Last Tuesday, Disneyland Paris welcomed another attraction to join Mickey and co: Toy Story Playland. Proving they can work their Pixar magic off screen as well as on, Disney have made some of the toys the same size as the children that’ll be visiting.
Like Alice in Wonderland, the little ones will feel like they’ve been shrunk to size as they see life-size figurines of Buzz, Woody, Slinky Dog, the Green Army men, RC Racer, among others.
“When you are in this land, nothing is human scale and everything is made of toys,” said Chrissie Allen, Walt Disney Imagineering senior show producer. To assist with the sense of being shrunk, Imagineers took advantage of the giant forest that edges the play area, which has trees over 100 years old, some of which are more than 30 metres in height.
“The landscape naturally enforces the sense of being immersed in this play world,” said Chrissie. “The new land is planted with beautiful stands of 9-metre-tall bamboo which encloses the land and seals us into our new toy world.”
The new arrival to Disney’s Toon Studio will include a Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop, Slinky Dog ZigZag Spin, and RC Racer – said to be the ‘biggest attraction of the playland’.
Ohhh, now if Gifted Originals had all the money in the world, we’d build a toyland of our very own complete with a life-size Rose Cottage, the Grannimals welcoming visitors, and of course, Z Wind Ups catering to our guests’ every need!
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