Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for Disneyland Paris (Star Wars, Marvel & Frozen Land)

[Fangz]

[quote=Disney]This morning, Disney Chairman and CEO Robert A. Iger announced plans for a two billion euro, multi-year expansion for Disneyland Paris alongside French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palais de l’Elysée in Paris.

The new development will include a transformation of Walt Disney Studios Park, adding three new areas based on Marvel, Frozen and Star Wars, along with new attractions and live entertainment experiences. A new lake will be the focal point for entertainment experiences and connect each of the three new areas, completing one of the most ambitious projects at Disneyland Paris since its opening in 1992.[/quote]

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The fact that they announced 3 new lands for one park at once makes it seem that the Studio Paris park is getting a massive face lift.

[Dippeggs]

Wow, that's pretty ambitious.

How busy is Disneyland Paris? I go to the Original Disneyland (Live near it) all the time and its very busy nowadays, no matter what day of the week.

[LZTYBRN]

[QUOTE=Dippeggs;53165433]Wow, that's pretty ambitious.

How busy is Disneyland Paris? I go to the Original Disneyland (Live near it) all the time and its very busy nowadays, no matter what day of the week.[/QUOTE]

I went for a summer in mid-June once, it wasn't that bad. Only waited like 15 minutes for Ratatouille

This is well deserved for the Disneyland Paris parks though. Prior to this DLP was owned jointly by the Disney Corporation and the French government, with the French Govt shouldering most of the costs of development and operation. Last year Disney went through with buying back all their shares of ownership for DLP so now they fully control the parks again. I think this is significant because being at the Paris parks felt like a completely different experience to the two I've been to, and a lot of that comes out in little details like Star Tours still being outdated, lots of parts of the parks have strange bizarre attractions from things like the live action 101 Dalmatians and the Armageddon movie, of all things

I predicted a while ago that once disney got back full control of the paris park they would drastically revamp it, because a lot of parts of those parks felt so unlike a Disney resort that it's almost weird that it had the Disney name on it

[Megalan]

Well, that was expected after looking at other parks. Those franchises make a ton of money for Disney. Though I think Frozen is overrated as hell.

[jimbobjoe1234]

Holy shit I didn't think Frozen was successful enough to have an entire theme park section.

[TheTalon]

[QUOTE=Dippeggs;53165433]Wow, that's pretty ambitious.

How busy is Disneyland Paris? I go to the Original Disneyland (Live near it) all the time and its very busy nowadays, no matter what day of the week.[/QUOTE]

I was at Disney WORLD in January. It was pretty crowded but not that bad. Being off season helped a lot. I assume if Disney World is like that then Disney Paris would be even better, crowd wise. I think the Pandora ride had the longest wait at about 2 hours, but everything else was half an hour or less, give or take

Of course off season in Paris is probably cold as shit and snowy, whereas in Orlando it was hitting 80F. I have a friend that's going to Disney Paris in 5 days so I can just ask her how the crowd is

[Miya]

they are probably trying to give people a reason to go to the other country parks outside of the US ones. alot of the foreign disneys are just based off disney land main/magic kingdom with weird sprinkles of rides from disney world.

Shanghai Disney recently opened and had a ton of never-before-seen rides/locations/etc. there and now they are trying to re-innovate paris now. Maybe tokyo is next on the list even though they already have the [URL="http://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/en/tds/"]disneysea[/URL] theme park to call their own.

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[LZTYBRN]

[QUOTE=Wii60;53170143]they are probably trying to give people a reason to go to the other country parks outside of the US ones. alot of the foreign disneys are just based off disney land main/magic kingdom with weird sprinkles of rides from disney world.

Shanghai Disney recently opened and had a ton of never-before-seen rides/locations/etc. there and now they are trying to re-innovate paris now. Maybe tokyo is next on the list even though they already have the [URL="http://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/en/tds/"]disneysea[/URL] theme park to call their own.

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most people i speak to who've been to disneysea and the US parks say DisneySea blows the american parks out of the water. I've always wanted to go check it out