Disneyland Paris Confirms 2026 Opening Date for World of Frozen and Details Park-Wide Expansion

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Posted: Monday November 24, 2025 2:30pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney shared new details today about the Disneyland Paris additions that will define the future Disney Adventure World. When World of Frozen opens on March 29, 2026, it will anchor a large expansion that introduces new attractions, more dining, new gardens, an expanded lake, and a nighttime spectacular powered by an aquatic drone system debuting for the first time.

The project will almost double the park's footprint and bring together Disney Animation, Pixar, and Marvel in a single experience.

World of Frozen

World of Frozen Opens March 29, 2026

World of Frozen will become the newest land at Disney Adventure World, introducing:

Frozen Ever After with updated Audio-Animatronics
A Royal Encounter with Anna and Elsa inside Arendelle Castle
"A Celebration in Arendelle," a daytime show staged on Viking longships
Nordic Crowns Tavern quick-service dining
Arendelle Boutique merchandise
Character interactions including Rúna, a baby troll
A fully realized village and North Mountain backdrop
New music from Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

A New Olaf Marks the Next Era of Disney Robotics

During a November 24, 2025 press event, Imagineering introduced a new self-walking Olaf figure. The character was developed by Disney's R&D team with support from Disney Live Entertainment and Walt Disney Animation Studios. Olaf will appear in the Arendelle Bay show at Disneyland Paris and will make limited-time appearances at Hong Kong Disneyland. The figure showcases the newest generation of small-scale robotic characters, designed to interact in real time with guests and performers.

World Premiere Plaza and Multi-Franchise Expansion

World Premiere Plaza, first revealed in May, sets the tone with a modern entrance inspired by Hollywood. From there, guests move into a connected lineup of lands:

World of Frozen
Marvel Avengers Campus
Worlds of Pixar

Adventure Way: Gardens, Entertainment, and New Food Locations

Adventure Way forms the central promenade through Disney Adventure World. Highlights include:

Landscaped Gardens

Tangled Garden with romantic lantern theming
Toy Story Garden with oversized toy-shaped topiary
The Gazebo Garden, an English-style garden with bronze statues from Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Adventure Way

Seasonal Entertainment

Rapunzel and Flynn's Musical Encounter (spring)
Mary Poppins and the Pearly Band (summer)
Miguel's Latin Festival (fall)
Character greetings beginning November 2026
Minnie Mouse leading a 12-musician marching band

West Pavilion

Mickey and Minnie appear in new Victorian costumes created by the Disneyland Paris Costume Workshop. More characters will join after the 2026 opening.

Raiponce Tangled Spin Opens on Adventure Way

A new family attraction, Raiponce Tangled Spin, will place guests in gondolas that whirl beneath floating lanterns while "I See the Light" plays overhead. Mandy Moore, the original voice of Rapunzel, recorded exclusive audio for the attraction.

Raiponce Tangled Spin

The Regal View Restaurant & Lounge: Dining With Princesses and Paris-Exclusive Design

The Regal View Restaurant and Lounge

Just beyond Tangled Spin, the new Regal View Restaurant & Lounge offers:

Table-service breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Meet-and-greets with Belle, Merida, Jasmine, Aurora, Mulan, and Ariel
Handcrafted Royal Delft porcelain plates
A dramatic ironwork canopy created in Alsace
The first bar ever inside a Disneyland Paris theme park
Princess companion artwork featuring Pascal, Heihei, Mushu, and more
Views of Adventure Bay and World of Frozen

The lounge will serve signature cocktails and small bites in a royal-blue interior accented with gold detail.

The Regal View Restaurant and Lounge

Fourteen New Dining Locations Along Adventure Way

A wide range of new food stops expands the park's culinary options:

La Terrasse Panoramique with bread bowls, New York rolls, and hot drinks
Café Luminosity with signature hot dogs and sweet pastries
Additional kiosks serving stuffed potato waffles, brioche rolls, and Princess-inspired desserts

Disney Cascade of Lights: A First-of-Its-Kind Nighttime Spectacular

Adventure Bay becomes the nighttime hub for Disney Cascade of Lights, a new 360-degree show featuring:

The world's first aquatic drone system
Aerial drones
Choreographed fountains
Water screens
Pyrotechnics
A newly arranged score tied to Mulan, Hercules, Moana, Zootopia, Up, and the Marvel Universe
An original anthem titled "We Can Be Heroes"

Disney Cascade of Lights

An Original Score Recorded at Abbey Road

Adventure Way features its own 40-minute musical score recorded at Abbey Road Studios. The soundtrack plays continuously through the gardens, live entertainment areas, and dining spaces.

The Lion King: A Major New Land in Development

Construction has already begun on a new Lion King-themed area located along Adventure Bay. It will feature:

A large-scale attraction with water-based moments
Next-generation Audio-Animatronics
Music from the 1994 film
A deep exploration of Simba's journey through the Pride Lands

Lion King

Pixar's Up Joins the Lineup

A new Up attraction - a flying carousel - will add motion and color to Adventure Way as part of the upcoming additions.

Flying carousel

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Gusey1 day ago

It's why I think Web Slingers get such a bad wrap at DCA, because they have Midway Mania. Its a fun ride and it fits in at WDSP/DAW because it's the only shooter amongst the park's lineup that is mostly flat rides or thrill rides

Animaniac93-981 day ago

Likely because of the overall reluctance to build new rides in DLP prior to Disney taking full ownership It could have opened with Toy Story Playland, but would have significantly raised the budget of an intentionally cheap build By 2017, Disney was developing versions of Avengers Campus and had probably moved on to Webslingers by then

marni19711 day ago

I’d assume they thought 1 shooter per park was enough. Spend the money somewhere else.

UpAllNight1 day ago

I wonder how it never came about to build Midway Mania. It was an instant hit when it launched, is still very popular, and doesn’t seem the priciest or most complex addition.

marni19714 days ago

And some more!

Animaniac93-984 days ago

Last two posts should have gone to the other thread, sorry. Here's an on topic picture. Looks like Christmas! (from DLP Works)

Nickm20224 days ago

this would be much better and I would say these facades should match the new beautiful white art neauveo buildings in the back

Supersnow849 days ago

Cars land was already designed to fulfil the 1950’s Americana aesthetic (the whole malt shops, poodle skirts and fast cars) so they could definitely model it off that But honestly since they are ditching the Hollywood aesthetic I’d prefer they just redo the front. DHS still seems to be going for a sorta “enter the golden age of Hollywood then go behind the camera into the movie itself” with the 1930’s Hollywood transitioning to living lands at the back but WDS seems to just be maintaining the front of the park out of budget constraints rather than a coherent design

DrStarlander9 days ago

Sorry, my drawing was schematic-level almost. I don't mean "flat" facades, I mean something akin to Main Street or Ministry of Magic at Epic Universe in terms of placemaking. A fully themed street, with whatever special landmark entrances/structures for attractions or theater venues as desired, which could include their own forecourt plazas, etc.

Gusey9 days ago

Making the entrances to the park's shows (some of Disney's best shows worldwide) with flat facades would be a massive mistake. What they've done with World Premiere Plaza is an upgrade to the asphalt that was there before, and the extra greenery added actually makes it a decent transition from World Premiere (formerly Studio 1). Could it be better, of course but it's a major improvement over what was there before

DrStarlander9 days ago

When I was at the Paris resort it was before this park was built, so haven't been there myself. But it seems like they could build a sideways Main Street sort of experience after you exit Stage 1, with a grand arched entry to the new boulevard straight ahead. While it could be themed to 1930s Hollywood golden age, given that's been done at many parks, maybe they do a 1950s era version with neon and hot rods and that sort of Americana. That could transitions well to Marvel/comic books and Twilight Zone, and would have some of the nighttime aesthetic benefits of Cars Land at DCA while not needing the IP (though a Cars IP shop would be fun).

marni19719 days ago

I’d say they have that already, especially for the average guest. Hollywood Tower, a huge sorcerers hat, and soon a tree lined walkway to a distant mountain. As you said by virtue of its function studio one isn’t going anywhere. Could they add dimensional flats to it maybe? Cityscape? A mini New York Street effect? Or are they moving away from the behind the scenes feel? Or will it always be a soundstage from a theme they’re trying to forget? Similarly the theatre buildings could just have an overlay in front of the fronts. These buildings are as cheap as they come from 2002 (the roofs aren’t even what you call a real roof) but a dimensional build out of a classical theatre facade could work wonders. Not that it’s going to happen of course.

Sir_Cliff9 days ago

Yes, I agree with all of this. I would also say DHS is probably the next weakest park and the distance between the two won't be that great once the new areas open. My impression is that, beyond demolishing the entire entrance experience for the park and just starting again, the park could really benefit from basically demolishing everything you see when you exit Studio 1 to create a real wow experience that all fits together cohesively. That would probably involve bringing the "sets" from Studio 1 into three dimensions more convincingly into a space that didn't seem like facades awkwardly arranged around a big open space and the remaining buildings from the original park. As you say, creating proper facades and indoor waiting areas for the theatres would also go a long way; the use of canvas and digital signs still kind of harks back to the original park's approach to theming. At any rate, I will be there next week and interested to see if I am more impressed with the effect in person.

Supersnow849 days ago

WDS also has; by virtue of this expansion; an overall better planned master layout. The “T” shaped entryway isn’t great but since you can access the two legacy wings from adventure bay the entire park is now built mostly like a universal studios park Whereas DHS just has absolutely zero idea what the hell it wants its master planned layout to be. Full of weird courtyards, dead ends, messy land transitions and everything else I can’t even think of a particularly easy way to remove most of the problems of its layout. I guess the closest was that floated plan around Covid to link rock n roller coaster to the little mermaid which would turn the park into functionally a big circle but that never came to pass