Originally posted by Lee
I don't want to rant or anything, but WDW is doing just fine.
Disneyland, the "crown jewel" of Disney parks, needs help fast, and more so than any park in WDW.
I really don't think Disneyland is hurting all that much....I keep saying this over and over, but while WDW is my favorite
resort (good place to spend an entire week's vacation), Disneyland itself is my all-time favorite theme park.
It is much better than WDW's MK in my eyes. Everyone
always brings up Tomorrowland when they talk about how bad Disneyland is doing...and while I agree there, there isn't much else that MK has that Disneyland doesn't have.
Main Street: Just about the same at both parks (shops and such), but from a historian's point of view, Main Street at DL is a perfect monument (along with the much smaller castle) for not only theme park history, but for Walt Disney himself. This goes for everything at DL that has had Walt's "special touch" that the MK doesn;t have.
Fantasyland: Disneyland has all the rides MK has in Fantasyland, and more! Plus, the Small World facade is really cool, even to those who don't like the ride itself!
Adventureland: Same stuff here as MK, treehouse, Jungle Cruise, and Tiki Room. The original Tiki Room, by the way, for the Disney classics fans (though it is getting quite old, I think it should have a makeover). And of course, the best thing Disneyland has over MK: The Indiana Jones Adventure!
Frontierland: Same stuff as MK: Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain...oops...the Bears are gone...lost to Pooh.....BUT, Disneyland still has the Golden Horseshoe!!
New Orleans Square: My personal favorite area of Disneyland for 2 reasons: Haunted Mansion, and Pirates. Now the MK has these too, but as is so often noted, the original Pirates at DL is
much better than the quickly made one at MK: Its longer, has more stuff, and is much more fun because of this.
The Haunted Mansions are basically the same except for the buildings, which are cool and unique at both parks...but just a personal thing here...I love the Holiday makeover!
Toontown: Much larger than the Toontown fair at MK, plus it has Roger Rabbits cartoon spin, a favorite attraction of mine
. The architecture in this area is just great, plus all the little interactive bits here and there (the dynamite thing, the electric building, etc).
And of course, Tomorrowland, the much weaker counterpart of the MK's. Still, it does have the major "Space Mountain" ride, the same ride that is the most popular in the MK. Though they need to get rid of Innoventions and fix those darn Rocket Rods. Otherwise you have Honey I Shrunk the Aundience and Star Tours...which, although are getting quite old, are both still considered big attractions in their Disney World home parks (Epcot and MGM).
Now I have only been there a few times, so I could not say yet if the place really needs new attractions (which it most certainly does deserve, being the heart of the Disney theem park division). But The place, to me, has more big name attractions in its one park than any WDW park has on its own. Thats why I can see where Disney does not want to worry about adding new attractions when they think they have enough already.
I dunno, I'm not trying to hype Disneyland being better than WDW...as I said, the WDW resort is the #1 destination in my book, but looking at a one day visit point of view, I like Disneyland the best. And I will admit, being a big Walt Disney buff, I like the idea that I am walking the same paths that Walt did years ago.
