Matterhorn Basketball Court

 
Matterhorn Basketball Court?

Proof Of Basketball Court In The Matterhorn. Video is 2 and a half minutes long.

  Matterhorn Basketball Court Video

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In Anaheim, Frontierland has five very distinct shops (Bonanza Outfitters, Pioneer Mercantile, Silver Spur, The Spirit of Pocahontas Shop and Westward Ho Trading Company) whereas there is really only one store in the Frontierland of Disneyland Paris. This is the Thunder Mesa Mercantile Building, although it is split into three separate parts: Tobias Norton & Sons, Bonanza Outfitters and Eureka Mining Supplies. To the untrained eye (e.g. mine) the three sections seem interchangeable, except for having different entrances, but perhaps the differentiation is to help out those who work in the park’s sales department… or maybe it is a cynical ploy to get more potential customers to visit/re-visit the store.

Arguably there is another sales point of sorts in DLP’s Frontierland: Big Thunder Photographers. As well as this being where one can purchase the on-ride snaps from Big Thunder Mountain, it also sells T-shirts, bottled beverages and plush toys, albeit currently only of Woody and Jesse.

Whilst there is no shop named after Anaheim’s Silver Spur in Disneyland Paris, there is the Silver Spur Steakhouse, a restaurant which, according to the Land’s art director Jeff Burke, once featured various watercolors, etchings and oil paintings by the likes of Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Edward Borein (1872-1945) and Charles Russell (1864-1926) so as to set the scene of “lavish Victorian ambience… accentuated with masterpieces of western art”. In 1994 however, these were removed and replaced with printed copies.

Whilst the Silver Spur Steakhouse is a table service restaurant, the other eateries in the Land are all generally considered to be “Quick Meal” experiences: Cowboy Cookout Barbecue, Fuente del Oro Restaurante, Last Chance Café and The Lucky Nugget Saloon.

The restaurants in Anaheim’s Frontierland are Stage Door Café, Rancho del Zocalo Restaurante, River Belle Terrace and The Golden Horseshoe Saloon.

The Lucky Nugget is (in many ways) France’s answer to The Golden Horseshoe, in that (as well as being an eatery) it has two stories of cabaret-style audience seating and a stage which has been used for a variety of different types of acts over the years. The capacity in France’s restaurant is higher, and the shows tend to be more music based than an equal split of music and comedy (which is perhaps down to the language barrier) and both have had periods where they have been merely used for character dining, but both have tremendous amounts of atmosphere, theming and history.




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In November we added 10 onstage and 2 backstage photos. Including: 2 extremely rare photos: One of the exhibits at Babes In Toyland Exhibit and a model for the Matterhorn that was used to build the Matterhorn. Also photos of Peter Pan, Rafts To Tom Sawyer Island, Walt Disney's Wedding Anniversary party at the Golden Horseshoe  and much much more

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So one day i was thinking about the cost of building attractions at Disneyland. It occurred to me that maybe if we convert the cost of some of the older attractions (including the park itself) to 2011 dollars it might be interesting. So I took the top 20 most expensive attractions and converted their construction cost to 2011 dollars and the sorted them most to least expensive. The results were interesting to me. Here is what I came up with:

 

Year Built	Cost To Build	Attraction	2011 Dollars
1995	$110 million	Indiana Jones Adventure, Temple Of The Forbidden Eye	$160.3 million
1989	$85 million	Splash Mountain	$151.8 million
1955	$17 million	Disneyland	$140.8 million
1969	$17 million	Haunted Mansion	$102.8 million
1966	$15 million	New Orleans Square	$102.5 million
2007	$70 million	Finding Nemo: Submarine Voyage	$75.6 million
1977	$20 million	Space Mountain	$73.1 million
1987	$30 million	Star Tours	$58.4 million
1967	$8 million	Carousel Of Progress	$53.1 million
1967	$8 million	Pirates Of The Caribbean	$53.1 million
1979	$16 million	Big Thunder Mountain Railroad	$48.7 million
1972	$8 million	Bear Country	$42.4 million
2003	$30 million	Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh	$36.4 million
1986	$17 million	Captain EO	$34.3 million
1997	$20 million	Light Magic	$27.8 million
1959	$2.5 million	Submarine Voyage	$19 million
1960	$2.5 million	Natures Wonderland	$18.7 million
2008	$15 million	Innoventions Dream Home	$15.6 million
1959	$1.5 million	Matterhorn	$11.4 million
1959	$1 million	Monorail	$7.6 million

Of course Indiana Jones is number 1 but look how close Splash Mountain is.  I guess the real question is "Will Disney ever build a $100 attraction again for Disneyland Park?" We can only hope.

Cars Land

The largest attraction coming to the Disneyland Resort is Cars Land over at Disney California Adventure. We have a video showing their progress. This video is 2 and half minutes long and was shot in 2011. Cars Land Video

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Cars Land