They certainly weenied it well, didn't they?

That's what she said.

Corrected for you

Gn2 - enjoy! :) We had a brief glance at the red car the other day, along with a peek at storefronts through those teasing doors. I haven't had such a big grin on my face at the resort since 2005.

I didn't read Al's latest post with all the spoilers in it, but I did read the prior one about parking nightmares....and I just might hook up the trailer and bike there on the 15th.

This is Curmudgeon Steve, signing off. :p



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Ok, maybe I'm still a little buzzed from it all, but I'm joining the bandwagon and declaring DCA a ... oh, can I even type the words? ... a successful Disney theme park. OMG!!


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By now, we all know Buena Vista Street and Cars Land are beautiful. I'm so glad that I first experienced BV Street at twilight, when it was gloriously magical, and Cars Land at Route 66 Neon Cadillac Range Nightmosphere, when it was spectacularly gorgeous.

Racers is - d'uh - a really fun E-Ticket, dark ride / turbulent & thrilling hybrid (but so smooth that it's never turbulent). To my surprise and delight, Junkyard Jamboree is lots of highly-amusing fun in a minor key, and Luigi's Tires is easy as pie to "operate" and a total blast of silly fun (if you can get there early enough to avoid the long line). Nighttime visit followed by Early Entry morning was perfect, btw.


But more than just adding a couple of beautiful new areas, DCA has finally done a lot to combat the somewhat off-putting "track" layout I've been kvetching about in this thread.

The side streets of Cars Land link it to other parts of the park such that there's practically an entire south side back street zone parallel to the main track (parade route) and, with the Condor Flats, Grizzly River loop on the north side - there's now several ways to cross the park and many joins and loops to provide for lots of ways to switch directions and switch things up in moving around DCA.

The only single-direction track loop left is the one around Paradise Pier. That could have been fixed by extending the Cars Land west entrance all the way to California Screamin' ... but I'm glad they didn't do that. The west entrance to Cars Land is best kept away from such a major thoroughfare, and it's pretty perfect as a sleepy side entry from the Cannery Row food court. This entrance is so beautiful and evocative - underneath the rock archway at the feet of the towering Cadillac Range. Just wonderful.

The other side entrance, on the east side of Cars Land, goes to the very back of Bugs Land - - insanely making Cars Land just a few steps away from Tower of Terror. It's like a magic teleportation pathway. Seriously, this new "back route" of DCA completely changes and majorly fixes the one-track-mind of the existing layout. Wow.


Eh, the Bugs Land entrances from ToT and from Cars Land could be a little more elaborate. They are very plain wrap, and that's too bad - since the kiddie land's "main entrance" is so fantastic ... and I suspect the "through road" around back to become the most popular route to and from Bugs Land.

A minor quibble. Of course, while barely seeing any of the "old" DCA, I'm still confident to say the place has been successfully revised! The finishing touches to make each "land" a different decade are still to come, I understand. But DCA is ... omg, I shudder to say it, a fun and beautiful place to visit.


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Who are you, and what have you done to Steve?

:)

It's a sock puppet trying to stir up kindness!

;)

Gabba Gabba ;)

I agree on all fronts except the route from CarsLand to BugsLand. Yes, it could def be more elaborate, but there are some fun tricks there. I love how the trees get larger as you go with bigger leaves, and the fence, which is a regular fence at its base but as your eye is drawn up and up they become massive popsicle sticks. With your view then pointed upward you see the canopy of BugsLand before walking in. I think it's masterfully done.

But yeah. DCA is no longer a curse word.

I'll have to take a better look at it then (and travel from Cars Land to Bugs Land instead of vis-versa, which was our only path so far). I saw the fence was supposed to be something ... but didn't get Popsicle Sticks. D'uh! I like it better already!

The transition to Bugs Land plays better in the daytime than at night, so says me.