Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris

Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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Webslingers also looks bad because it's one of only 6 major rides in the park, and that includes Cars Road Trip.

If after Frozen and Lion King they add the Avengers E-ticket, Stark Roboarm and another top tier headliner than it will work fine as a C-ticket dark ride (and no I don't think it's that great either).
 
The Empress Lilly

The Empress Lilly

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Webslingers suffers from its main element, shooting webs without any equipment, not living up to dreamed expectations. The tech simply isn’t there. I wonder why this wasn’t accepted at some point in development.

Crush is great. The dark ride portion is fine, the coaster part is a hoot. My main gripes are capacity and indeed the ‘wharehouse with a character slapped on it’ look. Which forever is a certain segment of management’s dream of what a Disney park can be.

The whole WDSP expansion is underwhelming. Lion King looks terrific and might become one of the resort’s highlights. Frozen looks underwhelming, in particular the ride, a copy of a shoehorned in quick overlay. It remains to be seen how the area will compare to Tokyo and HK. The rest is fluff and filler that doesn’t seem to communicate with one another. Maybe this adventure park could get a movies theme or something, and then stand-alone movie attractions can be added, such as Rise. GE falls a bit flat and doesn’t need a copy, but surely porting over Rise to Europe will be a massive hit. Or set it in the original trilogy.
 
Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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The Empress Lilly said:
Webslingers suffers from its main element, shooting webs without any equipment, not living up to dreamed expectations. The tech simply isn’t there. I wonder why this wasn’t accepted at some point in development.
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Sunk cost fallacy and the desire to say they did something unique and different

The upcharge option to buy the equipment is an added bonus to Disney (not the consumer)
 
marni1971

marni1971

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Sir_Cliff said:
I'm interested to hear some pushback on Crush's Coaster, to be honest! Beyond the capacity, that is.
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I’ll give you some more ! We’ve only ridden it once since 2019 since it had zero wait in autumn 2020 with Covid lockdowns in Europe. We don’t care for it. Conversely we enjoy Web Slingers and find it a fine fit for the Paris park.
 
Gusey

Gusey

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I also think that WEB Slingers gets more hate than it deserves. I often think that because it doesn't fit as well in DCA (partly due to close proximity to Toy Story Mania) that people think it doesn't fit at DAW. But it is currently only 1 of 2 dark rides in the park, and 1 of 6 rides without a height requirement. As someone who can't stomach thrill rides, Web Slingers is a nice addition, and its a lot better than Armageddon ever was
Crush's Coaster is good for being a unique attraction for that park that doesn't look like its ever going to be duplicated (something of a rarity for WDS despite the park's bad reputation), it's just not for me because of the spinning
 
Sir_Cliff

Sir_Cliff

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This is such an enlightening thread on hidden views of WDS attractions!

Must say that I don't love WEB Slingers, but after riding it at WDS I couldn't quite understand why it got so much hate. Could well be that it fits more awkwardly into the DCA attraction mix and that's where it comes from, as it also seems to me like one of those attractions that rounds out the offerings at WDS pretty nicely. For the resort as a whole, having Buzz (which I personally prefer to both WEB and Midway Mania) at Disneyland and WEB Slingers at the Studios seems a reasonable way to handle a specific genre of attraction and different IPs between the two parks if you set aside the Discoveryland placement for a moment.
 
Sir_Cliff

Sir_Cliff

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marni1971 said:
Whilst on the topic, I need to give some love to Ant Man at HKDL. Surprisingly enjoyable and repeatable and we’re glad it replaced Buzz.
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I'm also glad you said that, because I was a little puzzled at all the hate I had seen for that attraction after finally riding it! I personally probably still prefer Buzz (though had never been on the HKDL version), but it seemed perfectly enjoyable to me and fit the new Marvel area they have been constructing.

This is perhaps drifting a little too far off topic, but I was also surprised at the reaction I had seen to the Iron Man simulator attraction after riding it. Honestly, I thought it was kind of fun the way it incorporated Hong Kong into the attraction and the guests I was with seemed to enjoy it a lot.

Anyway, back to WDS... which we can still call it at least for now. Oh, I wish they would just drop their plan to rename it!
 
marni1971

marni1971

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Sir_Cliff said:
This is perhaps drifting a little too far off topic, but I was also surprised at the reaction I had seen to the Iron Man simulator attraction after riding it. Honestly, I thought it was kind of fun the way it incorporated Hong Kong into the attraction and the guests I was with seemed to enjoy it a lot.
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Same. Before visiting I wanted Star Tours. Afterwards we were again pleasantly surprised how much we enjoyed it and rode multiple times during our stay. We found both this and Ant Man very well themed, executed and felt the mini Marvel area worked well, much like we feel about Avengers Campus in WDSP (yes, WDSP). And that’s my way of trying to swing back on topic!
 
cjkeating

cjkeating

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Just to drop in a few thoughts to support the unexpected views...

Crush's Coaster... I would also be happy to see it levelled and become a dance party. Alternatively I think that area of 'Worlds of Pixar' would benefit more from a large quick service and some better meet and greet space versus Crush's Coaster. I tend to judge an attraction on 'does it do more good than bad for the park' and for me Crush's Coaster makes the park worse. Yes I like the indoor queue, the dark ride section but the switch back queue, low capacity, high wait times, big blue shed, disco ball coaster theming... for a park that people say "isn't Disney quality" Crush's Coaster is not Disney quality.

Inversely I am also signed up to Team Web Slingers. As others have said I think Web Slingers ticks a lot of the boxes for WDSP and also corrects most of my criticisms of Crush's Coaster.

And as a side I recently visited HKDL and my expectations were low for Ant Man and Iron Man however they were two of my highlights in the park. Could Ant Man do with some more motion? Yes. But I prefer it to Buzz. And Iron Man whilst not having the re-rideability of Star Tours was a very solid Marvel attraction and good use of the Star Tours ride system.
 
SaveDinosaur

SaveDinosaur

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cjkeating said:
Just to drop in a few thoughts to support the unexpected views...

Crush's Coaster... I would also be happy to see it levelled and become a dance party. Alternatively I think that area of 'Worlds of Pixar' would benefit more from a large quick service and some better meet and greet space versus Crush's Coaster. I tend to judge an attraction on 'does it do more good than bad for the park' and for me Crush's Coaster makes the park worse. Yes I like the indoor queue, the dark ride section but the switch back queue, low capacity, high wait times, big blue shed, disco ball coaster theming... for a park that people say "isn't Disney quality" Crush's Coaster is not Disney quality.

Inversely I am also signed up to Team Web Slingers. As others have said I think Web Slingers ticks a lot of the boxes for WDSP and also corrects most of my criticisms of Crush's Coaster.

And as a side I recently visited HKDL and my expectations were low for Ant Man and Iron Man however they were two of my highlights in the park. Could Ant Man do with some more motion? Yes. But I prefer it to Buzz. And Iron Man whilst not having the re-rideability of Star Tours was a very solid Marvel attraction and good use of the Star Tours ride system.
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I like the Marvel area, but I still think HK should have gone with a Star Wars retheme instead. Star Tours could have replaced Iron Man, and they could’ve added multiple stories to expand the experience. Rise of the Resistance would’ve been a much better fit than the upcoming Tower, and Hyperspace Mountain already ties in well.

That said, I’m still excited for the Tower. I think every Disney resort should have one — it’s a great ride system with tons of creative potential.
 
The Empress Lilly

The Empress Lilly

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My oh my, Crush some sort of Barnstormer, Web Slingers the new Rise…

* shakes head in disbelief, ropedrops right *


Antman is fun, Iron Man is superb. The Marvel area works surprisingly well in HK, as many areas do over there. I don’t care for it in WDSP.

RnRC was slightly more fun, because more exuberant. Aesthetically this whole area was utter rubbish, it’s slightly better now, a bit tighter and more coherent. But I continue to find myself uncharmed here. Perhaps I’m just not a natural Marvel in Disney fan. Beyond the odd attraction I just don’t need it, superheroes feel like a Universalification of Disney parks of sorts.
 

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