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CaliforniaAdventurer
08-19-2003, 03:37 PM
Since even DISNEY knows that Disney's California Adventure (DCA) is too small with too few attractions, they seem to be feverishly coming up with plans to expand and improve the park (Rockin' the Bay, Luminaria, Aladin!, Xperience, and soon to open Twilight Zone Tower of Terror).

Since the plans, designs, blueprints already exist from Florida's TZTofT, this seems like a cost efficient way of introducing new attractions into the park... While they are at it, consider:

WDW's RockNRoller Coaster (could be fit into Timon parking area in former X Games area, behind TZTofT.

Also, when Millionaire!'s life span is up, consider remodeling and connecting the show buildings for Millionaire! and Superstar Limo, as well as Hwood & Dine, to allow for a West Coast version of Great Moments at The Movies. This attraction, while slow moving, is fun and exciting and even little kids can ride it. Grandparents can ride and get nostalgia. It would add some Disney magic to the Hollywood ghetto (er LAND) of DCA.

Also, consider a pedestrian overpass between the Dinosaur and McDonald's area to an expanded "Paradise Pier" area accross the street from DCA next to Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel. If the parking areas behind the hotel were added to DCA, as well as the Timon parking area, the park would be at least 1/3 bigger and could have room for several more "E" ticket attractions.

In the expanded Paradise Pier area (Call it "Discovery Bay"????) by the hotels, they could bring Tokyo Disney Sea's Journey to the Center of the Earth and 20,000 Leagues attractions as well as a Storm Rider and Aquatopia ride as well as the Little Mermaid land with more kids rides and shows.

I know I'm not proposing anything that has not been done before by Disney but it's never been done at DCA.

And we all know they need help there... Perhaps the park can evolve into a park that brings together the best elements of Tokyo Disney Sea and the DisneyMGM Studios and Walt Disney Studios parks in Florida and Paris.

And then, in the end, the California "Hollywood by the Sea" theme might actually start to make sense. It's too harshly interpreted right now, like a history book...

The volcano does not have to be Mt. Lassen. California after all, is all about being whimsical. Which is why it gave birth to Disneyland in the first place.