Ranking the Disney Parks in the U.S.

SoccerLover100

Member
Original Poster
Hello everyone, i was just wondering what everyone's thoughts were on the best Disney parks here in the U.S. Rank your choices from most favorite to least favorite park. Please let me know if this thread is in the wrong place because i wasn't entirely sure where to put it. Thanks everyone and remember to try to keep this as civil as possible... i don't want to see a giant war going on here.
 

George Lucas on a Bench

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Disneyland
EPCOT Center
The Magic Kingdom
Disney California Adventure
Disney-MGM Studios
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Lowercase Epcot
Disney's California Adventure

(MGM and AK are interchangeable depending on my mood)
 

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
1. Disneyland & Magic Kingdom (sorry it has to be a tie)
2. Epcot
3. California Adventure
4. Hollywood Studios
5. Animal Kingdom
 

SpaceMountain75

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1. Magic Kingdom/Disneyland (really whatever one I'm in at the moment is my favorite :))
2. Epcot
3. Disney California Adventure
4. Disney's Animal Kingdom
5. Disney's Hollywood Studios
 

Brad Bishop

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Disneyland / Magic Kingdom
- a tie, not because they're the same, but because of the differences. Disneyland has a lot of unique little bits to it but it also has, generally, better theming (think Fantasyland). Magic Kingdom, though, has the unique feeling of being away from it all. You're out in the middle of nowhere which has a nice kind of "leave the world behind" feeling to it.

DCA - I haven't been there but with everything I see of it I really want to go. 10 years back it was a dud. Now, it looks really cool.

Animal Kingdom - it's really such a pretty park. I'm not even big on the animals but I love the way the park looks.

Epcot - needs love. I can still spend a day there but Future World needs lots of refurbishments and World Showcase is unique with the countries but it needs more countries and some more unique country-related rides. Finish the Rhine River at Germany. Add something like Australia, Spain, Brazil, Russia, etc.

Hollywood Studios - the only Disney park I've been in and, while waiting on Fast Pass times to come, wondered, "Now what am I going to do?" The only other time I remember having that feeling was at Busch Gardens Tampa around 1990. I walked in, Poked around for about 2 hours, and left. They've expanded that quite a bit (BGT). At this point I actually want to go back there but that's 25 years of apathy that they had from me (and apathy means no money coming from me). Thankfully, it looks like DHS is getting some love so, hopefully, 5+ years down the line it's a premier park.
 

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
Personally, I like DHS best because that's where most of my favorite attractions are, but if you want a ranking of most well done parks...

1. DL
2. MK
3. DCA
4. Epcot
5. DHS
6. AK
 

AndyS2992

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1. Disneyland
2. Magic Kingdom
3. Disney California Adventure
4. Disney's Hollywood Studios
5. Epcot
6. Disney's Animal Kingdom
7. Typhoon Lagoon
8. Blizzard Beach

:)
 

lazyboy97o

Well-Known Member
  1. Disneyland
  2. Disney's Animal Kingdom
  3. EPCOT Center
  4. Disney's California Adventure
  5. Magic Kingdom
  6. Blizzard Beach
  7. Typhoon Lagoon
  8. Disney's Hollywood Studios
 

docandsix

Active Member
1. Disneyland
2. Magic Kingdom
3. Disney's California Adventure
4. Animal Kindgom
5. EPCOT Center
6. MGM Studios
7. Blizzard Beach
8. Typhoon Lagoon
9. Chester and Hester's
10. Norway Pavilion
11. Imagination Pavilion

On the other hand, my favorite attraction anywhere is Tower of Terror at MGM/DHS, but that park is otherwise really short on features that are important to me. Theming and shows trump the relative lack of attractions at Animal Kingdom. Carsland is so cool that it overcomes the empty, poorly utilized and often frankly unbecoming Hollywood part of DCA.
 
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ImagineerDude

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Might be one of the rare ones to have MK at the top of my list...

1.) MK
2.) DHS (pre-everything that's closed in the past few years, but even now I still love it...don't shoot me)
3.) DL
4.) Epcot
5.) AK

and I haven't been to the "new" DCA but it would go above Epcot on my list just because of World of Color alone. :)
 

Walt Disney1955

Well-Known Member
I've been to all 6 and this is usually how I rank them:

Disneyland
Magic Kingdom
California Adventure
Epcot
Hollywood Studios
Animal Kingdom

Disneyland is a clear #1 choice for me. It trumps Magic Kingdom. No question about it. MK is a solid second but California Adventure is a great park on its own, I thought. Epcot is a great park and I can't rank it any higher than 4th if that tells you anything. #5 and #6 are close together.

In the end, there isn't a poor park at either place.
 

Brad Bishop

Well-Known Member
  1. Disneyland
  2. Disney's Animal Kingdom
  3. EPCOT Center
  4. Disney's California Adventure
  5. Magic Kingdom
  6. Blizzard Beach
  7. Typhoon Lagoon
  8. Disney's Hollywood Studios

I'm curious about this one. I see Disneyland at the top and the Magic Kingdom near the bottom just beating out water parks and DHS. Disneyland at the top tells me that it's not the style of the park you don't like.

Why is the Magic Kingdom ranked so low for you?
 

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