DarthTater asked me to make a new post about this.
It's basically from my observations on the visits I made to Tokyo DisneySea, and which elements just would not work at WDW, besides the obvious, like OLC spending $4 to 6 Billion in building it.
Let's be honest here, Disney as it is now would never, ever, go to the lengths of opening a park as intricate as DisneySea, but there are other factors that don't work in favor of WDW.
These are merely MY opinion, and others can feel free to disagree with me.
One of the big ones is that DisneySea is not as little kid friendly as most of the other parks. They have been making some changes to this, by adding attractions that already exist at WDW, such as Toy Story Mania, and Turtle Talk with Crush.
Another major draw for DisneySea is Fortress Explorations, which is the large, well, fortress you see in all of the promo pictures in front of the Volcano. It is a great area, with lots of activities...and stairs....and more stairs...and small crevices...and more stairs....and hidden walkways...and more stairs...and small interior spaces. Basically Kryptonite to anyone in an ECV or wheelchair.
I don't think there's any real elevators, and that just would never work at WDW without some MAJOR, MAJOR re-working.
There is also a boat outside that you can climb all over, with more narrow stairs, crevices, etc. There's a few things you can push, cannons you can "shoot" from, telescopes to view other parts of the park, etc.
Mysterious Island is another place with lots of stairs, if you choose to really explore it. I'm just trying to compare that to the WDW parks where stairs are very rarely found, or there's always elevators nearby. Tokyo is chock full of stairways, so people are used to it.
Another section, which I may be a bit over-stating, is the Arabian section, home to an Aladdin show and the Sinbad boat ride. Overall there is nothing to dislike here, except the first time I saw this, I thought...I dont' think something this arabian would ever fly for the average closed-minded American tourist.
Yes, we have a Morocco section at Epcot that was before all of this sentiment about un-trustworthy middle-easterners developed in the U.S. (not that Morocco is even in the Middle east or arabia, but culturally similar)
I may be wrong, but I just don't see Disney taking that leap.
Hotel Mira-Costa is a very nice hotel with direct access to the park. Yes it IS expensive to stay there, but not more than the WDW hotels I don't believe. And you know what would happen if they built that at WDW...............DVC....DVC....DVC.
We also probably wouldn't get all of the unique popcorn flavors that both Tokyo parks have...people would complain too much that there isn't any "plain" popcorn.
It's basically from my observations on the visits I made to Tokyo DisneySea, and which elements just would not work at WDW, besides the obvious, like OLC spending $4 to 6 Billion in building it.
Let's be honest here, Disney as it is now would never, ever, go to the lengths of opening a park as intricate as DisneySea, but there are other factors that don't work in favor of WDW.
These are merely MY opinion, and others can feel free to disagree with me.
One of the big ones is that DisneySea is not as little kid friendly as most of the other parks. They have been making some changes to this, by adding attractions that already exist at WDW, such as Toy Story Mania, and Turtle Talk with Crush.
Another major draw for DisneySea is Fortress Explorations, which is the large, well, fortress you see in all of the promo pictures in front of the Volcano. It is a great area, with lots of activities...and stairs....and more stairs...and small crevices...and more stairs....and hidden walkways...and more stairs...and small interior spaces. Basically Kryptonite to anyone in an ECV or wheelchair.
I don't think there's any real elevators, and that just would never work at WDW without some MAJOR, MAJOR re-working.
There is also a boat outside that you can climb all over, with more narrow stairs, crevices, etc. There's a few things you can push, cannons you can "shoot" from, telescopes to view other parts of the park, etc.
Mysterious Island is another place with lots of stairs, if you choose to really explore it. I'm just trying to compare that to the WDW parks where stairs are very rarely found, or there's always elevators nearby. Tokyo is chock full of stairways, so people are used to it.
Another section, which I may be a bit over-stating, is the Arabian section, home to an Aladdin show and the Sinbad boat ride. Overall there is nothing to dislike here, except the first time I saw this, I thought...I dont' think something this arabian would ever fly for the average closed-minded American tourist.
Yes, we have a Morocco section at Epcot that was before all of this sentiment about un-trustworthy middle-easterners developed in the U.S. (not that Morocco is even in the Middle east or arabia, but culturally similar)
I may be wrong, but I just don't see Disney taking that leap.
Hotel Mira-Costa is a very nice hotel with direct access to the park. Yes it IS expensive to stay there, but not more than the WDW hotels I don't believe. And you know what would happen if they built that at WDW...............DVC....DVC....DVC.
We also probably wouldn't get all of the unique popcorn flavors that both Tokyo parks have...people would complain too much that there isn't any "plain" popcorn.
). But are there hidden trails & places inside the volcano to explore, in the likes of Tom Sawyer's Island, where you have to be looking in the right place to find something hidden? I've seen in videos where you walk under rocks, past waterfalls, etc. But are there more areas in the volcano not shown often?
