Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains, the Fantasyland dark ride known in English as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, reopens to guests at Disneyland Paris on Tuesday, July 28, following months of refurbishment work that touched nearly every part of the attraction, from its queue to its final scene.

The ride has operated since the resort’s opening day in April 1992, making it one of Fantasyland’s original attractions. It is based on Walt Disney’s 1937 film of the same name, the studio’s first feature-length animated film and one of the earliest animated features made in the United States.

Disney says crews from Walt Disney Imagineering Paris, the resort’s Design & Delivery division, Maintenance and its Central Workshops used the closure to make technical repairs and give the ride a deep clean. Disney parks operate year-round, and the company describes this kind of periodic shutdown as routine upkeep. Sites that track the resort’s attraction schedule reported that the ride actually closed on March 30, with its reopening pushed back twice from an original spring date before landing on July 28 — a closure of nearly four months in total.

The changes start in the queue: newly painted floors, low walls, columns, woodwork and railings, plus a chandelier added to match the attraction’s theme. Inside, the dwarfs’ cottage scene was sanded down to bare walls and repainted to match the vibrant look it had when the park opened in 1992. The surrounding woodwork — from platforms to ceiling beams — and the dwarf figures themselves were hand-repainted at Disneyland Paris’s Central Workshops.

The most notable update is in the ride’s final scene, where crews installed a new Snow White figure, handmade and hand-painted from resin at workshops in the nearby Seine-et-Marne region. Disney says the figure looks more like the character as drawn in the original film, and its redesign also improves safety for the Cast Members who operate and maintain the ride. The painted mural behind the scene gained new figures of the Prince and his horse, a detail meant to bring the tableau closer to the film’s ending.

Elsewhere, teams touched up the black-light paint used throughout the ride’s mine scenes, stripped and repainted the flooring, and cleaned and repositioned the spotlights. Outside, a plain “Exit Only” sign near the neighboring Les Voyages de Pinocchio attraction was replaced with a hand-painted mural of Snow White and her companions.

The project is part of a broader, multiyear effort to refresh Fantasyland’s building exteriors, which has also touched the adjacent La Chaumière des Sept Nains shop and the facade of Les Voyages de Pinocchio. Disneyland Paris’s version of the ride has kept its original storyline throughout; by contrast, Disneyland in Anaheim reimagined its ride as Snow White’s Enchanted Wish in 2021, and Walt Disney World’s version closed permanently in 2012.

Scaffolding will remain on the building’s facade through the fall as part of a separate project to rebuild Fantasyland’s rooftops, which Disney says will make it easier for entertainment crews to stage shows and set up pyrotechnics in the area once the work is finished.

Cover image courtesy of: Disneyland Paris