Happy Birthday DCA!

€uroMeinke · 02-08-2006, 07:19 AM

Yup, the park officially opend 5 years ago today. Oddly enough, I have a meeting nearby this morning so I may actually stop by for a cup of coffee should it's off season hours accomodate me (10AM - 6PM). To bad I have an afternoon meeting in Irwindale or I might even stay the day - as it'll be closed by the time I'd get there after work.

So it goes.

MickeyLumbo · 02-08-2006, 10:11 AM

5 years old. wow. i remember when you were just a parking lot.

SacTown Chronic · 02-08-2006, 10:41 AM

Happy Birthday!

Ghoulish Delight · 02-08-2006, 11:08 AM

Happy Birthday. Wishing you all the best, and a day filled with the aroma of burnt coffee, short lines, and as few guest complaints as you can hope for.

Not Afraid · 02-08-2006, 11:12 AM

Chris just called from DCA.

They're having a HUGE party and giving away LOADS of free swag. All of the characters are out on the Sun Plaza and there's a giant Birthday Cake! There is going to be a HUGE presentation in a 1/2 hour with lots of dignataries and they're going to be giving a way away a car! I can't believe they are doing so much! I'm going to head over there now.

Oh? That's not what he said when he called?

Alex · 02-08-2006, 11:15 AM

You had me hating there for a moment. We'd been hounding P&P for information on if anything noteworthy would be done with little response.

Not Afraid · 02-08-2006, 11:49 AM

Actually.....

what he said was, "all the rides are walk-ons - at least the ones that are open. And the carnival booths are all closed."

Sounds almost too exciting.

innerSpaceman · 02-08-2006, 11:52 AM

Too bad there are none of the schumcks here on the LoT who insisted that DCA was just as barren of fun in its infancy as Disneyland was in its own, and who would brook no argument about zero-theme-park-industry 1955 being far different from Disney-dominated-theme-park-Earth 2001.

Well, here we are at DCA's fifth anniversary, and let's ponder for a moment the state of improvement at far-too-nearby Disneyland during its first half-decade. Has DCA improved a tenth as much?

I must say that Monsters, Inc. is perhaps my favorite ride in the park ... but if the surrounding "Campus" look improvements in that area are indicative of how they plan to revitalize the look of DCA, and if the C-Ticket dark ride Monsters, Inc. is the best they now have to offer ... then the place is as dismally doomed as I've been insisting for the past five, long, uneventful, unimproved-upon years.

Happy Birthday, Disney's California Adventure Park!

Cadaverous Pallor · 02-08-2006, 12:00 PM

Aww, I forgot! I wanted to plan a DCA birthday meet, with a big group of us stomping around DCA in a tour of crap. It would have been the most sarcastic day EVER.

innerSpaceman · 02-08-2006, 12:04 PM

Let's do it this coming weekend!

It's never too late for a sarcastic crap-tour! Bring the riding crop.

02-08-2006, 07:19 AM	#1
€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	Happy Birthday DCA! Yup, the park officially opend 5 years ago today. Oddly enough, I have a meeting nearby this morning so I may actually stop by for a cup of coffee should it's off season hours accomodate me (10AM - 6PM). To bad I have an afternoon meeting in Irwindale or I might even stay the day - as it'll be closed by the time I'd get there after work. So it goes. __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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MickeyLumbo thankfully grateful Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: shangrila Posts: 1,388	5 years old. wow. i remember when you were just a parking lot. __________________
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02-08-2006, 10:41 AM	#3
SacTown Chronic the myth of the dream Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,217	Happy Birthday! __________________ Is it the fingers, or the brain that you're teaching a lesson?
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Happy Birthday. Wishing you all the best, and a day filled with the aroma of burnt coffee, short lines, and as few guest complaints as you can hope for. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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02-08-2006, 11:12 AM	#5
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	Chris just called from DCA. They're having a HUGE party and giving away LOADS of free swag. All of the characters are out on the Sun Plaza and there's a giant Birthday Cake! There is going to be a HUGE presentation in a 1/2 hour with lots of dignataries and they're going to be giving a way away a car! I can't believe they are doing so much! I'm going to head over there now. Oh? That's not what he said when he called?
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02-08-2006, 11:15 AM	#6
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	You had me hating there for a moment. We'd been hounding P&P for information on if anything noteworthy would be done with little response.
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02-08-2006, 11:49 AM	#7
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	Actually..... what he said was, "all the rides are walk-ons - at least the ones that are open. And the carnival booths are all closed." Sounds almost too exciting.
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02-08-2006, 11:52 AM	#8
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Too bad there are none of the schumcks here on the LoT who insisted that DCA was just as barren of fun in its infancy as Disneyland was in its own, and who would brook no argument about zero-theme-park-industry 1955 being far different from Disney-dominated-theme-park-Earth 2001. Well, here we are at DCA's fifth anniversary, and let's ponder for a moment the state of improvement at far-too-nearby Disneyland during its first half-decade. Has DCA improved a tenth as much? I must say that Monsters, Inc. is perhaps my favorite ride in the park ... but if the surrounding "Campus" look improvements in that area are indicative of how they plan to revitalize the look of DCA, and if the C-Ticket dark ride Monsters, Inc. is the best they now have to offer ... then the place is as dismally doomed as I've been insisting for the past five, long, uneventful, unimproved-upon years. Happy Birthday, Disney's California Adventure Park!
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02-08-2006, 12:00 PM	#9
Cadaverous Pallor ohhhh baby Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Parental Bliss Posts: 12,364	Aww, I forgot! I wanted to plan a DCA birthday meet, with a big group of us stomping around DCA in a tour of crap. It would have been the most sarcastic day EVER. __________________ The second star to the right shines in the night for you
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02-08-2006, 12:04 PM	#10
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Let's do it this coming weekend! It's never too late for a sarcastic crap-tour! Bring the riding crop.
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