Disney Halloween Trip 2007
Day 1: Disney Studios

This is a big report on a trip we made at the end of October 2007 to visit Disneyland Paris. Not only to try the new rides but to attend the Halloween night celebrations themselves, something we'd been wanting to do since we first read about them.
We were also looking forward to getting the Eurostar direct to Disney this time, without the hassle of getting the Metro across Paris. What we overlooked was the hassle of getting in to London during rush hour. Lets just say we didn't have a chance to look around the duty free shops.
Luckily we still made it though, and made it to Disney, where it was a very quick and smooth process of going through customs, and checking are bag in at a desk to be taken to our hotel. Meaning we could head strait for the big new ride for this year.

This is the entrance area, with studio 1 decorated with one of the biggest posters I've ever seen.

There are also billboards for there latest film. I'm not sure
it's worth seeing until I've seen Rat-a-one-ee first.
That joke works better when it's spoken than when it's typed.

When you go in you get a tantalising glimpse of the ride due to open in January 2008, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

From the size of the build area it looks like it will be almost a new area of the park. It should be a great area when it's finished.

This is the new ride, Crush's Coaster. It's an indoor ride based around a ride around the East Australian Current from finding Nemo.

It's a very popular ride. At some points the queue time was getting up to 90 minutes at the busiest times. Even by avoiding peak times we still had to queue for an hour.

It was worth it though. It's a very good ride. It starts with this one outside section, before you go in to a slow moving scenic section. In this you get to go round and see various scenes and characters from the film.

After the scenic section, that includes the hill lift you get to the coaster section. It's a spinning coaster like Dragon's Fury or Spinball Whizzer, but the spinning itself isn't that prevalent a part of the ride experience. That doesn't really matter though as it's a fantastic dark coaster that provides a great experience as it tears around the track.

A photo of the one outside section of the ride.

This is the loading station, themed around a harbour from the film.
One slight annoying thing is you have to take your bags on the ride with you. This is the policy on all Disney rides, and it's awkward on this as there isn't really anywhere on the cars where you can tuck them away. They could solve this by putting a manned storage desk towards the end of queue here, where the queue goes past the ride exit area.