Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris

cjkeating

cjkeating

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AndyS2992 said:
Perhaps, though I’d say it was more comparable to Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, and look how popular that is for a highly themed kiddy coaster. The park has two rather ‘intense’ coasters already, a nice looking kiddy coaster wouldn’t hurt.
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Seven Dwarf's Mine Train - 2001ft
Wandering Oaken's Sliding Sleighs - 977ft
Barnstormer - 794ft

Just trying to keep expectations in check.
 
Sir_Cliff

Sir_Cliff

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cjkeating said:
Whilst we all know GE lite isn't coming... I think it's wrong to say the 2nd lake land is "cancelled" as if you believe GE lite is cancelled surely you have to believe Lion King land is coming? And if you believe that then you should believe it looks like a 3rd land will follow a couple of years after the 2nd? Officially GE lite is still on the concept art of the construction walls and Natasha has said the theme of the third land is being "reviewed."
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At this point, who knows. I assume there is a second land coming at some point, but no idea of when, what, or if it will be any more or less than what was initially proposed. Lion King as a theme still seems like an odd idea for a land to me considering the film is set in a world without any signs or structures, but maybe they'll just ignore that. 🤷‍♂️

At any rate, I find it difficult to be happy that they saved money on the Frozen area based on the idea that money will be spent elsewhere on the park as none of the plans so far reflect that happening. It also leaves the new land exceptionally light on attractions.

As a guest, if the choice is between a visually appealing but underwhelming coaster or nothing, I would take the the former.
 
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Kev1982

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Sir_Cliff said:
At this point, who knows. I assume there is a second land coming at some point, but no idea of when, what, or if it will be any more or less than what was initially proposed. Lion King as a theme still seems like an odd idea for a land to me considering the film is set in a world without any signs or structures, but maybe they'll just ignore that. 🤷‍♂️

At any rate, I find it difficult to be happy that they saved money on the Frozen area based on the idea that money will be spent elsewhere on the park as none of the plans so far reflect that happening. It also leaves the new land exceptionally light on attractions.

As a guest, if the choice is between a visually appealing but underwhelming coaster or nothing, I would take the the former.
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Absolutely.
Picked my son of school yesterday. It was raining. Distance from the car to the school was half of the distance from studio 1 to Frozen and i was drenched. I dont see how people will make this walk in bad weather for but one attraction 🤷🏼
 
tanc

tanc

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If the ride is anywhere near as good as Enchanted Tale Of Beauty And The Beast I would be happy. I truly believe videos do not do enchanted tale justice, as that ride to me is by far one of the best things to come from WDI in a while. I really hope they give the attractions the proper attention it deserves, and not make another Frozen Ever After. As in, Frozen deserves a proper E ticket attraction and it'd be cool to see it finally done.

Honestly this new expansion makes me want to visit Paris, since as much as I would love to see DisneySea, many of the rides there are down for maintenance next year and the crowds will likely be completely insane.
 
cjkeating

cjkeating

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Sir_Cliff said:
At any rate, I find it difficult to be happy that they saved money on the Frozen area based on the idea that money will be spent elsewhere on the park as none of the plans so far reflect that happening.
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The Frozen Land is being built as planned and per the concept art. There has been no money saved.
 
BrianLo

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tanc said:
If the ride is anywhere near as good as Enchanted Tale Of Beauty And The Beast I would be happy. I truly believe videos do not do enchanted tale justice, as that ride to me is by far one of the best things to come from WDI in a while. I really hope they give the attractions the proper attention it deserves, and not make another Frozen Ever After. As in, Frozen deserves a proper E ticket attraction and it'd be cool to see it finally done.

Honestly this new expansion makes me want to visit Paris, since as much as I would love to see DisneySea, many of the rides there are down for maintenance next year and the crowds will likely be completely insane.
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FYI, Paris is only getting the slightly tweaked Frozen Ever After. Tokyo is getting the something significantly more ride.
 
marni1971

marni1971

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Back from another trip.

I wanted to mention the recent Flight Force additions. It’s amazing what simple star effects can do. The interior is now littered with laser projected star dots and it’s made a world of difference to the experience. No longer a ride with black voids, it’s now easy to figure out your speed, direction and orientation. Is the ride perfect? No. But it’s far better than when it opened.
 
Sir_Cliff

Sir_Cliff

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marni1971 said:
Back from another trip.

I wanted to mention the recent Flight Force additions. It’s amazing what simple star effects can do. The interior is now littered with laser projected star dots and it’s made a world of difference to the experience. No longer a ride with black voids, it’s now easy to figure out your speed, direction and orientation. Is the ride perfect? No. But it’s far better than when it opened.
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Very happy to hear this and it makes a lot of sense. Honestly, it was puzzling that they left so much of it pitch black in the first place.

Looking forward to returning in December to check it out for myself!
 
Supersnow84

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LondonTom said:
Nah, this is precisely what all the parks across the world need (but in particular WDSP could have done with it, a proper family coaster that adds kinetic energy to a new land and starts to bring up the ride count). Highly themed, C/D ticket family-type attractions that give a capacity boost, split the crowds more and have something to do without necessarily attracting massive crowds like an E-ticket would.
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I’m not saying you are wrong from the Paris perspective but HK might be the worst of the 12 parks to get that type of expansion because HK just doesn’t have enough E tickets

It has what
-mystic manor (fantastic ride that is carrying the title of park headliner when it isn’t really built for it)
-BGRMC (slightly worse big thunder)
-space mountain (worst of the 5)
-iron man experience (worse star tours)

HK actually needs that mega e ticket to encourage people to actually go, not more diffusing kids rides, though to be fair HK has neither a log flume (which FEA kinda is) nor a kids roller coaster so the rides are novel, they just may not be what the park needs

HK’s full land in WDS though would be fantastic
 
rickreptile

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I wouldn't mind that rumored star wars land behind space mountain alongside the world of avatar in the studios park, give those themed areas 1 billion each :P and might as well add a expedition everest in adventureland XD
 
rickreptile

rickreptile

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Sennar said:
and what about original concept ride ? Disney Fan's love the idea that Disney copy and paste his famous ride over the globe...
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wasn't it rumored that the star wars land would get a coaster that isn't avaiable in the other parks? (speederbike themed if i recall) the rumored lion king land would be orginal concept, i simply want expedition everest and the world of pandora in europe so i can visit those areas/rides a lot easier + the rides can be unique for the world of pandora but i doubt that will happen.
 
mrflo

mrflo

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Here are the first POV videos of HKDL's Frozen attractions.

"Frozen Ever After" should be pretty much the same for the WDS. Many upgrades compared to the Epcot version - esp. the animatronic faces. Though it does not fundamentally look or feel different.



As expected "Wandering Oaken’s Sliding Sleighs" is a pretty short ride and comparable to other junior coasters. I like the theming, landscape and kinetic energy that it adds to the land.

 
Brummyboy92

Brummyboy92

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That coaster is a lot shorter than I expected, however I still wish we were receiving this in Paris. The resort does not really have a coaster for younger riders, SM, Indy, Crush, BTM, Iron Man are all quite intense and this could have been a solid addition for the kids, kind of the step between Casey Jr and BTM.

I like the sightlines from the queue and coaster, the imagineers have done a great job.
 
Sir_Cliff

Sir_Cliff

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Brummyboy92 said:
That coaster is a lot shorter than I expected, however I still wish we were receiving this in Paris. The resort does not really have a coaster for younger riders, SM, Indy, Crush, BTM, Iron Man are all quite intense and this could have been a solid addition for the kids, kind of the step between Casey Jr and BTM.

I like the sightlines from the queue and coaster, the imagineers have done a great job.
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Yeah, I guess I wish WDS was still getting it. Still... wow, I don't think I was expecting it to seem quite so short!
 

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