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    Disneyland Paris News: The LEGO Store is Now Open!

    Yes, you read that right! The LEGO Store actually did open as planned this morning over in Disney Village. There was even a LEGO man character to greet early visitors to the newest shop in Disneyland Paris. The shop has many of the features you find in standard LEGO stores, like augmented reality of LEGO sets when you scan them in front of a special television, LEGO to play with and pick and mix bricks. To make it more Disney, there are character statues and some really great looking LEGO murals…

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    Disneyland Paris News: LEGO Store To Open This Friday, February 28th…Hopefully!

    These are the tweets from Disneyland Paris that went out earlier today: We're happy to confirm the opening of Europe's largest #LegoStore in #DisneyVillage on Friday February 28, at 9 am. pic.twitter.com/zc24pYGxhI — Disneyland Paris (@Disney_ParisEN) February 26, 2014 This new development will reinforce the shopping experience at #DisneylandParis, with a new family concept #LastTweet pic.twitter.com/ljnlh9WDtE — Disneyland Paris (@Disney_ParisEN) February 26, 2014 The troubled LEGO Store is finally going to open, at least that’s the intention anyway. A shop that has been plagued by a collapsed ceiling, regulation hurdles and…

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    New Disneyland Paris Concept Artwork for Ratatouille and LEGO Store

    This past Wednesday was the AGM for Disneyland Paris where we had heard rumours that we might get the opening date announcement for Ratatouille: The Ride. Though that never came to fruition we did get a wonderful piece of concept artwork which helps us to visualise how La Place de Rémy will look. On the last episode of the podcast Mark and I talked about a weenie, and how Walt Disney Studios was lacking them. That big Gusteau’s sign is clearly the weenie for the new Ratatouille mini-land, and should be…

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    Sleeping Beauty’s Castle in Disneyland Paris…LEGO Style

    With all the talk of the new LEGO Store coming to Disney Village in Disneyland Paris recently, both on this website and on the podcast, and how much I wished they made LEGO sets of Disneyland Paris attractions, I thought I’d do a little digging on the internet and see what I could come up with. I used this photo of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, from Christmas in Disneyland Paris last year, as the subject of choice. Mosaic Maker The first website I found was Mosaic Maker, where they claim the following:…

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    LEGO Store at Disney Village in Disneyland Paris Opening in September

    I received an email inviting me, and anyone else who is a Disneyland Paris Shareholders Club Member, to attend a preview of the new LEGO Store opening in place of Hollywood Pictures in Disney Village on Saturday September 28th. Unfortunately my membership actually expires at the end of August and I’d need to buy 80 more shares at a cost of £315 to renew my membership at a level that gets me all the benefits. That’s not going to happen, especially as I am now an annual pass holder, with the…