There's a difference between copy and pasting (something Universal tends to do) and Disney typical form of adapting things for each individual park. DLP is really a masterclass in taking all the familiar puzzle pieces and revisiting them from a modern lens. Versus the original HKDL that basically just recreated Disneyland without understanding its flaws or what didn't make sense for the environment.
None of the Marvel lands are copy, pasted. Nor are the Frozen's really (unfortunately WDSP is inferior to HKDL). The plan for AK Zootopia is not the attraction, nor land, from Shanghai. Yes, we do have Galaxy's Edge, but I can slightly forgive that for being a co-developed project.
I'd hope if Pandora were on the cards, it would be re-contextualized properly for Paris.
Disneyland Park and Hong Kong Disneyland are from completely different eras of Disney park development. They actually spent money on the former to adapt it to the locale (but they're not going to spend any more on it; it's like a perfect, moderately profitable jewel that just needs polishing now and then), and they were super cheap with the latter because they risked too much on the former.
By copy and paste, I don't mean "everything is going to look the same and every ride will be the same." Apologies if "copy and paste" is misleading. I mean a high degree of overlap in theming and
types of rides apart from rethemes, eventually, when each park's respective land is built-out.
- Disneyland:
- Land: Avenger's Campus
- Main attractions
- Web Slingers: A Spiderman Adventure
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout (Tower of Terror retheme)
- Hong Kong Disneyland:
- Land: Stark Expo (coming)
- Main attractions
- Iron Man Experience (3-D motion simulator)
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Nano Battle! (Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters retheme)
- Omnimover Shooting simulator
- coming: some sort of Quinjet attraction
- Walt Disney Studios
- Land: Marvel's Avengers Campus
- Main Attractions
- Avengers Assemble: Flight Force (Rock 'n' Roller Coaster retheme)
- Spider-Man W.E.B. Encounter (the same ride as Disneyland's "Web Slingers: A Spiderman Adventure")
When these are built-out more, you're going to have more or less the same set of rides, apart from some rethemes. I guess you could say rethemes make all the difference, and make each land unique. If that's what you mean, then I concede that.
The dining establishments are similar if not the same (e.g., Pym Test Kitchen), as are generally the character encounters and shows.
They're all going to look more or less the same, as are the Frozen lands at Walt Disney Studios and Hong Kong DIsneyland:
Frozen Ever After and the family coaster (Wandering Oaken's Sliding Sleighs) (I'll bookmark this to follow-up when the rides at Walt Disney Studios's Frozen land are announced, and if any new Marvel attractions are announced, like the Quinjet thing in Hong Kong Disneyland.)
If I'm mistaken, and you know something about what's coming to the Frozen land at Walt Disney Studios, please share that info.
If they build Pandora at Walt Disney Studios, it's definitely going to be a copy-paste job. Maybe the paths layout (e.g., a water feature is to your left instead of your right, and you take a right over there instead of a left to get to Na'vi River Journey) and rock-work will look slightly different and the dining options will be slightly different (differently named, slightly different menus, maybe an ice cream bar stand somewhere instead of a churro/popcorn/whatever stand, etc.). Maybe the names of the shops will be different and the attraction waiting lines will be slightly different, too. However,
the rides they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on will be the same.
Disney isn't going stretch when it comes to Walt Disney Studios Park. Maybe Shanghai DIsneyland will get something a little different for its Pandora, should it come, on top of the two existing attractions, because Shanghai Disneyland's co-owners, SSG, are rather ambitious like OLC, and will shell-out for R&D (e.g., Zootopia being built there first in part because SSG is covering the majority of R&D for it, since they own 57% of the resort). Walt Disney Studios doesn't have an outside partner with deep pockets.
Also, Disney isn't going to stretch for Walt Disney Studios, but may stretch a bit for Shanghai Disneyland (e.g., covering 43% of the cost of a new ride for Shanghai's Pandora, if it happens), because of the relative importance of the two resorts to Disney's bottom-line and long-term objectives in their respective markets. (This is something I'm not going to get further into here; it just ends up in a bunch of sinophobic garbage from other posters who've never even been to China.)
Basically, after they build the Frozen land, Disney is going to do
about the bare minimum so that Walt Disney Studios isn't an unprofitable/breakeven embarrassment. If it takes a spectacle, it's going to be something that's proven a successful spectacle elsewhere. I'm not counting the sprawling Tiana restaurant opposite the Frozen land as a unique attraction.
They're not going to build anything new for Walt Disney Studios, apart from a flat ride (that Tangled spinner ride). No wholly new land based on IP not used before, no wholly new ride. Oh - maybe a unique water show using those used Tokyo water show water-crafts they bought from OLC recently.
