Disney confirmed that World of Frozen debuts March 29, 2026 at Disneyland Paris resort. In case you missed it, this Frozen-themed land will debut at the park currently known as Walt Disney Studios Park, with that park getting a glow-up and changing its name to Disney Adventure World the same day.

World of Frozen brings one new ride to the park—an updated version of Frozen Ever After. The land will also be home to:

an Anna & Elsa character greeting
a show (“A Celebration in Arendelle”)
quick service restaurant
a store
and thematic elements including the super cool new free-roaming Olaf animatronic.

Frozen Ever After at Walt Disney World’s EPCOT

Also debuting March 29, 2026 in Disney Adventure World is Raiponce Tangled Spin, a new Tangled-themed teacup-style ride. The park will also debut a new nighttime spectacular, Disney Cascade of Lights.

Sometime down the road, the park will get a new Lion King land, along with a flying carousel themed to Up.

What This Means for Touring Disney Adventure World

These two new rides bring the ride count over at Disney Adventure World up to a respectable 13—more than full-day parks EPCOT and Hollywood Studios. Overall, I think this should be an improvement for touring the park. Let’s start with my general idea before closing with some (pretty obvious) specifics.

Mickey and the Magician, a great show at Walt Disney Studios Park

Disney Adventure World - Full Day Park?

The park soon to be known as Disney Adventure World is, for lack of a better word, an annoying park to tour in its current state. The overall quality of the park merits half a day, but the balance of shows (some of which are really good), ride capacity, and crowd levels often means the park requires 3/4 a day to experience. Everyone is trying to force the park into half of a day, which pushes midday waits up to arguably unreasonable levels.

You wind up waiting 45 minutes for rides like Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop in the middle of the day not because the ride is worth 45 minutes, but simply because there’s nothing better to do other than wait for rides (assuming you’ve accounted for the shows).

Of course, you can punt the rides until the evening, but then you’re just stuck in the park longer than you need to be. This also gets complicated by the fact that the park often has limited hours of, for example, 9:30AM to 7PM.

As I put it in my current itinerary for the park, “the perfect day at Walt Disney Studios boils down to 20% planning and 80% patience.”

I’m not sure Frozen Ever After and Raiponce Tangled Spin will add enough ride capacity to offset the increased demand the expansion generates, but that’s not really the point. The point is that if you take those two rides, plus everything else in World of Frozen, plus the new nighttime spectacular, you’ve got a “full-day park.”

Hopefully the park hours and crowd patterns reflect that people will spend a full day in the park. They’ll feel like it’s a place deserving of and requiring a full day, and they’ll want to stay for the nighttime show. This should result in some more balance—more people spending midday in the great shows, for example, and saving some rides for later in the day.

There’s no such thing as free lunch, and the cost here is that the park will take you more time to experience. That is, it’ll take you even more than you’d expect “current park + two rides” to take you to experience.

To put it most directly for those of you visiting Disneyland Paris on vacation: The Disney Adventure World expansion means a 2-day trip goes from

1.5 days at Disneyland Paris plus 0.5 days at Walt Disney Studios Park

to

1 day at Disneyland Paris plus 1 days at Disney Adventure World.

On a two-day trip, you’ll probably no longer count on an extra half day for the castle park, Disneyland Paris. This doesn’t immediately change how I plan my visits, but if you were on the fence about the third day (in whole or in part), I think there’s good reason to plan for it starting March 29, 2026.

Where to Start in Disney Adventure World

Let’s move onto specific touring thoughts. As always, with something new debuting we’re going to have to see how crowd patterns develop. There’s also still the chance the new land / rides use something like a virtual queue in the initial days. What I write below is basically “how I’d think about the park walking in on March 29, 2026 knowing nothing but what I know now.

Longterm, we’ll need to see if Frozen Ever After matches the popularity of Crush’s Coaster (and, longterm, we’ve also got the Lion King land and Up ride). In the immediate term of March 29, 2026 and shortly thereafter, Frozen Ever After is going to be the ride to start your day at.

You can see from various models and concept art—including the above map I drew on—that World of Frozen is at the back of the park (say, 12 o’clock). Heading counterclockwise brings you past the yet-unbuilt Lion King Land and then to Avengers Campus. Heading instead clockwise brings you to Worlds of Pixar.

On March 29, 2026, I’d be leaving Frozen Ever After and heading back to Worlds of Pixar. It would be great if Crush’s Coaster was a viable second ride, but if it isn’t I’d still have Remy’s, Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop, and RC Racer to choose between. Continue in that direction to get to Tower of Terror and Avengers Campus.

But if this winds up the dominant strategy, and if there’s a pathway available from World of Frozen to Avengers Campus, it’s possible that going the opposite direction will be the better approach. As with all touring strategy, we’ll have to see how it actually shakes out.

Altogether it’s an exciting time to be a Disneyland Paris fan, and I’m (cautiously—always cautiously) optimistic we’re in the midst of a genuine theme park glow up. It’s remarkable to think that the Disney Adventure World of 2030 will feel like a totally different park from the Walt Disney Studios Park of 2025. And it all kicks off March 29, 2026!

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