How would you fix Disney California Adventure? It can include a name change and everything else.
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DCA : How would you fix the park ?
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socalifornian
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I would install a special type of pyro to update most buildings and bring Baxter/Gurr out of retirement to design a proper neighbor to Walt’s park
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Rich T
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Tear it down. Build Westcot.
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Tear it down. Build a gigantic dome over the entire space and put Stars Wars inside of it. Now you have Star Wars underneath a huge artificial sky on which you can project giant ships arriving and departing. Turn Galaxy's Edge into Discovery Bay. DLR instantly becomes the best place on Earth.
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Tear it down. Build a gigantic dome over the entire space and put Stars Wars inside of it. Now you have Star Wars underneath a huge artificial sky on which you can project giant ships arriving and departing. Turn Galaxy's Edge into Discovery Bay. DLR instantly becomes the best place on Earth.
Rich T
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But there's already a great California History-themed park just a few minutes away.
Darkbeer1
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No, from late 2000.
THE 1HAPPY HAUNT
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tear it down and make it a parking lot again. I have been to DCA once, back when there was still the TOWER OF TOWER, and other than that ride and maybe radiator spring racers there are no real rides worth saving and the place is a half day park at best. there is no consistent theme. there is nothing timeless to it. when I walk into Disneyland I feel I am in a nexus of the universe so to speak. a timeless realm cut off from the rest of the world. there is always something new to do or discover or learn. there is a history there. you can feel Walt's presence. you can walk on the same streets and go on the same rides you went on long ago with family members who are sadly long gone. but by standing in the same place you once did with them, it's like they are still there. yeah, I get none of that from DCA. It feels like a a generic park. it felt like a six flags park. not that I have anything against six flags. I love magic mountain. but I want a difference experience when I go a Disney park.
one thing that popped into my head after leaving the park for the first time is they should have made it an extension of Disneyland to open new lands and rides. keep the main entrance as the primary entry and exit of Disneyland but then once you get past main street or critter country(this was before star wars town) make a wrap around where you enter the expansion that takes you back to where dca is now and have new rides and lands. I am not an imaginer so I cant draw up plans to how it would look but someone creative could come up with a way to have it where you would be able to go to this extended area once you are inside the main gate. maybe have a pathway after you get past the main gate that takes you back to where dca is now. add to Disneyland was my thought. instead of adding a subpar secondary park whose theme has gone out the window at this point. or make it a parking lot again.
one thing that popped into my head after leaving the park for the first time is they should have made it an extension of Disneyland to open new lands and rides. keep the main entrance as the primary entry and exit of Disneyland but then once you get past main street or critter country(this was before star wars town) make a wrap around where you enter the expansion that takes you back to where dca is now and have new rides and lands. I am not an imaginer so I cant draw up plans to how it would look but someone creative could come up with a way to have it where you would be able to go to this extended area once you are inside the main gate. maybe have a pathway after you get past the main gate that takes you back to where dca is now. add to Disneyland was my thought. instead of adding a subpar secondary park whose theme has gone out the window at this point. or make it a parking lot again.
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TROR
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Why would locals ever want a place that celebrates their culture?
THE 1HAPPY HAUNT
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to play devil's advocate, one could say because you can just go visit the real locations since you are in California. it's the same reason why Phantom Manor's grave yard scene is set to the old west and not how it looks at Disneyland or Disneyworld because those type of cemetaries are all over paris and people can poke their head out the window if they wanted to see that.
socalifornian
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Thinking like Iger?
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THE 1HAPPY HAUNT
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my idea is not a combining. mine is tear down dca as it currently is completely and forever and start over and make it an expansion of disneylandThinking like Iger?
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TROR
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Except you can’t visit real locations of locations that no longer exist (Carthay Circle Theater) or never did (The Hollywood Tower Hotel, Grizzly Peak)
THE 1HAPPY HAUNT
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I was just playing devil's advocate as to what someone may say. I see both points of view. to me DCA is just a loss at this point and needs to be torn down and have something new be built.
Look, they tried it. It wasn't popular. People didn't want to go there and the numbers of visitors showed it.