dl or wdw

[aust]

I have a question,
on a lot of sites I have visited they think the disneyland version is alwas better, btmr-potc-space mountain-splash mountain-iasw-hm all of them.
I have only been to wdw so I would like to know your opinionson this.
(they also compare dlp to dl):veryconfu

 

[WDWfreak89]

I have never been to DL but I think WDW is better becuase there is a lot more to do there than DL. Just my opinion

 

[DisJosh]

Any of us....like my self who have only been to Dinsey World are of course going to be extremely biased.

So....I personally think WDW is better.

You have to keep in mind though that DL is Walts first born. The happiest place on earth, the mother of all theme parks.

 

[Grumpy56]

Having been to both numerous times, I would say

WDW is better in that....it's so much more of a destination, so much more variety, and BTMRR is a better version, there are so many more great restaurants, themed hotels etc!

However, if you just compare DL to the MK, there's no comparision. At DL, POTC, SM, Tiki Room, IASW, are all better. Plus there's the Matterhorn and Indiana Jones-the all time best Disney ride IMHO. DL has more small touches, like the apple at Snow WHite, the Sleeping Beauty dioramas in the castle, the Blue Bayou-the best DIsney restaurant IMHO.

In the final anaylsis it's apples and oranges.

 

[BitO'PixieDust]

I have been to both DL and WDW many times. WDW offers so much more to do and it's location is much more scenic. At DL you are surrounded by traffic.

As far as rides go, DL has some of the best rides though. Pirates has an extra drop, Matterhorn is a fun roller coaster and Indiana Jones is hard to top at any park. In CA they have Soaring Over California, which is pretty cool. Everything is just more compact than WDW but still a lot of fun.

We lived in CA for a year just 15 miles from DL so we went just about every weekend. I still love WDW best, but wouldn't pass up the opportunity to visit DL again.

 

[frazierle]

Grumpy56 has it right its apples and oranges. WDW has alot more to offer. We go to WDW park the car and stay entertained for a week before we see the car again. DL is much more compact. I didn't notice alot of difference in the rides other than like Splash you did not have side by side seating, but one behind another. They did fantasmic on Tom Sawyers island. The Indiana Jones ride was awesome and we liked the Matterhorn which is not at WDW. They tried carving out a small section of California Adventure to do something like what's at MGM. It was nice but once you've seen MGM you realized they wasted the space. The shows were for the most part different.

Disneyland sort of had its own different "magic" - which we really enjoyed, and plan to go back to. WDW your immursed in it - from start to finish and everything is done right. I do really like both places but if I had to choose one it would be WDW by a long shot.

 

[FourFourSeven]

Depends on the comparision:

WDW MK vs. DL MK - No contest, Disneyland MK has more Walt touches, better versions of most repeat attractions, more attractions and a bunch of stuff that's elsewhere at WDW but not in the MK (Fantasmic, Star Tours, etc.)

WDW four theme parks vs. DL two theme parks - WDW wins based on shear number of attractions.

WDW vs. DL as a whole - no contest, WDW wins on size, number of things to do, number of resorts, lack of tackiness nearby if you stay on the property.

So, if you had one day to spend, which would be better? Disneyland, no question, in my opinion. If you had a week, it's WDW, again, no question, in my opinion. If you've got a 2 day weekend, however, let's call it a tie.

What do others think? If you had:
-a day
-a weekend
-a week

Which park complex would you go to?

 

[imagineer boy]

Disneyland has better versions of the rides that know and love at WDW and the Magic Kingdom of DL is more beutiful. WDW does have more stuff to do, but Disneyland wins the prize for landscaping. They're both good places.

 

[Main Street USA]

If we are talking about the attractions themselves then it's WDW in my opinion. I hate how everything in DL is literally half the size as WDW. The larger than life appeal of the mountains and the castle are lost in DL.

 

[HMGhost13]

well DL has the original haunted mansion...although not that much older form it's brother in WDW. although, WDW's HM does have the extra 2 scenes...

 

[FourFourSeven]

Originally posted by Main Street USA
I hate how everything in DL is literally half the size as WDW. The larger than life appeal of the mountains and the castle are lost in DL.

I like the more intimate scale and feel of DL. I thought I read somewhere that they intentionally made the park's newer attractions more intimate so as to not mess up the overall scale. Space Mountain, for example, I believe they dug down to make the entire ride fit in a more smaller-looking building.

That being said, the castle at WDW is far superior, in my opinion. Probably because that's the one I saw first, as a two-year-old, when WDW first opened.

 

[Melora]

I've been to WDW one time and to DL MANY MAANY times as I live in LA....

I hadn't been to DL in a couple of years and had just been to WDW within the last year when I walked down Main Street at DL towards the castle I was FLOORED at how small it was..I couldn't believe my eyes! I saw Cinderellas and just immediately filed it away as THE way the castle should look. Sleeping Beauty's is TINY TINY in comparison.

I love them both and have to agree that Disney has some better versions of the same attraction, but overall WDW is so much more of an experience!

 

[KathyG/poohbear]

I might be biased since DL is so far but I really like WDW better. If I compared DL to MK only I might pick DL but I love the whole huge resort area. You have a huge selections of hotels and things and parks to go to. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Brooke]

i may be bias but wdw is better. it is just more of an experience...more hotels and things to do. when i think of dl i just think of the one theme park (not CA...) and when i think of wdw i think of it more as a whole disney city.

 

[DDPGambit]

Originally posted by Brooke
i may be bias but wdw is better. it is just more of an experience...more hotels and things to do. when i think of dl i just think of the one theme park (not CA...) and when i think of wdw i think of it more as a whole disney city.

Not just a Disney city, but a Disney World ! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Tower of Terror]

I like wdw better, but its the only one ive been to.

 

[imagineer boy]

Originally posted by Melora
I've been to WDW one time and to DL MANY MAANY times as I live in LA....

I hadn't been to DL in a couple of years and had just been to WDW within the last year when I walked down Main Street at DL towards the castle I was FLOORED at how small it was..I couldn't believe my eyes! I saw Cinderellas and just immediately filed it away as THE way the castle should look. Sleeping Beauty's is TINY TINY in comparison.

I love them both and have to agree that Disney has some better versions of the same attraction, but overall WDW is so much more of an experience!

I must agree. I always think that the castle in DL is very small and boring looking. Walt Disney used the cheap forced perspective to make it look bigger. WDW's castle is better by far.

 

[Justin]

Originally posted by Tower of Terror
I like wdw better, but its the only one ive been to.

LOL!

I have only been to WDW once also, the layout for DL looks alot more enclosed together. It seems like in the Magic Kingdom you will be doing alot more walking. And I heard that DCA is allitle much of a ripoff since tats just basically Disney clone rides besides the Carousel,MM,DCS, and Maliboomer (Which looks overdone due to the fact that they put that stupid plastic face guards over you head to prevent noise).

Anyone been to DLP? I heard its more of an update style disney like a mini thrill park, much like IOA but with family rides.....

 

[JLW11Hi]

I never noticed size differences of rides between WDW and DL, except for the Castle.

Comparing the WDW Castle to the Disneyland castle is kinda hard to do, considering the time difference that the two were made. I'm sure that if Walt had the money and found out that his Imagineering team could work it out, he would have made a bigger castle, but the reason its so small is so that you can't see it anywhere else in the park (besides Fantasyland and Main Street) to destract from the theming of the other lands. The Imagineers working on WDW's castle decided that it would be best to make the castle as big as possible so that visitors driving there could see it (and know that its there). With the budget they were working with, its no surprise that DL got a smaller castle.

Heres an interesting thing I learned: On each of the "peaks" of Sleeping Beauty Castle, there are golden spiers on top, except for one. When designing the castle, Walt wanted golden spiers on each of the peaks, but Roy went nuts when he heard this, as it was way too expensive, with the budget they had. Walt went ahead and had them put on anyway, but he had one ugly, non-gold spier put on one of the peaks, and told Roy "There, that can be your's!" See if you can find it if you ever visit the park

I agree with everyone else that the rides are much better at DL, plus, at Christmas, IASW and the Haunted Mansion have holiday versions of their rides. DL also has more rides than WDW, like Pinnoccio, Roger Rabbit (My fav), Alice in Wonderland, Mr. Toad, Indy (this and Dinosaur use the same track, but Indy uses it much, much better), and a few other Fantasyland rides.

To me, Tomorrowland at DL isnt as good as the one at WDW, though.

Much of the best of WDW is and is going to be at Disneyland, but often copies are never as good as the original...

The thing about the sizes between the two, it really depends what you are looking for. WDW is great because of how huge it is, but DL is making good use of its small size, and makes it possibe for guests to simply walk from each park to Downtown Disney to the hotels. I thought that aspect of DL was kinda cool. It almost makes the monorail obsolete, unless you just want to ride it for fun.

Its hard to choose between the two...I like WDW, but after going there so much, its nice to have a change, which is why I had so much fun at DL last year. If you havent been to either, Id say go to WDW first.