Euro Disneyland The Board Game - Down From The Attic ep 73 

@@jfgibson73 glad someone noticed! One of my favourite bits of park music

Yeah games like this are rarely made these days and it’s a shame, think there’s still a market for them and with the improvements with moulding and miniaturising of tech, can only imagine what they could do now if they put their minds to it

The more for the rest of us! ⬤▃⬤

@@Erik.Miller No doubt! :D haha

Hahaha I can see why it wouldn’t be your kind of game Bernardo. It’s a kids game for sure, but there’s still fun to be had with it, know my Disney friends are fans of it

Hope it's bringing back memories and that your kids enjoy playing it!

Matt loves this game : “And #136 Euro Disneyland! This game I love!” 🤣🤣🤣

@@TabletopIsland Luke, you can ban this bozo from your channel. I can show you how. : )

@@kidcardco 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hahaha I’m staying out of this one 😂 it’s a fun game Matt, definitely MB in their prime

@@downfromtheattic It’s kool Tornado Rex knows the truth ;) hahahaha

Definitely mate, I think Jon and Tori should enjoy this one too

Honestly, hearing stuff like this makes doing the reviews worthwhile, thanks for the kind words and I really hope you enjoy the game, it's a quirky one but if you love disney parks, I don't see how you can't enjoy this with your son. Friends with Bernado and Matt and they too love hearing that they've influenced people to buy games.

May i ask where you bought this beautiful game? I can't find it anywhere

Hope you enjoy the game!

@@downfromtheattic How does this game rank in your vintage top 10?

@@pearlshark1 It's not in my top 10, I'd probably place it somewhere in the 30s but would need to reassess my games. It's a fun game for sure, but it's one of those once-in-a-while games, not one you'd keep coming back to on the regular

My condolences on the passing of the annual‐passholder program. Disneyland Paris is a worthy variation. _Vive_ _la_ _différence !_ Even things that arenʼt especially changed can seem fresh in the new context. Oddly, Itʼs a Small World unfolds like its US counterparts, ending its journey in America, leaving me a little disoriented when I exit the ride and find myself once again surrounded by France. 😉 Still, the rousing finale, with its Statue of Liberty imagery (which of course originally hails from France!), makes me as an American feel welcomed and warm and fuzzy in a way that doesnʼt quite happen when Iʼm in a park that really is in America. Just donʼt forget: When you go to Disneyland Paris, thereʼs the actual Paris to take in, too! 😃

Hey thanks :) you know, you're absolutely right, the similarities to Crystal Maze are definitely there, have that review queued up :D Crystal Maze, the challenges are definitely more difficult and you're timed with the egg timer thing, this is a lot more relaxed like that. Star tours would have been an amazing inclusion but you're right, not technically disney back then. Kinda hope they do another game like this just with newer rides and components, they could make it so amazing. Went to universal for the first time for halloween 2019 and it was brilliant. Seeing the time train from back to the future part 3? Damn... I got misty eyed :D would have LOVED to have seen the old ghostbusters show, did you know they had the REAL ecto 1 just parked on the street for photos there?! All what remains of that is the old firehouse...and a rollercoaster flies through the front of it. Never been to Chessington or Thorpe Park. My childhood parks were Gulliver's World, Southport Pleasureland, Morecambe Frontierland, Alton Towers, Flamingoland and Camelot. Damn shame what happened to Camelot, they had some great rides there!

@@downfromtheattic Crystal Maze is one that I've got, but have nevergot round to setting up and playing yet. LOVED the backlot Tour with the Delorean, Trimaxian Drone Ship (Flight of the Navigator) and Bruce (Jaws) back in the day before they either rotted away or were turning into diner decorations (poor Max!). So sad that all of the classics I mentioned are gone now. Doesn't stop me from wanting to go back and see all the new stuff though! Especially Galaxy's Edge.... The Ghostbusters show was definitely a highlight for me as a kid - the Clown ghost was freaky! Pretty sure it was designed and constructed by the Chiodos (who did Killer Klowns From Outer Space and Critters). Yeah I've seen what's left of the fire station there - kinda sad. My aunt lived in London, so Chessington was a staple - the two rides I mentioned were freaky awesome - fully scale animatronics based on original ideas - well worth Googling if you're into that sort of thing.

@@AtticRaidersRetroReviews Crystal Maze is fun one for sure, though it's defo one where you gotta pick your moment and crowd playing with. There's a Crystal Maze experience here in Manchester, haven't been yet but aim to once the world is open again :D Did the backlot tour at Disney Studios (MGM) but never the Universal. It honestly PAINS me what Disney have done to the Flight of The Navigator ship. They've sprayed it red, put a bunch of 50s sci fi looking stuff on it and it's in Tommorowland in Magic Kingdom above a drinks stall. The screen used prop. I would've loved old Universal, earthquake ride, King Kong, jaws. You know the REAL Orca boat was there at universal as set dressing? And they chopped it up for firewood... Speilberg went ape shit when he found out. Checked out a video on that ride at Chessington, that looks so much fun! I need to check that park out for sure

Glad you liked the review! Yeah When I first got this game there was next to nothing online about it. A play through showed up recently on RU-vid but it didn’t show much of the pieces and mechanism and they really needed showcasing, they are the sell of the game. It’s a real looker and if you’re a Disney park fan, I think you’d like this. Yeah I’m a massive fan of the parks too, never been to the original Disneyland but been going Florida and Paris for over 20 years. Agreed, it’s nice there’s nods to it being specifically Disneyland Paris with Sleeping Beauty Castle and Alice’s Labyrinth. I’m in the opposite situation where the US releases cost a fortune getting here. Would love the magic kingdom game, tower of terror clue and jenga (my favourite ride ever) haunted mansion game of life, the vintage haunted mansion game with the rotating floor and the disneyworld game you mentioned. It’s amazing really how many games based on the parks there are. The ones that really interest me are the new ideas, not the reskins of existing ones but...I mean I’m never gonna say no to Tower Of Terror anything 😂

Have seen the new Haunted Mansion game, I’m intrigued and will need to look into it. My fav park is Epcot and I’m stunned there’s no game on it yet, same with all the other parks come to think of it, it’s more magic kingdom/Disney land games when it boils down to it. But yeah, an Epcot game...I’d buy it in a heartbeat. Haunted Mansion Game of Life looks fun, has some really cool rule variants to it, love how the cars are doom buggies too 😂

@@downfromtheattic If you get-or make-the opportunity to visit Disneyland Resort in California, youʼll have a blast. (Of course!) With “only” two parks, thereʼs less of what youʼre accustomed to in Florida, but Disneyland Park-i.e., the _original_ Disneyland-is jam‐packed, more intimate, and blessed by the personal touch of Walt himself. WDW was still in the early planning stages when he died, and so the original Disneyland is the only Disney park where Walt walked-and had his own apartment, even! And I find Disney California Adventure offers a fuller day than Parisʼ Walt Disney Studios-the latter has some great stuff, but during my one visit a couple of years or so ago I was struggling to make it last past half a day. (I personally donʼt need the Pixar kiddie rides…) The planned Paris expansions, including Galaxyʼs Edge, should help. But over the years Iʼve come to appreciate the history of the original; as much as I enjoy DLP and WDW (which Iʼve also visited), thereʼs still something special about the very first park thatʼs not entirely replicable. But Iʼll keep visiting the other ones too. 🙂 Iʼve seen at least some of those reskin games while vacationing but havenʼt been too interested-though Iʼll admit the Haunted Mansion Clue does have some nice pieces which provoke temptation. But for now I still prefer to play an old‐timey regular Clue or Cluedo. Perhaps you already know that the rotating mid‐ʼ70s Haunted Mansion game actually has a UK counterpart, albeit without the Disney theming-namely, Ghost Train from olʼ Denys Fisher. Sadly, it too tends to be scarce and pricy, though less so than the Haunted Mansion version, especially for someone with a UK address. While your jaw was dropping at the bloated Euro Disneyland prices on eBay, my mouth was watering at the circa‐£5 postage charges! 😛 For my last trip to Europe, I had the idea of ordering some choice items from the “neighborhood” (France, the UK, Germany…) and having them shipped cheaply to my Paris‐area hotel, then taking them home in my luggage, but that plan didnʼt come together-the short window of opportunity can be tough. Worry not-I managed to stuff my bags with swag anyway. 🙂 As for the Tower of Terror, Iʼm afraid I can say no. Iʼve ridden the California and Paris versions and loved them. But a few years ago, the California one got changed into a Guardians of the Galaxy ride (based on the movies). Now, Iʼm a Marvel Comics guy from way back-in fact, due to back issues and reprints, Iʼm a Marvel guy from way back before I was born-but I generally donʼt get enthused about the movies. As the cliché goes, the book was better. The only superhero comics movies with any staying power for me are a couple of intentionally campy ʼ60s flicks: _Batman_ (tying in to the TV series-“Some days you just canʼt get rid of a bomb!”) and _Diabolik_ (actually based on a supervillain from Italian comics). And the _Twilight_ _Zone_ Tower of Terror being just wonderful, I havenʼt been able to bring myself to ride the GotG version. Thatʼs another reason to enjoy Disneyland Paris: It has a classic‐style version! (I hear it got a major revision recently but is still along the same lines.) Yeah, we do need an EPCOT game, complete with oversized golf ball. I suspect part of the reasoning behind the more limited theming choices is that they can apply to multiple resorts. While all the resorts do sell some merchandise specific to them, thereʼs also a lot that transitions easily elsewhere. You see that a lot between the two American resorts in particular. And sometimes itʼs not all that seamless. For example, both US resorts have monorails, and I think that at DIsneyland Iʼve seen a toy monorail set that was specific to a model in use only at the Florida locale-ouch! I understand Disneyʼs temptation to sell the park games exclusively at the resorts, but it does seem a missed opportunity not to widen the availability. As a Disney visitor I like getting the exclusive merch-souvenirs, right?-but for some items it seems that after a couple of years or so it might be worth making a different edition available via standard retail or Amazon or whatnot. Actually, I think that did happen with a cheapened version of Haunted Mansion Clue. But whatever. I expect Iʼll return to Disneyland (or _a_ Disneyland) in a year or two, and Iʼll just have to wait to pick up my sabacc and dejarik then. Iʼm certainly not picking up them up at eBay prices!-nor am I getting the mass‐market sabacc depicting the wrong actors as Han and Lando…

Oh my, that didnʼt look _quite_ so long when I composed it. I feel as though I were about to assign Luke a book report…

@@Erik.Miller oh damn, this a long one to reply to... Oh absolutely I'd love to go to the original Disneyland, purely for the fact I see a lot of those rides there as heritage attractions. Pirates, Haunted mansion, it's a small world, they've all stood the test of time which is kinda incredible. That park really was the blueprint of what a modern theme park should be, the gold standard. I'm a big fan of vintage rides being preserved. Had a theme park near me, Southport Pleasureland, it had some one of a kind rides there and a lot of the old victorian to 30s rides have been destroyed or moved and I find it so sad that noone thought to preserve them. I kinda love that Disney has pride in it's older attractions and strives to keep the fun and entertaining to guests. It's been over a decade since I went to Euro Disney and the studios section was relatively new then, am sad to hear a lot of the attractions I loved there are gone now like Animagique, Cinemagique and Motors Action. Glad they've added Tower of Terror there ;) I get your point with the history of the parks and heritage there, it's why a lot of what's planned for Epcot really doesn't sit too well with me. My last trip to WDW was during halloween 2019 and I'm so glad I got to see old Epcot one last time, though work had already started. Broke my heart not seeing the fountain, Innoventions gone and the electric umbrella gone too. Epcot always had this feel of progress and community to it. I don't think I'll ever accept the guardians of the galaxy ride in there, same with the Mary Poppins ride the UK section, the Ratatoullie ride in the France section...it's a really bad fit. This all started with Frozen replacing Maelstrom. I'm not sure I like where Epcot is headed. Test Track, the ride was so much more fun when GM had it, it felt dangerous and risky, like a proper test centre. This new theme by Chevrolet? it's like riding through Tron! and I REALLY hated that the ride ends with you coming out into a Chevrolet dealership! "Yeah, I'll get a test track fridge magnet and baseball cap and....oh go on, I'll take the new 2021 for a spin too" PASS. Epcot is losing what made it so unique to make just another disney park which I find so sad, vintage Epcot was the absolute best. Yes I've seen the Denys Fischer Ghost train game and tempting as it is...I know secretly I'd be wanting the Haunted Mansion art ;) Did a bit of the same whilst over in Florida last time, picked up a ton of games and toys I couldn't get back home, I just wish I'd hit up a goodwill and gone over all the vintage stuff... I think I'd've needed another suitcase :D Yeah the changing of Tower of Terror to Guardians of The Galaxy really annoyed me. Disney Studios ToT is the original and they have no plans to get rid of it and it makes me incredibly happy to hear that. Everything on that ride is absolutely masterful, the queue tells the story, the setting and feel of the place, it's just a superbly themed ride. I'm not a massive superhero fan myself, I'll watch them but I've never enthused over them, to me, the best films in the MCU are always the first, when the hero becomes aware of their abilities. Everything else is just...well everything else. I don't see why Disney don't make a new park based on Marvel, or a new area like how they've done with Galaxies Edge, rather than convert existing rides into Marvel rides. The Guardians ride at Disneyland sticks out like a sore thumb to the buildings and theming around it, a massive misstep. You're probably right regarding the Epcot game and it being too specific but a magic kingdom game was made so... stranger things have happened. I wouldn't know what an Epcot game would be like, visiting all the countries? riding a number of attractions there? Not getting upset about what they did to the imagination pavilion? There's a lot there they could do something with I guess :D I'm kicking myself I didn't get the ToT Jenga and the Dejarik game from Galaxies edge now but...they're both wood, I may as well have been putting house bricks in my suit case home :D but yeah, all their park merch is a nightmare to get hold of outside of the parks, I just want simple things too like the coffee mugs, a fresh Epcot or WDW tee to wear. Next time, I'm going with an empty suitcase :D

the classic ones? Hell yeah, love the black and white ones, they're classics. Love the Hammer Horror films if you know of them, Christopher Lee as Dracula...doesn't get much better than that

@@downfromtheattic Then I think you’ll love the game horrified (and yes I love hammer)

Yeah I reviewed Khet a few years ago, fantastic game

@@downfromtheattic yeah i loved that game

I don't I'm afraid, probably should set up DFTA email. What's it in regards to?

@@downfromtheattic Ongoing discussions of old and new unique board games, (I'm amassing my own collection), conversing about Disney and themed entertainment, I've been to both World and Paris and have some insight/stories you may enjoy (don't want to disclose more publicly), and lastly, the US/UK connection - I work remotely with a team that is 95% in England and I know the culture beyond quite far (DW and Sherlock :/) It would be Brill to correspond imo