Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris

nickys

nickys

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I had to laugh at the people in the renderings!

We have a man with someone else who apparently has no face under a hood - maybe she’s a Dementor from Harry Potter.

And the other pictures just have white figure shaped spaces where they decided not to bother drawing them!

However I’m glad to see extra details being added.
 
Bernswss

Bernswss

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How the inside of Frozen is currently, according to Magicfocus (insider from Le Royaume des Passionnés that first broke the news about Lion King replacing Star Wars)
  • The inside rockwork is complete
  • Medias are being installed (projections, screens...)
  • A large amount of the animatronics are in place
  • Different types of programming are taking place
  • Finishing work on the scenes has begun
  • Boats are scheduled to be put into circulation in April
  • Imagineering should recover the construction site at the beginning of the summer, followed by tests and adjustments
And for the big one:
  • Soft openings expected at the end of the year
 
Gusey

Gusey

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Bernswss said:
How the inside of Frozen is currently, according to Magicfocus (insider from Le Royaume des Passionnés that first broke the news about Lion King replacing Star Wars)
  • The inside rockwork is complete
  • Medias are being installed (projections, screens...)
  • A large amount of the animatronics are in place
  • Different types of programming are taking place
  • Finishing work on the scenes has begun
  • Boats are scheduled to be put into circulation in April
  • Imagineering should recover the construction site at the beginning of the summer, followed by tests and adjustments
And for the big one:
  • Soft openings expected at the end of the year
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With the pace we've seen recently, I can see them doing soft openings in the Winter, before the grand opening in Spring 2026
 
Bernswss

Bernswss

Member
Gusey said:
With the pace we've seen recently, I can see them doing soft openings in the Winter, before the grand opening in Spring 2026
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Yes. I could see them officially open it even earlier than Spring, to be honest. March could be nice seeing the park opened on the 16th and this is basically a whole remake of the park, opening Adventure World (still hurts...) on the same date would be poetic.
 
Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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Soft opening for the holiday season crowds, briefly closing, and then officially opening in March sounds doable.

I think they said 2026 to give them plenty of room to work with the opening, and because they knew this was not going to be ready for the busy summer season of 2025.
 
cjkeating

cjkeating

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Guess it depends on the definition of soft opening. Is it soft openings for all or previews for select sub-groups. Cast, ex-shareholders, pass holders etc. From memory Avenger's Campus had previews but not a soft-opening.
 
infloencer

infloencer

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TheDisneyParksfanC8 said:
Unlikely. It seems Infinity Defense is meant to be exclusive to DCA. I have no doubts that the stunt show arena will go down the line for some sort of Marvel attraction exclusive to Paris though.
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So Disney is really following through with only building exclusive rides? I always find it interesting how much people complain about copies. Sure in the past few years it’s been too much, especially with two SWGE being built nearly identical. But Disney has always copied their most popular attractions and no one seems to be bothered. Imagine if PotC, Haunted Mansion, Peter Pan, Space Mountain or ToT were exclusive to one park. Would be kind of weird tbh. However I absolutely welcome their recent decisions of building original rides again, especially in Paris. We need at least one attraction exclusive to Paris that puts Paris on the map of international Disney parks fans
 
Sir_Cliff

Sir_Cliff

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infloencer said:
So Disney is really following through with only building exclusive rides? I always find it interesting how much people complain about copies. Sure in the past few years it’s been too much, especially with two SWGE being built nearly identical. But Disney has always copied their most popular attractions and no one seems to be bothered. Imagine if PotC, Haunted Mansion, Peter Pan, Space Mountain or ToT were exclusive to one park. Would be kind of weird tbh. However I absolutely welcome their recent decisions of building original rides again, especially in Paris. We need at least one attraction exclusive to Paris that puts Paris on the map of international Disney parks fans
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Perhaps if it's incredibly popular they'll look to clone it, but I am personally happy if the move away from the mentality of designing rides with the intention of cloning them. Spiderman was something they apparently planned to clone from the beginning, and, once it opened in DCA, I don't think anyone was begging for it to be brought to Paris.

I was just at Hong Kong Disneyland, and one of the nice things about that park is that, even if it is missing some of the classics, it does have quite a few things unique to that park which has been rare for modern Disney. This park in particular risks feeling like bits of other parks welded awkwardly together, so more uniqueness would be welcome.
 
Gusey

Gusey

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infloencer said:
So Disney is really following through with only building exclusive rides? I always find it interesting how much people complain about copies. Sure in the past few years it’s been too much, especially with two SWGE being built nearly identical. But Disney has always copied their most popular attractions and no one seems to be bothered. Imagine if PotC, Haunted Mansion, Peter Pan, Space Mountain or ToT were exclusive to one park. Would be kind of weird tbh. However I absolutely welcome their recent decisions of building original rides again, especially in Paris. We need at least one attraction exclusive to Paris that puts Paris on the map of international Disney parks fans
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They've gone from ride clones to ride vehicle clones. Avengers at DCA and Peter Pan at Tokyo DisneySea use the same ride system. There were rumours that the Shanghai Pirates ride sysytem would be cloned for a Moana attraction at Magic Kingdom. They can still split the costs of ride development for 2 attractions at 2 parks like they did with clones, but apply a different story to make it cheaper
 
nickys

nickys

Premium Member
infloencer said:
We need at least one attraction exclusive to Paris that puts Paris on the map of international Disney parks fans
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Crush already fits that bill.

So does Indy, albeit it isn’t a favourite of many.

And when I suggested earlier that the LK ride looked like a Splash / Tiana overlay, people were quick to tell me how wrong I was. 😆
 


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