I am a longtime Disney fan and former Disneyland Paris (DLP) Cast Member who currently lives in London, where most of my time is taken up preparing for a “Mouse Tales” style book I am writing about the resort. I go to DLP several times a year and also often visit Walt Disney World (WDW) and Disneyland in California (DL).
I write for DLDhistory.com and do some occasional proofreading and fact-checking for websites, books and e-books about Disney. This may imply I know something about the company, and may be why Carol has foolishly asked me to write a semi-regular blog for MouseScrappers.com
As my knowledge is mostly on DLP, and as Carol says most of you guys visit WDW more than any other resort, I figured that my blogs here should compare the two. I apologize in advance that a lot of what I write for MouseScrappers may be a glorified re-hash of some of my DLDhistory articles, where I compare DL with DLP.
I will be looking mostly at “park one” of the resorts (Magic Kingdom in WDW and Disneyland Park at DLP) rather than, say, the hotels, shopping district or the other parks.
My short term plan is to cover the Railroad in my first article. Then, my next articles will cover the lands found in DLP and comparing them to their MK equivalent:
- Adventureland
- Discoveryland (the DLP equivalent of Tomorrowland)
- Fantasyland
- Frontierland
- Main Street, U.S.A.
(There is no version of Liberty Square in DLP)
Do please get in touch with me if you have any questions about any of my blogs, if you notice any errors in any of my writings or if you think you have some DLP info which may be of use for my book: hughallison@dldhistory.com