Animaniac93-98
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Google Maps and wide angle YouTube videos make the walkways look wider than in real life.
Not that they aren't large, but they're not that noticeable in person, especially when full of people.
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Best domestic Disney park?
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Google Maps and wide angle YouTube videos make the walkways look wider than in real life.
Not that they aren't large, but they're not that noticeable in person, especially when full of people.
TP2000
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Their railroad is just a ride in Frontierland. It's a nice trip, and it even goes through an exact duplicate of the Primeval World diorama where everything works like you'd gone back in time to the 1964 World's Fair at the Ford Pavilion. But it's just a train ride. You get on, you ride around for 10 minutes and go past a bunch of pretty stuff and dinosaurs, then you disembark at the same point you got on.
It's been explained to me that it's due to Japanese law. To operate a theme park railroad that had stops and allowed people on/off would require it to live up to Japanese laws and standards for public railroads. And anyone who has been on a passenger train in Japan knows they take that industry very seriously, operate it meticulously, and apologize profusely if the departure is off by more than 5 seconds.
Amtrak, it is not.
Japanese Rail Operator Says Sorry For 'Inexcusable' Departure 25 Seconds Early
It is at least the second time in about six months that a Japanese railway has been forced to apologize to passengers for a seconds-early departure.
www.npr.org
With the exception of the Central Plaza, the walkways of Tokyo Disneyland are no wider than Magic Kingdom's in Florida. It does have that 1960's-1980's painted slurry on much of the pavement, because that's what Disney told the OLC to do when they built the park in 1983. Then the OLC kept it up and repainted the pavement every 6 months so it always looks perfect.
A trip to Tokyo Disneyland is an absolute kick in the pants for any Disney fan. But be warned, it is not for the faint of heart. You may feel betrayed by our American parks when you see how far their standards have fallen in comparison to the Tokyo versions. It can be a real bummer for an American the first day or two, but then you just have to accept it and move on.
In short, we suck and Japan kicks our butt.
This is a ride operator in Tokyo Disneyland's Fantasyland. A ride operator, pulling down lapbars all day. In the same elaborate Fantasyland ride operator uniform Anaheim CM's also wore in the 1980's, before American standards began to fall in the 1990's, and then crashed miserably in the last decade.
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BasiltheBatLord
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There are genuine reasons to put TDR on a pedestal: show quality and customer service are definitely good ones (the latter is more so a Japan-wide thing not just an OLC thing btw).
But for me, none of the foreign parks can ever be “the best” because they’re trying to imitate what is at heart a uniquely American concept and it comes off as too strange and uncanny for me to fully accept. Tokyo Disneyland is a great park on paper when you consider things like show quality and attraction lineup but imo it lacks the atmosphere of the U.S. parks, and that makes it feel weird.
But for me, none of the foreign parks can ever be “the best” because they’re trying to imitate what is at heart a uniquely American concept and it comes off as too strange and uncanny for me to fully accept. Tokyo Disneyland is a great park on paper when you consider things like show quality and attraction lineup but imo it lacks the atmosphere of the U.S. parks, and that makes it feel weird.
EPCOTCenterLover
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I was just at Universal Orlando. The attractions and lands built on Harry Potter were as good as anything Disney Imagineering has ever done. Diagon Alley is incredible, and the newish Hagrid's coaster is one of my favorite rides. Neither park looks as astounding as Tokyo’s Disney parks however.
Animaniac93-98
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The Hagrid coaster is outstanding, so much fun. And a clever way to have good capacity with continuously loading/unloading trains.
It's so good I'd wish Disney would rip it off and build a WWII-era Captain America motorbike coaster for DCA instead of another screen based Avengers ride.
mickEblu
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Sounds great just please no more industrial theming. Do they even have the room for something like Hagrids at that expansion pad though?
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truecoat
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Oh, shoot.
I don't know why, but I thought it was going to be something weird and embarassing.
KiteTails has obviously scrambled my brain.
They run that BaTB singalong all day til 8:30. Only then do they run Impressions de France. Those singalong shows are bull. Play scenes from a dvd with closed captioning on. Absolute bull.
TP2000
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I had no idea! I don't think I've been in to Impressions de France since around the Millenium Celebration.
That BaTB Singalong thing sounds dreadful. I guess it might be novel because that screen is so big in that theater, like an old Cinerama theater if I'm remembering it right.
But it's also something you can do with the DVD in your own family room.
It's a cop out. And if I was French I'd be furious.
Did Bob Chapek ever read or hear Walt' s desire for this parks. There probably would not be a WDW if Walt could of extended Disneyland in this manner.Their railroad is just a ride in Frontierland. It's a nice trip, and it even goes through an exact duplicate of the Primeval World diorama where everything works like you'd gone back in time to the 1964 World's Fair at the Ford Pavilion. But it's just a train ride. You get on, you ride around for 10 minutes and go past a bunch of pretty stuff and dinosaurs, then you disembark at the same point you got on.
It's been explained to me that it's due to Japanese law. To operate a theme park railroad that had stops and allowed people on/off would require it to live up to Japanese laws and standards for public railroads. And anyone who has been on a passenger train in Japan knows they take that industry very seriously, operate it meticulously, and apologize profusely if the departure is off by more than 5 seconds.
Amtrak, it is not.
Japanese Rail Operator Says Sorry For 'Inexcusable' Departure 25 Seconds Early
It is at least the second time in about six months that a Japanese railway has been forced to apologize to passengers for a seconds-early departure.
With the exception of the Central Plaza, the walkways of Tokyo Disneyland are no wider than Magic Kingdom's in Florida. It does have that 1960's-1980's painted slurry on much of the pavement, because that's what Disney told the OLC to do when they built the park in 1983. Then the OLC kept it up and repainted the pavement every 6 months so it always looks perfect.
A trip to Tokyo Disneyland is an absolute kick in the pants for any Disney fan. But be warned, it is not for the faint of heart. You may feel betrayed by our American parks when you see how far their standards have fallen in comparison to the Tokyo versions. It can be a real bummer for an American the first day or two, but then you just have to accept it and move on.
In short, we suck and Japan kicks our butt.
This is a ride operator in Tokyo Disneyland's Fantasyland. A ride operator, pulling down lapbars all day. In the same elaborate Fantasyland ride operator uniform Anaheim CM's also wore in the 1980's, before American standards began to fall in the 1990's, and then crashed miserably in the last decade.
truecoat
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The screen is really big but BaTB is not. It's just projected on part of the screen.
