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No Name

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TwilightZone said:
Honestly the best fix for DCA I can think of is just rebranding it to "Disney Adventure Park" or something like that. I am honestly stuck as to why they have stuck on to the California theming limitation they have had for so long.
Of course maybe it's a good thing since they might stick un-needed IP everywhere, but they already done that with Pixar Pier so my expectations are far out the window there.
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They haven’t really stuck to the California theming, and I’m not sure why removing California from the name would make a lick of sense. The park is still in California and always will be. Is Six Flags Over Texas themed to Texas anymore? Is Shanghai Disneyland themed to Shanghai? The name still works, and I’m not sure how to say this kindly but “Disney Adventure Park” sucks!
 
RobWDW1971

RobWDW1971

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egg said:
Is Six Flags Over Texas themed to Texas anymore?
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Six Flags Over Texas was originally themed for the six flags that at one time or another flew over Texas. So the themed lands were Spain, Mexico, France, Texas, the Old South (Confederate Flag), and the United States of America. So yes, they gave up the theming (which was great when it opened) over time of the six different areas, but not just Texas.
 
BasiltheBatLord

BasiltheBatLord

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RobWDW1971 said:
Six Flags Over Texas was originally themed for the six flags that at one time or another flew over Texas. So the themed lands were Spain, Mexico, France, Texas, the Old South (Confederate Flag), and the United States of America. So yes, they gave up the theming (which was great when it opened) over time of the six different areas, but not just Texas.
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They also replaced the actual six flags with "six American flags"
 
PiratesMansion

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Californian Elitist said:
Would you mind expanding on this more?
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I do feel like the Marvel rides, in general, feel more Universal than Disney in terms of aesthetic. Maybe it's the combination of set-up and setting, but even the Star Wars GE rides or the ones in Pandora feel more 'Disney' to me. I don't know that I can explain it either, but I get what that poster was going for.
EPCOTCenterLover said:
DCA is a full day park- if you've never been there and if you do every single thing it offers, and if you eat three sit down meals a day, and if..... ;)
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Yep. Although a lot of my 2018 trip ended up being spent in DCA because my friend (who had been to DL before) absolutely fell in love with Guardians, and with MaxPass we could do it again and again and again.

Perhaps as a slight overcorrection to this (though park reservations and parkhopper restrictions didn't help either) combined with pandemic-related deprival of DLR, during my trip last week I spent about one day and two hours total in DCA over five theme park days.
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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J4546 said:
Dca isn't bad, hopefully they announce ac phase 2 or Hollywood land expansion/parking structure plans soon
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It’s a great park hopping park. Not so much if you’re stuck there all day. It helps that it’s just steps away. If it were harder to get back and forth between parks I’m not sure how often I’d go to DCA. It would probably be more 70/30
 
PiratesMansion

PiratesMansion

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It's not that DCA is bad, it's that it's still mostly posing as an impression of several parks within a two hour radius that are at the very least more self-assured in their own identities than DCA is, and rather than attempting to truly fix that problem (which admittedly would be difficult), Disney has chosen to jam in IP constantly, hoping to distract from the foundational flaws inherent in the park. I suppose it is a strategy, and they certainly have a lot of popular IPs at their disposal. Better there than Disneyland Park I guess. But I don't know that I would call it a completely successful strategy. It seems to have paid off in attendance, but is it actually creating fans of the park as its own space/entity and not simply as a more roomy overflow for Disneyland itself?

Disney is also very good at undoing the successes at that park. It's almost impressive.
 
waltography

waltography

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PiratesMansion said:
It's not that DCA is bad, it's that it's still mostly posing as an impression of several parks within a two hour radius that are at the very least more self-assured in their own identities than DCA is, and rather than attempting to truly fix that problem (which admittedly would be difficult), Disney has chosen to jam in IP constantly, hoping to distract from the foundational flaws inherent in the park. I suppose it is a strategy, and they certainly have a lot of popular IPs at their disposal. Better there than Disneyland Park I guess. But I don't know that I would call it a completely successful strategy. It seems to have paid off in attendance, but is it actually creating fans of the park as its own space/entity and not simply as a more roomy overflow for Disneyland itself?

Disney is also very good at undoing the successes at that park. It's almost impressive.
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It's frustrating how so close they were to a truly wonderful second gate in 2012. In my eyes, all that needed to be done from that point was the retheming of Condor Flats to Grizzly Peak Airfield (sans-World), a proper Hollywoodland with fully-done facades and Backlot-miniland, and some proper aesthetic redressing for the back half of Paradise Pier (I'm fond of the architecture in Bing Bong's Sweet Stuff and the Pixar Promenade arch). If they wanted extra credit, they could add some low-fidelity animatronics to GRR. I'd even have been fine with Avengers Campus (minus GotG and plus E-ticket) taking over a bug's land if everything else was in place.
 
Californian Elitist

Californian Elitist

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VJ said:
it's dead until disney can provide the same experience and monetize it for $6k per person per night via the Avengers Campus Dorm Room Adventure Immersive Experience
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Definitely count me out, in that case. A college-themed hotel with a bunch of Marvel dorks walking around in tighty-wighties and capes made out of table cloth, pretending to be heroes of whatever made up city? Send me to the Motel 6 off the 5, or Camelot Inn and Suites, please.

And I’m saying this as a Marvel fan. What you hinted at sounds like a nightmare.
 
VJ

VJ

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Californian Elitist said:
Definitely count me out, in that case. A college-themed hotel with a bunch of Marvel dorks walking around in tighty-wighties and capes made out of table cloth, pretending to be heroes of whatever made up city? Send me to the Motel 6 off the 5, or Camelot Inn and Suites, please.

And I’m saying this as a Marvel fan. What you hinted at sounds like a nightmare.
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but it's exactly what disney would do... that's the scary part. stick to what's successful, change the "skin", and you've got yourself a surefire moneymaker as cheap as possible
 
Californian Elitist

Californian Elitist

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VJ said:
but it's exactly what disney would do... that's the scary part. stick to what's successful, change the "skin", and you've got yourself a surefire moneymaker as cheap as possible
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Very true.

Kinda on a side note, imagine an actual college-themed hotel, though. Even as an educator, the idea seems lame. Throw in Marvel and…no.
 

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