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Guardians of the Galaxy Mission Breakout announced for Disney California Adventure
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FigmentForver96
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I guess they could have ran with a "backlot" style theme. Have the tower be the "set" for a Guardians film that you get to star in or tour the set of. Lazy but workable
sedati
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Wasn't the whole California Adventure concept considered one of the worst ideas Disney has ever had? California in California for Californians. Of all Disney's parks, this is the most limited theme. Keep what works, but a rebranding isn't a bad idea in my opinion.
lazyboy97o
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The problem was trying to be a substitute for visiting other locales in California. Celebrating the state in a manner unique to themed entertainment is/would be completely different. Main Street, USA is in the USA. Frontierland is in what was the frontier. People wanted Pirates of the Caribbean close to the Caribbean.
EPCOTCenterLover
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I think DCA is becoming a solid if not good Disney park.
GiveMeTheMusic
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DCA is a good Disney park, and has been since 2012. It's a far cry better than DHS, aka God's Least Favorite Theme Park, and even Epcot in its current depressed, stripped state.
Californian Elitist
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DCA 1.0 was considered one of Disney's worst executions, in terms of theme parks, not to mention it was more redundant back then, trying to almost literally re-create Californian establishments, icons, etc. It was something different in its earlier years.
California doesn't have slim pickings, and I wouldn't call it limited. It's arguably the most diverse/varied state, in terms of various subjects. Keep the attractions that do relate to California or are in theme in general, and put in whatever else, like a New York area? I don't like the sound of that, but that's the direction Disney is heading in. This is one of Disney's main issues, instead of fixing what they have, improving it, etc., they ditch things and replace them with something that doesn't make sense.
Professortango1
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Not that limiting at all. Lost City of Mu, El Dorado, Bigfoot, early San Francisco, Gold Rush, Aviation, Car Culture, Wendingo, Missions, beach culture... They just needed to embrace the mythos of California and treat it like a fictional place.
Knotts Berry Farm IS California Adventure and the concepts and areas are great, just the quality is a little lacking.
Californian Elitist
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Ghost Town at Knott's is seriously neat, better than Frontierland at Disneyland. I agree about the quality, it is lacking at Knott's.
Curious Constance
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Bigfoot is from Oregon, not California!!!
mickEblu
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Everyone knows Bigfoot moved to Oregon after college. He was born in California.
Professortango1
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Bigfoot is also Northen California. Willow Creek California is known as the Bigfoot Capitol of the World.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Creek,_California
Curious Constance
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You can call GOTG tower ugly, you can despise Marvel land, but I will not let you take Bigfoot from me. *tears*
Disney Analyst
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The only thing I can think of is to rename it Disney American Adventure, and retheme some of the lands to other states or area's... Make Hollywood Backlot New York to fit marvel or something. I dunno. The direction they've started to go isn't really California.
Professortango1
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The park doesn't represent America though. Disney had an America themed park planned and featured the Colonies and The Civil War and The Industrial Revolution. The park clearly still represents California and it would take major remodeling to change it to Disney's America. It would be a more elaborate project that DCA had years ago.
And space buildings still fall outside of America. They're kind of stuck. They can't turn it into a studio park as the majority of the park doesn't coordinate with IPs or a studio. Paradise Pier, The Wharf, Paradise Gardens, Grizzly Peak, Grizzly Airfield...these are major areas which really only fit a West Coast feel.
Guardians should have gone into Tomorrowland, DHS, or other such parks. Marvel Land kind of turns DCA into a weird mess as its clearly not a studio park but now an entire land doesn't fit California.
Professortango1
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But that means we aren't seeing the actual Guardians nor are we in danger. We're on a set seeing Chris Pratt and a racoon puppet.
Phroobar
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Sure if you like "art" that was mass produced for sale at Michael's.
Californian Elitist
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Yep, they're going in a completely different direction. Honestly, I'm sick of Disney trying to do backlot areas because they suck at it. The backlot portion of Hollywood Land is pathetic. At this point, it's just an excuse to get IPs that are out of theme into the park.
Animaniac93-98
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Do we know yet how much has changed on the inside? I'm keeping my expectations low since they've given themselves less than 5 months to redo the interior spaces and declined to add another show scene.
GiveMeTheMusic
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Really though, this has always been the function of HBL/Hollywood Land. Monsters Inc has nothing to do with California, and neither did the Muppets, Frozen, Aladdin, Mad T Party, etc. The whole land is a slot to shove IP into that wouldn't fit elsewhere and has been since day 1.
I just can't get worked up about the theme integrity of DCA, because it has had very little since it was built. The park itself was built with a complete disregard for everything Disney had learned up to that point from building theme parks, for the most part passing the job off from real Imagineers to second rate cubicle jockeys with no experience. The result was a park that was embarrassing. DCA was embarrassing.