Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris

[Robbiem]

I completely agree frozenland needs more than a boat ride. Something like a snowy version of the western river adventure plans with a coaster and boat ride would be fantastic. Id also like to see at least one more area around the lake Tron, Indy or Avatar would be good but might give us a too boy centric park, perhaps a beauty and the beast area with a clone of the tokyo ride and the animatronic show originally planned for Disneyland park would be a good choice

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

I can almost guarantee Frozen's area will also hold a Princess transformation shop, a restaurant, maybe a walk through attraction etc. They will capitalize on the activities offered in DLP and bring them to WDSP.

 

[Warly]

- Hollywood Boulevard would still be in the plans (main avenue up to the lake- but not themed in concept art as this is very high level)

this is definitely the most important bit of information for me as well and it makes me extremely happy
From the concept art it looks like satellite lands without much in-between them, that would be a poor design decision IMHO. But i also always remind me that this is just a paint over over the 3D View of the current park. I would imagine that there will also be some tweaking in the existing areas (apart from Marvel).

May be i'm a bit to optimistic here but i think the project will more likely see upscaling (like the non-existing hollywood blvd in the concept art) and the like as downscaling. Simply because the french president has been involved and it has been published in each and every media they have. We will have to see what happens after the CEO change in 2021 (if that actually happens) but the future is looking very bright Only a year to wait until we can watch construction, new concept arts, new details being revealed for the years to come. That is a dream come true big time

 

[douglasrickard]

this is definitely the most important bit of information for me as well and it makes me extremely happy
From the concept art it looks like satellite lands without much in-between them, that would be a poor design decision IMHO. But i also always remind me that this is just a paint over over the 3D View of the current park. I would imagine that there will also be some tweaking in the existing areas (apart from Marvel).

May be i'm a bit to optimistic here but i think the project will more likely see upscaling (like the non-existing hollywood blvd in the concept art) and the like as downscaling. Simply because the french president has been involved and it has been published in each and every media they have. We will have to see what happens after the CEO change in 2021 (if that actually happens) but the future is looking very bright Only a year to wait until we can watch construction, new concept arts, new details being revealed for the years to come. That is a dream come true big time

It really is a dream come true isn't it! I kind of like the more wooded look to the boulevard. After all one would come out of the woods to reach Arendelle right lol!
Actually I would love to see some kind of Shanghai's Mickey Avenue theming worked into that "old Hollywood" vibe at the front of the park especially as it would represent more vintage Walt Disney.. and maybe even some Duckberg worked in too.

 

[Warly]

Definitely a dream come true
Although you are right about wood and arendelle, coming right out of Studio 1 to get confronted with a forest would be a strange thing as well may be some sort of transition between hollywood blvd and forest, the blvd is at least long enough for that

 

[CanadianGordon]

This is very exciting. Looking forward to eventually visiting one day!

 

[brb1006]

This has to be as active as the Disneyland Paris subforum can get. It's not often you see posts this frequent on the Paris section. The last time was on the day of it's 25th Anniversary.

 

[RunningKoen]

This has to be as active as the Disneyland Paris subforum can get. It's not often you see posts this frequent on the Paris section. The last time was on the day of it's 25th Anniversary.

How could it not?

If even spending 2.5 billion dollar/ 2 billion euro into the park wont trigger such activity, what on earth will? ;-)
Edit: the 50th anniversary might. But that will be quite a wait

 

[Stevie Amsterdam]

This has to be as active as the Disneyland Paris subforum can get. It's not often you see posts this frequent on the Paris section. The last time was on the day of it's 25th Anniversary.

Hopefully it will become even more active. As mentioned above €2B should certainly get people more interested. In the meantime, I'm off to Japan this Tuesday to, amongst other things, visit TDR again. Do I need to bring back some souvenirs?

 

[Timothy_Q]

Hopefully it will become even more active. As mentioned above €2B should certainly get people more interested. In the meantime, I'm off to Japan this Tuesday to, amongst other things, visit TDR again. Do I need to bring back some souvenirs?

Construction pics of Soarin and the Fantasyland expansion are welcome.
They're not that easy to come by

And enjoy!

 

[Stevie Amsterdam]

Construction pics of Soarin and the Fantasyland expansion are welcome.
They're not that easy to come by

And enjoy!

Thanks - and I'll try to snap a great pic

 

[croboy82]

Soarin would be a horrible idea since Europapark Germany basically opened a clone of it last year and people in Europe would think DLP is copying them.

They should rather get Pandora then

Or they could get Tron but that would again in Discoveryland which is busy already anyway.

 

[RunningKoen]

Soarin would be a horrible idea since Europapark Germany basically opened a clone of it last year and people in Europe would think DLP is copying them.

They should rather get Pandora then

Or they could get Tron but that would again in Discoveryland which is busy already anyway.

Isn't Tron planned for the Studios?

There will be a new E ticket in Disneyland and somewhere I've heared it won't be the Tron one.

 

[GoThemeparkswithDaniel]

I think Pandora The World of Avatar would be a nice Edition to Disneyland Paris Resort, but it would fit better into Adventureland, where the Indiana Jones Ride is. Or the Indiana Jones Adventure would be a possibility too. It would fit very good with the Indy Rollercoaster at the back of Adventureland. The new Indiana Jones Movie starts at the box office in 2020 so that would be a good edition, to the area.

 

[Robbiem]

Id love to see a speeder bike themed version of tron in star wars land that would be amazing

 

[Warly]

I think Pandora The World of Avatar would be a nice Edition to Disneyland Paris Resort, but it would fit better into Adventureland, where the Indiana Jones Ride is. Or the Indiana Jones Adventure would be a possibility too. It would fit very good with the Indy Rollercoaster at the back of Adventureland. The new Indiana Jones Movie starts at the box office in 2020 so that would be a good edition, to the area.

I hope that one, too. Especially because they've already envisioned an extension of the current area. you can get more details here: http://disneyandmore.blogspot.de/2007/11/will-indiana-jones-adventure-be-built.html It would be really great if that dead end road would offer a more immersive environment than just the entrance to the coaster, although i have to say the coaster and queue is very well themed

Another question regarding this 2 billion € investment came to my mind: A year ago Disneyland Paris management already announced an investment of 2.1 billion € spread across 10 yrs. As the money comes from different sources, i would assume that this will make an investment of 4.1 billion € for the whole resort, which is even more mind boggling and exciting

 

[GoThemeparkswithDaniel]

I hope that one, too. Especially because they've already envisioned an extension of the current area. you can get more details here: http://disneyandmore.blogspot.de/2007/11/will-indiana-jones-adventure-be-built.html It would be really great if that dead end road would offer a more immersive environment than just the entrance to the coaster, although i have to say the coaster and queue is very well themed

Another question regarding this 2 billion € investment came to my mind: A year ago Disneyland Paris management already announced an investment of 2.1 billion € spread across 10 yrs. As the money comes from different sources, i would assume that this will make an investment of 4.1 billion € for the whole resort, which is even more mind boggling and exciting

I am not sure about that I think they have meant the cash that flows from the WDC if they would manage to buy back the whole resort!

 

[GoThemeparkswithDaniel]

I am not sure about that I think they have meant the cash that flows from the WDC if they would manage to buy back the whole resort!

I think the development at Disneyland Paris is so exciting for European Disney Themepark fans! We have waited so long and saw all the other resorts around the globe getting updates and new rides in the last years and now this is our turn. This investment will lay the base to turn the Paris Resort around! I think the next couple of years will be so exciting for DLP.

 

[douglasrickard]

It's pure speculation so far for the Disneyland Park E-ticket.
What we know is that everyone who has been to the park, including Disney's management/execs is aware of the imbalance between the left and right part of the park. Frontierland+Adventureland don't draw enough people in there; while Fantasyland and Discoveryland have most of the traffic.

Here are all speculations I've heard regarding Frontierland & Adventureland. Please keep in mind this is 100% speculations:
- Indiana Jones Adventure (In the spot that was reserved for it; between Indy coaster and PotC. Latest rumors said this was still in plans until a couple of months ago, when it was dropped for a Frozen E-ticket. However, this E-Ticket is now going to WDSP so who knows...)
- Any water-ride attraction. French fans really miss this compared to the other parks. They want Splash Mountain (or a layout clone with another theme), a river rapids ride or even a watercoaster... But I've never heard any solid rumor around any water-ride so far.
- Soarin', Shanghai style.
- The long rumored Geyser Mountain (seems unlikely now that ToT exists)
- Anything goes really..

All that I know is that an E-ticket is coming for 2022, and that fans will be "very, very pleased". All sources agree on that. Everything else is pure speculation/day-dreaming with 0 evidence.

Well, I initially thought of that rumoured Walt Disney World "Moana" rollercoaster for Disneyland Paris' Adventureland when you talked about an E-ticket plus the left/right imbalance!

 

[Warly]

I am not sure about that I think they have meant the cash that flows from the WDC if they would manage to buy back the whole resort!

I don't think that this is the same money. The 2.1 billion € announced by the management was going to happen no matter the outcome of the buyout. It was also mentioned that this money will be spent over 10 yrs, making it 210 million € per year (for reference: http://www.dlptoday.com/2017/03/30/...-in-10-year-disneyland-paris-investment-plan/).

citing DLPToday:

Of course, this is also only the current Disneyland Paris operating group’s anticipatedinvestment schedule — if The Walt Disney Company succeed in their share buyout and become the sole, 100% owner, they could decide it needs much more, much faster.

Now the new 2 billion € announcement from TWDC will basically be spent over 6 yrs (2019 - 2025). But i have no confirmation on that matter, just thinking that an announcement of investing 2bn € in DLP would not be that much of big bang when already in March 2017 they have announced 2.1 bn € being invested in the resort