Disney Story Realms, Part II: The Continued Journey Through a Reimagined Disney Adventure World at Disneyland Paris

In the time-honored tradition of me yapping too much about theme parks, we find ourselves here – in a “Part II” of our walk through a transformed Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris. As you hopefully noticed, Park Lore is 100% ad-free and powered by supporting Members, not pageviews. So I promise, the inconvenience of clicking to a second feature is merely because these Build-Outs are too image-heavy to be contained in one article.

If you haven’t already, I recommend starting your tour in Part I, which covered the basics about the park and the first half of its themed lands. But so far, by simply removing pesky little irritations like budget, time, and corporate constraints, we have reestablished Disneyland Paris’ second gate as Disney Story Realms – a park that both celebrates fantastic worlds born of books and arranges those worlds as a timeline of Disney’s adaptations of them.

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Stories Untold: An Armchair-Imagineered Build-Out Reimagining of Disney Adventure World at Disneyland Paris

“Once upon a time…” It’s likely that since you’re reading this, you know something about what I do here on Park Lore. But just in case you need caught up, it all started with over a hundred wildly in-depth histories I’ve written about legendary lost attractions, never-built theme park concepts, famously-failed rides, and the modern marvels of themed entertainment design.

That “Legend Library” is still the foundation of this site. But in the years since, I’ve tried to work toward something bigger – offering ways to see the parks we love through new lenses. That mission has created over a hundred hand-drawn ride layouts, data visualization projects, and hundreds of stories written just for those who support this ad-free, quality-over-quantity theme park storytelling site for even $2/month.

Now at last we get to return to a genre here on Park Lore that I love most: full-scale theme park Build-Outs. Many of us grew up doodling our ideas for what we we do to our favorite parks given unlimited time and money, but I always have to shout out S. W. Wilson of Ideal Build-Out, whose work inspired me to take this mix of art and science seriously. Maybe you’ve even checked out my Build-Outs of California Adventure, Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, Islands of Adventure, and Epic Universe – a growing collection of multiversal variants that I love very deeply…

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