Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris

[Aramar]

Precisely the Topy Story Lands are good examples of variations of the same idea despite having some identical elements like the statues. In Paris, Toy Story Land has 4 entrances:

- Entrance with Buzz
- Entrance through Ratatouille tunnel
- Entrance from Cars Road Trip with the drawings painted on the gates and the new food kiosks
- Entrance with Woody and Jessie

Hong Kong's version is identical in rides, but the layout is different. Shanghai's is different and Orlando's is very different. Most Europeans will be happy not having to fly to other continent to see the statues.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Disney accidentally bought a dozen giant Jessies.

Look for her to show up at resorts and water parks, too.

 

[marni1971]

With Jessie arriving already, do we think the new entrance may open this year?

They’ve said it all opens at once.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

Let's be honest: Mission Space is not a GREAT attraction. It's fun for what it is but not incredible by any means. (And I have ridden both versions.)

 

[sid35]

They’ve said it all opens at once.

I am still hearing front half open in Spring 2025, and the rest late Automn of the same year.....Fingers crossed....

 

[marni1971]

I am still hearing front half open in Spring 2025, and the rest late Automn of the same year.....Fingers crossed....

That’d be nice. Lord knows they need the room.

Or is that just studio one (which was always this spring ?)

 

[nickys]

Let's be honest: Mission Space is not a GREAT attraction. It's fun for what it is but not incredible by any means. (And I have ridden both versions.)

Mission Space? I thought that was just at Epcot.

 

[Bernswss]

Disney announced that the English Gardens at the start of Adventure Way will open alongside World of Frozen in 2026. This was what they said during that huge tree installation announcement: "Ahead of their scheduled opening in 2026, the themed gardens of Adventure Way are gradually taking shape, notably thanks to the arrival of a large number of trees, creating a green walkway that will serve as a gateway to the new immersive worlds of the resort's second park. "

 

[Kevin_W]

Mission Space? I thought that was just at Epcot.

I assume he meant the orange and green versions of M:S.

 

[sid35]

That’d be nice. Lord knows they need the room.

Or is that just studio one (which was always this spring ?)

Studio 1, walkway and even Rapunzel....but no m&g until much later. But we will have towait and see.

 

[denyuntilcaught]

Did a kiosk need a backstory?

 

[Aramar]

If they don't put a theme and backstory, bad
If they put a theme and a backstory, bad too

Disney should modify the Snow White movie before it releases and make all dwarves be Grumpy

 

[HauntedPirate]

If they don't put a theme and backstory, bad
If they put a theme and a backstory, bad too

Not true at all. Put in a backstory where it makes sense to have one, and it doesn't need a coffee table book to hold it all.

 

[denyuntilcaught]

If they don't put a theme and backstory, bad
If they put a theme and a backstory, bad too

Disney should modify the Snow White movie before it releases and make all dwarves be Grumpy

It's just logical that something as simple as a kiosk does not need a backstory. Just fit the theme of the land.

 

[cjkeating]

I think internally many small projects have had a 'story' it's just they were never publicly shared. I think a lot of the backlash against 'story' comes from when WDI uses it to shoehorn IP into something it was designed for. Why is Tiana in a mountain? Why is Frozen in Norway? Why are Guardians in Epcot? Whereas I think for a non-IP project it helps the people working on it understand the time/setting/'history' of what they are designing.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

If they don't put a theme and backstory, bad
If they put a theme and a backstory, bad too

Disney should modify the Snow White movie before it releases and make all dwarves be Grumpy

I think it's more that they seem to have lost sight of why backstory is important for theming. I don't find this especially egregious, but the general trend toward writing elaborate narratives for shops and stalls and then being far less careful about cohesive and coherent theming is more annoying. One of the worse examples was Main Street Confectionary at Magic Kingdom with its elaborate story supported by graphics that completely clash with the time period in which the shop is supposed to exist.

Who knows what the execution of this stall will be like. However, it's hard not to roll your eyes just a little when such attention is being paid to the backstory of a stall at the same time the whole park is becoming the nebulous "Disney Adventure World" with remnants of the old studio theme in parts and then areas of gardens and art nouveaux structures tying together new single-IP lands just because the Imagineers/executives seem to think they would look nice.

 

[Gusey]

More Adventure Way decor has arrived including Woody

 

[Gusey]

Notice the boundary behind Woody has no entry to a meet and greet area. Any chance that the meet and greet version of the concept art shown at D23 was an earlier version and the meet and greet section was actually cancelled?

 

[IMDREW]

Looks like it. Its also not in the model.

 

[Jordan dby]

Thank you for taking the time to respond. I'll have to give the Studios a fresh chance next trip to Paris.

i wouldn't go that far, lol.

i wish it was easier for me to visit Orlando or LA