Disney Teases Its Adventurous New Lion King and Up Rides

Disney is reimagining the Walt Disney Studios portion of its Disneyland Paris park into Disney Adventure World, and which means contemporary new points of interest. Two of them might be themed across the 1994 Lion King movie and 2009’s Up, with each getting their first huge theme park points of interest to have a good time their respective thirtieth and fifteenth anniversaries in 2024.

On Saturday, Disney revealed building on Lion King’s beforehand introduced (and at present unnamed) journey will start within the fall. Parkgoers will go on a log flume journey that takes them on the caves beneath the 120-foot Pleasure Rock, adopted by a 52-foot-high descent as they expertise the movie’s greatest moments and Simba’s journey from lion cub to the true ruler of the dominion. Idea artwork beneath exhibits audio animatronics of younger Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa, and simply how tall the journey itself is whenever you enter. Disney is promising this to be one in all Journey World’s greatest attracts, and it’ll have “loads of eating, purchasing and alternatives to fulfill some favourite characters.”

Additionally coming to Journey World is the family-friendly Up journey that’ll be a part of Journey Approach. The carousel, positioned instantly throughout from Raiponce Tangled Spin, options Russell and Doug on the paintings (and a ton of balloons up high) and offers parkgoers “a chicken’s-eye view of the park’s gorgeous surroundings.” Carousel building is anticipated to begin by the tip of 2025, whereas the bigger Disney Journey World will open in 2026. You may examine different adjustments, together with the “ending touches” on fellow park opener World of Frozen, here.

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