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Disneyland Paris: General Discussion

Enter Valhalla said:
I never knew that! šŸ˜Š
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Here is the soarin:

Here is midway mainia, the 2 were built in 2008 (in 2 exisiting sound stages), the third was expanded into (another existing soundstage) in 2016:

edit: just noticed the jayout has chaned on the 2 track side the unload and load sides have swapped, so you load in the island via a bridge and exit arround the top.
 
I knew about both of these (visited Florida in 2016 when both rides were upgraded), but I never realised how different all 3 tracks are for Toy Story Mania! I assumed track 1 and 2 would be mirrored clones of each other, hadn't realised they shared a station and wrapped around each other. Guess that's the benefit of being a completely screen based ride, layout doesn't really matter.

What's even more wild is that the entrance used to be on the other side of the building, meaning it looked completely different when it first opened.
 
Similarly, I knew Toy Story had been upgraded with a 3rd track but I didn't know they'd completely moved the entrance - I've not visited since the original version when the queue was hitting 100min daily.

Sticking with TSM (and considering only the original version) there surely can't be many other rides that for capacity reasons have one station and two tracks rather than it being the other way round?
 
Bowser said:
Do Disney generally build rides with the option to expand them?
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Not often or always. It was just a unique situation at Disney Studios: the spare space became available when the 'studio tour' element of the park was retired in stages, and TSM proved even more popular than anticipated. EPCOT built an additional Soarin' theatre around the same period.
 
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flyingguitar said:
I think Peter pan is like 400-500 pph, which is shy it has some of the insanely long queues (wasn't it like 3 hours a few years ago, although that was with free fast pass)
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Thatā€™s interesting, i always wondered why it was so disproportionately popular compared to the other fantasy land dark ridesā€¦ although it is still the best.

It would be great if they built a few simple story based dark rides in Adventure World to improve capacity. Not everything needs to be an E ticket ride. Do Aladdin, Little Mermaid etc, even walkthroughs would be great.
 
I guess that Peter Pan could be argued to be an e-ticket ride so itā€™d be a close one between that and Crush.

I have to say, Parisā€™s version of Peter Panā€™s Flight does always seem to get longer queues that its counterparts at the other Disney parks. Not too sure why that is.
 
Enter Valhalla said:
I guess that Peter Pan could be argued to be an e-ticket ride so itā€™d be a close one between that and Crush.

I have to say, Parisā€™s version of Peter Panā€™s Flight does always seem to get longer queues that its counterparts at the other Disney parks. Not too sure why that is.
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According to the first list I found so may not be accurate, Peter Pan was a "C" ticket, when the ticket system existed.
 
Really depends on what you count as an E-ticket ride. Given that ride tickets at Disney haven't been a thing for half a century it's hard to conclusively say exactly what we're comparing it with and even whether Crush's should be considered an E-ticket ride. I've always considered Crush's a little below E-ticket status (based on nothing more than VIBES) but having looked through the above list it seems that my opinion on what counts an E-ticket ride has little basis in reality.
 
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