Originally Posted By Kusin_It there's this Charley brown holloween special and the other kids got candies for trick and treats but charlie brown was given rocks japan has this park Disney seas that just opened in 2001 and we got california adventures the same time. we got a rock
Originally Posted By Kusin_It california adventures does have some nice things though like radiator racers and tower of terrors and the grizzly peaks. some food is good too the new carthay is cool but we don't have exploding volcanoes and great underground rides or extravagant detailing like japan.
Originally Posted By Kusin_It have any of you seen those disney seas? they look phenomenal. delicious enough to eat. too bad we did not get those here. imagine that. japan is doing it better than us. oh the irony
Originally Posted By Kusin_It who you callin' "granny"? I might be younger than you. and if anything at all I would be a "grandpappy" sometime in very distant future since I'm a married man but no children, yet. but we're working on it : )
Originally Posted By Kusin_It anywhodles, i think it's a crime that they get the underground dark ride volcanoes and we get the plain jane california screams and malibumer and their tower of terrors are more immersive. as reagan from exhorcist would say: "IT BURNS" just ain't right.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Unlike most people here, and certainly the OP, I've been to Tokyo DisneySea several times in the last decade. It's aesthetically a very pretty park, an it has impressive visuals. But it is very light on attractions, and those attractions it does have are very light on Disney magic. It's been changing lately with the addition of Tower of Terror and Midway Mania, but certainly the 2001 roster of attractions weren't really connected to Disney in any way. But visually, it's beautiful. But why are we having this 2001 discussion in 2015? Did someone's iMac freeze up in '01 and get stuck in LP's notoriously slow server response for 14 years?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>But it is very light on attractions, and those attractions it does have are very light on Disney magic.<< I guess it depends how you define Disney magic, but I think that the scale and scope of the attractions is classic Disney. Sure, there's relatively little that's tied to the popular films, but I think that Journey is sort of a modern-day Pirates, where they take a concept that isn't a part of the existing Disney portfolio and do it in a way that only Disney could To me, that's what sets Disney's parks apart from the rest. Anybody can make a character-based attraction or land, but it's far more rare to see things as groundbreaking as Pirates, the American Adventure, Tower of Terror, or Journey to the Center of the Earth. Sure, there's not much Disney-branded-magic, but that's never what set them apart for me I agree that TDS is a little light on attractions (even though the roster is E-ticket heavy), but I think the place just oozes with the Disney Difference. It's tough to describe, but it's unmistakable in person
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>japan has this park Disney seas that just opened in 2001 << 'Just' ?? 14 years? A decade and a half ago? I wouldn't call that - 'just'. LOL Yes ... it's quite puzzling ... in the same year ... OLC commissioned one of the best parks in Disney history ... while in contrast .... we got that sucky thing called (pick any number of DCA Nicknames from the "DCA: Nicknames" topic) Disney's Curious Anomaly, for example. DCA has improved ... but it's still got a way to go ... to be worth $99 for the day! If I had to pick between the two, TODAY, ... I'll take DisneySea.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Yes, but given the different ownership structure it is pretty irrelevant to compare the two.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "DCA has improved ... but it's still got a way to go ... to be worth $99 for the day!" I love the place, and shell out the money, but I feel the same about DL, tbh. Especially on days when 40,000-50,000 people are squeezed inside and you can only hit 5 or 6 rides and stand on your aching feet with thousands jockeying to watch a parade or fireworks. Again, I love it, but my Disneyland addiction is painfully expensive and sometimes hard to justify.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros ^^Not only did TDS open shortly after DCA 1.0, it also opened right before Walt Disney Studios Parc which was even more lackluster. The 3 parks opened within 13 months of each other (February 8, 2001; September 4, 2001; March 16, 2002) with the nicest one being right in the middle of that timeframe I understand the reasoning for the low-budget parks, but it's just interesting to see them being completed at the same time as Disney's most lavish and extravagant park ever built (not quite as ambitious or revolutionary as EPCOT Center, but that's completely okay, given the end product). I can't help but wonder what it was like in WDI at that time, with the 3 design teams working in close quarters on projects with vastly different scope. Yes, this is all a decade and a half old, but it's just a really fascinating situation to me
Originally Posted By FerretAfros (Post 19 in response to #16) >>Especially on days when 40,000-50,000 people are squeezed inside and you can only hit 5 or 6 rides...<< I've often heard of ride counts that low at DL, but I just can't wrap my head around them. I've visited on plenty of days that were packed to the gills, but never had trouble getting tons of rides in. Even with peak crowds, it's rare to see the E-ticket waits above 75 minutes, and there are plenty of 'lesser' attractions that never go over 30 minutes I could understand running into that problem in some of the WDW parks (heck, the Studios only has 5 rides total) or even DCA, but I've never had that issue at DL. It's one of the things that makes it a really special place, and very different from any of the other parks in Disney's empire
