Lee
Adventurer
I'll take the right hand turns over a spinal injury on WDW's sorry Space Mtn. any day.
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Our MK is poor next to Disneyland!!
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I'll take the right hand turns over a spinal injury on WDW's sorry Space Mtn. any day.
metscool
Active Member
Sorry about that I missed understood what you are talking about.
David
Active Member
I think that they both have their advantages, but to me, MK in WDW is the best. It was fun visiting the original in CA, but I found myself continuting to compare it to WDW and being a little disappointed. Just some quick odds and ends:
1.) I thought Main Street was better in DL, because of the architecture of the buildings.
2.) The DL castle really was a big shock. I knew is would be smaller in scale, but I didn't think it would be as small as it is.
3.) I think Teacups at WDW is better, if for no other reason than being covered. I did not care for the open air ride at DL.
4.) We came into the DL park via the monorail. The ride carried you over areas of the park under construction and repair, behind the scene areas--things you don't see at WDW and take away the magic.
5.) Fantasyland was too crowded. The attractions are so close together, it really is packed with people much sooner than the same area at WDW.
6.) Pirates at DL is better--especially the drop.
I enjoyed our trip to DL for the 50th and will go back, but of the two parks, I much prefer the MK at WDW.
1.) I thought Main Street was better in DL, because of the architecture of the buildings.
2.) The DL castle really was a big shock. I knew is would be smaller in scale, but I didn't think it would be as small as it is.
3.) I think Teacups at WDW is better, if for no other reason than being covered. I did not care for the open air ride at DL.
4.) We came into the DL park via the monorail. The ride carried you over areas of the park under construction and repair, behind the scene areas--things you don't see at WDW and take away the magic.
5.) Fantasyland was too crowded. The attractions are so close together, it really is packed with people much sooner than the same area at WDW.
6.) Pirates at DL is better--especially the drop.
I enjoyed our trip to DL for the 50th and will go back, but of the two parks, I much prefer the MK at WDW.
isitingood
New Member
You forgot to mention It's A Small World, Disneyland's blows WDW's away
isitingood
New Member
Disneyland is not mostly locals. I grew up in SO. Cal and Disneyland gets plenty of tourists.
I'll take the right hand turns over a spinal injury on WDW's sorry Space Mtn. any day.
Agreed. It just felt to me like with the open space and a single track, they could have done more with the layout. I don't even think there was a sizeable dip like the small ones at MK, now that I think of it.
Maybe they should have thought about a different layout during the re-build... Although I'm sure that would have cost a ton more than just remanufacturing what what already engineered.
joel_maxwell
Permanent Resident of EPCOT
maybe he has a hunchback of ND kind of back..........
I'm sure they get plenty of tourists... I was one of them. But I'm willing to bet the farm that there's a higher percentage of locals that attend Disneyland regularly than FLA locals that attend the MK. Even a varyance of 15% more locals in CA means hundreds of thousands of regulars you've got to keep interested.
Lee
Adventurer
Yeah, I was exaggerating....
I was just saying how much I prefer DL's layout, themeing, music, trains....pretty much the whole thing to WDW's creaky, dirty, rough, bumpy piece of crap of a Space Mountain.:fork:
tink81
New Member
Glad to hear you had a good time, Buried!
We, too, enjoyed the DL version of Space, especially the BF who doesn;t get excited about anything. I prefer the DL Pirates and HM, but I have to go with the layout and spaciousness of MK. All of DL's Tomorrowland could fit comfortably in MK's with room to spare and New Orleans Square is beautiful but (IMHO) is not conducive to a show like Fantasmic. We really liked DL but we LOVE MK. Just out of curiousity, what did you think of DCA? We really liked it (especially because it is so spread out, more like the Disney parks we are used to) and that we our first experience with Soarin' which totally blew us away! :wave:
We, too, enjoyed the DL version of Space, especially the BF who doesn;t get excited about anything. I prefer the DL Pirates and HM, but I have to go with the layout and spaciousness of MK. All of DL's Tomorrowland could fit comfortably in MK's with room to spare and New Orleans Square is beautiful but (IMHO) is not conducive to a show like Fantasmic. We really liked DL but we LOVE MK. Just out of curiousity, what did you think of DCA? We really liked it (especially because it is so spread out, more like the Disney parks we are used to) and that we our first experience with Soarin' which totally blew us away! :wave:
JimboJones123
Well-Known Member
Anti-Bobble-Head Lee and Anti-Bobble-Head Jimbo would get along great. What is up w/ the unnecessary side shifting? Just to scramble my brains? WDW's SM is pretty bad.
Meeko
New Member
I have also never been to DL so I cannot add my opinion comparing the two parks, however, I definitely would like to go!
There's always been that pull for me that I'd like to see it because it's the "original". Like some others have said, I'm waiting to see what happens with California Adventure. I'd like to see what changes are coming there in the next few years.. and I'd like plane tickets to go down... :lookaroun but that's another thread.
There's always been that pull for me that I'd like to see it because it's the "original". Like some others have said, I'm waiting to see what happens with California Adventure. I'd like to see what changes are coming there in the next few years.. and I'd like plane tickets to go down... :lookaroun but that's another thread.
Big-Bad-Dave
Member
Do they have DOLE WHIPS there?
We actually blew through DCA VERY quickly... In about an hour and a half. It was for the most part a pretty park, we thought... Just walked around checking it out, and riding a few rides. I think FLA's TOT is much better than DCA's... Cali Screamin' was okay, nothing I was amazed by... Part of the reason we didn't hit that park too hard was we had to leave something to do with the kids when we visit next year. We were already feeling guilty about leaving the 9 and 8 year old girls at home. :lol:
Main Street USA
Well-Known Member
All of this may be true of the attractions ans their interiors, but you've left out some of the most important and shocking things about Disneyland, especially to people who are WDW fans.
- Did you look a the castle? Most would respond with "What castle? THAT'S THE CASTLE?!?!?" I saw it for the first time as an adult about 3 years ago, and I thought the real castle must be hiding further back somwhere. It's a joke. It's tiny. It's embarrasing in comparison to WDW.
- Did you walk down main Street. I did. I hit my head on the awnings. It's pathetic. I have a picture of me standing underneath one, and you can't see my eyes. (I'm 6'2" by the way...not a giant)
- Here's another downer about Disneyland. It's not a family destination. It's nearly a teenage hangout, in fact. To me, it's their biggest problem, and it will probably only get worse.
- Disneyland is located in the middle of a pretty crappy part of town. There's no magic there, because you're still in the middle of the real world....and it's dirty. There's no escape.
I could go on. I personally prefer the large, impressive scale of WDW anyday. Does Disneyland have better rides, and more of them? Of course. They have to. They've jammed everything under the sun into one park, because they have no where else to put it. WDW spreads the love to 4 magnificent parks.
Anyway, just a few observations. I take WDW, and their attractions, anyday.
isitingood
New Member
isitingood
New Member
See, I noticed both the castle and the size of main street, and to me it was almost endearing. As if that's what Walt built because of the assumed draw he thought his new "disneyland" would have. Like he built it to the size he thought he'd need based on the crowds he would get, and that the overwhelming crowds and demand were beyond even what he invisioned... Causing FLA to be put "on steroids" when it was built. I viewed that castle and scope of size as his "original vision", and thought of it more in a historical way than being bothered by it.
EDIT: I couldn't agree with you more about the "teenage hangout" problem. It was HUGE. There were 4 or 5 times where my wife and I were in line for something in front of a group of teens, and they were dropping F bombs and every other curse word you could think of... Over and over I thought that if we had had our kids with us, those teens would have had a problem on their hands with me. Once I said something anyway, because there were other kids nearby. So I could not agree with you more on that point. Something really needs to be done about that.