Canada: Gets an Inukshuk for Nunavut, a Fleur De Lis for Quebec, and a boat with codfish in a net for Newfoundland. It also gets Niagara Plunge, an open air log flume with a drop down the famous falls.
Egypt: This Pavilion has an obelisk, a temple, and a Pyramid. The obelisk is a drop tower, the temple is a shop, and the Pyramid holds Curse Of The Pharaohs. This EMV ride takes riders into a newly discovered tomb in search of an ankh. They ride past flame jets, spike lined walls, quicksand, spears that shoot out of statues, and ceilings that descend. Then, the Army Of The Dead awakens to guard the ankh chamber. The riders narrowly make it to the Ankh Chamber before the doors shut. Then, they have to put up with Sand Spirit, a giant scorpion that moves its tail in an attempt to gore them. Riders escape, of course!
UK: Merida’s Meet And Greet is moved to a Scottish themed sub section. Big Ben and Tower Bridge are added in order to make a London Area that is home to Alice’s Maze Of Wonder, a hedge maze themed to the Disney Animated Classic, Alice In Wonderland, Mary Poppins, and Mr Toad’s Wildest Ride! This is a dueling coaster with a Toad Track and Weasel Track. The main features are the scenes in which The Weasels attack and a final drop into a hot tunnel lit in red, the Hell tunnel. The queue is themed to Toad Hall, similar to Mr Toad at DL. The load is the great hall where The River Benders fight The Weasel Gang.
Puerto Rico: This Pavilion’s structure is a Spanish Fort based on Castillo Del Morro in San Juan. If you’ve been on WDW’s POTC ride, this is basically the queue. This holds Cafe Yunque, a rainforest themed restaurant. It also holds El Mercado, a gift shop.
France: The Triumphal Arch is added and an exhibit on Disneyland Paris is placed inside a new building on the lagoon based on Fort Boyard.
Israel: This pavilion has a replica Western Wall with a small Museum devoted to Judaism and Christianity. It’s meant to be a place of calmness and bliss.
Morocco: IP is removed and nothing major is added, as Morocco is that place where you can just explore and relax. A small scenic ride through an Argan grove is added.
Spain: This area consists of a replica Alhambra on ground level. The main attraction is Museum Of The Weird. Guests wait in the courtyard of The Alhambra by the Royal Family Plot as eerie guitar music plays. When the time is right, guests enter a doorway that says Museum Of The Weird at Castillo Real. Guests enter a chamber with Azulejo tiles covering everything as Spanish Classical Music is played on an organ. Guests see the human faced chair, who says, "Bienvenidos! Welcome to The Museum Of The Weird! The exhibits are in dire need of help, The Candle is melting, the Plant is crazy, and Leota’s woeful. Help the museum! Por Favor! Mas Rapido!” Guests then enter a chamber with five doors, one of which they just exited from as ominous flute plays. This chamber is a alchemist’s workplace decorated with sigils painted on the walls, skulls and spell books on the shelves, a fog filled cauldron in the center, and show globes and plasma balls. Guests find The Wax Candle Man, who cries out in pain, “I will melt!” as frantic guitar plays. They help him escape from the flames by way of a door feeling maze. If they touch a hot door, there is fire behind it. Then, guests avoid the tendrils of the Man Eating Plant in a Laser Maze themed to a greenhouse. Finally, they find Madame Leota, who weeps, "Oh! My lost orb in my cart. I need it to do my magic!” Guests then navigate a mirror maze to find The Orb inside of the wagon. At the end, Leota says’ “Gracias!” Guests exit through a small chamber lined with suits of Conquistador armor, portraits of Spanish kings and queens, Witches Sabbath and Saturn Devouring His Son by Goya, and carved faces of Spanish warriors, all of which seem to watch guests as they pass. The organ music from the beginning hauntingly plays on an echoing loop along with the guitar. Alhambra Tapas Bar sits in front of the palace.
Japan: Mount Fuji Mayhem. This is a roller coaster with dark ride portions that tells the story of a battle between a red dragon that symbolizes fire and the blue Cloud Dragon, symbolizing Water. Its highest point is the summit of Fuji, which has cold air blasts. It also gets Yokai Village, an abandoned Japanese village with an abandoned castle holding The Haunted Castle. This is an interactive dark ride. Guests ride on Japanese Boats equipped with lanterns with the mission to find and scare of the Yokai in the castle. go past 9 Tailed Foxes who wag all 9 of their tails, Long Necked Women who elongate their necks, Kappa that pop out of ponds and splash guests, Oni that roar at guests, Umbrella Ghosts that hop around guests while their large tongues flop to and fro, and flying Chochin Obake whose tongues dangle. Outside, guests can perform in plays with Kitsune and Tanuki as their co stars, run among sculptures of Jizo and Dosojin, visit a tea house run by a kind Mountain Witch, and climb trees in search of Kodama spirits.
USA: The American Adventure is joined by Ancient Odyssey, A Native American Journey. Guests go behind a giant waterfall and enter a Native American village. Then, they enter an abandoned mound and have a terrifying encounter with Piasa. Next, guests climb around an ancient Cliff Pueblo and discover broken pottery. The next thing guests do is look at totem poles made by real Pacific Northwest artists and actually enter one to see a show. Finally, guests enter a cave and exit through a tunnel in a redwood. The American Adventure is kept as is. Nearby, The Legend stands. This is a steeplechase themed to Ichabod’s ride through the woods, with guests assuming the role of the schoolmaster. The headless horseman appears at the end to give a flaming finale. The guests queue through a carriage barn as Headless Horseman plays on loop, setting the mood.
Greece: Mycenaean lion gates, Minoan Pillars, Greek Columns, and fallen sculptures decorate this section. The main attraction here is located underneath a replica of Knossos. Minotaur’s Labyrinth. It is a dimly lit maze with scary SFX, cobwebs, leg ticklers, fog, and a live Minotaur that chases guests through the maze. Due to the terrifying experience, it is not recommended to guests 12 and under.
Italy: It gets two new dark rides. Dark ride one takes up the main plaza’s right side (US entry). It is called Gondola Carnival Chaos! It is an interactive dark ride in which guests shoot paint out of cannons and color the famed Venetian Carnival. Guests visit famous Venetian landmarks and the island of Burano. The area by Germany becomes home to a Roman area with a Colosseum replica and a Roman Villa. This villa holds a retro dark ride called Pines Of Rome. This attraction features 1980s style animatronics and voice acting, along with a soundtrack consisting of Pines Of Rome played on loop. Guests board Chariots and venture past the dispute of Romulus and Remus, in which two brothers fight from their still in construction cities on hills, Hannibal’s march across the Alps with Elephants, a chariot race at the Circus Maximus, a panoramic diorama on a Roman aqueduct, a Gladiator fight, Julius Caesar being held for ransom by Pirates, Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon, The fate of Pompeii, and The Fall Of Rome. A replica of San Giorgio Maggiore holds a wedding church. The church interior is based on interiors in Hagia Sophia, Notre Dame, Chartres Cathedral, Kings’ College Chapel, Sacre Coeur, Westminster Abbey, and even influences from the castles in Snow White and Beauty And The Beast.
Colombia: Guests cross the drawbridge of a Spanish Fort with an inscription that says COLOMBIA painted in the three colors of the flag, yellow, blue, and red. Guests then ascend a ramp, cross the battlements, then descend another ramp and exit through a cave. The area guests have entered is a rainforest with Orchids and mist fans hiding within a hollow tree produced by a strangler fig. The centerpiece of the rainforest is Casita from Encanto. Within it, an Encanto funhouse for people of all abilities is located. Guests enter the turquoise door. From there, they can go up stairs that have transformed into ramps, slide down bannisters, swing on vines in Antonio’s jungle room (wheelchair swings included), spin on giant flowers in Isabela’s garden room, play music on pots and pans in the kitchen, lift weights in Luisa’s cavernous room, scoot around on Luisa’s secret coaster, piece together Bruno’s prophecies on his Vision Chamber, look at themselves in funhouse mirrors in Camilo’s Mirror Labyrinth Room, change the weather in Pepa’s Weather Observatory, push giant rubber Buñuelos and jump on giant foam arepas and mushrooms in Julieta’s Apothecary Kitchen Room, lay on the beds in The Nursery, and even take a break from the noise in Dolores’s Soundproof Room. Guests exit the house by going down a slide that goes through Bruno’s wall hideout and ends in a cave. Arepas and other Colombian foods are served at VIVO SU BUENA VIVA, a restaurant with dining areas themed to a Spanish Colonial Porch in a rainforest, the Tierradentro ruins, a Spanish Colonial House on a beach, and a mountain cabin.
Germany: Rhine River Cruise is added. To the left of the town, a haunted forest, filled with cobwebs and bare trees with menacing faces with glowing eyes, leads to Bald Mountain Drop. This is a drop tower themed to the classic Fantasia segment. Guests enter a ruined castle near a cemetery at the end of the forest, which leads them to the fiery depths, where guests load a wraithlike spirit and ascend. Chernabog is atop the mountain. When vehicles fly up to him, he swats at the vehicles. The vehicles drop down to the lava to escape, then are erupted back to Chernabog, rinse and repeat for a few minutes and then guests unload and exit through a lava tube. Mortem In Lapis sells souvenirs related to Bald Mountain in a mausoleum. At night, the forest is lit by will o’ the wisps and fog covers the ground at all times.
Jordan: This pavilion has only one structure. It is a replica of Petra. Within it, Journey To The Grail stands. This is an Indiana Jones themed obstacle course with rope bridges over “Spike Pits”, rope swings over a ravine holding “Rats”, climbing nets themed to spider webs, rock slides, rings themed to artifacts, and hurdles themed to rocks. The exit is a room with several golden goblets with images below. Each image is duplicated and hidden under a goblet in a memory game played with a CM dressed as a Knight. The Wadi Rum forms a beautiful backdrop at all times of the day for Bedouin Tent Cafe. This is a restaurant with private dining rooms themed to Bedouin tents.
Equatorial Africa: This pavilion keeps The Outpost’s current theming, but adds a Baobab Tree with Sky House, a treehouse themed observation tower. allowing guests to have what are possibly the best views of the park from a Thatched Roofed Wooden Treehouse.
China: The Great Wall is added along with a Chinese Dragon Coaster.
Norway: A Maelstrom Troll Themed Garden within a ruined Viking Boat with two ponds for two of those little water trolls to hide in and shoot water at guests along with a giant topiary of the three headed troll.
Brazil: The entire pavilion is themed to a painting of Baìa and The Amazon rainforest. Guests enter through frames and it appears framed from across the lagoon. This pavilion’s icon is Aqualera Do Aves Rara Do Amazonia En Brasil. Guests ride a flying boat, powered by some of Jose Carioca’s black magic, through a watercolored variant Amazon and see rare birds, including the recurring Aracuan Bird.
Baìa Churrascaria is located along the banks. Guests enter a train stopped on a book and end up at the Baìa Train Station. Guests dine on the street, served by singing and dancing staff in vibrant Brazilian attire. Some even carry meals out atop their heads! Yaya comes out to serve her famous Quindins to guests. Guests exit Baìa through the train station and exit the train. The Flying Burro stands in the center of town. This aerial carousel takes guests on a flight atop a winged donkey.
Mexico: Olmec stone heads and Mayan Stelae are added to the Pyramid’s outside, along with a waterfall. Journey Into The Ancient World is the new boat ride. It takes guests through the history and mythology of the Mayan and Aztec people. The outdoor San Angel is replaced with XIBALBA, a haunted walkthrough themed to the Mayan Underworld in which an actor dressed as Camazotz, the Mayan bat human hybrid, animatronic jaguars, and actors dressed as living mummies in jade masks jump out and scare guests. Olmec heads, Toltec columns, Aztec feathered serpent stair decorations, and Mayan “Temple Mouth Architecture” are displayed at this new attraction’s entry.
Thailand: This pavilion has a large Thai restaurant in a temple inspired building as the centerpiece. It uses the same layout as Odyssey, but has Thai decorations and food. Thai dancers perform during meals.
Egypt: This Pavilion has an obelisk, a temple, and a Pyramid. The obelisk is a drop tower, the temple is a shop, and the Pyramid holds Curse Of The Pharaohs. This EMV ride takes riders into a newly discovered tomb in search of an ankh. They ride past flame jets, spike lined walls, quicksand, spears that shoot out of statues, and ceilings that descend. Then, the Army Of The Dead awakens to guard the ankh chamber. The riders narrowly make it to the Ankh Chamber before the doors shut. Then, they have to put up with Sand Spirit, a giant scorpion that moves its tail in an attempt to gore them. Riders escape, of course!
UK: Merida’s Meet And Greet is moved to a Scottish themed sub section. Big Ben and Tower Bridge are added in order to make a London Area that is home to Alice’s Maze Of Wonder, a hedge maze themed to the Disney Animated Classic, Alice In Wonderland, Mary Poppins, and Mr Toad’s Wildest Ride! This is a dueling coaster with a Toad Track and Weasel Track. The main features are the scenes in which The Weasels attack and a final drop into a hot tunnel lit in red, the Hell tunnel. The queue is themed to Toad Hall, similar to Mr Toad at DL. The load is the great hall where The River Benders fight The Weasel Gang.
Puerto Rico: This Pavilion’s structure is a Spanish Fort based on Castillo Del Morro in San Juan. If you’ve been on WDW’s POTC ride, this is basically the queue. This holds Cafe Yunque, a rainforest themed restaurant. It also holds El Mercado, a gift shop.
France: The Triumphal Arch is added and an exhibit on Disneyland Paris is placed inside a new building on the lagoon based on Fort Boyard.
Israel: This pavilion has a replica Western Wall with a small Museum devoted to Judaism and Christianity. It’s meant to be a place of calmness and bliss.
Morocco: IP is removed and nothing major is added, as Morocco is that place where you can just explore and relax. A small scenic ride through an Argan grove is added.
Spain: This area consists of a replica Alhambra on ground level. The main attraction is Museum Of The Weird. Guests wait in the courtyard of The Alhambra by the Royal Family Plot as eerie guitar music plays. When the time is right, guests enter a doorway that says Museum Of The Weird at Castillo Real. Guests enter a chamber with Azulejo tiles covering everything as Spanish Classical Music is played on an organ. Guests see the human faced chair, who says, "Bienvenidos! Welcome to The Museum Of The Weird! The exhibits are in dire need of help, The Candle is melting, the Plant is crazy, and Leota’s woeful. Help the museum! Por Favor! Mas Rapido!” Guests then enter a chamber with five doors, one of which they just exited from as ominous flute plays. This chamber is a alchemist’s workplace decorated with sigils painted on the walls, skulls and spell books on the shelves, a fog filled cauldron in the center, and show globes and plasma balls. Guests find The Wax Candle Man, who cries out in pain, “I will melt!” as frantic guitar plays. They help him escape from the flames by way of a door feeling maze. If they touch a hot door, there is fire behind it. Then, guests avoid the tendrils of the Man Eating Plant in a Laser Maze themed to a greenhouse. Finally, they find Madame Leota, who weeps, "Oh! My lost orb in my cart. I need it to do my magic!” Guests then navigate a mirror maze to find The Orb inside of the wagon. At the end, Leota says’ “Gracias!” Guests exit through a small chamber lined with suits of Conquistador armor, portraits of Spanish kings and queens, Witches Sabbath and Saturn Devouring His Son by Goya, and carved faces of Spanish warriors, all of which seem to watch guests as they pass. The organ music from the beginning hauntingly plays on an echoing loop along with the guitar. Alhambra Tapas Bar sits in front of the palace.
Japan: Mount Fuji Mayhem. This is a roller coaster with dark ride portions that tells the story of a battle between a red dragon that symbolizes fire and the blue Cloud Dragon, symbolizing Water. Its highest point is the summit of Fuji, which has cold air blasts. It also gets Yokai Village, an abandoned Japanese village with an abandoned castle holding The Haunted Castle. This is an interactive dark ride. Guests ride on Japanese Boats equipped with lanterns with the mission to find and scare of the Yokai in the castle. go past 9 Tailed Foxes who wag all 9 of their tails, Long Necked Women who elongate their necks, Kappa that pop out of ponds and splash guests, Oni that roar at guests, Umbrella Ghosts that hop around guests while their large tongues flop to and fro, and flying Chochin Obake whose tongues dangle. Outside, guests can perform in plays with Kitsune and Tanuki as their co stars, run among sculptures of Jizo and Dosojin, visit a tea house run by a kind Mountain Witch, and climb trees in search of Kodama spirits.
USA: The American Adventure is joined by Ancient Odyssey, A Native American Journey. Guests go behind a giant waterfall and enter a Native American village. Then, they enter an abandoned mound and have a terrifying encounter with Piasa. Next, guests climb around an ancient Cliff Pueblo and discover broken pottery. The next thing guests do is look at totem poles made by real Pacific Northwest artists and actually enter one to see a show. Finally, guests enter a cave and exit through a tunnel in a redwood. The American Adventure is kept as is. Nearby, The Legend stands. This is a steeplechase themed to Ichabod’s ride through the woods, with guests assuming the role of the schoolmaster. The headless horseman appears at the end to give a flaming finale. The guests queue through a carriage barn as Headless Horseman plays on loop, setting the mood.
Greece: Mycenaean lion gates, Minoan Pillars, Greek Columns, and fallen sculptures decorate this section. The main attraction here is located underneath a replica of Knossos. Minotaur’s Labyrinth. It is a dimly lit maze with scary SFX, cobwebs, leg ticklers, fog, and a live Minotaur that chases guests through the maze. Due to the terrifying experience, it is not recommended to guests 12 and under.
Italy: It gets two new dark rides. Dark ride one takes up the main plaza’s right side (US entry). It is called Gondola Carnival Chaos! It is an interactive dark ride in which guests shoot paint out of cannons and color the famed Venetian Carnival. Guests visit famous Venetian landmarks and the island of Burano. The area by Germany becomes home to a Roman area with a Colosseum replica and a Roman Villa. This villa holds a retro dark ride called Pines Of Rome. This attraction features 1980s style animatronics and voice acting, along with a soundtrack consisting of Pines Of Rome played on loop. Guests board Chariots and venture past the dispute of Romulus and Remus, in which two brothers fight from their still in construction cities on hills, Hannibal’s march across the Alps with Elephants, a chariot race at the Circus Maximus, a panoramic diorama on a Roman aqueduct, a Gladiator fight, Julius Caesar being held for ransom by Pirates, Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon, The fate of Pompeii, and The Fall Of Rome. A replica of San Giorgio Maggiore holds a wedding church. The church interior is based on interiors in Hagia Sophia, Notre Dame, Chartres Cathedral, Kings’ College Chapel, Sacre Coeur, Westminster Abbey, and even influences from the castles in Snow White and Beauty And The Beast.
Colombia: Guests cross the drawbridge of a Spanish Fort with an inscription that says COLOMBIA painted in the three colors of the flag, yellow, blue, and red. Guests then ascend a ramp, cross the battlements, then descend another ramp and exit through a cave. The area guests have entered is a rainforest with Orchids and mist fans hiding within a hollow tree produced by a strangler fig. The centerpiece of the rainforest is Casita from Encanto. Within it, an Encanto funhouse for people of all abilities is located. Guests enter the turquoise door. From there, they can go up stairs that have transformed into ramps, slide down bannisters, swing on vines in Antonio’s jungle room (wheelchair swings included), spin on giant flowers in Isabela’s garden room, play music on pots and pans in the kitchen, lift weights in Luisa’s cavernous room, scoot around on Luisa’s secret coaster, piece together Bruno’s prophecies on his Vision Chamber, look at themselves in funhouse mirrors in Camilo’s Mirror Labyrinth Room, change the weather in Pepa’s Weather Observatory, push giant rubber Buñuelos and jump on giant foam arepas and mushrooms in Julieta’s Apothecary Kitchen Room, lay on the beds in The Nursery, and even take a break from the noise in Dolores’s Soundproof Room. Guests exit the house by going down a slide that goes through Bruno’s wall hideout and ends in a cave. Arepas and other Colombian foods are served at VIVO SU BUENA VIVA, a restaurant with dining areas themed to a Spanish Colonial Porch in a rainforest, the Tierradentro ruins, a Spanish Colonial House on a beach, and a mountain cabin.
Germany: Rhine River Cruise is added. To the left of the town, a haunted forest, filled with cobwebs and bare trees with menacing faces with glowing eyes, leads to Bald Mountain Drop. This is a drop tower themed to the classic Fantasia segment. Guests enter a ruined castle near a cemetery at the end of the forest, which leads them to the fiery depths, where guests load a wraithlike spirit and ascend. Chernabog is atop the mountain. When vehicles fly up to him, he swats at the vehicles. The vehicles drop down to the lava to escape, then are erupted back to Chernabog, rinse and repeat for a few minutes and then guests unload and exit through a lava tube. Mortem In Lapis sells souvenirs related to Bald Mountain in a mausoleum. At night, the forest is lit by will o’ the wisps and fog covers the ground at all times.
Jordan: This pavilion has only one structure. It is a replica of Petra. Within it, Journey To The Grail stands. This is an Indiana Jones themed obstacle course with rope bridges over “Spike Pits”, rope swings over a ravine holding “Rats”, climbing nets themed to spider webs, rock slides, rings themed to artifacts, and hurdles themed to rocks. The exit is a room with several golden goblets with images below. Each image is duplicated and hidden under a goblet in a memory game played with a CM dressed as a Knight. The Wadi Rum forms a beautiful backdrop at all times of the day for Bedouin Tent Cafe. This is a restaurant with private dining rooms themed to Bedouin tents.
Equatorial Africa: This pavilion keeps The Outpost’s current theming, but adds a Baobab Tree with Sky House, a treehouse themed observation tower. allowing guests to have what are possibly the best views of the park from a Thatched Roofed Wooden Treehouse.
China: The Great Wall is added along with a Chinese Dragon Coaster.
Norway: A Maelstrom Troll Themed Garden within a ruined Viking Boat with two ponds for two of those little water trolls to hide in and shoot water at guests along with a giant topiary of the three headed troll.
Brazil: The entire pavilion is themed to a painting of Baìa and The Amazon rainforest. Guests enter through frames and it appears framed from across the lagoon. This pavilion’s icon is Aqualera Do Aves Rara Do Amazonia En Brasil. Guests ride a flying boat, powered by some of Jose Carioca’s black magic, through a watercolored variant Amazon and see rare birds, including the recurring Aracuan Bird.
Baìa Churrascaria is located along the banks. Guests enter a train stopped on a book and end up at the Baìa Train Station. Guests dine on the street, served by singing and dancing staff in vibrant Brazilian attire. Some even carry meals out atop their heads! Yaya comes out to serve her famous Quindins to guests. Guests exit Baìa through the train station and exit the train. The Flying Burro stands in the center of town. This aerial carousel takes guests on a flight atop a winged donkey.
Mexico: Olmec stone heads and Mayan Stelae are added to the Pyramid’s outside, along with a waterfall. Journey Into The Ancient World is the new boat ride. It takes guests through the history and mythology of the Mayan and Aztec people. The outdoor San Angel is replaced with XIBALBA, a haunted walkthrough themed to the Mayan Underworld in which an actor dressed as Camazotz, the Mayan bat human hybrid, animatronic jaguars, and actors dressed as living mummies in jade masks jump out and scare guests. Olmec heads, Toltec columns, Aztec feathered serpent stair decorations, and Mayan “Temple Mouth Architecture” are displayed at this new attraction’s entry.
Thailand: This pavilion has a large Thai restaurant in a temple inspired building as the centerpiece. It uses the same layout as Odyssey, but has Thai decorations and food. Thai dancers perform during meals.
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