Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris

[marni1971]

And in other news…

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

I'm satisfied with the length, to be honest. This has great potential to be a fantastic attraction. It will be interesting to see how it probably turns out disappointing.

 

[cjkeating]

Ha. You beat me to it.

Disclaimer - drawn after only one coffee and not entirely accurate or fully to scale. Yellow haze are lifts, cyan drops.

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Go upwards from dual load. Yellow lift takes you to the top floor. First drop goes down to the intermediate floor. Second drop goes down to the ground ish floor. Third lift goes up to the big drop.

Excuse the watermark. You’d be surprised where these things end up nowerdays.

For anyone a little concerned about the length I think it is worth noting a) the size of the scenes with some multi-floor rooms and also that Anna and Elsa's Frozen Journey which has got a lot of praise doesn't look that long on paper.

I think the lift hills and drops are going to be used to great effect as show scenes.

 

[marni1971]

For anyone a little concerned about the length I think it is worth noting a) the size of the scenes with some multi-floor rooms and also that Anna and Elsa's Frozen Journey which has got a lot of praise doesn't look that long on paper.

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I think the lift hills and drops are going to be used to great effect as show scenes.

Whilst not as long as the Splash Mountains this will be an addition of a well known ride system that Paris so far hasn’t got. Will it be enough for the park? No. Will it be popular? Yep.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

For anyone a little concerned about the length I think it is worth noting a) the size of the scenes with some multi-floor rooms and also that Anna and Elsa's Frozen Journey which has got a lot of praise doesn't look that long on paper.

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I think the lift hills and drops are going to be used to great effect as show scenes.

I think the hills and drops in the Tokyo Frozen ride are pretty laughable, since you're supposed to be indoors for one of them, IIRC. At least the Lion King ride is supposed to be outdoors and you're in a river, I guess.

 

[Disney Analyst]

This is what they are getting:

 

[Timothy_Q]

It looks amazingly long to me

That show building is bigger than SDL's Pirates and TDS's Frozen

For all intents and purposes this is shaping up to be an E+

 

[Garyjames220]

Looks amazing. Wonder when it will open.

 

[marni1971]

It looks amazingly long to me

As said above it’s shorter than the Splash Mountains.

 

[Aramar]

It has 19 scenes, although that includes the loading and unloading because the numbers start at scene 3. Still that's a lot of scenes. More than frozen journey and similar to Tiana.

 

[Timothy_Q]

I'm especially curious how the 3 drops will be used narratively
I could see something like

drop 1: elephant graveyard
drop 2: hakuna matata waterfall
drop 3: simba/scar fight on pride rock

 

[Aramar]

I'm especially curious how the 3 drops will be used narratively
I could see something like

drop 1: elephant graveyard
drop 2: hakuna matata waterfall
drop 3: simba/scar fight on pride rock

I think it will be:
1) stampede
2) Mufasa on the sky / storm
3) Final battle

 

[cjkeating]

As said above it’s shorter than the Splash Mountains.

I know this is getting into the technicalities but I expect the speed of the flume will also be slower than the [slower] Florida Splash Mountain?

 

[mergatroid]

Good video here about the Lion King attraction courtesy of The Main Street News

 

[UpAllNight]

They really should have given this the Phantasialand treatment with an incredible fountain package. But half-baked seems the way forward at the moment…

 

[Disney Analyst]

Do we have a sense of how long the flume would be, based on the blueprints?