I agree to an extent. MK only feels like "business" in FL and TTF, and those are finally being addressed.
I dunno. A friend's wife is fond of describing MK as 'a mass market characture of DL' and after being at DLP followed by DL in a 72-hour period recently, that has really resonated.
The other MKs seem much more layered throughout. The narrative is more complete, telling and compelling. MK certainly was more detailed once than it is now.
And Fantasyland and the joke that is Mickey's Tentland are certainly the worst offenders, no doubt.
DL's Fantasyland is gorgeous. NOS and TT are very nice. But TL is a mess and FrL is practically useless except for BTMRR. Indiana Jones and the original Tiki Room are great, but AL is still severely cramped.
TL at DL is no more a mess than at MK. They both waste a lot of space. DL benefits from the sub lagoon ... with the monorails above the kinetics are amazing. Yeah, AL is tiny ... but what's there works greatly. I'll take it over MK any day. What greets you when you enter MK's A-land? A huge shuttered food outlet and a smoking area on the right and tacky crocs and crap carts on the left ..then you have a spinner and shuttered shops. At DL? Real tiki torches, shops that have some themed merchandise, then the JC/Indy area and even the cool entrance for Tarzan's Treehouse.
Frontierland on substance is a toss-up ... I love the fact you can see entertainers in the Golden Horseshoe at DL, albeit no review show. But what wins it for DLR is the beautiful tree-lined Big Thunder Trail and Ranch area. So ... I won't even give ya those two!
DLP has awful maintenance and the entire Tokyo resort suffers from too many Guests/not enough attractions.
Every park has problems. :shrug:
DLP is truly looking great (one huge exception being the Peter Pan queue, which needs an immediate graffiti removal). Overall, I'm not sure it's ever looked better in my visits. ... Indeed, Alice and Indy had just reopened from rehabs and looked amazing. I've never seen Alice so bright and vivid, with all its effects working. And the Plaza Gardens Restaurant was just reopened and looks brand new. There's also loads of new pavement in Discoveryland. ... There are still problem areas, but it really is looking good there.
As to TDR, I don't know how you can say it doesn't have enough attractions. WDW is king of having parks that are sadly lacking in the capacity department. I don't see that in Tokyo, although I still haven't been there ... but I am pretty up on what goes on there.
I do agree that every park has its own unique problems, no doubt.
It will, but count me to the growing list of people unhappy with the decision to keep the medieval tent façades. They don't bother me as much as the useless expanse of land between Pooh and Tomorrowland, or even as much as the ugly exterior of Cosmic Ray's; but I'm concerned that the Fantasyland expansion will make the older parts look silly.
I am hoping this isn't what winds up happening by the time we get to 2012-13. Fantasyland is butt ugly (well, not my butt ... that's a work of art
!) and if half the land looks amazing, but half looks like the 1970s ... well, that's not good!
