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So, let me start off by saying that this post will be a little long, but it is worth it!
The Disneyland Resort is in a desperate need of a new themepark if they plan to have guests actually spend more than a weekend in their hotels. With the lack of success of DCA (which will hopefully change), I decided that the best idea for a new theme park would be something completely opposite of the corny feel the park has. Hence, California DisneySea (or just DisneySeas, but we will call it CDS for short) was born.
It takes inspiration from its extremely amazing sister park, Tokyo DisneySea, but puts in its own charm because it is obvious some changes would have to be made to make it original, and because we already have some rides that DisneySea has. I love this theme park so much because it has an immense amount of detail, and from what I can tell, it brings out the disney magic we all love.
CDS will have a similar layout to what TDS has, keeping the seven ports of call idea for lands. I will go into detail with these ports of call later in the post, but the ports of calls will be: Mediterranean Harbor (same as TDS), the Waterfront (similar to American Waterfront, but with changes), Port of Discovery (same as TDS but with extra ideas), Mystic Point (replaces Lost River Delta), Arabian Coast (same as TDS but with extra ideas), Coral Kingdom (replaces Mermaid Lagoon), and Mysterious Island (my personal favorite and same as TDS but with extras)
Mediterranean Harbor
Venetian Gondolas (same as TDS)
A seating area:
-similar as the one being built in DCA for shows at night, but with a mediterranean feel
Fortress of Explorations: similar to TDS, but with a character meet and greet
DisneySea Transit Steamliner
It will host the two shows, BraviSEAmo and Legend of Mythica and It will also have a replica of the Hotel MiraCosta, but it will hopefully have more reasonable prices.
The Waterfront
This land is probably the least developed that I have come up with, just because I don't know what could fit. In TDS, they have Tower of Terror, Turtle Talk with Crush, and they are getting Midway Mania, but we already have these attractions in DCA. The ones I have come up with are the Big City Vehicles and the Disney Electric Railway. It too, will have the DisneySea Transit Steamliner and the Broadway Theatre for shows. I'm thinking that there could be a couple of dark rides, but I don't know what they could be. I also feel that there should be an E Ticket ride, but again, I don't know what would fit just yet. I'll post my ideas if I think of them later, but your ideas are welcome, too!
Another difference between the Waterfront in CDS and TDS is that CDS's wouldn't have a cape cod section, and the S.S Columbia would be downsized just because of the cost and area of the land. A centerpieceof the park would be located here and would most likely be a rustic lighthouse, just because TDS already took the volcano on Mysterious Island and the Aquasphere.
Port of Discovery
This is the point where all of my ideas start coming together. We are moving clockwise through the park and we reach Port of Discovery. It, like its copy in TDS, will ahve Aquatopia, Stormriders, and the DisneySea Electric Railway, but it will also have "MicroAdventure" which is similar to Adventures thorugh Inner Space.
Mystic Point
The only reason why I'm not keeping Lost River Delta is because its major ride is Indiana Jones, which DL already has. Don't worry, Mystic Point will have the same feel as it, but instead of Indiana Jones, it will have Mystic Manor, which is going into the Hong Kong DL Park. It will be slightly different, however, and have the African Idol from The Tower of Terror at TDS cause all the mischeif. So basically, it is the same story as the Tower of Terror in TDS, but a different ride.
It will also have Raging Spirits, but it will have an actual story line including a pre-show in the queue, and animatronics at the beginning of the ride before the rollercoaster part starts.
It will also have Liki Tikis from Hong Kong Disneyland as a water play area to cool guests off, and the DisneySea Transit Steamliner will stop here.
Arabian Coast
This will be just as heavily detailed as the one in TDS. It will have the beautiful Carousel Caravan, DisneySea Transit Streamliner and the Magic Lamp Theatre the same, but here is when it gets different:
It will have the Flying Carpets ride that Magic Knigdom's Adventureland has by the Carousel Caravan.
There will be Sinbad's Seven Voyages, but it will have a couple of drops and more intricate animatronics to make it more of a Pirates of the Caribbean experience.
Finally, there will be an Aladdin Dark Ride similar to Peter Pan's Flight that takes guests through the story of Aladdin on a Magic Carpet.
Coral Kingdom
CDS can't have Mermaid Lagoon like TDS because a Little Mermaid Ride is being built in DCA. Instead, Coral kingdom will just be an "Under the Sea" world and my plans are to have:
Either Crush's Coaster from Walt Disney Studios (but I'm not a big fan of another PIxar movie ride) or Flounder's Flying Fish (but that would copy TDS even more)
All the flat rides from TDS's mermaid lagoon (they could take Jumping Jellyfish from DCA)
Instead of the Little Mermaid Show from TDS, I was thinking of taking the Finding Nemo show from Animal Kingdom.
Mysterious Island
I LOVE THIS LAND SOOO MUCH! It is the main reason why I thought of getting a CDS.
Journey to the Center of the Earth looks awesome! The only thing I would change would be to make the monster look more like its jumping to the car, and make the fast-pace portion of the ride longer.
20,000 Leagues under the Sea would be the same, except there would be bigger cars because reviews of the ride says that it is cramped, and I would make it so every spot on the ride gets the same value of experience.
The Disney Transit Steamliner would go here.
I would add a walk-through Nautlius experience like the one in DLP.
I think that should do it. I see three problems with the park, however.
1. Land - I don't think the strawberry field they have would be big enough, and I don't know where else they could put it to make sure it is close enough to the other two parks.
2. Cost - with all the money they are spending trying to fix DCA, this just desn't seem logical.
3. It is too similar to other disney parks- It pretty much takes rides from other parks without a lot of original ones, but if they could copy Disneyland 6 times, they could easily get away with copying TDS once.
Sorry for how long the post was but I wanted to go into detail to get good critism. I will try to look for pictures explaining my ideas even further but that should do it for now. Please give me your ideas!
The Disneyland Resort is in a desperate need of a new themepark if they plan to have guests actually spend more than a weekend in their hotels. With the lack of success of DCA (which will hopefully change), I decided that the best idea for a new theme park would be something completely opposite of the corny feel the park has. Hence, California DisneySea (or just DisneySeas, but we will call it CDS for short) was born.
It takes inspiration from its extremely amazing sister park, Tokyo DisneySea, but puts in its own charm because it is obvious some changes would have to be made to make it original, and because we already have some rides that DisneySea has. I love this theme park so much because it has an immense amount of detail, and from what I can tell, it brings out the disney magic we all love.
CDS will have a similar layout to what TDS has, keeping the seven ports of call idea for lands. I will go into detail with these ports of call later in the post, but the ports of calls will be: Mediterranean Harbor (same as TDS), the Waterfront (similar to American Waterfront, but with changes), Port of Discovery (same as TDS but with extra ideas), Mystic Point (replaces Lost River Delta), Arabian Coast (same as TDS but with extra ideas), Coral Kingdom (replaces Mermaid Lagoon), and Mysterious Island (my personal favorite and same as TDS but with extras)
Mediterranean Harbor
Venetian Gondolas (same as TDS)
A seating area:
-similar as the one being built in DCA for shows at night, but with a mediterranean feel
Fortress of Explorations: similar to TDS, but with a character meet and greet
DisneySea Transit Steamliner
It will host the two shows, BraviSEAmo and Legend of Mythica and It will also have a replica of the Hotel MiraCosta, but it will hopefully have more reasonable prices.
The Waterfront
This land is probably the least developed that I have come up with, just because I don't know what could fit. In TDS, they have Tower of Terror, Turtle Talk with Crush, and they are getting Midway Mania, but we already have these attractions in DCA. The ones I have come up with are the Big City Vehicles and the Disney Electric Railway. It too, will have the DisneySea Transit Steamliner and the Broadway Theatre for shows. I'm thinking that there could be a couple of dark rides, but I don't know what they could be. I also feel that there should be an E Ticket ride, but again, I don't know what would fit just yet. I'll post my ideas if I think of them later, but your ideas are welcome, too!
Another difference between the Waterfront in CDS and TDS is that CDS's wouldn't have a cape cod section, and the S.S Columbia would be downsized just because of the cost and area of the land. A centerpieceof the park would be located here and would most likely be a rustic lighthouse, just because TDS already took the volcano on Mysterious Island and the Aquasphere.
Port of Discovery
This is the point where all of my ideas start coming together. We are moving clockwise through the park and we reach Port of Discovery. It, like its copy in TDS, will ahve Aquatopia, Stormriders, and the DisneySea Electric Railway, but it will also have "MicroAdventure" which is similar to Adventures thorugh Inner Space.
Mystic Point
The only reason why I'm not keeping Lost River Delta is because its major ride is Indiana Jones, which DL already has. Don't worry, Mystic Point will have the same feel as it, but instead of Indiana Jones, it will have Mystic Manor, which is going into the Hong Kong DL Park. It will be slightly different, however, and have the African Idol from The Tower of Terror at TDS cause all the mischeif. So basically, it is the same story as the Tower of Terror in TDS, but a different ride.
It will also have Raging Spirits, but it will have an actual story line including a pre-show in the queue, and animatronics at the beginning of the ride before the rollercoaster part starts.
It will also have Liki Tikis from Hong Kong Disneyland as a water play area to cool guests off, and the DisneySea Transit Steamliner will stop here.
Arabian Coast
This will be just as heavily detailed as the one in TDS. It will have the beautiful Carousel Caravan, DisneySea Transit Streamliner and the Magic Lamp Theatre the same, but here is when it gets different:
It will have the Flying Carpets ride that Magic Knigdom's Adventureland has by the Carousel Caravan.
There will be Sinbad's Seven Voyages, but it will have a couple of drops and more intricate animatronics to make it more of a Pirates of the Caribbean experience.
Finally, there will be an Aladdin Dark Ride similar to Peter Pan's Flight that takes guests through the story of Aladdin on a Magic Carpet.
Coral Kingdom
CDS can't have Mermaid Lagoon like TDS because a Little Mermaid Ride is being built in DCA. Instead, Coral kingdom will just be an "Under the Sea" world and my plans are to have:
Either Crush's Coaster from Walt Disney Studios (but I'm not a big fan of another PIxar movie ride) or Flounder's Flying Fish (but that would copy TDS even more)
All the flat rides from TDS's mermaid lagoon (they could take Jumping Jellyfish from DCA)
Instead of the Little Mermaid Show from TDS, I was thinking of taking the Finding Nemo show from Animal Kingdom.
Mysterious Island
I LOVE THIS LAND SOOO MUCH! It is the main reason why I thought of getting a CDS.
Journey to the Center of the Earth looks awesome! The only thing I would change would be to make the monster look more like its jumping to the car, and make the fast-pace portion of the ride longer.
20,000 Leagues under the Sea would be the same, except there would be bigger cars because reviews of the ride says that it is cramped, and I would make it so every spot on the ride gets the same value of experience.
The Disney Transit Steamliner would go here.
I would add a walk-through Nautlius experience like the one in DLP.
I think that should do it. I see three problems with the park, however.
1. Land - I don't think the strawberry field they have would be big enough, and I don't know where else they could put it to make sure it is close enough to the other two parks.
2. Cost - with all the money they are spending trying to fix DCA, this just desn't seem logical.
3. It is too similar to other disney parks- It pretty much takes rides from other parks without a lot of original ones, but if they could copy Disneyland 6 times, they could easily get away with copying TDS once.
Sorry for how long the post was but I wanted to go into detail to get good critism. I will try to look for pictures explaining my ideas even further but that should do it for now. Please give me your ideas!
to take big risks like that. No risk, no reward.
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