Like every theme park blogger, I have my own opinions about what went wrong with Disney California Adventure. For the uninitiated, Disney built the park on the cheap and it showed - badly.
I always thought the theme of “Visiting California” never really made any sense to locals or actual tourists visiting California. Why would Disney build a California-themed park in California? That’s a question that may never be satisfactorily answered.
Obviously, hindsight is 20/20. Looking back, it always seemed to me that it would have been better to make DCA the “new” Disney park and let Disneyland be the “old” Disney park. I would have kept the princesses, pirates and pixies at Disneyland and made DCA the Pixar park.
Now that obviously flies in the face of Walt Disney’s famous quote that Disneyland would never be complete “as long as there is imagination left in the world.” But the reality is that’s basically what happened: Disneyland has stayed more or less the same over the past two decades while DCA has gotten all the love and attention.
So I basically imagine my perfect world in “Backstage Disneyland” and redub DCA as Pixar World. Which then necessitates the expulsion of Buzz Lightyear from Disneyland and sets up the rivalry between the two parks which plays out in the book.
If DCA was built today, I’d basically turn it into “brand land.” I’d base the park on Disney’s most popular intellectual properties with individual themed lands dedicated to Marvel, “Star Wars,” “Cars,” “Toy Story,” and “It’s Tough to be a Bug.”
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Sample chapters
Prologue: Once Upon a Time
Chapter 1: Wonderful World of Disney
Chapter 2: A Whole New World
Chapter 3: Exile on Main Street USA
Chapter 4: Evil Plans
Chapter 5: Real Princesses of Disneyland
Chapter 6: Action Figure
Chapter 7: Code R
Chapter 8: Common Foes
Chapter 9: Peace, Love & Mickey
Chapter 10: Operation Death Star
Chapter 11: Frozen Ever After
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