Some changes in Disneyland Paris

Yes Cathie, you can do it. Problem is the size of the pictures. Simone takes pictures (I have regulated her photo camera) on 16 Mpx. Maybe the pictures are too heavy for this forum ?

I have seen the new baseball ball 2017 WDW. Price was 22 $, but 2016 was 9,95 $ (sales for the products of last year) We will see it in the World of Disney.Simone and Paul.

Thank you for the info.

As far as the Walt Disney Company towards EuroDisney, Michael Eisner (Disney's CEO at the time) formed EuroDisney in an agreement with the French government and WDC retained 40% of the shares.  In 2014 (I think I got the year correct), WDC did i billion Euro bailed out of EuroDisney along with Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud owns 10%.  In doing so, WDC now owns 51% of EuroDisney.  SO, WDC is trying with all it can to keep Disneyland Paris up and running but bailing EuroDisney out for at last the third time since 2006. In 2012, DLP did see 6 million visits but that number decreased sharply thereafter (14.9 million in 2013 and 14.2 million in 2014) with a slight improvement in 2015 (14.8 million).

Thank you for the info.

As far as the Walt Disney Company towards EuroDisney, Michael Eisner (Disney's CEO at the time) formed EuroDisney in an agreement with the French government and WDC retained 40% of the shares. In 2014 (I think I got the year correct), WDC did i billion Euro bailed out of EuroDisney along with Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud owns 10%. In doing so, WDC now owns 51% of EuroDisney. SO, WDC is trying with all it can to keep Disneyland Paris up and running but bailing EuroDisney out for at last the third time since 2006. In 2012, DLP did see 6 million visits but that number decreased sharply thereafter (14.9 million in 2013 and 14.2 million in 2014) with a slight improvement in 2015 (14.8 million).

drwadadli Thanks for your post. Some new figures. Now TWDC owns 76 % of Euro Disney shares, and the Prince, I will tell you later. Number of visitors in fiscal 2015 : 14,8 millions. Number of visitors in fiscal 2016 : 13,4 millions. So the figures are slightly different from your owns. Problems of big prices in a situation where the French and other European economies are not very good should be taken into account by TWDC. I don't make Bob Iger's policy. It's his problem.The only explanation of the very bad results of the year past (1 billion of € of losses for the exercice ending September 30th 2016) given by Euro Disney is the terrorist threat in France. That's right for all the tourism business. But they exonerate themselves from the decrease in quality (half of the attractions closed for a so cloded refurbishment for the next 25th anniversary, when everything should have been made for the 20th) and the very costly stay for an average family, they don't speak one word about. They speak only of Magic. But in the same time Europark, in Germany, and the Puy du Fou (a theme park in southwestern France) have doubled the number of visitors and they are building new hotels. The Puy du Fou has been called by foreign countries, and next year they will manage 5 theme parks against a small one, 20 years ago. So I think that Euro Disney has to be very modest and not boasting everytime : "we are the best in Europe" and why not in the world ? As for our own example, when Expedia in end 2012, had an an agreement with WDW, a package of 14 nights in a value resort plus the return flight Paris-Orlando, cost less than one night in the Disneyland Hotel which is 25 minutes from our home. So you may understand that the only way for Simone and I to stay in a Disney Resort was to come to Florida, even if we have a big problem of language.

Thank you again for the info, Paul.  I hear you are headed this way (across the "Pond") in February so I wish you safe travels.

Sorry cathie for my private e-mail. I had a problem with Google Chrome and my login had dissapeared for this forum. It's why I couldn't post it.
Just a small precision. On September 27th whe simone and I decided to make the reservation for teh Disney Cruise (a gift of my family and friends for my 70th birthday) and several days in WDW, we wanted to be sure not to have problems entering into the USA. For this we had to fulfill a form called ESTA. Amongst the questions, we had to answer this one : Do you intend to enter into the USA in order to commit a terrorist attack?. Answer : yes or no. On what button should you have push ? It's a mistery for us ! At the end after paying 14 $ each, we were permitted to enter your country for two years. I have heard that in the new form of the ESTA, beginning January 1st 2017 , you have to give your Facebook and Twitter names.

As for ridiculous questions, the immigration office has cancelled two of them we had to answer 20 years ago in the plane on a green form : Are you a WWII mass murderer ? Do you come into the Us to kill the President of the USA ? We had two answer (with a pencil) : yes or no. 
I hope that the NSA has better sources of information than these forms. At least in the plane it was free. Now on computer the ESTA costs 14$/person and is valid for 2 years. A lot of quasi thiefs have websites on internet with almost the official US signs. They take you 100 $/person after you have given your credit card number. Once you type ESTA on Google, they appear on the first answer. Thousands of people have been stolen by these non US government websites. And you can do anything because it's written in very very small letters on the first page : working for the US government (in French).