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12/02/09
It is still an amazing and exciting place.
I'd much rather go to Dubai than the United States of America. It's probably safer.
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Currently they have 5 "islands" at the park. A Dr. Seuss, Marvel, etc.
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If we focus on just the Magic Kingdom parks (the classic old school ones with the castle in the middle, not California Adventure or Hollywood Studios), WDW's is much bigger. It is also argued by many Disney fans that it is more refined, since it was built 20 years after Disneyland. The Imagineers knew what they were doing better. But they mostly have the same or comparable rides, with a few odd exceptions (DL has the Matterhorn, WDW has the Country Bears, DL now has Pirate's Lair, WDW still has Tom Sawyer's Island, DL has New Orleans Square, WDW has Liberty Square).
Being a Disneyland fan, my response is that while WDW may be bigger and arguably more technically refined (I question this), Disneyland has the historical value of being the original. Disneyland IS Disneyland. It's the park designed and walked by Walt himself. It's the first modern theme park. It has that aura about it. Every other Disney property is only a version of Disneyland. Plus, I like visiting LA ^_~
Given that, I then assess the various versions of Disneyland on what they have that I actually want to see. When I had a flight layover in Paris last year, I took the afternoon to visit Disneyland Paris because of its unique versions of Sleeping Beauty's Castle, Space Mountain and the Haunted Mansion (there called the Phantom Manor), as well as having the totally unique to any park full-size walkthrough mock-up of the Nautilus and the Adventure Isle area (don't worry, I did go to Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower in the evening... I was only at DLP for 2 hours). In November I'm going to Japan and will be spending most of one day at the Disneysea park, which has a whole land based on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I'm actually not that interested in the Tokyo Disneyland park, but will check it out after Disneysea just to say I went.
As for WDW, once they got rid of their 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride and the Adventurer's Club, they killed any reason I'd have to go there. I'm vaguely interested in the Wilderness Lodge part of the resort, but that's exactly a case where I'd rather just stay at a real wilderness lodge in a real US National Park. Likewise, I'm vaguely interested in how EPCOT represents my homeland of Canada, but I'm more interested in actually, y'know, seeing other parts of Canada firsthand.
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