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Disneyland Paris: General Discussion

jon81uk said:
I still don't see it working due to the language issues. You'd have to have separate boats for English narration and French narration but then you'd still end up with Spanish, Italian or German speakers where the jokes don't work so well. I've had some boats in Florida where there hasn't been so many laughs because many guests had Spanish as their first language and didn't get the jokes.

I'd much rather have a new modern ride with state of the art tech, maybe it could be a "Jungle Cruise" using the new motion-base boats like Shanghai pirates with modern animal animatronics or similar. But the corny joke skippers probably won't work in Europe.
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Having ridden Jungle Cruise in Tokyo and Hong Kong, not knowing the language really doesn't change it too much. Yes, you don't get the verbal jokes, but the japanese one is just a. hilarious good time overall.

In Hong Kong they dealt with languages by having three queues, English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.

So both approaches work just fine!
 
Excalibur said:
Over a year to get a Wave Swinger open, I know Disney are slow but jheez…
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Thats not even the worst part. The fact they are building one at all is mystifying to me. Its a ride that you often see on a travelling fair circuit. This has no place at the continent's premier theme park destination.

Disney fans dont vote with their feet and wallets though. They just keep going back.
 
Benjsh said:
Thats not even the worst part. The fact they are building one at all is mystifying to me. Its a ride that you often see on a travelling fair circuit. This has no place at the continent's premier theme park destination.
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I mean, Disney basically built the idea based on plussing basic fairground rides. Dumbo, Carousel, Teacups and the naff Fantasyland dark rides are prime examples of this.

Not every ride can be an E-Ticket; and I'd wager Frozen land (and Lion King) would be improved a bit through adding a few of these types of ride to help support the central attraction.

A year to build it is hilarious though.
 
It surely has to be a case of deliberately doing it slow, so they have something to open and market as a new attraction for 2027?

And it may only be a common chair swing, but you can guarantee it’ll be done to a high standard, like the Tangled tea-cup ride. And something along the same lines as the Tangled spin, Slinky ride, Aladdin carpets etc will help with those queues and give that demographic something extra to do, and I doubt the kids and their parents will be thinking ‘we’ve got one of these at Drayton Manor so I can’t be bothered’.

After the Lion King ride though I think the next area/expansion should definitely be more of the family-thrill variety though, but we’re probably talking 10 years time there!
 
Benzin said:
I mean, Disney basically built the idea based on plussing basic fairground rides. Dumbo, Carousel, Teacups and the naff Fantasyland dark rides are prime examples of this.

Not every ride can be an E-Ticket; and I'd wager Frozen land (and Lion King) would be improved a bit through adding a few of these types of ride to help support the central attraction.

A year to build it is hilarious though.
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Who said anything about E Ticket? Flat rides aren't E ticket rides anyway. I just think they could be adding something more modern than a wave swinger.
 
I'd take a tried and tested classic over modern for the sake of modern.
This park needs more filler attractions, and a Chair Swing is perfect for that. It takes a few people out of the other queues and adds more movement to the midway.

The only shame is knowing that it won't be as impressive as the one at Phantasialand!
 
Tim said:
I'd take a tried and tested classic over modern for the sake of modern.
This park needs more filler attractions, and a Chair Swing is perfect for that. It takes a few people out of the other queues and adds more movement to the midway.

The only shame is knowing that it won't be as impressive as the one at Phantasialand!
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Modern for the sake of modern? Man the Disney execs must love you.
 
Disney already have a Wave Swinger at California Adventure, though the theme of the entire area is basically just "unthemed amusement park". It's all very meta.

I'm sure they could have this thing open in 2-3 months if they wanted. They don't need to delay a standard model flat ride for financial reasons and could easily have put it in for the first phase of the expansion, so presumably they're deliberately drip feeding the rides in.

This being a flat ride at a Disney park I'm expecting a ride cycle of 60s or less. At least it's not another Dumbo re-skin
 
Honestly I doubt it is being purposfully delayed, disney like to take their time with building rides / areas, at WDW the BTM retrack has taken 16 months.

Tron took 5 years, snow whight and the seven dwarfs took 3 years, and the frozen lands has taken what, 6 or 7 years
 
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