California Adventure vs Epcot

[LittleMerman]

I voted DCA for the rides/attractions. Epcot is amazing and beautiful but it's really more of a country showcase with some rides in Future World than a theme park based on rides. Plus it's kind of hard to get around because of the lagoon and it gets really hot in World Showcase.

DCA has Cars Land, the Incredicoaster, Frozen Live, and Mission Breakout plus some of my all-time favorite Disney attractions like Soarin', Toy Story Mania, and The Little Mermaid. It's a great park and I love the chill vibe. I went with very low expectations but I was very pleasantly surprised by it.

I'll always love Epcot but DCA has a lot of great rides plus Avengers Campus opening soon!

 

[JustAFan]

Key phrase: "as they stand today". Ask me 2 years ago or 2 years from now, easily Epcot.

 

[el_super]

I'm not a big fan of DCA at all, but I still voted for it over EPCOT. I still don't get the fascination with EPCOT and other than the Food Festivals and maybe some nostalgia, the attractions there seem old and tired and really in need of a refresh (which I guess they're getting).

Standing in the shade of tall pine trees along Highway 49 in Grizzly Peak, with the mists of Grizzly River Run wafting through them, is better than anything in EPCOT.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Outside of RSR, the rest of DCA isn't that compelling or attractive.

Certain WS pavilions are more impressive than entire "lands" at DCA.

 

[Sbk1234]

I absolutely love Epcot, even though admittedly it is a shell of its former self from the Golden Age of the 80s and 90s. DCA has great potential, but I feel they usually miss the mark. Car's Land IS spectacular, and Radiator Springs Racers and Soaring are both masterpieces. However, the park tends to fall short in many ways. There is no longer any cohesive theme. For a while they were on the right track with the big remodel a few years ago that brought us Buena Vista Street (absolutely beautiful) and Cars Land, and they started even improving the boardwalk area, but then they completely blew it with the Pixar Pier overlay nonsense. It needs more dark rides, especially something on par with Pirates of the Caribbean, in the way that Epcot has Spaceship Earth, Frozen Ever After, and even Journey into Imagination With Figment.

 

[Parker in NYC]

I've put up with the loss of WOL, Horizons, World of Motion, UOE, and Journey Into Imagination. I made peace with Test Track and Soarin' Over The World (when Soarin' Over California was a far better show). I made peace with the loss of Maelstrom and El Rio Del Tiempo. I made peace with the constant Festivalpalooza. I tried to make peace with the elimination of the Fountain of Nations but failed. And the serenity and beauty of World Showcase Lagoon has been destroyed. I'm an angry lady who would rather spend 5 minutes in Radiator Springs than a day at the Epcot of today.

 

[Walt Disney1955]

This is a good poll and I was very impressed with California Adventure when we went in 2012 despite all of the negative things I had heard in the past. I guess by then the park had filled out a lot more. But we loved it. It's close, but I picked Epcot. That is hard to duplicate. There is no other place in the world like Epcot.

 

[Ldno]

This is an unfair question, it should be aligned more with DHS to be honest. DCA has way more rides than Epcot

 

[ElvisMickey]

Who else is Dis nerdy enough on here to know/remember when Disney was actually going to build the west coast version of EPCOT, to be called Westcot, where California Adventure now sits?

 

[vikescaper]

Currently, I would chose DCA over Epcot. I last time I was at DCA was before the makeover so I haven’t been able to experience that. If Epcot’s makeover was completed, I would go with Epcot.

 

[rk03221]

EPCOT in its prime sure, but today definitely DCA

 

[Little Green Men]

This is an unfair question, it should be aligned more with DHS to be honest. DCA has way more rides than Epcot

Eight of which are flat rides...