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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

California: Disneyland Park


Main Street USA
A1. The Disneyland Railroad
A2. The Main Street Vehicles
A3. The Disneyland Gallery
A4. Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln
A5. Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
A6. The Main Street Cinema
A7. The Penny Arcade
A8. Mickey's Big Top
Adventureland
B1. Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
B2. The Magic Carpets of Agrabah
B3. The Big Game Safari Shooting Gallery
B4. The Jungle Cruise
B5. The Swiss Family Treehouse
B6. Raging Spirits
B7. Indiana Jones & the Temple of the Forbidden Eye
Cajun Square
C1. Pirates of the Caribbean
C2. The Princess & the Frog: The Musical!
C3. The Disneyland Railroad
C4. The Haunted Mansion
Frontierland
D1. The Native American War Canoes
D2. The Redemption River Expedition
D3. The Adventures of Davy Crockett
D4. Fantasmic!
D5. Tom Sawyer Island
D6. The Tumbleweed Riverboat Landing
D7. The Frontierland Shootin' Exposition
D8. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
D9. The Rainbow Desert Stagecoach Ride
D10. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Spectacular!
Fantasyland
E1. Pinocchio's Daring Journey
E2. The Quest for the Black Cauldron
E3. Sleeping Beauty Castle
E4. Peter Pan's Flight to Neverland
E5. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
E6. Alice in Wonderland
E7. Mrs. Potts' Dancing Cupboard
E8. The Matterhorn Bobsleds
E9. The Super Mario Cruise
E10. It's A Small World
E11. Pooh's Hunny Hunt
E12. The Seven Dwarfs' Mine Train
E13. The Skyway to Tomorrowland
E14. Dumbo the Flying Elephant
E15. Cinderella's Carousel
Mickey's Toontown
F1. Oswald's Adventure House
F2. The Disneyland Railroad
F3. Goofy's Bounce House
F4. Donald's Dock
F5. Gadget's Go-Coaster
F6. Chip & Dale's Treehouse
F7. Mickey's Wonder House
F8. Minnie's Beauty House
F9. The Mystery Mask Mission
F10. The Jolly Trolley
F11. Roger Rabbit's Car-Toon Spin
Tomorrowland
G1. O Canada!
G2. Astro Jets
G3. The Tomorrowland PeopleMover
G4. Star Tours
G5. Captain EO
G6. Space Mountain
G7. The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter
G8. Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress
G9. The Skyway to Fantasyland
G10. The Disneyland Railroad
G11. The Disneyland Intergalactic Speedway
G12. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
G13. The Disneyland Monorail
To all who come to this happy place: welcome!  Disneyland is your land.  Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future.  Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America, with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
As we walk through the gates of the original Disney theme park, we feel excitement in the air as Disneyland Park has just come out of a MASSIVE refurbishment. Almost everything was changed. Bu don't worry; these are all good changes. Passing under the train depot, the first of seven magical lands we come across is Main Street USA. In Town Square, The Disneyland Gallery presents "Imagineering Magic the World Over," which explains how Disney Imagineers design theme parks around the world.  Turning right, we enter a new subland of Main Street USA: Liberty Lane, themed to colonial Philadelphia circa 1776. The first attraction here, replacing Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, is One Nation Under God, a new version of The Hall of Presidents, complete with two songs from EPCOT Center's The American Adventure: "Two Brothers" and "Golden Dream." Next is Benjamin Franklin Tonight, a show in which Philadelphia's most famous statesman and inventor shares his philosophies with all who will listen. Rounding out Liberty Lane is Paul Revere's Midnight Ride. Join Paul Revere on his legendary quest to warn George Washington and his troops of British forces. Exiting Liberty Lane at 3:00PM, we see a new version of Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams marching up Main Street USA and into Fantasyland. There are also arcades to Adventureland and Tomorrowland that allows guests to bypass the traffic on Main Street USA during the parade. The Penny Arcade returns with the traditional games plus turn-of-the-century versions of contemporary video games. In the candy-striped tent by Sleeping Beauty Castle is Mickey's Big Top. This bonanza of a circus, featuring your favorite Disney characters, is sure to put a smile on your face.
Adventureland hosts seven attractions: Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, which remains unchanged, The Magic Carpets of Agrabah, replacing Aladdin's Oasis, a revamped version of The Jungle Cruise (more on that later), The Big Game Safari Shooting Gallery, a shooting gallery in which you shoot at big game such as lions, tigers, and elephants, The Swiss Family Treehouse, which evicts Tarzan, Raging Spirits, which resembles the Indy Mine Cart concept from the early 1990s rather than its Japanese counterpart, and Indiana Jones & the Temple of the Forbidden Eye, which remains largely unchanged. Raging Spirits and Indiana Jones & the Temple of the Forbidden Eye are joined together much like Indy was with the Mine Cart attraction in the Indiana Jones & the Lost Expedition concept.
New Orleans Square changes its name to Cajun Square while the Blue Bayou restaurant become's Tiana's Place.  The only change here is the addition of a musical based on The Princess & the Frog tucked in between Pirates of the Caribbean and the railroad depot.
In Frontierland, Critter Country is removed to make room for The Redemption River Expedition, a Splash Mountain-style version of The Western River Expedition based on the critically acclaimed video game Red Dead Redemption. This ride will also be found in Magic Kingdom Park, Disneyland Paris, Tokyo Disneyland, Hong Kong Disneyland, Disneyland Australia, Mumbai Disneyland, Disneyland Brazil, Disneyland Dubai, and Shanghai Disneyland. Wedged in between The Redemption River Expedition and The Hungry Bear Lodge is The Adventures of Davy Crockett, a dark ride based on the titular TV show from the 1950s. The canoes are renamed The Native American War Canoes while the dock is moved closer to a revived version of The Golden Horseshoe Saloon Revue. Big Thunder Ranch is replaced by the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Spectacular show from Disney Village in Paris.
Fantasyland replaces Snow White's Scary Adventures with The Quest for the Black Cauldron, a classic dark ride based on the 1985 film The Black Cauldron. Sleeping Beauty Castle gets Tokyo's paint job. Peter Pan's Flight's name changes to Peter Pan's Flight to NeverlandThe Mad Tea Party is rethemed to Mrs. Potts' Dancing Cupboard because there is already one Alice in Wonderland-themed attraction in Fantasyland (the dark ride). The Motor Boat Cruise comes back as The Super Mario Cruise, an interactive boat ride where you shoot at Goombas and Koopas with Mario and Luigi in order to save Princess Peach. You receive coins instead of points on this interactive attraction. Since I removed Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters from Tomorrowland, this will be the main interactive attraction at Disneyland Park. I know what you're probably thinking; Mario isn't owned by Disney. That's true, but so aren't Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Avatar. It's A Small World will get a massive overhaul as part of this refurbishment of Disneyland Park. This same overhaul will also be added to the existing versions of the attractions and will be the basis for the versions of the attraction in the parks that I design.  In place of The Fantasyland Theatre is a clone of Tokyo's Pooh's Hunny Hunt while a clone of The Seven Dwarfs' Mine Train replaces The Casey Jr. Circus Train. Also returning is The Skyway to Tomorrowland with the completely enclosed cabins from Tokyo, just to make sure there are no accidents whatsoever.
Three major changes coem to Mickey's Toontown in the forms of a walkthrough based on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's house, the return of The Jolly Trolley, and the addition of a California Screamin'-style rollercoaster themed to Darkwing Duck called The Mystery Mask Mission.
Tomorrowland goes back to its Saarinen look from 1967, only with Tokyo's monolith/mural design. The mural on the Star Tours side of the promenade remains the same while the one on the Circle-Vision 360 side is replaced by a replica of Bob McCall's "The Prologue & The Promise" from EPCOT Center's New Horizons. Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters is removed to make room for the west coast debut of O Canada!, the Circle-Vision 360 film from EPCOT Center's World Showcase.
Designer's Note: At the end of EPCOT Center's version of the film, Martin Short says you can get to Canada if you "hook a left towards the big, silver ball. For Disneyland Park's version, he would say "hook a right  towards the big, brown castle." Also, when he brings up Canadian entertainers, Justin Bieber is added to the montage.
Astro Orbitor is renamed Astro Jets while it moves back to the pedestal in the middle of Tomorrowland. The Tomorrowland PeopleMover provides a narrated tour of Tomorrowland using The Rocket Rods' propulsion method, only at a much slower speed. Footage from the Endor trip become some possible choices on Star Tours.  The only major change to Captain EO is the replacement of the "Making of Captain EO" preshow by the "True Colors" video from Honey, I Shrunk the Audience! The film has been converted to Disney Digital 3D while the special effects from 1986 have returned to join the special effects from 2010. This change is also be seen at every other park that has Captain EO. The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter is replaces Redd Rockett's Pizza Port while a new version of Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress is added in the former Innoventions building. The Skyway to Fantasyland returns with the same changes mentioned above. Autopia is rethemed to an intergalactic NASCAR speedway and given the name The Disneyland Intergalactic Speedway.  The Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage is rethemed to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. A new fleet of monorails include blue, red, green, yellow, purple, pink, orange, white, and black trains.
Well, that's the way it is until next time!