Disney California Adventure: ‘I liked it better as a parking lot’ - OCR/SCNG

TrainsOfDisney

TrainsOfDisney

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lazyboy97o said:
PortDisney had been cancelled with the decision to definitely build the second park in Anaheim. Giving Anaheim a watered down version of the Long Beach project would not have gone over well.
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Well DCA didn’t exactly go over well either.... lol. But I know what you mean.

Was port Disney more Disney sea? Or more like Tony Baxter’s Hyperion Bay concept originally designed for Disneyland?
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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Discovery Bay was only a land and not really about the sea. Port Disney was to include DisneySea, an entire theme park. Some ideas from DisneySea, most notably Mysterious Island, did make it to Tokyo DisneySEA. The Columbia also bears a striking resemblance to the Queen Mary.

Edit: Look what I just found online! The Port Disney Preliminary Master Plan:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1169&context=buzzprice
 
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Model3 McQueen

Model3 McQueen

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The Imagineering Story undoubtedly opened my mind on this. I trusted Tony Baxter to make the right creative decisions (WESTCOT). Too bad Eisner and his sense of proper investment was a disaster near the end of his tenure. DCA was essentially doomed from the beginning. As i've said several times, it was headed in the right direction with the right additions, just before Chapek came into the picture. Now it's terrible again.
 
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DanielBB8

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The original DCA is still in Hollywood Pictures Backlot, Grizzly Peak/Park/Trails, and Paradise/Pixar Pier. They didn’t sufficiently change it. Maybe one day they will when they decide a cloned ride gets a premier upgrade when ported over. Did you see Soarin’ at Tokyo DisneySeas?
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mfortis

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DCA has definitely added and is adding more stuff to make the park better. Plus it is the only park you can access directly from a hotel.
But there are somethings that DCA has gotten rid of that are inexcusable:
The Aladdin Show
Tower of Terror
Heimlich
 
Jedi Stitch

Jedi Stitch

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I don't mind DCA, My wife is not a big fan of it. I never had gotten to see the original DCA, and actually went to Florida first where we went to DHS. I feel if you go to DHS first then to DCA, most people would be like "Ok, I get it" I do remember visiting DLR with my future wife, and they were constructing DCA. I remember the view tower (it was the shortest line ride all day :p ) they had the glass etching showing what the skyline would look like with some concept art. We both looked forward to seeing the big bear looking thing on the glass.
Fast forward to 2018 and now us with teen age daughter go to see it. With out a shadow of the doubt My wife did like the golden age of Hollywood streets. The most shops in one area, her type of place. We did enjoy the Radiator Springs, because we just love the movies. My daughter and I love road trips so Grizzly Rapids and the feel of back high ways and national parks felt nostalgic to us, more so for me that I grew up on the family road trip vacation. My daughter still prefers the Tower of Terror, but Mission break out is a nice 2nd. Bugs land was nice, hope the Marvel addition stays just as immersive. We were there for Pixarfest. So Paradise Pier is now Pixar Pier, it made sense a large amount of the park was devoted to Pixar so, really was turning Disney Pixar Adventures. To be honest, the Pier is neat, but I felt I could do all the same attraction on Seattle Water Front, or hit the seaside towns with the permanent carnival rides. Once you walked thru the well themed streets, Cars land, bugs land, then life and times of John Muir, you go, Huh...Ok yah just like dino land at DAK. I like the Pixar Retheming that had went a long way to make the Pier area, more cohesive. Now everything is either Disney, or pixar, and not just the hey your in Disney, and then oh i'm in any seaside carnival USA. I like the park, but I am still mixed feelings on it.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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nesboy43 said:
DCA 1.0, I remember visiting it opening summer with family. We got there an hour or so after opening and were done by 2 o clock. We were not even aware Super Star Limo existed. Only good things at opening were rapids, screaming, and soarin. Never saw the Aladdin show.

We were “meh” on it. We didn’t think it was awful but we weren't impressed. I don’t think DCA now is any type of come back story. It still is a mess and is not worth the price of a Disneyland ticket.
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The Aladdin show didn't open until a few years later. The show was called Steps in Time and felt very undisney. They stopped doing the show and reworked it but still closed it for the Power of Blast from New York. The Power of Blast was a band geek's wet dream. It was a good show.
 
Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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lazyboy97o said:
Disneyland Hotel (Paris) and Hotel Mira Costa don’t count?
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I'd also add The Park Front Hotel at USJ to the list. It's not directly linked, but it's really, really, close. :)

And as another American example both Aventura and Cabana Bay have their own entrance into Volcano Bay at UOR.
 
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RollerCoaster

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SuddenStorm said:
As long as a 1 day 1 park to Disneyland costs the same as DCA, no one is ever gonna buy a 1 day 1 park to DCA.
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I've bought a 1-day 1-park ticket to DCA! In fact I've bought several of them. The first was in 2001. The latest just two years ago.

It's a fantastic park now and it's been fun seeing it change over the years.
 

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