Disneyland Paris celebrated its 31st anniversary today with a reveal of what's coming next at the French resort.
First up, the 2012 nighttime spectacular Disney Dreams has returned to the park, with the LED effects on Sleeping Beauty Castle's turrets. In addition, the Disney D-Light drone show is back with new choreography, which will play before Disney Dreams each night through September 30 this fall.
Also in Disneyland Park, the Fuente Del Oro Mexican restaurant in Frontierland will be getting a "Coco" retheme this summer, transforming into Casa de Coco – Restaurante de Familia. That's the second Pixar retheme of a Disneyland Paris restaurant this year, with Pizzeria Bella Note recently getting a new room inspired by "Luca."
There's still no new ride planned for the resort's flagship park, but a couple of its class attractions will be returning soon. It's a Small World reopens following a refurbishment on May 5. After that, the Les Mystères du Nautilus walkthrough in Tomorrowland will reopen sometime this summer, after a major overhaul of its sets, lighting, and sound system.
Then next year, as previously announced, Star Tours will be getting the addition of new destinations that also is coming to the simulator ride at Walt Disney World and Disneyland in 2024.
The Disneyland Paris Resort also will be joining in the company-wide celebration of The Walt Disney Company's 100th anniversary on October 16, with a "dedicated program of festivities" to be announced.
The resort also shared new concept art for Paris' Disneyland Hotel, which will reopen in 2024. The resort said that the reimagined hotel "will be the very first Disney hotel to take guests on a majestic journey celebrating Disney royalty."
Over at Walt Disney Studios Park, Together: a Pixal Musical Adventure will play at the Studio Theater this summer. This 30-minute show will include a live, eight-member band performing hits from several Pixar movies in an original score for the production.
In addition, in Worlds of Pixar, the transformation of the old Toon Plaza continues with the installation of a new backdrop that features characters from several Pixar movies, including Ember and Wade from the upcoming "Elemental."
Finally, Walt Disney Imagineering today shared a video looking at the current state of the construction site for the Studios' upcoming Frozen land.
Yeah, it's a bit of a sea of concrete at the moment, but Disney will be planting more than 1,000 conifer trees to decorate the new land. Still no opening date, though.
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You nailed it Robert about the lack of new attractions to Disneyland Paris. Lets go Disney, you need to invest in major new attractions to Disneyland Park itself. So many quality attractions around the world in Disney parks or, dare I say it, create a new one specifically for this park, just like Ratatouille a few years ago for the Studios park.
One of the biggest boons Disney could give Disneyland Paris Park is renovating Discoveryland. The land is a shadow of its former self, which was originally themed around exploration with a brass-punk aesthetic, but now includes a mishmash of Star Wars & Buzz Lightyear IP.
The biggest offender is by far their version of Space Mountain, which has an incredible exterior, but is Hyperspace Mountain (Star Wars) on the inside. The coaster could use a refurb, as the experience shows its age. Here's to hoping a refurb comes soon and with a thematically consistent overhaul.
A Coco themed restaurant? Why? Miguel and his family had a shoe business, not a restaurant. Not everything needs to have an IP representation.
Personally, if I were to take a trip to Central Europe, the Disneyland Paris resort would be way down the list of parks to visit. Even if the park had new lands and attractions in the pipeline, I would not be swayed to visit this resort over other parks like Efteling, Europa Park, Tivoli (I've already visited that one), Liseeberg, Port Aventura, Park Asterix (particular given their new coaster Toutatis), Holiday Park, and Phantasialand. Not only is Disneyland Paris expensive compared to those other parks, but there are so many attractions across the 2 parks that are clones or very similar to ones found in the US Disney parks. Given a typical 7-10 day vacation in Europe, it just doesn't make sense to commit 2 days to the Disney parks when there are far better/cheaper theme parks throughout mainland Europe.
The return of Dreams is definitely the standout for me from this. Far and away the best castle show I've seen in any of the parks.
@Russell, for anyone planning a theme park tour of central Europe I would strongly recommend also including Futuroscope. This is unlike any other theme park I have ever visited. The architecture is as spectacular as the EPCOT pavilions when they first opened. The rides although largely screen based are unique and amazing. Well worth a day of anyone's time.
@wizard: how is it for people who don't speak French?
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Yeah those Pixar overlays will draw the masses to the parks!