I was in Disneyland Paris two weeks ago, spent a weekend. It was aMAZING.
We had access to both parks, Disneyland, and Walt Disney Studios park.
There are plenty of cool rides, even for me. I was with my girlfriend and her parents though, so we didn't ride the rollercoasters all day, but did a lot of walking around and easier rides too.
I got them to go into most rides though. Started with the runaway minetrain thing, which is pretty cool on itself. It's called the Big thunder mountain railroad. And it's located on an island, in the middle of a lake. You start out on the shore, and then go through a shaft to the island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Thunde ... n_Railroad (apparently it's in all disney parcs over the world)
After that, I got them to go into the Indiana Jones Ride, which features one loop. Most of the track is straight though, so my girlfriend could manage. She was pretty scared before the ride, but it turned out she had a blast so we rode it twice to start with.
Then we did some easier rides, and some other things. When it got dark most people left the park, was at 8:00 or something. Pretty cool to be walking there with no-one around until 10:00, when the parc closed. The queues were like 5-15 minutes after dark, sweet.
During that period we also wanted to go in Space Mountain. I had been in Disneyland once before, and I remembered Space Mountain being pretty cool, but not that funky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Mountain:_Mission_2
(the idea is that you get shot into space, pretty cool theme actually)
..So I took my hesitant girlfriend for a ride. We had to wait 20 minutes. The music and theme freaked her out though, and since she suffers from motion sickness the big signs saying: "DONT DO THIS IF YOU HAVE MOTION SICKNESS" didn't really re-assure her. Anyway, it was all in vain, because when we were about to be shot off into the endless realm of blackness, the ride crashed down.
The lights went on after a short while, and some dudes came walking in, and manually undid all pneumatic locks of the carts, and we had to walk outside, was pretty fun, even though we didn't get to ride the ride. We did get a fastpass (sort of buster ticket como (amy pond) mentions?) to go into the ride and skip the line some other time.
Anyway, the next morning we got to enjoy the park 2 hours before it opened, along with some other people, because we were staying at a Disney resort. So we went into space mountain anyway, without queue, heh. The whole ride is dark and curvy, and loopy, so girlfriend was blasted away, but was laughing anyway, all was well. It sure was a lot cooler than I remembered, which is always amazing.
Then we did 'it's a small world', and then we went into the Disney Studios park, because it opened.
Once you enter that park, you see the TOWER OF TERROR, a huuuge building, with three elevator shafts. It's like this, except it's not in california:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TDh12fzrn4
you can hear the screams of the people in it throughout the entire park, it's quite amazing. I didn't get to ride it, because no-one dared to go with me, and to stand in a queue alone is so bothersome.
I did convince my gf to go into the rock 'n rollercoaster with me though, which I had never been on before, so I wasn't able to tell her about it. She was really scared once she saw the cart accellerate to 91km/h at the start ;D Here's a clip of the ride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES7RP1yfJS4
You basically enter a loop immediately, and then the rest of the track is loop and helix and turns and amazing. But the lights are the best part of it, as you can see in the vid. It's all pretty cool, with beams of light getting interrupted by the tracks and stuff.
After that we went to see a show, and some other rides, and that was about it, but amazing anyway.
