Hello friends- just wanted to spew my thoughts and questions after a recent trip to the Disneyland Resort!
PART ONE
I've spent the last year visiting Walt Disney World so very often (as its pennies to visit compared to a long flight to California from NYC), but on my last visit to WDW the balloon inside me (which was deflating slowing) finally lost it's air. I do love parts of the Walt Disney World resort, but each time I visited I missed the beauty I expect from a Disney park.
Hotels like the Beach Club or Boardwalk are absolutely splendid, pure magic... but the North Korean attempt at a themed resort looming over the splendor simply rips me out of the story (I'm referring to the temple of the almighty Swan and Dolphin). You can't even escape it in Epcot! The endless highways and parking lots are so very evident of a 1970s design. Main Street with its patchwork concrete and carless design really brings me down. The attractions with dull sound, still animatronics, dated lighting and the absence of streetmosphere kept gnawing at me.
The majority of people I speak to often prefer Walt Disney World as their choice of themed entertainment. Most cannot even comprehend why anyone would like tiny, cramped Disneyland over the vacation meca of the world. I can't even explain to them why, as most people wouldn't understand the care and splendor of Disneyland. Too many people don't care what the pavement to Main Street looks like (let alone how it feels to tread upon it), nor the quality of attractions. It wouldn't be understood by most my peers of the simple magic of Mr. Lincoln, the unassuming entrance of Pirates, the kinetic energy of the Disneyland Railroad...
My 7 day trip to Disneyland reconfirmed all my feelings towards this place.
The last two years of Project Stardust has refreshed the park in the best of ways. The colors are dazzling, the pathways are more manageable than ever, and the attractions are in pretty decent shape and best of all- the park really doesn't feel too "different."
PART ONE
I've spent the last year visiting Walt Disney World so very often (as its pennies to visit compared to a long flight to California from NYC), but on my last visit to WDW the balloon inside me (which was deflating slowing) finally lost it's air. I do love parts of the Walt Disney World resort, but each time I visited I missed the beauty I expect from a Disney park.
Hotels like the Beach Club or Boardwalk are absolutely splendid, pure magic... but the North Korean attempt at a themed resort looming over the splendor simply rips me out of the story (I'm referring to the temple of the almighty Swan and Dolphin). You can't even escape it in Epcot! The endless highways and parking lots are so very evident of a 1970s design. Main Street with its patchwork concrete and carless design really brings me down. The attractions with dull sound, still animatronics, dated lighting and the absence of streetmosphere kept gnawing at me.
The majority of people I speak to often prefer Walt Disney World as their choice of themed entertainment. Most cannot even comprehend why anyone would like tiny, cramped Disneyland over the vacation meca of the world. I can't even explain to them why, as most people wouldn't understand the care and splendor of Disneyland. Too many people don't care what the pavement to Main Street looks like (let alone how it feels to tread upon it), nor the quality of attractions. It wouldn't be understood by most my peers of the simple magic of Mr. Lincoln, the unassuming entrance of Pirates, the kinetic energy of the Disneyland Railroad...
My 7 day trip to Disneyland reconfirmed all my feelings towards this place.
The last two years of Project Stardust has refreshed the park in the best of ways. The colors are dazzling, the pathways are more manageable than ever, and the attractions are in pretty decent shape and best of all- the park really doesn't feel too "different."