Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris

[marni1971]

As much as I love live entertainment in the parks they can always pull down a theater and/or Stitch Live/Disney Jr complex if they get super stuck for space. Animation celebration too.

I could see Crush’s coaster/carpets/Cars rally/backstage building there going one day far into the future too.

Talking decades out here.

You’d hope it would be new build and not replacement. The park will still be lacking.

 

[Supersnow84]

Removing anything in the legacy park only really opens up that one little piece of land for a direct one to one replacement

Theatre in the stars is about the only thing you could remove and have it open up more space than just the footprint of what was removed

 

[marni1971]

 

[nickys]

So there’s still an uncovered part in the middle of the switch back?

 

[marni1971]

So there’s still an uncovered part in the middle of the switch back?

Threw me too

 

[ToTBellHop]

So there’s still an uncovered part in the middle of the switch back?

Seems like this didn’t accomplish much. Rather light theming given the build time. Better than nothing.

 

[IMDREW]

Can't they remove that large building between Crush and Ratatouille and free up that space? And please get rid of that ugly office DStudio building someday.

Also add in some nice facades + lobbies for the 2 theaters and a golden Hollywood style facade to the Park facing Studio 1 building.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Seems like this didn’t accomplish much. Rather light theming given the build time. Better than nothing.

I don't mind the theming so much, but I don't get why there seem to be several places where the queue still snakes out from under cover. Seems strange to design a covered walkway to protect from the rain and then leave several sections where people will still have to wander into/stand in the rain on a busy day.

 

[nickys]

I don't mind the theming so much, but I don't get why there seem to be several places where the queue still snakes out from under cover. Seems strange to design a covered walkway to protect from the rain and then leave several sections where people will still have to wander into/stand in the rain on a busy day.

To be fair, if it’s raining you’d already be wet. But why they can’t have the switch backs positioned under cover is strange.

 

[J4546]

As much as I love live entertainment in the parks they can always pull down a theater and/or Stitch Live/Disney Jr complex if they get super stuck for space. Animation celebration too.

I could see Crush’s coaster/carpets/Cars rally/backstage building there going one day far into the future too.

Talking decades out here.

getting rid of the flying carpets alone would be a huge win imo, replace it with a carousel with pixar characters to ride and fill in the back with trees and a small berm instead of that concrete wall/mural.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

To be fair, if it’s raining you’d already be wet. But why they can’t have the switch backs positioned under cover is strange.

Sure, but they are undertaking this program across the parks because they have identified making people being exposed to the rain as a problem. So why go to all this effort in this case just to mostly solve the problem of people having to stand in the rain instead of sheltering all of the queue (at least beyond a certain point) from the rain? It just seems bad design.

 

[Absimilliard]

Can't they remove that large building between Crush and Ratatouille and free up that space? And please get rid of that ugly office DStudio building someday.

Also add in some nice facades + lobbies for the 2 theaters and a golden Hollywood style facade to the Park facing Studio 1 building.

They really can't, as back of the house, that building (Imagination Building) is one of the resort's 3 costuming department. From 2000 until recently, its where both parks cast members went to change and get their work uniforms. Unlike WDW and DLR, cast members cannot go home with uniforms and need a place to get changed before and after their shift. It was a nice upgrade then, as the "Baloo building" where the original costuming was located was quite deep backstage and it took longer for cast members to get there and back. When I worked at DLP, they had just switched over to Imagination and along with an excellent cafeteria, it was a quick walk from the RER station to get changed.

The persistant rumor of a giant Star Wars Land behind Discoveryland ignores that a brand new costuming building was built behind Star Tours. This is to service cast members working in Fantasyland/Discoveryland and free up capacity for the Disney Adventure World expansion. There is less space than expected back there now, especially when the RATP (Paris transport commission) took some of the backstage there to expand the storage tracks for the RER A that goes to the park.

 

[lazyboy97o]

To be fair, if it’s raining you’d already be wet. But why they can’t have the switch backs positioned under cover is strange.

Regardless of the weather, people find it annoying to go back and forth between deferent states of protection and conditioning. It can be rain, but also the summer sun. It’s just a bizarre choice especially since queues are typically laid out to go from least (outdoor uncovered switchbacks) to most (fully themed, air conditioned interior queue).

 

[Gusey]

So, the outdoor section in the middle is where the "paved over pool" is, which makes sense storywise that an outdoor pool wouldn't typically have a cover over it, but still an odd decision to have it change like that in the switchbacks

 

[Aramar]

getting rid of the flying carpets alone would be a huge win imo, replace it with a carousel with pixar characters to ride and fill in the back with trees and a small berm instead of that concrete wall/mural.

The flying carpets is located in World Premiere Plaza and it's not connected to Worlds of Pixar despite being next to it. If it's replaced by something themed to Pixar they would need to modify the paths/gardens.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Well it self-identifies as a patio, therefore uncovered. With just a veranda structure.

Rainy days are often light crowd days, from memory and a quick look the switchbacks can be organised so the queue moves only underneath covered areas. On sunny days perhaps with more umbrellas out.

I am not enamoured much by the more elevated parts of ToT, but by jove isn't that ground floor of DLP ToT just gorgeous! One of the finer pieces of Imagineering architecture anywhere. A superb choice in Pueblo Deco - firmly placing ToT in time and place, the pueblo bit in the US southwest and the deco in the 20s/30s. And what a colour scheme! I do regret one spends 15 seconds in the lobby and 15 minutes in the boiler room. Wish that were the reverse.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Surely between filling in the space around the lake, the stunt show area, the huge Cars plot, and - wishful thinking - replacing the hideous Toy Story carnival land the park has space for decades to come?

 

[MisterPenguin]

I don't mind the theming so much, but I don't get why there seem to be several places where the queue still snakes out from under cover. Seems strange to design a covered walkway to protect from the rain and then leave several sections where people will still have to wander into/stand in the rain on a busy day.

Regardless of the weather, people find it annoying to go back and forth between deferent states of protection and conditioning. It can be rain, but also the summer sun. It’s just a bizarre choice especially since queues are typically laid out to go from least (outdoor uncovered switchbacks) to most (fully themed, air conditioned interior queue).

/:EPCOT's Ratatouille has entered the chat.

 

[Supersnow84]

Surely between filling in the space around the lake, the stunt show area, the huge Cars plot, and - wishful thinking - replacing the hideous Toy Story carnival land the park has space for decades to come?

Let’s say we generously manage to remove the substations, theatre of the stars and cars road trip, we could make 4 plots around the lake besides frozen and pride lands (and all 4 would need to be long and thin unlike pride lands which sits more parallel to the lake shore)

Now each of these plots would be about the size of frozen. So let’s assume 1 E ticket, QSFB and a shop

If we filled every plot there would be 6 E tickets around the lake, flight force, web slingers, TOT, ratatouille, crush and Toy Story land

Don’t get me wrong it’s much better but it’s still very small. I’m not sure people who haven’t been to Hong Kong (not saying this is you but just in general) know how small the frozen land is

It’s a 20 second walk from end to end

 

[infloencer]

The persistant rumor of a giant Star Wars Land behind Discoveryland ignores that a brand new costuming building was built behind Star Tours. This is to service cast members working in Fantasyland/Discoveryland and free up capacity for the Disney Adventure World expansion. There is less space than expected back there now, especially when the RATP (Paris transport commission) took some of the backstage there to expand the storage tracks for the RER A that goes to the park.

Wasn't the plot for the rumored Star Wars Land just between the Railroad tracks and the access road? So just the Discoveryland Theater, the former Pizza Planet site and the spaces around that. As far as I know a smaller Star Wars Land with one RotR sized attraction would fit there just fine without removing any of the current buildings, maybe just rerouting the street a little bit.