Add(200101010001, "Millennium Stories", "What do you think where did imagineer Tim Delaney spend his time during New Year's Eve 1999? Here's the solution: At Disneyland Paris! I've seen him in his own creation, Space Mountain! Okay, he does not have to fear autograph requesting fans as not that many people know him, but I recognized him! When I boarded the first row of a Space Mountain train I suddenly heard a Cast Member saying 'Bonjour Mr. Delaney'. Having seen the Space Mountain documentary dozens and dozens of times this name was very familiar to me. Then I suddenly realized which famous person just got off the train. I immediately remembered having my video camera with me so that I finally got a picture of that moment. Because it was already late (and dark) the picture is not of such a good quality.", "1.1.2001", "Harald Hecht", "", "hh_delaney.jpg"); Add(200106100001, "Lightspeed Photography: New Picture Design", "In a recent change (which has been introduced at Disneyland's Space Mountain in Anaheim a few weeks ago too) those pcitures do no longer show just the guests sitting in the trains inside the cannon, instead the trains with the guests are copied into a spacevista. [Note: the picture is a snapshot from the monitors. The actual print-out does not contain the number!]", "10.6.2001", "DLP-Guide.com-Team", "DLP Guidebook", "dlpde_SpaceMountain08.jpg"); Add(200107300001, "Height Limitations", "Have you ever noticed all those children in Discoveryland with yearning looks on their faces, because there were too small to ride Space Mountain? Well, for two weeks, there are finally a few children less standing there disappointed in front of this magnificent rollercoaster: Disneyland Paris was able to lower the hight requirement of the ride from 1,40 metres to 1,32 metres, so that more children are able to experience Space Mountain.", "30.7.2001", "DLP-Guide.com-Team", "DLP Guidebook"); Add(200108080001, "Space Mountain Lighting", "All the lamps of the basic illumination of the roof (the ones under the green metal structure) are completely out of order. The floodlights for the cannon are also not working. Also the Moon Travel poster is dark.", "8.8.2001", "FeLIX"); Add(200108280001, "Vekoma Files Bankruptcy", "The big news this week has come from the Netherlands and Vekoma has been forced to file bankrupcy and lay off it's 200+ work force. New project already set for 2002 such as the Jazzland \"SLC\" coaster are not in danger it seems, and the company will still be able to make good on their final contracts. In the meantime Vekoma plans to restructure themselves into something smaller where they will be able to continue to make rides. Most of the articles I have been sent were from Europe and translated from a variety of people, but the general indication is that a pending lawsuit from one of Vekoma's primary customers (thought to be Six Flags) caused Vekoma's line of credit to be frozen by the banks, giving them no choice but to file bankrupcy. For a ride company, the debt was not large, $4.5 million Euros which translates to just under $4.1 million US.", "28.8.2001", "unknown", "www.screamscape.com", ""); Add(200109070001, "Vekoma Files Bankruptcy", "A spokeperson for Vekoma has stated that if all goes well, Vekoma could be back on it’s feet before the end of September. Current records from the company list 10 final orders that will be fullfilled between now and the end of the 2002 season. If the company's restructuring move is approved by the Dutch banks, they will be up and running again as normal very soon.", "7.9.2001", "unknown", "www.screamscape.com", ""); Add(200110040001, "Space Mountain Lighting", "Roof and cannon lighting is fixed again! Furthermore also the gobo scanner (producing a sparkling star effect on the roof) is working again! It was last seen working many years ago ...", "4.10.2001", "FeLIX"); Add(200110040002, "Light Speed Photography", "The classic blue frame is no longer available. As a replacement a smaller version of the newer black frame is available.", "4.10.2001", "FeLIX"); Add(200110160001, "Rocketing Pizza - fresh from Outerspace!", "It all started as a small mobile sales cart for snacks and drinks which was positioned opposite of the queuing area of Honey, I Shrunk the Audience. After some time the cart was replaced by a full fledged kiosk offering pizza ... Only the decoration which had been taken from the roof of the cart and placed on the much larger roof of the new building, reminded frequent guests of how it all started. But now as the so far final step of the evolution in front of the decoration an all new sign has been added which finally gives the location its name: the Rocket Cafe. So stop by on your next flight through space!", "16.10.2001", "Disneylandmaniac & the DLP-Guide.com-Team", "DLP Guidebook", "fm_10010050.jpg fm_10010049.jpg"); Add(200110230001, "Rain Protection for Fastpass-Users", "Space Mountain is one of the attractions at Disneyland Paris, which offers guests the FastPass service to reduce the waiting time. Getting one of those tickets at Space Mountain could be a very wet, cold and windy experience during bad weather periods in the past. Now the area with the ticket distribution machines is closed for refurbishment and will reopen soon with a complete new roof to protect guests waiting to get their FastPass for a ride from the earth to the moon.", "23.10.2001", "Joel & the DLP-Guide.com-Team", "DLP Guidebook", "dlpde_SpaceMountain11.jpg"); Add(200111190001, "Cost Cutting at DLP", "The French daily Le Parisien released a report about an internal meeting of EuroDisney SCA in which further cost cutting measures have been presented. [...] At the same time the planned closures of the FastPass-system at Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril Backwards, Space Mountain and Star Tours during the week will most propably have no impact at guests at all as the stand by lines usually do stretched longer than the waiting time for FastPass-holders anyway. At the same time the closure of the FastPass system allows a significant reduction of cast members deployed to the attraction.", "19.11.2001", "Joel & Le Parisien & the DLP-Guide.com-Team", "DLP Guidebook"); Add(200111030001, "More Rain Protection", "Two days ago when I was visiting DLP, the new roof was finishied. Furthermore, another little roof was built at the first greeter of SM (beneath the SM logo). This roof was also made because of rain. I don't have any photos, but I can say that the little 'greeter roof' is not very beautiful with its orange paint!", "3.11.2001", "Nicolas"); Add(200112010001, "Evacuation", "Ever experienced an evacuation after a breakdown of Space Mountain? Download the MPEG movie lighton.mpeg [1:30 - 3.8MB] or check out the original page in the archive section of DLP Today", "1.12.2001", "Thialy", "DLP Today", "dlptoday_evacuation.jpg"); Add(200112200001, "Refurbishment for Fans", "Space Mountain is not only an unique experience for the riders who board the cannon trains to be shot into space, but also for all guests entering Discoveryland which is dominated by the sight of the gigantic structure. Anyway fans were complaining about malfunctioning special effects on the outside of the building in the last months, so the happy news from the Disneyland Park is now, that the searchlights on the top of the mountain, the sound, steam/fog and the movement of the flap on the side of the cannon are back to work again!", "20.12.2001", "DLP-Guide.com-Team", "DLP Guidebook"); Add(200112310001, "Tune In - Disneyland Paris on US-TV", "Tune in on Tuesday, the 1st of January, from 9.00 till 10.00 pm ET when the Travel Channel in the USA broadcasts another episode of 'Travel Channel Secrets': Inside Disneyland Paris! If you miss it this time, the show (which already aired) will be rebroadcasted at 12.00 am ET on January the 1st and at 4.00 pm ET on January the 5th.", "31.12.2001", "J2002 and DLP-Guide.com-Team", "DLP Guidebook"); /*******************************************************************/ Add(200201040001, "International Fan Meet'n'Greet", "The team of DLP-Guide.com is currently busy preparing an international fanmeeting for DLP-fans, which will take place on the 23rd of February at the Disneyland Resort Paris. A first fanmeeting during the Millennium-Celebration had proofed very successfull and in October 2000 the 'DLP Halloween Fanmeeting' proofed immensly popular attracting over 40 fans. Unfortunately logistic and organisational problems have hindered all plans for fanmeetings since then. To cut short the waiting time till the next major fanmeeting with an exclusive program (featuring speeches, treasure hunts, ...) and to answer the wishes of our guests the team of DLP-Guide.com has now organized a gathering of fans for the day of the Shareholders' Club Preview of the new theme park as numerous fans are flocking to DLP on this day already. The event is called Fan-Meet'n'Greet and does not feature any set program during the day instead gives the fans the opportunity to spend the day as they wish - thanks to free badges they get by snail-mail before they will be able to recognize each other in the park and get into closer touch. When the Studios close an organized meeting gives all the chance to chat, pin trade and spend a great night. This Fan-Meet'n'Greet is free of charge to all guests and offers the best opportunity to meet with fans from all over the world till the next fanmeeting with a big program which has not yet been scheduled... the announcement of the Fan-Meet'n'Greet has already been greated with a very positive reaction on the board of DLP-Guide.com. You can find more information at www.dlp-guide.com/Interact/FanMeeting.htm!", "4.1.2002", "DLP-Guide.com-Team", "DLP Guidebook"); Add(200201050001, "Space Mountain Watch", "I've just found this Space Mountain watch at eBay. I was surprised as it's yet a different model compared to the two watches in the merchandise section.", "5.1.2002", "FeLIX", "", "eb_spacewatch.jpg"); Add(200201110001, "Countdown Timer", "In January a countdown timer was added to one of the tracks in the station (gare annexe). It shows the seconds remaining to the dispatch time and is made of bright red LEDs.
But this counter is a bad idea, because when it's the dispatch moment, if all harnesses are not checked by CMs, the train will wait again, and the 3... 2... 1... 0 will reset to big red numbers 45/36 (depends on the number of trains and stations opened).", "11.1.2002", "Nicolas", "", "fm_02220212.jpg"); Add(200202240001, "New Space Mountain Cap", "After the original Space Mountain baseball cap (see Merchandise section) has been sold out for some years now, finally there is a new edition. The new one is medium blue with an embroidered blue/white Space Mountain logo on the front.", "24.2.2002", "FeLIX", "", "fm_02240060.jpg"); Add(200202220001, "Again new prices for Lightspeed Photography", "Since the Euro is the one and only currency in Europe the signs at Lightspeed Photography have been edited again. Above the old prices (FFR and EUR) stickers have been attached showing only EUR. Prices have also changed. While the large photo got a bit cheaper (now 11 EUR), the silver classic version (EUR 9) and secondary copies (10/8 EUR) got a bit more expensive.", "22.2.2002", "FeLIX", "", "fm_02240061.jpg"); Add(200205050001, "Rain Protection for Fastpass-Users (Update)", "In the mean time the weather protecting roof above the FastPass ticket distribution machine has been completed as you can see on the picture.", "20.02.2002", "FeLIX", "", "fm_02220189.jpg"); Add(200205050002, "More Rain Protection (Update)", "Here's finally a picture of the second additional roof built at the Greeter (beneath the SM logo) for protecting the Cast Members from rain. As you can see the initally reported orange colour has been overpainted with some nice green.", "20.2.2002", "FeLIX", "", "fm_02220186.jpg"); Add(200205050003, "How DLRP keeps the CMs hot...", "During this unusual cold winter, the heads of the Disneyland Resort Paris brought some warmth to their employees with these gas heaters, which have been installed at the entrance of several attractions like Phantom Manor or Star Tours to warm up the cast members who have to greet the guests entering the attraction. If the heaters are an eye catcher or not, will be left to the readers opinion.", "21.1.2002", "DLP-Guide.com-Team", "DLP Guidebook", "fm_02220205.jpg"); Add(200205190001, "Disneyland Paris - From Sketch to Reality", "'Disneyland Paris - From Sketch to Reality' is a beautiful large format art-book - 23x31cm (9x12 inches) - hardbound with dust jacket - all-color, 320 pages and 750 illustrations including 250 concept paintings coming directly from Walt Disney Imagineering! [...] The text, by expert and Disney historian Didier Ghez, was written after more than 75 interviews were conducted with the most important Imagineers who created the park. [...] It features 52 pages about Discoveryland, with large sections about the Visionarium, the Nautilus, Star Tours, Space Mountain, and everything about the other attractions of Discoveryland - Autopia and Orbitron - and, for all of them renderings, models, Imagineers at work, and photos of the attractions. Visit www.dlpbook.com for more information and some sample pages of the book.", "19.5.2002", "FeLIX", "", "sketch2reality.jpg"); Add(200206160001, "About the book 'From Sketch to Reality'", "DLP now sells a new book called 'Disneyland Paris - De l'Esquisse a la creation'. In this book there are several pages about Space Mountain. MANY concepts arts ... Two never seen before draws of the cannon and of the Mining Machine, one never seen before draw of the building. And several concepts from the inside of the building ... It's so weird to see how the very first concept is now so different than our SM today! Initially they wanted to put Star Tours, Nautilus and other things INSIDE SM ! The drawing also shows a dinosaur and much other weird things inside the mountain. One other draw shows another concept with weird SM trains and carpets on the floor, a little like the ones in Nautilus.", "28.5.2002", "Nicolas", "", ""); Add(200206220001, "Space Mountain Watch at eBay", "This Space Mountain watch was just found at eBay.de. The seller claims that it's not the model from the shops but a limited edition. Difference to the other watch: white arms! So it's probably the cast member watch version!", "22.6.2002", "FeLIX", "", "eb_smwatch.jpg"); Add(200207200001, "Space Mountain - No exterior lights!", "I've just returned from my first DLP trip. 5 days of heaven!!! However, my biggest dissapointment was in Discoveryland - as night fell, Space Mountain remained dark. Unlit. A huge black shape. For four peak season nights. The coloumbiad was lit, the green neon rings on the spires were lit, but that was it. No rim lights, no side lights, even the underside lights were out. Does anyone know why, or when it might be lit again? :(", "14.7.2002", "Martin", "DLP Guidebook", "st_020712.jpg"); Add(200207210001, "BarryB's Disneyland Resort Paris Videos", "Check out this video about Discoveryland [MPEG, 3:22, 11MB] shot by Barry Bedford showing launching rockets at Space Mountain. at www.barrybedford.com.", "21.7.2002", "FeLIX", "", "bb_discoveryland.jpg"); Add(200207230001, "Space Mountain closed for Refurbishement", "This year Space Mountain will be closed for refurbishment on September 2nd and 3rd.", "23.7.2002", "FeLIX", ""); Add(200208180001, "Imagine it, Design it, Build it, Ride it ...", "At the Walt Disney Studios guests are invited to visit a real working TV studio and take a look behind the sets - on the Walt Disney Television Studio Tour. Well, at least in the last 4 1/2 months as right now the tour is closed to prepare the addition of a new, final room.
Guests can already look forward to the 20th August when the attraction will re-open with a new interactive experience in that last room. According to our sources the technology / equipment used for this new element has been shipped in from the now closed Disney Quest in Chicago, USA, and includes the Virtual Space Mountain ride in which guests design their own roller coaster track and the ride is in an simulator cabine. Even so the Virtual Space Mountain already was one of the highlights of Disney Quest, inside sources at DLP claim that the experience offered as of 20th August will be much improved technology wise - but this still remains to be seen, as there is no word so far from the CM-previews which should be going on in these weeks.", "5.8.2002", "Disneyland Resort Paris, Joel, Anonymous & The DLP.info-Team", "DLP Guidebook"); ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Add(200212280001, "Disneyland Resort Paris Calendar 2003", "The 2003 DLP calendar six WDS photos and six DLP photos. The picture for November is the same Space Mountain photography as for the 2000 calendar, but without the bubble design. Some small text at the right top says \"Atteindre les étoiles avec Space Mountain\" (Reaching the stars with Space Mountain).", "28.12.2002", "FeLIX", "", "dlrpcal2003a.jpg dlrpcal2003b.jpg"); Add(200212280002, "Discovering Discovery Mountain", "In his series 'The lost rides of EuroDisneyland' MickeyFantasmic has published the first article about Discovery Mountain at the DLP Guidebook. Space Mountain / the Discovery Mountain project holds many secrets and never before told facts plus numerous stories of creative solutions and cutbacks that had to be realized in order for the attraction to make it off the drawing board. So 'Space Mountain - de la Terre à la Lune' really has one of those back stories that deserve quite a few episodes of its own in the F-Files! ...", "17.11.2002", "FeLIX", "", "_ffiles.jpg"); Add(200212280003, "Nemo's Secret Lair", "Here's the second part of MickeyFantasmic's Discovery Mountain report published at the DLP Guidebook. He takes you inside the original plans for Discovery Mountain, and lets you see, step by step, how close the Imagineers actually were to placing even a kitchen sink inside the mountain, and why Disney management refers to those DMs on the ride vehicles as only 'last minute name changes' ...", "17.12.2002", "FeLIX", "", "_ffiles.jpg"); Add(200212280004, "New Refurbishement Closing Dates", "Space Mountain will be closed for refurbishment from May 12th to May 13th 2003.", "28.12.2002", "FeLIX", "", ""); Add(200212280005, "WDI closes its R&D department", "Disney essentially got rid of its Imagineering (WDI) Research & Development (R&D) group this week - the layoff involved about a hundred people. Check out these alarming news.", "20.9.2002", "Al Lutz", "MousePlanet.com", ""); Add(200301110001, "Space Mountain from the Air", "At www.earthetc.com you can find a very detailed aerial photography of the whole Disneyland Resort Paris made by Gerard Halary. Using a special plugin you can roam and zoom with you mouse and detect many interesting places.", "11.1.2002", "FeLIX", "", "earthetc.jpg"); Add(200301110002, "Always More Magic With Fastpass® An Easy Way Only For You!", "You took a first FASTPASS® ticket? From now on, it's no more necessary to wait before taking a new FASTPASS® ticket for a second, then a third attraction in the Disneyland® Park; just like in the Walt Disney Studios®, you can connect as many rides with your preferred attractions. Attention, you must use the FASTPASS® ticket for the attraction chosen before taking again a FASTPASS® ticket for this same attraction.", "11.1.2002", "Tous en Scene", "www.disneylandparis.com"); Add(200301260001, "Under Attack ... by the Rules of Physics and Accountaneers", "Here's the third and last part of MickeyFantasmic's Discovery Mountain report published at the DLP Guidebook.", "26.1.2003", "FeLIX", "", "_ffiles.jpg"); Add(200301230001, "DLP.info Fanmeeting", "Join fans from all over the world for the latest official international DLP.info Fanmeeting on the 22nd / 23rd of March!
You've e-mailed them, You've chatted with them, maybe You even learned to know some of them during the frist three international DLP.info-Fanmeetings - now it's time to reunite with your international friends, time to enjoy your shared passion, the most magical place of all, the Disneyland Resort Paris! Being curious who is behind those screen-names? Here is Your chance: just join the DLP.info-Fanmeeting!
As in the past the team of DLP.info has carefully chosen the date to offer all international fans more than 'just' a Fanmeeting - in this case we would like to invite You to join us for the final Farewell-Weekend of the all-time classic nighttime spectacular, the Main Street Electrical Parade, on the 22nd and 23rd of March 2003.
Even so certainly the two final performances of the MSEP are highlights of the Fanmeeting-Weekend, and everybody should prepare his cameras and kleenex for a wheeping goodby to a traditonal of the resort, the team of DLP.info has created an entertaining program to keep you entertained and still give You even more time to chat with fellow fans ... Check out more details at www.dlp.info", "23.1.2003", "DLP-Guide.com-Team", "DLP Guidebook"); Add(200302010001, "Seven Space Travellers Killed", "NASA's space mission STS-107 ended on Feb 1st, 2003. When reentering the atmosphere space shuttle Columbia exploded at about 15:00 MET for still unknown reasons in a height of 63 kilometers, about 15 minutes before landing in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The astronauts on board were: Rick Husband (Commander), Willie McCool (Pilot), Michael Anderson (Payload Commander), Kalpana Chawla (Mission Specialist), David Brown (Mission Specialist), Laurel Clark (Mission Specialist), Ilan Ramon (Payload Specialist).", "1.2.2003", "FeLIX", "", "_nasa.jpg"); Add(200305300001, "Letter of Complaint", "In the DLP forum of www.mousekingdom.de fans are discussing writing letters to Disneyland Paris complaining about the current condition of Space Mountain concering ride comfort and outer appearance. In the following threads you can find some ideas what to write if you want to participate in this campaign: letter of complaint from dlp.info members, letter for space mountain project.", "30.5.2003", "FeLIX"); Add(200305300002, "New Refurbishement Closing Dates", "Space Mountain will be closed for refurbishment from June 2th to June 3th 2003.", "30.5.2003", "FeLIX"); ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Add(200401010001, "Happy New Year!", "Happy New Year and all the best for 2004! Be prepared for interesting Space Mountain News and site updates. I'm currently working on a major site design and structure update. Prepare for blast-off ...", "1.1.2004", "FeLIX"); Add(200401230001, "New Train at Space Mountain", "The resort announced something new for the Disneyland Park: Space Mountain is to receive a new train! As a test for what may be a complete replacement of all five trains of the ride train number 2 is supposed to be replaced. While no set date has been given the process should take place before the end of January. The new train will reuse the body of the current train number 2 (no word whether the train gets repainted during the process) but will feature a new under-carriage / chassis, designed to smoothen the ride experience again. This continues a current trend at Vekoma which is delivering new trains to several parks to create smoother rides on their older coasters.
At the same occassion guests were also assured that Imagineering plans to have all effects of the Columbiad canon working again by the end of the year. Currently the smoke is the most problematic one as it seems to cause corrosion problems. But right now we are waiting for the first ride reports with the new train number 2", "23.1.2004", "Christian Ahuis & DLP.info-Team", "DLP Guidebook"); Add(200401260001, "F-Files Meet'n'Greet", "Andrea aka MickeyFantasmic, the man behind the already legendary F-Files, is offering a very special treat: a meet'n'greet with the man himself combined with some park touring during which you may learn more about the secrets, the hidden details and also the expansion plans (past and present) plus a hefty dose of all those rumours out there. Sounds interesting? Wait! It gets even more interesting: the whole event is free of charge!
The F-File-Event consists of an Meet'n'Greet inside the theme park (valid theme park passport necessary!) during which the fans and Andrea can learn to know each other a bit better and is followed by Park Touring. Park Touring is not a typcial guided tour through the parks with complete script - instead Andrea will browse through the parks with all of you exchanging stories. So this is not a lecture but supposed to be a fun interactive experience in which you are invited to share your knowledge as well too, even so he will be happy to tell some really juicy stories if guests are interested... One last note: Andrea will conduct this event in English, translation can not be provided. This event is not organized or endorsed by the Walt Disney Company and / or the resorts where it is conducted, so there are no special privileges for participants.
Read more about the scheduled events at the website", "26.1.2004", "FeLIX"); Add(200402090001, "All Shiny Discoveryland?!", "The introduction of a new train chassis on Space Mountain as confirmed by the Resort during the EAS 2004 - even so not yet realized according to the latest reports by guests - seems to be only the first step of a whole Discoveryland Refurbishment Plan! Usually well informed sources let us know that till summer 2005 major work can be expected. This is supposed to include not only an overhaul of the effects on Space Mountain (including the rocket) but also the general facade / outside of the mountain - presumably because Space Mountain is currently planned to be the centerpiece of a new advertisment campaign in 2005 (at least this reasoning needs to be taken with a grain of salt, as Space Mountain currently is heavily featured on the NeedMag?c tv-commercials already). This should go well with the other large element of the rehab plans: also till summer 2005 the Show Lighting Maintenance Crew is planning to rehab most if not all of the show lighting effects of Discoveryland. The Star Tours signage in front of its entrance already was taken down for a rehab around Christmas time.", "9.2.2004", " Samuel N. Nutterville & DLP.info-Team", "DLP Guidebook");