Theme Park Discussion / So my new gentleman friend has a secret...

He's works for the Disney corporation and has let slip to me on several occasions that there are plans in progress for a new Disney themepark.

 

However he can't tell me too much as he's under various gagging clauses and alike.

 

I'm just wondering if anyone's heard anything more definite on the grape-vine about upcoming developments, or if he's just 'yankin' ma chain' as it were?

 

He's specified as much that it will be a brand new park project, not an addition to any already built parks or attractions.

 

That being said, if it is true, and he won't tell me anything more pertinent, he might not be my gentleman friend for too much longer  

i hope that it's disneyland Amsterdam so much if what you say is true.

Disneyland Shanghai is the only 'new' resort right now. Any other new park would be attached to another resort, but still that is probably highly unlikely right now.

Pretty sure they wouldn't be doing anything else right now considering they have only just started construction at Shanghai.

i hope that it's disneyland Amsterdam so much if what you say is true.

 

 

Way too close to Paris to build a brand new Disneypark, I hope you weren't serious...

 

Disneyland Paris has to build a third park before 20xx, contractually obligated by the French government. I hope that's what he's talking about. And now we're dreaming of a third park in Paris, I'm hoping it's gonna be an animal kingdom. That would be so cool!

Please no, let that crap stay away from me. There's no room here anyway.

Paris ideally have to sort out studios before thinking of a third park.

Paris ideally have to sort out studios before thinking of a third park.

 

There's nothing wrong with the Studios in my opinion. 

A lot of people didn't think there was anything wrong with DCA, but look at how much better that is now

 

The studios is no where near being a complete park. I would say with Ratatouille, it is about half a park now.

Disneyland Shanghai is the only 'new' resort right now. Any other new park would be attached to another resort, but still that is probably highly unlikely right now.

Pretty sure they wouldn't be doing anything else right now considering they have only just started construction at Shanghai.

 

 

Agreed, although  Disney will be watching how the world cup / olympics go very, very closely.

^I would agree with that.

The only rumored parks I've heard about would be a third California park.  But since that'd be attached to the same resort, I don't know if that'd count.  It'll make me very happy if/when it happens though.  For that matter, I'd also love to see what they could do with a third Tokyo park.

 

Yeah, and Disney Studios Paris is pretty terrible.  People have often complained that DCA wasn't worth the same price as Disneyland, but I doubt that Disney Studios Paris would be worth even half the price of Paris Disneyland's admission fee.  It's tiny, they have three good major rides (maybe four if you enjoy their Studio Tour; I was not impressed), two excellent shows, and a handful of other attractions.  It has a poor park layout with no cohesion.  It almost felt like I was visiting an unlicensed rip-off of the Orlando Studios park.  I have a lot of respect for Disney, but this park definitely dropped it down a notch.

 

That being said, I think the Paris resort could support a third park, I'd just hope that it'd be up to the standard set by the other Disney parks.

I think I may have found the answer, although I'm afraid it's a boring one. I think he was referring to the 'Villages Nature' complex to built on the DLP complex in 2015. This will be DLP's long waited water-park, bundled in with a hotel and the usual 'immerse yourself in nature' cheap-and-not-quite-attractions, like gardens and nature walks.

http://dedicatedtodl...ature-brochure/

It's a far cry from the ill-fated but fantastically designed 'Lava Lagoon' that was intended for DLP but never realised. A Polynesian domed water-park would have been an amazing and unique addition to DLP, especially considering France's links to Polynesia.

http://disneyandmore...-park-that.html

I'm a little disappointed in Disney for not putting more effort and original thought that we've come to love from the Imagineers into 'Villages Nature'. It looks as though it's going to be a glorified 'Centre Parcs' that only has the most tantamount connection to anything Disney. Considering the success of other larger, far more futuristic and wondrous eco-attractions in Europe, like 'The Eden Project' in Cornwall I'm surprised that Disney would not want to capitalise upon or outdo the technological capability and spectacle these attractions have shown is possible.

I also believe DLP will be the next big focus as Paramount Studios are to break ground on a new, largely indoor theme park in the UK in early 2016. The site is on the Swanscombe Peninsula in North-West Kent, approximately twenty miles from Central London and directly on/over the High Speed One/Channel Tunnel rail link.

https://www.google.c...10088,14z?hl=en

On a side note, should any of you ever head over to the Merry Ole' U of K on holiday or suchalike, I urge you, nay, implore you to visit 'The Eden Project'. I know it's not a theme-park as such, but the scale, beauty and grandeur of it will truly blow you away. I have been over twenty times now, and I am still bowled over by it every time!

http://www.edenproject.com/

That being said, the plans for Disneyland Shanghai looks incredible! The inclusion of two new 'realms' (The Middle Kingdom and Old Shanghai) are very intriguing, and the inclusion of so many new rides and attractions, plus the merging of certain aspects of the classic 'Tomorrowland' and 'Epcot' in the 'Tomorrowland' section means that this should be the most unique Disney park out there!

 

Shame Disney is now content with shipping all of its top innovation to China where it knows it will make the most money, instead of improving and expanding it in its cultural and 'spiritual' homes of the United States and Europe where, dare I say this, it would be much more appreciated...?

I knew about the DLP thing, we got told a little bit about it on our tour of Disneyland Paris.

It's actually in connection with another company though, it's not solely disney.

And yeh the impression we got given was Centre Parcs