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Disneyland Paris: General Discussion

Hey everyone and I hope you’re well?

This is the link to the just released model of Lion King water ride at the eventual renamed Disneyland Adventure World Paris.


From: https://youtu.be/4N08C5RkNLI?si=wfl0wbi9ILjMVgPS

I don’t know if it’s just me but it’s a bit confusing because it has illustrations from the 2019 remake but the model is from the 1994 animated film.

From the model I assume it’s going to be based on the 1994 version but I don’t understand why add illustrations from the remake?

I hope they don’t but do you think they will combine the theming from both the films?

Another thing I found confusing is in the illustrations the riders are single file but on the model there are rows of riders.
I understand that the pictures are probably for illustration purposes only but I assume they have kinda made a decision from the model. So again I’m unsure why the illustrations were included? Or am I looking into this way too much? lol

What are everyone’s thoughts on the ride and theming?


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ZeldaAlton said:
Hey everyone and I hope you’re well?

This is the link to the just released model of Lion King water ride at the eventual renamed Disneyland Adventure World Paris.


From: https://youtu.be/4N08C5RkNLI?si=wfl0wbi9ILjMVgPS

I don’t know if it’s just me but it’s a bit confusing because it has illustrations from the 2019 remake but the model is from the 1994 animated film.

From the model I assume it’s going to be based on the 1994 version but I don’t understand why add illustrations from the remake?

I hope they don’t but do you think they will combine the two?

What are everyone’s thoughts on the ride and theming?


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It's been said by Disney the ride is based on the classic animated version of 1994. I think it looks good but again Disney have gone cheap with one ride and no other. I would have liked to have seen an additional small flat ride.to support the land.
 
The image showing the 2019 remake was released first, back at D23 last year. Rumour is that it was actually an image used when Disney were going through ideas for how to retheme Splash Mountain at Disneyland California - hence the one per row seating and characters from the remake. They just decided to reuse that to give an idea of how the Paris ride might look.

Since then they have confirmed that the Paris ride will be themed based on the 1994 original.
 
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Llama said:
Baffling that they keep mixing the two movies in these promotional images, seemingly because they're reusing concept art from six years ago? How hard is it to come up with an image of the original hand-drawn Simba next to a log?
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They've only just finalized the design about a week ago from what I've heard, I remember someone pointed out that the Lion King concept art is literally traced over a piece of concept art for splash mountain haha, but considering the project has been very very slightly scaled down in the past few months they didn't really have an accurate concept art to display, the model shown in this newest video is the finished version of the ride
 
So we just got home from our first visit to Disneyland Paris.

Firstly thank you to everyone who helped out with the planning! It couldn't have gone better.

Honestly, it was the most magical theme park trip yet. I'm glad my son happily enjoys rides anywhere because my wife and i both said we don't know how we can go back to the UK theme parks after this. Europe really is spoilt with high quality theme parks (and we haven't even been to Germany yet) and the UK desperately needs Universal to come and shake things up.

Tower of Terror is probably the best theme park ride i've ever been on... it was definitely my wife's and my son loved it too. Just incredible, from the theming, the cast members, to the actual ride itself. I'm desperate to know how it works but i'm not going to look as it's even better for it to remain a mystery.

Big Thunder Mountain was heavily under construction, which was a shame as it looks so good but they at least looked very busy!

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My son's favourites were Space Mountain, Avengers, Star Tours and Tower of Terror. But he liked lots of others too, it was so nice to be in a park that had so much for him, rather than in the UK where there only end up being a couple of rides per park.

I will say the coasters are all quite.... similar. Basically get thrown about in the dark a lot with varying degrees of head banging, from mild (Crush) to severe (Avengers). They're still really cool rides (we did Space Mountain 3 times per day) and the operations are incredible but I must say Efteling definitely has the upper hand on smooth coasters.

Operations everywhere in fact are amazing. Constantly moving queues, multiple staff members everywhere batching, no empty seats anywhere and not a single ride went down at any point on our trip... bliss!!

Anyway i realise this is turning into a trip report and i could happily gush all day but a couple of questions instead:

1. Does Frozen have an opening date or is it just 2026 at this point?
2. Presume Lion King doesn't even have a date yet?
3. Am i getting old or are the dark rides very.... dark? I struggled to see on some of the rides such as Phantom Manor.
 
Bowser said:
So we just got home from our first visit to Disneyland Paris.

Honestly, it was the most magical theme park trip yet. ...wife and i both said we don't know how we can go back to the UK theme parks after this.

1. Does Frozen have an opening date or is it just 2026 at this point?
2. Presume Lion King doesn't even have a date yet?
3. Am i getting old or are the dark rides very.... dark? I struggled to see on some of the rides such as Phantom Manor.
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Same here. If your only experience of theme parks is in the UK, European mainland options will blow you away.

And I think Xmas at DLP is even better.

1. As far as I'm aware there is no definitive date except "coming 2026". Though management will be keen to get Frozen and Studios Parc [newly named "Disney Adventure World"] ready for DLP 35th Anniversary [12 April 2027].
2. LK, as far as I'm aware is just very early conception stages.
3. I didn't have a problem with lighting in PM; but it has been recently refurbished [which was completed around late Nov '24].
 
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Rob F said:
If you drive it’s easy and cheaper ….
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Not much in it from our location plus a drive that long is a bit stressful. If it was direct I think we could do door to door in under 4 hours vs approx 7 hours driving.

Although on the outbound train Eurostar did text me to say our inbound was cancelled so that was fun. On the plus side when they saw my son was disabled they upgraded us to First!
 
Depends where you are based, we’re near London so 1h to Dover/Folkestone and 3.5h the other side, remember that Park asterix on the route and plopsaland de panne is quite close to Calais 40-50 mins if you drive and want to break it up and such
 
Rob F said:
Depends where you are based, we’re near London so 1h to Dover/Folkestone and 3.5h the other side, remember that Park asterix on the route and plopsaland de panne is quite close to Calais 40-50 mins if you drive and want to break it up and such
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Yes we did Plopsaland by car last year (and again this year), it's very easy, about 90 min to Dover for us on a good run. But then you also have the wait for the train and any stops so it does end up being quite a bit longer door to door to do Disney.

Eg. If we left now it says 5hr 22 but that doesn't factor in stops and train waits so i think 7+ hours is more realistic. Plus for us my car is shall we say, not economic so 700 miles of service station fuel could end up being more expensive than the Eurostar 🫣

I was actually pleasantly surprised how easy the train was, even with the connection. The platforms in Lille are very close to one another. And obviously the Disneyland station is on the parks doorstep. We were rather conservative it being our first visit but really you could leave the park 20 minutes before your train (or less if you fancy a run).
 
Following the announcement of Universal’s official intention to move ahead with the UK theme park for 2031 yesterday, Diary of a Rollercoaster Girl on Facebook talked about one interesting, and not commonly discussed, affected party in this particular announcement… Disneyland Paris:

I feel she raises an interesting point by mentioning DLP… DLP will arguably be in closer competition with Universal’s UK park than any other theme park in Europe despite not being in the same country. Both are IP strongholds, both are premium products, both aim for the short break market, and both thrive on the international Europe-wide tourist demographic. There’s a lot of market overlap there; Universal could really muscle in on DLP’s turf given that both are competing for much the same pound (or euro, in DLP’s case!).

With this in mind, I agree with her in wondering; could we see Disneyland Paris get major investment in anticipation of Universal UK? While the Studios is receiving work, the main castle park has been pretty devoid of major investment for a number of years now… surely Disney will want to be firing on all cylinders in France ahead of Universal’s arrival?

I know 2031 is a long time away, but with how notoriously slow Disney are at building things, they might want to action any potential expansion plans now…
 
Matt N said:
Following the announcement of Universal’s official intention to move ahead with the UK theme park for 2031 yesterday, Diary of a Rollercoaster Girl on Facebook talked about one interesting, and not commonly discussed, affected party in this particular announcement… Disneyland Paris:

I feel she raises an interesting point by mentioning DLP… DLP will arguably be in closer competition with Universal’s UK park than any other theme park in Europe despite not being in the same country. Both are IP strongholds, both are premium products, both aim for the short break market, and both thrive on the international Europe-wide tourist demographic. There’s a lot of market overlap there; Universal could really muscle in on DLP’s turf given that both are competing for much the same pound (or euro, in DLP’s case!).

With this in mind, I agree with her in wondering; could we see Disneyland Paris get major investment in anticipation of Universal UK? While the Studios is receiving work, the main castle park has been pretty devoid of major investment for a number of years now… surely Disney will want to be firing on all cylinders in France ahead of Universal’s arrival?

I know 2031 is a long time away, but with how notoriously slow Disney are at building things, they might want to action any potential expansion plans now…
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The issue for them is they HAVE to build a third park. That's on top of the massive projects being undertaken at the Studio park.

I don't know the geography of the castle park but is there space for expansion? Hypothetically where could they add major attractions? How have they modified other castle parks beyond the traditional design in other countries? I was under the impression they've focused on expanding the supplementary parks but admittedly my Disney knowledge is fairly limited.
 
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