Walt Disney Adventure World Expansion
‘France Pavillion’
The Three Museketeers - Sauveurs de La France
Les Trois Mousquetaires - Sauveurs de la France
‘France Pavillion’
The Three Museketeers - Sauveurs de La France
Les Trois Mousquetaires - Sauveurs de la France
Ride Concept
The Setting
The Three Musketeers - Sauveurs de La France, is a ride set in 17th century France, where the characters from the famous French story are portrayed by our familiar Disney’s Sensational Six and other stars from classic Walt Disney animated shorts. In this ride our guests are invited to join Queen Mickey and her handmaiden Daisy as they are escorted from the royal palace to the yearly Opera. As guests approach the palace, they see an organized french garden, filled with fountains as a prelude to the large east wing of the Versailles inspired royal palace.
As guests enter the queue, they are informed by royal decree that they are free to casually stroll through the halls of the palace, but are expected to enter their carriage to the royal opera house imminently. During their casual stroll, guests are informed of several royal rules that must be adhered to in presence of the queen and during the opera. In classic disney fashion, these prompts are all humorous and will make plays on classic opera tropes, such as clapping too soon being a great compliment!
As guests walk through the hallway, they can get a brief glimpse of the Queen’s throneroom.
They can also take a glance into the courtyard to see the royal musketeers training and may even meet one or two of them standing guard!
Above the guards stands Captain Pete (we see him from the rear) and he’s mumbling some things that seem questionably safe for the Queen!
At long last our guests reach the backside of the palace and enter the royal carriagehouse, where a chain of three carriages arrives, each pulled by a singular white horse. After entering their carriage, guests leave the carriage house and notice the sun is setting. We enter a beautiful green park and meet with the royal carriage.
The guest carriages all have an open design, but the royal carriage is a typical royal coach with its shutters closed. The front shutter in the carriage opens, revealing Goofy. His hands stick through the front of the carriage holding the reins. The other shutters open to reveal Queen Minnie, handmaiden Daisy, musketeer Mickey and Donald.
As the guests gently follow the royal coach, they get to enjoy a lush environment with butterflies. They pass by a giant advertisement banner for the opera. A rapier is stuck through the banner and ripped apart, revealing the cronies of Pete.
Pete’s cronies send all the horses into disarray, causing the group of carriages to split off. We head to a scene where we see the musketeers lose the Queen and handmaiden to Pete’s cronies. Each carriage will then follow the path of a different musketeer, occasionally entering an alcove where projection screens simulate movement events.
The path of Mickey
Mickey’s path is that of trying to find the others. You’ll see Goofy being taken away by Clarabella and Donald fleeing away. You’ll pass through environments of Paris: it’s streets (Showing colorful inhabitants), it’s slums (showing dangerous inhabitants) and finally it’s prisons as Mickey gets captured by Pete. You are rescued by Donald at the end.
The path of Donald
Donald’s path is about him finding his courage. You’ll face multiple situations where he’s scared of villains, scared of a forest (snow white reference) and finally gets motivated by memories of Mickey and goes out to save him from the prison.
The path of Goofy
Goofy’s path is that of being imprisoned by Clarabella, but rather than being drowned in the river Theims, continuously manages to accidentally and clumsily get clarabella into romantic settings. (Lady and vagabond restaurant, suddenly holding roses as he falls into a flower stand, etc.). It ends with clarabella falling in love and Goofy going free.
Finale
In the finale all musketeers meet up and you find yourself in the operahouse. The plot is explained that now King Pete used a dummy Queen Minnie to abdicate and become king.
A brief sequence of 30-45 seconds follows where there is a battle, risk of props falling onto the guests, them moving about dodging objects. In the meantime, classic opera songs play and scenes swap between songs. Could have a different song each ridethrough. Finally, Pete is standing on a ledge about to finish off Mickey, but the guests ‘ride’ into the supporting beams (once per carriage) to make Pete tumble.
Queen Minnie and handmaiden Daisy pop up out of a chest that gets unlocked and the the guests move to the next scene. You reunite with the royal carriage and drive through the happy, cheerful landscape of France to the song ‘All for one, one for all’ from 3 musketeer movie. If Bobby wants to invest, you could add them driving through the courtyard scene with a bunch of animatronic guards. The royal carriage splits off before the station and guests are unloaded out of sight of boarding guests.
During the ride songs from the Three Musketeer movie can play. This ranges from love themes, the all for one song, Pete’s villain song and so forth. The ride is inspired by the Mickey and Minnie run away railway, which either can be adapted like here, or just put into the park as it is. The ride technology and sensational six deserve to be integrated into Disneyland Paris.
The ride vehicles would use the free roaming type, such as used in Mickey and Minnie's railway and ratatouillie. For accessability, I'd suggest a seperate loading bay for a vehicle for people with disabilities, probably at the exit of the ride. The location for the ride would in my opinion ideally connect to the Ratatouillie pavillion. I'm not sure if there's actually expansion space between ratatouillie, toy story land and cars land to attach to the lake as well. If they want to put it into Disneyland Park, that's also a possibility. The old Mickey mouse theater next to Alice could go, with maybe some expansion space behind it.
It's a very quick write up, but just wanted to get the idea off my chest. If you haven't watched the movie, it's an underappreciated classic!