted to turn around to go back into the park or slip down a side street as she was escorted and had to be more roughly escorted by police officers.

I know this isnt a common thing to happen in Disney but is that a normal way that Disneyland handles their trouble guests? It felt very reminiscent of the Game of Thrones shame scene as she was marched down the street.

Is there anyone who’d be able to snag me 4 of the DCA Disneylandia Orange DCA buttons and possibly ship them to me? Was in the parks this week and unfortunately couldn’t hop over to DCA again cuz of oogie boogie bash. I was able to get the Disneylandia blue buttons in Disneyland. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!!🙏🏽

Greetings Users,

You know me as a believer in more Tron. As of now, one of the current battles is getting more official Tron merch on the shelves, whether it be in-person or virtual.

A few weeks ago, I sent a message to Disney via: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/help/email/

I explained how many parkgoers commented on little to no Tron merch present at Magic Kingdom, while also pointing out that Shanghai gets to have all the cool Tron stuff. Amongst other related things...

At least a day later, I got a respectful response saying they would inform higher-ups. Obviously, it is mostly scripted, but it gave me another idea: What if multiple people shared a similar sentiment via park feedback?

hello! I’m going to a Disney Tokyo character lookalike audition. this is my first one so I’m not quite sure what to expect. I’ve done a lot of research though, and have heard conflicting things about what to bring.

should I bring a resume and headshot? on the FAQ, it says you should bring a snack and water. nothing about a resume or headshot, and we already have online profiles with that stuff, but should I bring it just in case? or would that be redundant and useless?

also, I’m planning on bringing a bag. is this a bad idea as well? is there any place to put it? I want to have something with my things because my outfit doesn’t have pockets.