Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris

Animaniac93-98

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Some people have wanted a third gate a DLP, but I'm pretty sure a lake with art nouveau or Victorian flourishes and single IP lands around it, is essentially what it would be with this era of the company anyway...
 

Supersnow84

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Maybe a personal opinion but I’ve still kinda yet to see much that would really make me want to visit WDS over Parc Disneyland

Parc Disneyland is so overbuilt that even after 30 years of no expansion it’s still in the discussion for best magic kingdom and has a storybook charm missing from all but arguably Disneyland

WDS was so bad at launch that literally anything is an improvement but maybe it’s just me but I still feel like they are missing the “why would you go to this over Disneyland” with these expansion plans
 

Gusey

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Maybe a personal opinion but I’ve still kinda yet to see much that would really make me want to visit WDS over Parc Disneyland

Parc Disneyland is so overbuilt that even after 30 years of no expansion it’s still in the discussion for best magic kingdom and has a storybook charm missing from all but arguably Disneyland

WDS was so bad at launch that literally anything is an improvement but maybe it’s just me but I still feel like they are missing the “why would you go to this over Disneyland” with these expansion plans
As its a resort, people don't usually choose to go to one or the other unless visiting for 1 day (when the obvious choice no matter at California, Florida or Paris is the castle park). It's more why should I visit this park on a second day, and that would be ToT, Crush's, Ratatouille, Avengers Campus, pretty much all of the park's shows (Alice and Stitch are the two non must-dos) and soon Frozen and Lion King. As a whole the park has a pot of good offerings, they're just not surrounded by the exploratory settings of the main park
 

Animaniac93-98

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As its a resort, people don't usually choose to go to one or the other unless visiting for 1 day (when the obvious choice no matter at California, Florida or Paris is the castle park). It's more why should I visit this park on a second day, and that would be ToT, Crush's, Ratatouille, Avengers Campus, pretty much all of the park's shows (Alice and Stitch are the two non must-dos) and soon Frozen and Lion King. As a whole the park has a pot of good offerings, they're just not surrounded by the exploratory settings of the main park

For all its many flaws, the Studios Park does have a solid entertainment line up that includes several exclusive shows

And next year we're getting a new one in the Disney Dream Factory space, plus the night time show, plus whatever else they might have at Animation Celebration or if there's new street entertainment elsewhere in the park.
 

DCBaker

Premium Member
Disney has announced World of Frozen is set to open in Spring 2026:

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The Empress Lilly

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I do wish the pergolas were art deco not art nouveau since they're so close to ToT and the former Hollywood blvd
I'm not sure why, but since about the end of last decade Art Nouveau is the go-to home style for Disney. Replacing the American Victorian style that previously dominated Disney resorts. Both styles are fairly contemporaneous, so that's not it.

From the WDW skyliner in Florida to the Fantasy Springs hotel in Tokyo to the new WDSP in France, and even the first tentative attempts of Villain Land, everything Art Nouveau apart from IP specific themes.
 

Animaniac93-98

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Predicting that when they say "Spring", they mean sometime in March (March 20th is the first day of Spring)

April 12 2025 is after Easter, and I doubt they'd keep it closed during that weekend

April 12 2017 was the resort's 25th anniversary, but the promotion started in March of that year

March 6th 2022 was the start of the 30th anniversary celebration

"Swing Into Spring" started in March as well on the years that they did it

March, as noted, is this park's anniversary, with its own 25th happening in 2027
 

The Empress Lilly

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I assume the opening is marketing driven. They'd want to open everything at once, not piecemeal, to clearly convey the scale of the work, to send a clear message of this being an all but new park. Hence also the need for a name change. And then timed on time for summer holiday bookings.
 

The Empress Lilly

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I think it’s because art nouveau is just both more timeless and more broadly applicable to more eras

Like you can stick fantasyland and Tomorrowland together and just seperate them with some art nouveau and it flows way better than Disney’s old Victorian style.

It’s a really good “filler” design style
I personally consider Art Nouveau very time-specific, and very limited in applicability. There's only so much you can do with it. Hence why it ended, and why it somewhat slipped into obscurity. It's popularity has been on rise for decades now though, to the point of near universal admiration. Many would now even name it their favourite historical style. Perhaps part of the explanation for the AN adoptation by Disney is simply the difference in appreciation of AN between 1970 and 2020. And a decline in nostalgia for US turn of the century styles.

I can see what you mean with a AN transition between Fantasyland and a retro / Jules Verne / steam punk Tomorrowland. That would work as seamlessly as the Crystal Palace between MS and Adventureland
 

Supersnow84

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AN defines a narrow period within real history but is a very broad style when applied through Disney’s lens of “idolised representation of a time period that didn’t quite exist in real life”. It’s also why universal uses it so extensively in celestial park. It’s a very good “filler” style

I wouldn’t say that Victorian turn of the century style is falling out of favour more so that it isn’t really broadly applicable outside of the castle parks and Shanghai already basically tries to ignore it’s a castle park
 

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