Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris

marni1971

marni1971

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BrianLo said:
My best guess on the sequence of events with this Avengers Ride.

HKDL was originally slated to have an Avengers ride open in 2023. This was what was originally proposed to the government in 2016. It wasn't fully designed, but it was mostly to get budgeting approval for the eventual "e-ticket goes here" project. However, the funding approval for the project was pushed off from Legco (the local government) and this pushed off all the projects by about a year. In part they were in the midst of a lot of troubles around the protests. Disney acknowledged everything had shifted a year in terms of the castle (2019->2020) and Frozen (2020->21) timeframes. It didn't really mention the Avengers ride timeframe again, but that was so far out at the time.

We heard about various blue sky developments and iterations behind the scenes before the final attraction came together. That Cap coaster probably being fairly real as it jostled around Cosmic Rewinds development and/or Tron.

Ultimately over those three years of development, the Quinjet version of the attraction was announced for DCA in 2019. This seemed fairly advanced and fairly real. There were five pieces of concept art, one of the exterior for where the ride was being built next to the existing structure, one of the queue, one of ride vehicle while as a quinjet and two more pieces after the vehicles seemingly broke out of the Quinjet shell. To me this seems like something slated to start construction (maybe at both DCA and HKDL in 2020) for a 2024 opening timeframe. This feels about right, both with what was expected by Legco from their financing and for DL that had already announced MMRR, which would be the focus a year or two earlier from a marketing perspective.


Bob Chapek basically took the hammer to everything that wasn't started or desperately necessary with COVID. It seems the UK attraction, the Epcot table and Avengers attraction were those major things; along with WDSP's subsequent phases.

It then seems like Chapek reapproves some sort of necessary expenditure in time for D23 2022. UK remains cut, but the Epcot (highly modified) was required as they can't just leave a missing piece of the hub and Avengers projects are maybe required to re-budget and start over. The Avengers ride specifically because there is a commitment to their HK government partner to make it happen.

D'amaro desperately tries to put together a D23, with essentially nothing in the pipeline. So we get a very early announcement for the new Avengers ride in 2022. The trouble is that's not really explicit and we're all left wondering what is happening, despite it maybe being about 6 months into development generously when it was re-re-announced.

This is all a very hopeful way of saying I think this ride is real still. Because there is money that is not Disney's on the line. But it absolutely cannot reappear at this D23 without something firm and more hopefully active construction at one or more of its sites.
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Remember the DCA art was posted in HNYAOM in June 2021. It was removed 2 weeks later.
 
Kevin_W

Kevin_W

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J4546 said:
Paris is soo slow lol, it's not even exciting to follow. Every month it's like we added a new shingle! Universal will build epic universe in the time this has taken for just this 1 ride land lol
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I've posted this elsewhere, but I have a new appreciation for Disney timelines when they took 1.5 years to build a Turkey Hill gas station a couple miles from my house. 1.5 years for a gas station. Disney isn't the only one with slow construction.
 
marni1971

marni1971

Park History nut
Premium Member
J4546 said:
Paris is soo slow lol, it's not even exciting to follow. Every month it's like we added a new shingle! Universal will build epic universe in the time this has taken for just this 1 ride land lol
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I’m not usually much of a defender. But marshy beet fields. Infrastructure. A lake. Covid (unlike the US it did slow things down in Europe - a lot). Everything built in concrete (per planning rules) as opposed to steel.

It’s barely 3 years yet since construction work began on this part of the expansion.
 
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Dr.GrantSeeker

Dr.GrantSeeker

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marni1971 said:
I’m not usually much of a defender. But marshy beet fields. Infrastructure. A lake. Covid (unlike the US it did slow things down in Europe - a lot). Everything built in concrete (per planning rules) as opposed to steel.

It’s barely 3 years yet since construction work began on this part of the expansion.
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What is the current time line for the completion of WDS Park? Is there even any estimated year for all the construction to be done?
 

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