Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris

[ToTBellHop]

Trust. I made something in minutes that would’ve taken hours and tons of various skills to eloquate, hundreds of hours of time if not thousands to learn the tools to even be able to do it. Gatekeeping is ending.

Have you seen Arrival? Think of it like a high-concept visual language that you can rapidly iterate and extrapolate information. Picture-based can give more information than words, like Mandarin but on crack.

And that’s just one specific use-case, not even quantifying once AGI is reached (really just based on energy-scaled compute, ie. Do you build enough nuclear, solar, battery capacity, and have cheap oil.

Give it 5 years and Apps won’t even exist. No one will really use websites anymore either.

Soon, you won’t even need your brain.

 

[Pizza Moon]

Soon, you won’t even need your brain.

It matters then about what the person’s imagination is.

 

[ToTBellHop]

It matters then about what the person’s imagination is.

I’m a teacher. I see exactly what AI is doing to my students’ imaginative and cognitive abilities.

 

[Pizza Moon]

I’m a teacher. I see exactly what AI is doing to my students’ imaginative and cognitive abilities.

It’s making idiots dumber but if you would it right, exponentially smarter.

Ie. Put lecture slides into a Grok folder and then have it summarize it and make study guide for you and then flash cards for the most important terms.

 

[James Alucobond]

It’s making idiots dumber but if you would it right, exponentially smarter.

 

[marni1971]

Could we move the AI rubbish to a chit chat thread thank you please. There’s off topic and there’s on another planet.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

The new ToT gist shop opened yesterday, missed it by 2 days!

#vacationruined

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Studios was struggling last week:

- Ratatouille closed for refurb
- ToT not using all 3 shafts
- Crush and Magic Carpets breaking down
- Alice, Studio D and Pixar shows all closed

The few things that were operating could not handle the crowds. The park needs ride capacity ASAP

I know people dislike Cars Road Trip but it is the kind of high capacity ride the park needs on paper and can't get rid of yet

 

[Aramar]

I know people dislike Cars Road Trip but it is the kind of high capacity ride the park needs on paper and can't get rid of yet

I agree. The park needs family rides like Ratatouille, Cars road trip and Spiderma, especially since there are many people who don't go on thrill rides like the 2 coasters and the Tower of Terror.

 

[Nickm2022]

I agree. The park needs family rides like Ratatouille, Cars road trip and Spiderma, especially since there are many people who don't go on thrill rides like the 2 coasters and the Tower of Terror.

Agree, yk Toy Story Playland gets a lot of hate but without it children would have nothing to do. Personal pitch would be give me a family ride for hunchback of NotreDame or Beauty and the Beast

 

[J4546]

pathway to tsl looks good! I like the colored mulch.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

pathway to tsl looks good! I like the colored mulch.

It's similar to what's being used in Fantasyland right now while it's too cold to plant flowers

 

[Animaniac93-98]

The new paving, lighting and landscaping in World Premier Plaza does help to make it look nicer, but it's still a big empty space with no sense of clearly defined place. Buildings are just there, the department store false front in particular.

Contrast that with Main Street next door. Imagine a Hollywood version build to the same standard and detail?

Even if they remodeled the area around Crush/Cars Race Rally and Magic Carpets, it would still just be a bunch of stuff thrown together.

World Premier itself is quite nice. Better looking than Studio 1. Kind of makes me wonder what if they extended the building to enclose all of World Premier Plaza to give the park more indoor space and improve the aesthetic for that land

 

[marni1971]

World Premier itself is quite nice. Better looking than Studio 1. Kind of makes me wonder what if they extended the building to enclose all of World Premier Plaza to give the park more indoor space and improve the aesthetic for that land

We both know they’re extending nothing !

 

[Supersnow84]

Potentially hot takes… Fantasy Springs as a land isn’t that competent. Arrendelle, at least as far as the HKDL package is concerned, I prefer greatly over the Fantasy Springs Frozen offering. FEA is miles better than mermaid and a flushed out new build improves the experience.

All new Fantasyland and Fantasy Springs are - are ride facades. It’s poor land design. This is much better.

Finally someone who agrees that fantasy springs is basically just 2023 new fantasyland

 

[Supersnow84]

Oh I know. But no one will care that it’s setup for the future, when it opens to grand fanfare and there is nothing there beside frozen at the very end.

It’s the Galaxy Edge problem all over.

I think this is the biggest issue

Yes the fact they’ve basically set the park up for 20 years is good

But guests won’t see that, they will see a long long walk to a very small frozen land stapled onto the back of the park and since the lake is designed to be a pseudo celestial park it doesn’t really even have a real sense of place

 

[UNCgolf]

The new FEA is better than the original, but it's still a mediocre ride at best. Doing a plussed clone of a shoehorned, compromised attraction was such a bad idea

 

[Nickm2022]

Finally someone who agrees that fantasy springs is basically just 2023 new fantasyland

it is but also who cares since its so much better. Fantasy Springs will likely be the path some future lands take, ie 2-3 mini lands in one. reminds me of Tropical Americas or Tokyos new Adventureland concept art

 

[Supersnow84]

I mean it’s not so much the “mini lands with a central theme”

It’s the “3/4 of the theming is just hiding show buildings”

 

[denyuntilcaught]

I personally think the problem with Fantasy Springs is that it simply doesn't justify its existence. Whereas everything else in TDS is and feels new and novel to the resort, Springs feels duplicative to Fantasyland at TDL, just done with a bit more polish and a larger scale. Not to mention it's pretty harshly atonal to the rest of TDL.

I think this is the same sort of lack of cohesive thinking that's plaguing DAW, frankly. And the DCA expansions (namely Pandora; Coco's grand and Avengers...ok).