After a brief hiatus, the Question of the Day is back!
Which park has your favorite Fantasyland?
Either Paris or Florida. They're both able to expand upon the "storybook village" aspect found in Fantasylands throughout the world and help establish more of a "world". In Florida, the "village" leads through the forest (Dwarfs/BatB/Mermaid/Pooh/Alice) and towards a place where the circus has come to town; and in Paris, the rivers and gardens help separate the village from the rest of the more "natural" area.
Question of the Day
What is your favorite Fantasyland dark ride?
Peter Pan's Flight is pleasant and Winnie the Pooh is charming, but my favorite will always be the 1994 Snow White's Scary Adventures. It was able to capture both the light and the dark moments of the classic film, and it was a really beautiful and exciting ride. Plus, it was the first to physically depict the movie's finale, where the Prince awakens Snow White, so I'm very glad to hear that Disneyland will be getting a similar scene, as well.
I love Magic Kingdom's castle, but that's really about it. I enjoy Seven Dwarfs for the kinetic energy it brings to the land, but man the whole thing just feels like such a hodgepodge. The castle courtyard having no actual dark rides is such a huge blow compared to Disneyland's flawless quadrant. The Small World/Peter Pan area is an absolute nightmare. Much has been said about how underwhelming the Beauty and the Beast stuff is especially compared to Tokyo. The Little Mermaid ride is gorgeous but is awkwardly placed behind Mine Train and I always forget it's there. Then you have Storybook Circus which is fine but nothing amazing (at least it's better than DinoRama...) and the really weird Pooh/Mad Tea Party area which SLAMS right into the Tomorrowland Speedway with absolutely no transition whatsoever.
At least you guys have BY FAR the better Tomorrowland
As someone far more familiar with WDW, here is a rebuttal.
I know it's physically impossible, but there's a reason I'd love to have "it's a small world" moved to the other side of the park, if only to clear up the bottleneck. If not that, then just move it up. I know that in the past, I admitted that I'd love to bring Pooh's Hunny Hunt over to Florida, but the OLC deal is there, and the Winnie the Pooh ride we have is, as I said, charming, so I think it'd be easier to just drain the ride, move it up a few inches to get rid of the bottleneck, give it a better exterior, and problem solved!
Frankly, I feel that both Florida and Tokyo have underwhelming Beauty and the Beast areas. Sure, Tokyo's got the better Beast's Castle exterior, but the ride within...yeah, it's not that good.
The reason why the Pooh/Teacups area seems a little off is because Pooh was retroactively added into the "Enchanted Forest" portion of the area
(hence why they changed the entrance in 2010), and I think if Wonderland got a few more additions, it could be considered part of the "Enchanted Forest" as well. Likewise, there's a reason all my ideas for improving the modern Magic Kingdom involve replacing the Fantasyland side of the Speedway with a clone of Disneyland's Alice in Wonderland ride. I think the Speedway needs to go. In fact, I'd say Autopia is a deader than disco concept if there ever was one. Tokyo and Hong Kong already got rid of theirs, so I'd say it's high time for the rest of the resorts to get in line. Plus, I'd say turning Cosmic Ray's into something like Tokyo's Queen of Hearts Banquet Hall would help to smooth the transition from the Hub into Fantasyland. But then, where would Sonny Eclipse perform? And what would replace the Speedway on the Tomorrowland side? I'm sure Disney would want to highlight the TRON canopy, so just maybe a path or something?
