When Disneyland first opened, many of the already existing amusement parks across the nation had dark rides that were similar to the ones developed for Disneyland. Those dark rides usually were scary. Walt seemed to want to show that you could build scary dark rides that were also whimsical...
On our first Disney cruise, while in Barcelona, we noticed that there were six cruise ships in port and that the Disney Magic was by far the smallest; but still one of my favorite ships.