Will DCA be a Complete, Well Rounded and Full Day Park after the New Rides Open?

[mickEblu]

Will DCA be a Complete, Well Rounded and Full Day Park after the Infinity Defense, Stark Flight Lab, the Coco boat ride and Avengers boat ride open?

 

[Disney Vault]

The park will still need more entertainment. Something new and fresh in the hyperion. An avengers drone show like Paris would be great in the Campus. And the pier really needs a better update because the last one made it uglier.

 

[DarkMetroid567]

Yes — it practically already is, it’d be hard to argue what is a full day park if this somehow isn’t post-Pandora

 

[DLR92]

I still think the park needs more family oriented attractions. Coco would just add two attractions to go see as a solo. And no more off the shelf type of attractions. This park needs more dark rides.

 

[mickEblu]

The park will still need more entertainment. Something new and fresh in the hyperion. An avengers drone show like Paris would be great in the Campus. And the pier really needs a better update because the last one made it uglier.

haha I was going to put "Not until Pixar Pier gets a retheme" but I ran out of slots

 

[mickEblu]

The park will still need more entertainment. Something new and fresh in the hyperion. An avengers drone show like Paris would be great in the Campus. And the pier really needs a better update because the last one made it uglier.

While that would be nice I don't think thats what it would be holding it back from being a complete park. It has WOC and has parades off and on. I don't know - maybe because I'm not a huge entertainment/ spectacular guy. Now streetmosphere/ bands - yes.

 

[mickEblu]

I didn't really think about what my answer was going to be when I created this poll. My brain wants to say it'll certainly be a full day park after the new four rides open. My heart though wants another coaster and another dark ride based on beloved Disney IP or Up. I guess I think it'll be a full day park but not necessarily complete (for me) if that makes any sense.

 

[PiratesMansion]

While that would be nice I don't think thats what it would be holding it back from being a complete park. It has WOC and has parades off and on. I don't know - maybe because I'm not a huge entertainment/ spectacular guy. Now streetmosphere/ bands - yes.

I think at the very least the Hyperion needs to be running with either a show that people love OR Disney needs to be willing to put in a rotating array of shows. It's such a wasted asset as it stands right now.

DCA has also lost a lot of streetmosphere-type entertainment from 2012. Goofy Concert, Minnie's Fly Girls, Mickey's Red Trolley Show, Glow Fest/Mad T Party, etc. As much as we go after Disneyland for cutting back entertainment, they still have some strolling acts. DCA is basically down to Five & Dime, that stupid Toy Story Toy Soldier show, and Citizens of BVS AND has recently cut a lot of the Marvel entertainment.

My best DCA visit recently by far was actually over Christmas/New Years Week, where the park was positively bursting with entertainment. It really brought the park to life in a way I hadn't experienced in ages. It made me actually want to stay in the park and not hop over to Disneyland.

Ride-wise, it'd be great if they'd stop sabotaging their lineup for no reason, but I think what it most needs are some knockout, must-experience family rides, something to take some pressure off of RSR. Right now, you have RSR as one of the top resort experiences and a bunch of stuff surrounding it that's varying degrees of fine but not particularly exciting or stimulating. And as much as I don't personally care much for the ride, there should be some sort of replacement for Monsters Inc.

Most importantly, once all of these big flashy additions are in place, Disney needs to avoid the temptation to fix what isn't broken, something they have seemed utterly unable to do outside of Cars Land, ruining in large and subtle ways much of the promise that 2012 brought. What's the point of spending billions to add rides and make the park better if it's just going to be undone by the spontaneous whims of another clueless exec five years later?

 

[coffeefan]

It will be a full day park, but it won't feel complete as long as the Hyperion/Hollywood land remain in the state they are. They should also do a daytime show with the fountains. And I want a Marvel parade.

 

[Rich T]

Naw, for me DCA will probably always feel like the lesser park to head to for a couple of rides and then walk right back next door into the park that actually has a soul.