Euro Disneyland Paris, 1994This isn’t an official park map; it’s from a booklet that Disney distributed at Walt Disney World to promote the Euro Disney Resort to American guests. It shows the park as it was in 1994, which is remarkably similar to how it is today. There were still some small attractions to be added as park of the capacity expansion program that occurred during the 1990s, but a lot of the major attractions intended for future expansions have yet to appear. One major missing element is Space Mountain, which would be added the next year and which would be credited with pulling the resort out of its financial doldrums.
I was actually saving this image at first for a story I was planning about how the poor Tomorrowlands have always received short shrift in every new Disney park since Disneyland’s 1955 opening. In any early map of any Disney park, Tomorrowland just looks so sad and pathetic. Look!
So many trees!
Michael, on the subject of obscure park maps: in 2006 there was a great concept master plan of Eurodisneyland online for a short while. It was deleted before I could save the full sized version of it. It looked like a color blueprint and had Jungle Cruise in Adventureland, the huge Discovery Mtn, etc. I’ve been trying to track it down. Any chance you have it?
Here is the very blurry (enlarged thumbnail) version of it:
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Makes me want to pull out my map of EuroDisney circa 1997! Just to remember the trip… sigh.
Randy: I have NOT seen that! If anyone out there has it, I’d love to see that. I thought you were talking about the park’s first souvenir map, which had Mermaid, B&TB and (I think) Discovery Mtn. But I hadn’t seen this one! It would be interesting to see where they intended to put Jungle Cruise…
[…] there have been significant developments to “our” Magic Kingdom. A good example is given by this map of the Disneyland Park from 1994. The author of the article states that it is from a 1994 park leaflet and as expected […]
i will like to know if you can send me a map of Disney Paris of all the parks and a broucher