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Post by Admin on Jun 9, 2021 12:36:15 GMT -6
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Post by vitugglan on Jun 11, 2021 5:39:50 GMT -6
It's in California. I won't be going there anytime soon, maybe not in this lifetime. We visited Disneyland back in 2000 and they had already started chopping up the parking area for their California Adventure. Pretty soon you'll be parking in Reseda and being bussed to the park.
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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2021 6:34:07 GMT -6
I could be wrong (and understand I'm working here at the tail end of my "day" and the brain cells are gearing up to start walking away from each other) but think I had read that the Avengers Campus/Compound is going to also be at the Florida park. At some point.
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Post by vitugglan on Jun 19, 2021 20:26:43 GMT -6
I hadn't heard that, but I did hear it would be in Paris. What I don't get is, where in all of Anaheim were they sticking this new park? They already ate up some parking with their California Adventure. There's a lot more room in Florida. Why on earth did they build in California when there's clearly limited room?
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2021 10:40:05 GMT -6
Bet if you could find maps of the park through the years, you'd see what other ____land was demolished to fit new stuff in.
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Post by vitugglan on Jul 11, 2021 8:55:08 GMT -6
It's pretty darned built up around there. Used to be in the boonies, but not now. People who work in the parks and people whose businesses benefit from the park have, naturally, moved closer and new businesses have sprung up. When we were there in 2000, they had taken over some parking areas to build the California Adventure land. I do remember the parking. They name the various sections of parking lot after characters in the same way that other large lots use letters of the alphabet. For instance, we were parked in Timon. C A was poking out into the parking area so that, instead of being a huge square, parking was now in the shape of a fat L. They'd have to either build away from the park, or put parking further away and provide shuttle service.
Not that they don't have shuttle service already. The parking lot is big enough to warrant it.
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Post by Admin on Jul 14, 2021 9:00:33 GMT -6
I know when Six Flags Over Texas (at least the one up in Arlington) would have a ride that was no longer worth maintaining/had fallen out of fashion, so to speak and they were wanting to upgrade, they'd simply raze the ride and its environs and build the new attraction/ride there without having to carve into the parking lot. Of course, I think the park started with a certain amount of acreage and the active parts took a while to grow into that. They also have (or had -- haven't been there in donkey's years) concert venue(s) and an expansive picnic area for folks who wanted to have like family reunions and so forth without having to pony up the equivalent of the annual GDP of a small third world country for a large number of people.
Yeah I had to look this up, but they partners with Looney Toons in 1984 and opened a Looney Toons Land area for spawnlings too young/short to ride most of the other rides. This gave them something more than the Mini Mine Train, the Carousel, SpindleTop (which was basically a centrifuge for people), the sky tram and the slide from the Derrick. Even back then I did not envy the folks paid to wear those character costumes. Not long after (now) Warner Media bought the place in 1990, they started adding DC comics themed rides and/or rebranding a few of the already in use rides.
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Post by vitugglan on Jul 14, 2021 16:42:28 GMT -6
Disney will replace old or no longer popular rides with something new, too. A whole land, though, takes acreage. California Adventure has more than one attraction, can't say 'ride' because of course, they have more than one ride. They also have things like concert venues, and non-moving attractions like the Tiki House where you just sit while animatronics make a story around your group. It's a mixture, things the very old or young can do, and things the in-betweeners can do and want to do.
My cousin worked for McDonnell Douglas. They had a day at Disney. So did TRW and other businesses in the SoCal area. When the McD-D day came around, the retired relatives from back east would flood in and we'd all go to Disney. Since the retired relations were old and slow and not wanting to ride the Matterhorn, we had to sit through interminable rounds of Country Bear Jamboree and It's A Small World. I can still sing that stupid song, both verses, in English at least. Lol! I drive the family mad when they go too Disney crazy.
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Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2021 4:09:04 GMT -6
Two of the most annoying songs:
It's A Small World and Star Spangled Man (with a plan)
They lampooned IASM in the original Shrek
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Post by vitugglan on Jul 23, 2021 18:33:54 GMT -6
*cackle* I know it's annoying. So is all their chatter about Disney, so I sing.  |
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