Originally Posted By JenniBarra >>Doug instead of meeting in Orange County, I think you should meet at my house up in Oregon. It just makes more sense.<< Constance, Doug's chapter is just one of many. Go to <a href="http://disneyanafanclub.org/" target="_blank">http://disneyanafanclub.org/</a> to see if there's one near you.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>DCA has always lacked areas to sit and relax.<< No argument there. I think they are trying to address that in recent changes, though.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>I think you should meet at my house up in Oregon.<< I grew up in Oregon. My mom still lives up there in Portland.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Thanks Jenni! "I grew up in Oregon. My mom still lives up there in Portland." Doug, my god! I didn't know this! We're practically related!
Originally Posted By TP2000 Fern bar?!? A topic is started with the words "fern bar" in the first sentence?! No wonder I was drawn to LP as if by God today... DCA is changing so quickly. I pop in every couple of weeks and walls have moved again, things are removed, stuff has disappeared, etc. But the pictures don't do much of this stuff justice. For instance, the Carthay Circle Theater is much taller and bigger in real life than it looks on pictures. It really looms over that new plaza they are constructing, and it should become the new icon by which people associate the park with. The other thing that looks better in real life is the detail work on the new buildings, most recently Paradise Garden area. The detailing is just so thorough and intricate, it's hard to pick up in the pictures. That little corner is going to look and feel fantastic when it opens next weekend, I can already tell. And finally, the materials they are using are top quality. The Mermaid load area as an example feels and looks very expensive, a sensory experience you really can't relay in pictures and video. The accesories are either custom designed and fabricated, or they went to the ends of the earth to find little finials and finishing touches that mesh perfectly with the themed building. Either way, it's impressive. It's an amazing 180 degree turn from the original facilities, most of which looked like their hardware and accesories were picked out of an architectural design catalog for mid-level office parks being built in the suburbs. But this new DCA stuff? It all looks custom designed and unlike anything you would find in a suburban office park or decent shopping center. The new details of DCA are really quite impressive, and are hard to pick up via pictures online. The place is going to look amazing a year from now!
Originally Posted By WorldDisney DCA 1.0 sucked harder than a Hoover vacum cleaner trying to clean up road kill! Some of it was decent, but most of it was beyound awful. I went back to the park a few weeks since last year and yeah it feels like a completely different park and feel now! They are doing a great job getting away the most offensive areas and have plussed the dull areas better. You can tell people really DO notice the difference---because there are actually people around now . Next year will feel like a different park entirely and I for one CANT WAIT!! I will miss some things about DCA 1.0 but it was still a disaster. DCA 2.0 is getting closer to the feel and spirit of a true Disney park! The morons who built the first one gave it the spirit of a KBF park mixed with a little USH and that was the problem from day one.
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf I see the current changes as laying a foundation for the future rather than fixing the park. It seems to me that DCA will soon be ready (post-CarsLand) for a Disneyland-like development process: upgrades here and there, a new attraction once in a while, etc. Just like Disneyland was 40 years ago, there are endless possibilities for changes, upgrades and additions. But it took some radical infrastructural changes to get to that point. If they treat DCA as well as its big brother next door over the coming decades, the park should evolve into something extraordinary over time.
Originally Posted By Bobwelbaum Ahem. <a href="http://www.disneyanafanclub.org/home" target="_blank">http://www.disneyanafanclub.org/home</a>
