Fantasy Springs is the brand new land themed to Frozen, Tangled, and Peter Pan below building at Tokyo DisneySea. This covers every little thing it’s good to know: official opening date & invitation previews, journey & restaurant particulars, and solutions to questions on accessing the land, potential gentle openings, and extra. (Up to date March 20, 2024.)
Oriental Land Firm, the proprietor and operator of the Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea in Japan, is embarking on essentially the most bold enlargement venture of its parks in over 20 years with Fantasy Springs. This huge scale enlargement options a number of rides, eating places, retail, and a luxurious resort. It has a blockbuster price range of 320 billion yen, which is over $2 billion USD.
The overarching inspiration for Fantasy Springs (there’s nonetheless time to name it FantaSea Springs, OLC!) is a magical spring resulting in a world of Disney fantasy. It’s principally a Fantasyland-style port that brings Frozen, Tangled, and Peter Pan to Tokyo DisneySea, with separate mini-areas for every in a single port of name that’s tied collectively through magical springs.
Not calling it FantaSea Springs is a missed alternative, however given the extent of funding, we are able to’t complain an excessive amount of. Fantasy Springs will likely be a record-setting addition to what’s already the most effective theme park on this planet. That park is already lavish, and it will turn into (by far) its most costly port of name.
Fantasy Springs would be the most costly enlargement to any current theme park anyplace, ever. It’ll value triple the quantity of the current Tokyo Disneyland ‘giant scale’ addition that included a Magnificence and the Beast mini-land and extra, and over double the price of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Automobiles Land, or Pandora.
The distinction between Fantasy Springs and all the aforementioned additions is that DisneySea’s new port will characteristic 4 new sights, three eating places, and one reward store. Three of the brand new sights will likely be boat rides, which is becoming for Tokyo DisneySea. It’s unclear how lavish the rides will likely be, however we’re anticipating at the least two of them to be E-Ticket sights.
Talking of which, let’s begin by taking a brand new take a look at every of those ports, overlaying the brand new particulars in regards to the Frozen, Tangled, and Peter Pan areas of the port!
Frozen Kingdom – Set after the occasions of the Disney Animation movie Frozen, the Arendelle space of Fantasy Springs is stuffed with happiness now that Queen Elsa has embraced her powers to create ice and snow.
Within the ‘Frozen Kingdom’ miniland (as its formally identified), the Kingdom of Arendelle has been returned to its former glory and company can go to whereas immersing themselves in a festive temper. On the far finish of the Frozen Kingdom are towering snow capped mountains with a number of cascading waterfalls. Within the distance, close to the summit of North Mountain, Elsa’s ice palace glistens proudly, coated in snow.
The journey in Frozen Kingdom known as Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Journey attraction (#1 within the idea artwork above); it follows the story of the movie, company board a ship and luxuriate in an epic and heartwarming story of two sisters that uncover solely real love can thaw a frozen coronary heart. Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Journey additionally options the movie’s well-known songs, together with “Do You Wish to Construct a Snowman?,” “For the First Time in Eternally” and “Love Is an Open Door,” the duet sung by Anna and Hans on the high of the clock tower.
Friends can even be capable to benefit from the fan-favorite “Let It Go,” sung by Elsa as she climbs North Mountain, the place she creates an ice palace together with her powers. The climax of the attraction depicts Anna turning to ice in an try to avoid wasting Elsa from Hans. In Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Journey, company can stay up for seeing how the occasions of the story play out, whereas delighting in a story of journey and real love.
OLC describes Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Journey as a ship journey that’s roughly 6.5 minutes lengthy. Which means that Anna & Elsa’s Frozen Journey is barely longer than Frozen Ever After. In contrast to the ‘World of Frozen’ at Hong Kong Disneyland, this attraction isn’t an upgraded clone of Frozen Ever After.
In Frozen Kingdom, company can dine on the Royal Banquet of Arendelle restaurant situated in Arendelle Fort (#2), which has each an indoor eating space and a coated out of doors eating space with views of the fjord cliffs and mountains within the distance. Friends also can cease by Oaken’s OK Meals (#3), run by Oaken, the proprietor of the buying and selling submit and sauna that’s featured within the movie.
Royal Banquet of Arendelle is a counter service restaurant and Oaken’s OK Meals is taken into account a small snack spot. Our expectation is that the latter is a quick-service window with a restricted menu, whereas the previous is a large-scale counter service restaurant on par with Be Our Visitor Restaurant at Magic Kingdom.
Rapunzel’s Forest – Bringing to life the world of the Walt Disney Animated Movie Tangled is Rapunzel’s Forest. Within the valley rises the tower the place the lengthy haired princess Rapunzel has lived since she was a toddler.
At evening, your complete forest is bathed in heat gentle emanating from Rapunzel’s tower, lamps lining the paths, a glowing restaurant, boathouse home windows, and lanterns hanging from the boats.
In Rapunzel’s Forest, company can benefit from the Rapunzel’s Lantern Pageant journey (#1), and expertise the eponymous character’s “finest day ever” as she falls in love with Flynn Rider on a romantic boat journey to the annual Lantern Pageant. Rapunzel’s Lantern Pageant is a 5-minute lengthy boat journey.
For the primary time ever at a Disney park, the story of Rapunzel will come to life at Rapunzel’s Lantern Pageant. On this attraction, company take pleasure in a romantic gondola tour that results in the annual Lantern Pageant, the place they observe Rapunzel as she experiences her “finest day ever” and meets Flynn Rider for the primary time. Friends will make their method in direction of the tower the place Rapunzel lives, and can discover her gazing out of her lofty tower window, singing “When Will My Life Start,” as Flynn Rider watches on.
Rapunzel escapes from the tower and with Flynn Rider at her facet, the 2 develop a powerful bond as they go to numerous places featured within the movie. Rapunzel and Flynn Rider go on to sing “I See the Mild,” and company are enveloped by the glow of numerous lanterns filling the evening sky.
Over at The Snuggly Duckling restaurant (#2), the place the native rough-and tumble crowd gathers, company can take pleasure in a meal in a wide range of atmospheric eating areas. The Snuggly Duckling is a counter service restaurant with a wide range of atmospheric eating areas.
Peter Pan’s By no means Land – Inside Peter Pan’s By no means Land, company turn into members of the Misplaced Children, a bunch of fun-loving, adventurous, and energetic youngsters. In Peter Pan’s By no means Land, company can discover a pirate ship, dine in a secret hideaway, or go on an ideal journey with their buddies as they encounter pirates.
Within the attraction Peter Pan’s By no means Land Journey (#1), company be a part of the Misplaced Children, a bunch of fun-loving and adventurous youngsters, and discover By no means Land with Peter Pan and Tinker Bell to rescue John from Captain Hook and his band of pirates. By boarding a ship and carrying goggles, company will be capable to take pleasure in Peter Pan’s By no means Land Journey in 3D. For security causes, this attraction has a minimal top requirement of 102 cm (~40 inches).
Moreover, company can take pleasure in eating at Lookout Cookout (#2), a restaurant created by the Misplaced Children from components of a shipwreck that had washed ashore, with spectacular views of By no means Land. Lookout Cookout is yet one more counter service restaurant coming to Fantasy Springs at Tokyo DisneySea.
Pixie Hole, the fairy valley the place Tinker Bell lives, can be present in Peter Pan’s By no means Land. Friends can expertise the Fairy Tinker Bell’s Busy Buggies attraction (#3), and assist Tinker Bell as she begins her new supply service in Pixie Hole, whereas visiting 4 seasonal places to ship numerous packages and parcels to the fairies. Fairy Tinker Bell’s Busy Buggies is roughly 2 minutes lengthy, and is the “kiddie journey” in Fantasy Springs.
Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs Resort – The sixth Disney resort in-built Japan, the Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs Resort will likely be located close to the magical spring in Fantasy Springs. Work depicting Disney Princesses in addition to floral motifs may be seen all through the inside of the resort, permitting the world of Fantasy Springs to proceed from the Park to the resort.
Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs Resort is comprised of 419 “deluxe-type” rooms. As well as, there are 56 “luxury-type” rooms, providing company the best lodging expertise at Tokyo Disney Resort.
On the primary ground of Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs Resort is Fantasy Springs Presents (#6), a merchandise store accessible solely from throughout the Park. The brand new Fantasy Springs resort is comprised of two buildings: the Fantasy Chateau (#1) and the Grand Chateau (#2).
The Fantasy Chateau provides “deluxe-type” rooms adorned with motifs of the wildlife of Fantasy Springs, whereas the Grand Chateau provides “luxury-type” rooms which give company with the best lodging expertise at Tokyo Disney Resort.
Moreover, the resort has three eating amenities all dealing with inside Tokyo DisneySea. At Fantasy Springs Restaurant (#3), company can dine buffet-style whereas gazing upon work impressed by the Disney Animation movies Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Tangled and Sleeping Magnificence.
Friends also can take pleasure in Grand Paradis Lounge (#4), a foyer lounge with giant, open home windows. Lastly, there’s La Libellule (#5), which is a restaurant completely for company staying within the Grand Chateau; La Libellule provides views of Fantasy Springs from the elegant eating corridor with French delicacies for a blissful expertise solely a Disney resort can provide.
Right here’s a brand new video exhibiting the development progress over the past a number of years:
That is the most important enlargement to Tokyo DisneySea for the reason that park opened in 2001. In reality, it’s one of many largest developments of any current theme park in historical past, spanning an space of roughly 140,000 m2.
Taking simply over 5 years from the beginning of building in Could 2019, there was a complete funding of roughly 320 billion yen on this venture. Once more, that’s over $2 billion U.S., and would’ve been nearer to $3 billion again when building began, however the greenback has gained an amazing quantity of energy relative to the yen!
Tokyo Disney Resort has introduced that Fantasy Springs will formally open on June 6, 2024.
Previous to the official opening, the brand new “Dreaming of Fantasy Springs” particular occasion will likely be held from April 9, 2024 till June 30, 2024. “Dreaming of Fantasy Springs” at Tokyo DisneySea will characteristic a harbor greeting, decorations, merchandise, and menus all themed to the particular occasion, “Dreaming of Fantasy Springs” will enable company to think about and acquire a greater grasp of the world of Fantasy Springs. Friends will be capable to broaden their creativeness and start dreaming of what sort of magical world awaits them at Fantasy Springs.
Dreaming of Fantasy Springs is not going to provide entry to the land itself; it isn’t a preview occasion. (Extra on these in a bit.)
To enter Fantasy Springs and luxuriate in the brand new places and sights, a Standby Go (freed from cost entry) or Disney Premier Entry (paid entry) for eligible sights in Fantasy Springs will likely be required, along with a legitimate Park ticket for Tokyo DisneySea.
These will likely be obtainable after coming into Tokyo DisneySea, which means there’s going to be an enormous crowd at rope drop that stops of their tracks in Aquasphere Plaza to e-book the free Standby Go or purchase Premier Entry for an attraction within the land and its entry.
Count on different company to run (err…stroll briskly) the mile-long marathon from the entrance of the park to Fantasy Springs. OLC notes that “relying on the group, you could possibly enter with out utilizing the standby or Disney Premier Entry.” This might imply that Standby Go for coming into the land received’t be turned on till Fantasy Springs hits capability.
It’s too early to speak technique specifics, however our preliminary suggestion could be budgeting Disney Premier Entry for each attraction you need to do in Fantasy Springs and planning to purchase that ASAP upon coming into the park. You also needs to arrive an hour earlier than official opening.
Standby Go is accessible on the Tokyo Disney Resort App, and company can receive a Standby Go freed from cost after coming into the Park. Friends will be capable to expertise any of the 4 sights at Fantasy Springs with a Standby Go. As soon as company receive a Standby Go, they’ll be capable to enter Fantasy Springs to discover the brand new space and expertise the chosen attraction at a delegated time.
Disney Premier Entry is accessible for a charge, and company can buy Disney Premier Entry utilizing the Tokyo Disney Resort App after coming into the Park. Friends will be capable to expertise three sights at Fantasy Springs with Disney Premier Entry. With Disney Premier Entry for an attraction at Fantasy Springs, company will be capable to enter Fantasy Springs at a specified time to discover the brand new space and expertise the chosen attraction with a lowered wait time, providing comfort and added flexibility for individuals who want to maximize their go to to this new space.
With a Standby Go or Disney Premier Entry for an attraction in Fantasy Springs, company will be capable to enter Fantasy Springs at a specified time to take pleasure in each the brand new space and the attraction(s).
For these with the price range and restricted time, the best choice for accessing the land and its sights is the 1-Day Passport: Fantasy Springs Magic that permits entry to Fantasy Springs with out getting a Standby Go or buying Disney Premier Entry. This ticket additionally means that you can take pleasure in Tokyo DisneySea.
The brand new 1-Day Passport: Fantasy Springs Magic may be bought ONLY by Fantasy Springs Resort company or these utilizing eligible plans for the Tokyo Disney Resort Trip Bundle. This implies for those who e-book a resort-only reservation for Toy Story Resort or the MiraCosta, you can not buy the 1-Day Passport: Fantasy Springs Magic. It’s just for Fantasy Springs Resort or trip bundle company of the opposite lodges.
The large promoting level of the Fantasy Springs Magic Ticket is that it provides open entry to Fantasy Springs and is principally an limitless FastPass for the sights (minus Fairy Tinker Bell’s Busy Buggies).
The Fantasy Springs Magic Ticket is greater than double the price of a standard Tokyo DisneySea ticket, however for these of us who’re fearful about with the ability to journey every little thing in the identical day, it provides great peace of thoughts. These are solely obtainable to company staying at Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs Resort (which is inconceivable to e-book) or through an eligible Tokyo Disney Resort Trip Bundle plan.
After spending over a dozen hours on the Tokyo Disney Resort website reserving and modifying our personal trip packages (technically ~8 hours of that was spent in digital queues), we’ve got quite a lot of firsthand experience with this course of. That is the primary time we’ve ever completed a Tokyo Disney Resort Trip Bundle, largely as a result of it is also a modest upcharge over shopping for the parts individually.
Nevertheless, our concern was that with out this ticket, it might take 2-3 days to full expertise Fantasy Springs. Maybe extra for us since we’ve got a child and her sleep schedule (and many others.) looks as if an enormous wildcard. Assuming you arrive at park opening, the most effective case situation might be getting a Standby Go for one journey and Premier Entry for one more. It may additionally be doable to do the rope drop sprint to Fantasy Springs and expertise a journey by standby earlier than the crowds construct and the brand new port switches to the digital queue methods. We will see.
Having expertise previously with the opening of Hovering Improbable Flight and different new sights, we all know how aggressive accessing new additions is at Tokyo Disney Resort–and that is subsequent stage in comparison with anything. One factor is for certain–that Fantasy Springs goes to be insanely well-liked and demand will far outstrip capability for a very long time. It’s not simply going to be the opening month or two, both. That is the most important enlargement at Tokyo Disney Resort since 2001; if previous attraction additions are any indication, Fantasy Springs will likely be busy for the subsequent decade-plus.
It’s unclear why OLC is ready till June 6, 2024 to open Fantasy Springs. It could possibly be so simple as work not but being completed on the sights themselves or extra testing & adjusting being vital, regardless of the exteriors wanting nearly-finished for some time now. A number of of those are complicated sights, and Imagineering has a historical past of delays and reliability woes with its current envelope-pushing tech. That is each the obvious and sure rationalization.
One other chance is that June is essentially the most strategically opportune time for Tokyo Disney Resort to formally open Fantasy Springs. Those that observe the U.S. parks have probably seen repeated references to how Disneyland is experiencing delayed pent-up demand as in comparison with Walt Disney World as a result of California reopened later than Florida.
Japan’s reopening has occurred on a later timeline than California or Florida, and Tokyo Disney Resort continues to be seeing sturdy revenge journey amongst home Japanese guests consequently. It’s doable that OLC is ready for pent-up demand to exhaust itself earlier than debuting the subsequent huge draw. No must incentivize visits when individuals are already touring to make up for misplaced time.
Yet one more chance is staffing shortages. Japan has an growing old inhabitants and is reliant on immigration for labor, so the border closure hit the nation’s workforce arduous. There are commercials to work at Tokyo Disney Resort inside trains and stations, on tv, and many others. Given all of that, it could possibly be a matter of OLC projecting that they received’t have sufficient Forged Members to totally employees Fantasy Springs and every little thing else that’ll be wanted till June.
Whatever the cause, Tokyo Disney Resort has now introduced Fantasy Springs preview dates. Friends will likely be chosen by lottery to attend restricted previews of Fantasy Springs from amongst those that have reserved and bought a Trip Bundle, resort reservation or e-Tickets.
For our functions, solely the dates of the previews are related (click on the hyperlink above for those who’re all for the entire course of–but it surely’s actually solely related to those that reside in Japan). These Fantasy Springs previews will likely be held Could 14, 2024 and Could 21-22, 2024. The FUNderful Fan Membership will then have previews Could 28 to June 2, 2024.
Accordingly, gentle openings may happen earlier than or after that. If we needed to guess–and that’s all that is, a guess–we’d anticipate invitation previews past what’s listed above, that additionally lengthen to workers of Tokyo Disney Resort’s many sponsors from Could 14 to 22. In reality, as of March 2024, the preview calendar has crammed up for many dates besides Mondays and Thursdays by means of early June. It’s doable that gentle openings could possibly be held these days, however we’re not essentially anticipating it. Upkeep and take a look at & regulate (to not point out staffing) may dictate the downtime on Mondays and Thursdays.
Wider gentle openings are completely doable–and believable. At this level, I might not financial institution on gentle openings earlier than June 3, 2024–in the event that they do occur previous to then, just about the one days which can be prospects are Mondays and Thursdays.
Wanting again on the progress on the enlargement, Fantasy Springs title was introduced on the joint groundbreaking ceremony and conventional Shinto prayer for protected building held by Oriental Land Firm and the Walt Disney Firm held on the deliberate growth website.
OLC COO Keiichiro Kaminishi, OLC President & CEO Kazumi Toshio, and Disney CEO Bob Iger had been readily available for the ground-breaking, with the latter two providing remarks:
That was again in mid-2019, earlier than the world went sideways. Slightly over a yr later, Tokyo Disney Resort (and each different Disney theme park on this planet) closed. Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea have since reopened, however are nonetheless fairly removed from regular.
We made a few visits to Tokyo Disney Resort after building began. Right here’s a take a look at our final picture of the Fantasy Springs building website:
After a short pause, it has been full steam forward of Fantasy Springs at Tokyo DisneySea, with building shifting ahead even in the course of the closure of Tokyo Disney Resort and states of emergency in Japan.
For reference, the brand new resort abuts Bayside Station, so kind of “throughout the road” from the Toy Story Resort, Sheraton, and Hilton (the above picture was taken from the Hilton). The Tangled and Peter Pan areas will roughly be situated behind Arabian Coast and Misplaced River Delta (respectively) in Tokyo DisneySea, and the Frozen space will likely be behind Toontown and the Magnificence and the Beast space in Tokyo Disneyland.
In my commentary to the preliminary announcement, I expressed some trepidation. Particularly, that this additional cartoonifies Tokyo DisneySea, a park that was initially constructed with a extra mature viewers in thoughts. That is still a priority, and one which I feel is legitimate given Japan’s growing old inhabitants.
With out query, Fantasy Springs will likely be an ideal draw when it comes to present visitor demographics at Tokyo Disney Resort. The way it’ll maintain up in a decade or two stays to be seen. When it was constructed, Tokyo DisneySea had the long-term in thoughts. There was a gradual pivot from that as extra quick returns could possibly be seen from a character-centric method.
Thematically, I’ve began to return round on Fantasy Springs. Selfishly, I’d love for Tokyo DisneySea to be a treasure trove of authentic ideas and deeper dives into grittier mental property. A part of why I immediately fell in love with Tokyo DisneySea is as a result of it carried ahead the torch of EPCOT Middle in its personal method.
With that mentioned, Tokyo DisneySea has at all times shoehorned sights and ideas into the park. Its important sense of thematic integrity and cohesion comes from the assorted waterways and the themed ports themselves.
On an attraction stage, it’s arduous to say that Indiana Jones Journey, Journey to the Middle of the Earth, or Tower of Terror–universally beloved DisneySea rides–have any logical nexus to the ocean.
These sights, together with others at Tokyo DisneySea, succeed due to the best way they’re framed within the overarching themes of the park. They’re not scrutinized as a result of they’ve been there for the reason that earlier period of Tokyo DisneySea, and they only work. (They’re most likely additionally given a cross by followers as a result of they’re distinctive sights that don’t search to focus on well-liked, arguably overused animated movies.)
Fantasy Springs has the identical potential. It may body this magical springs characteristic a number of animated properties in a method that cohesively works with the remainder of Tokyo DisneySea.
If something, these explicit films are higher suits for DisneySea than the sights talked about above–all of animated movies characteristic water and their rides will make the most of boats. Positive, Fantasy Springs may be treading a bit near Fantasyland, but when the land itself is exclusive and compelling (and the idea artwork certain makes that look to be the case), I doubt many individuals will fear about that.
This is only one of a number of big initiatives to broaden Tokyo Disney Resort, which is pictured within the map above. (The blue space is Tokyo DisneySea and the inexperienced is Tokyo Disneyland.)
The underside yellow space is a brand new Toy Story resort, the higher left yellow space is a brand new parking construction, and the pink is that this Fantasy Springs enlargement, which replaces a car parking zone between the parks and Bayside Station.
The stable inexperienced space in Tokyo Disneyland is the Magnificence and the Beast mini-land (and Fantasyland enlargement) at Tokyo Disneyland, which value of $750 million. The stable blue space within the middle-ish space of Tokyo DisneySea is Hovering: Improbable Flight. This new attraction debuted three years in the past. As you may see from what OLC has launched, this will likely be an extremely lavish presentation of Soarin.
Total, we’re extremely enthusiastic about the way forward for Tokyo Disney Resort. Whereas we completely love the Japan parks, the extent of capital invested on new sights within the final decade had been lagging behind the US parks.
This plus the aforementioned additions and the forthcoming new Area Mountain at Tokyo Disneyland repair all of that. If TDR can carry again extra leisure together with these additions, Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea will simply maintain the titles of #1 and #2 Disney theme parks on this planet.
We’re past hyped for Fantasy Springs at Tokyo DisneySea, however we’ve additionally been very intently following its growth. Whereas initially apprehensive about Tokyo DisneySea shedding its extra subtle high quality, the park admittedly does want extra for youthful audiences, and the port’s ambition stage is simply off the charts. As needs to be anticipated with a price range of $2.3 billion for what’s basically a single land and resort. We will’t wait to get again to Japan, and luxuriate in yet one more giant scale enlargement in June 2024!
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