If you ask almost anyone working at DLP, they will probaly tell you that, no, the addition of a monorail or an Epcot theme park was never planned for the Disney Paris resort. Never.
Hmmm...may be, but every DLP fan knows that the land for a third theme park exist in front of the Newport Bay and Sequoia Lodge Hotels. In the last 15 years, nothing was built on it, and nothing will be, except, precisely, a third theme park or, eventually, the famous "Lava Lagoon" water park.
Except that ONE rendering exist, a very rare one, in fact the only one that i ever saw showing both a monorail AND an Epcot "Spaceship Earth" icon.
If you look well at the artwork, you will see the facade of the Newport Bay Hotel, and in the background the one of the Disneyland Paris Hotel. But the silver silhouette of the Epcot icon is located exactly in that piece of land i was talking about, in front of the Newport Bay.
So, may be DLP will never have for real an Epcot theme park, and even more certainly no monorail, but one thing is sure: somebody at WDI, many years ago, did think about it.
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Croisons les doigts pour que ce genre de parc n'arrive jamais en France. Le concept est cheap, le parc US est assez moche, pas tres interessant et avec le temps, très vieillot ... sans parler des faibles moyens que Disney mettrait sur un 3e parc.
ReplyDeleteYes, it was planned!!! It was announced officially on the TV program that broadcasted the inauguration of Euro Disney and also in the Michelin Travel Guide of Euro Disney.
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