What if Disneyland Paris either didn’t fail or never existed?

[pumpkinbot343]

A lot of planned Disney concepts in the 90s were canned due to Paris’s failure. If either that park was instead somehow a success back then in 1992 or instead someone had the good idea to tell Eisner to make a park elsewhere, how do you think Disney would have realistically been like in the 90s and now?

 

[TheUniC6]

We would have gotten WESTCOT instead of DCA for starters...

 

[Jerroddragon]

Westcot would have happened more then Likely.....ohh god....what have we done?

 

[Andysol]

Westcot would’ve happened for sure. And a good chance we would have gotten Disney’s America.

And- butterfly effect means Frank Wells likely doesn’t die in the helicopter crash.

Which means Pixar isn’t Disney. Which means Chapek never happens. Universal buys Star Wars and doesn’t ruin it. Trump never runs for office. Canada is our friend again but we lose men’s hockey this Olympics.

Something like that.

 

[Freak]

Disneyland Paris failing was a major cannon-event in the theme park world.

Westcot was scrapped.

Disney Decade….Gone…..reduced to atoms.

Beastly Kingdom now begone kingdom.

Imagineering laid off, now using the scrapped ideas Disney had from DLP’s failure for Universal’s future plans for IoA.

In an alternate timeline where Disney didn’t care about the French market, theme parks would look radically different now.

 

[pumpkinbot343]

Watching YouTube essays about Disney’s past, I’m now not sure if Eisner wouldn’t have screwed up anyways even if the Paris fiasco wasn’t a thing. Michael, as much of a creative he is, always seemed to suffer from jealousy, spite, and plagiarism if the rumors for his motivations for MGM, Animal Kingdom, and DisneyQuest are true.

 

[UniversalRBLX]

Animal Kingdom would have been a more fully built out park at opening day.
Westcot (or something more ambitious) would have been built. Maybe not Tony Baxter's version.
EuroDisney would have gotten a more ambitious 2nd gate. Hybrid of Animal Kingdom and Epcot.

 

[Mad Dog]

Disneyland Paris, an albatross that suffocated Disney.