Kevin_W
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I live in Ohio and have been to DLP 3 times, so it's on my map! The dragon under the castle might be one of those exclusives. (Flight Force is also unique in theme at least, and Ratatouille was until recently.)
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Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris
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I live in Ohio and have been to DLP 3 times, so it's on my map! The dragon under the castle might be one of those exclusives. (Flight Force is also unique in theme at least, and Ratatouille was until recently.)
wimmekepunk
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I think Raging Spirits in Disney Sea is quiet seminar to DLP’s IndyCrush already fits that bill.
So does Indy, albeit it isn’t a favourite of many.
And when I suggested earlier that the LK ride looked like a Splash / Tiana overlay, people were quick to tell me how wrong I was.
Yes, little by little all other parks have been copying what were exclusive rides from Paris. Tokyo took Indy's roller coaster and renamed it Raging Spirits. Shanghai took Alice's labryinth and changed it to the live action movie. Epcot took Ratatouille and removed the restaurant. It's not built yet, but Americans want to copy the Lion King in Animal Kigdom too.
If only we could copy their rides in Paris too, especially that Beauty and the Beast one.
Stevie Amsterdam
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Give Paris Tron Lightcycle Run but double the length
infloencer
Member
Please don’t. It was designed for the Shanghai Tomorrowland and fits perfectly there. At WDW it feels incredibly out of place and I doubt it would be very different in Paris
Same design (with theme plussing) but made by a Japanese company.
Animaniac93-98
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I don't know how TRON would fit with the rest of Discoveryland...unless they don't care and would just plop it in there.
cjkeating
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This sounds like a really stupid idea.
Animaniac93-98
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It's hard to tell the true scale of the land when looking at photos from a distance, but I'm concerned that the shared courtyard for the restaurant, boat ride and meet 'n greet in the Frozen area will be too small for all the people trying to get in and out of the land. It's the same size as HKDL's version I guess, but the meet 'n greet there is elsewhere.
Animaniac93-98
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The space in front of the restaurant/ride entrance is larger or smaller? I know Paris will also have the pavilion across from it.
Sir_Cliff
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Since visiting the HKDL World of Frozen, I have been curious about that as the artwork does make the Paris version look slightly different. For example, the land seems to continue around the main promenade that circles that lake, whereas the HKDL version is far more self-contained and honestly a little more compact than it looks in photos. It's hard to tell how much of this is just artistic licence, though.
Just as an aside, one thing they did in HKDL for FEA which I thought was clever and I hope is replicated in Paris is have characters appear to greet guests from behind a little fence in the queue. When I was there, Anna, Kristoff, and Oaken were there for a bit interacting, taking selfies, etc. which was a nice way to create some interest in what can be a long queue for a relatively short ride.
IMDREW
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Please no! One evening I had some dinner with my parents (so 3 adults) at the Golden Crocus Inn. I figure everyone at the park was gathered for Momentous in front of the castle, so the land and restaurant were mostly empty. Then I heard some faint knocking on the window. Looked up to find Anna creepily smiling from behind the glass in the dark. Still gives me the creeps. Day after, got in line for Frozen Ever After and guess who was there waiting in the queue! Desperately tried to avoid her, but with that setup, you HAVE to interact with them. Can laugh about it in hindsight, but meet and greets with princesses is not for everyone
ParkPeeker
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Paris’ will be larger by quite a bit. Probably even double the space back there.
If you were to face the clock tower from the fountain at both parks, Paris’s is nearly 20m farther back, putting space between the restaurant and ride. In terms of width, it fans out at an angle as it gets closer to the tower, so it’ll be about 11m to 17m wider than HK’s. So it’s a hefty chunk of added land back there.
You can see the added width in this picture of Paris’ model. Harder to see the added 20m depth from this flattened distance but it’s there.
SaveDinosaur
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I must be the only person in the world who prefers the theming on Indy over Raging Spirits
I guess the mural will be the background for the statue. Walt and Mickey and a bunch of Disney characters behind on the wall.
Self correction, it seems the mural represents the different areas of the park, since we can see some characters for Worlds of Pixar as well as the Tower of Terror and the Earful Tower for World Premiere. I think next to the Earful tower is the North Mountain from Frozen too. I assume Marvel also will be represented on the other side of the mural, and maybe the Lion King.
JakeDLP
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It might be another issue because it looks like they've started to sketch over it the same drawing again but with slightly differing proportions, I wondered if it could be related to the wall behind it being Beige instead of white and the colours not coming across as intended