Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Although I can agree with those statements, I think that the one fact that is escaping everyones attention is that even with the quality decline at WDW it is still better than anything those one timers have ever experienced. It still has quality just not as much as before.<< True...but only when yoou take the Disney name in concideration. There are so many more places on this Earth that I would rather spend a vacation at... and some of them are cheaper than what people pay to come to Disney World.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "It really is like its own fantasy world, kinda like how driving onto the property is like going through the wardrobe into Narnia." That's interesting, because that's also how I feel about DL. There, you enter, and then there is all this amazing stuff somehow fit into this pretty tiny land area. In WDW, the giant size of it sort of makes it feel like you're just going to this huge compound that they own and there is no intereaction from the outside world. In DL, there seems to be this almost magical way that it all fits together and you can go all the way around it, similar to the wardrobe. I guess the large scale of WDW seems to parallel the movie version of Narnia, but at the same time, I think I know someone who much prefers the intimate scale of the BBC version of the show. : )
Originally Posted By ophellia I have been an AP at DL for 10 years, I LOVE DL...but my friend temporarily relocated to Florida and wants me to come once a year for the next 3 years, I feel like I am being disloyal to DL, that's silly I know...but will I love WDW too??? I hope so...?
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Do yourself a favor and DO COME DOWN to WDW. Make up your own mind how you liked it or not. I have never felt disloyal to any of the parks when visiting the other ones.. as the more knowledgeable I am about them, the more I can appreciate their good things and bad things.
Originally Posted By Labuda "I have been visiting TDR on a monthly basis since 1989" You know I love you dearly, TDLFAN, but times like this I hat your guts.
Originally Posted By ophellia ok, I'm in...should I dive into the MK at WDW, or avoid the obvious comparisan and enjoy the other options at wdw? Does wdw still really have a Swiss Family Tree House? Wow!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I think that is exactly what you need to do. Come and make up your mind.. There are so many things that WDW has to offer that can't be found at DLR. DAK alone if worth coming to WDW, and then, you can have fun comparing the things that are found at both DL and MK/WDW parks as well... and finding out how much nicer they are at DL is worth a trip to WDW as well.. so be my guess and visit WDW!!!!
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> WDW -- there is no interaction from the outside world << Exactly. DL is a wonderful island of fantasy surrounded by reality. The separation from the world is illusory, and theatrically well done. WDW's MK is an island surrounded by real forests and real distance. The separation from the world is real, and engineeringly well done. ---------------------- >> I hat your guts << Oh, the sorry state of LP commentors who feel the need to stoop to sartorial insults. Where are the admins?
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Surely, you could tell that she was playing an exaggerated envy about TDLFANs ability to globe hop and see all these other Disney parks. Surely, you could see that. Surely!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I don't know how many people I am going to offendx here but this topic is a rediculous concept. DL vs. WDW? It's like asking which is better, an egg or an omlet.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN True^^^ It should be a comparison between WDW and DLR, or the MK and DL parks only. Of course... no point in asking if TDR is not in the equation..
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <"It really is like its own fantasy world, kinda like how driving onto the property is like going through the wardrobe into Narnia." That's interesting, because that's also how I feel about DL. There, you enter, and then there is all this amazing stuff somehow fit into this pretty tiny land area. In WDW, the giant size of it sort of makes it feel like you're just going to this huge compound that they own and there is no intereaction from the outside world. In DL, there seems to be this almost magical way that it all fits together and you can go all the way around it, similar to the wardrobe. I guess the large scale of WDW seems to parallel the movie version of Narnia, but at the same time, I think I know someone who much prefers the intimate scale of the BBC version of the show. : )> Not exactly. See, the way I'm looking at it, DL is a bit odd in that it's "out of place" right smack dab in the middle of this huge city and civilzation. It feels a little claustrophobic going in knowing that "real life" is pressing in on the sides, just trying to get at you (which thankfully it does not)--or maybe I'm biased on that point because I just saw that creepily-claustrophobic aerial picture on plantsofdisneyland.com's home page, LOL. ;-) But still, it's a more "congested" feeling *getting* there. In WDW, it's much more the Narnian experience of the storyline, of the original book, and both Walden (blech) and BBC (*sigh* )...see, Narnia isn't in a wardrobe in the middle of the train station in crowded, bustling London, which would be the DL parallel. No, you have to take a motorcar and drive far out into the spacious, secluded country (i.e., WDW property in our world), and then go into the Professor's house (the parking lots) and *then* into the Wardrobe---the WDW gates. ;-) That's how I see it as WDW being more like a fantasy realm like Narnia, whichever version you look at.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>It really is like its own fantasy world, kinda like how driving onto the property is like going through the wardrobe into Narnia.<< Interesting quote. Difference is.. Narnia's forrest is covered in snow, and WDW's all ravaged by the hurricanes of 2005. So watch your step and don;t trip on dead trunks.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Especially you Tall. I would not want you to fall down from such heights.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Then again.. DO fall, then sue them for all they've got. We could use new management down here.
