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Disneyland Paris: General Discussion

I must admit, I’m interested to see what some of the bigger coasters at DLP ride like when I visit in June.

I last went in 2011, and I only rode Big Thunder Mountain, Crush and RC Racer at the time due to a mix of not being tall enough (Space Mountain and Indiana Jones) and being too dissuaded by comments from someone I went to primary school with (Rock’n’Rollercoaster). I’m curious to see how DLP’s thrill coasters ride, as well as some of the stuff I did before 15 years on!

However, I’m possibly most excited for Tower of Terror, as someone who absolutely loved the Florida version in 2019!
 
Benjsh said:
It would require a complete re-track as well as new trains in order for it to become a special coaster again in my opinion. OTSR's just arent very good on these coasters.
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I agree with this statement, but I also don't think a complete re-track is out of the question. The rides over 30 years old now. Which makes it older than Space Mountain in California was when it received a complete re-track.

And presuming Vekoma do the re-track I'm sure it wouldn't be a like for like re-track with the old rib cage track from the 90s. But their new sleek track that's proved to be very popular.
You could argue that now would be the perfect time to call in Vekoma given how successful their recent coaster designs have been.
 
The new Space Mountain at Tokyo is what's needed. There's more chance of actual pigs flying though than that happening to the Paris version.
 
Tim said:
I agree with this statement, but I also don't think a complete re-track is out of the question. The rides over 30 years old now. Which makes it older than Space Mountain in California was when it received a complete re-track.

And presuming Vekoma do the re-track I'm sure it wouldn't be a like for like re-track with the old rib cage track from the 90s. But their new sleek track that's proved to be very popular.
You could argue that now would be the perfect time to call in Vekoma given how successful their recent coaster designs have been.
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they wouldn't be able to do that though, the older rib cage track uses very low trains and riders effectively sit inside the track,

The track is very intertwined and likely to have low clearances,
The newer rides however sit very high above the track, whilst the track is a bit thinner they are still quite a bit taller compared to the older rib style track

here is the track layout:
 
Ok so maybe those two models are too different to simply swap between. But I still maintain they wouldn't use an outdated track design when they do the replacement.

Perfect case in point: Eurosat. When it was re-tracked it went from a no spine track to a webed spine. And that's despite similar moments of very tight clearance. They actually improved the clearance with the new design, which is a shame as we lost some insane everything chopper moments.
There are pictures of the old and new track you can find online but I'm having trouble embedding the images.

And I'm fairly sure they did the same with the California Space Mountain, although as that was done in 2005 I'm finding it difficult to find before images to confirm. RCDB does show the new track going in and like with Eurosat it has a far more chunky spine than I assume the original had.

Tokyo could if they wanted to have re-tracked their Space Mountain in exactly the same way as Disneyland did (given that their ride is a copy). Instead they chose to build a completely new Mountain because they didn't want to just be a copy any more. What they wanted was something unique, no doubt inspired by our very unique version in Paris!
 
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