I guess I did miscount. It would be 6. Sorry I guess California Adventure wins than.
Opinions will vary but if we just base it off rides that feel/ look like Carnival rides DCA wins easily.
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Opinions will vary but if we just base it off rides that feel/ look like Carnival rides DCA wins easily.
Gusey
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Just to point out, Epcot has 0 so is the definitive loser and you could say it is due a flat ride somewhere (maybe a carousel in UK?).Okay Hollywood studios and animal kingdom are tied for last with one each. next Disney Adventure world Hong Kong Disneyland Tokyo Disneyland Disneyland and Disneyland Paris will be tied with 4 when the tangled ride opens in the studio park . then Shanghai Disneyland Disneyland Paris Tokyo DisneySea and Disney California Adventure tie with 5 flat rides. And magic kingdom takes home the gold with a total of 6 flat rides!
I've also counted Tokyo DisneySea at 7 too: Jumpin' Jellyfish, Blowfish Balloon Race, The Whirlpool, Scuttle's Scooters, Caraval Carousel, Jasmine's Flying Carpets and if we're counting Luigi's then we should count Aquatopia, right?
Agent H
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Right and I didn’t include Epcot at all for that reason.
Misted Compass
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My personal definition is any ride that doesn't follow a track layout (beyond a simple loop), isn't a simulator, and doesn't have show scenes. So I would include the Fun Wheel to make 8 flats. DCA's peak number would have been 10, if you add the three Bugs Land rides and strike Emotional Whirlwind out.
I see what you re saying but labeling the ginormous Fun Wheel with the swinging gondolas (only two in the world I believe) as a flat ride just doesn’t feel right to me. For Lady Bug Boogie and the Fun Wheel to have the same classification just doesn’t work for me. Lol
Francis Lady Bug Boogie was the first time I ever really felt like I was riding a carnival ride at Disneyland. Tuck n Roll too. The Pier flat rides at least have the vista, kinetic energy and lights to make up for it. Although King Tritons nipple-go-round was also sad.
PiratesMansion
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Hong Kong has the flying saucer ride as the equivalent, and I believe it is still operating.
Agent H
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That’s not what Wikipedia says.
chadwpalm
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Yes it does.
The Hong Kong equivalent to the Astro Orbiter is the Orbitron which uses flying saucers instead of rockets as @PiratesMansion said.
It is indeed still operating. Perhaps you saw UFO Zone and thought that was what was being talked about. That was just a water playground.
Agent H
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Yes you’re correct I apologize.
Disney Analyst
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Seen a lot of reports online about the parks being crazy right now. What’s going on this time of year?
Micechat mentioned something called Ski Week which I never knew was a thing here. Apparently schools in Northern California and Nevada had the week after Presidents’ Day off but instead of going skiing they all went to Disneyland. Then maybe all the new Magic Keys they re selling + the So Cal 3 day ticket deal? Also $50 kids tickets expire in early March. Plus really nice weather.
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I was there the week before Presidents’ Day and the rain kept people away until the weekend. Our last day there was Sunday and I don’t think I had ever seen it that crowded in the afternoon. Practically every queue was full, and we tried to escape to the Tiki room only to find the courtyard jam full with very little standing space, as the Dole video ended, yes the Gods hadn’t even started talking.
We went back to the Grand and napped as we banked FL and didn’t go back until 6pm when it was much better.
We went back to the Grand and napped as we banked FL and didn’t go back until 6pm when it was much better.
chadwpalm
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Wow til August!? I think it was just a perfect storm of everything I mentioned plus this. I mean how much more is a tier 1 day than a tier 0 day that it would create this much of a sense of urgency? Regardless, on the off chance that that these Tier 0 days are mainly responsible for those crowds I’ll be avoiding anything Tier 0- Tier 2 like the plague.
Edit: now that I’m thinking about it if people were absolutely trying to get in at the lowest price possible combining a tier 0 day for the adults with the $50 kids tickets would be the way to go. The sense of urgency would come from the $50 kid ticket expiring in early March and presumably not available again until next January. The lesson here is avoid Disneyland if possible anytime a promotion is about to end. We know this from late May/ early June when the 3day Special so called ticket expires.
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chadwpalm
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This is the link to the calendar: https://www.disneyticketcalendar.com/dlr.pdf
The Tier-1 ticket is $126, so a $22 difference times a family of four is $88.
The days I went the week before Thanksgiving were Tier-1 and Tier-2 days. They were fairly crowded....at least in the walkways, though the attraction lines weren't really that bad. I think that was a unique case of lower-tier MK's coming to see the decorations/parades before getting blocked out.
Right and if those two kids are 9 or under it’s actually a difference of $196. So I think the kids ticket expiring is what really creates the sense of urgency especially because it’s doesn’t come back until January whereas you’ll have more tier 0 days in August as well as tier 1 days in the coming months.
chadwpalm
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Actually, both of our math is wrong because child tickets are cheaper than adult, so the Tier-1 to Tier-0 savings is really $80, not $88 if the two children are 9 and under.
With the child discount it would be a savings of $176, not $196, but still significant. As busy at it is, you'll want to use some of that savings for some Lightning Lane Multipasses.
chadwpalm
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This now has me thinking......if you plan your trip to go on the $104 day in order to save money, but it is so busy that you'd need to get LL in order to do do the same amount of attractions as a lighter day, are you really saving money in the long run?
Oh really? Not sure why I was under the assumption that kids and adults were the same price? Maybe I forgot because the difference is so insignificant considering all the things my 2 year old under 40 inches couldn’t do that I can.
Anyway I could definitely see why someone would try to do this. Getting a family of four into Disneyland in 2025 for $308 ain’t too shabby.