Disneyland Paris released an aerial promotional image of Disney Adventure World, their brand new second gate that opened to the public on March 29, 2026.
It is a beautiful overhead shot of a park that has been years in the making and genuinely delivers on its promise. Great image. One problem.
Tower of Terror is not in it. Neither is Cars Road Trip. Both attractions are very real, very operational, and very much physically present inside the park. And yet someone at Disneyland Paris, presumably more than one someone given how this process works, made the decision to remove them from the official promotional photograph of their newly opened park.
DLRP Fans on X, posting as @dlrpfans, said what everyone was thinking: “Anybody knows why Disneyland Paris chooses to delete Tower of Terror from this image?”
Anybody knows why Disneyland Paris chooses to delete Tower of Terror from this image ? pic.twitter.com/waRtAXDhoK
— dlrpfans (@dlrpfans) April 21, 2026
No. Nobody knows. Disneyland Paris has not said a word.
Let’s Back Up and Talk About What Disney Adventure World Actually Is
Because context matters here, and the Tower of Terror situation lands very differently once you understand what this park is and what sits next to that building.
Walt Disney Studios Park, which opened in 2002 as the second gate at Disneyland Paris Resort, was arguably the most criticized park in Disney’s global portfolio for most of its existence. Too few rides. A backlot aesthetic that felt cheap. A reputation as a half-day park that guests felt guilty paying full admission to enter. Disney spent years patching it up, most notably by adding Marvel Avengers Campus and expanding the Worlds of Pixar area, but the fundamental problems never fully went away.
In April 2025, Disneyland Paris announced they were done patching. Walt Disney Studios Park would be completely transformed into Disney Adventure World. The original park closed forever on March 28, 2026. The next morning, Disney Adventure World opened as an entirely new theme park, the first new Disney park to debut since Shanghai Disneyland nearly a decade ago.
The new park kept the best parts of what came before. Marvel Avengers Campus is there. The Worlds of Pixar, including Toy Story Playland, is there. The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror is there and currently operating. New additions include World Premiere Plaza, a reimagined entrance area with shops, dining, and a theater. Adventure Way is a new land with Raiponce Tangled Spin, inspired by Tangled, featuring a brand new voice-over recorded by Mandy Moore herself, which is a genuinely delightful detail. Adventure Way also holds Regal View Restaurant and Lounge, a character dining experience with Belle, Aurora, Jasmine, and Ariel, and serves as the prime viewing area for Disney Cascade of Lights, the park’s new nighttime spectacular with pyrotechnics, water effects, aquatic drone technology, and imagery drawn from Mulan, Hercules, Zootopia, Up, and Moana.
The main event of the new park is the World of Frozen, a full land with a Frozen Ever After boat ride similar to what guests know from EPCOT, the Nordic Crowns Tavern, a Royal Encounter with Anna and Elsa, and A Celebration in Arendelle featuring a walk-around Olaf audio-animatronic that sounds absolutely worth seeing.
This is a real park with real new content and a genuinely exciting future ahead of it. Which makes the decision to airbrush two of its existing attractions out of the promotional photo even harder to explain away as a mistake.
Here Is Why the Tower of Terror Omission Is a Big Deal
Disney does not accidentally remove buildings from official photography. That is not how this works. Promotional images at this level go through multiple rounds of review. Someone approved the final version. Someone decided that Tower of Terror and Cars Road Trip should not appear in the image that represents Disney Adventure World to the world.
And here is the part that should make every Tower of Terror fan at least a little nervous.
The Tower of Terror at Disney California Adventure Park no longer exists as Tower of Terror. In 2017, Disney converted that attraction into Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout, rethemed to fit the Avengers Campus aesthetic that was planned for the surrounding area. The building shell stayed. The drop ride system stayed. The Twilight Zone identity, the story, the theming, all of it was replaced with a Guardians of the Galaxy experience.
Disney Adventure World has an Avengers Campus. The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror sits directly in its vicinity, in precisely the same kind of adjacency situation that existed at Disney California Adventure before the California retheme happened. The building type is identical. The Marvel land relationship is identical. And now Disneyland Paris is publishing official images of their newly opened park that scrub the building from existence.
Disney has made zero announcements about any plans to retheme Tower of Terror at Disney Adventure World. The ride is running. Nothing official has changed. But a picture is worth a thousand words, and this particular picture is shouting something very specific to anyone who has been paying attention to how Disney handles these transitions.
What This Means If You Are Planning a Disney Trip
Here is the honest, practical version of this conversation.
If riding the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disneyland Paris is on your bucket list, the time to do it is now. Not next year. Not when you eventually get around to a Disneyland Paris trip. Now, while the attraction is confirmed open and the experience you want still exists in the form you want to experience it.
A Tower of Terror retheme at Disney Adventure World, if it happens, would not destroy the park. If the California version is any indication, what replaces it would be a well-themed, popular attraction that fits the surrounding land perfectly. But it would not be Tower of Terror, and once it is gone it is gone in the same way that California’s version is gone.
For guests less attached to Tower of Terror specifically, Disney Adventure World is worth a visit right now on its own merits. The World of Frozen is brand new and genuinely impressive. The dining options, particularly the new character dining at Regal View and whatever comes out of Nordic Crowns Tavern, are the kind of experiences a food-focused Disney fan should have on their list. More is coming to the park too, including an Up spinning carousel, a The Lion King land with a log flume, and planning documents that hint at an Avatar land similar to Pandora at Animal Kingdom, though only the first two have been officially confirmed.
Disney Adventure World is the best version of what this park has ever been and it is still actively getting better. The Tower of Terror question is the cloud hanging over an otherwise very sunny picture.
If a Disneyland Paris trip is anywhere on your radar in the next year or two, now is genuinely the time to start planning it rather than leaving it as a someday trip. Tower of Terror is open today. The World of Frozen is brand new. The dining scene at the new park has real potential and we will be covering it in depth as more guests get through the doors. Check Disneyland Paris availability and start building the itinerary. We will have full food and experience coverage of Disney Adventure World coming soon.
