What's so bad about Dinorama?

Originally Posted By vbdad55

<I would hop the first jet to orlando and make sure I got my money's worth from my Annual Pass!!<

DDDG - LOL- I actually had this same thought when typing before...

 

Originally Posted By sherrytodd

Great - only three months left for the world and the parks will be packed.

 

Originally Posted By vbdad55

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

time to start the Fastpass debate again-LOL !

 

Originally Posted By LuvDatDisney

I don't think DinoRama is that bad.

My problem is when Disney decided that tacky roadside carnival is a good theme and people just accept it as Disney quality. It isn't.

Is it better than PP? I think so because PP isn't fully realized. As someone else mentioned earlier if Disney had taken the idea of a seaside pier and took it to the level of a Main Street USA or a New Orleans Square, I doubt people would be so put off by it. They didn't. They went half-assed and it shows.

 

Originally Posted By mrichmondj

I dislike the chain link fence monstrosity of a playground at the entrance to Dinoland much more than the fun rides of Dinorama.

 

Originally Posted By kennect

Tom, Somewhere back there in post 16 you made a comparision to Six Flags...Please tell me where that Six Flag park is that has gone to such incredible detail for a tacky ride setup where the state name is spelled out with license tags from cars.....I am so glad to hear though in this thread there are some people that don't go insane over this section of the park...It is fun and it crass and it makes perfect sense to me...There are so many details, like the parking lot stripes....It might not have cost Disney alot to set this area up but there was creative thought behind....Dino's made out of bottle caps? Yep, you can find that outside of AK if you just happen to be driving the right road sometime....People that don't get this section of the park just don't understand the true meaning of tacky....

 

Originally Posted By Donald75

I enjoy both PP and Chester and Hesters. The one complaint that I have about both is the prizes at the games. Now I don't play those games at amusement parks but I might if they had Disney prizes for the games, but they don't and that makes no sense to me.

 

Originally Posted By sherrytodd

When we were kids, every year for two weeks in the summer, we took the family roadtrip. We drove all over the American West and stopped at all kinds of tacky roadside diversions. I like Dinoland. It reminds me of the family roadtrips of my childhood. I don't know too many people who still take the family driving vacation anymore. We fly everywhere now unless it's within a 10 hour drive. I told my husband that I wanted to plan a roadtrip and he looked at me like I was insane. (not a roadtrip family) Someday, I'm going to force my family into the car and hit the road.

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

My wife and I took at two week road trip a couple of years ago driving from Minneapolis to Los Angeles for five days at Disneyland and then back through Las Vegas for several nights there.

It was probably the best vacation we've ever taken (which is why I'm RoadTrip).

 

Originally Posted By Labuda

Happy birthday Disneyland!

 

Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom

I have driven cross country two times and both times it was fun. Both were long long trips. But I found them to be very educational and scenic. I would like to do it again. Just not in a 1968 Mustang with cherry bomb mufflers.

 

Originally Posted By trekkeruss

I did a cross-country trip last year. The big, tacky roadside attraction I encountered was Wall Drug in South Dakota.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Drug" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
all_Drug</a>

<a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/SDWALdrug.html" target="_blank">http://www.roadsideamerica.com
/attract/SDWALdrug.html</a>

 

Originally Posted By sherrytodd

I think this is why I like Dinorama. We used to pass this every trip when I was a kid...

<a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/CACABdinny.html" target="_blank">http://www.roadsideamerica.com
/attract/CACABdinny.html</a>

 

Originally Posted By vbdad55

<Just not in a 1968 Mustang with cherry bomb mufflers.<

cherry bomb mufflers....now that brings me back -- Hi Jacker air schocks...holly 850 double pumpers...
Gear head attack

 

Originally Posted By Donald75

Nothing beats South Of The Border.

<a href="http://www.pedroland.com/" target="_blank">http://www.pedroland.com/</a>

 

Originally Posted By irishfan

I think if it's tacky roadside attractions you are after, Australia is a world leader! Take a look:

<a href="http://www.alphalink.com.au/~richardb/page4.htm" target="_blank">http://www.alphalink.com.au/~r
ichardb/page4.htm</a>

 

Originally Posted By avromark

What's a 4-barrel carb, is that some sort of new diet?

 

Originally Posted By vbdad55

and dual quads ( carbs) is a diet for bigger eaters- LOL

 

Originally Posted By avromark

Next thing you'll tell me is a sirname.

 

Originally Posted By avromark

(insert) Edelbrock