Disneyland Paris: General Discussion

[AT86]

Maybe I’m just old but… didn’t it have a major refurb just a couple of years back?

2016, which feels like yesterday admittedly but a while back now.

 

[Skyscraper]

TPWW casually mentioned that big Thunder Mountain was closing for refurbishment.

The website only goes up to February but it has the ride listed as closed for both January and Feb.

Anyone know any more about this? I'm pretty disappointed if it will be closed as i think this would have been one of my sons favourite rides. Of course he won't know what he's missing and it's not confirmed as closed in March so i'm not jumping on the abort button just yet but at this rate we're going to end up spending most of the time in the Studio Park which considering it is a building site is starting to make the whole trip feel a bit silly.

Star Tours is also closed for Feb, argh.

Yeah it's closing for a refurbishment from January 6th I'm afraid.

 

[Bowser]

That's a real bummer. Guess i'll wait till the end of this month when they announce the March closures to make a decision. As it stands we'd still have:

- Space Mountain
- Pirates
- Phantom Manor
- Buzz Lightyear
- Avengers
- Tower of Terror
- Spiderman
- Ratatouille
- Crush Coaster

A decent haul and he likes repeat rides. The bolded are the ones i'm guessing will be the favourites so looks like we'll be in the Disney Construction Land mostly

 

[Islander]

That's a real bummer. Guess i'll wait till the end of this month when they announce the March closures to make a decision. As it stands we'd still have:

- Space Mountain
- Pirates
- Phantom Manor
- Buzz Lightyear
- Avengers
- Tower of Terror
- Spiderman
- Ratatouille
- Crush Coaster

A decent haul and he likes repeat rides. The bolded are the ones i'm guessing will be the favourites so looks like we'll be in the Disney Construction Land mostly

This is an interesting list (in terms of favourites) - IMHO, Pirates, and maybe Phantom and Rat should be emboldened, and Spiderman and Crushes definitely shouldn't!

 

[Bowser]

This is an interesting list (in terms of favourites) - IMHO, Pirates, and maybe Phantom and Rat should be emboldened, and Spiderman and Crushes definitely shouldn't!

We haven't been on any of them (well i've been on Pirates and Phantom but it was 25 years ago), they're based on what i predict my son will enjoy the most. He loves screen based dark rides, hence Spiderman and then he loves coasters with dark ride elements thus Crush. The fact he enjoyed Ice Mountain at Winter Wonderland today only reaffirms my suspicion he will be a big Crush fan!

He used to love dark rides and i've wanted to take him to Disney for years but it wasn't possible. He's started to grow out of them now so i think Pirates and Phantom (and basically anything Fantasyland) probably won't float his boat anymore but he doesn't mind The Curse so worth a go.

 

[Rob F]

The thing to remember here is that yes it’s 9 years since its last big refurb, but it’s actually a really old ride that runs long days often 12-15h’s nearly 365 days a year…. It runs 5 trains, 4? Lift hills 2 stations and 3 switch tracks , that’s a lot of sensors and moving parts and it has most definitely been struggling operationally in the past year and needs some TLC and it is actually a bummer when it’s closed as DLP has a very poor and very old coaster line up ! Yet there is no plans at present to actually build any new ones at present ?

 

[Bowser]

Interestingly i'm watching TPWW Christmas vlogs and they said Avengers Assemble is running really smooth now (much smoother than Space Mountain) and they've added new lighting effects.

 

[JakeDLP]

The thing to remember here is that yes it’s 9 years since its last big refurb, but it’s actually a really old ride that runs long days often 12-15h’s nearly 365 days a year…. It runs 5 trains, 4? Lift hills 2 stations and 3 switch tracks , that’s a lot of sensors and moving parts and it has most definitely been struggling operationally in the past year and needs some TLC and it is actually a bummer when it’s closed as DLP has a very poor and very old coaster line up ! Yet there is no plans at present to actually build any new ones at present ?

There's some ideas in development, especially in regards to Disneyland Park but nothing concrete yet