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Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris
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Supersnow84
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The bins are meant to match the theming, not so much the property
So the bins being brown in the same wood style the provincial village is makes more sense than them being blue,
It’s like how the bins in belle’s provincial village on Tokyo are wood, not yellow despite yellow being the proverbial colour of beauty and the beast
nickys
Premium Member
That makes sense, thanks!
Supersnow84
Well-Known Member
Is there actually going to be anything around the lake besides kinda empty wide open paths
I can see them going for the same multi tiered “viewing” area that Disneyland has with rivers of America for fantasmic but it seems an awfully long empty walk just to reach frozen and even when lion king opens that will be a very unbalanced guest flow around the lake given if it looks like this at opening there is zero incentive to take the non lion king route around the lake
I can see them going for the same multi tiered “viewing” area that Disneyland has with rivers of America for fantasmic but it seems an awfully long empty walk just to reach frozen and even when lion king opens that will be a very unbalanced guest flow around the lake given if it looks like this at opening there is zero incentive to take the non lion king route around the lake
nickys
Premium Member
IIRC there will be “plains of Africa between Frozen and LK, which the boats will pass through. But also that there would be room for something else. Somewhere I suggested an interactive play area.
I would think though the whole area will be blocked off on either side until LK is ready.
The non LK side will have a path into Toy Story, and have that swing bridge into Arendelle - which looks to be the best entry. It’s looking great even now.
Gusey
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Not a ton, other than a few small pavilions for food/merch. Technically Cars Road Trip is also located around the lake, although it'll be more of a entrance to Worlds of Pixar than an actual highlight of Adventure Bay. Most of the filler to Frozen can be found on Adventure Way (Gardens area, Tangled, Regal View Restaurant and eventually Up Swings)
The Empress Lilly
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So they pretty much built a DCA Pier / Paradise Garden area, uplifting WDSP from the 'world's ugliest Disney Park' to 'tied for second place ugliest park'....
Still looking forward to LK though, more than Frozen - one so-so ride based on last generation's big thing - a killer flume ride could put this park on the map. The way Space did for the castle park thirty years ago.
Still looking forward to LK though, more than Frozen - one so-so ride based on last generation's big thing - a killer flume ride could put this park on the map. The way Space did for the castle park thirty years ago.
nickys
Premium Member
The Lion King came out 19 years before Frozen. So if Frozen was the “last generation’s big thing” then LK belongs to today’s grandparents.
I wouldn’t call (most of) it ugly anymore.
yeah this is a transformative expansion imo, Makes DSP and the DLP resort much more tempting for me to visit
Supersnow84
Well-Known Member
I’m interested in what you’d call the second ugliest park
The Empress Lilly
Well-Known Member
DCA.
Despite everything, I consider all Disney parks absolutely gorgeous. All castle parks, and all second gates at WDW and Tokyo. Except for WDSP and DCA , they just don't have what it takes to make a beautiful Disney park. DCA is pretty in many areas, but not quite the pier, and it is this preciseky this area that the WDSP makeover seems to most alike to.
We're all excited that WDSP ar least gets something, and it will be a much better park. But WS lagoon this isn't. There is no true placemaking, as for example Pandora or GE - great themed modern Disney areas. Just a handsomely pleasant park / lake.
To put it differently, which area will you expect transports and enchants you more: MS, Frontierland, Adventure Isle, Fantasyland, or this lake? There is a difference between 'pretty and pleasant park like area', and 'magical place of enchantment that whisks me away into a realm of dreams'.
The Empress Lilly
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The problem with Frozen isn't age. It's that Disney feels that it can coast on the success of the IP, and doesn't need to go all in. EPCOT Frozen was shoehorned in, to quickly open something, anything, Frozen. The ride was nevertheless instantly popular. And so now they're still building it.
The Lion King came out 19 years before Frozen. So if Frozen was the “last generation’s big thing” then LK belongs to today’s grandparents.
Tokyo's Frozen, or its BatB, or Shanghai's Zootopia, are what you can get when you put in the effort. I'm optimistic that for Lion King they will go the extra mile.
The Empress Lilly
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Of course.
But WDSP isn't much of a benchmark. When you ask 'will Disney Adventure World now rival DAK/DisneySea/EPCOT/DHS?', then, well....no, not quite.
I'm very happy with the transformation and all the work, the whole resort will be even better than I hoped for in my wildest dreams as little as a decade ago, but it's a transformation from 'bad' into 'fine'. Not into 'excellent'. Like DL, but unlike WDW and Tokyo, DLP will not have a second gate close to rivalling the castle park. The new park had to come from too far, and doesn't go quite far enough. Remember when GE and RotR were supposed to open next year?
nickys
Premium Member
They were supposed to open last year, in time for the Olympics.
Supersnow84
Well-Known Member
Why has this been so slow?
They’ve taken longer to add arguably less than HK (more with lion king but that’s a latter addition) with a larger resort budget and a quicker more complete recovery from Covid than HK which has a claim to worst hit city by Covid that’s not mainland China
They’ve taken longer to add arguably less than HK (more with lion king but that’s a latter addition) with a larger resort budget and a quicker more complete recovery from Covid than HK which has a claim to worst hit city by Covid that’s not mainland China
Gusey
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When are you basing your starting time for this project, announcement of construction? Announced in 2018 as a multi-phase project, with the first phase 2018-2021 being mostly Avengers Campus & Cars Road Trip. We're still in phase 2 which began in 2022 and finishes 2026, consisting of Frozen, Adventure Way/Bay, The refresh of Studio 1 into World Premier and Production Courtyard into World Premiere Plaza, and the Pixar Show. Phase 3 is starting construction this year (Lion King and Up Waveswinger)