Little Green Men
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I think the better question is why does MK's Small World facade looks like this?:
And Disneyland's looks like this?:
The inside of the queue area at the MK resembles the DL facade more:
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ToT WDW's and Disneyland's buildings
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The inside of the queue area at the MK resembles the DL facade more:
JustInTime
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DL's tower is kinda ugly. I hate the bulky squares on each side of the top.
Californian Elitist
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The inside of the queue area at the MK resembles the DL facade more:
I know, but it still throws me off. I don't like that you load inside and that big blue backdrop. They don't compare.
Cosmic Commando
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I think it's because they were built 20 years apart, in different lands and likely by different people. Even on clones, there are always differences between the coasts.
Cosmic Commando
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But that's the difference between a pleasant, sunny afternoon in Anaheim and the 97 degree, 97% humidity late July in FL.
Californian Elitist
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But that's the difference between a pleasant, sunny afternoon in Anaheim and the 97 degree, 97% humidity late July in FL.
Heh. True.
BryceM
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Nah, Florida's is still perfect. It's not just the building, but the build up to it such as walking down old Sunset Boulevard and seeing the old Hollywood Hotel looming over the street, beckoning towards it with the screams of riders.As is often the case...
Tokyo for the win.
It's just perfect.
Californian Elitist
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I'm going to have to agree with Lee. Tokyo's looks the best. Florida's is still nice.
mickeysbrother
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Did u know that Disney world pays a hotel tax on tot even though there are no room!!!
The Empress Lilly
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My thoughts:
ToT in both DHS and DCA were later additions to their parks. Their architectural styles were chosen to blend in, and further, the existing architecture and placemaking. 1939 Hollywood and 1920s Southern California.
I much prefer the façade of the MK's Small World. The Bavarian town look makes the MKs FL grand, an actual place. Because the MK was designed after IASW debuted in 1964, it was fully incorporated in the MK FL. A Disney park is at its best when it is not a lose collection of buildings, but when it operates a s whole, each structure, each elemtn, working together to produce something that is more than the sum of its parts.
DL's IASW was a later addition, set in a far corner of the park, a stand-alone structure. I do love it's Blairesque design. But not as much as I love the splendour of MK's Fantasyland.
I realise I am alone in the world to think so. (Well, me and Roy Disney and the original and greatest generation of imagineers)
ToT in both DHS and DCA were later additions to their parks. Their architectural styles were chosen to blend in, and further, the existing architecture and placemaking. 1939 Hollywood and 1920s Southern California.
I much prefer the façade of the MK's Small World. The Bavarian town look makes the MKs FL grand, an actual place. Because the MK was designed after IASW debuted in 1964, it was fully incorporated in the MK FL. A Disney park is at its best when it is not a lose collection of buildings, but when it operates a s whole, each structure, each elemtn, working together to produce something that is more than the sum of its parts.
DL's IASW was a later addition, set in a far corner of the park, a stand-alone structure. I do love it's Blairesque design. But not as much as I love the splendour of MK's Fantasyland.
I realise I am alone in the world to think so. (Well, me and Roy Disney and the original and greatest generation of imagineers)
Cmdr_Crimson
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The only reason the Flagship Hotel in Orlando is Superior...We have a 5th Dimension.....While the others...Don't.
*Drops Mic, Jumps off soapbox* Like a Boss!
*Drops Mic, Jumps off soapbox* Like a Boss!
The Empress Lilly
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And thrown in for good measure, ToT in the Paris Studio's. The ugliest theme park in the world. This is the best view one gets in the entire park:
The Empress Lilly
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You know why Tokyo's tower looks so much better?
Their ToT is an intact structure. None of this 'hit by lightning' nonsense.
It has bugged me forever. ToT is an awesome byuilding, would be even more awesome without it resembling Aleppo's inner city. ToT's destroyed front is taking 'storytelling' one level too far. 1994 ToT is the midway step between the Haunted Mansions - spooky but set within pristine mansions - and 1998 DAK - everything resembling African or Asian ruins, dirt, poverty and destruction.
As always, the Japanese have a innate sense of what works, and why it works. If you put up a 150ft massive structure in a Disney park, make it something pretty, not a ruin.
Californian Elitist
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I'm confused with a couple of things in this post.
First thing, the Bavarian village. All I see is a circus tent for MK's small world facade. Am I missing something?
If all "greatest generation of Imagineers" thought MK's facade was a better fit, how come all the other small world facades around the world look like Disneyland's?
Going back to the Bavarian village comment, you say you like the Bavarian look better and you like MK's Fantasyland better. MK's Fantasyland has a circus theme, and Disneyland's Fantasyland has the Bavarian village look. I'm a little lost.
BryceM
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A large portion of MK's Fantasyland looks like a Bavarian village. Some has that "circus" look.
Californian Elitist
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Alright, well where is the Bavarian look for small world, because I just see a big tent.
