Annual Family Trip - Disney Studios Paris Day 3

Walt and Mickey welcoming us to Disney Studios

On our last day to enjoy all things Disney, we visited Walt Disney Studios.  We knew this park was not as big as Disneyland and that suited us since we had plans in the evening and had to be at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Dinner Show at 5:30.  

                                                                                                                                                                   First things first though, breakfast was at Earl of Sandwich today.  This was pretty good. There are choices of meal deals, French, American and English.  

French was obviously a croissant and coffee, American was a filled roll with too much variety to tempt me - although it did sound delicious, the full English breakfast is what everyone decided on.  Bacon, sausage, eggs, beans and toast.  Just what we needed to fuel the beginning of our day!

As we got nearer the gates, this outfit impressed me so much. She had planned her clothes with everything Disney, I especially loved her backpack!

We had no plan but went straight to the first thing we saw, which was the behind the scenes Tram Tour.  But right as we were going to board, the whole thing stopped dead!  And it was going to be stopped for a very long time due to someone standing up when they were told not to.  This sounds like overreaction, but some of the tram tour is bumpy and earthquake feeling so there is a danger.  Once a person stands up, the whole process stops and has to be re-programed, water re-stored - there is a flood during the earthquake, so much to fix.  So we left and went to the car stunt show after getting a nice pass to return to the tram tour and not have to stand and wait again. 

This looked way different when they
showed the finished scene!

So impressive

The next stop was the stunt show and that was so interesting!  I won't bore you with all the stunts shown, but just the fire ones. And it took me a while to realise those brick walls are actually cloth!  I was so impressed with how close the cars got and NONE of them had any scratches.  Yes, now I know why!

Earthquake and flooding!  

Not us, but this convinced me the ride would be ok.
It wasn't! At least for me, everyone else enjoyed it.

The background tour went well when we returned and, for some unknown reason, we got another pass to Crush's Coaster!  I had heard good things about this and it did not look too scary....boy was I wrong! But everyone else loved it.

Dancing in the street!

Lunchtime was really fun since there are stalls all along this part of the park with a variety of countries and their food for sale.  We all ate the French food though, mainly Raclete, a cheese dish and a potato dish that I can't remember what it was called. Both were delicious!

Cheers!
AT the Ratatouille fountain

Our first attempt at single riders, two of us got in one car and
the other two were in the next ones. Perfect!

And then there was the Ratatouille ride!  We decided to try the single rider approach and it worked so well we could have done this over and over. It was our grandson's favourite ride!

The Toy Story section of the park was super!  It felt sort of like the old Honey I Shrunk the Kids, where the toys were big and we seemed small.  Loved the feel of it.  I rode the Slinky ride, racy enough for me. The boys enjoyed the toy soldier parachute ride!

As we sat and enjoyed Churros, we wondered what to do next and decided it was probably time to head off to the Wild West Show, but not before our grandson tried his shout meter and the Monsters Inc door! 

This park did  not feel as familiar as yesterday, but there is still a "Hollywood" buzz about the place, with so many parts of it looking like backdrops to scenes.  There are dedicated areas to certain movies, such as Toy Story, Monsters Inc and Ratatouille, and it was fun to participate in these areas.

That was a wrap for this park!

Our next stop was Buffalo Bills and it was a a wonderful experience!  This was very well done, it was  a dinner show, sort of based on American western history and a rodeo.  I loved it and the food was great, they could even work around my allergy to cumin, and that would have been difficult because the entire menu was based on barbeque!  I only agreed to go because everyone else thought it sounded like so much fun.  I expected to simply go hungry, but I honestly enjoyed my meal and the show!

A perfect way to finish a magical trip to the wonderful world of Disney!