New Orleans Square VS Liberty Square

Disneyland's New Orleans Square or Magic Kingdom's Liberty Square?

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DisneyAndUniversalFan

DisneyAndUniversalFan

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Bet you didn't think I would do this one haha! ;) Which is the better unique land to their respective park?

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New Orleans Square (Disneyland)



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Liberty Square (Magic Kingdom)
 
Curious Constance

Curious Constance

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New Orleans Square is so perfect and beautiful. I could quite literally spend a day there (if the crowds weren't bad). It's the perfect land. It gives you a taste of something rich with history and culture that wets your appetite to learn something and seek out a real world experience. Star Wars Land, Marvel Land, Frozen Land, they can't come close. *sigh* Infinitely better than anything that'll likely ever be built again.
 
nevol

nevol

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No contest. I love the early American styles of Main street, liberty square, and cape cod in disney sea, as I used to live in Massachusetts, but Liberty Square has nothing on New Orleans Square. it is quite redundant in the magic kingdom, honestly.

New Orleans Square is rich with history and texture. The elevation changes are interesting. The foliage is amazing. The E-tickets are a departure into the supernatural, the disney magic, the psychedelic, which is perfect because New Orleans itself is rich with voodoo and magic and the bizarre. I love getting off of pirates or HM where animatronics are singing to me and playing instruments, only to walk past a real band performing outside in front of cafe orleans. Cafe orleans and the ROA is some of the best urban design on the planet. There aren't more perfect al fresco cafes in Europe. Its truly incredible. I was hoping that Shanghais pirates area would feel like NOS but with a more obvious pirate connection. Instead, it is basically one flat facade wall, oversaturated, and lifeless. Total missed opportunity.
 
DisneyAndUniversalFan

DisneyAndUniversalFan

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nevol said:
No contest. I love the early American styles of Main street, liberty square, and cape cod in disney sea, as I used to live in Massachusetts, but Liberty Square has nothing on New Orleans Square. it is quite redundant in the magic kingdom, honestly.

New Orleans Square is rich with history and texture. The elevation changes are interesting. The foliage is amazing. The E-tickets are a departure into the supernatural, the disney magic, the psychedelic, which is perfect because New Orleans itself is rich with voodoo and magic and the bizarre. I love getting off of pirates or HM where animatronics are singing to me and playing instruments, only to walk past a real band performing outside in front of cafe orleans. Cafe orleans and the ROA is some of the best urban design on the planet. There aren't more perfect al fresco cafes in Europe. Its truly incredible. I was hoping that Shanghais pirates area would feel like NOS but with a more obvious pirate connection. Instead, it is basically one flat facade wall, oversaturated, and lifeless. Total missed opportunity.
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new orleans square is just prefect. possibly even the best theme park land ever. best of all, it’s not based on a movie. sure, it’s based on a real place but it’s a real world location unlike animated and real movies like Cars/Pandora/Harry Potter.
 
dweezil78

dweezil78

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I really love Liberty Square, even more so as an adult -- but overall it's pretty shallow compared to all that NOS offers. NOS has a bunch of great food options and feels far more alive than LS. I do think that you kinda have to also factor Caribbean Plaza into the equation too because instead of NOS, MK got both of those mini-lands. But again, even with that said, there's still not as much to see or do.
 
DisneyAndUniversalFan

DisneyAndUniversalFan

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dweezil78 said:
I really love Liberty Square, even more so as an adult -- but overall it's pretty shallow compared to all that NOS offers. NOS has a bunch of great food options and feels far more alive than LS. I do think that you kinda have to also factor Caribbean Plaza into the equation too because instead of NOS, MK got both of those mini-lands. But again, even with that said, there's still not as much to see or do.
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agree a lot!
 
Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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NOS has lost some of its edge in recent years thanks to the awful Club 33 expansion (no more Court of Angels for us regular folk :() and the changes to Pirates this year, but it still comes out ahead of Liberty Square.

Having said that, Liberty Square has some amazing old school WED design work with the 2nd floor of Columbia Harbour House and the lobby of Liberty Tree Tavern. HoP since 2008 has been better than ever, and it at least has a proper HM store. The only thing that sucks is the rest of the land's shopping. Instead of a Silversmith, hat shoppe, antique store, etc we get a Christmas junk place. NoS shopping has also suffered over time, and that Pandora store didn't help.
 
NateD1226

NateD1226

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I really love NOS! I have always wanted to go to New Orleans so it makes me feel like I am kind of in it! LS is nice too but i like NOS a bit more.
 
ght

ght

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Liberty Square is one of my favorite lands in any park but New Orleans Square isn't just one of my favorite lands in a theme park, it is one of my favorite places to be period.
 
Missing20K

Missing20K

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Animaniac93-98 said:
NOS has lost some of its edge in recent years thanks to the awful Club 33 expansion (no more Court of Angels for us regular folk :() and the changes to Pirates this year, but it still comes out ahead of Liberty Square.

Having said that, Liberty Square has some amazing old school WED design work with the 2nd floor of Columbia Harbour House and the lobby of Liberty Tree Tavern. HoP since 2008 has been better than ever, and it at least has a proper HM store. The only thing that sucks is the rest of the land's shopping. Instead of a Silversmith, hat shoppe, antique store, etc we get a Christmas junk place. NoS shopping has also suffered over time, and that Pandora store didn't help.
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It's New Orleans for me as well.

But the highlighted....I loved watching the silversmiths as a kid going to WDW. I know it's been discussed ad nauseam all over these forums, but I'm one of the many who believe Disney is making a long term mistake by turning every merch outlet into a "Disney gift shop" and eschewing nearly all merchandising and retail opportunities that would/could enhance a particular land's theme. /rant
 
kevlightyear

kevlightyear

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I think New Orleans Square is a little over-hyped, personally. It's special and beautiful, the mint juleps and monte cristos are great, and the shade is nice. I always thought the target was a little too specific for a castle park, though. I've never had the chance to ride the DL Haunted Mansion because it's always been in transition to Nightmare Before Christmas mode, but I prefer MK's gothic facade to the antebellum mansion despite MK's campy updated queue. I also never understood the connection between a bayou boat ride and a seven seas pirates adventure. Seems like a stretch to me.

Liberty Square is much less ornate and is easier to pass over. It does have two really great restaurants in Columbia Harbour House and Liberty Tree Tavern. I think the Hall of Presidents crucial here. It's a classic and deservedly so.

I think it's partly because I'm an east-coaster, but I just barely give the edge to Liberty Square.
 

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