At Disney parks, this is sometimes quite boring as many share identical or nearly identical rides. In general, attraction lineups will play a large role in our rankings, with bonus points being given for high-quality, unique attractions.
Some people no doubt think attractions are the most important or only thing that matters. Anyone with enough money can pay to fill a patch of land with quality attractions. Second, we only think you need to fill a day at a theme park. If it has a lot of good restaurants, but they all always have lines—again, not good.
At Disney parks, customer service tends to be excellent. Even veterans of both Disneyland and Walt Disney World can't agree on which destination has better cast members, but most everyone agrees they are, on average, great. There is variation amongst the Disney parks, and we'll make some note of it in the rankings.
We're the last people you want to get dining suggestions from. That's why we don't talk much about food here. Beyond that, there are a few problems comparing the dining options across the Disney parks. The big one is that the international parks serve a mixture of western and international foods.
Parks that thrive on single-day visitors won't cater as much to those seeking dining experiences, that's what hotels are for. Some people like the energy of crowds, some people like to have an empty park. While the media went wild over "bad" guest behavior in Shanghai Disney Resort, we find behavior at most every other park to be much worse.
We definitely could reconsider the significance of crowd levels. Crowd levels are a point of controversy at the American parks, with lots of disagreement among fans about how bad they are and how bad they should be. Keep in mind, by the way— crowds are a conscious choice that park operators make.
People are way too quick to let Disney off the hook when parks get overcrowded. Yes—the parks will be their busiest on holidays. Sorry, like dining, we're not really great at evaluating shows and parades. You'll find very limited discussion of them in our rankings.
If we really put our thought into it, we definitely could rank the shows and parades, but if you shuffled around the parks they were in, our views on the parks probably wouldn't be impacted. Any quick, to-the-point ranking post would just add a paragraph about theme to the above list and move on to the rankings.
While the other factors all matter and will pop up in our rankings, we want to talk most about theme. In part this is just because that's the kind of people we are. But it's also because theming is more challenging to identify and compare across parks. This is especially true in Disney parks, where the second most important factor, attraction lineup, can be boring to evaluate due to the number of cloned rides across the parks.
That's not to say the attractions themselves are boring, not at all! Rather, the lineups in each park are pretty excellent, and it's just not always fun to nitpick between excellent lineups.
To be a good amusement park, a place needs a good attraction lineup, but a theme park specifically needs something more that is, theme. Theme can be present in different ways. One way, for example, is simply to name the lands and rides something keeping with the theme and add some minimal level of on-theme design to the attractions. All theme parks, including the Disney parks, do at least this.
Frontierlands are home to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Another way to bring theme into the park is in the design of the non-attraction elements, particularly the other details in the lands. Do the walkways, the stores, the open spaces, and the restaurants also fit the theme? Disney excels at immersive design in its lands. For example, immersive design can be seen in Treasure Cove at Shanghai Disneyland, where the restaurants, shops, and walkways are designed to be reminiscent of a pirate-occupied Caribbean town.
Its themed ports radiate with detail, completely enveloping you once you set foot in them. While this type of immersion—design and detail with a consistent theme—is important, there is a second type of immersion we find much more important, and that is narrative immersion. A player gets immersed in a narrative when he or she starts to care about the characters and wants to know how the story is going to end. Plenty of Disney rides the majority, probably achieve narrative immersion through traditional storytelling.
Few rides don't even attempt at narrative immersion. Arguably, the best type of narrative immersion occurs when a guest becomes a character in the story.
Some theme parks or attractions convey a lesson in a story-like manner but without a series of causally-connected events which is what really makes a story. This experiential connection, whether it occurs in the face of a series of casually connected events or not, is what creates narrative immersion. If a good theme park is a collection of stories, the interplay of narrative within a ride, narrative within a land, and narrative within a park is also important to understand.
Theme parks and lands might be thought more like storybooks or collections of connected stories than individual stories. Those stories are connected by a theme. But the best storybook isn't simply a collection of similarly-themed stories. The best theme parks collect stories rides into chapters lands , and connect those chapters into one overarching idea theme.
Mission: Breakout! The narrative is what makes immersion real. Dust has built up and the scene looks much like it would in the s. By way of immersive design, the Hollywood Studios version of this building is amazing! But by way of narrative, it actually falls short of Mission: Breakout! On Tower of Terror , for example, why am I at the hotel? Why am I going to take a maintenance service elevator? Tower of Terror experts, sound off in the comments!
Conversely, on Mission: Breakout! And while we wait, we get to see some elements of the collection. But the success of Mission: Breakout! Yes, the ride sits in Hollywood Land, and Guardians of the Galaxy is a Hollywood production, but is that really the hook to hang your hat on? This is especially questionable when you look at the theming of the land and the role Tower of Terror , which was a s style Hollywood hotel , played. Things can change, though.
Hollywood Land very well may change from being about Hollywood as a place and culture to be more about Hollywood productions themselves.
If the land continues to evolve that way as, for example, Hollywood Studios in Florida is , then the ride may wind up right at home. The narrative makes no effort to fit the ride into the park, and in that way while the ride is a stunning achievement, the theming of the land and the park suffer for it.
Some fans no doubt scoffed at the last section, thinking that as a Hollywood production, Mission: Breakout! While we disagree the ride is just too far removed from the core theme of California , it does bring us to a larger question— how does one identify the theme of the park?
One place to start is the name of the park. This will rarely tell the entire story, but it will often at least tip you off as to the general direction.
There are other sources one would look to for theme. Creators, designers, imagineers, and executives are all fine ideas. But there is one better place to look. The final place to find the theme is in the park itself. Examine the park. Listen to it. Figure out what the park tells you. But over time, certainly one comes to understand that it is about the interplay of exploration, science, and fantasy. The park is clearly about the past, the future, and the dreams that are responsible for both.
This brings us near to the close, but with one challenge— the challenge of evaluating the theme of the different castle parks. Disneyland, as the original castle park, is the only one with a truly unique theme. Just as all philosophy has been said to be footnotes to Plato, you might say that all the castle parks are just interpretations of Disneyland. International castle parks are particularly challenging to evaluate. Disneyland is explicitly dedicated to the ideals, dreams, and hard facts that created America.
It would be awkward for the international parks to take a shot at better execution on that theme. Shanghai Disneyland, indeed, clearly eschews that theme altogether.
It also replaces Main Street, U. If you read the dedications of the international castle parks , they reflect the problem here. Disneyland winds up being the clear winner here, because it has and exemplifies a theme that is something more than fun and imagination. In truth, we're not sure if that impacted its position in our rankings. What we can say is that when we talk about castle parks, we're sort of forced to put bigger questions of theme to the side.
If you stuck with us until now, thanks!! Please do let us know what we got right and what we got wrong. We're far from theme park experts, even if we're something close to experts on a few Disney parks. But now, onto the part everyone cares most about At its most basic, the park is an interpretation of Hollywood Studios. Wherever you're going, you'll find the latest advice here.
The ubiquitous Mickey and his cronies and of course, other animated characters you have seen and loved over the years. A visit to the Disneyland been a part of the travel bucket list for most people. Experiencing the world of Disney for yourself is not something you must miss in your lifetime.
Disney World is one place where you can meet them all from Wicked Witch to the playful animals to the beautiful Cinderella and Prince Charming. Originally, he thought of creating a tourist attraction next to his own studio in Burbank, but soon realised the place was too small. He later bought land in Anaheim in and unveiled the first Disneyland Resort Anaheim in California on 17th July in Since there are so many Disney parks you can visit, Skyscanner thought of picking the best for you.
One of the oldest, largest and the most enchanted theme parks, Disneyland Anaheim, was the first to be built by Walt Disney himself. Unveiled on 17th July this park has 9 different themed zones, where a day to explore is not enough. Check-in to one of the luxurious Disney resorts and hotels for the whole Disney experience or make sure you get a daily pass for rides and tours if your short on time.
Do get onboard the Finding Nemo Submarine and more. This Disney world is home to infinite charms that can keep your children busy and happy while you indulge in a much-needed spa session and other fun services.
There are 6 different theme parks inside, which surpass all your expectations. The Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon are not to be missed zones. This is then topped with cabbage and an egg, just like you would find in any donburi eatery in Japan. For milk tea-flavoured popcorn, a popular sweet, South-East Asian fusion of tea and milkshake that also goes by the name of bubble tea, you will have to head to the nearby Tokyo DisneySea , a separate park with water slides and watery rides.
Hong Kong Disneyland The small Hong Kong Disneyland , opened in , incorporates feng shui and traditional Chinese elements into its design to attract tourists from mainland China. Feng shui balances the elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water to create positive energy, and these elements can be seen throughout the theme park. Water stimulates fortune and wealth, and the park is full of lakes, ponds and streams -- not to mention the large fountain featuring Disney characters placed at the main entrance of the park.
The main gate of the theme park has been positioned in a north—south direction for good fortune, and as you approach the entrance, look out for a sharp bend in the walkway. This was put in intentionally to stop good qi energy flowing into the nearby South China Sea. Chinese culture is filled with superstitions about numbers, with considered to be a powerful number of wealth. That is why the Beijing Olympics were staged on 8 August , the eighth day of the eighth month of an eighth year.
Similarly, the main ballroom at the Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel is exactly sqm. Other items that are missing are clocks in the gift shops so no Mickey watches! Green hats are not available to buy sorry Peter Pan! What you will see is a lot of is red, a lucky colour according to Chinese culture.
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