Large model of Buzz Lightyear, at the entrance to the Toy Story Playland Area of the Walt Disney Studios,
Toy Story Playland (also known as Toy Story Land) is a themed land at Walt Disney Studios Park and Hong Kong Disneyland. The area is based on the Disney·Pixar film series Toy Story. In France, it is part of Toon Studio and opened on August 17, 2010 at a cost of €70 million. In Hong Kong, Toy Story Land opened on November 18, 2011. With human-size Green Army Men, a towering orange Hot Wheels race track, balsa wood airplanes, railings made of K'Nex construction kits, wooden railway track for benches and more to find, the park is designed to have visitors beaming with "I remember those!" nostalgia at every turn. During Mickey's Magical Party in 2009, information was leaked about an expansion of Walt Disney Studios Park, the resort later confirmed this. The new Pixar themed area helped promote Toy Story 3. The area is designed to "shrink the guest" down to being the size of a toy, and to play in Andy's Backyard with his toys from the movies. It had do this through using highly immersive theming, using bamboo to act as giant blades of grass surrounding the area, the use of many themed props and characters from the Toy Story movies such as a giant Buzz Lightyear, a giant Rex, an oversized paper plane and a large ball from the first Pixar short, Luxo Jr. The area also features numerous photo opportunities. Construction of the area started in late 2009 and was finished on time. The new area is located to the right of Walt Disney Studios Park, behind the Art of Disney Animation. It has been rumoured that the hugely popular Toy Story Midway Mania attraction, currently found in Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort, Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort and Tokyo DisneySea at the Tokyo Disney Resort may be built here in a few years time. Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated buddy-comedy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by John Lasseter, released by Walt Disney Pictures.
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Location: Walt Disney Studios, Marne-la-Vallée, France.
Photo credit: © John Gaffen 2 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: buzz, character, computer-animated, disney, film, lightyear, model, park, pixar, playland, story, studios, theme, toy, walt
