Disney-MGM Studios Paris

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The Disney-MGM Studios Paris was to be a theme park at the Euro Disney Resort in Marne-la-Vallee, France, next door to Euro Disneyland.

The park was to be the second Disney-MGM Studios theme park, the first being in Lake Buena Vista, Florida at the Walt Disney World Resort. However, the Euro Disney Resort suffered from massive financial losses, and the plans for the theme park were scrapped almost immediately after going into official development. The park was projected to have opened in 1996, just four years after the opening of the resort. It was to have featured a version of The Great Movie Ride with motion pictures made in European countries.

However, after the resort was renamed to the Disneyland Resort Paris in 1996, and many significant changes were made to Euro Disneyland (now called Disneyland Paris at this point), the resort began to make a profit, and plans for a movie themed theme park went into development again. In 2002, the Walt Disney Studios Park opened, and Disneyland Paris was renamed Disneyland Park. However, the new theme park does not share any of the original concepts for the Disney-MGM Studios Paris, which was to be more art deco in appearance like its American counterpart. The new theme park is much more like a studio lot, but does feature some Pueblo Deco style designs.