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 meaning recent new sights. Two of them might be themed across the 1994 Lion King movie and 2009’s Up, with each getting their first huge theme park sights 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 presently unnamed) trip will start within the fall. Parkgoers will go on a log flume trip that takes them on the caves beneath the 120-foot Satisfaction Rock, adopted by a 52-foot-high descent as they expertise the movie’s largest moments and Simba’s journey from lion cub to the true ruler of the dominion. Idea artwork beneath reveals audio animatronics of younger Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa, and simply how tall the trip itself is while you enter. Disney is promising this to be one among Journey World’s largest attracts, and it’ll have “loads of eating, procuring and alternatives to fulfill some favourite characters.”

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

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